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by dgreensp 10y ago
Wow, looks and feels great! Better than Google!
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I used Recast on a codebase at work to migrate to a new code style, and I ran into a long tail of issues with preserving comments that looked like they would require some significant work to fix. I know the author of Recast (Hi Ben) and co
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by dgreensp 10y ago
Progressive JPEGs are actually a worse experience on browsers that don't render them progressively, like Safari (including iOS). This is why many major sites, such as Flickr, don't use progressive JPEGs (last time I checked, whic
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This is a great talk, and I loved the discussion and criticism of the roots of hacker culture, and also what the author describes as "logical positivism." You can look at something like Bitcoin as a textbook example. The thinkin
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I don't think whether or not everyone knows the consequences is relevant. You can work out the purely legal or administrative downsides (to you) of lots of things.
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> I was just unlucky I guess that it happened to me. People like this who have no sense of personal responsibility are an evil in the world. He spends millions of dollars of other people's money, declares bankruptcy (presumably), a
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I read "optimal strategy" as slightly tongue-in-cheek, considering we don't have direct control over our moods.
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After reading the thesis, the proposed model of computing is like a concurrent Smalltalk where everything is completely mutable, even an object's code and prototype chain. The author then writes a function to calculate the Fibonacci s
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I'm going to buck the trend of cynicism and say this is beautiful and matches my own ideas closely, though I have not read the paper yet. How many of us seasoned programmers came to an understanding with computers by playing in a &quot
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This is modern technology -- the most modern, since it was invented for this game. Global illumination this good is not something you can get off the shelf, to my knowledge.
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Yes, absolutely. Google is legendary for this. They are turning off not just talented applicants, but presumably applicants with other options and applicants with a good dose of self-respect who won't put up with such a long, imperso
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While I expect this issue to blow over, you are right that defending the CEO's actions by saying he was "frustrated" or it was a prank or whatever else is ridiculous. Imagine the CEO of Google editing YouTube comments. I don
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I see it as popularity vs merit. A lot of things feed into popularity, like familiarity and network effects. Also, you can be popular by appealing to the sentiments or taste of the masses or influencers, regardless of merit, unless there
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I see mostly criticisms unrelated to SmallTalk. Scheme: Show me the code comparison. How is FP vs OOP relevant, even if true? JavaScript: How is the comparison to Lisp relevant, especially after the preceding? Author just chose some appea
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Dreams are prettier than reality. It's fun to not have customers. It's fun to just spend investors' money. Lots of things are fun, for a while.
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An informative article. The point is not that parsing JSON is "hard" in any sense of the word. It's that it's underspecified, which leads to parsers disagreeing. Although the syntax of JSON is simple and well-specced:
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She's dragging herself through the mess at this point. It's not unusual for founders to raise large amounts (at least eight figures, say), ignore all criticism, and fail spectacularly years later in ways that make you wonder what
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by dgreensp 10y ago
You might be interested in this work showing texture synthesis over a 2d surface with non-uniform geometry, rotation, scale, or even velocity: http://hhoppe.com/proj/apptexsyn/
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by dgreensp 10y ago
My anxiety has slowly lessened as I've gotten older. I'm now 32 and married with kids. I attribute it to getting out on my own, growing up, and letting things go. Get out: For most of us, there was something toxic about our home
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No one needs this advice. We already worship ideas. Especially on HN, which is full of perfectionistic, idealistic founders or one-day founders who will probably spend the first year or years of their start-up lovingly gazing at their tec
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I think by "blockchain" they mean hashed blocks that include the hash of the previous block and can be synced; basically git.
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by dgreensp 10y ago
"There is no safe level of drinking." By this logic, there is no safe level of anything.
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How many bytes is a node, in practice? If you stuff hundreds or thousands of pointers in a node, plus a bunch of log, isn't that a lot of data to clone when you do a path-copy? It seems like there's a major trade-off there, unle
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As the primary author stated, MIT PR does not make these videos. I've seen plenty of dry, poorly-produced videos; what you're seeing reflects the dedication, talent, and charisma of the researcher more than anything else. Source
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Thanks for bringing this up. Small things can have huge personal significance. I think the article makes sense until it tries to model meaning in an impersonal way; there's a bit of a switcheroo when the author goes from saying meani
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Motivation comes from having (personal) goals. The rest is confronting your fear, boredom, and anxiety; managing your time and energy; developing good habits and process; and knowing when to ask for help or study up. You have to be an expe
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by dgreensp 10y ago
The only documentation of the anime.path function is the example: anime.path('path') I think I can guess how to use it -- the argument is a "target" that resolves to an SVG path element (in the example, the only SVG path
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This is me, too. If you know what you're worth and what salary or range you are willing to take, you can just answer the question. I like to dodge the question about previous salary if it's lower than I want, but if there's
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"As a startup of our size cannot spend 30-plus percent of our resources on things that take ten years," Rosenberg said, adding that "there’s some time frame that we need to be generating an amount of revenue that covers expe
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I've come back to this idea many times, and I think it has a lot of promise. It's all a question of the user experience and the feature set (or making it open and hackable). Cloud storage is a cheap commodity (at least for geeks

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