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Pixar Releases Free Non-Commercial RenderMan(renderman.pixar.com)
2 points by ericras 12y ago|0 comments
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by ericras 12y ago
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8557322
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Obama asks FCC to reclassify broadband as a vital service(cnbc.com)
2 points by ericras 12y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft Coup D’état (Apache Software Foundation)(techrights.org)
2 points by ericras 12y ago|0 comments
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by ericras 12y ago
From http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/2hwlrk/new_windo... "Microsoft dev here, the internal rumours are that early testing revealed just how many third party products that had code of the
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by ericras 12y ago
"An Apology": https://community.rackspace.com/general/f/34/t/4341
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by ericras 12y ago
Longevity increases the lifespan of the brilliant minds that can make much further progress with a few extra decades than we can in the meantime.
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by ericras 12y ago
There's no such thing as a free lunch, etc, etc. I like the Sponsored Tweets compared to the alternatives: either paying to use Twitter or banner ads.
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by ericras 12y ago
Apple seems to not want to get into the prosumer market because it is a tiny fraction of the size of the general iPhone/iPad/Beats consumer market. The buzz about future Apple products seems to be about things that could achieve
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by ericras 12y ago
Not really increasingly expensive. For example, a TV is actually a lot cheaper (not to mention better) than it used to be. We have/want more stuff then people in the past. Houses are larger. Families have more cars, more clothes, mo
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SpaceX Slapped With Wage Class Action Over Mass Layoff(law360.com)
43 points by ericras 12y ago|70 comments
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Stay up-to-date with Internet Explorer(blogs.msdn.com)
8 points by ericras 12y ago|0 comments
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by ericras 12y ago
If from the beginning users were trained to only login to Paypal if they're on paypal.com. Could be accomplished in this sort of transaction via a new popup window. Of course, the horse is long out of the barn on this.
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by ericras 12y ago
It is possible, I agree, but Reddit, HN and others have much more active moderation than Google was probably interested in creating.
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by ericras 12y ago
In all honesty I probably would have pursued the same real names policy if I had been running Google+. They were trying to avoid having it immediately devolve into the YouTube comments section - aka the scourge of the Internet. I also thin
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Blink-dev: Intent to remove "style scoped"(groups.google.com)
1 points by ericras 13y ago|0 comments
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Surprised to see such a high-profile rip-off of polygon.com design: ussoccer.com(twitter.com)
5 points by ericras 13y ago|2 comments
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by ericras 13y ago
"If individuals like Mr. Eich had their way, then roughly 8% of the relationships we’ve worked so hard to bring about would be illegal." That's quite a jump from a Prop 8 donation to accusing him of wanting to outlaw homosexu
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by ericras 13y ago
I wonder if there's a way to nudge people to submit the "right" type of photo. I'd assume that your complaint rate will be far lower for the landscape type photo than the super close-up portrait.
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by ericras 13y ago
Looks really cool, I'll probably order, although more cool samples on https://instapainting.com/gallery would make it more enticing to me. The two on the top look great, the dogs look meh and the baby looks frightening
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by ericras 13y ago
The page crashed Safari (and iOS7, restarting my iPad) on multiple tries to load it.
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by ericras 13y ago
The main reason I like the comments on php docs is it's helpful for me to see a basic usage example. A lot of docs (your typical 'man' page for instance) just have a dictionary-like wall of text without a usage sample.
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by ericras 13y ago
Feature detection has much greater overhead.
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by ericras 13y ago
And the front end built by Development Seed has had no problems. It's been the marketplace built by another contractor.
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by ericras 13y ago
Off course before you even get to all that, I'd be concerned about the steganographic problem where they go to your ISP's logs and see you've visited the site.
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by ericras 13y ago
>> This bit is particularly disingenuous... Yes and no. His statement is correct in a historical perspective that Walter Cronkite and the local newspaper had little interest in covering these movements (or at least not in a sympatheti
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by ericras 13y ago
That takes me back. The "Web Pages That Suck" book was what got me into web design and programming. Unfortunately, while I bet almost all designers would recognize that mystery meat is bad in the classic 90's context of using
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by ericras 13y ago
>> replaced with a slim, de-emphasized icon-based navigation. This is the same problem I had with a Gmail redesign a while back. Using icons looks nice and allows for slimmer navigation but it decreases ease of use for me. I can fin
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Dribbble offline due to Postgres problem(twitter.com)
100 points by ericras 13y ago|46 comments
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by ericras 14y ago
Given the small size, the typical request is to be able to play/control an entire region offline.

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