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by carlob 10y ago
There was a wonderful post [1] on r/italy (unfortunately in Italian), by a guy that works in cinema that explained all this and more. He explains not only the motion blur and the film grain, but also things like how color shift when wh
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by carlob 10y ago
Doesn't matter, still looks cheap. It's too much of a seam if you see what I'm saying
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by carlob 10y ago
The plastic/fake metal transition is really ugly
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by carlob 10y ago
Really great book! Really one of the most interesting thing to come out in the past few years.
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by carlob 10y ago
I find it funny that Joe Corbo didn't start from ravens. Am I right? :)
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by carlob 10y ago
Maybe you should have kept reading, you'd have found out the author agrees with you
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by carlob 10y ago
Great post! A couple of nitpicks on the data presentation for the sake of making it even better: 1. You don't have enough data to warrant 5 significant digits in the percentages, and even if you did, is it really relevant? 2. The point
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by carlob 10y ago
I like to aeropress on ice and then shake the coffee with ice to get a froth
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by carlob 10y ago
Nor they did in 1918 for that matter.
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by carlob 10y ago
> Ataturk would be turning over in his grave if he saw what that other guy is doing in the country he founded. Well Atatürk was not exactly a saint, for example I've just learnt the history of İzmir, which had a large Greek populati
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by carlob 10y ago
The timeline is all wrong: > In 1945, theory was turned into practice. (I can’t even WRITE that without my skin crawling, but nevertheless, it can’t be un-done now). Immediately, the scientists saw that if they just slowed down the react
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by carlob 10y ago
But if one of your main selling points is integration, you'd better standardize to one, especially if (as an other commenter pointed out) the one in bitbucket is subpar.
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by carlob 10y ago
Re: 30 flavors of Markdown: did you guys know that Atlassian uses two different flavors of MD for jira and bitbucket?
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by carlob 10y ago
Skype is pretty terrible software both in term of UX, resource usage and the political implications we all know about
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by carlob 10y ago
The telegram desktop app works really well
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by carlob 10y ago
When I read it was 70 cc I was a little taken aback. In Italy there are a ton of people moving on scooters (mopeds) that are limited to 50 cc. It's true that they can't have more than 1.5 hp of power, but that's the law not t
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by carlob 10y ago
I wonder if there is some information theory paper to be written here. On one hand you want the most common products sold to have low Komogorov complexity codes (111, 123, 147, …). Then there is the question of the distance between similar
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by carlob 10y ago
What they meant is that in Romance languages century is a cognate of secular: secolo in Italian, siècle in French, siglo in Spanish…
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by carlob 10y ago
I have a friend in Paris who lives with his wife in 33 m^2 (355 sqft). Their apartment is not even technically a studio, but rather a 1BR, they routinely host dinner parties with up to 8-10 people. I've also heard people compliment the
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by carlob 10y ago
I work remotely as well, but at our company we do a lot of screen sharing meetings. I wonder if someone should build some sort of VNC (or zoom, or adobe connect) that plays well with screen readers and doesn't just send a video feed. O
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by carlob 10y ago
I still do and I beg to differ. I'm not saying he's the most personable human being I've met but he's certainly not autistic like Sheldon.
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by carlob 10y ago
Well, no. They are not at all alike. Stephen Wolfram has a lot more _people skills_ than Sheldon Cooper. Sheldon Cooper is the stereotype of the Asperger scientist who succeeds despite his inability to interact with people, while Stephen Wo
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by carlob 10y ago
Well nuda proprietà is actually a bit more general a concept: it just means that one person has ownership and the other has all the other benefits. Remember when Berlusconi touted that as the solution to his conflict of interest?
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by carlob 10y ago
This exists in Italy as well, but it usually doesn't include a rent. You just buy the house at a discount. It's very very common in areas which are rapidly gentrifying.
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by carlob 10y ago
I don't have a dog in this fight
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by carlob 10y ago
You missed hounded
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by carlob 10y ago
I fondly remember my Star Trek CD-ROM that would let you explore the TNG Enterprise using QuickTime Vr http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Star_Trek:_The_Next_Gener... FWIW the article claims that QuickTime VR was unvei
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by carlob 10y ago
But this has nothing to do with credit cards and everything to do with the media industry. It's the exact same thing as those braindead DVD regions, or youtube restrictions in Germany, or netflix national catalogues.
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by carlob 10y ago
You're right, when I wrote profanity, I meant blasphemous profanity not scatological or sexual profanity. I'll edit my comment. Thanks
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by carlob 10y ago
FWIW some other catholic countries have beautiful blasphemous profanities: Italy and Spain come to mind, but I'm pretty sure Poland has some too. In Italy profanities that attack religion are so pretty much a taboo that is weird to for

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