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by mcav 15y ago
Overtone looks fantastic, and I've been meaning to really look into it for a while now. It seems to be an active project with a lot of momentum. I was writing something similar in Clojure, but more directly musically focused rather than on
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by mcav 15y ago
If he uses plain SVG, and IE7/8 doesn't support SVG, ________________.
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by mcav 15y ago
Nothing's for everyone. No technique, workflow, programming language, business methodology, or idea applies to everybody. No post on HN will ever resonate with everyone. Take that as a given, because every post could just as well have a dis
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by mcav 15y ago
We found out about it and started to look for alternatives to XML eventually. Hopefully, if the world does come to believe that compiling to JS is an unnecessary layer of abstraction, we'll have enough force of change from browser vendors t
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by mcav 15y ago
It's all really cool, interesting work. I'm at Game Closure now too, and I can attest that it's great fun. If you're at all interested in this sort of work (or play!), give Tom a shout.
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by mcav 15y ago
While I wouldn't be surprised if it got deleted, if you elect to delete your own post, there's no placeholder left behind if there's no reply.
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by mcav 15y ago
I like to live in a fantasy land where everyone understands the basics of how the Internet works. The reality that many people don't have the faintest idea how to use a computer beyond the very, very basics -- and probably never will -- is
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by mcav 15y ago
For a disturbingly large percentage of the population, Google is that system.
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by mcav 15y ago
Probably quite a few.
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by mcav 15y ago
(2009). Best talk I've ever heard.
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by mcav 15y ago
Right. A community exists for people who make their own book scanners: http://www.diybookscanner.org/ , but book scanning is really quite tedious and hardly worth it unless you really need one book a lot . There were previous discussions
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by mcav 15y ago
Yes. Buy a whiteboard cleaner and ghosting isn't really an issue on melamine.
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by mcav 15y ago
Unless you'd otherwise be spending your time doing something else unproductive, in which case it doesn't matter.
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by mcav 15y ago
It doesn't have to go to the search engine provider if it's combined. Just regexp match a URL, and if it's a URL, go right there.
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by mcav 15y ago
I was wondering the same thing about Bitcoin itself. If Bitcoins took off, wouldn't they run into a scaling issue too?
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by mcav 15y ago
I think it only looks weird here because the text looks dense and unapproachable. Too much text, too little visual breaks. Justification is only accentuating that problem.
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by mcav 15y ago
I'm no expert, but Sony must be able to decrypt the card information in order to use it to process payments. So even if the card numbers were encrypted, it's possible hackers could obtain the passkey for decrypting the data, if it was also
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by mcav 15y ago
Which isn't much better. "summary" is clearer.
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by mcav 15y ago
This link corroborates that urllib2 respects robot.txt: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3197299/urllib2-connectio...
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by mcav 15y ago
One of the things that draws me to functional programming* is the relative freedom from side-effects. A poorly designed, tightly coupled system begs to be rewritten, but doing so would come at an enormous cost. If a system is designed to sn
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by mcav 15y ago
Is it like Paypal? Apple doesn't take a cut from sending payments via paypal's iOS app.
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by mcav 15y ago
Works ok in Webkit nightly.
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by mcav 15y ago
Maybe making it a coarser indicator would give the best of both worlds... maybe a colored indicator (or grey dot) with color/darkness indicating how many upvotes.
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by mcav 15y ago
I hope so. I've always wanted to play with Motion.
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by mcav 15y ago
Second time's the charm! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_Community_Leader_Program
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by mcav 15y ago
Nah. How's anyone supposed to create anything if they're busy reading HN all day? I have enough trouble as is.
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by mcav 15y ago
Bluntly, I don't want to read every comment.
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by mcav 15y ago
With no indication of number of upvotes, though, there is no distinction between a 200-point comment on top versus a 2-point comment that happens to be on top. Sometimes it was easier to skip parts of a thread knowing approximately how many
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by mcav 15y ago
It's a new account. (think "Oh, he's green at that")
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by mcav 16y ago
I mentioned that in relation to using the software, not distributing it.

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