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I just tested this and unfortunately the test case doesn't pass on the nightly. I am seeing (252,40,252) instead of the (255,0,255).

OP here. Retina displays are catching up really fast and it is not tired to Apple at all (although the term is). A retina ready blog will look better on most new HD-ready Android tablets, like the Nexus 7 and the Kindle Fire HD, and phones likes the Galaxy S III many others.

Probably he means WebGL support in iOS? Apple seems to be holding this off for some reason.

Coming soon! I am just getting the payment system in place and some legal issues need sorting out. The website is Babel3D - http://www.babel3d.com. Right now it only converts for visualization on mobile apps though.

I have recently been prototyping a WebGL based CAD viewer at work, and I could render 4-5 million triangles (that's around 50 MB of geometry data) on a late-2010 MacBook Air 11". Performance is very good on all browsers (FF, Chrome, and Safari), but FF seems to outperform the rest.

+1 for running. It can do wonders for you. Before I started exercising regularly, I used to get stressed out just trying to get through my office work everyday. But since I started running, I don't feel any mental stress anymore. I now have a lot of free time available, in spite of spending an hour or so exercising everyday, and I have managed to design and develop a few iOS apps in my 'spare' time.

When developing iOS apps, if you cannot hire a designer in your team, then you or someone else in your team should try and learn some basic design skills. In a market like the Apple App Store where there are a huge number of apps, the easiest way to differentiate yourself is with the help of good design.

You are going in the right direction though with the design. Best of luck.

Yes, the tracks are interesting. Note how the whale often tracks back and then takes a different route as if he/she was unsure about the route (something we often do on new/unexplored forest trails so that we don't get lost). The sharp turns might therefore be some sort of a landmark for the whale.

Some humans can win against animals without riders. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting

Technology has a very direct effect on corruption, and hackers and entrepreneurs are squashing corruption everywhere.

See [1]. From the abstract - "We provide empirical evidence that strongly shows that technology-induced private sector development is associated with a decline in aggregate corruption.".

Also see [2]. From the abstract - "The paper suggests that societies that continually stay open to productivity-enhancing activities will eventually enter a takeoff stage of anti-corruption efforts..."

[1] Corruption and Technology-Induced Private Sector Development. www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2006/wp06198.pdf

[2] Corruption and Technological Progress. www2.econ.osaka-u.ac.jp/coe/dp/dp_no.14.pdf

This is very good. Some suggestions - you should make the the camera point to the center of the model. Also fixing the light to the eye (not transforming it with the model) will make the rendering look good from all angles. Zoom and pan would be nice. Also maybe an orthographic projection will make better sense as the 3D printed models are likely to be quite small.

The easiest way is to use a custom full-sized background for the tab bar, navigation bar and toolbars.

This is from very long back. In school, I once passed an exam on grace marks given because of my graceful handwriting (this was writing in the 'Devanagari' script, which even naturally allows for more calligraphy than the Roman script).

Some dresses can be distracting.

It is indeed possible that India may become 'the next workshop of the world'. This will, at least in the short term, lift the country more in the span of a decade than it has risen, against all odds I might add, in the last 50 years. The only thing we Indians need to do is change our cultural bias against physical labour. And every passing day I can see this changing.

I keep forgetting that I am bound by an NDA. Can't say nothing more.

From the couple of talks I heard, I think Apple said something about auto-converting 'at runtime' in iOS 6 existing guide-based layouts into the new auto-layout thing based on constraints.

Apple is introducing auto-layout in iOS 6, which will make it relatively easy to design apps which scale to different resolutions. There were at least 3 talks on auto-layout at WWDC 2012.

India is a big country with a huge population. As with many other complex phenomena, there is no one reason which can explain why India is not doing well in sports. My guess is that the country is just going through a trough. Wait for a few more generations and see.

In general, as economic forces level the playing field for most countries around the world, the medals tally will start correlating well with the population.

DirectX is a very good option for games. OpenGL on the other hand is a more generic 3D API (used, for example, by most CAD and other scientific applications). Additionally, of course, it is available on all platforms. I doubt that DirectX will outlive OpenGL in the long run.

'Stein on Writing', 'Bird by Bird', 'The Writer's Portable Mentor', and 'On Writing', are some books on writing worth reading.

This is very nice. Also a bit retro? Reminds me about a linux GTK theme I was using a long time ago.

Holy cow!!

Agree 100%

I often work passionately 16 or even 18 hours a day, but that's like for a couple of weeks (or maybe a month) in a year, when we are about to launch something exciting, rest of the year I usually work 5-6 hours a day, sometimes even less, an hour or a couple of hours a day, spending the rest of the time catching up on technology, making art and some music. That said, I get more work done than almost a 100 other people combined.

If I were to work for a fixed number of hours a day every day of the year, I would probably be doing some boring chore of a work, and would likely 'burn out' due the boredom.

He obviously, isn't involved in any customer support :)

Watched the talk a few months back. Just amazingly accessible to everyone. Worth watching even if you only have a passing interest in ML. Highly recommended!

I guess, these things sort themselves out in a capitalist society. I guess, there is nothing really to worry about :)

Indian higher educational institutes and their ratings correlate well on a log graph. This is the way it should ideally be (it is a well designed filter). Only problem is that the highest rated institutes are few and far between. The students admitted in these top-tier universities have cleared entrance examinations with a standard deviation of less than 5% (this is a guess, it is likely even less). A lot of potentially good students are therefore left out of an opportunity for better education (rather a better starting job, due to the hiring culture).

It is true that the 'education' in India sucks - it is outdated, and often not worth the 4 years spent in acquiring it. However, the log correlation ensures that top-tier universities are damn hard to get into, and those few than do get into them (for example, the IITs) are by far the best in the world (compared to anywhere).

Given some more economic pressure, more top-tier universities should popup soon. As for finding customer service workforce, I think, its about time India starts offshoring it elsewhere ;)