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by jcl 16y ago
The Xerox Star had desktop publishing with multiple proportional typefaces in 1981. It seems likely that this feature would have been imitated by someone regardless of calligraphic experience. http://www.digibarn.com/collections/screensho
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Note that you only get the $35/month price if you sign up for a year. The product page says a month-to-month subscription is $49/month, which would only be worth it if you anticipate using it eight months or less out of a year.
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Photoshop is around $600-700 for the full product, $200 for an upgrade. That means that the full product plus one upgrade is approximately equivalent to two years of subscription -- which is the amount of time Adobe is planning to go throu
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That doesn't strike you as a really bad idea? Quite apart from the maintenance nightmare, consider what happens if you need to include a backslash in a string. Read the paper... It also proposes limiting all identifiers to one character,
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Some other things to note: He is filling in the image from left-to-right, bottom-to-top. That's the scanline order of the data in BMP files, which means he is entering the code in the order it appears in the file. Also, the image he is fil
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Given that the trait is genetic and extremely advantageous, why doesn't a much larger portion of the population have it? Is there a significant downside?
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I think the main problem is that there are too many comments: The number of comments has increased, but the number of comments that a person can reasonably read, reply to, or vote on has stayed the same. Thus, comments receive less modera
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HN already has hand-picked moderators (mostly YC alums, IIRC) with the power to kill bad stories and users. This seems to have worked well for stories, but I guess it hasn't scaled to comments.
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Upvotes are sometimes used to indicate agreement.
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That is a good point. We assume the radiation is from Fukushima because it's the simplest explanation for the recent increase in observed radiation. ...But if someone wanted to conduct secret nuclear testing that leaks a little fallout, th
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Can you explain what might go wrong? The worst thing that I can think of is that the posting script might fail one month, which is easily fixable. If there's any abuse, the moderators can put a stop to it.
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To be fair, that paragraph isn't explicitly attributed to the iOS developer, and may in fact be speculation from the article's author -- possibly added as a way to link to the other Honeycomb articles. The linked article talks about how mod
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I have to agree with RiderOfGiraffes -- an article with a high number of comments relative to points usually indicates that the article is more opinionated than informative, since most everyone who upvoted it posted their personal reaction
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I would guess that he is using "E" as a separator, since it seems to occur at almost all end-of-lines and before punctuation/numbers. And maybe the letter just before "E" has some significance, as there is only a small set of letters that
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This designer makes the case that 99designs has created an environment where plagiarism has few consequences: http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/copied-wor... (Although I suppose that that risk might not be enough to rank i
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FWIW, regarding your Flash problem: you might try checking to see if there is an update for your video drivers. The latest versions of Flash have been using increasing amounts of hardware acceleration, so they could have started using some
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You can go to the linked M-Lab site to play with the visualization first-hand, which includes a scale, as well as with numbers that popup on rollover (note that you need to move the time slider to see Delaware): http://www.google.com/publi
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What he's doing is exercise. He's working a muscle to exhaustion, which is essentially weightlifting without the weights. I guess the value is that he's found a simple workout that gets the results he needs in eight minutes a day with n
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There are a couple of exchanges like this that make me suspect that the jabberwacky author specifically included canned responses to answer splotchy's canned responses -- so it's not quite a fair fight. In particular, splotchy makes a numbe
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For that matter, you could ask the same of Google and Firefox. Google clearly thinks that being the default search provider is worth the cost of a browser (or two, in this case). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation#Notable_ev
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On the other hand, half of the "related searches" on that page are "nokia app store", "android app store", "samsung app store", etc., which are not the official names of any of those brands. Its possible that the public uses more formal na
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Sorry, I mean an algorithm based, for example, on the number of clicks on Berkshire Hathaway articles on a financial site being influenced by Anne H. fans clicking on the wrong search result.
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It doesn't have to be NLP gone wrong. It could be a bad algorithm based on web traffic, picking up accidental clicks from Anne Hathaway fans (or some similar shared metric). It's also possible that this is a natural effect of the market --
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As I understand it, Google is using the header files only to extract "structure declarations, constants, etc." -- i.e. to get the interface right, not to link to kernel source. The question is whether or not this is a copyright violation..
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FWIW, it could be referring to the opcodes in the .NET virtual machine.
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The article postulates that time-traveling communications can exist, via devices yet to be invented. Since we currently have no way of interpreting the backwards-flowing information, we would not see evidence of its invention today.
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Actually, Netflix produced and distributed original content on a limited scale several years ago, through their Red Envelope Entertainment division. Then they shut it down "to avoid competing with their studio partners". :)
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The two dots in Russia (St. Petersburg and Moscow) are art museums -- something I was not aware that Streetview covered. MOMA and presumably others are also covered.
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Please don't post links to a PDF reader site when the document is available as HTML from its original author: http://beej.us/guide/bgc/output/html/multipage/index.html Your title is wrong, too... this is a guide to C, not C++. Edit: Judgi
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The irony, of course, is that if he didn't have those transitions -- if, for example, he had actually built such a device -- the video would be much less convincing because it would look too good. Instinctively, we feel a small, hacked-tog

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