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by spatulon 17y ago
The misconception comes from Google not wanting to use Theora on Youtube.
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It appears to be called the "Youraagh" scream. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hf6_hok4-lo
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The term I usually hear is "literary fiction." Everything else, including sci-fi, is "genre fiction." I suspect that's not much of an improvement to your ears.
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I cannot agree with deletionists, but it's still important that articles cite reputable sources. Unfortunately, those same reputable sources are by and large the same ones needed for notability. About a year ago, there was a mini-campaign o
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by spatulon 17y ago
I should add that I'm using Aquamacs, and avoided the Emacs Starter Kit due to the following note on the page you linked: "Some have reported getting it to work with Aquamacs. However, since Aquamacs is not portable, it's difficult to test
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by spatulon 17y ago
This is great timing for me. I sat down a few nights ago with the intention of learning Clojure, but ended up spending the whole evening wrestling with Emacs and SLIME, trying and failing to get a usable REPL. Perhaps I should have given up
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by spatulon 17y ago
Here's a rebuttal that I've seen linked all over the place, especially by game designers, anxious that their lofty dreams of high art will fall by the wayside to creating simple carrots on sticks. http://www.sirlin.net/blog/2010/2/22/exter
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HTML 5 Web SQL Database(openbit.co.uk)
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The author, Steve Gaynor, is one of my favourite video game bloggers, one who frequently argues with perfect clarity views about gaming that I nebulously felt internally but could never articulate. However, this particular post isn't a part
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I found The Non-Designer's Design Book pretty useful. http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321534042/ It provides a list of simple typographic and design rules to follow, and explains why they're important. As written on that Amazon
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by spatulon 17y ago
http://ycombinator.com/faq.html says: "Do we have to be US citizens? No, as long as you can get here for at least three months. We've funded many startups founded by non-citizens."
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by spatulon 17y ago
That was an incredibly obnoxious rant, but he does get to the heart of why XKCD is popular amongst geeks -- it references topics that make us feel clever and part of an exclusive club -- and why it often rubs me the wrong way -- it uses tho
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by spatulon 17y ago
Surely in six years, Ogg Theora will be just as good as H264 Theora is a generation older than H.264. There are features in H.264 that help compression that aren't in Theora, plus Theora has a few other problems (e.g. motion vectors no lo
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by spatulon 17y ago
Like with so many things in life, it helps to be the type of person who can take a step back and reflect objectively, rather than reflexively reacting to everything. It seems that far too many lack this ability, or at least haven't learned
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by spatulon 17y ago
A couple of recent HN threads about barefoot running: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1082153 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1056665
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Just because they don't pay a fee, doesn't mean they don't have to. However, they seem to be passing on the responsibility to the end users: "... Hence there is not need to obtain any patent licenses for VideoLAN software within the Europea
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x264 is an encoder. Browsers need a decoder. The most popular open source H.264 decoder is the one that's part of FFmpeg, which is used both by applications that do pay a license fee (Google Chrome) and applications that don't (VLC).
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Let's not forget dcurtis's attempt to redesign the American Airlines website - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=614703 And the subsequent fallout from an AA employee opening his mouth - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=922913
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by spatulon 17y ago
They do. The HQ setting on Youtube uses H264 baseline profile (notice how they introduced this around the time of the iPhone launch), and the HD setting uses H264 as well.
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I'd imagine that some Twitter clients allow them to have a celebrity-only view, so they can filter out the noise from the plebs.
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It looks like the type of forwarding URL that sometimes appears on Google search result pages, presumably for the purpose of tracking user behaviour.
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I'd be willing to bet that Gaikai is the unnamed startup that sponsored/requested this work. (DarkShikari already said it isn't OnLive, and those are the only two companies I know of that are preparing to launch on-demand gaming services th
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Intel's Larrabee GPU put on ice(arstechnica.com)
2 points by spatulon 17y ago|0 comments
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Can you explain what apparently obvious point you think jrockway has missed?
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I came across this site a year or so ago and really enjoyed using it to discover and draw various well-known fractals. Here are a few programs I made with it. For some reason I tried to write them in a pure-ish functional style, accepting t
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Technically, you're right. But in both cases he's carefully choosing his words to make his employer's product sound better. It's patronising because it implies: * that I'm not capable of noticing any drawbacks of the product, which he conve
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NSFW is the name of Paul Carr's column on TechCrunch.
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by spatulon 17y ago
He is thanking soldiers who fought in World War I or subsequent wars, because today is Remembrance Day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day
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This JS-based Logo works nicely: http://logo.twentygototen.org/ Here are a few programs I made with it (note that the default is to 'run normally'. You might want to click 'stop program' and then 'run fast'): * Sierpinski triangle: http:
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by spatulon 17y ago
I think there's an important distinction between telling someone they've written "poor code" and telling them they're a "poor programmer". Whether the latter is true or not is irrelevant to the discussion at hand and comes across as an ad h

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