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by crescendo 17y ago
I'd like to think they were going for something recursive: Bing Is Not Google.
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by crescendo 17y ago
Does anyone have any recommendations for what to plug into to munge images? ImageMagick ( http://www.imagemagick.org/ ) has worked well for us. There are bindings out there for many languages, including Common Lisp ( http://common-lisp.ne
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NOVA episode on Richard Feynman(youtube.com)
2 points by crescendo 17y ago|0 comments
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by crescendo 17y ago
If you keep generating random series of tones, eventually you will end up with Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here or any other piece ever recorded.
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by crescendo 17y ago
Is this really surprising? Blackberry has been an established market leader in this domain for years. Apple claiming the #2 spot with a single product in a 2-3 year time frame is pretty amazing, I think.
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by crescendo 17y ago
I've been very happy with my Markus chair so far. I would also recommend the Mikael desk ( http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/40079218 ) and drawer unit if you're looking for something cheap, simple, and functional.
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by crescendo 17y ago
I'd love to see this guy try to answer James Randi's speaker cable challenge.
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by crescendo 18y ago
I think what he's trying to say is that it's best to concentrate on that which brings in the money rather than on the money itself. The latter should follow from the former.
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by crescendo 18y ago
I guess what I'm trying to say is that user momentum is what differentiated Facebook from the countless other social sites that were sprouting up back then. Not anything inherent to the site. Consumer lock-in has only taken hold now that mo
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by crescendo 18y ago
You could've said the same about Facebook a couple of years ago. What bit.ly has is momentum, especially among twitter users.
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by crescendo 18y ago
Both of the OP's examples are verb uses of "queue". I believe the question here is whether to use active or passive voice. IMO the passive construction ("has been queued") sounds more natural, because you wouldn't normally think of an inani
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by crescendo 18y ago
This kind of practice really irks me. I'm not sure what information these companies are going after, but what they're actually getting is "people who read lots of brain teaser books". Somehow I doubt that's what they're looking for.
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by crescendo 18y ago
This title is complete linkbait. According to the article, they found an unidentified chip in the new iPod shuffle earbud control, and have no clue what it does.
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Unveiling the "Sixth Sense," game-changing wearable tech(ted.com)
15 points by crescendo 18y ago|1 comments
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by crescendo 18y ago
From the linked blog post: If you’re reading this, you probably know it already. We finally made the switch to our very own blog at http://blog.jqueryui.com/ , where we’ll regularly blog about development, theming, and more during each re
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by crescendo 18y ago
I'm not offended by the fact that he went on a long vacation, or even that he wrote an article about it. What bugs me is that somehow it's front-page news. This article has zero content.
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New AWS Public Data Sets - Economics, DBpedia, Freebase, and Wikipedia(aws.typepad.com)
40 points by crescendo 18y ago|2 comments
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by crescendo 18y ago
I've been looking for a place to work in the South Bay also. Any chance of a news.yc rally to get some kind of hackerspace going here?
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by crescendo 18y ago
I think you've missed the point. The real utility of coding to pass a test is not to verify the current state of the application. You can easily cross check that you're getting the right return values from any module manually. The real be
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Mathematica on Amazon EC2(aws.typepad.com)
21 points by crescendo 18y ago|1 comments
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by crescendo 18y ago
He also dismissed iPhone initially and didn't understand why people would buy it. How can the CEO of one of the world's most well-known technology companies be so completely clueless about technology?
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by crescendo 18y ago
Cool idea. One suggestion I would give is to remove the screenshot grabbing process from the post/response cycle and make it asynchronous. Maybe with some kind of ajax landing page that periodically checks for the screenshot's status and th
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by crescendo 18y ago
Same here. Dropbox is the best YC-backed product to date, IMO.
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by crescendo 18y ago
The proper use of "begs the question" is as the name of a logical fallacy where the conclusion of an argument appears as one of its premises. Kinda like a circular argument. It's rarely used this way outside of philosophy and logic context
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by crescendo 18y ago
Yes, but that's just the way languages progress. Eventually what's wrong will be right, and what's right will be archaic.
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by crescendo 18y ago
I scored 0. My strategy: first group the colors roughly by their "greenness", "brownness", etc., and then blur vision by going slightly cross-eyed, making it easier to see faults in the gradient. Adjust accordingly.
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iPhone OpenGL Demo - 3D Cube with Texture, Light, Rotate and Zoom options(andreicostin.com)
1 points by crescendo 18y ago|0 comments
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by crescendo 18y ago
The WebKit team is fantastic. Their code is clean, well-organized, fast, and their output prolific—every morning when I do update, there are at least 50 individual commits. They also beat all of the big-name players to Acid 3 compliance.
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by crescendo 18y ago
Ah, yes, that's right. It's easy to forget that not everyone is a developer. Cyberduck ( http://cyberduck.ch/ ) is also a good sftp/s3 client for OS X.
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by crescendo 18y ago
OS X does support sftp out of the box. Also, it can act as an sftp host if you enable Remote Login (ssh).

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