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by shod 14y ago
I'm usually eager to jump on board with recommendations from Stoyan’s performance calendar, but Anne’s description of baseline loading doesn't comport with my experience in Webkit browsers (and possibly others). They don't "display instantl
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by shod 14y ago
Might I suggest Python instead? It's more immediately useful to kids interested in the sciences.
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by shod 14y ago
"Older browsers" means those that predate native JSON methods. Libraries often use eval() as a fallback.
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by shod 14y ago
Irrelevant to your point, but motion interpolation isn't entirely worthless -- it helps, for example, with the motion judder problem that frequently occurs during camera pans on LED-lit TV’s. My new TV offers a clear-frame alternative that
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by shod 14y ago
I recently bought a new TV, and out of excitement left it uncalibrated. First film we watched was live action, which I don't watch much of, and it looked fine to me. The second film was anime, which I watch a lot, and I could tell that some
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by shod 14y ago
Or the "someone" GuiA recalls was Mitch Kapor.
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by shod 14y ago
That's true when the risks outweigh the benefits, but it's not always true otherwise: we vaccinate everyone against smallpox to -keep- it rare! Unfortunately, the cost of removing this sort of security theater as a deterrent is invisible an
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by shod 14y ago
I haven't looked at Aperture or Lightroom, but iWork's price change isn't quite as dramatic or inscrutable as you think: the retail package was $80, and the 3 App store components are $20 each. Apple likely lowered the price as an incentive
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by shod 14y ago
Dropbox isn't a software product; it's a service. What's more, it's a service that needs to be priced to compete with Apple's own iCloud.
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by shod 15y ago
I agree, but in the case of bad Kindle conversions, the only thing Amazon can fairly be faulted for is requiring users to accompany their reviews with ratings. It's up to the publisher to perform the conversion. Whenever I have a complaint
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by shod 15y ago
They're called public schools in England because free and tax-funded education is a relatively new phenomenon. At a time when people could choose between private tuition at home and religious tuition in classrooms, public schools offered a
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by shod 15y ago
Yes, but Harvard and Yale are higher education institutions whereas Eton is a secondary education institution. That was hugh3's point: "the British elite will judge you not only by your university but by your high school." I want to say the
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by shod 15y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College#University_admissi...
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by shod 15y ago
"iFlow wants 50% like they were getting before the agency model." You may not have intended this, but that sentence reads as though iFlow is merely making less money than it wold like. The problem's worse than that. iFlow would be losing mo
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by shod 16y ago
To be clear: the NASB estimates that 93,000 deaths so far (as opposed to "eventual" deaths), the ICRIN estimates 500,000 deaths so far, and the RAS estimates 60,000 deaths so far and in Russia alone, were caused by Chernobyl. These are the
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by shod 16y ago
"The World Health Organization study in 2005 indicated that 50 people died to that point as a direct result of Chernobyl. 4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Chernobyl, but those deaths would be more than 20 years after th
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by shod 16y ago
Another update: Tepco has confirmed that 11 engineers were injured in the blast. No word on their condition.
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by shod 16y ago
25 reasons I know Mark Peter Davis isn't living in the stone age: 1. He drives a car. 2. He owns keys, cash, and cards. 3. He receives medical care. 4. His life expectancy is above 35 years. 5. He owns a computer. 6. His basic survival does
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by shod 16y ago
and to shake one's booty means to wiggle one's butt. allow me to demonstrate.
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by shod 16y ago
It's "Windows Only" logic: exclusivity through ubiquity. Why bother catering for the niche marget when you can score big with iOS?
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by shod 16y ago
I saw that you've been reading his articles for a year, so it makes sense that your views reflect his misogyny and subscription to the violent totalitarian credo that might makes right. You wouldn't tolerate him otherwise. Locklin was no mo
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by shod 16y ago
A couple of Scott's archived articles turned my stomach, Watermelon. Such as this piece, where he details his preference for foreign women, because they're more submissive, easily-flattered, and wear skirts: http://www.alternativeright.com
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by shod 16y ago
Oi! I didn't say HTML5 is "the last final big version" of HTML, I said we won't see it expanded for a long time. Maybe I'll be proven wrong about that, but it still takes demonstrably longer for the W3C to reach an agreement about new specs
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by shod 16y ago
"HTML5 is going to evolve much faster than ActionScript." As written, this statement is wrong. Adroit developers are picking up HTML5's JS API's with more enthusiasm than they have ActionScript, and they'll push those API's to their limits,
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by shod 16y ago
If you have a media center, you can also watch Cosmos from Netflix Instant. ooh, and I also recommend Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man", which is a little older, but it's a similar concept, with a similarly eloquent presenter, focusing
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by shod 16y ago
Anyone here read CouchDB: The Definitive Guide? I noticed it was written in January; how much has changed with the 1.0 release earlier this month? Still a worthwhile read?
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by shod 16y ago
You mean like Mark Suppes does? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10385853
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by shod 16y ago
"Similarly, as a visual medium, showing things happening rather than explaining them has much more impact." I agree, but here's one of Hamilton's complaints: "I'd barely gotten my head around the fundamental framework of the host/architect/
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by shod 16y ago
Hacking WordPress is frustrating because it's so poorly engineered, and that won't change for the foreseeable future. It's a sprawling mess of Spaghetti code that's indecipherable without the WordPress Codex and Google Search. But despite a
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by shod 16y ago
Well spotted, do references have to meet the same notability requirements as articles themselves?

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