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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Interesting suggestion! I really cannot stand this book, but I appreciate all of the things you've gleaned from it and I'm glad it's had a positive impact on people. I actually really like Pirsig's ideas about quality
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
RE: Mottaini - always-pray is definitely annoying, but I don't think it holds up with deeper strategy. If your opponent is doing it vehemently, remember that you now have absolute control over what actions they take, and find a route t
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
I think that family of ClearType bugs persisted for like 5 years on Chrome for Windows (I only noticed it fixed last fall?) so I'm not surprised people were attempting extreme fixes. The text looked really bad. EDIT: Sibling post sugge
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
If anything, their adaptability gives me confidence. They have little power to stop vendors from creating new emojis that are morphologically distinct from existing ones, so they might as well wrangle them into a standard.
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Is this a testable claim? Were, say, sheep progenitors easier to domesticate than ibexes or antelope or okapi?
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Well, we just haven't found a good control planet yet.
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Relatedly, if anyone hasn't read it, Kyle Pittman has a lovely rundown of his attempts at emulating various CRT-effects digitally during development of the indie game Super Win the Game : http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Yeah I was in a similar position with a lot of code work from a startup that crashed (wasn't the founder, but 1st technical team member, and the founder ended up being useless as a reference) that people refused to look at. One thing I
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Still paywalled?
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Seeing this apology (that I didn't think was necessary) just made me more angry about their failure to acknowledge anything is wrong with their culture of harassment. Obviously they can't actually acknowledge the harassment issues
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
It's not canonicalization, it's extracting the hostname from the origin (which contains the protocol and port info as well) without implementing your own URL parsing.
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
For passersby who were confused like I was: IntelliJ Community Edition has absolutely no support for Javascript or Typescript, which is not noted clearly in the help docs. You apparently need Ultimate Edition to get it. I was real excited
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Yeah, pursuing a culture shift that discourages pointlessly-standardized working hours and encourages remote work when possible might even have a tangible effect on traffic. That said traffic is often one of those unfortunate predator-prey
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
It was also a very useful employee relations move: Bill wasn't "above" the task of a customer support call and demonstrated respect for the support workers by performing his best in their role, even if very temporarily.
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
I honestly miss LaTeX a lot, especially the quality of documents I could create with it (when I was in academia). Hopefully I'll get a chance to do a white paper later this year and bust out the skills. But I am totally willing to acce
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Anecdotally, I feel football is gradually losing ground among younger generations. My sports-watching-est friends seem to be less and less devoted to football in particular and more interested in other, more niche sports. Even those strongl
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Well "correct" in the case of linear vs non-linear luminance is pretty much exactly about perception (or at the very least, working to prevent perception differences further down the pipeline), even if it is a somewhat minor effec
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
It's amazing for how useful IPA is (at least at providing an reasonable fidelity intermediate form between other, more-accurate representations) how few FOSS projects I've seen use it. Really what I'm saying is I'd like
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
10 refills? Yeah even here in the states among the heaviest of soda drinkers that seems like a useless limit...
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Yes, she runs Sci-Hub. Sci-Hub eventually partnered with LibGen to help host files and reduce Sci-Hub's dependence on donated logins. (Previously all documents were accessed from their "real" journal/repository portals u
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
I think she has been publicly linked to Sci-Hub for a long time; by the time of the Elsevier lawsuit they knew to contact her directly.[1] Considering that she's already hiding from extradition, a little more PR probably doesn't h
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Yeah I tried that too! It bucks the trend and just wants you to enter the name.
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
You're overthinking it. The number of spaces in each row matches the lengths of something you've seen. Answer is posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13476200
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Answer to last puzzle: You can put the names of the countries into the spaces on the board and add/subtract from letter values appropriately. This gives you: L IN E THEATRE SHO RE AM P H I (Shoreline Amphitheatre) 5/17, 5/18,
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Ahh thanks. Any idea on the next one? :P EDIT: Nevermind 3 should be easy for most HNers. Wrote that before I even saw it.
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
I was thinking maybe it was part of a chip bag. Then you could run that fancy subpixel-motion sound extraction algorithm on it pretty easily (fitting with "See What Cannot Be Heard"). But the timecodes are probably a more likely t
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
I don't think such preferences are abnormal, not at all. It is a natural desire for an administration to want softball questions. However I don't think most administrations would attempt to achieve them by disrupting the press cor
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Under another administration I would be hopeful, but the Trump administration appears openly interested in choosing organizations that only ask the kind of questions they want to answer.
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Is this a notable photograph for visual elicitation? I saw a cow immediately so I thought the references were some weird sarcastic humor... (Not bragging about recognition by any means. Grew up in dairy country so I probably see too many
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by XaspR8d 10y ago
Yep, though most of them are "provisional", which means it isn't a formal or permanent definition. Here's the full list: https://www.iana.org/assignments/uri-schemes/uri-schemes.xht...

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