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zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

I've read about this a bit for mods on DSLRs for taking older Canon's and allowing them to record video. If the DSLR isn't designed for recording video the sensor isn't designed for continuous light exposure which will heat up an ruin the sensor. I don't know the differences but I'd imagine using one of the newer DSLRs that have video recording capability as a webcam would be fine.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Making Sprite-based Games with Canvas

I haven't followed html5 development too closely, but audio support in current browsers hasn't been uniform. I'm guessing the lack of one size fits all for audio in browsers is why.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5_Audio

edit: I'd also guess because audio is hard and that it is probably easier to make graphics and gaming logic than making sounds/music properly.

zacksjoden | 13 years ago | on: Bitcoin rises

I've been reading off and on about Bitcoins on HN for a while and had no idea that they could be broken down into smaller units. From Wikipedia:

"In trade, one bitcoin is subdivided into 100-million smaller units called satoshis, defined by eight decimal places.[4]"

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