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by pierrec 12y ago
Jingoistic indeed. About the Jack Churchill article, editing Wikipedia seems a bit daunting to me, but maybe someone more experimented could amend or remove the sentence: " Churchill also carried out the last recorded bow and arrow kil
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by pierrec 12y ago
I'm not so sure that Villeneuve is such a great fit. I find the dominant feeling in his films is always one of dread or disgust, or both. In a way, I'd rather have a more "neutral" director tackle this. Take Carl Sagan&#
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by pierrec 12y ago
Interesting, so he's still a (part-time) technical writer for Microsoft? Does he write MSDN articles? I might have read more of his works than I thought... The news about the planned hollywood adaptation is both exciting and frightenin
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by pierrec 12y ago
This is from the linked website, in the Q & A page: Wren is a replacement for Finch to me. I gave it a new name mainly so that I can keep Finch around in case other people want to take it and do something with it. I don't have any
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by pierrec 12y ago
Seems like a very cool language. Fibers are really just coroutines, right? The `Fiber.run` method allowing you to completely wreck the stack seems a bit dangerous at first glance. The everything-is-a method approach is also really neat. For
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by pierrec 12y ago
I agree that space is often lost in modern productions of some genres, mainly folk music. In most other cases however, I'd say loss of space doesn't happen all that much, or isn't a concern. With the most common cases I can t
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by pierrec 12y ago
There's an interesting HN touch in that article: " Some males are now joining dating sites specifically made for men looking to become Mukoyōshi, and be adopted by families who need a male successor for their businesses. "
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by pierrec 12y ago
Yes, software like this exists. Using multiple overtones to reconstruct a single note is pretty basic in this field, if you search for "wave to midi" software (for example) you'll find a few that do this. The most advanced ri
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by pierrec 12y ago
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. So DPL-licensed patents can never be used offensively in the future, but wouldn't they also greatly reduce the inventor's chances of ever making any money with their patent? Large corporations will j
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by pierrec 12y ago
Let's agree that this semantic debate (previously on HN [1]) is pretty much unresolvable. A word can have multiple meanings, and the common media use is more ancient than ours. [2] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item
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by pierrec 12y ago
Successful splashdown! Everything appears to have gone as expected.
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by pierrec 12y ago
" Inspirograph isn't mobile friendly... yet! A beautiful, ad-free Inspirograph app is in the works. " Wonder if that will be free as well. How would one go about transforming a (desktop) web app such as this one into an app f
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by pierrec 12y ago
From the docs, " The project exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native OS X 10.9 notifications. " The set of extra OSX-related facilities appears to be pretty limited for now. Apart from that, it als
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by pierrec 12y ago
Both of the points you bring up are unrelated to the format in which files are stored. Sure, they would be requirements for the format that gets sent to a primitive DAC. But the answer to your problem is basically contained in your post: be
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by pierrec 12y ago
Wait until he gets some of'em Shakti Stones! [1] One reviewer [2] notes: " The effect of the first few Shakti products was not as apparent as when the effect became compounded. Each built on the others' ability to eliminate E
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by pierrec 12y ago
I found this study seemed biased and placed the subjects in unrealistic, disruptive conditions, not really relevant to the problem at hand. Listening to a classical or rock piece for the first time is an intellectually stimulating activity
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by pierrec 12y ago
You're right of course, it can't rely on collimated light like the normal Schlieren system. But the background-oriented Schlieren technique, mentioned elsewhere in this thread, is more reasonable to look at for inspiration, and it
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by pierrec 12y ago
I've long had this pet theory that soaring birds have a fine vision that allows them to see thermals (warm ascending currents) directly, through changes in the air's refraction index. I've searched a bit, but no research seem
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Show HN: Protoplug 1.2, Create audio plugins on-the-fly with LuaJIT(osar.fr)
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by pierrec 12y ago
Compare with the ol' DataHand [1] and the upcoming King's Assembly [2]. This one looks like it might be a most alien yet effective design, but I dislike the "chorded word" idea, because it has to rely on some sort of dic
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by pierrec 12y ago
It's kind of confusing, but I take it many of these have already been solved? For example, one picture is subtitled, "We have no sense of scale for this - Is it some kind of pipe?", and clicking on it leads you to a precise d
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by pierrec 12y ago
This is music theory, or at the very least, the bulk of the document is about the theory of harmony. The first few pages may give the impression of solely exposing jargon, but as you progress through the pages, the author moves on to the
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by pierrec 12y ago
Slightly off topic, but is it just me or does this page brutally ignore your browser's language settings? (as well as those of your google account.) Apparently it guesses a language based on your IP address and serves you an inappropri
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by pierrec 12y ago
To see your keyboard, I can imagine a few hacks but all of them are a bit awkward: - Have a "keyboard cam" that only shows you the keyboard (and your hands when they're over it) displayed at some natural spot in the VR. - Hav
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by pierrec 12y ago
Did this get flagged or something? It got thrown back to page 4 despite the votes. Maybe it set off some spam/ring detector? And here's a ridiculous amount of "ugly hack"... https://github.com/search?utf8
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by pierrec 12y ago
I don't know know about the other languages, but your French test is incorrect. (la => là) Though I'm sure your test wasn't intended to be insidiously misleading.
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by pierrec 12y ago
>The machine evaluates food by measuring its conductivity at different voltages. They should really have kept the functioning principle behind more smoke & mirrors, because this suddenly makes the whole thing seem very childish and r
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by pierrec 12y ago
The HN discussion was indeed a disheartening mix of skepticism and criticism: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4385241
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by pierrec 12y ago
Also from the bower file, the magic that turns it from a web app into a standalone app is node-webkit [1]. This kind of tool is really becoming one of the best options for creating desktop applications, especially considering how powerful t
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by pierrec 12y ago
Amazing. Meditating upon time-lapsed video backed by drone music is something I've been addicted to ever since I first saw Baraka. If you like this and you're not aware of Baraka - watch it now, along with its sequel Samsara and t

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