“Brush & Spoke is a website built to showcase bicycles, bicycle related art, and anything else bicycles!”
Really insightful stuff, I’ll have to read the full report.
1 <?php 2 3 /** 4 * Need to make some numbers look nicer? No worries, fudge them! 5 * @author dennis.hotson@gmail.com <Dennis Hotson> 6 */ 7 class Fudge 8 { 9 /** 10 * Makes a number look nicer 11 * @param $n int 12 * 3 - 30 rounds to the nearest 1 13 * 30 - 300 rounds to the nearest 10 14 * 300 - 3000 rounds to the nearest 100 15 */ 16 public static function round($n) 17 { 18 return self::_round($n, self::_accuracy($n)); 19 } 20 21 /** 22 * Makes a number look like a bargain price 23 * @param $n int 24 */ 25 public static function price($n) 26 { 27 $accuracy = self::_accuracy($n); 28 29 if (self::_accuracy($n, 3) < self::_accuracy($n, 1)) 30 $adjustment = $accuracy / 10; 31 else 32 $adjustment = $accuracy / 20; 33 34 return self::_round($n, self::_accuracy($n)) - $adjustment; 35 } 36 37 /** 38 * @param $n int 39 * @param $offset 40 * @return int A power of 10 eg 1,10,100.... 41 */ 42 private static function _accuracy($n, $offset = 3) 43 { 44 return pow(10, floor(log10(max(1, $n)) - log10($offset))); 45 } 46 47 /** 48 * Rounds $n to the nearest $accuracy 49 */ 50 private static function _round($n, $accuracy) 51 { 52 return round($n / $accuracy) * $accuracy; 53 } 54 }Also on github.
A story of what happens when a Physics professor tries out Biology.
This made me realise how out of touch I am with the latest desktop linux gadgetry.. lot’s of new cool stuff to try!
Really insightful stuff.. a must read.
A rating system for rating different types of tea. I like the tick mark system for rating relative to other stuff you’ve already rated.
Pretty old, but worth a re-post I reckon.. :-)
A really great article. It’s pretty interesting that you can beat the CPU’s sqrt opcode.
Really informative article about one of my favorite apps.
Damaggio worked as a comic book artist for DC in the 1990’s before moving on to do concept art and storyboards for such summer blockbusters as MI3, Lemony Snicket’s SoUE, Hidalgo, Indiana Jones 4, and Fantastic Four “Rise of the Silver Surfer”, among many others.
