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by cooper12 11y ago
> people often say similar things when it comes to art and literature, and even film and music. But those mediums have the kind of longevity that just isn’t afforded to modern digital apps. This line stood out to me the most. Along with
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by cooper12 11y ago
Does anyone know if #10 changed in El Capitan? I remember reading that Apple allowed hackintoshes.
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by cooper12 11y ago
Great point. In a way there's a kind of "monsterization" of prisoners. They obviously hurt someone and broke the social contract to end up there right? As children our immediate response to wrongdoing is violence because that
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by cooper12 11y ago
Ahh, thanks for the explanation. Probably takes getting used to. The converting website you linked was a big help. Now that I'm actually reading the content there is some great discussion of the topics.
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by cooper12 11y ago
The site you linked is unreadable because they write everything in all-caps. Unfortunate considering that the titles sound interesting and that there's lively discussion in the comments.
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by cooper12 11y ago
It's interesting that you bring up Ebert because I would apply your original comment to him. Ebert is spot on about the redeeming qualities of many films, but in retrospect he focuses a lot on the positives. I don't think this is
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by cooper12 11y ago
Thanks for the reply and the links. The approach taken by Robust links is close to what I had in mind in regards to actually archiving the content. Looks like its a good solution to content drift and it's more passive than webcite. The
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by cooper12 11y ago
> An obligation to keep the links up to date and a plan for what happens if the publisher suddenly vanishes into thin air. It's good to hear that scholars are getting together and trying to mitigate the volatility of URLs. I'll
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by cooper12 11y ago
Thank you for the clarification. It clears a up lot; it seems I gave the designers of the DOI too little credit. Your last question brings some food for thought. The naive answer is to "just decentralize it", but smarter people th
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by cooper12 11y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but based on the author's descriptions of DOIs, they're not completely linkrot-proof. The issue is that it's just a link. The link itself could disappear or the publisher or even the metad
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by cooper12 11y ago
> Even though you can make your app bigger, it doesn’t always mean you should. I'm glad they included and expanded on this point. I used to be stuck on a gingerbread device that wouldn't let me install anything larger than a me
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by cooper12 11y ago
By binary search I'm assuming you mean via the "Revision history search" tool that can be found in the history page right? Yeah there are a bunch of cases where it doesn't work so well, especially if the change happened
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by cooper12 11y ago
> Any errors reflect poorly on the contributors, and someone who spots a slip-up can talk to a real person about it—neither of which is true with Wikipedia. Maybe I'm not understanding this statement properly, but Wikipedia has a hi
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by cooper12 11y ago
The last sentence: > It should be noted that the product is still sold today, but in a bottle that does not give you a "Shock in the Shower". Based on the depth/access to information presented, the writer was likely an emp
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by cooper12 11y ago
That already happens though and at some levels even more undetectable by the masses. [0] And if it becomes more common, so will the callouts and public awareness of it. All you're advocating is "the devil I know". There'
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by cooper12 11y ago
At the bottom of the article it says it evolved from a talk she gave, so I would guess not. The article says she used it herself, and she does mention some of the competition, so I'd just guess she's a happy customer.
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by cooper12 11y ago
Related information: According to an email in a live demo from Apple's iPhone event, El Capitan is set to be released on September 30th. [0] [0]: http://9to5mac.com/2015/09/09/apple-reveals-os-x-el-capita
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by cooper12 11y ago
Oh whoops you're right. Looks like it needs the extension installed.
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by cooper12 11y ago
> not be told it was done already. It doesn't sound like they were rebuking you. It's pretty common to link to a previous discussion for people interested, especially if the current one doesn't take off or if the previous
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by cooper12 11y ago
It also sent the cpu usage for chrome on my macbook skyrocketing from 5% to 106%. Pretty impressive. I ended up reading it in readability instead.[0] [0]: https://www.readability.com/articles/v5jqgcjf
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by cooper12 11y ago
FWIW many ebook devices can be rooted to run android and many of them are already running it, just missing the google additions. It can be done for the Nook, Amazon's LCD tablets, and Kobo devices too. The tricky issue is that the goog
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by cooper12 11y ago
The issue is that PDFs are typeset for print. That means things are designed to look best on the paper size such as using serif fonts and avoiding widows, orphans, and rivers. Multiple page sizes would be multiple times the cost. e-books lo
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by cooper12 11y ago
> My concern would be that these new displays might be harder to read depending on lighting conditions. They address that in the last sentence: > And for folks who have trouble reading dull, iron-colored screens, they also feature li
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by cooper12 11y ago
Nice writeup, the dominant color approach looks promising. I've also tried something similar using averaging. Not sure if this is any better than your solution, but my approach with ffmpeg was this command: ffmpeg -i "$myvid
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by cooper12 11y ago
> I am also a little surprised that twitter was the medium they choose to announce it. That way they can be brief and don't have to expand on the nuances of the issue. People would rather hear "We were wrong and we've fixe
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by cooper12 11y ago
Just curious, what benefit would this have over something like git? Just to show your programming process?
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah maybe a button to "View Transcript"
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by cooper12 11y ago
Personally, I don't feel like the payments should be called donations. It's like saying "please give us money out of the kindness of your heart or else we'll die" instead of "please acknowledge the value of the
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by cooper12 11y ago
Yeah, a good example of this was when on people posted nazi quotes on reddit's /r/atheism [0] and they were upvoted immensely only because they were attributed to Richard Dawkins, whom the userbase respects. [0] https:/
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by cooper12 11y ago
Wow, CC BY-SA (Share-alike) and not CC BY-NC-SA (Non Commercial) like I expected. I commend you guys for believing in your publishing model and vision by taking that risk.

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