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by tobobo 14y ago
Can they include a pleasant "walking" noise (or something more abstract) so that it isn't sneaking up on you all the time? It looks a bit too sneaky in this video.
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Want to Guess Romney's Running Mate?(politicalwire.com)
1 points by tobobo 14y ago|0 comments
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by tobobo 15y ago
Thank you!
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by tobobo 15y ago
With this specific example, it doesn't seem like that's the case. The best it can do is give you a list of restaurants based on your speech input, and then ask you to select one with your finger.
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by tobobo 15y ago
I'm currently a student at Wesleyan, and seeing this article was awfully surprising to me. If we really do rule the tech scene in one of the largest cities in the US, I certainly wouldn't know it from being here. Our CS department is tiny (
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by tobobo 15y ago
This looks great! I think it's really important to show that these devices expand creative potential, rather than just fretting about the loss of paper books. Something minor: in the slideshow with all the effects, the 3D effect implied by
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by tobobo 15y ago
It's definitely not typical HN fare, but I think privacy and one's rights pertaining to media are very relevant to the web and of concern to many readers on HN.
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by tobobo 15y ago
A little! I've really wanted to get into Supercollider but... haven't had the time. Do you have any suggestions for other resources/software I should look into?
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by tobobo 15y ago
Thanks. I've definitely considered the possibility of going back to school somewhere else after I graduate to pursue a tech education more aligned with my own goals, maybe immediately after. Perhaps the answer to this question would be a li
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by tobobo 15y ago
I would totally go for a minor if my school offered them, but they don't, instead making it slightly easier to double major (about a third of students do so). I've yet to have an assignment that was too far beyond a proof of concept. Studen
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by tobobo 15y ago
Yeah, this sort of "what if" thinking can be really hard. Thus far, all my employment opportunities have come from resources outside of school, and I have no reason to believe that that will change anytime soon, but as you mentioned... thes
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by tobobo 15y ago
Thanks for the note. I certainly don't think I can make it on my own - I don't really feel prepared for "the real world" (as if you've never heard a 20 year old say that) - but the classes that remain to be taken in the CS program, especial
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by tobobo 15y ago
You commented before my edit, but everything you've said is still very relevant. Thanks. The thing about the big, gnarly programs thing is that I don't think that's what happens at our CS department. The older kids in the department always
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Ask HN: Should I drop my CS major to pursue being a self-taught web dev?
9 points by tobobo 15y ago|18 comments
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by tobobo 15y ago
It's possible, but having access to Zipcar is quite essential for pretty much anything outside of the city limits - rail expansion was severely hampered by some nearby suburbanites who were afraid that the worst of the city was going to tak
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by tobobo 15y ago
Entertaining, but I really think it's as simple as: all computer programs read data, manipulate data, or output data. Internet startups create one kind of computer program. Text is one kind of data.
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by tobobo 15y ago
I think this comparison is slightly exaggerated, as people experience social networks in a completely different way. Going into using Google+, I expected it to have the look and feel of other Google products that I use and enjoy. I was not
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by tobobo 15y ago
Wow - I've never seen a cleaner font browsing interface, and they make using the fonts you look at so easy I didn't even realize I was doing it. Let's hope the Web Fonts API doesn't go the way of the Translate API, or many webpages will be
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by tobobo 15y ago
I don't think there's any reason not to try to improve something even if its satisfactory. Image formats are no exception - I don't think JPEG is the best that can be done and I hope we have better options moving forward.
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by tobobo 15y ago
I think this conclusion is less obvious than it first appears, and to suggest that it is some sort of grand scheme on the part of Pixar is a little bit ridiculous. I would say that the human/non-human interaction comes from trying a formula