bgruber

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by bgruber 12y ago
as someone only casually familiar with node and and frontend dev generally, i'm curious about the instructions to install gulp and other things globally instead of local to the project. could someone illuminate the reasoning behind tha
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by bgruber 12y ago
there's also the 'intense pc' from compulab: http://www.fit-pc.com/web/products/ipc2/
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by bgruber 12y ago
i don't mean to dismiss this guy's gripe, cause obviously it does not work well for him, but for me, this "just works." with a little experimentation, it seems that everything becomes horrible if you're not already
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by bgruber 13y ago
I think of it as similar in its final goal as at&t/olivetti research's "The Bat" ubiquitous or sentient computing project. These links provide some good examples of stuff they did with that: http://www.vs.
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Linguist explains grammar of doge. Wow.(the-toast.net)
18 points by bgruber 13y ago|1 comments
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by bgruber 13y ago
> So the Web either gets DRM, or Hollywood makes content available on proprietary platforms that provide it. so, let's turn the web into another proprietary platform?
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by bgruber 13y ago
amazon says real-time, but i'm 99% sure they mean (comparatively) low latency.
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by bgruber 13y ago
frankly, in the world, people are using scala instead. however, i have to differ with you completely regarding scala being easier to read. as someone who regularly works with scala code i find it incredibly difficult to read in comparison t
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by bgruber 13y ago
have you seen the 2013 samsung remote? http://www2.crutchfield.com.edgesuite.net/pix.crutchfield.co... It's like the remote designer's revenge. "Too many buttons? I'll show you what it's like to not
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by bgruber 13y ago
> Google around maybe five or six years ago was a wasteland of shoddy, broken, unintegrated products, many with half-assed, confusing interfaces. But: > GMail's interface pisses me off, the new Maps layout is infuriating, and sea
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by bgruber 13y ago
As a Queens native, I'm much more inclined to think that the reason Greenwald hints at the end of the article ("As white flight and urban decline escalated in the late 1960s, Queens identified more and more with Long Island, isola
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by bgruber 13y ago
> With face unlock, I just need a photo of the phone's owner. face unlock now requires you to blink.
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A Copyright Victory, 35 Years Later(nytimes.com)
1 points by bgruber 13y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 13y ago
the difference is that apple doesn't merely do what you're describing. in the past, they have actively lambasted others for marketing bigger numbers.
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by bgruber 13y ago
> The bug in my humble opinion is having separate "selection" and "clipboard" buffers, but I just use a small util in the background to always keep both synchronized. i actually appreciate this, because somteimes I re
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by bgruber 13y ago
middle-click paste is so plainly useful that I often find myself completely baffled that other windowing environments haven't copied it.
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by bgruber 13y ago
was i the only one that found that the kitkat site performed well, while the android one stuttered?
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by bgruber 13y ago
this is usually the case when watching a movie on the HD feed of HBO/Showtime/what have you as well. They're probably getting the same source as netflix. It seems that some directors have the clout to demand that their movies
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by bgruber 13y ago
i'm surprised there's no crystal gravy on that turkey leg.
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by bgruber 13y ago
you may also want to see john cowan's presentation on R7RS-small last year to LispNYC: https://vimeo.com/29391029
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Deslidify HTML(deslide.clusterfake.net)
2 points by bgruber 13y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 13y ago
allegorical counterexample, but here in New York my impression is that the biggest crush of tourists trying to get into a museum is the one at MoMA. This may have something to do with size; the other most popular museum is clearly the Met,
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Judge Rules That Movie Studio Should Have Been Paying Interns(mobile.nytimes.com)
1 points by bgruber 13y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 13y ago
while trying to build a parking lot in central park is part of moses' downfall, the picture painted here is not really accurate to my knowledge. for one, a lot of stuff was built in central park during moses' reign as parks commissioner, pa
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by bgruber 13y ago
we usually record every talk, but there was an equipment malfunction that night so unfortunately there's no video. videos of other talks are at http://lispnyc.org/meetings . we're pretty awful at getting the videos up in a timely manner, a
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by bgruber 13y ago
Big kudos to Regal/UA here. Descriptive Audio services for the blind in movie theaters used to be extremely hard to access, with closed-captioning not far behind. The stars had to align; a movie you wanted to see not only had to be availabl
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by bgruber 13y ago
that website doesn't appear to have been updated for redistricting that took affect at the beginning of this year. edit: house.gov has their own search that is just as simple and seems accurate.
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by bgruber 13y ago
As NewsRadio taught us so many years ago, deleting something from the internet is like trying to remove pee from a swimming pool. sorry, i had to post this.
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by bgruber 13y ago
sorry about this. i think the HN post caught us slightly off guard. we'll have more details real soon now.
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by bgruber 13y ago
one of the good things about a formal CS education (well, mine anyhow) is that they force you to do things like write in assembly. obviously there's far less immediate practical application these days, but the exercise is definitely valuabl

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