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If you don't use it, your show is canceled? - Amit Patel

♣ - Sima

Well, it's worrydream. Expect to be blown away :) - Amit Patel

I hope Bret plans to share some of those tools with us. Open source, commercial, whatever works for him. - Jason Wehmhoener

Nothing like Bret's tools, but still pretty interesting: http://livecoder.net/ - Jason Wehmhoener

I'd love to see webkit remove prefixes soon after the testing period is over. - Amit Patel

I can't fix CSSWG, but I don't think Tantek's proposal is an answer to anything. - Jason Wehmhoener

Scumbag Steve, My Drunk Kitchen, SMBC, Andy Baio, Nyan Cat, 4Chan, Leeroy Jenkins, … - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

amazing talk that gets increasingly amazing; I want that code editor and iPad app - Andy Baio

I agree, amazing talk. - Amit Patel

JPEG XR has better quality and color for the same file size compared to JPEG. Supported in IE9; not sure about other browsers. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

(Photo credit: http://www.cvcomics.com/artands...) - Stephen Mack

That reminds me of one of the final shots from The Terminator. - Akiva

Lighting for games like Minecraft - Amit Patel

"We are Alex Carobus and Rob Shillingsburg, founders of Wild Shadow Studios. We met ten years ago when we both worked at Google as software engineers. We’d both wanted to do games since we were kids, and after leaving Google we decided to go for it." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

#represent - Eric

hawwt - The Real sofarsoShawn

"In what I can only describe as perhaps the most impressive application of openFrameworks I have ever seen, Petros Vrellis‘s interactive animation of Starry Night will surely blow your mind. Just when I thought that everything has been done, something like this pops up and knocks me off my pessimistic high-horse." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

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"Not so long ago, common ravens were uncommon in the Bay Area. A 1927 reference calls them "rare" except at Point Reyes. American crows lived mostly along the Marin County coast, not in the East Bay. In 1991, Audubon Christmas Bird Counts tallied 17 crows and 54 ravens in San Francisco; 60 crows and 23 ravens in Oakland. The 2011 San Francisco count reported 599 ravens and 566 crows; Oakland had 1,152 crows and 193 ravens. Remarkable, especially considering that crows, if not ravens, are highly susceptible to the West Nile virus. California Department of Public Health statistics show more dead crows than any other bird species testing positive for West Nile: 1,792 in 2008; 468 last year. (Raven mortality was minor.) The disease devastated crow populations in the East and Midwest, but California populations weren't dented. Much of the crow and raven boom is urban. Birder Josiah Clark has seen flocks of 90 ravens in San Francisco. City crows are hard to miss in Berkeley and elsewhere in the East Bay; they're certainly, noisily, all over our neighborhood." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

:) - Anne Bouey

How do you find time to read so many books? Are you not spending all your time on reddit and friendfeed? - Amit Patel

This is a backlog from when I bus-commuted 2.5 hours a day. Expect my rate of book reportage to drop off sharply at some point. - Larry Hosken

"In software development sometimes you spend time on an implementation which you are unreasonably proud of, but ultimately decide not to use in the product. This is one such story." - Amit Patel

Reading the title, I first thought of modem commands, where ATA was “answer”… - Amit Patel

+++ATH - DGentry

This is fantastic. - Stephen Mack

Wow. That's awesome. - Amit Patel

"In true Khan Academy fashion I made a video to sum up my internship, at the suggestion of our lead developer Bengineer Kamens. I was not very good at emulating Sal Khan, so the video just evolved in my own style. As I became more and more sleep-deprived, I became less and less rational, and re-recorded some parts I thought were boring. Consequently, some speech is difficult to make out, so you can just read the transcript below or enable captions." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

What an awesome sounding internship! - Amit Patel

But no Oxford comma. Failure ensues. - Akiva

I'm a big fan of Oxford commas. But http://languagehippie.blogspot.com/2011... - Amit Patel

"Realm of the Mad God Trailer" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Whoops, misspelled "heroes" - Rob Shillingsburg

just 2 - boomerang for gmail and swiftkey X - Karl Rosaen

I don't have any. I am unhelpful. - Larry Hosken

"What would the typical publishing executive do if someone came to them and said, “We’ve taken open source, 8-bit art and created a f2p, nethack-inspired MMO with permadeath. You can attain the maximum character level in just 30 minutes of play. The game currently has no means of generating revenue and can only accommodate 60 concurrent players per server. Will you work with us on it?” That’s essentially the question posed to Spry Fox one year ago by Alex and Rob, co-creators of Wild Shadow Studios, when they presented us with an early build of Realm of the Mad God (RotMG). And I can guess what others might have said to them, because when we subsequently described the project to contacts of ours, the reaction was inevitably one of skepticism. Permadeath? In 2011? How the heck are you going to retain users? And surely you mean 600 concurrent players per server, not 60?!" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Now I'd like to request a "Thindercats" podcast where you two share your weight loss secrets. Make it so? - Stephen Mack from Bookmarklet

That's why they say "Ho" and not "Ho Ho." - John E. Bredehoft

Number SIX is the one who breaks out of prison, where others have failed. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"Realm of the Mad God currently sits as the second-highest rated multiplayer game on Kongregate, with almost 2 million plays since it was published mere months ago on October 31, 2011. Where most games revel in heaps of (often forced) customization, players need only click on the mouse once to start playing Realm." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"When Rob Shillingsburg and Alex Carobus started Wild Shadow Studios after leaving Google in 2007, they decided to go big right away with Realm of the Mad God. Big studio games like World of Warcraft or Everquest demand large amounts of the players' time to learn all the nuances and methodically increase characters' power. Shillingburg and Carobus wanted to make their game as easy to get into as possible." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

I also don't like commercials and don't like having to set my schedule to watch a tv show. Or own a DVR. :) - Kelli H.

*fistbumps Ken* *also makes note to self to check out Dexter* :D - Kelli H.

2d bin packing algorithms, useful in games (e.g. texture atlas creation) - Amit Patel

"When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn't know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you servants worthy of my rule. This new government shall become a tool of my oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"This article is a design article about implementing deferred rendering. The motive behind it is that while there have been many articles and presentations about the concepts behind deferred rendering (for example, the article about deferred rendering in Killzone 2), there is very little information about how to approach it from a design standpoint. This article aims to do just that. The article is accompanied by code that implements a deferred rendering framework, and is somewhat a development journal of that framework. " - Amit Patel

"The company scavenges through the most popular titles on the social market and harvests them for their own. To use an analogy I’ve drawn on before, the gap between Tiny Tower and Sim Tower might be the difference between James Cameron‘s sci-fi Avatar and the similarly themed Dances with Wolves. However, the space between Tiny Tower and Zynga’s Dream Heights would be the difference between Dances with Wolves and another film set in the 1800s about Native Americans with the exact same plot, lookalike actors and titled “Cavorting with Bears.”" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

It worked for Hollywood. Well, not really. - Victor Ganata