gabrielroth

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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Well, in some cases a modern signal chain has more headroom. The fact that the average loudness of a remaster is higher than the original doesn't tell you anything about the dynamic range.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
He's much happier with the adjusted workload and it hasn't really changed his annual income all that much (perhaps a bit more income but a lot less work). Do the math.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
This particular case is not the world's biggest deal, but in general I'd like as much information as possible about my sources of information. Even if you don't care about the story at all, I find it striking that you think it should be kep
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I understand a lot better when it's you having the argument. Why wouldn't you want me to know about an argument someone else had with a co-worker?
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
You're taking an interesting position, advocating for less transparency. Is there a pressing reason why you think I shouldn't know about this?
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Twitter's Ryan Sarver is walking back the 'no new clients' policy(twitter.com)
2 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
The apps that Twitter are calling out are ones that are trying to replace Twitter itself as a consumption device for end-users. Until today, "Twitter itself" referred to the network, not the clients.
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IPad's Rivals Can't Beat It on Price(nytimes.com)
33 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|34 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
http://daringfireball.net/preferences/
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Oh, is that how we're setting policy now?
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I think the core problem is the incentives, like someone said. Agreed. It's even in the design of the system, the DA is supposed to try to convict the suspect. In and of itself that's not a perverse incentive. The system is adversarial:
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I have about 2 dozen "base programs". Whenever I need to develop something new, I grab the closest one, "save as" something else and get to work. That's an interesting method. Could you give an example of those 'base programs'—what are th
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Gruber on Readability's App Store rejection(daringfireball.net)
17 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|16 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
"It cannot be both great that Apple doesn't outsource its retailing and great that Apple outsources its components production." Why not? Outsourcing isn't always good or always bad. Economically, Apple should do the things it can do well (s
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
One factor that the author doesn't mention is Apple's success at lining up deals with component manufacturers. A couple years ago (before anyone had heard of the iPad) they locked in great prices on flash memory and LCD displays. They could
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
'Simplistic' is perjorative: a simplistic solution is one that's too simple to properly address the problem.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Amplify is a set of components designed to solve common web application problems with a simplistic API. Pretty sure the author means 'simple' rather than 'simplistic.' It's an important distinction!
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Mikecane's Next Greedy Move: Predicting what other people will do in the future, then writing blog posts criticizing them for it.
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Yeah, I closed the tab halfway through for that reason. Who would you rather hate you, your twitter account or your readers?
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I've read that testosterone and estrogen react differently when they mix with adrenaline or other emotion-triggered hormones—testosterone can exacerbate the cognitive difficulties whereas estrogen can soothe them. File this under 'something
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I suspect the stakes are too high for you with this personal project. You've been planning it for so long, you imagine it will revolutionize the industry and make you a billionaire. And sitting down to start coding makes it feel like, well,
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
The first step toward a 'hacking solution' would be to define the problem clearly. What are you trying to solve?
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Motorola Cliq XT Won’t Get Android 2.1 Upgrade(daringfireball.net)
18 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|24 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
The HOV-lane idea starts out in the wrong place. If you want to raise money from apportioning a scarce resource (in this case space on the road), you use prices, not taxes. Congestion charges have become very popular and successful in Londo
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
Why doesn't the picture show 300 million little guys standing next to all the money?
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I want the text of that guarantee. What do I get if it doesn't become mandatory? And by when will it become mandatory?
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
A complete rewrite of a mega-popular project is a big ask. If you're going to make a big ask like that, it behooves you to make your request as persuasive as possible. This request could be made more persuasive by answering the following qu
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
I don't think that's true. They'll look out of date in amusing ways, sure, but the particular out-of-dateness that accompanies very early entries in a medium's history, when the technology is very poorly understood, is special. Movies from
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Hurdles Emerge in Rising Effort to Rate Teachers(nytimes.com)
2 points by gabrielroth 16y ago|0 comments
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by gabrielroth 16y ago
OS X ships with a built-in Apache server, which you can enable by checking 'Web sharing' in the Sharing preference pane. There's a lot of other goodies like that under the hood, including Perl, Python, Ruby, and PHP. These languages may be

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