ryanf

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HD 555 to HD 595 mod (or: how Sennheiser cripples cheaper headphones)(mikebeauchamp.com)
395 points by ryanf 16y ago|207 comments
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by ryanf 16y ago
http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-3d-transforms/
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by ryanf 16y ago
OK, so that covers the first sentence, except maybe "because of entitlements." (Although you'll note that without TARP we'd be just about breaking even in that scenario.) It doesn't cover the second half, which claims that taxing "the rich"
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by ryanf 16y ago
> Cut all discretionary and defense spending to 0, and we would still be running a deficit due to entitlements. Tax "the rich" at 100%, and we would still be running a deficit. Tax corporations at 100%, and we would still be running a d
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by ryanf 16y ago
"Stretchy", not "sketchy". I'm not sure what that means either though.
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by ryanf 16y ago
Yeah, also "died out more than 5,000 years prior." Not to mention describing the dimensions of a "working" wooly mammoth.
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by ryanf 16y ago
When did you say that neither group is superior? You said that "hackers" don't have to be more skilled, but every other part of your post implies that you think they're superior as human beings.
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by ryanf 16y ago
> This is why I like the word "hacker" outside of it's more "modern" meaning. A programmer can be nearly anyone with some basic skills, but a hacker is a fundamentally different animal from the rest of the general population. The hacker
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by ryanf 16y ago
There's a big difference between the MBP and the Air/iPhone/iPad/iPod though -- solid-state drives. The sleep indicator tells you when it's safe to pick your computer up.
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by ryanf 16y ago
The problem isn't the page width. Just add 10px of left padding to your container div for people who don't keep their browser maximized all the time.
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by ryanf 16y ago
"the word Github is a link, but there is no visual way of distinguishing it from the rest of the text" The links are purple instead of black. It's not much of a contrast though.
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Academia.edu Launches A Directory Of 12,500 Academic Journals(techcrunch.com)
43 points by ryanf 16y ago|12 comments
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by ryanf 16y ago
Obviously there are some cases where you should use parentheses. The reference operator just seems like a strange place to draw the line. I mean, to me it seems like the least confusing part of the quoted line.
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by ryanf 16y ago
I was actually originally going to say -3 * 5 = -(3 * 5), as a joke. But from what I could find online, it looks like unary minus traditionally falls below exponentiation in the order of operations for math. See http://mathforum.org/libra
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by ryanf 16y ago
There are plenty of confusing order-of-operation things in C, especially around pointers, but is "&x + 1" really one of them? I basically know nothing about this subject and it's still pretty clear that the & would take precedence.
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by ryanf 16y ago
-3^5 = -(3^5) Not to defend that guy or anything.
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by ryanf 16y ago
Because it looks cool. Why else?
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by ryanf 16y ago
Based on the quote in the article, I'm not sure why Cringely would leap to the conclusion that Google is planning on entering the loan business. It would make much more sense for them to set up some kind of competitive marketplace to con
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by ryanf 16y ago
This is in the man page for bash on Snow Leopard, but it doesn't seem to actually work. Does anyone know why?
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by ryanf 16y ago
Running OS X, actually, since he was talking about working on Hex Fiend. I imagine that would offend you even more?
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by ryanf 16y ago
A version of Graphing Calculator (as Grapher) still ships with every Mac today, so it seems about as available as ever.
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by ryanf 16y ago
It's still showing up with the error for me.
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by ryanf 16y ago
It's a "Getting Things Done" thing, I think. http://www.43folders.com/2004/09/08/getting-started-with-get... The relevant idea is that you take the stuff coming into your inbox (which represents obligations that you need to take care of,
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by ryanf 16y ago
So why is Perl so unfashionable? He mentions OO and readability, but if Perl has "one of the most featureful object systems in existence", does that leave just readability? I'm curious (as someone who knows very little about Perl) what th
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by ryanf 16y ago
Years ago Facebook had a feature that would show you the shortest paths between you and the person you were looking at. I don't know if they got rid of it for privacy or performance reasons, but it was pretty cool.
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by ryanf 16y ago
#3 has been my strategy since childhood, and it works surprisingly well against people who don't know the trick.
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by ryanf 16y ago
Also note that there is a huge exemption (apparently $3.5m last year, and $1m next year if they don't change it). It's only 45% beyond that point, like tax brackets.