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by phillmv 14y ago
Wherein cheating is a fun word for optimizing.
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by phillmv 14y ago
If by curve-smoothing you mean, "creating a new layer in photoshop on top of the original and trying to draw as carefully as possible". Plus, he obviously only uses a 'pen' style brush.
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by phillmv 14y ago
>24 hours earlier, I had made an instant booking for this accommodation on AirBnB. You know, the one where I don’t have to wait for a confirmation from the host. As soon as the booking is made, you can pack your bags and go as AirBnB se
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by phillmv 14y ago
Ugh, no way. From what I understand Toronto is a fraction of the craziness of the New York market, and here any listing would get snapped up pretty quickly no matter where you might post it.
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by phillmv 14y ago
You mean, it will be an effective tool of systemic oppression that is continually improved, despite being a glaring reminder of the contradictions of the government's propaganda and will only be dismantled once the patron state of which you
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by phillmv 14y ago
More expensive than Berlin? I just got back from a trip to both Berlin and Istanbul. As a tourist at least it's way cheaper. Is rent just that much higher?
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by phillmv 14y ago
> if you were the one doing the design of a motion sensing system, I can bet it wouldn't be "easy" WELL… I never took any visual recognition courses in university. But there is a large amount of literature on the subject. I think there
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by phillmv 14y ago
> Isn't this what the patent system was created to do? I see a lot of complaints about when patents are wrongfully used, but this is the first time I see someone complaining when they are correctly used. I'm saying the system is broken
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by phillmv 14y ago
>Although the comparative lack of hands-on control led some astronauts to call themselves ‘spam in a can’, these missions called for both the highest order of technical skill and the steeliest of nerves. Aldrin’s pulse-rate at blast-off
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by phillmv 14y ago
"Hey Nostrademons. Great little startup you got going here. Say what, I'm going to give you a choice. You can either be bankrupted out of existence by this patent troll or I can buy you out for fifty cents on the dollar. You won't lose fa
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by phillmv 14y ago
The point isn't that Apple didn't innovate. The point is whether Apple's ideas are worth granting a monopoly over. I recall playing with a Microsoft Surface the year before the iPhone got released, and lots of the mechanics were very simila
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by phillmv 14y ago
Yes, but who cares? You're just sending json down the wire. Fuck it.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Also, Libya.
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by phillmv 14y ago
There are EC2 instances with beefy consumer graphics cards? (How do the GPU clusters even work? And, at $2 it seems way more expensive.)
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by phillmv 14y ago
I feel like Marc and David are arguing two slightly different points. David is arguing that the rate of creation of immensely large tech companies has slowed down. Ten years ago every other companies was becoming a billion dollar behemoth b
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by phillmv 14y ago
Why was it in a dire financial situation if it had millions of subscribers? I can't find any descriptions of the cause of the crap finances, especially with millions of subscribers. A likely scenario seems possible: their financiers/vcs dec
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by phillmv 14y ago
Approaching strangers can be difficult or awkward but here's a clear step at least: Step in when it's one of your friends doing the harassing. Let them know they're being immature and inappropriate. People respond a lot more when it's someo
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by phillmv 14y ago
>Like the man who drunkenly tried to lick my shoulder tattoo. Like the man who grabbed my hips while I was waiting for a drink at the EFF party. Like the man who tried to get me to show him my tits so he could punch a hole in a card tha
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by phillmv 14y ago
Acid free archival paper kept in a dark, fire proof box is to my knowledge the single best technology we've invented and easily at our disposal for long-term storage. I think I might totally start 'printing out' photos I want to theoretical
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by phillmv 14y ago
Why, V8 of course.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Do they make those without the numpads? It's silly but after all these years typing on a laptop I've come to loathe the distance my hand has to travel to reach the mouse - especially on my MS Natural 4k.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Question. Suppose you work at Zynga, and you're at the bottom-to-lower end of the hierarchy. Nobody with a C-title knows the name of your manager. You're stuck working 10 hour days forever. What's the expected value on your equity? You obvi
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by phillmv 14y ago
Serious, non snarky question - how are you different than Path, then?
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by phillmv 14y ago
You're not going to develop for both platforms simultaneously because that is a recipe for headaches and higher costs - especially if you're still figuring out your product-market fit. Let's not even talk about Android device fragmentation,
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by phillmv 14y ago
Order of magnitude compensation difference (non exec salaries at google, acquihire signing bonuses aside, top out at what, 150-200k?), the fact that they sell services instead of maybe-kind-of-only being a middleman, blah blah blah.
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by phillmv 14y ago
So what? A goddamn language is easy compared to git - they all mostly work in the same way. I don't understand this attitude. Why can't our tools be so easy to use that you don't need to read the instruction manual ? Conceptually, there's
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by phillmv 14y ago
God bless sourceforge; they were there at the beginning in our time of need. At this point, however, GitHub is a far larger organization. They host an order of magnitude more projects.
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by phillmv 14y ago
Keynote's just the state of the art in Powerpoint presentations. Your nearest copy of your favorite OpenOffice clone will more than suffice at the same task.
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by phillmv 14y ago
>Capturing the video display from the presenter seems almost easier than having a videographer manually time static slide changes along to the video afterwards. Yes and no. For starters, it's more expensive. You need a second camera and
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by phillmv 14y ago
I was Director of Animated GIFs at a recent conference, and part of my responsibilities involved harassing presenters for their slides. I would like to mention that quite possibly the most important audience for your slides is the conferenc

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