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   by MCompeau 15y ago

   This may be the worst submission I've ever seen on the front page of Hacker News. Not only is it a list, but it is a list of partial screenshots, many of which don't even have a description. Worse yet, some of the screenshots don't even sho
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   by MCompeau 15y ago

   If you search the forums on Justin.tv/Twitch.tv you can find the answers to these questions. Most serious casters use Flash Media Encoder to encode/upload their stream. There is a variety software for actually doing the screen capture and c
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   MakerBot's New Replicator is Delayed(emergentforms.com)

   1 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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   by MCompeau 15y ago

   I'm relatively new here and don't have any friends on Hacker News (unfortunately). Of the 4 articles I've submitted, 3 have made the front page (albeit one only very briefly). In my experience I was able to make the front page after receivi
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   Udacity's First Courses: Programming a Robotic Car(udacity.com)

   49 points by MCompeau 15y ago|6 comments
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   by MCompeau 15y ago

   I met one of the founders of Upverter this week and was pretty impressed by the polish of the product during his demo. I ended up signing up myself and I've already used it for a couple of my hobbyist electronics projects. I like the produc
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   by MCompeau 15y ago

   Like most others in the thread I really enjoyed the time lapse. This reminds me of the popularity of Notch's (Minecraft creator) live stream of his entries for Ludum Dare. There seems to be a lot of appeal in watching a talented practitione
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   by MCompeau 15y ago

   A diagram demonstrating a series of functional/spatial relationships is the most distant thing from design in architecture. Although the relationships are important and may need to be maintained for the project, they rarely map literally in
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   by MCompeau 15y ago

   SEEKING WORK - Toronto OR Remote Blog: http://www.emergentforms.com/blog/ Projects: http://emergentforms.com/projects.html Trained as a design architect, I am exploring ways of applying my expertise in the design of 3D physical space to
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    Attempting to Visualize Growth and Robustness with Processing.js(emergentforms.com)

    2 points by MCompeau 15y ago|0 comments
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    by MCompeau 15y ago

    I mean it in a colloquial sense. By tightly integrating their services and beginning to aggregate primarily their own content through search it seems they are taking a protectionist stance.
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    by MCompeau 15y ago

    Please correct me if I'm mistaken but companies using Google services such as GMail and Docs use them through Google Apps which isn't subject to advertising like the public versions of these services.
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    by MCompeau 15y ago

    I'm really surprised that Google is moving towards a more integrated/proprietary/closed platform. Their advantage was always that they were able to make the chaos of the web sensible to navigate. As a trendsetter in terms of openness they w
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    by MCompeau 15y ago

    I'm a huge fan of processing and processing.js . I come from a design background without any formal training in software development. Processing has been a really easy way for me to get visual results quickly without a degree in software en
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    How I Decided Which 3D Printer to Buy(emergentforms.com)

    8 points by MCompeau 15y ago|3 comments
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    MegaUpload Loses Top Lawyer After ‘Outside’ Pressure(torrentfreak.com)

    18 points by MCompeau 15y ago|4 comments
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    by MCompeau 15y ago

    I wonder if this work has an implication in markets where the buyer is unable to react quickly to price fluctuations. For instance markets where the buyer is tied to monthly fees and contracts like in the telecomm industry is the cartel eff