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by klum 9y ago
From the article, you get the clear impression that she had a complicated relationship with the sport: she was passionate about it, but afraid of it as well. I can't help but wonder if she would have gotten closer to her goals if she h
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by klum 9y ago
I read that book as well... one of the tangents was (paraphrasing from memory) when he secured financing from J. P. Morgan for a proof-of-concept wireless transmission tower (the Wardenclyffe tower). He then dramatically scaled up his plans
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by klum 9y ago
A lot of people are okay with testing things like drugs on animals. You can at least imagine a scenario where Edison was driven by concern for public welfare, thinking the higher voltage used by Tesla was going to cause disasters and trying
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by klum 9y ago
It was a nice result, but I think the one-sided view that comic painted of Tesla as a misunderstood saint and of Edison as an evil thief (and that the internet largely went along with) is far removed from reality. It's easier to put a
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by klum 9y ago
Thanks for the reply! I'm sure you're right about the stereotype not holding true, I haven't really been following things closely. I also understand that time spent convincing people all over the internet that you're sti
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by klum 9y ago
The creator of Sublime Text tends to go silent for long periods between stretches of activity, which always makes me wonder about the future of the project. It's a shame, since ST is a well-thought-out editor with great attention to de
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by klum 10y ago
Yep, great news indeed! For me, not regarding the Mac Pro especially, but that Apple is concerned about pro users, and that they are willing to talk about future plans. Deciding on using Macs for your work is not only about the devices them
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by klum 10y ago
Regarding the points in the beginning of the article: So in this case, as in every other one, the answer seems to be "balance" :). People tend to go for extremes as solutions to their problems... I'm guessing because extremes
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by klum 10y ago
People complain a lot about basic CS assignments in interviews. Just thinking out loud: it's an important skill to be able to put together libraries and existing code to get a working product. But a lot of software is crap, and I think
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by klum 10y ago
I'm latency sensitive as well, and just wondering: have you found any virtualization solution on Windows which provides usable performance for Linux guests?
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by klum 10y ago
I think in a similar way, and one of the nice consequences of this is, as you mention, that there's hope: you can try to attack your problem in as many ways as possible from as many angles as possible and find the "tiny unspoken t
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by klum 11y ago
If you have some stories you can/would like to share, please do!
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by klum 11y ago
There's also that study where kids trying to throw a ball into a basket from a specific distance improved quicker if they practiced throwing from two different distances, different from the one that was tested, than those practicing on
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by klum 11y ago
Maybe I'm just reading the wrong authors, but so much of the writing on design today let plain bad design slide because it has the right look/people/brand/tech/image. Eli Schiff's writing is maybe a bit more vi
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by klum 11y ago
I don't think Affinity Designer supports things like a path with, for example, three or more edges connecting to the same node.
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by klum 11y ago
For me, the issue with Atom and speed has nothing to do with large files. It's that even with small files, it's often just slightly unresponsive--not that it freezes or anything like that, just that lots of things take a fraction
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by klum 11y ago
Yep, exactly, just having to have the menu bar app running would be even better! (Though I suppose closing the window but leaving the app running gets you close)
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by klum 11y ago
I'm not a poweruser of Evernote, and maybe not of Quiver either. The syntax highlighting and Markdown support is nice, but the main thing for me is really how quick and responsive Quiver is, compared to Evernote which is buggy, slow an
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by klum 11y ago
Been using this for a few weeks, and it is great! I'm sure that, compared to Evernote, it misses features that are important to some, but it adds a few of its own and is so much faster to use it's in another league entirely. Looki
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by klum 11y ago
Yep! I don't know for sure but to me it looked like the landing would have been successful if not for the leg issue.
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by klum 11y ago
The headline and article make it sound like this was some huge failure, while in reality the mission was a success and the landing a test which almost worked out.
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by klum 11y ago
As you do have a reputation for getting quite a lot done, it would be cool if you'd share a little bit more on how you make long hours productive and manage to maintain focus (or maybe you've written about it elsewhere?).
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by klum 11y ago
Interesting stuff, thanks for the link!
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by klum 11y ago
Things like this, with quirks due to decades and decades of history, always make me wonder what things would be like if we started over, with a clean slate. In so many places, when you start digging, you find something that references the w
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by klum 11y ago
Yeah, that site is never going to get peoples attention... :)
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by klum 11y ago
This sounds absolutely great, hope it's the same for me (haven't tried El Capitan yet)! On a rMBP with integrated graphics, moving from Mavericks to Yosemite made everything noticeably more sluggish, and everytime I happened to us
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by klum 11y ago
Thanks for the info, pydub looks nice! And I suppose that when you have music represented by a text file, as is the case in Alda, you can then use other programs to operate on the text file (for example, you could probably write a script to
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by klum 11y ago
Wonder if VST support is a possibility. Also things like automation, for changing parameters like volume over time. It's easy to see how a programming language can be a good fit for notating certain kinds of music and allowing playback
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by klum 11y ago
Sure, but I still think you can make things intuitive--just not to some random person on the street but to someone with the requisite domain knowledge. At least, that's what I like to think. Relatively speaking, humans have been thin
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by klum 11y ago
There's a quote by someone (Steve Jobs?) to the effect that there are three phases of understanding a problem: first, you don't understand it; second, you research it and come up with all kinds of complicated solutions and, third,

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