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by aeontech 6y ago
The article mentions Bill Atkinson’s dithering algorithm, invented during his work on the original Macintosh. You can also read more about it here: https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2012/dithering/ It’s actually im
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How the Perplex City $200k mystery ARG was solved (2007)(argn.com)
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Howard Goodall on effects of Brexit on UK Creative Industry(threadreaderapp.com)
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Starfire: A Vision of Future Computing (1992)(asktog.com)
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by aeontech 6y ago
Hey, I may know some people who’d be very interested in these failure modes on the team. Which bus company? Any chance you know what terminal they use? Would you mind getting in touch off HN to discuss further?
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by aeontech 6y ago
@djxfade: I might know some people on the team who’d be very interested to hear about it. what’s the best way to get in touch?
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by aeontech 6y ago
> What happens to these people when full equality is achieved? Thank you, I needed a laugh this morning. Humans are going to be humans, and will always find ways to treat each other in inventively bad ways. If you are trying to say that
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by aeontech 6y ago
Your examples are fair, but allow me to offer a counterpoint. Your argument seems to verge on absolutism, as in "if it's not perfect, it is worthless", which makes me feel like it's a little dismissive of the value that
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by aeontech 6y ago
I think if you ask ten developers, you'll get ten different rankings like this, with minor overlap :) It's going to be really really really dependent on your field of work, your career experience and network. I'm not even goi
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by aeontech 6y ago
Yep, absolutely. Python has taken off in a major way for data science / machine learning work, but Ruby is still a fantastic option for web apps and for general purpose programming, with a great community. You can be productive in it v
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The Kolmogorov Option(scottaaronson.com)
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by aeontech 6y ago
> I have not worked with Musicbrainz as a source, but it does not have a reputation as being particularly reliable. This seems like a roundabout way of saying it has a reputation for being unreliable? Do you mind clarifying? I know there
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by aeontech 6y ago
Excellent reporting, I think. It’s offering some fascinating insight into Foxconn internals where warring fiefdoms of business units mean insane amounts of wasted human effort (not that that is unique to Foxconn). That also offers an intere
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Foxconn’s empty buildings, empty factories, and empty promises in Wisconsin(theverge.com)
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Please: High performance build system inspired by Blaze and Bazel(please.build)
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by aeontech 6y ago
The indoor maps feature was released a year ago, and is by now in active use at many transit stations (like New York metro, London Underground), airports (like LAX), shopping malls (like Westfield in San Francisco)... you can see a list of
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by aeontech 6y ago
It appears that the service under discussion is still supporting Apple Music just fine, both for import and for export?
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by aeontech 6y ago
The designer's personal site, and the clock site are both now gone, so I am assuming he never got to production stages... still an amazing idea, and an inspiration for anyone that would like to try building one on their own...
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by aeontech 6y ago
Reminded me of the ferrofluid clock by Zelf Koelman ( https://www.dezeen.com/2015/08/26/zelf-koelman-ferrolic-cloc... ) Though of course the mechanism is very different here.
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by aeontech 6y ago
Recently also discussed, a great article about Verne Edquist, Gould’s piano tuner: https://www.glenngould.ca/verne-edquist/
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by aeontech 6y ago
Previously discussed on HN here with many more interesting comments https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12021195
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by aeontech 6y ago
That is, indeed, what I was trying to hint at to the OP. The reply illustrated the bubble quite profoundly :)
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by aeontech 6y ago
I am not sure your assumption that most young people in tech have parents wealthy enough to own multiple properties is quite accurate... I agree that it’s a great idea, but I suspect many may not own even one property.
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by aeontech 6y ago
Have you looked at Dhall or Tanka? They are both designed to solve exactly this problem (and I couldn’t agree with you more)
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by aeontech 6y ago
python prompt toolkit [0] and click [1] are used to create tools like pgcli [2], which is utterly wonderful. [0]: https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit [1]: https://click.palletsprojects.co
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by aeontech 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation, this seems awesome :)
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by aeontech 6y ago
The gameplay demo video looks very cool! https://youtu.be/9qKxXNOljmE
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Delores Game Open Source: Side Project by Ron Gilbert of Monkey Island Fame(github.com)
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by aeontech 6y ago
The current title is accurate - the original title was flamebaity “Florida is a Police State”
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by aeontech 6y ago
@dang, is there a chance the title could be de-clickbaited?

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