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by esonderegger 11y ago
Our brains perceive what we hear trailing what we see by small amounts to be completely normal. If you show people a video of an orchestra concert with the sound of a violin coming 50ms before seeing the bow move, most would immediately not
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by esonderegger 12y ago
I'll remain skeptical about OMB's ability to know about all the datasets from federal agencies, because as you said, there is a wealth of government data that is "public" but obscure. Another example is the Department of
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by esonderegger 12y ago
I just finished reading The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll this morning (And I highly recommend it!). In the Epilogue, Stoll writes about the Morris worm and briefly mentions: (Harvard student Paul Graham sent him mail asking for "An
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by esonderegger 12y ago
Location: Washington D.C. Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: - Python: WebApps: Flask ORMs: SQLAlchemy Scripting: Subprocess - Javascript: DOM: jQuery Visualization: D3
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by esonderegger 12y ago
Congratulations! It sounds like you've landed somewhere really good. Thank you for reminding us not to give up. A lot of your story sounded familiar, although you were way more persistent than I was. I'm 33, and recently got rejec
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by esonderegger 12y ago
If anyone from WaPo visits here, you've got some typos on that page: "Download and install the Tor browser bundle from Download and install the Tor browser bundle from https://www.torproject.org/" should be &
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by esonderegger 12y ago
Scrolling is completely broken for me on ios devices (both an ipad and an iphone 5c). Why is there so much temptation to mess with how the user scrolls?
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by esonderegger 12y ago
I didn't start working here until 2006, so I don't really know how they were purchased, but they didn't standardize on Mitsui MAM-A until 2002 or so. Before then, there was an assortment of gold media from different brands. T
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by esonderegger 12y ago
Yes, of course. However, backups != preservation. You could have a textbook backup strategy with restore drills and fixity checks making sure that your integrity is 100%. If your audio is stored in Sound Designer II files and your print doc
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by esonderegger 12y ago
I didn't start working here until 2006, so I don't really know the details of what the process was like back then for testing discs after they had been burned. I assume at least a verification step was involved. Now, when I want t
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by esonderegger 12y ago
Interesting. I hadn't heard of M-Disc. Thanks for the link! The worry of not being able to find a device to read/play back your media is a common one for all storage types, analog and digital. For example, we have hundreds of reel
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by esonderegger 12y ago
I just went to the drawer to check - It appears as though most of the earliest CD-R discs were HHB gold archival discs. Some of them came from external mastering facilities, so would be on something else. Around 2002, they standardized on M
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by esonderegger 12y ago
Do BDXL discs have greater longevity than other types of optical media? Back in 2000, our studio switched from archiving our audio recordings on DAT to CD-R. Thinking the greatest threats were loss and scratches, they made three copies of e
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by esonderegger 12y ago
Thanks for suggesting DLNA! (Stuff like this is why I keep coming back to HN) I spent the afternoon trying various different approaches with my Sony Blu-Ray player that has DLNA support. It appears to only want to play files, not live strea
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by esonderegger 12y ago
I tend to agree with you, with one minor exception. If you're going to put an ethernet jack on a TV anyway because people seem to like having Netflix apps on their tv, I'd love it if there were some basic "dumb" software
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U.S. secretly created ‘Cuban Twitter’ to stir unrest(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by esonderegger 13y ago|0 comments
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by esonderegger 13y ago
I dual boot Ubuntu 13.04 and OSX on my 13" rMBP. The hi-dpi issue really doesn't bother me at all. (I run the display at 1680x1050 - the only thing that shows up really tiny is the splash screen) The install was easy enough. Setti
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by esonderegger 13y ago
I'm sure I'm not the only one who got down the road to overscoped features by saying "gee, wouldn't it be cool if my users could access this info that's living in a mysql table" and threw something together wit
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by esonderegger 13y ago
What's worked for you all for making the leap from lone programmer to working on a team with a mentor/people who are smarter than you? I ask this as someone somewhere between "beginner" and "intermediate". I&#x
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by esonderegger 13y ago
This is when I'm especially thankful for open source licenses. The OpenNI2 repository on github currently has 148 forks: https://github.com/OpenNI/OpenNI2 I've been using OpenNI2 with ROS and an ASUS Xtion Pr
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by esonderegger 13y ago
I highly recommend watching a talk given by Erik Nieves from Motoman at the most recent RosCon because he talks about the state of the robotics industry and why this "gap" exists in a very accessible way. http://vimeo.c
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by esonderegger 13y ago
Thank you! When my Marine Corps contract expires in about ten months I'm going to be looking and both the advice to try AngelList and the confidence that it will be alright will be a huge help.
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Ask HN: So what's the job market like for generalists, really?
3 points by esonderegger 13y ago|5 comments
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by esonderegger 13y ago
I have a HTPC running Windows 7 that has Microsoft Security Essentials installed (mostly to stop it from bugging me). My audio/video editing machine is a Mac without any antivirus software installed. And my development machine is runni
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by esonderegger 13y ago
I really wish we as a developer community would better differentiate between "backup" and "preservation". They are both related to storage, but are fundamentally different problems. The article touches on the desire to h
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Washington Post to Begin Paywall on June 12(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by esonderegger 13y ago|0 comments
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Agreed! I wasn't aware of canistream.it until reading this thread and I'm very impressed with it. I think if I was aware of that site when I started moviepresto, I wouldn't have built it. But, then again, I wouldn't have learned the things
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by esonderegger 14y ago
This doesn't surprise me, but it does make me sad because I think it's a short-sighted move that will hurt Netflix in the long run. Full disclosure: my side-project (which I have woefully neglected of late: http://moviepresto.com ) uses th
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by esonderegger 14y ago
Has anyone here done any app developing for the Roku? Does this open up new avenues for that, or is it the same SDK as before? I remember taking a brief look at the SDK a few years ago and deciding that it was too much of a mess for me to w
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by esonderegger 14y ago
For those of you that hire video producers, how do you go about selecting who you work with? Since I'm coming from a career as an audio and video engineer into the startup world, this would seem like an obvious area to do some freelancing,

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