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I wrote a big comment about OpenGL vs Direct3D with a bit of a historical as well as future looking perspective here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=593801

In summary, OpenGL is an abstraction of 3D concepts with many vendor-specific extensions to enable performance. Direct3D is an abstraction of the most common implementation of real world 3D hardware. Game developers did, and continue to, unambiguously ask Microsoft to produce the latter.

I understand the graphics pipeline pretty deeply if anyone needs some clarification.
We're using a similar model but allowing students to rent their books to other students (get paid & retain ownership). In the long run we think we'll kick Chegg's butt. http://www.textbookrevolt.com/
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It's pretty bad. Our goal is to take a completely different approach and allow students to transact amoungst themselves.

We let students rent their textbooks to other students. Students make and save money. http://www.textbookrevolt.com
Minor correction: OpenGL actually works great for 2D as well. There are versions of all the API functions that accept vertices with 2 dimensions instead of 3. And you can quite easily make vertex buffer objects with only 2 dimensions.
I considered doing a Y-combinator implementation as a tattoo, but I ended up going for a simple lambda. Why? It's more generic, and simply perfectly suited to my work and interests. http://img129.yfrog.com/i/9e0.jpg/
Rickover Compares Academic and Practical Nuclear Reactors
I'd like to know how would you get the world to know about your article unless you post it on HN and have small number of twitter followers?
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Don't read.

This article is simply a manifesto calling for developers to use OpenGL. The mindset of the author is firmly locked in the late-1990s, which was the height of the OpenGL vs. DirectX flamewars. I'm amazed that he didn't bring up Fahrenheit. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_graphics_API)

The accusations about Direct3D gaining dominance because of FUD or some other nefarious actions are pretty ridiculous. Graphics APIs evolved rapidly during the period between 1998-2005, and there were times when Direct3D had a clear technology lead in certain areas. I've never met a single graphics developer who switched away from OpenGL for any reason other than preferring to work with D3D.

However, the balance has stabilized in recent years, and the author of this article doesn't tell us anything useful about current technology.
I don't think that solution was practical from a PR standpoint. You can tell in the film that they are always on pins and needles about building schools, offering them medicine, whatever it takes to get the goods AND come off as the nice guys. These are not government operatives, they are corporate mercenaries and it's likely any over-the-top violent action would get their colonial charter pulled and their mineral license revoked by Earth-side government.

A little strip mining in a remote location is probably not going to get anyone excited. Ticking off the savages enough to get them to launch a full scale invasion is going to throw up a bunch of red flags for the Amnesty International of 2200. Nuke them from orbit would be off the chart unacceptable. Perhaps they were autonomous from earth enough to do it and then have severe repercussions after the fact, but it didn't really look like smashing home tree had much support from the ground staff at the first anyway. With the colonel dead who would push that button?
Oh man, the very first one was something I'd been wishing for!

I need it for appending to text I've searched for, especially if I need to do it a few times. e.g. for adding an argument to a few method calls. I usually go `n` (repeat the search), then `e` (go to the end).

That's enough. One tip at a time maxes out my absorption rate.
This comparison of academic reactors to practical reactors is pretty old, being written by Hyman G. Rickover in 1953. Rickover was a primary force behind the U.S. Nuclear Navy. It makes an interesting read and compares academically created technology versus practical engineering. Your milage may vary, but I enjoyed the paper a great deal.
You have the ortho modes and all that, but that's not really 2d drawing. Doing things like concave shapes with specific line drawing (especially if you want decent anti-aliasing) is complex and expensive, since OpenGL isn't particularly well suited for it.

Of course, on the DirectX side you have the DirectDraw vs Direct2D mess, not to mention that the APIs are very poorly designed (in my opinion, at least). Doing 2D stuff in OpenGL isn't terrible, but it's certainly not well suited to it. In most cases, something like SDL ends up being easier and rarely too much slower (well, unless you're scaling/rotating...).
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When TV, cars, computers, etc. were invented they were breaking new ground because they were areas where the low-hanging fruit were within easy reach. The hard part, the one that took decades for each invention, was turning them from a neat curiosity into an indispensable part of daily life. I hate to break it to you, but "the Internet" may have been quite innovative for the first two or three decades of its existence, but it didn't mean jack shit to humanity. Back when midnight cabling runs through campus steam tunnels to deploy a SLIP line was "cutting edge" it may have seemed like the coolest thing in the world and an obvious game-changer to us at the time but it had absolutely zero impact on 99.9999999% of humanity. The past ten to fifteen years of so-called "incremental" improvement have turned a glorified research toy into useful and productive part of daily life for a large portion of the planet.
But that's my point: they're not the same thing. The primary motivation for an investment is what I get out of it. If it helps other people, that's great, but I'm after a great return. And the reality is that this self-motivated economic system has done more to help the less fortunate that any direct action designed to help them.
Dude, you really need to refill your paxil prescription.
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I once had a blog post get 100,000 uniques in a day:
http://www.nextthing.org/archives/2005/08/07/fun-with-http-h...

That was back when Digg could still drive traffic. The Apple interns e-mail list liked my post, and they all upvoted it on Digg (there were a lot of interns).
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I think chemical/biological warfare is MUCH more likely. "Unobtanium" can't get sick.
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Speaking of the Constitution, the paragraph just after that which you've cited from Article VI is interesting:

"This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding."

My interpretation, which seems to be supported by [1]: no treaty may expand the powers of government beyond those enumerated by the Constitution. If it is shown to (which seems likely given al the secrecy), it becomes unenforceable and we learn who to recall from office.

[1] http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?navby=case&... (I found paragraph 2 of the opinion particularly salient to the topic), found from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article_Six_of_the_United_State...
I have been a light Emacs user for a few years now. I was so thrilled about discovering Org-Mode through an HN post [1], I went out looking for other cool Emacs hacks and found this Stackoveflow thread that has a number of them. Generally, I wouldn't link to a Stackoverflow question but this one has a number of great tips.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=651459
I normally wouldn't submit news like this, but in this case it appears the system is so fundamentally broken that there must be a better way.
"We used to not trust Chinese data ourselves" and this is why Goldman Sachs has computed its own Chinese data for years, he added.

"According to our own proprietary Chinese GDP indicator, in December Chinese growth could have been 13 percent."

http://www.cnbc.com/id/34700874
E.g., are we right to assume that all the laws of chemistry are "in principle" reducible to physics, even though we can never hope to make such a reduction in practice?

Actually, making that reduction in practice is pretty much what I do for a living.
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It wouldn't be the Internet if someone didn't bring this up. As far as absuses of the phrase go, I say that this is a fine instance of "assuming of the premise", as opposed to the common misuse, which is as a synonym for "raises the question". One article regarding the phrase states, "One of the most common fallacies of assumption is called begging the question. Here the arguer assumes what he should be proving." The arguer here assumes that there is a science to management in his argument that entrepreneurship is potentially an application of management science. However, I contend that the arguer's assumption is misplaced and first the arguer should be proving that the scientific method is applicable to management in the first place.

You can argue that I am misapplying the phrase, but I certainly understand what it means and used it based on the above understanding. Furthermore, I don't think my attempt at communication failed: I am fairly certain you and every other reader of my comment understood the point I was making, which is ultimately the goal of the written word, no?
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I agree totally. I wasn't putting too much thought into the actual method, I meant "nuke" in more of a colloquial "mass murder" sense.
At some point I like to think there will be no concept of minority groups. Just people. But sadly we're allowed to pass on bad lessons to our children, so old hatreds just stick around forever.
Yes, I'm not suggesting that there's a complete disconnect between physics and chemistry, but we're a long way from having a complete understanding of how all chemical reactions work at the physical level. That is, an actual proof that all known laws of chemistry are mathematical consequences of the laws of physics (without making too many fudges, simplifying approximations, etc. etc.)

This is not in any way intended as a criticism of physicists or chemists, in case it comes across like that. They're both incredibly successful at what they do.

Just googling around, this paper gives quite a nice overview of what sensible scepticism about the possibility of reduction looks like: http://www.springerlink.com/content/v05g613468p6xk17/
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Until Chinese families and companies can invest their savings abroad, the only three places they can go is into education, real estate and the stock market. China has bubbles in all three of those sectors.

Those last two are the most closely related to the massive property bubble in China and are also the reason the stock market is so volatile: companies own land and they own each other and that dynamic leads to a virtuous cycle of increasing market capitalization in good times, and collapsing valuations when valuations fall. Small price changes can have a disproportionate effect on market capitalization.

My business teaches Chinese online (http://popupchinese.com) from Beijing, so we're face to face with the economic reality here. And while everyone knows there's a bubble in real estate (it's on television every night), when you adjust Chinese GDP to account for purchasing power parity and adjust to the wage scale, the Chinese economy looks much, much bigger and more important than it seems if you're looking from an American perspective. Anyone who hasn't had the chance to visit yet definitely should! And start learning Chinese too.

Incidentally, a number of studies on Chinese energy use have cast doubts on its rate of growth for years. Still doesn't mean that the Chinese economic miracle isn't the story of the century.
Well your geography is off insofar as the link you provided regards skating in the Netherlands and the author mentioned (and profile corroborates) that he is in Denmark. Not as many canals in Denmark, as I understand it, although I wouldn't know - I've only spent a lot of time in the Netherlands. Ice skating on the canals IS a big deal in the Netherlands.
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Max misappropriates value from follower count. He says that the new followers that were valuable were "real business men with high follower to followee counts" (um, spammers?) and that the second article got him followers that were "unimportant people with low follower counts"

This is backwards. Get those first kind of people to follow you and they may retweet your stuff once in a blue moon but it's just noise amongst the rest of their noise. Get a lot of that second group to follow you and those people will GO TO BAT for you. They're real, engaged followers. Your tweets are far more likely to register with them (or even just be seen) and they can just as easily start network effects that reach the big boys anyway. As a whole they're far more valuable than 1000 of the 'real business men'.
It's true that OpenGL doesn't have built-in support for things like concave shapes, but you can always do tessellation and feed GL triangles. (Some tessellation options were mentioned in the article.)

I've found that for my particular uses, the hardware acceleration you get with GL makes it worth it for 2D, even if it's perhaps not otherwise as well-suited for that as SDL.
For my understanding (ignoring the loop):

between mark a and mark b: 'a,'b
goto lines containing Abc: g/Abc
recognizable substitute: s/yy/\=i/
= prefixes a variable (escaped with \)

A problem is that it will only replace the first `yy` on the line (if you add g, to make it s/yy/\=i/g, it replaces all of them, but with the same value of i.

How to make it increment multiple yy's on the one line?
So, essentially we've been social engineered :)

Congratulations!

Knowing that I might be a bit more reluctant to visit maxklein.posterous.com links in the future.
Punishment be damned, eliminate them from the gene pool.

.. otherwise known as eugenics. Not that that is necessarily a bad thing. In fact from the utterly callous perspective of evolution and the long term interest of larger society, this is the most clear and consistent position, IMO.

It's mostly nature, not nurture, and we've all known that for a very long time, although it's still too taboo to admit. So people such as the criminal in the story are bad mutations to be rejected, along with any children.

So that's what we'd do if we were really serious ...
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It depends on what you have to say and how well you go about saying it. A very few people reading your stuff can get the ball rolling. If one of the major aggregation sites picks up on you you could easily see a few thousand visitors from one article. And possibly much more than that.

If a few of those put you in their reader the next post will get traction a bit quicker, assuming you keep the quality constant.

It's a long process but the value of the kind of following you build up like that is likely a lot higher than from 'stunts'.

If you build a solid reputation and you continue to treat your audience with some respect, they're likely to be loyal for a long time.

edit: and if you're just writing to up your follower count in twitter then you have to stop and ask yourself what the actual goal is that you are trying to achieve. The number of people following you on social news sites does not automatically translate in to clout. It's just an abstract, a number. If it makes you happy to see a larger number then go for it, but other than that the question is: "what are you going to do with those followers?"

Are you going to somehow harness the power of the people that receive your tweets / posts or is it just a numbers game?

For some, it is apparently all about the numbers. Others, with far smaller 'followings' meanwhile (but with a good plan and some respect and serious intentions) will move mountains.

If you want to achieve some goal it is unlikely that a simple increase in your follower count is going to help you to achieve that goal. It's just a (very small) tool that may help you along the way when used wisely. And when used badly it can cut you just as easily. Reputations are built up slowly and destroyed in a heartbeat.
I can make the same inferences even if I'm just observing another person or some robot flipping the switch, so no, it doesn't depend on us "controlling" the switch.
If he was on a Mac, copy the column and then:

pbpaste | sort | uniq -c

(assuming GNU uniq)
I'm in bed typing on a triple radio, camera, touch, motion, sound and proximity sensitive phone so I can't easily get links for citations from the wotld's first distibuted volunteer enyclopedia, but I think I read there that Guinea worm infection is well on the way to being the next eradicated disease, with support from the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation.

I think you have rose tinted glasses on the past - in 2000 I was at university where they ran NT4 with Netscape, and was rocking a Celeron 433, with a new USB1 100Mb zip drive. Now a 4Gb pen drive holds 400x more and costs 1/25th the price and tranfers data faster.

New cars today can have vision recognition blind spot checkers, radar based cruise control, pedestrian sensors, brake appliers, regenerative brakes, head up displays, Internet connections, all in ordinary models not 100k luxury ones.

The UK has migrated to digital TV and Radio. In 1999 I bought a VHS recorder, now HDD recorders are standard.

In 2000 there was nothing as good as Skype, train times were on paper in stations, airport checkins had queues, maps were paper based, polyphonic ringtones on phones were fancy, the HP200lx was the netbook of choice, the L prize for LED lights was nowhere to be seen, nor were snooks or really Amazon and Internet shopping and consumer reviewing on such a grand scale. Joule Biotechnologies, the LHC, ITunes university, the idea of an OLPC, virtual machines all absent.

China, new fastest train recently.

Now, if I had the cash, I could put a deposit down for a personal space flight!

I hear you on the computer still chugging thing, but don't want Netscape back.
Can anyone comment on how Open GL ES plays into this? It seems to be the defacto standard for SmartPhones and that market is going to continue to grow rapidly. Is that going to influence OGL's adoption elsewhere? Or are there other factors that make that irrelevant?
apparently, they did:

In short, we fixed this particular problem about 350 days ago.

http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2010/01/07/juniper_c...
Prison is not by definition dangerous. There are plenty of societies that find a dangerous prison to be unacceptable. And then there are others that seem to take grim pleasure in the idea that someone in Prison might be harmed.
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Can't find it. Will look again later. It's basically the same as above, but for when hitchhiker writers' can charge things to their expense accounts (or maybe for granting a writeup, and journalistic integrity?), and the last line is "You really want to."

I think it's followed by "Ford tried to avoid that one, because it always involved giving the editors a cut."

Ah! Now I have those extra words, google helps:

The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a powerful organ. Indeed, its influence is so prodigious that strict rules have had to be drawn up by its editorial staff to prevent its misuse. So none of its field researchers are allowed to accept any kind of services, discounts or preferential treatment of any kind in return for editorial favours unless:

a) they have made a bona fide attempt to pay for a service in the normal way;

b) their lives would be otherwise in danger;

c) they really want to.

Since invoking the third rule always involved giving the editor a cut, Ford always preferred to muck about with the first two.

http://flag.blackened.net/dinsdale/dna/book4.html (Chapter 5) - I fixed a typo when I copied it
It was very frustrating. This was the first time I'd ever heard of sparkfun. I got to the final stage of the order confirmation page when they still had about $72k to give away, so should have been within plenty of time to get the discount--I never made it through.

As soon as their promotion ended, I went ahead and bought the starter kit.... from a different veodor.
The rest of the article aside, I think that avoiding MS lock-in is a great reason to use OpenGL over Direct3D.
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