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by batista 14y ago
The "innately get depressed when not exposed to sunlight" I've read many times, and has been researched a lot, plenty of papers about. The "because we can't enjoy color differences as much" part, not so much, if ever.
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by batista 14y ago
> No, they are actually completely different colors. We use two different color names for dark and lighter blue in my language two. But I find it hard to believe that Russians consider them "completely different colors". Red and Green
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by batista 14y ago
We don't all work solely in the command line which makes the advice worthless.
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by batista 14y ago
> Even worse is when the offending design is completely out of your control, like the kerning on the sign at the Court st. subway station. Don't see anything wrong with the kerning. It's not a typeset document, anyway, it's made by som
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by batista 14y ago
> A "nice round figure" is suspicious. Shouldn't a well-researched investment cost an amount that sounds well-researched (i.e. a more precise figure and not something that seems rounded up to the nearest billion)? This sounds more or a
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by batista 14y ago
> Something else that can't be measured? "Business value". If it makes money, it has business value, in my book. If it makes MORE money, it has more business value. Actually it might be the ONLY measurable thing in the whole discussion
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by batista 14y ago
> Isn't there a "reverse Moore's Law" for software? None of my multi-GHz, multi-core, multi-gigabyte machines boot up anything like as fast as my old AppleII or Osbourne portable. This might be true for machines that held the OS in ROM
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by batista 14y ago
> It's really only required for iOS/Mac development. Really? I program in HTML5/JS, PHP, Java, C and Python, but also need to do multimedia work. That is, besides doing web or desktop programming, you also need to create and/or embed t
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by batista 14y ago
>The productivity thing is just the usual bollocks. Changing OSes and development tools and so on can seem like it would be the end of the world, until one day you're forced to do it (for whatever reason), at which point you always find
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by batista 14y ago
And as other things, substinence wages are not context dependent, and are very common in places which "free trade" proponents tout. Plus, their arguments which amount to "working in a sweatshop for our cheap shoes is doing them a favor, bec
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by batista 14y ago
How about this line in my post: Did they carry paid-for backpacks with paid-for laptops inside, each with several paid-for apps, from Keynote to Microsoft Windows?
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by batista 14y ago
Why? The algorithm could acknowledge and adapt to a changed password, and try to learn the timings anew, instead of expecting the same speed as with the older one.
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by batista 14y ago
> If Speak for Yourself had developed an app for Android they would have had none of these problems. None. Zilch. There are several markets. There are several stores. You can install standalone APKs if you like. The nature of the platfo
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by batista 14y ago
> I look a look at the sass-vs-less link, and I really don't see the draw of either. Don't look at them, use then, and you'll see. > I don't want a turing-complete language in my css. Simple variable expansion will suffice--basical
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by batista 14y ago
> He started to think about how he would achieve this, and realised that to make it the only thing he worked on, he’d need to make money from the product. He then thought about other products people pay for. He thought about products he
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by batista 14y ago
>* That is a weak workaround. There real solution is to fully recognize that information is power, and to have a separation of powers similar to the three powers of Montesquieu's. Hardware companies should no be allowed to make or sell
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by batista 14y ago
Better how? It would just be more realistic (but nobody would notice the extra realism). On the downside, it would suck lots of battery by using the camera when not needed.
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by batista 14y ago
> It's so trivial to work around this that I'm stunned they're even bothering to implement it. This does not matter one iota. People have been spied upon for ages with things that are even more trivial to work around. Also, that it's t
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by batista 14y ago
I fail to see how Go is "unsuitable" for even the pro use case. Go could do a recording type application with minimal guaranteed latency just fine, and the GC won't stop it doing so.
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by batista 14y ago
I don't see that. Actually professionals (in general, but also people I know) don't update that often. Think 5-6 years timescale. They need a stable base, and they don't even upgrade OSes or computers. So, in all the time FCPX is out, they
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by batista 14y ago
Measly for 11.6 inches? I'd say it's just perfect, if not a little too much. Plus, unless you have an OS that can take advantage of it, higher resolution in a 11" ultrabook machine does not make sense.
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by batista 14y ago
You probably not know that many pro audio and video guys then...
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by batista 14y ago
That's more than any other laptop brand. Plus, Apple just has 5-6 models, whereas the other brands dilute their offerings with 20-30 models each.
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by batista 14y ago
Hmm, one could also use a Markov chain on those 1300 chord progressions....
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by batista 14y ago
I got the impression he meant CNN? Pronouncing CNN as C(a)n(i)n(e)?
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by batista 14y ago
> I use it to run Logic, Reason and associated plugins, and find I can comfortably run 24-48 track projects quite easily so I havent really felt a pinch to upgrade. 24-48 track projects? With slight "freeze" of some heavy reverbs and s
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by batista 14y ago
Tape's probably still used for a lot of work and will for some time, but it will be like bringing back the floppy disk: http://collider.com/film-camera-production-ended-arri-panavi... http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/06/the-silver-scr
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by batista 14y ago
> That's what Apple was promising for years before the FCP update and look how that turned out. Yes, how did that turn out? It turned out as a great program, that Apple spend millions and years to rewrite from scratch to have a clean f
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by batista 14y ago
>I am thinking, though, that as the two major personal computer platforms become more closed, it gradually opens a market for some savvy company to go in the opposite direction: targeting those who want more customization, not less, wit
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by batista 14y ago
> Carbon sits on top of lower-level pieces - remember, we are talking about the guts of Mach and BSD and IO and drivers No, we also talk about all the higher level stuff -- the post says that he showed them a booting OS X, with Aqua, C

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