andrewducker | Nov. 12th, 2010

Nov. 12th, 2010

So, my random thought about javascript led to my second post this morning. And I wondered if there'd be any interesting comments from the geeks over on Hacker News, so I chucked a link over there.

Which then got me 145 comments, and was upvoted 126 times. In fact, it's still number 17 on their front page, 10 hours later.

Which got me more pageviews than I've ever had before:

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It's at times like this that I'm glad I don't have to run this stuff myself, but can offload it all to our Russian hosts...

(I don't have the stats from Google Analytics yet. Looking forward to checking those out tomorrow.)

And no, this doesn't make me feel any more important. I'm kinda boggled, to be honest. I was expecting 5-10 comments, not multiple threads of discussion going on.

After the sixth person on my friends list posted youtube videos of Hatsune Miki, Japanese virtual pop star, I finally got around to watching one of them this morning.

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How the hell are they doing that? At various points it looks to me like the lights at the side of the stage are sweeping through her, with no loss of fidelity. And she moves around (although not much - and there's clearly a _very_ bright light behind her). Was there a technology breakthrough that nobody told me about?