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Re:Xiaomi unveils concept phone with near bezel-less display on Tuesday October 25, 2016 @10:39AM (#12788364)
Once we went to slabs with the original iPhone all our phones have generally looked the same. Thus this already happened.
Re:Yarn – A new package manager for JavaScript on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @12:17PM (#12685795)
What does this mean for NPM Inc the company?

Is a replacement / mirror / rethink of the NPM infrastructure coming next?

If I was NPM Inc I would think about adopting yarn if possible.

Re:HP outrages printer owners after it blocks the use of cheap ink car... on Saturday September 24, 2016 @01:41PM (#12571793)
I just use Brother Laser printers -- Ink Jet is just a brutally bad way of printing. The multi-function printers are ultra reliable and cheap to operate.
Re:Pixar Universal Scene Description on Thursday September 22, 2016 @02:42PM (#12559099)
Alembic is a baking format. Slightly different use cases.

Usd has support for Alembic baked nodes: https://github.com/PixarAnimationStudios/USD/tree/2eb01f5cd4...

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2016) on Thursday September 01, 2016 @02:56PM (#12407931)
JavaScript or C++ interested in WebGL/WebVR/3D.

Company: Exocortex / Clara.io / ThreeKit

Location: Ottawa

We are the makers of http://clara.io and http://threekit.com.

We do WebGL, WebVR, CUDA, JavaScript and Node.js and lots of advanced stuff. We service dozens of service-based clients, and 250,000 individual users. We are rapidly growing.

We also contribute to lots of open source libraries including Three.JS.

Drop me a line at: [email protected]

Re:Cesium – An open-source JavaScript library for 3D globes and maps on Thursday September 01, 2016 @01:09PM (#12407022)
http://webglstats.com/ is great.
Re:Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:56PM (#12400570)
Just about anything is better than brotli.
Re:Smaller and faster data compression with Zstandard on Wednesday August 31, 2016 @02:55PM (#12400568)
Really nice work compared to what I consider to be the quite bad Brotli -- an incredibly slow compression standard that only ended up in browsers because it was created by Google.