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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
> Microsoft I don't see anything that says that this is a Microsoft product. It looks like a side project by a Microsoft employee. (full disclosure: I work at MS.) > Not open source Looks like the source code is available at htt
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None, because apparently the people who the specific incidents happen to are either never aware of it or are told they can't talk about it. Visibility is a particular challenge for the privacy issue. On the one hand, it means that advo
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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
The author was saying that the woman was attractive, particularly her skirt. It's not sexist to admit to finding someone attractive. Give it a second reading if you didn't understand the connection between being a writer and the a
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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
There are two stages: first, the path is found. Second, the path is followed. To find the path often takes longer than one update tick. The old way to handle distributing the job over multiple ticks was threads; the new way is coroutines.
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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
It looks like a line that's taking an alternate route. The ISO symbol shows that a little more clearly: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ISOIEC-9995-7-025--ISO-700...
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Reading lists for people who want to be software engineers at Blizzard(reddit.com)
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> I found her very annoying for several reasons Care to elaborate? I watched the clip and didn't find it off-putting except for the shallow personality traits that I associate with her vocal mannerisms, which was kind of the point of th
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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
Those examples are hard for me to reason about. In my limited experience with lawyers, my prior for vegetarian is probably higher than for Chinese, but my sample size is too low to be statistically significant. I also find either ordering a
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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
I really like this. I can't imagine that the cognitive process humans use to order adjectives in everyday speech involves categorizing each adjective and memorizing an arbitrary ordering on those categories. On the other hand, the category-
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I had been wondering about this spec: Send full screen images and video at a 16x9 aspect ratio. Target a 640x360 pixel resolution.
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I could be wrong, sarcasm can be really difficult to distinguish online.
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I think gee_totes was probably being humorous.
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It's a standard part of musical training to be able to read a part written in either concert pitch or in your instrument's pitch, or even to be able to transpose on sight into any key. It's not easy but learning to do so pays off when you'r
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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
You should be able to give testers an installer package for your app without giving them the source code: http://www.lhotka.net/weblog/TestingAWinRTAppOnASurfaceRT.as...
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by mtinkerhess 13y ago
There do exist people whose biological sex doesn't fall neatly into male or female.
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This light interaction is exactly the sort of thing that products like Glass are going to excel at.
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by mtinkerhess 14y ago
Although I'm a Vim user I appreciate your comment and think you have a good point. However, I can't stand when a commenter anticipates a negative reaction to their post and dares readers to downvote them. Of all the communities online, let'
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Arguably, those are messed up S, messed up L, messed up C, and messed up Y.
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by mtinkerhess 14y ago
Parents are parents. Straight parents are parents. Gay parents are parents. There's no fundamental difference.
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Great story. Can someone explain why this belongs on HN?
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Together, vim and vi have over four times as many invocations as emacs. I like to think it's beacuse vim is more popular, but it might also mean that vim users are more likely to pop in and out of vim while emacs users run emacs once and th
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by mtinkerhess 14y ago
But you do fully own the phone, even if you're on a contract. It's not like a mortgage or a car loan; the phone company doesn't have a lien on your phone. The penalty for breaking the contract isn't to give the phone back--it's to pay a t
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by mtinkerhess 14y ago
It's difficult for anyone to avoid taking criticism of a project of theirs personally. These kids probably need to be encouraged to continue to put their work out there more than they need to be taught how to take criticism. When they reach
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by mtinkerhess 14y ago
Ken Burns is a historical documentarian known for using slow pans and zooms over still photographs accompanied by voice-over narration. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns_effect
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The thing about a one-time pad is that the size in bits of the pad is the same as the size in bits of the message (before and after encryption). So given an encrypted message, the number of possible one-time pads is equal to the number of p
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by mtinkerhess 14y ago
I never thought about highlighting text to increase contrast. Is there some way to change the default selection text color and background color? I would love to make the selection background color black to really max out the contrast.
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Sorry about that, I thought by different projects you meant the same project on different machines. Sharing libraries between projects, now that's an interesting problem. I think I'll go have my morning coffee now.
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Version control on Unity isn't as bad as you describe. Go to Edit > Project Settings > Editor, then set Version Control to Metafiles. If you have a Pro license, also set Asset Serialization Mode to Force Text. The downside is that t
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As a counter example, I once had a hard time getting pygame running on OS X. I don't remember exactly what the issue was, it may have had something to do with multiple versions of python installed on my machine, but it was enough of a pain
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To see the images from Mars: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/raw Edit: it appears that the page has moved to http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/ , discussion at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4343891

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