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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah but my argument is that you don't need a state for that. There are tons of self-taught people in IT and many people on HN can testify to that. And people can be ignorant in spite of education, just look at America itself which has
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by cooper12 11y ago
Is it really as much of a necessity? In my opinion most people learn the bare minimum required for exams, and then regurgitate it. I only remember tidbits of history and a little Shakespeare from my school days. Even in college most of my p
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by cooper12 11y ago
I disagree. There's no reason that properly educated and briefed volunteers can't do a lot of the same work. Just look at citizen scientists. [0] There have been studies that have shown them to be just as effective as experts. [1]
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by cooper12 11y ago
The old free version still works: http://www.sente.ch/software/goban3/ . You want the universal binary. The newer one isn't available in the app store for me either.
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah honestly that would be much better presented as an SVG since its mostly solid colors and geometric shapes. Every browsers supports them, and all the big image editors as well; the trouble is that the rest of our software and culture ha
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by cooper12 11y ago
Reproducible builds might be a possible solution to this (as long as we can verify the integrity of the checksum): https://wiki.debian.org/ReproducibleBuilds
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by cooper12 11y ago
I like how it takes the idea even further into a sort of social bulletin board. (also like snapchat for the real world) Making it text-only is also an interesting choice which makes it seem aimed towards notes.
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by cooper12 11y ago
Interesting how it's in 3D, and pretty interesting considering how early it was done. (back before all the Oculus hype) Oh and sorry what I meant by stickers were colorful cartoon drawings popular in Facebook and LINE. Although what yo
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by cooper12 11y ago
That's pretty sweet, especially the tracking. Building blocks might be slower but the results look much better and friendlier haha. Kinda like Minecraft for the real world :).
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by cooper12 11y ago
Thanks for the link! I think their approach of including the real-world is very exciting and has just as much potential as completely virtual applications. Edit: Just realized you were asking me a question. Well nothing quite as advanced. T
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by cooper12 11y ago
Not exactly the same thing but I've actually been sitting on an idea for a mobile app that was inspired by Google: Essentially, you'd be able to look through your phone camera and draw on the world on the screen. Then other people
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by cooper12 11y ago
Meh, "people in glass houses...": > @deadmau5 > I used a pirated copy of sylenth on my last 4 albums. #TrueReveal https://twitter.com/deadmau5/status/367265601640603648 Steve Aoki was also caught u
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by cooper12 11y ago
If it's up to standard, any article is welcome. The trouble is readers and new editors don't know these standards and since they see articles on every common topic, assume that Wikipedia is all-encompassing. Wikipedia relies on th
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by cooper12 11y ago
Thank you. It's actually more involved than i thought it would be on the client side, but a good use of the OS' functionality.
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by cooper12 11y ago
> Session Restoration allows your jobs to keep running after iTerm2 upgrades, is force-quit, or crashes. It's like tmux without tmux! Anyone know how this works? From my basic (possibly incorrect) understanding, iTerm currently spaw
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by cooper12 11y ago
All the more power to you. If it works fine for you then it's good enough. Apple has also really caught up on Terminal.app's features. For example it didn't used to have multiple tabs which was a killer feature of iTerm. Pers
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by cooper12 11y ago
Ah, thank you for clearing that up. What are they allowed to do then? Just software issues?
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by cooper12 11y ago
Repairs are part of the Apple ecosystem, hence the whole "Genius Bar" thing. Apple wants to control the whole experience from purchase onwards. And let me tell you, they treat you very well. When I was under warranty they always
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yep I also hate this narrative of how every homeless person is a lazy drug addict or has mental issues.[0] While I'm sure many of them do suffer from these problems, it's indicative of a failure in social support systems to deal w
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah converting from one format to another that isn't completely compatible might be an issue in the future. Even how to preserve websites isn't exactly intuitive because as you saw the conversion to PDF was faulty, and doing &quo
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by cooper12 11y ago
It's because everyone can understand someone listening in to their phone calls, but computers are magic. What we need is computer literacy and for people to be educated of their rights as users of the world wide web.
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by cooper12 11y ago
Thank you! I actually ended up scraping the images from the site using wget and reuploaded to the Internet Archive just recently: https://archive.org/details/InsectLiterature . However your upload is very appreciated be
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by cooper12 11y ago
Youtube also serves VP9 in preference to H.264 in general. I had to install a browser extension to trick it that my browser doesn't support it so I'd get hardware acceleration. I don't know if the decision is based on ideolog
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah the parallel to open-source software is quite interesting. Notably that the license doesn't prohibit resale. Ultimately though, they both face the same challenges: time. The only reason the guy was able to do this was because his
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by cooper12 11y ago
I don't think professional photographers are in danger yet. The guy was only able to succeed because of several factors: access to elections is open to everyone (he probably doesn't even need to be close if using the right lens),
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah sorry dang, won't happen again. I usually come to HN for serious discussion but that thread was just ridiculous.
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by cooper12 11y ago
This looks neat! The examples are really cool: https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics/wiki . My favorites are https://asciinema.org/a/31718 , where the snow sticks to the trees, and http
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by cooper12 11y ago
They targeted programmers. Programmers. We're a group of people who will sit for hours, days, even weeks on end performing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding tasks. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a success
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by cooper12 11y ago
It took me a while but I managed to find a scan of the original Insect Literature translated by Otani. (Of course, missing the extra stories) It was published in 1921 and the author and translator both died more than 70 years ago, so it is
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by cooper12 11y ago
Knowing that it was a turing test actually made it easier for me. (8/10) While I did take into account the painting style (the random rainbow look was suspect), I mostly ignored images where the subject looked like a photograph. This o

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