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by ender7 14y ago
The first two sentences of this article are quick, concise, and accurate. To call Aaron Swartz gifted would be to miss the point. As far as the internet was concerned, he was the gift.
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by ender7 14y ago
MIT has a sad history with regards to suicide. As a result, the administration is usually much more sensitive and self-aware when it comes to suicide-related incidents.
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HB does have a very iconic style, but that style was deliberately chosen to make it easier to get away with low-quality animation techniques [1][2]. The HB shop needed to run on a shoe-string budget, and they had to cut corners wherever t
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by ender7 14y ago
In my experience, the assumption that "most people won't notice" is usually incorrect. The fact of the matter is that people usually do notice, if only subconsciously. If you show someone a clip from a Disney movie and a clip from a Hanna
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by ender7 14y ago
You can get the current emitting object via e.currentTarget. Modifying 'this', while cute, just makes yet another thing that must be explained to people when you start talking about 'this'.
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by ender7 14y ago
Sadly, one last, unfortunate inconsistency: All event handlers have the value of 'this' bound to the object that emitted the event: var div = document.createElement('div'); div.addEventListener('click', function(e) { console.log(t
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by ender7 14y ago
To take it a step further, they could use an adaptive framerate. Have an algorithm (or, more likely, this being Hollywood, a person) select specific shots or pieces of shots with too much lateral movement and ratchet them up to 48fps.
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by ender7 14y ago
The technical term is "transpiler". However, people tend to use "compiler" interchangeably without much confusion.
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by ender7 14y ago
Partially. Also, the first really "working" nuclear reactor was built for a submarine. However, every modern nuclear reactor uses essentially the same design. This has resulted in some...idiosyncrasies in this design.
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by ender7 14y ago
I know it may seem strange to pay top dollar for a hoodie, but here in Boston a high quality, durable, and warm garment that you can take with you anywhere is a real comfort. My current hoodie is the Katahdin Iron Works Heavyweight: http:/
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by ender7 14y ago
Well, I must admit that when I was a kid I taught myself how to use most of the Creative Suite via pirated copies (back then it was the Macromedia Suite plus whatever Adobe was calling its software at the time). I'm now employed because of
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by ender7 14y ago
I'm all for finding ways to motivate yourself, but there's no need to spend this much time on interview prep. Google is a great company to work for, but there are many other good ones out there, and any application process is always a roll
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Here is the crux of the matter: In the book, Mr. Khan also advocates for a separation of universities’ teaching and credentialing roles, arguing that if students could take internationally recognized assessments to prove themselves, the pl
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by ender7 14y ago
> A great deal of the truly hard work of running a University, like scheduling several thousand students into several thousand classes, is done either entirely by or with great assistance from computers. The work you are describing used
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by ender7 14y ago
Apropos: http://mathiasbynens.be/notes/javascript-encoding TL;DR: - Javascript engines are free to internally represent strings as either UCS-2 or UTF-16. Engines that choose to go USC-2 tend to replace all glyphs outside of the BMP with
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by ender7 14y ago
Yes, bigger numbers are always better! So, yes, increased framerates do make things like aliasing concerns -- long the bane of many an action movie director's existence -- go away. However, there is a concrete and visceral difference betw
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by ender7 14y ago
While it is somewhat due to the makeup of the bomb and the environment at the time, fusion physicists are discovering that such instabilities in the explosion are extremely difficult to get rid of. Even in the NIF, which is a controlled env
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by ender7 14y ago
Personally, any solution to callback hell will also need to be a language that supports returning multiple values. The following convention is simply too useful to me: foo.doSomethingAsync(function(err, result) { if (err) { ..
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by ender7 14y ago
Microsoft has clearly decided that "Windows" is now the new Metro UI. The old stuff is there for backwards-compat and pro/business market reasons, but the future is Metro. Now, you may not like that decision, but I think that's where they'r
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by ender7 14y ago
I think Microsoft could have saved themselves a lot of pain by some renaming and re-skinning. - 'Windows 8' is Microsoft's next version of Windows! It uses the shiny new Metro UI. You install apps from the Windows App Store (or whatever the
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by ender7 14y ago
I've also seen Hulu using fansubs for some of their Korean TV [1]. I'm curious what the legal status is of text-only subtitle work. Unlike the translation of a book, translated subtitles are not the complete work. They're also a creative wo
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by ender7 14y ago
A human tooth submerged in Pepsi will actually dissolve completely in less than a week.
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The people waiting for the programming community to suddenly wake up and realize how wrong they were about Javascript all these years remind me of all the people still waiting for Castro to die. By the time it happens, it won't actually mea
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by ender7 14y ago
I don't see how this is any different from overflowing an int32 in any other programming language. Sure, with an int, x != x + 1 even after an overflow, but your program is still going to crash when it tries to bill you for negative two bil
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by ender7 14y ago
I'm just having trouble reconciling "A reader could be excused for having concerns that the author was not an objective witness" with the root comment of this thread. It seems that, in fact, the reader can't be excused for having such con
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by ender7 14y ago
Uh, are you including yourself in that 3/4? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4604088 > Peppered throughout the post are cultural signs and signifiers that mark the author as an advocate for a fairly specific set of political and so
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by ender7 14y ago
Lokitron looks great, but you guys have got to fix the UI on the unlock screen. Every time I see it I have to stare at it for a couple of seconds to figure out a). what the current state is and b). how to change the current state. The swipi
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by ender7 14y ago
All right, so yes , the author is responding to some clearly racist behavior with some nasty and racist/prejudiced words of his own. Such behavior is understandable, but it still weakens his piece. That said...there is a difference between
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by ender7 14y ago
From my perspective, JS is more more enjoyable to use when writing UIs. Java's strictness is not nearly as useful for UI work than it might be for other domains, and Javascript's first-class functions greatly simplify event-based work (whic
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by ender7 14y ago
I think simply owning a car will be such a signal, similar to how owning a plane today is a mark of the super-wealthy. There will be "automotive Boeings" that produce cars for transportation companies, boutique shops that produce them for t

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