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by illicium 13y ago
TFA asks if a machine can sing, and doesn't mention Vocaloid?
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by illicium 13y ago
If you want to be really pedantic, differentiate SI giga/megabytes as GB/MB and "binary" gibi/mebibytes as GiB/MiB
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by illicium 13y ago
At American universities, there is often a different degree for the hardware aspect of computing: Computer Engineering, which deals with digital design and other hardware stuff. Computer Science is generally focused on algorithms and math,
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by illicium 13y ago
Even if you use a Computer Modern webfont, your page won't look even remotely as good as if it was produced using TeX. Browsers are lacking proper justification (Knuth-Plass line breaking), hyphenation (which kind of exists in CSS3), m
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by illicium 13y ago
OpenSSL
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by illicium 13y ago
It does, but for some reason in the Python -> Scala category
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by illicium 13y ago
>A vimium that doesn't suck ...is called Pentadactyl :)
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by illicium 13y ago
Pattern looks like someone decided to rewrite both Scrapy and NLTK for no obvious reason
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by illicium 13y ago
Ah, now I see why it has 500 million lines of source code.
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by illicium 13y ago
No, it's not. The '11 models were the last to use the "heavy" anti-glare coating.
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by illicium 13y ago
Or Motorola saw phoneblocks and threw together a couple of copycat renders in order to get back into the limelight?
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by illicium 13y ago
What you're really saying is that typefaces are not meaningless, but using the right one for the job is simply part of good visual design.
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by illicium 13y ago
Icon fonts are a horrible hack that's only in use because SVG support in browsers has frankly been terrible so far. Plus, you can only use them for single-color shapes.
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by illicium 13y ago
I wouldn't put Premiere in the untouchable league. Sure, Photoshop, Illustrator, and (perhaps to a lesser degree) InDesign are industry staples, but AFAIK, Final Cut Pro 7 is still the king of professional video editing software.
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by illicium 13y ago
>Well, I don’t think learning x86 is useful. Unless you are a security researcher and your day job is reverse engineering executables.
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by illicium 13y ago
It's also fairly boring if you're not into schmoozing with college students or retirees, and there's no good food compared to the Bay Area/LA.
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by illicium 13y ago
http://unethicalblogger.com/2011/11/13/ten-poorly-chosen-gem...
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by illicium 13y ago
The battery is still used even if you leave your laptop plugged in -- it uses the extra juice when the system is under high load. I have used my 45-month-old MBP plugged in 99% of the time, and coconutBattery shows 97% capacity at 38 cycles
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by illicium 13y ago
This is nothing out of the ordinary, but the Cubieboard platform caught my eye. I like that it has SATA, making it especially suited for server/NAS type applications.
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by illicium 13y ago
It's called an echo chamber. Yes, Hacker News is an echo chamber.
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by illicium 13y ago
> pushing it towards amateurs who want to easily piece together their musical ideas from other people's sounds Ableton Live is even more centered around building music around loops and samples. Obviously you can track and mix reco
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by illicium 13y ago
It may not be as flat as currently trendy (Microsoft, iOS 7) but it still has way less contrast than all the previous revisions.
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by illicium 13y ago
> ...there is no sign of Mavericks adopting the new simple and uncluttered design. As an example, the new redesigned Calendar app differs significantly in both operating systems Wait, what? The Calendar app in ML is enrobed in faux-lea
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by illicium 13y ago
> Anybody who supports rent control is either (a) uneducated, or (b) benefiting from it. Wow, who would've thought that people who are being rent discriminated against support measures that help protect them from it? Assuming that
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by illicium 13y ago
Daniel, your age is irrelevant. Apple looked at the steps other companies took and followed suit: webOS-like multitasking, Android-like control panel widgets, Microsoft-like thin UI fonts and flat surfaces. This is not necessarily a bad thi
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by illicium 13y ago
> In the field of user experience, there’s a huge and unhelpful overemphasis on similarity, familiarity, and the ability to formally reason about interfaces. People are more nuanced. We respond based not only on experience or reason, bu
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by illicium 13y ago
This is just a linear programming problem. One-liner solution in Mathematica, just for kicks: In[1]:= Solve[ Rationalize[2.15 a + 2.75 b + 3.35 c + 3.55 d + 4.20 e + 5.80 f == 15.05] && a >= 0 && b
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by illicium 13y ago
>Graphic embellishment should be as simple as possible without damage to its own clarity, contrast or textural purpose. Always try simplest first. On the left, I see two luggage tags. On the right, an iPhone and an iPad. Making your aud
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by illicium 13y ago
It's no surprise that BangWithFriends got popular. A product that helps people hook up is pretty much guaranteed to be successful. Case in point: Okcupid, Facebook, Snapchat (kind of)
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by illicium 13y ago
>Buttons are still buttons, text entry boxes behave as before, radio buttons still let you choose one option, sliders slide, etc etc. They might be, if I can figure out which flat rectangle out of the dozens presented to me is a button

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