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How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise ?
10 Oct 2014
So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pennies. One little constraint Since we can't predict the future, or even come close to gauging the cost of development for revolutionary new inventions or substances like warp and impulse drives, shields, and teleporters, we're going to stick to what we know...
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How to dynamically resize images on the server side?
10 Oct 2014
Overview The download of large images to the client browser which will be later resized to be a smaller image is very wasteful and slow. Let the server dynamically resize and cache your images with NO overhead to subsequent calls. To use in your HTML just add the desired behaviour to the URL e.g "?max-width=100" Available image transformations The sample large image is a landscape image of 1,000px × 667px which is 1.1m in size. You can resize the image while maintaining the same aspect ratio. The...
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