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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   I've watched those tutorial videos as well. They blew my mind. Just speaking about Houdini makes me want to pick it up again. I found that the complexity lied in knowing all the different nodes, the jargon, and of course when to use what (w
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   I tried to pick up SideFX Houdini after this article was published the first time on here. After a month I admitted total and utter failure. Whoever came up with that program is a mad genius. It's absolutely mind blowing what you can achiev
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   I had different forever projects at different points in time. I often come back to a planet renderer based on a certain algorithm (P-BDAM), but it lost its lure on me in recent times. The older I grow, the more I know the way I work, my str
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   I don't understand how academic authors get away with this. Papers that I implemented or tried to implement in the past were often sorely lacking in details. Your point about unstated assumptions is absolutely true. Some papers are nothing
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   Of course, of all tablets, it had to be an iPad!
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   I propose this thing: http://www.vtg.admin.ch/internet/vtg/de/home/verbaende/fub/f...
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   It's not about downtimes and outages. It's incomprehensible to me how lax businesses are with their backups, especially business where their clients data is everything. Yes, the brave new world of the cloud seems tantalizing, but even there
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   I don't get the "document based" label - in my opinion it's misnomer. It's anything BUT "document based" when you are working on a photoshop document and behind its window you see your finder, your desktop icons, your desktop background, y
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   by kitsune_ 14y ago

   The most vile and trollish boards I know are single-threaded. It's very easy to derail a discussion.
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    This is SO not what the old SoundCloud was about. I've been using this site, as a musician, since 2008 or so. One of its founders, Forss, was part of the same scene (dnb) that I was in. SoundCloud was a site by music creators for music crea
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    This is the worst redesign in history, Digg V4 in the making...
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    I disagree. I own a Lenovo Thinkpad x220. It's perfect (for me). Its keyboard is reason alone that it beats the MacBook Pro. On top of that, I bought it back in 2011 for around 960 USD (converted). The configuration included an i5-2520M, 8G
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    This is an older story [1]... but the CIA / MI6 angle is new to me. It's an embarrassment, the Swiss intelligence services had already butchered their relationships with foreign services with the "Egyptian Fax" leak back in 2005/2006. Someh
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    Also the Foundation Series (Hari Seldon).
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    I absolutely hate tutorial videos. Not that anything is wrong with them, I just like text more.
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    Bold claims. Do you really trust Gartner with their CMS recommendations?
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    Is making money a proof for one's intelligence?
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    Back when the deal was announced I was exteremely skeptical. $10.2 billions for a relatively unknown UK software company that focuses on document management? 10 billions?! Their (Autonomy's) past acquisitions looked rather erratic to me. I
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    What about due dilligence? The fact that this can happen boggles my mind.
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    That's funny, the sentence at the end, before the pictogram, has the following censored expletive in invisible text: #@$%&!
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    I really enjoyed Skiena's book.
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    This article is nothing more than blog spam. Yeah, it provides a link back to the original post, but that's about it. Even most of the images are lifted.
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    Amen, when the tech press talks about Samsung it usually talks about Samsung Electronics. I find it somewhat aggravating. Samsung builds ships, skyscrapers, it owns departments stores and provides life insurances. The conglomerate is a comp
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    And we're only speaking of Samsung Electronics here. The entire conglomerate is on another level and approx. double the size of Samsung Electronics.
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    I can wholeheartedly recommend a documentary called Draquila – L'Italia che trema [1] about the L'Aquila earthquake. As many of my Italian friends tell me, Italy is an absolutely corrupt shit hole. I remember a scene where they showed recor
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    The ThinkPad was designed by Richard Sapper [1], somewhat of a legend in industrial design. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sapper
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    Postmortem: Ion Storm's Deus Ex(gamasutra.com)

    2 points by kitsune_ 14y ago|0 comments
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    I just wanted to chime in and say that the space that MySpace once dominated is an entirely different one now. MySpace is the underdog here. They will have a very hard time convincing people to join them. I've used SoundCloud since 2008, wh
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    Where I live, an illegal Project X party descended into a riot a couple of months ago. The police were were rational in their behavior. They started to intervene once people started to climb on a bus stop's roof - those idiots were very nea
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    by kitsune_ 14y ago

    This Project X shit happened some months ago here in Switzerland where I live. In fact the invites were mostly sent out with WhatsApp and not Facebook, so that the authorities could not track it as easily. It ended with glass bottles being