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jayeshsalvi··on The deception of “buying” digital movies
Is there a legal definition to "buying" in consumer law? Can't Amazon be sued for this?
jayeshsalvi··on Arcane director of animation on how they did it
Just what I was looking for. IMHO Arcane marks a milestone progress in Animation technology.

Also glad that the article confirmed that they don't use MoCap. It was such a great choice. I recently watched another visually exquisite animation movie on Netflix (the one in the Bright universe). There they used completely flat shading to achieve toon look for characters and environment, but made the characters move with MoCap animations. It looked very eerie.

jayeshsalvi··on LudoTune, a 3D music sequencer in the browser
Great concept. Making music is hard. Such experiments with visual manipulation of music can help make it easier.
jayeshsalvi··on Home was not where the heart was for the Enlightenment’s intellectuals
I agree. The article smells of confirmation bias.
jayeshsalvi··on Life at the End of American Empire
Good read. America today looks like the crumpling world described by Ayn Rand in `Atlass Shrugged`. Ironically the reason of this downfall is the adoption of naive form of capitalism that Ayn Rand popularized.
jayeshsalvi··on Ask HN: Are books worth it?
A general rule of thumb is the older the written word, more valuable it is. Accordingly, the books that have been around for a while and are still well-known they give highest value from the time you invest in reading them. The content on Internet is mostly about current events and it lacks the depth that old books have. News or opinions on current events will most likely become irrelevant and obsolete. The stuff worth reading will survive the test of time and you can read it in future. Staying up-to-date with current happenings is overrated, because most of those things don't happen our daily life. Therefore best invest your time reading meaningful books.
jayeshsalvi··on Autonomous DeLorean drives sideways to move forward
Next step: Controlled flip!
jayeshsalvi··on A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)
Inspirational story, but let's not forget about the nutritional value of the Cheetos (or lack thereof)
jayeshsalvi··on Think Twice Before Downgrading to a Free GitHub Account
There is a more serious impact of downgrading if you were hosting a static website from a private repository on github with a pro account. Apparently that's not supported with free account. My personal website went down as soon as I downgraded to free. I didn't mind making the repo public, so it was an easy fix, but may not be same for others.
jayeshsalvi··on Living Alone Can Be Deadly
The news item is based on single study performed in single country of small size with 3346 men as sample set. Hardly representative.
jayeshsalvi··on $4k Renault compared to Tesla Model 3
Why comparision with Model 3? It's not electric. The blogger seems to have only anti-tesla agenda.
jayeshsalvi··on Babylon.js 3.0
I believe there's not much value in making games that run in browser and served from website. But real value of Babylon like Javascript libraries lies in their portability. I would use Electron like framework to create desktop app for my Javascript game created using Babylon, then sell it on Steam. Unity and Unreal are good portable options, but they lack the complete open nature of web technologies. They have their own private scripting languages that are not portable. A game engine written in Javascript is therefore more valuable.
jayeshsalvi··on What is an Initial Coin Offering and How Does it Work?
If cryptocoins are equivalent to shares in the company, what is the equivalent of dividends?
jayeshsalvi··on Drone Uses AI and 11,500 Crashes to Learn How to Fly
Drone Uses AI and 11,500 casualties to learn How to kill terrorists ... coming soon /s
jayeshsalvi··on Caterpillar found to eat shopping bags, suggesting solution to plastic pollution
Are they sure it doesn't shit plastic back?
jayeshsalvi··on “When we do mathematics, we touch immortality.”
Despite Gödel's incompleteness theorems?
jayeshsalvi··on Automatic desktop integrated webapps via Electron
It's not Electron that has performance issues, but the apps aren't probably coded properly. I've been developing my app using electron for a year now and haven't seen it hog cpu/memory unless it's a bug in my application.
jayeshsalvi··on Cerebro App – Open-source productivity booster with a brain
That must be the fault of the app than the Electron framework itself.
jayeshsalvi··on Staying Motivated as a Software Developer
This is an advertorial. No real answers.
jayeshsalvi··on Scuba: Diving into Data at Facebook [pdf]
The title made me picture Mark Zuckerberg diving into facebook user data like Scrooge Mcduck
jayeshsalvi··on Ask HN: Website concept for better dialog in society
In public forum, anonymity is achieved by pseudonimity (one has to go to a trouble of creating account under fake name). But a service that doesn't have logins, the anonimity is default and easy.
jayeshsalvi··on Ask HN: Website concept for better dialog in society
But they are not one-on-one. They are public. They are not anonymous.
jayeshsalvi··on Vasili Arkhipov – Soviet Navy Officer Who Prevented Nuclear Strike in 1962
I wish we knew the Hacker News equivalent for the army people of US and Russia who are in charge of the launch codes. I would post this link there.
jayeshsalvi··on LessPass: sync-less open source password manager
Can I change the master password?
jayeshsalvi··on CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
I agree with Parasolid being the best geometry kernel out there! (It's quite expensive though, around $60k per year + revenue share)
jayeshsalvi··on CGAL – Computational Geometry Algorithms Library
I would recommend OpenCASCADE. It's more thorough geometry kernel for any CAD applications. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cascade_Technology
jayeshsalvi··on Fire-damaged Brazilian tortoise receives new 3D shell
Here's is cooler one. 3d printed prosthetic leg for a turtle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkHHuVAaORE
jayeshsalvi··on How to Safely Store Your Users' Passwords in 2016
By not storing them https://medium.com/the-story/signing-in-to-medium-by-email-a...
jayeshsalvi··on Sourcegraph: self-hosted Git service with semantic code navigation/search/review
Great stuff. I was hoping somebody would integrate source code cross referencing with Git. Hopefully Github will integrate your tool with all their repos and it will be seamless for end users.
jayeshsalvi··on Gravitational lensing by spinning black holes in astrophysics
I had pasted the whole title, but ycombinator removed the part after "-" I think.
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