riprowan

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by riprowan 10y ago
I've never understood this argument. Probably the best thing about being a cutting-edge dev is the ability to work from anywhere. Heck, I've only worked onsite for a handful of my clients. Some of them (including my current clie
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by riprowan 10y ago
I don't disagree with you that a well-tagged music repository would be useful - indeed this is the goal of the music genome project - but am trying to point out that the typical requirement for "tagging" music is well beyond
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by riprowan 10y ago
I think you overgeneralize industrial meat production to all forms of ranching. There are huge areas of the USA that are not amenable to farming but which can be ranched. Raising cattle on these lands does not necessarily consume any water
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by riprowan 10y ago
To accurately assess the long-term cost/benefit of GMOs vs organic farming, one would need to understand the long-term externalized costs of each. We understand the long-term impact of organic farming. We do not understand the long-te
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by riprowan 10y ago
The answer is that "cool" and "happy" tags won't find the music you want. Vivaldi's "Spring" and Bobby McFerrin's "Don't Worry Be Happy" and "C'Mon Get Happy" by th
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by riprowan 10y ago
> technically possible to get better sound quality than digital This is simply not true, provided you're not comparing new vinyl on a great turntable to a 64Kbps MP3 from 2001. You may prefer the sound of vinyl - and that's t
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by riprowan 10y ago
On Twitter you can banter around with famous people you'll never meet in real life and who won't friend you on Facebook.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Dev stops. That's reality. If you hand-wave it away, your tellers go down, and you, the CIO, lose your job. Not all software is under your direct control. Once business processes achieve a stable working state, it is imperative that t
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by riprowan 10y ago
Italy cleaner than Germany
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by riprowan 10y ago
libel is already punishable, so judges already have the role of deciding true vs false statements and applying damages when harm is done. while I don't dismiss your concern, I just wanted to point out that this is not some sort of whol
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by riprowan 10y ago
for perspective, libel (publishing false damaging information) is already punishable so the judicial system already has the "ministry of truth" responsibility, whether or not that bothers you
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by riprowan 10y ago
Also the news today reports "Apple Working with Consumer Reports on Macbook Pro Battery Issue" [1] Reading between the lines: "Apple Pressures Consumer Reports to Change its Story" You don't need to "work with&
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by riprowan 10y ago
The "standard" for high end audio processing is Pro Tools HD/HDX, which does cost this much in its fully-fledged form. Users can run a CPU-only version of Pro Tools called HD Native which (along with its competitors like Logi
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by riprowan 10y ago
Part of the goal is to establish an arms length relationship to lower legal liability.
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by riprowan 10y ago
What if Apple hadn't built the Mac but had gone all-in on the Apple ][gs years earlier?
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by riprowan 10y ago
I remember teaching classes in 1992, when Apple was clearly the engineering leader. How the tables were turned by 1997.
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by riprowan 10y ago
Can't tell if sarcastic or serious.
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by riprowan 10y ago
What if I'm one of the tens of millions of people who do CAD, photo editing, and A/V production?
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by riprowan 10y ago
> Honestly, a team that did nothing but update the MacPro every few months with the latest hardware can't cost that much, especially compared to Apple's coffers. Unless they are so blinded by the need to have huge margins. They
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by riprowan 10y ago
>the critical features of OS X that aren't replicable with a reasonable amount of effort on other systems? the apps
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by riprowan 10y ago
So one way this fraud is committed is by consuming the content (youtube videos, spotify plays, etc) and taking in the direct revenue streams. The bigger picture is virality. Nobody wants to watch your video with 100 views. Same video with
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by riprowan 10y ago
The problem is that while this might work great on a large scale, it breaks down at the individual level: why would I want all that ad-clicking activity associated with my account / cookie / IP?
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by riprowan 10y ago
Fair enough to make the comparison perhaps a poor one. However I don't think that people do yoga in saunas, but rather remain seated, correct? The point I'm getting at is: isn't the question "what's the net rise i
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by riprowan 10y ago
It's entirely possible that everything you say is true, however, the jeering tone and sweeping generalizations are the opposite of the sort of polite, rational discourse that seems to be constantly missing in these discussions.
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by riprowan 10y ago
> DoSing the network doesn't require you deanonymize them, merely that you can fill most of their anonymous routes with traffic At best if you're "successful" then you merely take all the current Bitcoin users and sca
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by riprowan 10y ago
Thank you. Someone should point this out to the people developing Bitcoin :(
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by riprowan 10y ago
Sure, there might be other avenues of attack, but filling up the blockchain as OP suggested isn't a good one.
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by riprowan 10y ago
I'm going to take a very unpopular position in the name of rational discussion in the hopes that this forum can hear the message. For the record, I am of the opinion that anthropogenic warming is real. However, I think it's wise
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by riprowan 10y ago
Seems like you could do a great confirmation study with participants in Bikram / hot yoga where the temps are 105F for 90 mins with ~50% humidity. I'm going to go out on a limb and say the sauna cohort and the Bikram cohort are tw
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by riprowan 10y ago
> For a relatively small cost, the blockchain could be flooded with bogus junk to DoS. It's certainly possible for a government to pay to consume the available space in a blockchain with a very small capacity limit such as Bitcoin h

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