Osmium

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by Osmium 12y ago
What's the current situation with In-App Purchases and patent issues? I'd like to do fund a smaller project of my own but I'm put off by the problems other developers have had in the past.
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by Osmium 12y ago
I saw your write-up on this before; very cool work. Could you talk a little about the programming side of things and what you had to do to go from your initial mock-up (what did you use for that?) to the Android app, and how that process we
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by Osmium 12y ago
> The news about the planned hollywood adaptation is both exciting and frightening. These are really not cinematic stories as far as I can tell I don't know, I think some of them could be adapted to screen really quite well ("T
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by Osmium 12y ago
One of my favourite writers, even though I've only read a few of his short stories. He's a very striking writer who manages to combine very big ideas with really fluid prose, which is something that seems quite rare. I understand
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Oh, and a fun fact - with the newest cryptography algorithms it's even possible to modify the files without knowing what they contain. If I'm not mistaken it would even be possoble to create a software that can conpute checks
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Learning that the uncertainty principle gives rise to phenomena that popular science calls "wave-particle" duality was taught to me in quantum 101. Agreed, just to expand on that: The hand-wavey relationship between wave-part
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by Osmium 12y ago
> I do molecular dynamics simulations (and am in fact performing simulations on graphene currently), and an individual layer of graphene easily stays intact in both a vacuum and other environments. You can make a lot of 'stable&#x27
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by Osmium 12y ago
> you should see what happens when you tell these researchers that they no longer have the possibility of getting incredibly filthy rich someday from their discoveries My personal experience with this is that patents are only used as a k
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by Osmium 12y ago
I think the particular translation you have makes a big difference, as with a lot of these older texts. I found it very readable because the sections were so short and the language pretty clear, but I was reading the Martin Hammond translat
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by Osmium 12y ago
> A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - William B. Irvine I read this, and have nothing bad to say about it per se. I think Stoicism in the classic sense is very under-appreciated these days, and it's good to ha
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by Osmium 12y ago
If they're making something public-facing, and the language and/or framework they're using is known to be more difficult to use in a secure manner, then it's probably fair to warn a newcomer away. Otherwise, completely a
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by Osmium 12y ago
David Foster Wallace also has a good essay on this in Consider the Lobster . I think this is the same one: http://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/HarpersMagazine-1998-0...
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by Osmium 12y ago
> you are granting the user that access/ability by connecting to Exchange Does iOS present a warning to this effect when you add an Exchange account? If not, they should. I have an Exchange account set up from my university and don&
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Most people don't realize that by using the default iOS and Android mail clients to connect to an Exchange server, they're implicitly giving it the ability to remotely wipe their entire mobile device. Is there a way to disabl
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by Osmium 12y ago
> here we have to assume that the black hole is not rotating very fast I read that, for Interstellar, it's actually very important to include rotation of the black hole: http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy&
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by Osmium 12y ago
As a first step, I wonder how feasible it would be to have a constant presence around these planets and moons? A 'standard' orbiter, mass produced? I was reading about the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer mission, and it's incredibl
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by Osmium 12y ago
> The song of a great singer, the speech of a political leader, the sermon of a great divine, the lecture of a man of science may thus be delivered to an audience scattered all over the world. " ...and videos of cats. " I fin
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by Osmium 12y ago
> One wonders how many obvious root causes to common illnesses are sitting right in front of us. Perhaps it's a silly comparison, but I was reminded when reading this of the Facebook bug the other day[1] where progress was suddenly
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by Osmium 12y ago
"Biol. Mood Anxiety Disord." is probably the ISO 4[1] abbreviation of the journal, hence the domain. > For instance, when citing a paper from the European Physical Journal, the ISO 4 standard prescribes the abbreviation "E
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Meanwhile in reality people got upset because Glass owners had a camera on their face the entire time. This is surely the biggest thing. It always seemed like a very tone-deaf move by Google to include a camera. It's not like Glas
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by Osmium 12y ago
The link's very cool, but I think it highlights the important distinction between notes that celebrate science and notes that celebrate specific scientists . Both may be worthwhile doing, but they're different things.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Those photos are wicked cool and very beautiful in their way too (reminds me of a star field). Thanks for sharing.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Nothing about this seems plausible to me. I do research on LED technologies though I can't speak about this specifically because they don't seem to have released any technical details whatsoever, but that's part of what makes
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by Osmium 12y ago
> Magicians don't like to do tricks that might not work :) I actually don't think this is true. As I understand it, a given routine will have a number of high-risk tricks that may work, say, only 1-in-3 times. If they do work,
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by Osmium 12y ago
Thanks for the information, that's really interesting, and a shame it didn't work out! I did see that the sound of a clap had been imaged, but I imagine that's a somewhat extreme case. > The research paper you link to almo
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by Osmium 12y ago
Purely out of curiosity, has anyone used this in conjunction with a linguistics study to visualise sounds made during speech? I did a quick literature search but couldn't find anything. Not sure whether if features would be too subtle
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by Osmium 12y ago
I found it a little bizarre too, e.g. > 11. Get a quick, binding divorce online. This makes absolutely no sense to me, in so many ways. Presumably a divorce should be a rare enough occurrence that doing it in person is not a burden?
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by Osmium 12y ago
It's included in their resource pack if you want to try it out :) along with a punch of .psd templates.
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by Osmium 12y ago
Really hope they fix the multiple display issues where menu bar icons are redrawn every time you switch displays causing flickering in your peripheral vision. Very annoying. According to the link below, this is "by design" but it
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by Osmium 12y ago
Ptolemy's PI is Ian Wright at the Open University: http://www.open.ac.uk/science/pssri/research/missions/rosett... But your point stands; I know a lot's under embargo right now, I was more wond

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