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by aleyan 13y ago
Looks fantastic. I noticed that all the lenticulars demonstrated have horizontally aligned lenses for a final image that you rock head to heel. Why not offer a vertically aligned lenses for a final image to that you rock side to side? If I
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by aleyan 13y ago
This game is to Balderdash as Cards Against Humanity is to Apples to Apples. There seems to be a trend of taking classic games and putting up dirty clones of them on indiegogo. Not a bad thing, just an observation. I suppose they are fillin
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by aleyan 13y ago
On a second look, it may not be as hard as it first appeared. When shading, the artist will just have to be very conscious of the angle of incidence from the light source. We will see how difficult this is once alpha is released and we get
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by aleyan 13y ago
Preface: I have no experience in 3D graphics. This is a very cool technique. I have been thinking about how to generate normal maps for traditionally drawn 2D images ever since seeing the normal mapped canvas demo[1]. This seems to be an an
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Making Robots More Like Us(nytimes.com)
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by aleyan 13y ago
They look right. Exactly the right color. Spoons look a bit different from what I remember, but I think this is it. Thanks! Good job figuring it with my Dan Quayle moment (corn vs potatoe).
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by aleyan 13y ago
I have completely forgotten about the discount outside of rush hour at Goldman. It just didn't figure much in my lunch time planning, and I loved lunch. The one remarkable thing about their cafeteria that stuck with me was the cutlery.
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IBM enters smartphone market with a 4.7 touch screen (1994)(en.wikipedia.org)
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Area-User Proportional Map of Online Communities (2007)(xkcd.com)
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by aleyan 13y ago
Not quite right. Finger prints are considered "something you are". Always with you, can be impersonated, but can't be changed. Something you have have would be a key or a token, that can be changed if compromised. Agree with
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by aleyan 13y ago
I have been living in NYC for the past 5 years. These are the things I dealt with: [ ] muggings [ ] gang-related activities [ ] car theft [X] false restaurant reviews
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by aleyan 13y ago
Fraunces Tavern[1], the oldest surviving building in Manhattan, built in 1671 should have been glowing red in the Financial District. In this visualization it is shaded blue for 1900. It was the first building I checked and it was spectacul
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Is surge protection actually needed?(superuser.com)
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Intermedia Shared Mail Hosting Outage
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by aleyan 13y ago
Obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/977/ I wonder if there is some sort of theorem that describes which fidelities you can get out of a flat projection of the surface of a sphere. For example, a projection could have accu
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by aleyan 13y ago
This such a disappointing article it borders on journalistic dishonesty. They make out Belarus to be some Terra Incognita being discovered by some brave Nokia volunteer(?) explorers. It is simply not the case, Nokia's competitors in ma
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by aleyan 13y ago
Agree on rule #1. > " or a way to contact their support line and confirm your identity" That is one of the nice things about SMS 2-factor auth, the backup authentication method (lost phone) is on the wireless company instead of
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by aleyan 13y ago
What happens if I lose my phone? I have human ways of authenticating myself to my wireless provider and getting a new phone with same phone number back. Do I need to backup the RSA private key? If my phone is compromised physically or with
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by aleyan 13y ago
Smell is a safety feature. It helps you avoid rotting food, rotting bodies, things contaminated with feces, unexpected chemicals, smoke and fire conditions.
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by aleyan 13y ago
I am rather certain if I was designing an across the shoulder seatbelt without having seen a modern 3-point seat-belt, it would end with the seat belt strangling or decapitating people.
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by aleyan 13y ago
[1] This October 97 article by Alex St John in Boot Magazine talks about origins of DirectX and about the HR Giger ship. [1] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/old_school_monday_...
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by aleyan 13y ago
We once had an error that booked quintillions of dollars notional position with a client. It was caught the same night and the client never saw it. Here is how it happened. An end of day aging process was supposed to look at all positions m
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Tablets in Dutch Schools Usher in a New Era(nytimes.com)
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by aleyan 13y ago
> There's no such thing as a "Union" at all if each state could simply walk out when the Federal government passed a law the state didn't like, or the country elected a President the state didn't like. A member s
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by aleyan 13y ago
Doesn't quite work as expected. From "python -m calendar 1752 9" I get: September 1752 Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 "cal 9 1
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Crime and punishment: cell phones(economist.com)
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by aleyan 13y ago
The default case, yes. Here we are arguing of what the correct way of doing things should be. It is widely accepted in programming contracts to transfer the copyright to the client and in photography contracts it is otherwise. bradly's case
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by aleyan 13y ago
If you hire a programmer to do some work for you, who owns copyright to result of the labor?
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Help us (Wikimedia) design our next-generation discussion system(blog.wikimedia.org)
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Known sites blocked by the Russian blacklist(en.wikipedia.org)
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