ssttoo

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   by ssttoo 7y ago

   Thank you, makes sense. I was wrong that the per-user is simpler. Yet, it’s only fair. I wouldn’t buy a Rihanna album, in the old physical model, why would she get get my money in the new one? And it’s probably very likely they already have
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   by ssttoo 7y ago

   “User-centric system” is when I listen only to a small indie band whole month, they get all of my $9.99. As opposed to the current state where the chart toppers get 9.98 and my indie favourite gets 0.01. But > Spotify’s former director o
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   by ssttoo 7y ago

   Dan Ariely (the "Predictably Irrational" author) also wrote "The Honest Truth about Dishonesty". There were studies there that showed cheating is a slippery slope. Once you cheat with something small, you're more li
4. 124.▲
   by ssttoo 8y ago

   Thank you, you just saved me $164.98 (turbotax self-employed) - $14.99 (taxhawk)! A lot of money given that it's for my kid's $620 income :) And honestly, the taxhawk experience was better, with less cutesy messages and fewer scre
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   by ssttoo 8y ago

   My kid took psat (preparatory SAT exam) and she had to register with College Board (SAT admins). Now she’s getting tons of spam from all kinds of schools, both email and US post. They say they got the address from College Board. :(
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   by ssttoo 8y ago

   I see a lot of Slack billboards in West LA. Nobody cares. I don’t care. I guess it’s brand recognition efforts prior to the IPO. All the best to them in their future endeavors..
7. 127.▲
   by ssttoo 8y ago

   > Microsoft, as great as they are at OSS Just a few years ago, that would have been a laugh. Don’t get me wrong, I love the world we’re living in :)
8. 128.▲
   by ssttoo 8y ago

   How is this company still in business is beyond me. Maybe their clients are less savvy (non-HN-frequenting) site owners
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   by ssttoo 8y ago

   One more data point for "community college is great": this was my experience too. I guess it depends on the school/program/prof, but after 4 semesters of music, I only had great professors who care about their course and
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    Page speed impact on advertising revenue(calendar.perfplanet.com)

    2 points by ssttoo 8y ago|0 comments
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    Measuring Wikipedia page load times(calendar.perfplanet.com)

    1 points by ssttoo 8y ago|0 comments
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    by ssttoo 8y ago

    Here’s how it was in the old country: Score = (score from exam at the school you want to go to * 2 + GPA + high school Math grade) / 4 That’s for engineering school. Every school has a different formula and holds its own exams. But the
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    by ssttoo 8y ago

    Sometimes extended intro repetition puts you in trance. Enter Sandman for example.
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    by ssttoo 8y ago

    What about Sultan of Swing? I always want this solo to go on. But that’s probably true only for guitar players:)
15. 135.▲
    by ssttoo 8y ago

    I think the path is TN -> H1B -> GC. At least it was for me. TN is non-immigration status and needs to be renewed every year. A little risky since GC may take a bit of time.
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    by ssttoo 8y ago

    https://github.com/mgechev/guess-next for predictive prefetching of JavaScript bundles
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    by ssttoo 8y ago

    Well, isn’t that a standard practice in radio? The songs are a tad shorter and, as a result, a bit pitched up. Part of it is about ads, but mostly it’s about increasing the chance of you liking what you hear (more songs means maybe you’ll l
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Seven_Basic_Plots ... not that Pixar is likely to have a plot of the "Tragedy" kind
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    What if you don’t ride a bike, for either physical or whatever reason? Say butt hurts, wind and rain ruin your hair?
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    I just add ?share=1 (or &share=1 whatever the case may be) to any Quora URL to keep reading
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    Long Tasks API(calendar.perfplanet.com)

    1 points by ssttoo 9y ago|0 comments
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    Here's another older one with sample of 12000 random images off the web http://www.phpied.com/give-png-a-chance/
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    Haha, you’re on to something. I’m an old dad :) And I don’t see any baby stories. But I’m into music/audio lately. And there’s so much cool music-related stuff popping up on HN lately...
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    Thanks, didn’t know about the 5 seconds. If this chopping tool can generate a map to the original audio, that means subtitles TED-style are going to be possible. And thanks for you Mozilla peep’s hard work!
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    I ran into some minor glitches trying to install and use DeepSpeech couple of days ago. I’m sure they’ll be fixed soon enough but meanwhile hope this helps: https://www.phpied.com/taking-mozillas-deepspeech-for-a-spin...
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    Progressive Image Loading Using Intersection Observer and SQIP(calendar.perfplanet.com)

    3 points by ssttoo 9y ago|0 comments
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    "Don't bore us, get to the chorus!" :) https://youtu.be/YFHD7kuAqu4?t=2m0s (D.Grohl on writing a hit)
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    Reducing the font size (CMD -, CMD -) helps immensely :)
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    Prior discussions https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=howmanypeopleareinspa...
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    by ssttoo 9y ago

    > With an average tenure of < 2 years ... citation needed :)