farico's comments

On: Tetris Game in 140 Bytes of JavaScript

[farico]

the wtf licence just kicks asses :|

On: Visualising weather reports as a graph

[farico]

Would be cool if you changed Europe/Vilnius shortcut to Lithuania with capital Vilnius and not Vilniusstrasse in Austria :)

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=Europe/Vilnius

suggesting to replace it with: http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;ws=29009

By the way I really like viewing weather as graph! Nicely done.

[jacobn → farico]

Yes, yahoo's geocoding is not perfect... Searching for just "Vilnius" does the right thing though, and takes you to:

http://weatherspark.com/#!dashboard;a=Republic_of_Lithuania/...

(disclosure: I'm one of the weatherspark devs)

On: My 2 hour morning project, route.im

[farico]

I second that

On: IBM: Mind reading is less than five years away. Fo...

[farico]

"you can control the cursor on a computer screen just by thinking about where you want to move it."

Imagine writing code by thinking only?

On: This Site’s Domain is Stolen

[farico]

Godaddy stole phpiseasy.com from me too. Not sure who to trust anymore

On: The Yet Another Framework (Yaf), PHP extension for...

[farico]

When did they launch this?

[jasonlotito → farico]

Seems it was published in June: http://pecl.php.net/package/yaf

Keep in mind it's a PECL extension, so it's not bundled with PHP.

On: Light - If you view the Earth from far enough away...

[farico]

I don't get it - even if you use a mirror, the distance is still the same. Light needs to go to the mirror, reflect and come back to your eyes, there's no difference if you're n lightyears away or just n/2 and use a mirror.

me ------| <- mirror

me ---|--- me

Do I get it wrong?

[rkalla → farico]

farico, you are exactly right, and that is the point. You just add mirrors to make the distance needed shorter and shorter.

I was just taking the example to a logical absurdity to reason that we could potentially make a small array of millions of mirrors, here on earth, that could see back in time in "real-time" if you pointed it at something.

But as I soon realized, this is basically a video camera =(