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mcdaid

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    Comment #14514676

    Unfortunately this is no longer true. In the wake of recent islamist attacks, it is now routine to seen armed police patrolling around cities.

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    Comment #3730919

    If the transformations/transitions are handled by the graphics card the faster js becomes irrelevant. For example js performance on IPad is not amazing, but it will run many transi…

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    Comment #3720314

    You make a fair point, but learning Italian or Portugese after Spanish is easy because they all share the same root language Latin. An eastern language such as mandarin won't be mu…

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    Comment #3708101

    The language in the browser is not the problem to me. If I could use python it wouldn't change the fact that you still need to deal with the DOM, CSS and browser differences.

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    Comment #3705212

    Hi posted this earlier, but it didn't get any traction. I guess the people here might be interested. http://www.visnos.com/demos/pi#launch

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    Comment #3694680

    Brilliant!

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    Comment #3225692

    Celsius please, or at least have both.This is supposed to be science not a localised weather report.

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    Comment #3165762

    Just finished porting a javascript fractal tree generator, the javascript version is at http://www.mcdaid.eu/labs/codify1 and the code to run in codify is in the textarea (small)

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    Comment #2801984

    I wonder what effect this could have on the local climate. Pumping out hot air into cool air at height of 800 metres has got to have some affect. Now if the base is used area is us…

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    Comment #2678659

    Actually I have been using a similar technique for the last six months. However 30mins intervals and I only do it on days when I feel tired or unmotivated. At the end of the period…

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    Comment #2592866

    See https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-appengine/ob-... Clarifies that you will be paying per instance hour, instead of cpu. Nothing is in concrete yet, if there is eno…