pvidler

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by pvidler 6y ago
You can always render the text to a texture offline as a signed distance field and just draw out quads as needed at render time. This will always be faster than drawing from the curves, and rendering from an SDF (especially multi-channel va
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by pvidler 7y ago
Only in the random case. Already sorted in either direction and it's ~10x slower.
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by pvidler 11y ago
The bill is not split -- it says they reimburse you for the measured power usage of the device. Nowhere does it say that this only applies when the heat is being directed into your house, that I could see.
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by pvidler 12y ago
Apart from the point in the first video when they click on a link and you can still see the smudge of the text column on the newly cleared screen. A close look at the text column while scrolling makes it look dirty compared to the rest of
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by pvidler 12y ago
Most of it was readable, but the printf on lines 57--59 made me retch. I see what it's doing, but it's not what I'd call easily maintainable: printf("%8.4s", &"LEA ,IMM ,JMP ,JSR ,BZ ,BNZ ,ENT ,ADJ ,LE
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by pvidler 12y ago
Because that's what makes it a unit test -- you only want the unit, the tests and any stubs/mocks in the executable. Anything more and you have an integration test on your hands. Pulling a single unit out of a legacy codebase can
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by pvidler 12y ago
It looks like a nice test framework, but it doesn't appear to help at all with the really hard problems you face with testing C++ -- isolating the unit under test for separate compilation, and the development and inclusion of mocks&#x2
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by pvidler 12y ago
> Thus - at the same bitrate - higher resolution images might look worse than lower resolution ones. But the 4K stream is HEVC (H.265) vs H.264 for the other HD streams, so it may not be that simple.
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by pvidler 13y ago
Apple did just release online versions of the iWork apps with collaboration (I don't know how well it works in real-time, but then I don't know that for Office either). They also made fun of the MS equivalent in their keynote. I&#
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by pvidler 13y ago
This seems specific to image-based fingerprint sensors? Apple's version does not appear to work this way...
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by pvidler 14y ago
Average speed checks are awful — I spend more time looking at the speedo than I do the road, as I try to keep close to the limit while not hitting the car in front. And they are always for odd speeds that I find difficult to maintain (just
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by pvidler 14y ago
Milling seems like a better bet (than printing) for home PCBs without the etching. It's cheaper and more accurate, like this one: http://www.coolcomponents.co.uk/catalog/imodela-milling-mach... Downside is that there's no solder resist, s
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by pvidler 14y ago
In fairness the TI launchpads are astoundingly cheap -- as far as I have seen, very few of the other competitors have dev boards at that sort of price. The mbed board is similar to the mini, but with an online IDE (not a fan) and community.
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by pvidler 14y ago
Just from the descriptions and photos, it looks like the mini will be breadboardable. The bigger one almost certainly not -- it's arduino compatible and the gap on one side is visibly smaller than the other. Also, it's not clear if the big
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by pvidler 14y ago
For developers, I suspect it's less about trust and more about providing something of value to a group of people who are already known to be willing to pay for such things.
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by pvidler 14y ago
> Legal? - possibly. Ethical? - not to me. How is this not evasion of labor laws? That this is par-for-the-course is pretty dismaying. Surely Samsung aren't doing this for the work -- there have to be cheaper ways to get people to demo
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by pvidler 14y ago
There is what looks like bounce back at around 0:36 onwards in this video review: http://reviews.cnet.com/smartphones/samsung-nexus-s-at/4505-... It's some sort of app list screen though and happens between what looks like screens of icon
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by pvidler 14y ago
I see less of this on ios devices, but that may be because I keep up–to-date with newer hardware. I guess devs are targeting the older devices that are still in use -- together with the restricted multitasking on ios, this probably side-ste
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by pvidler 14y ago
I've been using the ikea standing desk from a few weeks ago -- the lack side table with a shelf screwed to it. I simply put my laptop on top and then use the rest of the normal height desk as a sitting desk. I just move my laptop across to
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by pvidler 14y ago
I think intel would bend over backwards to get their processors in an apple phone; it would completely open the mobile market for them. They already give apple some influence anyway -- there was something back in 2011 about apple 'persuadi
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by pvidler 14y ago
Yeah, that last part is my concern -- if I can't use FP on a daily basis, is it still worth my time to try learning it?
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by pvidler 14y ago
Fascinating, thanks. I would have said that the for-loop is at least somewhat intuitive -- the step-by-step (lather, rinse, repeat) nature resembles the way most instruction sets are written. Not to mention flow charts, which most people h
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by pvidler 14y ago
Do maps, folds and filters become as natural as for-loops in time? (If you have already been exposed to more traditional techniques). They strike me as similar to regular expressions, in the sense that however long I spend using them I wi
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by pvidler 14y ago
It's largely intended for the retina MacBook pro, which has two thunderbolt ports, but I do agree -- many of the early peripherals seem to lack support for daisy chaining. As for the USB version... the thunderbolt one is much faster. File
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by pvidler 14y ago
A product developed while Steve was away from Apple, a project he was forced away from, a success (if not up to iPhone levels) and a probable future success (for Intel!). What's your point? Seriously, the AppleTV is only a 'failure' by the
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by pvidler 14y ago
If their controller fails horribly, perhaps they could use the OnLive 'universal' controller -- the one that works with OnLive's console as well as all laptops and android/iOS devices. It's actually a really nice controller -- better than
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by pvidler 14y ago
Interesting, but does that mean delivered all the way to the recipient, or just to the iMessage server? Is there good feedback? If I'm in a low-signal area, I need to know how long to leave my phone in that one spot that gets signal.
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by pvidler 14y ago
Even the messages app is almost too confusing, let alone combining everything else as well. As far as I understand it, if I send an SMS then anyone with a signal can get it; if I send an iMessage, then they need an internet connection or i
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by pvidler 14y ago
No, as long as you followed the UI guidelines the mini could just use your image-ipad.png -- the 44 point minimum will be smaller than on the big iPad, but it's the same physical size as on the iPhone and so still usable: http://castirony.
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by pvidler 14y ago
Yep that's the one, thanks!

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