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by pierrec 10y ago
>Note that this is software and not a service. It appears that Cloudrail not a service either, just a commercially licensed library (like Qt for example). In fact, I find their simple library approach a bit less awkward than your local s
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by pierrec 10y ago
The content is great (and probably famous on HN), but I find the website itself is really not optimal: - When reducing the width of your window, you obtain some layout disaster - There are those weird pages containing only one sentence - Th
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by pierrec 10y ago
Gradients in the source image tend to yield poor results. They often awkwardly reappear in the result, looking like an artifact doesn't fit with the style image at all. Source images in a posterized style, with large flat surfaces in u
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by pierrec 10y ago
You could say the exact same thing, replacing "music" with "written language", or essentially anything you could put on the probe. The point is, we have zero reference allowing us to imagine the mind of a being capable
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3-Axis Robot Makes Animated Light Paintings(dezeen.com)
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My Google Tasks are completely gone(productforums.google.com)
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by pierrec 10y ago
It's the pointer lock API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Pointer_Loc... The browser tells you when a page calls requestPointerLock(), and tells you how to exit it, similar to the
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by pierrec 10y ago
Ouch, that comment: Those are not icosahedra; they're dodecahedra. A regular icosahedron has 20 faces and 12 vertices. No matter how I look at it, it seems to be right. I wonder if they have a good reason for abusing nomenclature lik
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China, Russia Start Large Joint Naval Exercise; Includes ‘Island Seizing’ Drill(news.usni.org)
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by pierrec 10y ago
SVGs can contain CSS and Javascript, and even without that, you can make all kinds of animations completely in SVG markup, using SVG-SMIL. I'm just saying this as trivia, and emphatically do not recommend that you go down this collapsi
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by pierrec 10y ago
Licensing and cost is similar to Qt (free for open source, $$$ for commercial applications, though I think JUCE is cheaper). So, at least relatively to Qt, it doesn't particularly limit popularity. And even in an absolute sense, you ca
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by pierrec 10y ago
Well, commendable means "deserving praise", and when working with it, I generally appreciated the simplicity, consistency, and clarity I found throughout the JUCE codebase. It also encourages you to adopt a coding style that'
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by pierrec 10y ago
JUCE is a great framework, has a very commendable coding style and is easy to get into. One thing to note is that the "JUCE way" of doing things is to have a UI that looks exactly the same on every platform - this is good for pred
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by pierrec 10y ago
Agreed, it seems they really hand-picked some shining examples for this post, and it would have been more interesting to see the full spectrum of when it works and when it doesn't. Perhaps the README in the Github repo is a bit more ho
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by pierrec 10y ago
>For any globalisation / unification force there is an equal and opposite force pulling towards autonomy / authenticity / diversity. I think it might be more correct to say that for every globalisation / unification f
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by pierrec 10y ago
There are many degrees of VBR MP3 seeking support, and it's often surprisingly bad. In the case of Firefox's <audio> element, it was very poor (nearly unusable in my testing) until a few months ago: https://bugzil
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by pierrec 10y ago
Using this library and others, there's a neat trick to make Lua GUI programs that fit in a single executable file without dependencies. Of course, the traditional "brute force" way of doing this is to make a self-extracting a
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by pierrec 10y ago
You guys in Boulder CO have all the mutant climbers. You should see our little Ontario climbing news outlets! I'm pretty sure there's only one guy in the entire province that even sets indoor 5.14 (despite having quite a few gym
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by pierrec 10y ago
It's pretty crazy with 11 pitches rated 5.12, but it's still not the most difficult free solo that's been done. For example Honnold himself free soloed 5.13, and Dave MacLeod free soloed a 5.14b. These are only single-pitch b
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by pierrec 10y ago
This is adressed directly in TFA: In fictional accounts, the Dyson-sphere concept is often interpreted as an artificial hollow sphere of matter around a star. This perception is based on a literal interpretation of Dyson's original sh
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by pierrec 10y ago
APL symbols are slighly more suggestive than J symbols, sometimes they vaguely resemble mathematical counterparts with similar meanings, but they remain entirely separate programming symbols with their own meanings. The idea of using othe
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by pierrec 10y ago
This IEEE Spectrum article is bordering on blogspam. They don't link to the original article, which is IMO better in every regard (and very interesting): https://www.secureworks.com/research/wire-wire-a-west-africa
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by pierrec 10y ago
I have never heard of any high-profile tech leaders defending the recreational use of opioids, nor is it a popular position on HN. What's often praised, however, is education (eg. not throwing all drugs into the same bag).
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by pierrec 10y ago
Your conversation partner reads out a passage from a book... without looking at it. Instead, his unwavering, slightly deformed eyes stay fixed upon you. Always. Of course this would be avoidable through careful implementation: only redire
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by pierrec 10y ago
He was probably expecting an article about Dragonforce ("the hardest metal known to man"). Super-hard metal sounds like it would be an interesting genre, if slightly cheesy.
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by pierrec 10y ago
Understandably, the results are less convincing when the original corpus is made of monosyllabic words. Maybe slightly longer swear words...
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by pierrec 10y ago
Low-traffic Wikipedia articles often feature a mix of referenced facts and confused opinions (eg. the sentence you're quoting, which almost seems to be a joke statement). Hit me pretty hard in university when I put complete garbage abo
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by pierrec 10y ago
It's "the best" in the sense of being the classiest (but definitely not the most powerful as a standalone passport, it would be ranked pretty low in the featured site). Obviously, it also has immense value in supporting the f
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by pierrec 10y ago
Wait, since when is Facebook pushing for Haxe? I tried looking it up, but I'm not finding much. It would be really cool (I love Haxe). But I'm guessing you only went a bit over the top with that particular example.
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by pierrec 10y ago
" Think about it: How does Morris get such penetrating interviews if the interviewee is just looking at a camera? If they're looking into the lens and not at Morris, it would be hard for Morris to get anything like the unsettling,

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