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by delackner 13y ago
Gimp absolutely does not support 100% correct conversion from psd. Layer effects are particularly broken. I have not seen any third party tool that properly handles psd files containing non-rasterized layers.
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by delackner 13y ago
I never use Photoshop, but sometimes I work with graphic designers who like preparing everything as one huge PSD with lots of layer groups, and it feels like an absurd waste of energy to keep subscribing to Photoshop just to export all laye
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by delackner 13y ago
Fiber mixed with a nutrient soup is not solid food.
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by delackner 14y ago
This is fetching every entity by its indexed key. My understanding of saving in a background queue is that during that 1-2 seconds, the ui will still be using the pre-modification data set, so very briefly the ui may appear incorrect, no?
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by delackner 14y ago
Fetch and save operations get pretty slow with even just 10,000 entities (if you touch all those entities). It gets a little better if you pre-fetch all the entities rather than one at a time, but the save is still very slow. Breaking tha
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by delackner 14y ago
Really lightweight high level intro, but more than the technical side I was surprised to see a very famous Mac/iOS developer, creator of NetNewsWire, advocating using a Microsoft backend. Not meant as snark, just genuinely surprised and no
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Learn Mobile Services on iOS with Brent Simmons(channel9.msdn.com)
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by delackner 14y ago
In most cases, paying a tax-preparer to do the annoyance for you is far less hassle than dealing with both trying to get rid of citizenship, and trying to attain citizenship in another country where you would like living. Perhaps some Europ
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by delackner 14y ago
A lot of people discussing the 1 hour in the morning, 1 hour before bed requirement. I also found this impractical, but lately I have been pondering something that Goenka said on this subject: If you don't have enough time, sleep less. Wh
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by delackner 14y ago
I am aware of the Wikipedia link. It also has no references, and is marked as being original content. What term should we use to discuss garbage collection schemes that impose a real time overhead (those systems virtually everyone means wh
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by delackner 14y ago
While some people might say reference counting is just a form of garbage collection, this blurs the useful distinction when discussing the overhead involved. Automatic memory management schemes that impose a variable runtime cost to analyz
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by delackner 14y ago
These terms have basic meanings that are independent of what you seem to wish they meant. GC is not reference counting, and it would benefit you to put he difference in your memory.
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by delackner 14y ago
If you are in your twenties and healthy, please learn from my mistakes. I suffered from wrist pain and lower back pain. I used all sorts of ergonomic keyboards, chairs, even a special back brace. Eventually I was seeing a chiropractor an
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by delackner 14y ago
He is being perfectly civil. He has succinctly stated a position that you find unpleasant, but that is all. It is not considered "civil" in the non-software world to suggest that someone should give away their possessions before you care
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by delackner 14y ago
Japan tangent: I am amazed on a weekly basis by the mountain of spam newsletters flooding my email inbox by some of Japan's leading internet services. Total lack of respect for the customer. Physical mail today is pretty much 99% spam and
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by delackner 14y ago
Just because your boss asked you to do something that many people HATE, doesn't make it better. People handing over their email address in exchange for user registration or to gain access to a trial version of your product are not intereste
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by delackner 14y ago
I have been doing roughly this for a few years now. It isn't always possible to achieve, but it is incredibly effective if you can get beyond thinking about who is at fault, who is guilty, who has wronged you. Looking at my own behavior, i
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by delackner 14y ago
Obviously every song is in some way building on other previous works, but there are degrees of originality and contribution above and beyond the building blocks that a song draws from. Some songs seem to be just "beautiful component" + "ha
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by delackner 14y ago
Click-and-hold on the firefox search engine icon in the search field, and a list of engines appears. I clearly see "Add DuckDuckGo" as an option in that list while I am on the site, and you can slide the mouse over to that option and relea
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by delackner 14y ago
The important part of the quote is "for jailbroken devices." I haven't seen any solid numbers on how many people jailbreak, but the various quotes for the US at least seem to hover around 10%. That is pretty low.
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by delackner 14y ago
I would be wary of throwing the word censorship around. This is nothing of the sort. Instapaper deciding not to interact with a particular website (whether foolishly, in this case, or maliciously) is hardly censorship. At worst it is sim
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by delackner 14y ago
It is far worse than this. For the better part of the history of the world, basic arithmetic is 1 man and 1 woman produce > 2 kids. Those kids grow up and even if one of them is happy to live in their parents' home, the norm, hell, th
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by delackner 14y ago
Breath deep. Someone had an unpleasant experience working with someone else who is in a different timezone, who reportedly explicitly said "...Change it to a 5 second Sleep so I have something to give him the next time he complains!" You h
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by delackner 14y ago
Some day in the distant future perhaps there will actually be a non-photoshop 100% psd compatible editor. I thought I could just tell my designer to do File -> Export Layers as PNG, but that command in Photoshop is intentionally broken
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by delackner 14y ago
Honest question: since all devices connecting to a WIFI network are by definition within a short distance of the router itself, is there a WIFI solution that uses pre-shared key cryptography? That seems to me to be the only truly unbreakab
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by delackner 14y ago
You are welcome to your opinion, but on your suggestion I just went and looked at John Siracusa's blog and for this entire year we have: 1: a discussion about various ways you can read his Mountain Lion Review. 2: How to cook pasta. 3: su
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by delackner 14y ago
http://ilovetypography.com/2012/04/19/the-design-of-a-signag...
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by delackner 14y ago
A great recent example that appeared on HN was the typeface designed for road signs, which the designers then put through Germany(?)'s test suite for legibility at distance in various road conditions and determined the new font was objectiv
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by delackner 14y ago
I don't know their real answer, but I thought of it as a psychological experiment; people are much more likely to join a social service if it already seems to have lots of users. This experiment provides a huge number of people a way to say
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by delackner 14y ago
quote from your link: "In some countries black or near-black has been employed extensively" he also calls the shadows on a tree trunk black, so it seems he is not really arguing in favor of #000 but in favor of the use of very dark monoch

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