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by bgruber 13y ago
half of this review is about photo-lens search and the online accounts settings page, both of which existed in the previous release. for what it's worth, my feelings about the photo lens are similar to the reviewer's: it's a really cool ide
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by bgruber 13y ago
they're almost the exact opposite of the ad I would want to see: for example, the family is having dinner, everybody is together and talking to each other, and at the end is the reveal that the oldest kid is actually alone in his dorm room,
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by bgruber 14y ago
i took undergrad music theory classes at two american universities. they both used fixed-do solfege.
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by bgruber 14y ago
their analysis of why Google is doing this in the first place: "we believe Google Fiber has two related objectives: first, Google is seeking to figure out whether or not, or under what conditions, it can make money as a facilities-based pro
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by bgruber 14y ago
just to clarify: $300 for a doctor visit isn't inflating costs because he's covered by insurance. in ny, which i think is safe to assume is comparable in cost to the part of CA i'm assuming the OP is in, that's the normal amount you'd pay f
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by bgruber 14y ago
i used to do quite a bit of sonification of stock trades. i imagine bitcoin is the thing to use these days though, since realtime stock data was a pain to get and deal with.
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by bgruber 14y ago
is this an early april fools joke? every card in my wallet either needs to be used as a physical object (i.e. swiped, hole-punched) or is there for an emergency situation (health insurance, 2-factor-auth don't-have-my-phone codes). I really
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The WoL Index: Quantifying Incomprehensibly Bad Popular Music(techhouse.brown.edu)
2 points by bgruber 14y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 14y ago
As a sighted individual i totally agree with you regarding APIs as the best course. Screenreaders are always going to be, at best, a kludge to let those with visual disabilities use a system expressly designed around the ability to see it.
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by bgruber 14y ago
yay, reblogging a flickr feed. http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtaphotos/tags/eastsideaccess/
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by bgruber 14y ago
yeah, people still use vga ports. and when you plug a projector into them, they actually work the first time! even with linux! crazy, i know. until recently, in our office, the only person whose laptop always worked right with the various p
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by bgruber 14y ago
while this does sound really horrible, the pragmatic part of me is forced to agree with google's decision here. Other gtalk users undoubtedly account for the lion's share of incoming requests, while non-gtalk requests undoubtedly account fo
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by bgruber 14y ago
although it's one of those things that's hard to pin down as "real", this story is extremely similar to one that's told about murry wilson, patriarch of the beach boys. apparently as he was intent on mucking about during their sessions, bri
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by bgruber 14y ago
i would appreciate an explanation of what you mean by "without affecting its original quality." We're talking about lossy compression, so whether that goal is achieved is purely subjective, isn't it?
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by bgruber 14y ago
both arguments are right, but not because of a subjective goodness. because they're talking about 2 different parts of the patch: - the "bad" part is RowType.for(), where a type is dynamically called forth based on manipulations on some str
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by bgruber 14y ago
interesting. i haven't messed around with web audio in about a year and wasn't aware that this was now the case. my googling failed to turn anything up so i'd be interested in reading anything you might be able to link me to about this. als
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by bgruber 14y ago
yes, but the OP doesn't actually expose any of the functionality you list as exclusive to web audio. which is why i asked my question.
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by bgruber 14y ago
what's the advantage of using the web audio api for this over html5 audio elements? i don't think there's anything here that html5 audio elements can't do...
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by bgruber 14y ago
"What does this have to do with the glut of female leaders?" "glut" means the opposite of what you think it means.
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by bgruber 14y ago
one of the things keeping me on ubuntu right now is that 3rd party linux software (be it proprietary or open source stuff that's not in the repositories for some reason, or perhaps that canonical has screwed around with) is today almost alw
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by bgruber 14y ago
what you are describing is exactly what happened.
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by bgruber 14y ago
> a white page should look like your room lighting if we do things right. as someone in the "those colors look weird" camp, this might convince me to give it a try. it implies that those i've seen using it have it set up wrong.
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Sony puts out limited-release Dylan album solely to extend copyright(nytimes.com)
1 points by bgruber 14y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 14y ago
quoting anil dash ( https://twitter.com/anildash/status/221353763842174976 ): "Rather than optimizing your website for Retina displays, invest your budget on the 30x as many people who have visual/sight challenges." In the long run, the OP
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by bgruber 14y ago
the big difference here is that for a programmer, doing it "right" means making it better for them, not for the end user. it's mostly about things like being able to measure how "correct" the software is, or how easy it is to change things
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by bgruber 14y ago
businesses have recently been complaining about facebook forcing them to pay to reach their 'likers', but this is the flip side. I'm seeing more and more sponsored stories about things my friends like, and not seeing the updates from the pa
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by bgruber 14y ago
i'd like to reiterate that hipmunk should make it clearer that multiple airports is supported now. It used to not work, and therefore I used Kayak.
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by bgruber 14y ago
controlling the bleed valve is definitely the way to go. The commercial solution is a bleed valve that opens and closes based on the temperature in the room.
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by bgruber 14y ago
a) this is awesome. b) might want to rethink the name. there is a reason closed captions are called closed, and it's to differentiate them from, well, open captions. if this project becomes a big success (and i really, really hope it does)
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by bgruber 14y ago
i'm surprised that google isn't selling this on the play store.

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