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by tacos 11y ago
"The KU 100 dummy head is a replica of the human head with a microphone built into each ear." https://www.neumann.com/?lang=en&id=current_microphones&cid=... In practice it has limited utility. See the wik
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"[David Cole, head of the Windows 95 production team] grumbled… ‘Can’t we just get a game of pinball or something like that?’" I can't decide whether to deride the lameness or celebrate the pragmatism of this statement. It do
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by tacos 11y ago
This gets posted every Twitter article. The burden is ALWAYS on the human to make the experience. Online, offline, with a lover, on vacation, while under duress, while rich, while broke. It's a meaningless platitude. Because people wil
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"There are currently four SDKs for API v2: Swift, Python, .NET, and Java." And a structured, non-REST API. Aw. All grown up.
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by tacos 11y ago
Consider Tagalog, which commonly uses native small numbers, Spanish for mid-sized numbers, and English for larger, financial quantities.
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There are 26 million employees in the Fortune 500. If you manage to make a technology product that isn't being used by one of them, please let me know.
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And posts like this are why I hold shares of Berkshire Hathaway instead of Tumblr.
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Did you read the article? ‘‘It’s always possible,’’ Bowden told me. ‘‘But given the sheer number of people I talked to from different parts of government, for a lie to have been that carefully orchestrated and sustained to me gets into fake
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As part of the independent contractor guidelines, they have to supply the tool (versus the employer buying it for them). But tools and equipment are commonly specified (even down to a specific tool model for insurance requirements or materi
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If you're building a business on Twitter's back you're fuckin' nuts. Twitter can't even build a business on Twitter.
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The mistake here was not having a tight enough lie as cover for a covert operation. I assure you the CIA and White House learned from that mistake four years ago. Rushing to publish unsubstantiated anonymous information that other investiga
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And fewer than 5,000 Pakistani families with children -- under 100 in one likely city (Lincolnia). Probably already relocated at taxpayer expense due to those two useless sentences.
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Hersh is a hero of mine but -- and I hate to play the age card -- he is getting a little wackier as he ages. I'm not sure why he rushed to print this story. There's nothing time-critical here. Also it's not a question of acce
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The Stallman "cube root" thing is adorable and quotable but wasn't the right curve then, and certainly isn't the right curve now. Love the guy, disagree with many his methods, but love the results he seeks to achieve. Bu
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Marrying young and endless dinner parties where first-time homeowners proudly declare "granite countertops!" like checking that box on a list of materials is some major achievement. A bit painful. But there's a dirty, edgy, i
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by tacos 11y ago
Interesting comments by pg 1322 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3622545
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20+ years futzing with a blog engine and it still doesn't spell-check headlines, eh?
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Help Send Richard Feynman's Van to the Smithsonian(youtube.com)
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Dropbox third-party developer here. Their API and developer support is dogshit. They spent years screwing around with photos when they could've built a platform.
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I didn't say "the most accurate information."
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Anyone attending or teaching in a large university, public or private, is getting a similar experience, albeit with worse poetry and a weaker space program.
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The most valuable information never comes with a citation. Thus the derogatory term "book smart."
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by tacos 11y ago
Azure is AWESOME. The core pieces -- compute, storage, queues, and especially database -- are rock solid and often far more powerful than the AWS equivalents. Dig in and you'll start to see big holes in AWS. I still use AWS for some th
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by tacos 11y ago
My only problem with OPAM from the precisely eight seconds I've spent looking at it: 1) unsigned packages 2) not named something goofy like "OPamL." Serious missed opportunity there, guys.
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https://github.com/eatonphil/owebl
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Looks like solid work all around. But if we could weigh it relative to the advancements in C++ the last decade, it wouldn't even show up on the scale. Red Hat could pay someone to do exactly what you're doing in many other languag
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And now's a perfect time to reflect on how the two languages evolved during the past decade. C++ obviously moved forward quite a bit -- cleaning up the loop constructs in particular. OCaml? Uh... there's F# for realists, Scheme fo
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by tacos 11y ago
1) The statistic is utter baloney 2) see "The Climate Corporation" for a real version of this. Founded 2006 by ex-Googlers, real tech, acquired by Monsanto for $1.1B, and best creepy-corp name ever. https://en.wikipedia
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A better example is the 6809. LDA #$FF takes two bytes and two cycles. LDX #$FFFF takes three bytes and three cycles. "Isn't that crazy?" Sigh.
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The most important thing is giving brilliant minds the best tools, period. If those tools make it impossible to share data, or publish results reproducibly, then I'd agree that those tools suck. However Matlab reads and writes every da

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