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by thathonkey 12y ago
I currently only have experience using CasperJS which also wraps-around PhantomJS. This has different goals (simpler) and therefore a simpler API, though. The use case at Segment (automatically generating vector logos from a given graphic)
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by thathonkey 12y ago
If you started with Pale King and already love him youre in for a real treat. Not that Pale King is bad, just obviously incomplete (which it necessarily was, unfortunately).
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by thathonkey 12y ago
It sounds like you talked yourself into doing it the way the author in the article suggests halfway through your post :)
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by thathonkey 12y ago
As far as we know, history can only be written the once. No rewrites.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
It's a combination of being intellectually lazy+familial influence+narcissism+lack of perspective. Not really that complicated once you realize that all of this is reinforced and forms a feedback loop throughout these individuals'
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by thathonkey 12y ago
That is a LOT of words
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Sometimes people optimize for fun, out of sheer curiosity, or some combination of things like that. Not everything we do as programmers has to be for some solely practical purpose. Having some fun with opcode optimization is certainly permi
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Yeah, honestly I'm not qualified to answer that question. If I had to guess, one of the reasons why going airborne would be so bad is that it allows the virus to sprawl (geographically) much faster than it ever could otherwise (because
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by thathonkey 12y ago
It's not my call to make. It's the call of the numerous individuals who are infinitely more qualified than anyone reading and posting on HN. People that work at places like the CDC and have years of training and experience researc
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by thathonkey 12y ago
You're confusing "spreads via an exchange of body fluids" (getting sneezed or coughed on by an infected individual would be included in this category) with "can survive and therefore spread via the air without any direct
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by thathonkey 12y ago
That's all well and good but a slew of actual virologists disagree with this, citing examples such as no viruses affecting humans ever changing from being spreadable via bodily fluid/direct contact to becoming aerosol. This includ
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by thathonkey 12y ago
That sounds pretty complicated to me :D But, I am admittedly a layman in this area.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Of the serious mental illnesses, they're almost always inherited.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Could you elaborate on how it is only "marginally" more effort to make faux 3D pixel games vs. 2D pixel art games? Seems like it would be quite a bit more complicated to me...
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by thathonkey 12y ago
There's also a strong positive correlation between incidence of depression and intelligence.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
I don't put that much stock or value in anything about Steve Jobs. After he died and lots of bio-type stuff started getting published, it quickly became obvious that he was a fairly avg businessman who succeeded only because he was luc
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Whether that is what he meant or not, there is a very strong case to be made that certain forms of content consumption enabled by computers (mostly the internet but software in general) are addictive in the classical sense (I assume you mea
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Actually he (rather, his parenting style) is the subject of the article...
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by thathonkey 12y ago
By blowing them up or centering them at 1.0 scale?
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by thathonkey 12y ago
This is going to throw advertising firms into an epic tizzy. The de facto mobile web ad size has been standardized around the 320px (320x50 usually) width of portrait iPhones since basically the dawn of smartphone advertising. Now suddenly
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by thathonkey 12y ago
"world star" and "encourages them" is a racist dogwhistle that I'd be happy to translate for you. He meant those "uppity, animalistic black males" That paired with the attitude that criminals are essential
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by thathonkey 12y ago
I couldn't tell if that was intended to be a slight against the avg. American's tenuous grasp on English, or if they literally meant people from the Americas which may include Central and South America.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Unlike many other similar outlets, New Yorker editors generally don't try to write a bunch about science that they don't understand (because why should they? they're trained to be write). If you want to understand the exact s
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by thathonkey 12y ago
You know what makes a criminal different from you? Nothing besides the fact that they broke a law and then got caught. Have you ever broken a law? You do at least realize you're a racist, right?
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Bitbucket has had a(n honestly better) version of this functionality for a while. One of the few areas where they beat Github. As for which is better... depends. That's why it's good to have both on a toggle like so.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
This isn't a slight on you(r post) but I just wanted to point out that nobody (at least nobody outside of the startup/tech world) believes that SV is a savior of humanity, much less the only savior.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Oops accidentally clicked into the comments of an HN post regarding economics. Nothing of value here.
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by thathonkey 12y ago
Yeah, I agree it would be annoying for long-form content (which is why magazines/newspapers never really adopted layouts like that in earnest) even if only because we've learned to read and therefore favor rectangular blocks of te
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by thathonkey 12y ago
That's why other industries don't do "crunch mode." Can you imagine: "We're really behind on building this bridge" "CRUNCH MODE!"
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by thathonkey 12y ago
This is more the inevitable outcome of a creative fictional work scraping up against the bottom of the barrel. They came up with the killer idea: "play as a cop!" but I bet they quickly realized that the avg cop in the United Stat

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