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by hansjorg 11y ago
I think the suggestion is that the client could just stop downloading at a set threshold, maybe taking current bandwidth, cost, etc. into consideration. Judging from the video, something like that could work very well (and much better than
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Certainly an attempt at a respectful ceremony, but also an incredibly creepy look into the minds of people who have gone off the deep end regarding 'patriotism'.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
It's a proof of concept. The numbers are dependent upon people visiting that page. As they say in their FAQ: > The quality of data that we get from this project is definitely decreased as a result of the fact that the design of the
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by hansjorg 11y ago
> that patriarcal culture Funny. Do you know anything at all about Switzerland? (hint: it's a very patriarchal society)
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by hansjorg 11y ago
What you call billberries is called e.g. blåbær (literally blueberries) in Norwegian, Danish and Swedish. It's also called blaeberry in English.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
He also claimed that the US brought people to Uzbekistan to be tortured and that one of the methods employed was to boil people alive. Good times.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
The stories about the Hasbro buyout I was thinking of were actually from Peter Adkison's blog, read that just after hearing the NPR piece and got them mixed up: http://www.peteradkison.com/blog-entry-3-wizards-of-the-co
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by hansjorg 11y ago
The GPL is not primarily about charity or giving. It's a pragmatic approach to keeping software free as in freedom, given the current political and economical realities.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Planet Money on NPR did a piece recently on how WotC avoided some of these issues and made the card game such a success twenty plus years ago. There's also some interesting anecdotes regarding the Hasbro buy out. http://www.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Very cool, L-systems are fascinating. As an apropos, there was actually released a Rust implementation of Turtle graphics recently: https://github.com/Kingdread/Rurtle
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Tried this for a while the last time I saw this posted somewhere, but went back to using tail. Using less +F you're not able to add blank lines to the terminal. Seems kind of silly, but it's very useful to see if there has been an
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Thanks for the clarification. At first I thought the games in the showcase were flash apps that OpenFL were able to run, but they're actually created with Haxe and OpenFL then.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Well, it's the next frontier in digital audio for those who claim to have golden ears.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Monty from Xiph/Mozilla wrote a great article about why 24-bit/192kHz format (which is what Neil Young's Pono delivers) makes no sense: http://xiph.org/~xiphmont/demo/neil-young.html
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by hansjorg 11y ago
tptacek always makes sure that his comments are legalistically true. He's not a fascist endorsing authoritarian tendencies.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
> The experience is usually good for the people getting paid, and the people getting the service. It is frequently bad for people who are not part of that exchange at all, and just happen to be in close proximity. The externalitati.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
> they didn't just turn up in a country and start drilling wells without permission Permission from whom? What an incredibly naive world view.
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by hansjorg 11y ago
Samsung has solved this with their Smart Remote [1] which is a kind of hybrid between a normal remote and a mouse. I've only tried it in passing, but it's definitely a big step up from the standard remote. 1: http://www
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by hansjorg 12y ago
> Most people seem to be born that way. >Look at the Stanley Milgram experiments. Milgram did experiments on newborns?
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by hansjorg 12y ago
I've seen this built-in on an actual laptop. Can't quite remember, might have been an HP.
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Yes, what joy to witness such exquisite debate by those enlightened orators and masters of rhetoric. Truly something for the ages.
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Never heard of this before. For anybody else wondering, it seems to be a more structured version of the IAmA subreddit.
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Video posted in the reddit thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6fgWWQLWa8
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Maybe I'm getting old, but that wasn't as cringey as I remember it. And the program actually seems pretty cool and hi-tech. Crank up the jazz-slider!
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Great work, these cameras look very nice. Excellent having Linux and OS X drivers for them before they are released. His GoFundMe page is here: http://www.gofundme.com/3dcamera
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Hard to enjoy your eternal rest if you can't lie down.
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by hansjorg 12y ago
When you say Java, does that include Android? I see that Android is supported, but couldn't find anything about reproducibility. Reproducible Android builds would be very interesting.
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by hansjorg 12y ago
They should have sent a poet.
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Planet Money on NPR did an interesting piece on Monoprice last November. How stuff gets cheaper: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/11/28/366793693/episode-...
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by hansjorg 12y ago
Toyota, which is the largest car manufacturer by volume, have stated repeatedly that they are betting on hydrogen fuel cells rather than batteries. Given their track record with hybrids, one would think that they know their battery technolo

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