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by kenferry 13y ago
Good to hear!
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by kenferry 13y ago
"Although our core business is software for PCs and the cloud, we know the phone industry pretty well too." "We’ve scoured the research labs of the biggest companies and most exciting startups for the latest and greatest mobi
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by kenferry 13y ago
These aren't really swappable, though. The Coursera/Udacity/edX courses max out around courses appropriate for freshmen, whereas those linked from math overflow range from freshman year to graduate math courses.
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by kenferry 13y ago
I can repro this, but I'm amused that the article thinks it's censorship. It seems transparently like an attempt to avoid common embarrassing autocorrects. See http://www.damnyouautocorrect.com
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by kenferry 13y ago
Email me for an beta invite at ken@understudyapp.com. This is exactly the problem we're trying to solve! With our iPad app, you pick a material (e.g. http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/ ) and work through it, talking onc
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by kenferry 13y ago
This is very interesting to me, and I'd like to know more about what didn't work in the previous structure. I worked at Apple for a long time, and if I could have changed one thing organizationally it would have been to go _from_
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by kenferry 13y ago
The smoothing and variable stroke width look pretty good there, a lot like Paper. Care to share what you're doing?
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Samba de Setup - Panic Status Board's first launch song(cabel.me)
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by kenferry 14y ago
I would expect page turns will be going away. You can already use your iPad as a music stand, though it's kind of small. If you're using a real device, page turns can be automated or eased. The device can listen to what you're playing (temp
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by kenferry 14y ago
Interesting! They should look at adding rendering support to http://www.lilypond.org , which is basically TeX for music rendering. If they had that, all the music in http://www.mutopiaproject.org would be rendered in their format for fre
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by kenferry 14y ago
OmniWeb has per-site CSS overrides and site prefs! It's actually quite nice. That's a feature I miss.
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by kenferry 14y ago
Here's the interaction, though: A person _can_ get books from the library written by experts in any field, and a sufficiently motivated student can learn that way. A person _can_ also be a solo founder. But you know, that's kind of hard. St
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by kenferry 14y ago
The math is kind of fun, but the conclusions in this article rely on a rather irrationally 'rational' view of how people behave, as well as far too much zero-sum reasoning. Clearly, the respect you feel from your boss has no impact on your
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by kenferry 14y ago
The design of the intro page is interesting to me. There's a strong attempt to avoid the "boxes in boxes" look that, unfortunately, facebook itself still has. But on the intro page, the only frame is the the browser window itself.
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by kenferry 14y ago
Did anyone try to reproduce this? It doesn't replicate for me.
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by kenferry 14y ago
Ok, if these images are real, I'm very impressed. But I'm concerned that they're mockups. It is very, very dangerous to make people think you can do more than you actually can. The "directions" demo image features full color, right in the m
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by kenferry 14y ago
Oh! I didn't realize this was Gelman's blog. He is, at least, a dude who seriously knows what he's talking about. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gelman
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by kenferry 14y ago
Take a look at http://tumult.com/hype/ ! (YCW11)
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by kenferry 14y ago
It would, however, indeed be paranoid and crazy. The WebKit developers spend all day trying to drive the web forward. That's what they do. They're not pulling their punches. Try hanging out in #webkit on irc for a bit and see if you think t
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by kenferry 14y ago
$1500. He mentioned on twitter.
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by kenferry 14y ago
I read this yesterday, got inspired, and memorized 50 digits of pi starting at 11 pm. Crazy! It's really not that hard!
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by kenferry 14y ago
I read the book earlier today, and I find it somewhat bizarre that I can rattle off the list too. (With no errors, but I only just read the book.)
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by kenferry 14y ago
This seems cool, but I don't understand how the given algorithm addresses the use case he gives. The stated goal is to be able to verify pieces of a file that has been chunked up. But the first step in the algorithm is get a list of hashes
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by kenferry 14y ago
Really not annoying at all, they're always interesting to see.
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by kenferry 14y ago
How does this compare to Instruments? http://goo.gl/BFWEv Its advantages are not obvious to me..
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by kenferry 14y ago
For several years at least, only the biggest room, Presidio, has had actual video cameras. I think this is the first year that they didn't use the video cameras even in that room, though.
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by kenferry 14y ago
One of the ObjC examples could be more concise. He writes: id navigationBar = [UINavigationBar appearance]; [navigationBar setBackgroundImage:[UIImage imageNamed:@"nav-background.png"] forBarMetrics:UIBarMetricsDefault]; [navigatio
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by kenferry 15y ago
> What's the multiplicative inverse of 2? What do you mean by 2? :-) The typical way to describe the finite field of order 256 is to look at a set of polynomials like this, c_7 * x^7 + c_6 * x^6 + ... + c_1 * x + c_0 where c_i is an ele
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by kenferry 15y ago
"While there are many downsides to the mainstream exposure of Silicon Valley — the myriad fakers and sycophants that come along in any sort of high visibility situation — I’m willing to trade in occasionally having to deal with an annoying
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by kenferry 15y ago
I think you're off on that, Mike. I just tried making a new user, and two finger tap for right click was not enabled on my MacBook Air. I do have two finger tap for right click configured for my usual user.

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