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I'm usually eager to jump on board with recommendations from Stoyan’s performance calendar, but Anne’s description of baseline loading doesn't comport with my experience in Webkit …

Might I suggest Python instead? It's more immediately useful to kids interested in the sciences.

"Older browsers" means those that predate native JSON methods. Libraries often use eval() as a fallback.

Irrelevant to your point, but motion interpolation isn't entirely worthless -- it helps, for example, with the motion judder problem that frequently occurs during camera pans on LE…

I recently bought a new TV, and out of excitement left it uncalibrated. First film we watched was live action, which I don't watch much of, and it looked fine to me. The second fil…

Or the "someone" GuiA recalls was Mitch Kapor.

That's true when the risks outweigh the benefits, but it's not always true otherwise: we vaccinate everyone against smallpox to -keep- it rare! Unfortunately, the cost of removing …

I haven't looked at Aperture or Lightroom, but iWork's price change isn't quite as dramatic or inscrutable as you think: the retail package was $80, and the 3 App store components …

Dropbox isn't a software product; it's a service. What's more, it's a service that needs to be priced to compete with Apple's own iCloud.

I agree, but in the case of bad Kindle conversions, the only thing Amazon can fairly be faulted for is requiring users to accompany their reviews with ratings. It's up to the publi…

They're called public schools in England because free and tax-funded education is a relatively new phenomenon. At a time when people could choose between private tuition at home an…

Yes, but Harvard and Yale are higher education institutions whereas Eton is a secondary education institution. That was hugh3's point: "the British elite will judge you not only by…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eton_College#University_admissi...

"iFlow wants 50% like they were getting before the agency model." You may not have intended this, but that sentence reads as though iFlow is merely making less money than it wold l…

To be clear: the NASB estimates that 93,000 deaths so far (as opposed to "eventual" deaths), the ICRIN estimates 500,000 deaths so far, and the RAS estimates 60,000 deaths so far a…

"The World Health Organization study in 2005 indicated that 50 people died to that point as a direct result of Chernobyl. 4000 people may eventually die earlier as a result of Cher…

Another update: Tepco has confirmed that 11 engineers were injured in the blast. No word on their condition.

25 reasons I know Mark Peter Davis isn't living in the stone age: 1. He drives a car. 2. He owns keys, cash, and cards. 3. He receives medical care. 4. His life expectancy is above…

and to shake one's booty means to wiggle one's butt. allow me to demonstrate.

It's "Windows Only" logic: exclusivity through ubiquity. Why bother catering for the niche marget when you can score big with iOS?

I saw that you've been reading his articles for a year, so it makes sense that your views reflect his misogyny and subscription to the violent totalitarian credo that might makes r…

A couple of Scott's archived articles turned my stomach, Watermelon. Such as this piece, where he details his preference for foreign women, because they're more submissive, easily-…

Oi! I didn't say HTML5 is "the last final big version" of HTML, I said we won't see it expanded for a long time. Maybe I'll be proven wrong about that, but it still takes demonstra…

"HTML5 is going to evolve much faster than ActionScript." As written, this statement is wrong. Adroit developers are picking up HTML5's JS API's with more enthusiasm than they have…

If you have a media center, you can also watch Cosmos from Netflix Instant. ooh, and I also recommend Jacob Bronowski's "The Ascent of Man", which is a little older, but it's a sim…