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by ssalazar 10y ago
> Similarly, you can unpack a linear sequence of sound samples into a two-dimensional plot of frequency and amplitude with a fourier transform. Fourier transform by itself is still 1D (amplitude vs. frequency); to get to 2 dimensions you
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>> Amazon will award the winning team $500,000. >This is hugely under-paid for a worthy winner. AI startups are sold way more these days; Amazon would benefit tremendously from a novel technique in that domain. They're not pay
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> The sort of standard answer is just build more housing, but the cities are already so congested. Building up would surely lower prices in both cities, but i think it'd make bad commutes worse. Build around public transportation an
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> No more so than a proprietary protocol. All the IM clients and apps are different, just like all the email clients. What? No, if my colleagues and I all decide to use ${CLOSED_CHAT_SERVICE}, the user experience is generally going to be
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by ssalazar 10y ago
An open protocol can also lead to an inconsistent user experience. In the year 2016 I still have no idea how to send an image from one XMPP client to another and be sure that the sending side will receive it. In modern closed-off systems
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From https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe... : > compareFunction(a, b) must always return the same value when given a specific pair of elements a and b as its two arguments. If
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Yes, making demands in a web forum is the way to resolve this.
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> Fink is full of old packages, but MacPorts ports are pretty up to date. There are still lots of devs maintaining MacPorts these days. So I don't know what dire status you were talking about. At the time Homebrew rose in popularity
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According to him. The only context is one tweet from one side of the story.
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In Redwood City if i recall correctly.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
The fact that it all ends up as "sugar" is less important than how long it takes to fully metabolize, how much energy and other resources it takes to do so, and what other byproducts the food provides. In the quantities used in m
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Yeah, "not a good practice" (i.e. "the user is wrong" or "why would you want to do that?") is the lazy way of justifying software deficiencies.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
The threat of increased future supply should be enough to depress prices. That new condo won't look like such a good investment if you know there will be many more popping up in the neighborhood in the next 5 years.
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How the World's 50 Best Restaurants Are Chosen (2015)(newyorker.com)
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If you can script it with JS, that can be a huge advantage. Lots of interesting compositional ideas become available when you have a Turing-complete scripting interface, ideas that are extremely tedious to execute in a DAW. Having this all
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> I REALLY do not see Facebook getting the killer app Between Carmack and Facebook's ability to buy any developer who is on the market I think they can put up a solid contender at launch. Probably won't be enough though; I see
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> The lack of balance, proportion, controlling lines[1] and symmetry are all bad aspects of nearly all modern (in the chronological sense) architecture, not simply McMansions. Postmodern architecture is surely a controversial topic on it
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Sure, and some peoples' taste will fetch millions of dollars and last for centuries whereas others will be demolished and forgotten within a decade. Don't you think that phenomenon is worth trying to understand?
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This guy didn't just make up the rule of thirds, symmetry, or spatial rhythm. Its not unreasonable to try to understand why some types of architecture might be preferred over others. Rather than dismiss an entire field of inquiry, ma
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Its not crazy when you consider typical video game economics (hundreds of developers/long dev time/high budgets/high price per unit) vs. typical website economics (handful of developers at best/short dev time/low bu
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> Provide an argument supporting the notion that people shouldn't be incentivized to produce things that the market values. Most people should agree that things that "market value" is a means to obtain things people intrin
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Weird to see other commenters shutting you down. Mentoring younger or less experienced employees is an important part of many healthy software shops. Work environments where employees are constantly growing + learning interesting and new
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by ssalazar 10y ago
No, that the problem itself has been around a long time (at least since the late 70s PC boom).
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Did you read the whole article? This technique doesn't appear in the manual at all and I've read it quite a few times. If it was so fundamental why is it so awkward to construct?
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I am making serious mental contortions to try to figure out how a grammatical term about the structure of sentences can be synonymous with a unary function and I just can't do it. It seems pretty clear that the instance of the word th
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by ssalazar 10y ago
I agree but > voice recognition needs the full spectrum for accuracy do you have a source for this? Voice signals are conventionally low-bandwidth; 16kHz is usually "good enough" for human-human transmission. Formant frequenci
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Im hoping this attitude becomes more common. I live in LA, and in my daily commute I encounter the aftermath of a collision on a weekly basis. How much of this could be prevented if more people could walk or take public transport to their
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by ssalazar 10y ago
> (Think of the iPhone 6+, where software can’t even address the native screen pixels, and literally everything gets rendered to one size grid and then resampled for a different display grid.) This isn't really how this works. If e
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by ssalazar 10y ago
This is pretty much the basis of any discussion on jobs creation. In this case there is no destruction of property stimulating economic activity, which to my understanding is the crux of the broken window fallacy.
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Ok thats a decent point lol..

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