anjc

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by anjc 14y ago
You're totally right, but i think just the fact that you've said "this will confuse my folks" (it'd confuse mine too) shows that change has to come at some stage in terms of the dominant social network. Maybe Myspace wont be it but, Faceboo
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by anjc 14y ago
You and I, and probably everybody on HN, know what we want though, in terms of the services we use. We're a niche, and actual musicians and artists etc are a niche userbase too, and they wont stop using whatever the hot thing is in their ar
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by anjc 14y ago
How so?
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by anjc 14y ago
Absolutely. As good as the redesign is, the Myspace brand seems like a total dead duck. It almost caused a sense of panicked inner confusion in me to see such a pretty design followed by the Myspace logo. I'd argue with you about big pictur
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by anjc 14y ago
There's nothing wrong with looking like Windows 8 at the moment!
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by anjc 14y ago
It seems to me that this might strike a very relevant and "on trend" balance between the needs of the average person, hip circles, and creative circles. Furthermore, the redesign makes Facebook's recentish redesign look very clunky and amat
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by anjc 14y ago
"""But most of the people I know in bands use something else - bandcamp,soundcloud, whatever. Those who listen are using spotify, grooveshark, rdio, whatever. Photographers use flickr, instagram, designers use dribbble, etc etc. My friends
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by anjc 14y ago
Am i wrong in saying that Myspace seemed to stay relevant for longer than it possibly should have purely because musicians and bands seemed to have an affection for it, for whatever reason? I know that even up until recently, when i've sear
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by anjc 14y ago
I don't mean to be condescending, but you're not thinking of a 'word' as in, a 'word' in computer architecture are you? I'm pretty sure a word doesn't have to be six characters, but i could be wrong...
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by anjc 14y ago
Am i missing some of the article, or does it just not give any hint at the outcome of the MRI? I remember, years ago, seeing brain scans showing something like serotonin receptors before MDMA usage, and months after, and if i remember right
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by anjc 14y ago
Good implementation of a good idea. It'd be extra good if there were various scenarios to photograph. E.g. a race car in motion, a dark indoor scene.
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by anjc 14y ago
I'd love for this to exist, being a hater of needles. But it seems a bit odd to say: """The new injector has yet to be tested on people, but has been used on animals, like sheep, without apparent discomfort. "The sheep did not seem to even
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by anjc 15y ago
You were right that it is artsy though... (And in your defense, having humans manually describe images in the image recognition domain seems so...unmodern, that your assumption was probably fair)
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by anjc 15y ago
Welcome to the world of tomorrow! It is interesting in its cuteness though; it seems like it could have real applications depending on how 'powerful' the mechanical turk is.
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by anjc 15y ago
Heh you're describing the whole implementation except for that pesky but critical computer vision part.
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by anjc 15y ago
It's not trying to be more hipster by printing descriptions, the pictures are described via Mechanical Turk (from humans), this is why it's interesting.
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by anjc 15y ago
I think people are getting a little confused. He's not saying that web developers are geniuses for understand HTML, because they aren't, he's saying that using HTML/CSS to create the type of dynamic sites we are now used to, is stupid. And
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by anjc 15y ago
This is such a bizarre exercise, albeit interesting in terms of trivia, i guess. """Finally I feel that van Gogh’s astounding qualities are available to me.""" I've often felt that nerds (including myself here) shouldn't be allowed near art
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by anjc 15y ago
I don't know anything about audio processing algorithms, but (assuming there's a way), presumably with enough audio sources, there'd be a commonality between each one that describes the 'correct' sound. I.e. if there's different noise going
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by anjc 15y ago
I presume he means better in the sense that you'd try to remove overt noise, e.g. small conversations in the background, maybe wind noise. That sounds like it'd be possible to do. Improving a single video from multiple video sources would s
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by anjc 15y ago
This is such Americanized bullshit. There's no difference between the two.
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by anjc 15y ago
Stop. Think about what you're saying for 20 minutes before you reply. No web browsing, just think. This reminds me of an old koan about an unhappy guy...long story short, he was middle class and never fucking got stuff done...
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by anjc 15y ago
All that stuff specifically does make for a bad leader.
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by anjc 15y ago
There's been many articles on HN over the last few months saying there is. I'll try find some, but the basic gist was, there may be more users but there are a lot less checkins per user.
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by anjc 15y ago
This seems to make sense, except whenever i've seen analytics for time-on-site, it seems like the vast majority of people spend less than 30 seconds on pages. People's attention spans aren't automatically better while using the web despit
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by anjc 15y ago
Thanks a million man, so basically it seems like those people weren't actually meaning to use the operator at all. Sure you already parse them out anyway, though. Ah...i wont go on too much, i'm still surprised that so few people used it on
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by anjc 15y ago
This is definitely true, but unlike with, say, Google and their products, that arguably have the same chain of product/retailer, Foursquare users get basically f*ck all for all their work. I don't think people are stupid enough to use somet
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by anjc 15y ago
Yeah, like the other commenter said, it might be a visionary 'toy', or it might just be a toy. I don't know which one it is yet, but at a guess, i'd say that it wont be world changing, because the benefit/effort is skewed too far in favour
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by anjc 15y ago
I don't think users wanted that...? Foursquare tried to make them want it, and retrospectively it looks like people did. The decreasing number of checkins on that and Places would suggest that it didn't work, because presumably people did
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by anjc 15y ago
Yeah. But on top of that, people often don't seem to know what they want, so the whole premise seems iffy in the first place. On top of that , i think focussing on 'why now' leads dilution of ideas, in the sense that too many people seem t

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