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by sambeau 13y ago
They are all like Microsoft Office where you have to pay for upgrades: one way or another you will, eventually, have to pay for an upgrade. Software is expensive to develop and eventually a constantly expanding market won't be enough t
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by sambeau 13y ago
What makes you think $15 entitles you to a lifetime purchase let alone $2.99? What else in your life do you get to keep forever for that amount? A pair of levi jeans: ~$50 of ~3 years; an iPhone ~$500 for ~3 years; a beer ~$5 for ~30 mins.
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by sambeau 13y ago
I do. It was a total game changer in every way. Partly, the 3D; mostly, the scale. If it wasn't for the discovery of the Mandelbrot set around the same time it would have been denounced as totally ridiculous. But, as Fractals were jus
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by sambeau 13y ago
This would go really nicely with Snap.svg. Hurry up and finish it, please!
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by sambeau 13y ago
In a comment on a thread about SVG libraries recently, here on HN, I opined that the world was long in need of a library that takes pre-made, artist created SVG and manipulates it: a jQuery for SVG. And here it is and I am very grateful. Th
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by sambeau 13y ago
"Squircle, the superellipse with n = 4, a = b = 1"
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by sambeau 13y ago
@jcromartie Why did you delete your comment? I thought it was insightful. I don't live in a world where we worry about such things. Just knowing that you do is interesting.
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by sambeau 13y ago
Discussing some form of male oppression or domination is not the same as discussing men.
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by sambeau 13y ago
Like democracy, science is the worst way to discover truth… apart from all the others.
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by sambeau 13y ago
I hate to disappoint but women's studies classes don't spend their time discussing men. The clue is in the name.
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by sambeau 13y ago
@jcromartie — Put it this way: my ten year old would laugh at anyone who thought the universe was only a few thousand years old as would his 8-year-old brother.
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by sambeau 13y ago
This is an interesting problem: should you err on the side of creating new species every time you find a bone fragment or should you assume it is more of the same? I think I come down on the side of those who create new species until suffic
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by sambeau 13y ago
Of course, this is a British publication and so this wouldn't have occurred to the headline editor. It certainly didn't occur to me until you mentioned it. Most Brits would read that as disarray about the timeline of human evoluti
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Hixie: The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations(plus.google.com)
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by sambeau 13y ago
I'm pretty sure it's actually one of these guys: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apollo_astronauts#Apoll...
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by sambeau 13y ago
I've turned showdead off and I can still see you so I don't think you're banned, either.
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by sambeau 13y ago
We can test your theory here if you like. Upvote this comment and I'll tell you if it counted. If you leave a comment I'll upvote it so you can see if you get upvotes. I'd be surprised if either of these didn't just wor
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Angela Ahrendts leaves Burberry for Apple(theguardian.com)
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by sambeau 13y ago
I fear you are confusing systems programming language and operating systems programming language (or conflating). Go is a great systems programming language especially for modern concurrent systems — http servers etc. It talks to C easily s
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A Letter to Evernote(sambeau.com)
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by sambeau 13y ago
Ha. True. But, I'm not sure people know that a Boson is named after him at all and if they do I'd bet they assume (like I once did) that Bose was some German or Hungarian bloke. (Mind you, I also thought that the Bose of Bose Corp
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by sambeau 13y ago
I'd like to take this opportunity to remind people of the (sometimes a little forgotten) other person name-checked in the Higgs Boson: Satyendra Nath Bose. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyendra_Nath_Bose He was a
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Satyendra Nath Bose(en.wikipedia.org)
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Animo.js : manage CSS animations(labs.bigroomstudios.com)
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by sambeau 13y ago
It is, but the Agile Manifesto isn't, on the face of it, remote-worker friendly. 6. Close, daily cooperation between business people and developers 7. Face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication (co-location)
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by sambeau 13y ago
It also assumes two distinct genders which is a fallacy.
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by sambeau 13y ago
This could be done programatically. Most vector map software manages it, SVG should adopt it.
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by sambeau 13y ago
iOS performance is generally awful with SVG. Scrolling used to be bad but I think Webkit fixed that bug. Too much detail has been the cause of the worst performance (and crashing) I've seen — one image of a playing card froze my iPad.
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by sambeau 13y ago
Retina displays are removing the need to worry about this. When pixels are invisible, hinting problems are invisible too.
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by sambeau 13y ago
I use SVG a lot and I'd say the reasons are: * Browser support is still new and in places still a little rough * IE support has only recently arrived * SVG creation tools are either rough or expensive * SVG can create sub-Flash-like pe

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