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by hinathan 15y ago
So how about keeping the user on-site for a while and notifying them immediately if you detect their confirmation email has bounced? If you push the temporary session dowbstream enough to correlate seasion with bounce tou can talk back to t
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by hinathan 15y ago
Fascinating point about parents — knowing their genome means you could in principle know the entire potential configuration space of all their (real or hypothetical) offsprings' genomes.
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by hinathan 15y ago
Aldrin and Armstrong are NASA astronauts. They spent the best years of their lives wholly bought into the centrally-funded prime-contractor system. They were at the absolute apex of that system, and they and a very small handful of astronau
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by hinathan 15y ago
But isn't it entirely the point to be annoying? If there were only the preference pane showing which apps had accessed the data, it would already be too late. This is just like with location information on iOS — you have to ask the user bef
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by hinathan 15y ago
Did not see that coming. This seems like an odd route for to Google add depth to Plus.
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by hinathan 15y ago
For traditional wafer processes, you consume a great deal more feedstock than goes into the active portion of a wafer, and even then you may end up grinding away much of the material such as in the case of backlit imaging sensors. This 'exf
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by hinathan 15y ago
But the warmth isn't on a temperature gradient so it's difficult to exploit.
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by hinathan 15y ago
While we're at it, I'll throw in my demo of node.js style closures triggered by events on I/O with PHP and libevent: https://github.com/hinathan/edges-php
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by hinathan 15y ago
I could swear I got logged in to Schemer via my Gmail (i.e. OAuth) just now without me doing anything but visiting the link for this post. Am I missing something here? That doesn't feel right.
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by hinathan 15y ago
This is wrong on a lot of levels (x-platform, cpu usage, etc) but does make for such a pretty effect. Would be lovely if CSS(n+1) could support this kind of transform, especially to pull it out of the GPU instead of bit-banging through a &#
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by hinathan 15y ago
Click the [About Us] panel of the unlabeled pulldown menu on the https://www.weylandindustries.com/ site, then it's to the lower left of the planet image. It's a HTML site that loads links in-page without changing the url at all, so I can
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by hinathan 15y ago
The Prometheus movie website has a blinking star that's showing Morse code as a hint to more teaser content. Take that animated gif, break it into frames, pull out the primary color from each frame's histogram, then requantize the time-vari
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Show HN: Decode a GIF blinking in Morse code(github.com)
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by hinathan 15y ago
Using iPhoto on my iPhone 4s right now — the maps are ... weird. Italic serif fonts, oddly bad anti-aliasing, and off-center-by-2-pixels highway numbers. Feels like it's been upscaled from half resolution as well. It's clearly not Google's
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by hinathan 15y ago
I like the trick of placing something meaningful at the api root url, will use that in the future. "You of course need a JSON viewer plugin to do this." Why not emit your JSON slightly prettier from the server side? http://stackover
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by hinathan 15y ago
Apple has effectively paid for some of its suppliers factories to ensure parts availability. Good position to be in. http://www.asymco.com/2011/01/23/the-bank-of-apple-using-cap...
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by hinathan 15y ago
Thanks! All things being equal, d3 is _amazing_, by the way. I used it (with some difficulty) last year for internal reporting tools. I'm looking forward to grokking this slideshow.
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by hinathan 15y ago
Crashes Safari on my iPhone, somewhat surprisingly.
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by hinathan 15y ago
Thanks for the data! Playing with OCR engines lately has gotten me into the habit of wanting to turn static bitmaps into searchable and transformable data. I haven't taken a crack at graphs yet but it looks like things like http://plotdigi
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by hinathan 15y ago
Honestly it wasn't meant as a canard — this was basically my thought process when I was thinking through an app idea. I'm surely uninformed and some of that is a function of my own laziness, but it's also a reflection of how much diversity
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by hinathan 15y ago
Written to what API? Gnome, X, Qt? You'll be addressing a slice of a fraction of potential users. It'd be great if it weren't the case, but the diversity that makes linux interesting to hackers also makes it really tough to roll out GUI app
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by hinathan 15y ago
Seems to be an awful lot of asking and not a lot of answering.
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by hinathan 15y ago
This is a much more sophisticated version of something that's been tried off and on since 1943 — http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffused_lighting_camouflage
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by hinathan 15y ago
The Mac client has been useful keeping slightly-less-technical team members up to date on our codebase (git on the CLI has a few too many sharp edges for some)
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by hinathan 15y ago
GitHub continues to impress — culture, team, and product. I've heard some criticism of their enterprise sales process but I'm a happy user of their personal edition (though I've somehow already used up my 20 slots for private repos, boo)
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by hinathan 15y ago
I'm glad to see the short array syntax. Having strayed from PHP for a while to work on Ruby and JavaScript I'm really enjoying the ability to leave out semicolons in unambiguous end-of-line situations. Would love to see that make it into PH
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by hinathan 15y ago
They've used a classic software engineering technique to solve a manufacturing problem — just add an additional abstraction layer. I'm thrilled they'll have more capacity but also a little sad I can't pick a few up at the Jameco will-call d
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by hinathan 15y ago
Jeff and Bulat - this is fascinating and timely. Just this week I've been experimenting with bridging (Apollo) STOMP with https://github.com/wandenberg/nginx-push-stream-module and getting what appears to be similar results. Neat stuff, a
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by hinathan 15y ago
"Faster on localhost" doesn't always translate to faster under real-world conditions, of course. If your actual workload is serving largish files to lots of clients relatively far away, this kind of test setup is essentially meaningless. I'
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by hinathan 15y ago
I'm really looking forward to these shipping. The combination of high-quality graphics and networking will make it easy to build lightweight graphic displays and integrations with other physical devices. I'm thinking an HDMI dongle for maki

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