Osmium

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by Osmium 13y ago
This is entirely true. I don't understand Snapchat's valuation in the slightest, which is why I mentioned it here in comparison to this acquisition. I'm yet to see how large audiences and advertising revenue are an answer to
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by Osmium 13y ago
Presumably Microsoft has a perpetual license to PrimeSense's IP? Or does someone else entirely own that?
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by Osmium 13y ago
Regarding the headline, "A sensible exit: PrimeSense bought by Apple for $345M", does anyone have any opinion on the price here? It seems reasonable, but really just serves to highlight just how absurd the Snapchat offer was ear
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by Osmium 13y ago
True; this seems a bit silly at first glance, but imagine how much money a YouTube-like site could save if videos were converted in the user's browser before upload, rather than by the server.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Yes, very true, but this is in part because silicon is simply understood so well now. Trust me when I say we could do just as exciting things and more besides with other materials if we just understood them half as well! To illustrate what
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by Osmium 13y ago
This is really exciting! For those not familiar, 180s (edit: as previously published[2]) is a phenomenal amount of time at room temperature and it seems they've beaten that now too. I was just looking for this recently in another comme
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by Osmium 13y ago
I think this definitely comes with experience, and therefore confidence. I own up to not knowing things all the time , but I doubt I would've four or five years ago. It just becomes easier when you're confident in what it is you
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by Osmium 13y ago
I love how an iPhone was deemed more essential than a change of clothes.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Agreed; a key/legend would be good!
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by Osmium 13y ago
Ah, I hadn't realised this was a personally-curated list (I see it now on the 'About' section). Since these are all places you've had personal experience with, why not add a sentence or two describing what you think? It&
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by Osmium 13y ago
I think that's GDDR5 which is something different (and roughly comparable to [edit: DDR3]). Also, for this comparison, hasn't DDR3 had much higher speeds than 1066MHz for a while now anyway? isn't it up to 1866MHz? so the com
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by Osmium 13y ago
Great tool! Thank you :) I'm not personally vegetarian, but I found myself looking for one recently when I was in London and found it far too difficult. Minor suggestion: I'd make the "Vegan" label say "Vegan Only&q
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by Osmium 13y ago
Yeah, I can't remember the last time I saw someone sign for or swipe a credit card in the UK: it's all chip-and-pin now, all the time. This looks like cool technology but it just wouldn't work here.
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by Osmium 13y ago
They acquired themselves from Opera most recently. Prior to that, they were bought by Opera in 2010. http://www.operasoftware.com/press/releases/general/opera-ac... https://news.ycombinator.com&#
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Gorilla Glass never truly delivered shatter protection, mostly scratch protection Sapphire will certainly offer more scratch resistance, but I'd be more skeptical about shatter resistance for now...
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by Osmium 13y ago
Are they covered by insurance at all?
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by Osmium 13y ago
In fairness, it's more of an everything thing. You won't get far in any science without hitting a Fourier transform somewhere!
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by Osmium 13y ago
I really liked Everpix and was a paying customer. A real shame. I appreciate that they're giving refunds. I used it as my photo library in the cloud. I have far too many photos to put on my phone, but it was nice to be able to look the
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by Osmium 13y ago
> hydrogen is chemically inert enough In addition to just keeping it stored (as others have mentioned), hydrogen can have huge structural effects. It doesn't matter if it's chemically inert if it ends up diffusing through you
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by Osmium 13y ago
> Hydrogen is notoriously good at diffusing through seals, and even through metal. Exactly this. Efficient hydrogen storage is a huge open research question. Even keeping the helium sealed can be difficult enough.
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by Osmium 13y ago
How completely and utterly ridiculous and reckless. I understand the thrill, but jeez... And good luck walking through an airport in future!
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by Osmium 13y ago
I've seen this on my Mac with its inbuilt webcam. It annoys me intensely because when it switches it usually results in unwatchable video for a period of time before it stabilises, then it suddenly realises it has enough bandwidth and
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by Osmium 13y ago
> at least not enough to pay whatever Apple was asking to use it. And I think that's the key issue – not just Apple's licensing fees, but the cost of the cables too. They'd either have to include a Lightning cable themselv
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by Osmium 13y ago
> If someone can't plug in a cable in the right way, I seriously doubt they should be using a smart phone in the first place... or any technology more sophisticated than a pointy stick. Sure, I'll take that bait. There are innu
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by Osmium 13y ago
> I'm really surprised Apple don't do this just for user friendliness. I can't stand proprietary connectors as much as the next person, but there's no denying that their Lightning connector is much much better than an
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by Osmium 13y ago
Thanks for opening the issue. I'm not on github at the moment (or, rather, I am but don't want to link my profile there to my one here), but to answer the question my $TERM is "ansi". I'll keep checking the issue pa
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by Osmium 13y ago
> This means I recieved an email prompting me to change my password about a month (!) after the breach occurred. I only received mine after I attempted to log in. Whether that was by coincidence or not I don't know.
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by Osmium 13y ago
Sure. I'm basically on a fresh install of Mavericks (13A603), using Terminal.app (unmodified from defaults apart from downloading the Solarized theme), standard British Mac keyboard (rMBP).
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by Osmium 13y ago
Uploaded the output here: http://pastebin.com/v6ZKrLcp Thanks!
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by Osmium 13y ago
I installed 2.1 via homebrew and now, every time I open a new terminal window, I get: bind: Key with name 'dc' does not have any mapping bind: Key with name 'ppage' does not have any mapping bind: Key with

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