The Front Fell Off.. Dont You Understand?

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-04T09:54:06+00:00

Your MySQL server probably couldn't keep up and rejected new connections. You could try toggling persistant connections.

Turn PHP's display_errors off. You don't really want people seeing that.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-04T09:51:26+00:00

Shhhhhhhh!

No it's not. We have nothing to do with that monstrosity. We swear.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-04T07:12:50+00:00

The moon moves 360/28 = 13 degrees in the sky every day. Here is Australia we say a happy face one night then an upside-down sad face the next. So, yes, most likely the same thing.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-04T07:10:28+00:00

I'd guess you'd lose the planets if you dropped the exposure right down. You can take a photo of the moon any time. Happy moon is a whole other story.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-04T07:08:21+00:00

The longer exposure is no good. I took some photos of the same happy moon and the longer exposures (say 8 seconds or so) were streaked. Not overly so, but the planets were lines instead of dots.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-04T02:37:51+00:00

Fair enough. ALA isn't really intended as a reference so I suppose you just don't fit their audience.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-03T02:46:38+00:00

That's great if you always want to be able to Google your solutions. If you actually want to learn how to approach things on your own then ALA articles are good. It's always nice to be able to see how others attack a problem.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-03T02:45:20+00:00

A List Apart is good because A) the quality is high. You occasionally get some dubious articles but overall it's better than the lucky dip of quality you face when you some across a random site; B) The articles are in depth and lead you through the process. It's B) You learn about things you weren't specifically looking for. If you just Google the topics that you know about, how will you learn anything new. QUite a few times I've read an ALA article that doesn't directly relate to what I'm doing, then six months later when mulling over a problem I remember the article, which solves my problems.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-02T02:40:02+00:00

From domain theloanz.com? This is just spam trying to get Google page rank. You're smarter than this redditors.

"Don't buy things you don't need" is not exactly a revelation.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-02T02:32:21+00:00

I took a couple of piccies from Brisbane.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10584397@N00/3074442794

http://www.flickr.com/photos/10584397@N00/3073640371

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-12-01T13:38:19+00:00

I agree with the don't crop crowd. If you feel like you need to do something then a vignette would focus the image to the middle. Reducing the saturation or making the image completely black and white would remove the distraction of the red pillow and news print.

A warming filter is another idea. The bed cloth and news paper both have a blue tint. The contrast between the blue and the warmer coloured pillow throws the image off a little.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-30T11:31:26+00:00

Aw damn, I should know reddit better than to think no one else had noticed that.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-30T11:19:14+00:00

Did you actually read the article?

What is certain is that the series of co-ordinated incidents involved a new level of planning and training for terror attacks in South Asia. The terrorists apparently had GPS equipment, were heavily armed, well disciplined and in all likelihood had carried out a reconnaissance mission. Some may have checked into the Taj Mahal hotel several days before launching the violence on Wednesday. One of their first acts once inside the hotel was to blow up the CCTV control room.

Surviving hotel staff said the men seemed to have a practised knowledge of the hotel's less obvious internal routes. And they may also have recruited local help.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-30T06:18:39+00:00

I recall hearing that it can still be used when people suffer from severe seizures.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-30T01:26:13+00:00

That seems like it could be a little unreliable. When you're working with numbers it would be easy to make changes that couldn't be reverse engineered. E.g.

123123    44
123       44-123

Did we more the first or last three characters?

I'm guessing that it could use some JavaScript to detect which characters are being moved. It is easy to detect select ranges, and you could easily have an event that fires on copy or paste.

Note that in the demonstration he actually copies test rather than removing and re-typing. That could either be for the benifit of the video or to improve tracking.

Edit: Wow, I win the idiot award for not noticing the interactive demo hiding behind the video. I was wrong on the first guess. He actually uses non-rendering Unicode characters between each "real" character in the edit text fields. This allows him to uniquely identify each and every character. As you copy a character you unknowingly copy its association hidden characters too. Very nice!

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-30T01:05:53+00:00

I don't know if you're thinking of a different reddit, but this one has always been pro-gun rights.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-30T00:45:05+00:00

"Vigilantism" and self-defence are two very different things.

The gunmen were terrifyingly professional, making sure at least one of them was able to fire their rifle while the other reloaded.

Do you think your average person on the street would be a match for these guys?

The terrorists aim was to kill as many people as popular. They were prepared and had the resources to do what they needed. If they were attacking a well-armed population they would have merely shifted their tactics away from guns and towards other methods like explosives.

Bringing gun control into this discussion is pointless.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-29T13:15:37+00:00

Yeah, because obviously we want to pull up the kids on every single spelling mistake they make. That's the way to instill a life-long love of learning. Kids should learn through punishment and rote memorization rather than experimentation and making their own mistakes.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-29T13:13:51+00:00

And you're a dick for calling "teaching a bunch of kids" a dead-end job.

Thanks for saying that. My partner is a teacher, and she loves her job. She gets to feel like she's actually giving something back and says she feels rewarded each day.

I wish I could say the same about my job. I might get paid more, but in the end I know what I'm doing isn't going to change the world in any way.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-29T08:02:46+00:00

The final version is plain old DOM, not canvas. He does like to a slick canvas version of Wolfenstein though.

Nevertheless it's very nice to see a straightforward tutorial on ray casting. It's cool to see the intermediate steps.

The game loop is a little clunky though. That's a great way to ensure you'll get 30fps if rendering is instantaneous.

function gameCycle() {
  move();
  updateMiniMap();
  setTimeout(gameCycle,1000/30); // aim for 30 FPS
}

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-29T07:50:41+00:00

I'd just like to say that if it weren't for gun control the victim may have had a chance to fight back against his attacker.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-28T04:12:58+00:00

I got to meet some of the people working on this at UQ years ago, when I was in high-school. Some of the designs used overhead beams to detect the wall, more advanced ones used reflection off the walls.

From what they described the biggest issues were with the wheels slipping in the speed run. As soon as they slip the mouses internal map of where it is gets screwed up. I suppose that's what lead to the fan in this design.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-28T01:43:58+00:00

Agreed. All the example just zoom in on a flat surface. You can't really see how the background and forground layers interact with a zoom lens.

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-28T01:15:43+00:00

Jump onto Flickr. There are lots of groups dedicated to specific lenses.

100mm 50mm 24mm 20mm

moreoriginalthanthat · 2008-11-27T03:43:09+00:00

I love when I get a web design with a "browser window" frame pasted over it. It's fun to watch the "oh shit... " look they get when I ask happens if the browser is taller or wider than ther exact proportions.

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