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Re: An introduction to Jekyll

beiju — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 01:16:39 -0000

I've been looking into Jekyll too, but one thing I couldn't find examples of was sites with multiple types of posts (in your case, blog, work, and folio). I'd be interested to know how you keep those seperate.

Re: UsabilityPost - Font Smoothing

beiju — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:15:03 -0000

Not to mention the antialiasing mode makes sites' scrolling jerky, as with all of the examples you cited.

Re: CSS3 transitions and their language design problems

beiju — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:22:08 -0000

The problem your multiple-property declaration is that you're grouping and comma-separating each type. Transitions work like other properties with multiple values (font-face, shadows, background images). You take the values in the same order you would for only one (background-color 2s in your case), put a comma, then repeat (left .2s).

In other words, group the properties for the same transitions. Your result would be "transition: background-color 2s, left .2s;"

Right now, the browser sees: animate the background color (and it doesn't know how long), then animate the left property for 2s, then animate for .2s (but it doesn't know which property). Since you can have the same time for different properties, but not the same property for different times, the browser is able to guess what to do with the background-color, but it can't guess what to do with the .2s.

Re: Inception Explained: Unraveling The Dream Within The Dream - CinemaBlend.com

beiju — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:11:40 -0000

You’re right, I had remembered it differently until you gave those specific details.

(I hope this is posted, I’m trying to send it by email since I can’t figure out how to navigate that mess of Disqus comment threads.)

Re: Inception Explained: Unraveling The Dream Within The Dream - CinemaBlend.com

beiju — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:58:41 -0000

My theory sort of explains the reason the dreamer has to stay at that level. I'd refine it a bit keeping in mind that it looks like the person has to stay at the level they dream up. Before I said that when someone tried to be the dreamer for two separate levels, the first level would essentially disappear. Now I'd say that as soon as their consciousness leaves the level (whether by waking up, going up a level, going down a level, or going into limbo) that happens, and the connection is broken.

The "connection" I mean is easiest explained by visualizing it. Imagine the worlds stacked, where reality is at the top and limbo is far, far below. When one of the Inception (the movie, not the planting of an idea) dreams are created, a new world is attached to the bottom of the real one. For a dream within a dream, the new dream world is attached to the bottom of the first dream world, and so on. This creates a chain. When one of the dreams is stopped, ordinarily the people in it are pulled back to reality and wake up. But, under the strong sedative, that connection isn't strong enough and they fall down into limbo. Then any worlds suspended from the one that was stopped also fall.

I don't think of limbo as "the place you go after four levels," I think it's where you go when your connection is broken. Ariadne and Cobb went there after Fisher died by following him in. They hooked him up as if they would enter his dream, and instead the machine pulled them down into limbo.

I think Cobb and Mol tried to piggyback, but as soon as whichever of them dreamed first left that world, they both fell into limbo. The only problem with this is that they said they "tried to go too deep," when they would only have gotten to trying the second level before they fell. From what I can tell, two levels seems to be widely considered to be possible—and even necessary for difficult subjects such as Sayto in the first dream (where reality was the train).

Re: Inception Explained: Unraveling The Dream Within The Dream - CinemaBlend.com

beiju — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:51:27 -0000

The way the Architect is able to create the dream seems inconsistent. When Cobb is teaching Ariadne, he explains that in normal dreams the mind both designs the world and creates it. The machine intercepts the design while it's on its way to be created, and replaces it with something from the architect's mind. This is why, in Ariadne's first dream, the setting is one her mind has created even though Cobb is the dreamer and she hasn't taught him any design. When she starts changing the design, Cobb's mind changes the world.

My theory is either that skilled dreamers, or perhaps just ones who know that the world isn't theirs, can change the design after receiving it from the architect, or skilled architects can allow the dreamer to collaborate, in a sense.

Or perhaps there are just two methods, one where the architect intercepts the dream and one where the dreamer is technically the architect, but uses a design somebody else taught him/her. It would make sense to do the latter in these layered dreams, because if the architect then goes a layer deeper his/her mind would have to be feeding two different dreamers two different architectures, when their consciousness (and subconsciousness?) is in the lower level.

Related: My theory about how Cobb and Mol fell into limbo has to do with this. Since it was only the two of them, and they were trying to go deep into dreams, they might have alternated. Say Cobb dreamt the first level, then Mol dreamt the second. When Cobb started to dream the third, the dream-world-creation part of his mind switched focus to the third level. But, the first level now had nothing to hold it together, and it evaporated, dropping Mol and Cobb into limbo.

Re: Inception Explained: Unraveling The Dream Within The Dream - CinemaBlend.com

beiju — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:33:11 -0000

I think you have the Projection definition wrong. Projections are created by the dreamer's subconscious, and if they dreamer realizes the other people in the dream are not from his/her mind (the subject and the rest of the team), it attacks them.

Take Ariadne's first dream. Cobb was the dreamer, and she was apparently both subject and architect. He said the projections were from his subconscious, and when they realized Ariadne was changing the architecture of the dream world, they attacked her.

Other projections can be created in special cases. In the last sequence, even though none of the dreams were his, Fisher's subconscious was apparently trained to create projections in all three levels that would attack whoever put him in the dream. And, of course, Cobb's subconscious brought Mal into seemingly every dream he had.

Re: http://moapp.tumblr.com/post/657953502

beiju — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 16:40:25 -0000

As a rough guideline, I'd go with anything QuickTime X will open.

Re: Elliot Blake

beiju — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:42:26 -0000

I don’t know, but just don’t use this ugly green one.

Re: I'm sick of using Apple Mail as my RSS reader

beiju — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:56:08 -0000

NetNewsWire is my preferred one, NewsFire and Vienna are pretty good too. I won't bother linking, you can google them.

Re: TSB01: Why I’m doing this and what types of cameras we all use

beiju — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:36:26 -0000

This is great! I hope I'll learn a lot.

BTW, the grammar geek in me is screaming that it should be Bart Busschots' Blog in the TSB Community sidebar section, can't forget that apostrophe.