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721.
First lens constructed with negative refractive index(arstechnica.com)
19 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
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by apu 18y ago
I'm reminded most strongly of this statement from one of PG's essays: "...eventually the open source world won, by producing Javascript libraries that grew over the brokenness of Explorer the way a tree grows over barbed wire." It's amazing
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Mozilla drags IE into the future with Canvas element plugin(arstechnica.com)
28 points by apu 18y ago|10 comments
724.
by apu 18y ago
Another copy-edit near the end of point 2 (halfway through the page): "Investors rarely grasp this, but a much of what they're responding to" (there shouldn't be an 'a' before 'much')
725.
by apu 18y ago
Useful summary: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/6vgrw/historyca...
726.
by apu 18y ago
Somewhat useless without pics.
727.
Stateless computing: the future of the cloud?(arstechnica.com)
2 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
728.
by apu 18y ago
That's correct (although our adjustment step changes the lighting and color of the replacement candidate to match the frame of the input image). This is why I said earlier that one could create multiple databases. Since the replacement cand
729.
by apu 18y ago
I don't understand what you mean. Why would we introduce noise into the results? Given a face to replace and a database to find candidates from, the process is fully deterministic. The database itself can of course grow, or be switched out.
730.
by apu 18y ago
I'm one of the authors of the paper. We're planning on releasing an online demo website at some point where people can submit photos and see what kind of replacements are generated. The process is indeed fully-automatic. The non-real lookin
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by apu 18y ago
bleep.com was one of the first, and is still quite good. They stock the entire Warp catalog, as well as lots of other smaller ones (catering to indie rock, dub, electronic, etc.) such as Domino, etc.
732.
by apu 18y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I actually find the intelli-sense annoying in vim. I prefer the normal ctrl-n/-p without the popup (too distracting/slow/etc).
733.
New documents could show evidence of NVIDIA-ATI price fixing(arstechnica.com)
4 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
734.
by apu 18y ago
Religious faith for me simply means a faith that I can better the life I'm living and make a positive impact on this world and its people. I think most atheists feel something like this as well (we may not choose to call it "faith"). If t
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Running C and Python Code on The Web(toolness.com)
7 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
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by apu 18y ago
Are there any linux tools to mark-up/comment-on PDFs? I'm often forced to use the windows version of Acrobat to make and view edits on a document, because I haven't found any linux tools that will even display comments (let alone edit them)
737.
Mozilla Weave 0.2 puts Firefox in the cloud(arstechnica.com)
1 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
738.
by apu 18y ago
With no exceptions at my high school, the respected teachers respected their students. This appears to be a necessary condition, but not a sufficient one -- there were some teachers who respected the students but weren't themselves respecte
739.
by apu 18y ago
Google is a terrible way to find good programming/CS books. I think that's why the OP was asking here, where he can expect to find books that other hackers have used personally and can thus make earnest and informed recommendations. I did i
740.
by apu 18y ago
Some minor suggestions/bugs: 1. It would be nice to have a button which pops-up a small calendar (something like on kayak.com or any other flight site). The automatic parsing is nice, but for the less web-savvy, a button would be easier to
741.
by apu 18y ago
My guess is that this was done to prevent trolls from going through someone's entire comment history and downmodding everything. (Not that this is impossible to do currently, but it's tougher than it would be if a user's comments were pagin
742.
by apu 18y ago
Agreed. This example highlights the great savings of the [... _ ...] syntax in Arc (which I'd imagine is a fairly common use-case, especially for map, filter, etc.). Although ironically in this case, I'd probably use the following: de
743.
by apu 18y ago
I find comprehensions to be especially useful in two situations: 1. Transforming a list using some non-standard function, often with some basic input checking: [int(x)*2+1 for x in seq if x] (Here, we're assuming x is a string whic
744.
by apu 18y ago
While I heartily agree that K&R is the best way to learn C, I'd strongly recommend against learning C en route to C++. Most "best practices" in C are usually frowned upon (or worse) in C++. For example, using c-style arrays (instead o
745.
by apu 18y ago
What state are you in? Most states have at least one good public university, and these are generally fairly easy to get into and fairly cheap (if you're from in-state). If there's not a good one in your state, try one in a nearby state. It'
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Annotating python scripts with type information(partiallydisassembled.net)
3 points by apu 18y ago|0 comments
747.
by apu 18y ago
Amazingly, he did indeed "die," and not just "pass away." Perhaps he did indeed affect mainstream media slightly...
748.
by apu 18y ago
The title was so Onion-like that I seriously thought nwsource.com was going to redirect to the Onion. Does Vista have any long-term chance for survival, with stories like this?
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by apu 18y ago
I really love the Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16826105... It's a 5 button corded optical mouse. Some people don't like the symmetric extra buttons, but they're really awesome for we
750.
by apu 18y ago
I've had problems with their email notifications. Despite repeated requests to be removed from all emails, I still keep getting some. I've written to them about this as well, with no response. In general they appear to not really pay attent

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