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High performance network programming on the JVM(slideshare.net)
2 points by dhotson 14y ago|1 comments
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Tiny Game Design Tool(tinygdtool.urustar.net)
2 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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From nowhere to Sword & Sworcery: Capybara's road trip to indie stardom(theverge.com)
1 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains(empiricalzeal.com)
1 points by dhotson 14y ago|0 comments
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Eurovision 2012 graph visualisation(dhotson.tumblr.com)
3 points by dhotson 14y ago|1 comments
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How To Avoid Equidistant HSV Colors(vis4.net)
12 points by dhotson 14y ago|1 comments
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by dhotson 14y ago
It's because we're running this over millions of images. We don't want to pay the startup cost each time.
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by dhotson 14y ago
We haven't tried clustering yet, but I'm keen to. Correct me if I'm wrong, but by using clustering you might end up with colors that didn't actually occur in the original design right? In our case we wanted to make sure we found colors that
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by dhotson 14y ago
Oh?
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by dhotson 14y ago
We haven't really looked too deeply into existing research in this area, so I'm not sure how our approach compares. We'd still be very interested if you've got any suggestions for material to check out. One difference between our program an
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by dhotson 14y ago
Yep, you're right. It's difficult to differentiate greys that are important vs those that we don't care about. Our current solution works not too badly and gives us results that are more visually appealing, but I agree we could do better. I
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Extracting Colors With Colorific(99designs.com)
97 points by dhotson 14y ago|28 comments
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by dhotson 15y ago
If a video has captions I often prefer to watch it muted. I'm not even hearing impaired. Sound is overrated. ;-)
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by dhotson 15y ago
Doh! Thanks. :-)
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by dhotson 15y ago
I really wish I could pay for free services just for the peace of mind that they'll stick around. I've got my website on Tumblr and by using their service I feel like I'm making a pretty big commitment to them, but since it's free it doesn'
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Why I wrote Arel by Nick Kallen(magicscalingsprinkles.wordpress.com)
1 points by dhotson 15y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 15y ago
Icon designers have been saying this for years. For small icons, you really want to tune every pixel. Vector sounds great in theory (infinitely scalable!) but it just ends up being a blurry mess at small sizes.
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by dhotson 15y ago
Don't get me wrong. I ask all those other questions as well. The problem is: people lie. It's the old thing where if you want to hire a juggler, don't you want to see them juggle?
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by dhotson 15y ago
I'm kind of on the fence on this. These questions might seem pretty lame, but as an interviewer it does tell you something about the candidate's level of experience with a language. If you've worked with a language for any decent amount of
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by dhotson 15y ago
Very interesting! Are you thinking something more along the lines of Python's "batteries included" style standard library? Also, it'd be great to move away from PHP's functions-in-global-namespace style standard library, towards having a se
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by dhotson 15y ago
Yes and Yes. We use async tasks at 99designs for all kinds of background tasks. It's a surprisingly useful and versatile system for a variety of things. It's a long list. :-) Our rule of thumb is basically anything that's going to take more
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by dhotson 15y ago
This reminds me of one of my all time favorites games "A Mind Forever Voyaging". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging It's an interactive fiction game where you play the role of a computer that has only just realised that
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by dhotson 15y ago
I tried implementing the CommonJS spec (eg require) using this extension in order to integrate javascript libraries such as coffeescript and uglify directly into my PHP web stack. For simple examples it worked fine, but trying it on real pr
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by dhotson 15y ago
TL;DR.. GPS satellite clock ticks need an accuracy of 20-30 nanoseconds. The satellites move fast enough that their clocks fall behind by 7 microseconds a day due to time dilation, but orbit high enough that the curvature of spacetime due t
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Real-World Relativity: The GPS Navigation System(astronomy.ohio-state.edu)
2 points by dhotson 15y ago|1 comments
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Who Can Name the Bigger Number?(scottaaronson.com)
1 points by dhotson 15y ago|0 comments
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by dhotson 15y ago
It's an example of using a language's idioms. If you use i in a loop, there's no need to explain yourself since there's a common understanding as to what this means.
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by dhotson 15y ago
I find that thinking about good names for things can help guide you to design better code. As Lars mentioned—if something is hard to name, it's probably because the thing you're naming isn't very clearly defined, is a bad/mixed metaphor, or
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Linux kernel design patterns(lwn.net)
2 points by dhotson 15y ago|0 comments
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Scala for the Intrigued(pragprog.com)
2 points by dhotson 15y ago|0 comments

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