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by ssalazar 11y ago
>> The entire system of copyright and recorded art needs to be abolished, and any music that is recorded instantly becomes the public domain. > No way, artists deserve to be paid for their works. I agree, but the fair market value
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This is honestly just out of touch with most modern Web development. Even if its "easy" to develop (which is debatable), if its not a priority with product managers it will simply not happen in today's "more with less&qu
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Jonathan Berger's research is typically cited for this[1] but I haven't found the actual publications. [1] http://www.audioholics.com/news/kids-prefer-poor-quality-mp3
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Um, lots of reasons? Demoing a product, wiki or Google docs technical presentation, code review in Bitbucket.
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> This reminds of psychological study about superstition. They studied fishing habits of South American Indian tribes; the tribes that fished in lakes, had consistent and reasonable rules about when/where to go fishing. However, the
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Depending on your requirements a powered USB hub could solve your problems quite nicely.
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> Compare your struggle as a well off person attending an elite university to what your poor counterparts were doing at the same time. They were cleaning bathrooms, waiting for buses in the cold, dealing with criminals in bad neighborhoo
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> Something like 95%+ of people that get into elite schools graduate. It's not hard to graduate, it's just hard to get in As someone from a middle class background who went to a top-tier school, you have no idea what you are ta
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Absolutely. A big pet peeve of mine is a mushy D-pad and the lack of mechanical separation of each direction on the D-pad. The OEM SNES D-pad and Playstation Dual Shock D-pads get this right; the standard XBox/360 gamepad completely mi
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> Not anyone can grow it to a userbase of hundreds of millions of users. Yep. > Scaling wasn't an issue; once you have investment and users, you just throw money at the problem. Yeah not really. The CAP theorem is going to bite y
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>> Employees will attempt to steal IP and copy the business. > This sounds a lot like the unfounded "don't tell anyone your idea, it might be stolen!" fear in Silicon Valley. Its much different. Mechanical drawings,
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The idea is actually quite old (as they half-way admit, this is based on a program that was developed on NeXT machines when those were current; the research goes back to the late 60s and 70s). Wikipedia has some background naturally: https
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> Because they relied on audio samples rather than sounds that were designed from scratch, the Kurzweils were known as additive synthesizers. This is absolutely incorrect- this describes a wavetable synthesizer, which is what the early K
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I switched back to ABP when uBlock started universally blocking Sourceforge. I understand Sourceforge has engaged in a number of very shady practices lately, but I need Numpy for my job and I don't have time to work around nanny softwa
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With Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and similar inexpensive grassroots platforms, programming has never been more accessible. Contrast this with the 80s when a PC cost a month's paycheck or more. "I can't program my iPhone exactly th
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Thats a good list. I'd also include linear predictive coding, the foundation of basically all digital telecommunications.
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> There are far too many [...] jobs at risk to retrain and place in nonexistent "freeing" jobs that just don't exist. Loads of unemployed people with no job prospects to feed their families would be an idiotic situation ri
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Theres more to it then that, like community, how to find/organize streams, and promotion. If it were just about pushing video there wouldn't be twitch.tv, it would be ustream or twitch's predecessor justin.tv.
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> Don't confused 'it never worked well' with 'i never understood how it worked'. 'Good'[1] front-end/CSS developers have a very good understanding of float quirks, the box model and how to properly
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> you are also violating free speech Of course, since the example you described is an interaction between two private parties, there is no legal notion of free speech to violate.
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I'd guess whoever wrote the article subtitle comes from an EE or DSP background, where saturation refers to blowing out the ends of the dynamic range and clipping/distorting.
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90% if not more of web startups from the last 10 years would not exist without free software. Is it entitlement that Facebook has closed-source software? Dropbox? GitHub?
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Just up and leave? Y'know, its possible to work these things out without something so extreme.
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> Tell them that facilities are obsolete and if they don't want to become an obsolete dinosaur, they should jump on the remote-working trend before it eats the world. And then what data do you show them to back up that grandiose pro
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Machine learning proper encompasses a swath of applied statistical techniques, of which deep learning is only one. Machine learning could refer to linear regression, SVM, hidden markov models, dimensionality reduction, neural nets, or any n
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Y Combinator embodies the very definition of capitalism, and they host this site. While the community seems more diverse than that, its fair to say there is a capitalist bent.
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Sure, and one of those business reasons is keeping bloated, buggy software that is ill-suited to mobile devices away from their phone's user experience.
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> it's likely Apple uses a custom-made version as well. Siri uses Shazam to identify songs (as of iOS 8) [1] [1] http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/09/19/siri-partners-with...
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> Feminist (blogs and news agencies) > (Feminist blogs) and (news agencies) That you assumed one of two equally appropriate interpretations of this (admittedly awkward) phrasing and jumped to conclusions is even more revealing.
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Pretty sure thats just a textured sphere?

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