alainbryden

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by alainbryden 14y ago
Agreed. The prototype video got me far more excited about the product than the meme filled promo. It should be featured more prominently.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Voted for Watsi. They're currently ahead by less than 3%, so they could use a little push!
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Randomized Consumerism by Darius Kazemi(randomshopper.tumblr.com)
3 points by alainbryden 14y ago|0 comments
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by alainbryden 14y ago
This is great. I hope you get some sort of referral payment for linking back to books for purchase on Amazon. A site like this could inspire a lot of people to buy a lot of new books. I recommend allowing users to pick from a set of categor
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Well it's not necessarily anecdotal evidence. It's anecdotal in that it proves that only some forces in some countries have a quota system, but that is enough to answer the question: Some definitely do. It certainly doesn't answer the quest
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I'm a frequent user, and I am really liking this design. Change is always a little difficult to get used to, but I'm finding it snappier. The "Playlists" screen doesn't seem to be working. I tried visiting it and the spinner's been going fo
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by alainbryden 14y ago
There's a question dedicated to this on Skeptics.SE: http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/9578/do-police-o... . In some areas, this has been confirmed.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
No photographing the server room? http://goo.gl/maps/1n7jW
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I can confirm this. I wiped all tiles and stepped ahead a hundred frames, but nothing new appeared. As soon as I hit 'play' though, within a dozen or so frames a few random tiles appeared in the vicinity and the area was soon teeming with l
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I figured caching the results of common patterns appearing in blocks of 2x2, 3x3, 4x4, etc. pixels which are surrounded by all 'off' pixels, you can easily skip many repetitive calculations. ---- ---- -oo- =\ -oo- -oo- =/ -oo-
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by alainbryden 14y ago
There's a bunch more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google%27s_hoaxes_and_e... Like "zerg rush", "kerning" and "keming", searching for bacon numbers, etc...
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Looks like "ascii art" and "comic sans" are retired :(
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by alainbryden 14y ago
It always appears like that because he's written it so that when the "Google" cells are active, they appear darker than normal active cells. Whether these cells get activated or not follow the normal rules of Conway's game of live. So yeah,
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I've never done any mobile application development but I was considering building something for my nexus. This will likely come in handy.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Yeah that looks great.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
The apparent cubic spline used to join data points on http://embed.ly/stats looks a little ridiculous, especially when the popularity of something takes off from 0 and your spline shows it first dipping to some negative number. Maybe if y
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by alainbryden 14y ago
For anyone having trouble seeing these, the trick is to sit fairly far back from your monitor, and cross your eyes enough that you see 4 duplicate images (each of the two images doubled up). You then lessen the amount your eyes are crossed
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by alainbryden 14y ago
The exact image I linked to is of particular interest. Here you can see something in 3D that you couldn't possibly tell just looking at the originals - that you're actually looking off a cliff edge. The landscape seen past the horizon of th
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Mars Curiosity 3D images by crossing your eyes.(imgur.com)
1 points by alainbryden 14y ago|2 comments
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by alainbryden 14y ago
So while it might survive the heat death of the universe, there could be no way to measure it.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
For Canadians: http://www.ctv.ca/ColbertReport/video.aspx?vp=123797&pub... Go get a coffee for 5 minutes while all the commercials play out.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Am I the only one who thinks it's ridiculous to ask for a 15% of annual salary recruitment fee? Why would any reasonable company agree to pay a website $15,000 just because they indexed their new 100k/year hiree's résume?. I think they're w
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Yeah, just look at all the trouble they want you to go through on lifehacker: http://lifehacker.com/5887230/how-to-block-annoying-tech-rum... . Someone should definitely make something simpler. It could even look at trending topics on vari
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Are you familiar with Timeshare ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeshare )? It usually refers to property ownership, but can apply to pretty much anything. Most people consider the middlemen in timeshare situations to be scammers, so it wou
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by alainbryden 14y ago
On the same vein, someone could write software allowing individuals or organizations to set up a remote print-and-pickup service. For example, every campus would hugely benefit from a service where students could just email a document to a
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Large chains like FedEx could implement this really efficiently since they already have offices all over the world. They can just print off at the nearest location to the target and minimize their expense. Getting a printed document hand de
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Very crisp UI. I look forward to the ability to queue up songs and build playlists on the fly. If we sign in to our YouTube account, maybe you could access our own playlists and let us save new ones back. Another great idea would be allowin
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by alainbryden 14y ago
Burst out laughing when I clicked "Angry dev". Nice.
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I've never received that prompt. If you read further down in that misleading article you linked to, you would see that they don't show the prompt to all their users: > we're displaying this prompt when a user who has not enabled secure
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by alainbryden 14y ago
I agree. The OP is full of errors and typos.

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