ohwp

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ohwpon Pain of the New: The Hobbit at 48 fps

The first movie I saw in HD was Bond's Casino Royale. And somehow I noticed something I've never seen before. Every new shot I had the feeling you could read the expression on the actors face of an "aaand action!".

So maybe too real isn't fun to watch unless it's an documentary?

ohwpon Make the Metric system the standard in the United States

Well old people manage to move from Europe to the US (and visa versa) do they?

Just with the Euro the change should be at once. Then everybody will be fine in 2 years or so.

ohwpon A world without power

Sometimes it bothers me that consumption is very cheap. It makes us unaware. Unaware of environment issues, ethical issues, safety issues, and so on.

ohwpon A tiny language called Z

That's what I like in Notepad++ (maybe other editors have this as well). You can view tab columns. So your indent is very clear.

ohwpon Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf]

Sometimes a break program will make things worse. When you are under (time) pressure and the break program is blocking your PC you will get stress. And stress is one of the main reasons for getting RSI.

ohwpon Fixing the computer guy posture [pdf]

Years ago I also got RSI. One thing that helped me a lot was to think about lactic acid. Your body doesn't have a lot of problems with repeating motion unless the milk acid can't be transported. And I think stress is the main reason why the transportation of milk acid is blocked because it make your muscles contract. I also think we are so used to stress that we don't even realize we are under pressure.

That's why exercise is great. It will help your remove the milk acid but also to release stress.

ohwpon I don't want to download your app

Company X reads in a magazine they really really needs an app to keep up. Developer X sees money and ofcourse builds the app.

Just don't install the app and the hype will soon be gone.

ohwpon What Will Programming And Architecture Look Like In 2020?

praptak posted (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966827) this link: http://www.patternlanguage.com/archive/ieee/ieeetext.htm

In this keynote Christopher Alexander is trying to convince us programmers to write more human or living software. Maybe that's where it should be heading?

ohwpon Rumor: Apple Building Bluetooth Smart Watch

Your comment made me think about a nice app for your phone. Remember those watches that tickle your skin every x minutes? A mobile app could vibrate every x minutes so that you can tell the time without looking at it.

Edit: ofcourse such an app already exists: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=at.idsoftware.... ;)

ohwpon Page speed really does matter

But that only accounts for download size.

ohwpon Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers

Patterns mean "I have run out of language."

That's why he called it a pattern language. It's the language of patterns found in life ;)

ohwpon Christopher Alexander: An Introduction for Object-Oriented Designers

Another example is Blender (3D). Created with and by the people who are using it (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Source/Architecture). I think it's one of the best software programs I've ever seen. Both compelling and Original/Unique.

ohwpon US majority says ‘Do Not Mail’

In the Netherlands we can get a free mailbox sticker. There are some options:

  No-No: No advertising and magazines.
  No-Yes: No advertising, magazines excluded.

http://translate.google.nl/translate?sl=nl&tl=en&js=...

ohwpon Ten-year-old invents light-up crosswalks, IBM makes them real

The other question that remained unanswered is "Why don't cars stop when someone is waiting for a crosswalk?". Because in the example it's already completely clear that there is a crosswalk.

ohwpon Man builds life-sized replica of Noah's Ark

I wouldn't be surprised when it will actually fit. There aren't that much different large animals.

Edit: I agree this was a very unclear post. What I meant: The available space is about 20,000 m2. Lets say the African bush elephant fits in 25 m2. This means you can take 400 different kinds of the largest terrestrial animals on board. But I don't think there are that much different kind of large animals.

ohwpon Man builds life-sized replica of Noah's Ark

I think thats the old version. He now built a 1:1 version. http://www.arkvannoach.com/informatie/geschiedenis/

ohwpon Two Billion Pixel Photo of Mount Everest (can you find the climbers?)

Is this done with Autopano (http://www.kolor.com/ http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/brown/autostitch/autostitch.html)?

ohwpon How to Download Your Instagram Photos and Kill Your Account

"I know the pictures are of too low quality to be plastered on a billboard."

Don't be too sure about that. Billboard pictures are very lowres (sometimes even 10ppi) because most of the time they are viewed from a large distance.

ohwpon Google Santa Tracker

Well I don't think it's a shame when Opera is to blame ;) But thanks for your reply.

  Version 12.11 
  Build 1661 
  Platform Win32 
  System Windows 7 (Server 2008)
  Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.11

ohwpon Google Santa Tracker

A tech question: I'm a Opera user and notice that a lot of websites just don't work in Opera lately. Now I wonder what special Javascript is required for a page like the Santa Tracker that Opera doesn't support. Because I don't get why a simple animation used in the clock for example doesn't work. Is this a developers problem for using unsupported Javascript or is Opera having big issues keeping there browser up to date?

Edit: I noticed that Opera is altering the Javascript by inserting a "browser.js" file.

ohwpon Three Wise Men

Grant Mathews suggests another possibility: alignment of planets:

  Feb. 20, 6 B.C., when Mars, Jupiter and Saturn aligned in the constellation Pisces.
  April 17, 6 B.C., when the sun, Jupiter, the moon and Saturn aligned in the constellation Aries while Venus and Mars were in neighboring constellations.
  June 17, 2 B.C., when Jupiter and Venus were closely aligned in Leo.

The only "publication" I could found: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,318014,00.html

ohwpon The gun control that works: no guns

I think it's all about easy access.

All shooters of shooting incidents I can think of had easy access to guns. The only exception is Breivik. But he was planning his attacks for years.

ohwpon Google Zeitgeist 2012

Pick one: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vm ;)

ohwpon Jimmy Wales: $50 Android smartphones are disrupting Africa

I heard stories about hospitals locking cables into wall sockets because else people will use the power to charge there phones. So I think it can be disruptive. But I agree its a bit over the top to use the word disrupt in the context of the article.

ohwpon That square QR barcode on the poster? Check it's not a sticker

Another thing is that most apps show the Unicode URL:

  * User confirms he likes to open the url https://www.gооgle.cоm ('о' != 'o')
  * https://www.xn--ggle-55da.xn--cm-fmc/ is opened

ohwpon I Don’t Need No Stinking API: Web Scraping For Fun and Profit

Of course, part of the art of (and fun of) scraping is to see if you can make your scraper robust against mere cosmetic changes to the site.

I once had to maintain a (legal) scraper and I can tell you there is no fun in making your scraper robust when the website maintainers are doing there best to keep you from scraping there site. I've seen random class-names and identifiers, switching of DIVs and SPANs (block display). Adding and removing SPANs for nesting/un-nesting elements. And so on. Ofcourse the site likes to keep the SEO, but most of the time it's easy to keep parts out of context for a scraper.

ohwpon Apple's Shares Swallow Biggest Loss in Four Years

Apple is Dead (http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html).

Lately I had to think about PGs essay "Microsoft is Dead". And I think the same is happening to Apple. Imho that's a good thing for consumers, developers and even Apple.

Previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9770

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2085601

ohwpon PHP Pitfalls

For debugging, profiling and optimizing Xdebug is highly recommend: http://xdebug.org/

ohwpon PHP Pitfalls

To your half-hearted comment: show me a language where an unexperienced programmer can't create security issues, bugs, memory leaks and so on.

The author is just giving some good advice to PHP programmers. If you don't like it, just don't read it.

ohwpon WiFi Signals Caught on Camera

Not as cool as the Magnetic Movie: http://vimeo.com/1166968