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tolmark12on Microsoft: more people are switching from Macs to Surface than ever before

I agree, I hate the state of mac hardware, but I would have a very hard time leaving the macOS for the windows OS

tolmark12on Faust – A language for audio applications and plugins

Very cool, any chance faust could be used to generate LV2 plugins?

tolmark12on Postgres high-availability cluster with auto-failover and cluster recovery

https://godoc.org/github.com/nanopack/yoke

tolmark12on App Uses Kids’ Obsession with Phones to Teach Them Coding

I would disagree, I work with kids aged 8-14, and a new shiny phone is an object of fascination and status. They're enamored with the object itself and the interaction therewith. Of course at some point (like all new shiny) it become more about what you do with the phone, but initially that is a secondary attribute.

tolmark12on The Last Great Steam Car (2006)

Also interesting, North Korea's wood burning trucks developed out of necessity due to oil sanctions :

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/how-north-kor...

tolmark12on WebGL Path Tracing

(FYI, this crashes chrome for me) Works great in Safari, incredibly performant!

tolmark12on Parable of the Polygons – a playable post on the shape of society

Here's another great map to explore two dimensional Geo-Ethnic dynamics, I found this one a bit easier to parse:

http://demographics.coopercenter.org/DotMap

tolmark12on How Design Thinking Transformed Airbnb Into a Billion Dollar Business

The title of the article is a bit grandiose; however I suspect their success is likely the net effect of many great small decisions like this.

tolmark12on Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves

Also, the article states that Fundizer did the PR work for a 7% cut of whatever funds where raised... Seems disingenuous to back out after Fundizer did their-work unless they paid them 7% of what they would have raised.

tolmark12on Two.js

I'd also be curious to see how it performs with mass amounts of sprites, something like pixi's bunny demo:

http://www.goodboydigital.com/pixijs/bunnymark/

tolmark12on The DOM isn't slow

A simple comparison of Dom selection vs Jquery selection[1]

When selecting one DIV by id, I'm consistently getting:

DOM - 0.08ish ms

Jquery - 0.2ish ms

I do have an app where every millisecond is critical. For this app I'm using raw dom selectors. However, most of the time, the convenience of jquery selectors outweigh these performance gains.

[1] - http://jsfiddle.net/tolmark12/9R39R/ (open console)

tolmark12on CoffeeScript 1.6.0 released with support for source maps

Anyone have a good example of using --map with --join?

tolmark12on Once again, Path steals your data without permission

I have a very hard time believing Path is doing anything underhanded or malicious here. Link bait?

tolmark12on Chess - A Quandary for the Game in a High-Tech Era

This is an excellent analysis of Ivanov's suspect games by FIDE master Valeri Lilov. His conclusion–there is little doubt Ivanov was cheating. He also details several low cost plausible methods Ivanov could have used.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=J...

tolmark12on Eight conversations at a time – handling live chats the smart way

agreed, our experience with Olark has been wonderful. Been using them with two different companies over the last 3 years.