Friday, June 1, 2012

Iceberg flipping over… (by osibaruch)

Posted at 10:08 PM

“EPICNESS IN 240P !!!!!”

(Source: youtube.com)

Posted at 12:38 PM
“Den 21 September 1982 spelade W.A.S.P. sin första show på Troubadour i Los Angeles. 30 år senare startar bandet sin jubileums turné “30 years of Thunder” i England och sedan över hela världen. Denna världsturné kommer bli det största spektakel W.A.S.P. någonsin skapat.
Det två timmar långa showen kommer vara uppdelad i tre delar. En timmes set med material från de fyra första albumen. Det andra setet kommer vara en 25 minuters förkortad version av “The Crimson Idol” komplett med film. Det tredje setet kommer bestå av material från deras nya album som släpps i år, äldre material samt allt däremellan. Denna show kommer ha flera videoskärmar, pyroteknik och element från de tidiga W.A.S.P. konserterna (kanske t.o.m. en exploderande “cod piece”) and Blackie´s mikrofonstativ “Elvis”. På denna turne kommer W.A.S.P. göra hela 9 spelningar i Sverige, förband är svenska BADMOUTH. “30 years of thunder” - Utlovas bli den bästa och största W.A.S.P. världsturnén någonsin!”

Måste gå.

Katalin And All That Jazz | Konserter
Posted at 12:31 PM
Thursday, May 31, 2012

Ted Official Movie Red Band Trailer [2012] (by HypeTrailers)

Posted at 1:31 PM
“A few years back, the tenants in a Manhattan office high-rise complained vigorously about the long wait for the elevators. Computer programmers were brought in to change the algorithms, but the complaints got worse. New, faster motors were installed at considerable expense, but the complaints continued and many tenants threatened to move out. In desperation, the owner hired structural engineers to estimate the cost of installing additional elevator shafts. The cost of installation along with the reduced rentable space would be ruinous. At this point, the owner’s cousin suggested putting mirrors next to the elevators. This was done and the complaints stopped.”

Precis, ett nytt hett ramverk är inte alltid lösningen.

raygundan comments on Reddit, today I was reading about Bose (thanks to user WorldLeader) and realized they are not a high quality company. At all. What other popular brands do people rave about, but aren’t really that great?
Posted at 1:25 PM
Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Revolutionary soft-body physics in CryEngine3 (by beamng)

Posted at 3:17 PM
“When you come to twitter.com, we want you to see content as soon as possible. With hashbang URLs, the browser needs to download an HTML page, download and execute some JavaScript, recognize the hashbang path (which is only visible to the browser), then fetch and render the content for that URL. By removing the need to handle routing on the client, we remove many of these steps and reduce the time it takes for you to find out what’s happening on twitter.com.”

Yup, one of the big problems with using hashbangs, if you use pushState you have no problem rendering the first hit server-side, serve some client side templates and from there request and serve all upcoming hits as JSON and render client side. You could avoid bootstrapping the   client side rendering framework and let all stuff go server side for lesser clients. Key is sharing templates between client and server rendering and using pushState to keep valid URI:s. Planet Framework by ESN, used for building Battlelog makes great use of this, and not only does it save bandwidth and server capacity it is also quick as hell rendering new content to the client without punishing them (too much) on first hit.

Twitter Engineering: Improving performance on twitter.com
Posted at 10:37 AM
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

The Great Gatsby Trailer HD

(Source: youtube.com)

Posted at 12:36 PM
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
“Give Apple/ARM/Intel/Samsung a few more cycles in mobile [more RAM, if nothing else!] and you might need to reconsider the disadvantages of native apps in favor of all the advantages that centrally hosted applications offer [no Apple fee, no pirating, continuous deployment, cross-platform, etc, etc.].”

I agree and think that the comment is what will happen in 2-3 years.

The most impressive bit of this is that it it keeps under 20% CPU on my Mid-2010… | Hacker News
Posted at 7:36 PM
Saturday, May 19, 2012
“Bolaget värderas till över 100 gånger fjolårets vinst. Som jämförelse värderas Apple och Google till 14 respektive 19 gånger vinsten” Blek start för Facebook på börsen - DN.SE
Posted at 12:16 AM