itafroma

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by itafroma 13y ago
pg has mentioned[1] that there are certain banned sites: if a submitted story is from one of them, presumably it is killed immediately automatically. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5502382
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Ouya raises $15M from Kleiner Perkins and Mayfield, delays launch to June 25(venturebeat.com)
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by itafroma 13y ago
> OP doesn't owe you clean code. Don't like the code? Don't use it. Or better yet, contribute a patch/PR. The OP's intention in sharing it was to get contributors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5678490
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by itafroma 13y ago
Here's the blog post about it: https://blog.dropbox.com/2013/05/introducing-dbx-dropboxs-fi... It's also rather sparse on details, but the line about being the first to see Dropbox's new products as the most important thing seems to indic
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by itafroma 13y ago
It's an easter egg. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Nor is it an argument. It's an action based on a personal risk assessment. Concluding that something is the best course of action because an expert authority is, in fact, an example of the results of an inductive argument. P1: I
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by itafroma 13y ago
According to the "fallacy" people? What? There is no fallacy standards body that arbitrates normative definitions of fallacies. Fallacies are what they are because they describe faults in reasoning: they describe the terms under which a con
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by itafroma 13y ago
For a comprehensive list complete with formal definitions, explanations, and examples, I prefer the Fallacy Files: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/index.html
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by itafroma 13y ago
A large problem with using "cheat sheet" lists of fallacies is that they lack the nuance of the actual fallacies they cite. An argument from authority is fallacious if, and only if, the authority cited is not an unbiased expert in the matte
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by itafroma 13y ago
Like I said, the last line of my comment was more directed towards the sibling comments: you at least recognized the basic issue, which is a reliance on Apple—or more specifically, Mac+WebKit—without a concern for cross-compatibility. To th
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by itafroma 13y ago
> http://sivers.org/1pct GP is not an exemplar of the 1% fallacy. GGP asserted that their product would have a 20% install base, so GP used that number.
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by itafroma 13y ago
The website is using h.264 at ~3Mbps in a QuickTime movie container in <video> elements. It'll work for anyone with the following conditions met: - Using a browser that supports the QuickTime container format (i.e., has the QuickT
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by itafroma 13y ago
It's not really that bad, just a few quirks: - Left sidebar has no right padding - The right sidebar loses its left padding in narrow viewports If you want to go hardcore, there are a couple of other things, based off of James Felici's Com
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Shawnee, Kansas fourth city to get Google Fiber(googlefiberblog.blogspot.com)
4 points by itafroma 13y ago|0 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
> That, seriously, 99% of the population will never, ever, accomplish in their entire lifetime. Yes, they do. All the Microsoft Office formats (DOCX, XLSX, etc.), all the OpenOffice formats, all the iWork formats, ePub, Safari extension
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by itafroma 13y ago
> The problem is, at least in the case of image editors (and 3d editors), standard formats arguably stifle innovation because you have to break the standard to add anything. Indeed: that's exactly why Adobe created FXG instead of adopti
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by itafroma 13y ago
Truth be told, you're the first person I've seen ever argue that HTML is a broken file format, particularly because it doesn't contain everything it links to. Imagine what it would mean if HTML was an encapsulated file format: you couldn't
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The Workers of SimCity(simcity.com)
2 points by itafroma 13y ago|0 comments
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by itafroma 13y ago
At its core, a layered document is a set of declarations about the constituent parts the document is made up. They link to other objects, like images and fonts. Whether you include everything the document links to into one container or let
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by itafroma 13y ago
> Last summer, Adobe killed their image exchange format "FXG". Edit: previously I had balked at this claim, but I'm wrong. While I can't find any official notice of its death, and it's still in use in Scene7 and somewhat supported in th
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by itafroma 13y ago
That would be true if the policy gave women 16 weeks and men 8 weeks, regardless of whether or not the woman gave birth. But, as reported, if you did not give birth, for example if you adopted a child, you only get 8 weeks: even if you ar
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by itafroma 13y ago
The 1/l distinction isn't that bad, but the curved quotation marks and apostrophe were enough to warrant a variant, Inconsolata-dz[1]. Looks like Inconsolata-g is actually built upon the -dz variant because it includes the straight quotati
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by itafroma 14y ago
You're right, it's 2,048 layers. The sad part for me is that I knew that number, but when I did the math, I couldn't get it to work with the current layer's numbers, because I forgot that the cube length goes down by two, not one. Oh well,
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by itafroma 14y ago
There were 4,096 total layers; currently 262 layers have been removed with 17,758,801 cubelets left on the current layer. So 3,834 layers and 112,689,867,042 cubelets remain. The cube age is 166 days, so at the current rate of progress (~1
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by itafroma 14y ago
The experiment has been running for a few months yes, but like I said, the feature to add or remove cubelets is new for version 3.0, released on April 17th. Check the Eurogamer article I linked to (also linked in the original article).
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by itafroma 14y ago
> Adding 500,000 cubelets costs $10.99, which implies that people have paid ~$103 to add cubelets over the course of 166 days, or around 62 cents per day. Gross revenue from all cubelet sales in either direction is ~$308 or ~$1.85/day.
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by itafroma 14y ago
Yes, people are. Off the top of my head, one prominent example was Jon Stewart: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/stewart-tears-apart-cnn-for-compl...
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by itafroma 14y ago
While I don't doubt that there might be some people who could've gone either way on crowdsourced vigilantism but are now vocally against it now that it has failed, people were speaking out about how colossally bad of an idea it was from the
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by itafroma 14y ago
Oh, I'm not suggesting Apple blacklist an app entirely. Rather, remove them from consideration from the Top Paid/Free/Grossing lists (or put them at the bottom). Maybe even remove them from keyword search results in more severe cases. So yo
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by itafroma 14y ago
I'm somewhat surprised Apple doesn't do something similar to what Google does in their SERPs: blacklist anyone caught paying for placement from the App Store rankings.

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