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davissorenson

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    Comment #32848641

    No, Renderfarm.fi was completely based on volunteer computing, so there was no standardization.

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    Comment #32841280

    A long time ago, I worked on Renderfarm.fi, which was like what you're proposing but free. I was just an extremely junior developer working on the front end. The volunteer computin…

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    Comment #20563898

    To OP: It's not exactly a nice move to link to the download folder before the main website has been updated, because as you might notice this has resulted in a lot of confusion fro…

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    Comment #20419780

    The first version since the NaN buyout... So you mean the first version since 2002? One advantage of Blender being open source is that you can use any previous version forever. And…

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    Comment #20419749

    Blender Internal (1) and the Blender game engine were both removed in 2.80. Eevee uses the same nodes as Cycles. (1) Blender's legacy rendering engine which has been around since t…

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    Comment #20419735

    This is (a release candidate for) a huge milestone in Blender's history. So much has been improved, that some, including myself, have speculated why they didn't choose to make it a…

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    Comment #18722965

    Link to paper in question (with the images you wished were in the article): https://www.osapublishing.org/oe/abstract.cfm?uri=oe-26-18-2... Edit: Fixed link

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    Comment #18678117

    Looks nice, but it's yet another Chrome-only project.

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    Comment #14955696

    Finland and Denmark have mandatory military service for males. Sweden got rid of mandatory military service in 2010, then reinstated it in 2016. Norway currently has "weak conscrip…

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    Comment #14501513

    2026: Pinboard acquires Pinterest

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    Comment #13954715

    Interestingly, while in English we now say "business card", it seems that at least Swedish and Finnish, and probably other languages too, retained some form of "visiting card". In …

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    Comment #11785293

    Website is quite slow, here's a cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https:/...

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    Comment #6914086

    Another small UX thing: Never use window.prompt(). On Chrome at least it prevents me from switching tabs, I know on some systems it also plays an annoying sound.

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    Comment #6716783

    Well if you're looking for any kind of project, some famous ones are: * Netscape a.k.a. Firefox * Blender ( http://blender.org ) was commercial until 2002 when the company behind i…

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    Comment #6673587

    I meant more as a company culture.

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    Comment #6668507

    > There's nothing to "save". To be fair, there's a lot of intellectual property at stake.

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    Comment #6668342

    > On this last point, they talk about leveraging a non-corporate image, like the Dudesons or Madventures, and throw “the largest events, gigs, and parties of human kind”. Well that…

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    Comment #6632549

    It used to be like this, but throughout this year in preparation for the 1.0 release the devs really stepped it up. The official guides are good nowadays.

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    Comment #6632535

    Ember WAS Sproutcore, Sproutcore 2.0 is what became Ember. Worth noting: Sproutcore was used to build iCloud, apparently.