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by lusr 14y ago
Deferring life is a risk. And there are degrees of risk. If your plan is to work consistently at an average job and defer life until 65 there's the risk you die first, but at least you had your weekends free. If your plan is to work double
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by lusr 14y ago
Why not? Every pre-digital photographer did manual exposures. It teaches you to pay attention to your environment, and ultimately, I believe, makes you a better photographer because it develops your intuition about a given scene and what
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This is what worked for me too. Natural keyboard, moving mouse position, seating position, etc. all helped a bit, but after a day or two in gym my wrists simply stopped hurting and felt "healthier". When I stopped gym for 2 months and the
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Looking at the manual you apparently don't have to half depress the shutter, just the exposure compensation button (which has an aperture symbol next to it), but other websites suggest you do have to. I'll look into it when I can see the c
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So I'm thinking one way to reduce the barrier for entry into participation is to have the bulk of the application's features in a higher level language (rather than C), with the core in a high performance language. Unfortunately this is no
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I'm confused. Are you suggesting that the type of person who would find the camera simulator site useful is likely to be somebody who would own something like a Canon 5D Mark III? That's a $3,500 camera - body only. If you own that camer
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While I agree with the point on quality, constant aperture zoom lenses tend to be MUCH more expensive than variable aperture lenses. Your single lens costs more than twice her entire starting kit :) They also tend to have fairly specialis
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Ah cool I see. I'll update as appropriate.
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Where it has value, I think, is giving people a reference for the number of important variables. Modern DSLRs are covered in controls and symbols and modes, etc. and I believe for a beginner it can be quite overwhelming. Having just these
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In manual mode it's not that simple from what I could glean (haven't touched a D5100 myself). You have to half depress the shutter release, simultaneously press the exposure compensation button and only then you can adjust the aperture wit
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No see you're as confused as she was :) Most zoom lenses are variable aperture, e.g. at 18mm they will open up to f/3.5 but at 55mm they will only open up to f/5.6. The simulation doesn't address this, and it can be surprising for a begin
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One thing that would be invaluable simulating is a variable aperture lens rather than this constant f/2.8 simulation. My girlfriend just got her first DSLR and was struggling with changing the aperture. While she understood the concepts, s
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That's quite a list. I wonder why it takes so long for these features to be supported. Perhaps what's necessary is a new paradigm of development: a core application with composable modules developed by a community on the basis of need.
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That's deceptive. Inflation over which goods? As an upper-middle class income generator, inflation doesn't affect me in the same proportion as it does the lower income class, for instance.
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> While Americans are typically earning less than 1 percent interest on their savings accounts > If somebody offers you a guaranteed 7 percent on your money for the rest of your life, you take it and just make sure the guy’s name is
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The problem I have with the way equations are often presented e.g. on Wikipedia is that the authors are so focused on conciseness that they don't stop to explain the idea in straightforward terms. For example, a while ago I was looking
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I think you're excited to share your experiences and want to encourage others in the hopes they will enjoy similar benefits, but I think you've gone into too much detail in what's a complicated area. You've told people to take your advice
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Performance with concurrent requests is also not addressed, which seems crucially important for a web application and the area I'd expect to see the most interesting differences.
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Nobody said you're guilty of anything. But you are asking why African countries are deserving of aid and I'm giving you an answer: because many African countries are in the position they are in because of colonial powers. When you study
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Are you honestly not aware that most of Africa was pillaged and plundered for centuries by European powers that greatly benefited from African resources - human and physical? Yet you expect Africa should recover from centuries of oppress
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But isn't the important question whether population growth is remaining below economic growth? And in that sense, it's a perfectly valid concern that an increase in population without an accompanying increase in economic growth is a seriou
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"It is one of the few times outright price manipulation is allowed (which should be a completely different discussion" I'm curious to know what arguments are in favour of it. If they're incorrectly pricing the IPO, surely they should suffe
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by lusr 14y ago
Very interesting. I'd love to know how to interpret this: http://www.zerohedge.com/sites/default/files/images/user5/im...
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Nice idea but I wonder how long it'll be until the local school kids replace the QR codes with links to 4chan and 2 girls 1 cup.
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There's a big difference between reducing memory pressure/performance (which kind of solved itself once applications stopped increasing memory usage faster than the price/Mb dropped, and the move from 32-bit to 64-bit helped a bit too; han
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This feels like the Microsoft strategy: sit on a pile of cash and watch others innovate, then buy the guys that succeed (or clone them if you can't buy them). It's a good formula for success because you don't take the risks of introducing
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Your analogy is flawed. When you sit for an exam you agree not to cheat (whether explicitly, as a student who has signed acceptance of an offer to study subject to the institution's regulations, or owing to the law of the land). I don't th
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Not all valuable scrapeable data is copyrightable. I also know of a number of sites I've scraped that don't even bother attempting to restrict your access to their data through T&Cs even though its the basis for their site (not that the
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That's a good point. Worst case, in 9 months I'm sure we'll see the details in the shareholder's letters ( http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html ).
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And on SQL Server < 2008 where TVPs aren't an option and the data set is large enough (I was importing millions of rows from user uploaded CSV files) I've had good experiences building chunks of XML (couple thousand rows at a time) on t

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