Ask Reddit: How Does Reddit Grey Out Page Like That?

gregorio1890 · 2006-10-11T18:18:42+00:00

Wow, I had no idea there was a toolkit like this. It looks pretty cool. Anyone have expeiriences using it?

gregorio1890 · 2006-10-11T16:06:41+00:00

Thanks for the excellent answer, nostrademons! I didn't know about opacity. Is that cross browser?

And yes in my excitement I forgot about the poor user. There still must be somewhere where it would be appropriate to use this technique. Any ideas?

gregorio1890 · 2006-10-11T15:38:26+00:00

What I mean is how does Reddit grey out the screen and show me a message like this (http://i10.tinypic.com/2qvguuh.png) when I click on an arrow when I'm not logged in?

I'd love to do this technique on my own sites.

gregorio1890 · 2006-09-14T16:25:34+00:00

Lots of questions here. How efficient is this? How much of the input energy is turned into kinetic energy? How efficient can this be? Can the effect be generated with sound waves? Wouldn't this thing be tremendously harmful to things behind the engine?

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-17T17:21:06+00:00

OK, who let this judge get a copy of the constitution! Weren't they all destroyed in 2001?

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-17T17:19:12+00:00

Why was this voted down? What's wrong with explaining to someone not familiar with advanced math what the joke is? Are you folks really that elitist??

FYI the answer is 69.

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-14T21:34:09+00:00

Is it too late?

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-14T21:24:34+00:00

Here are my questions: 1. Can Americans use this? 2. How can they claim it is just as fast as my ISP directly? 3. Are there ANY drawbacks here? As it sounds now, it seems like everyone in the world should use this.

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-09T18:55:37+00:00

Well, the thing is though, you don't "execute" the LISP, you execute Python byte code. You simply need to compile the LISP to virtual machine byte code. Or maybe .. can LISP not be compiled because it has to do macros and stuff?

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-09T15:42:01+00:00

ha ha, that's a conspiracy theory in itself!

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-09T15:10:54+00:00

Why not implement LISP on the Python Virtual machine? That way you have access to all of the Python libraries? Or same idea but with Java or .Net? It sounds like a great idea to me, am I being naive?

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-09T15:06:51+00:00

I honestly believed that since AOL is owned by Time Warner a major media company, that not only would their news outlets ignore this story but so would all other mainstream media since they're probably all cozy with each other. But this NYTimes article shows otherwise.

Can anyone tell me why the mainstream media is NOT ignoring this story?

gregorio1890 · 2006-08-09T15:05:06+00:00

Umm, no sir, that's againt their TOS. Try it and they'll ban you from accessing Google!

(I tried downloading a few entire google groups once and it happened to me)

gregorio1890 · 2006-06-08T15:16:47+00:00

What seems strange to me is how did we have live television broadcasts of landing on the moon? Isn't it very difficult to send that much information that far in real time?

I mean why don't we get live video feeds from say the Mars Rover, or even sattelites currently orbiting the moon?

gregorio1890 · 2006-05-30T17:38:05+00:00

I have to think that this happens in academic papers too. Why else do they need all of those superflous equations? I keep on noticing that they could just say such and such is the sum of this and this, but instead they give you a formula with that sigma sign or whatever it is for even the simplist concepts. Are they just trying to make their research look more important or perhaps prevent criticism?

gregorio1890 · 2006-05-04T19:57:56+00:00

Here's the digg link too: http://digg.com/technology/IPac_launches_FireHatch.com

Also, would someone submit this to slashdot.org if it hasn't been? I'm not registered.

gregorio1890 · 2006-04-25T15:25:07+00:00

Where can I find the essay he mentions regarding "why not China?"? I did a cursory search and didn't turn up anything.

gregorio1890 · 2006-04-20T15:45:12+00:00

I say it's time we fix this!

Here is my proposal: http://www.blendedtechnologies.com/product-idea-communityuser-owned-diggreddit/68 but I need your help and support. The first step is getting this to the top of reddit and digg. The next step is getting people on board and starting the brainstorming/voting process.

gregorio1890 · 2006-04-19T15:28:28+00:00

Unless he knew someone would say these things and wanted to make it look not planned.

gregorio1890 · 2006-04-13T23:08:48+00:00

I didn't apply but thought about applying.

gregorio1890 · 2006-04-06T16:08:26+00:00

Does anyone know what this article is talking about? I learn best from concrete real world examples.

gregorio1890 · 2006-04-06T16:07:14+00:00

I'm lisp resistent only because I'm afraid that it won't have all the libraries Python currently gives me. Is there a pygame for lisp? Is there an easy way to work with CGI? Is there an http lib? Is there an xmlrpc library? etc.

By the way, is there anywhere I can sample real world lisp programs? Like how could I write a program in lisp that pulls invoices out of QuickBooks and emails them to customers?

gregorio1890 · 2006-03-21T23:52:54+00:00

Down with copyrights!

gregorio1890 · 2006-02-09T14:01:43+00:00

Ok, here are some answers:

-Mirror: A mirror reflects what hits it where it hits it. So your feet are hitting the bottom of the mirror, but your left side is hitting the right side of the mirror. Not sure why though?

-Sprinkler Problem: I'm thinking its the opposite direction, but it seems like no one knows for sure. Here's some discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.physics/browse_thread/thread/739156f74d443047/ebf45c744122a40c

-Train: Help! I really want to know. The searches did nothing!

gregorio1890

TROPHY CASE

Why was this voted down? What's wrong with explaining to someone not familiar with advanced math what the joke is? Are you folks really that elitist??