Osmium

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by Osmium 11y ago
Nice to know they're not magic after all :) Very inspiring.
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I can quite imagine how painful it would be to read. Perhaps it'd be easier if a different coloured ink was used for the cross sentences?
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by Osmium 11y ago
Reading this thread, I can only imagine some people saying to themselves: and this is why we don't open source our code. I wonder how many companies keep their source completely closed so as not to have to deal with this kind of PR?
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by Osmium 11y ago
> All-new typesetting engine lays out words just as the author intended for beautiful rendering of pages. With improved character spacing and the addition of hyphenation, justification, kerning, ligatures, and drop cap support, our best-
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by Osmium 11y ago
I'm not sure whether it's appropriate to mention this or not, but I was just looking up the authors of that paper to see what they're doing now. Very sadly, I found out that one of the authors, Emil Stefanov, died last year a
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Hmm, I am not sure if they would have very sophisticated software on the lander, in the way your thinking. I think it's safe to say that's still an order of magnitude more sophisticated than anything I deal with on a daily ba
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by Osmium 11y ago
Right. In principle, it's possible. Apple maintains it can't read your iMessages, for example. And are there any operations that happen on your photos that have to happen in the cloud? Thumbnail generation/optimisation can ha
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by Osmium 11y ago
For sure, but it could still be better than what publishers currently have, which is basically nothing. Especially for smaller sites. Very few succeed individually on a subscription basis, and micropayments haven't really taken off. I
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by Osmium 11y ago
What's the deal with iCloud Photos and privacy anyway? I've heard talk of "encrypted at rest" but what does this mean in practice? If someone gets root on Apple's servers, can they see my photos, or only if I'm
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by Osmium 11y ago
Interesting that, at the same time, Apple is actively promoting iAds for people to monetize its new news service. On the one hand, if you have to have ads, it's probably better to have an ad platform under your control (where you can e
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by Osmium 11y ago
Maybe it'll be different in Metal-backed El Capitan, but my experience so far has been that the discrete GPU universally degrades my battery life. I'm glad I have it though; sometimes I need it, but it'd be nice if I could ju
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by Osmium 11y ago
Playing devil's advocate here (because I, personally, wouldn't have done something like that), but I can see the insult. Here's someone with a very public proven track record (that they're fully aware of, if 90% of the
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by Osmium 11y ago
Can anyone tell me why this isn't an inbuilt feature of OS X? Preferably in the 'Energy Saver' pane of System Preferences, e.g. while on battery power, only use integrated graphics.
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by Osmium 11y ago
Really glad to see someone using Hypervisor.framework, looks like it has a lot of potential. Fusion/Parallels always seem far too heavyweight to me.
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by Osmium 11y ago
I hope so too. I, too, have been a paying Spotify user for a long time and it just drives me crazy. I tried Rdio too but wasn't a fan. All music catalogs being equal, the bar is set pretty low at the moment. I really want to like Spoti
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by Osmium 11y ago
> The sad thing is that those $720 have provided no lasting value for the user I don't necessarily see this as sad. I spend money on lots of things that have no lasting value (beyond memories), many of which are experiences. I think
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by Osmium 11y ago
They've just announced a major new addition to CloudKit though to basically allow integration into CloudKit via web apps, which seems like a pretty big deal.
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by Osmium 11y ago
Thanks, but I managed to re-enroll via iTunes Connect instead. Though why a $99 developer program costs £79 in the UK I have no idea, I guess it's VAT. Hopefully I'll finally get an app out to justify it this year!
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by Osmium 11y ago
> Program membership is not required. Though note that there's a current bug listed that looks like accounts with expired developer memberships currently can't use free provisioning. (For me, this is mildly irritating, because
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by Osmium 11y ago
Is 40 Gbps sufficient for modern graphics cards? (I genuinely have no idea, but I know there was a concern that previous versions of Thunderbolt wouldn't have enough bandwidth, and it's still a lot less than PCIe x16). It'd b
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by Osmium 11y ago
> I know people hate Centre Pompidou but I do not share that hate. I had no idea. I absolutely adore the Pompidou. I've only visited once, a few years back, but I remember it vividly. Colourful and full of joy.
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by Osmium 11y ago
Seconded. I have a specific application in mind. My current approach is an IPython notebook (with OpenCV 2) and trial and error to find a combination of algorithms that work, but I'm not convinced I'm using the correct algorithms
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by Osmium 11y ago
Apple replaced its proprietary MagSafe with USB-C for the latest MacBook, so there's precedent. (Aside: but I wonder if magnetic connectors are even appropriate for a cable that can transmit data as well as power. With MagSafe, if the
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by Osmium 11y ago
Certainly, but they're charging €1000+, so it isn't really an option for me. I'll just re-write the parts I need. I'll just almost certainly do it worse, and it'll take more time, that's all!
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by Osmium 11y ago
> In that case the poor may just decide to travel at nontraditional times. I don't mean to single out your comment (the core idea of which I agree with), but I see similar comments on HN a lot. Completely logical, technical observat
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by Osmium 11y ago
Thanks, I didn't realise that. Unfortunately, I wasn't looking to charge for my app, so a commercial license isn't feasible for me. As far as I know, GPL3+ is incompatible with the iOS App Store, so that's out too.
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by Osmium 11y ago
Blogspot has a a really weird layout. It's very buggy for me in Safari, and makes browsing old posts really difficult. It also seems to take a while for content to even appear on the screen.
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by Osmium 11y ago
This is really inspiring stuff. Highly recommend the author's blog[1] (sadly on blogspot) and GitHub page[2] too. His last section on 'advanced particle systems' might be able to be sped up considerably by using an appropriat
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by Osmium 11y ago
AutoCAD has an free education version: http://www.autodesk.com/education/free-software/all Very easy to obtain, but it can't be used for commercial applications obviously. There's also OpenSCAD (GPL): h
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by Osmium 11y ago
Does anyone know a CGAL-like library with an iOS App Store-compatible open source license?

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