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by jeffbr13 11y ago
This is awesome. I spent far too many hours as a kid orchestrating imaginary space-battles based on the ships from Homeworld[1], also closely considering the specialised roles and hierarchy of the ships as presented in that world. Since the
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
What makes a good hackathon? As a frequent attendee, these patterns have stuck out as successful to me: 1. Set over the course of a weekend. Allows greater breadth of attendees. Not 24 hours (which is somewhat manic) but rather a more leisu
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
Google Play's radio feature has been amazing in my experience, and way better than Spotify's. Especially for stuff which is a little bit out of the mainstream, the selection-quality is so high that I wouldn't be surprised if
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by jeffbr13 11y ago
> There needs to be either a big stick (Python 2 being really bad, but it is actually pretty good) Doing any non-ASCII string-processing in Python 2 with any regularity is a more than regular-enough beating for me.
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
The frequent puns wouldn't have been so appalling if the author didn't figuratively "take a breath" on the page, and point them out every. single. time.
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
There are a handful of more generic crowd-funding platforms out there, so no need to build your own. A good candidate website would be more than enough to build. As a bonus, crowd-funding your candidacy would give you early validation. And,
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Interfaces aren't only visual - blind users still have to interact with something.
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
And some have all 320s, and a surprising number are buying mostly vinyl. But everyone uses YouTube to listen to tracks they don't own, aren't available to stream (many, for Spotify), or are vinyl-only. It's always the go-to
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Or, in the time-constrained-support-worker model, a high profile release just means that they trust the publisher's quality control, and won't flag it for review as quickly as self-published content (which is highly variable in
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
You can outsource the voice recognition. Windows[1] and Mac OS[2] both seem to include speeech recognition APIs these days, and of course, what with it being 2014, there are online APIs[3] and forthcoming browser support[4]. All of them app
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This is the correct response for open-access journals. There's an economic imperative to keep the process secretive in paid-access journals, rather than improving it - they can claim this vetting process is their 'secret sauce&#x2
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> NTS shows are very much made of songs the DJ likes - that is all the qualification they need The idea of DJ-as-selector/curator (rather than producer or 'personality') has had a resurgence in the electronic music scene o
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Skyscanner ( http://www.skyscanner.net/ ), who are bigger here in Europe, do the same thing as Kayak, only more-so - they have close to a thousand separate data-sources which they can query for prices, and they fall back on I
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The independence campaign has to hand-wave the issue, and can't outright declare that Scotland would almost certainly have a currency-union with the UK, because it's ultimately contingent on the UK government. If they did, the u
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Does anyone else find the author rather aloof from financial reality in this article? > the education I received was well worth the $16,000 a year my parents paid, after scholarships. > The students all now say they’re confident in Mi
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Pfft, cauliflower-cheese in a baking tree is where it's at, yo. https://www.flickr.com/photos/rosminah/6005082151/
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
This really bothered me in an article remembering a man who spent most of his life studying and trying to raise awareness of psychoactive chemicals: > Ecstasy, known as MDMA It's MDMA (the chemical compound 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-meth
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Yep, as the Google N-Gram view in the article shows, usage of "theater" overtook "theater" in the late 1970s, but the two had quite similar usage rates from the 1940s onwards. Style guides generally update to represent t
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
It's "programme" in British-English for everything except "computer program" (in my experience). Probably because most programmer-culture is centred in North America. I imagine that it's simply some NYT write
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Vim's home-row commands are great... Unless you use a non-QWERTY keyboard layout. A lot of developers forget that there exist other methods of input, and mnemonic-based shortcuts are one of those things that make a lot more sense than
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Doctors aren't really scientists, although some might think so -- they're taught the results of scientific research, and how to apply that to diagnose and treat patients. There's a reason that "evidence-based medicine&
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Great idea, but why not just outsource the social aspect and leverage pre-existing link-discussion boards (i.e. HN/Reddit/etc)? As a user, I'm unlikely to want to change both the way I comment, and where my comments go.
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by jeffbr13 12y ago
Legal frameworks are definitely tractable, and investing the time to navigate them more effectively can give you the same sort of competitive advantage as mastering a technology. Same principle, different domain.
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Combine it with a Pressy button[1] and you won't even need to override the power button. [1]: http://get.pressybutton.com/
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I hear Snapchat is quite popular these days... But, in all seriousness, how is Peeps different from Snapchat, where I can choose who to send videos and photos to?
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It's notable if you've never written a C program before, and have no idea what even a minimum valid program would look like.
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The heavy-lifting of this seems to be [gaudi]( http://gaudi.io/ ) "a way to describe a system of Docker containers using a simple DSL" and a drag-and-drop interface to generate a script. gaudi seems to be the perfec
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Well, the data points are pretty much unreadable, with everything being smooshed on top of each other.
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Yep, goose is quite a dark meat, and is easily overcooked to dryness. But potatoes (or anything) roasted in goose-fat should be the highlight of anyone's christmas dinner!
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Ducks, also, are both friendly and delicious.

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