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2341.
by tobr 12y ago
Great effect. I would love to hear another sentence distorted the same way, though, because I wonder if I just learned to recognize this particular sentence, or if I learned to separate the signal from the noise in this type of distortion
2342.
by tobr 12y ago
> Here I am working hard end paying my taxes so that (in a very, very small way $ or % wise) I'm empowering someone else to just sit around and get paid to do nothing but pop out babies and raise them poorly. Personally, what causes
2343.
by tobr 12y ago
I really expected to see a discussion about this on HN. I find this to be an interesting and very pragmatic approach to programming, and I've never really seen anyone talk about this style before. It seems like it would require quite a
2344.
by tobr 12y ago
Two things have improved my English more than anything: deciding to read out loud whenever I'm alone reading an English text, and discovering that I can immediately look up any English word with a three finger tap on OS X. If the dicti
2345.
by tobr 13y ago
Yes, you missed the last sentence of the comment.
2346.
by tobr 13y ago
I don't think any of the models sampled one full octave and then resampled that for the other octaves. When you change the pitch of a recorded piano note through resampling, it's going to sound very artificial if you go beyond a c
2347.
by tobr 13y ago
Linking to a search might do! https://hn.algolia.com/#!/story/sort_by_date/0/%22ask%20hn%2...
2348.
by tobr 13y ago
Touch in this case is rather like hover though. Lack of hover is one of the trickiest things in designing for touch screens right now. There's no good way to tell the user a bit more about what's going to happen, until they commit
2349.
by tobr 13y ago
Basically, no. You'd have to use references and do research to find out what the likely color of every object in the scene is. If you know what type of black and white film was used and how it was developed, you might be able to elimin
2350.
by tobr 13y ago
>> The sound wave produced by a piano note is a simple sine wave. > No, it's not. A piano note is a complicated stack of overtones (some of which are harmonic and some of which aren't) and transients. If it was just a sin
2351.
by tobr 13y ago
Depends on how far away from the image you are, or how big it is. By taking the low frequency from one image, and the high frequency from another, you can get some interesting results. Take a look at this image, first sitting near the scree
2352.
by tobr 13y ago
Nice looking app, but why are those "Learn More"-links made out of fuzzy, poorly compressed jpegs? Doesn't exactly communicate attention to detail.
2353.
by tobr 13y ago
I think their philosophy has always been to show as little as possible for as long as possible, to avoid spoiling things... I get the impression that they have a story and a concept but no actual gameplay or content.
2354.
by tobr 13y ago
I'm surprised how good this looks. Cyan hasn't really been able to produce anything of high quality or good taste for the past 10 years (and I say this as a huge fan of some of their earlier games). What little they show here thou
2355.
by tobr 13y ago
Calling them "icons" is a bit weird, but I really like the idea of an image with an api, for charts and other visualizations.
2356.
by tobr 13y ago
So you could craft a headline targeting the individual with the highest debt and still say "this greedy scumbag has more money than n% of the population combined", where n is the percent of people who have negative wealth.
2357.
by tobr 13y ago
And what is "Use other" supposed to mean? Other what?
2358.
by tobr 13y ago
Wow, this is fantastic. I have some puzzle game ideas that I've tried to build several times, but I always get frustrated with how tricky it is to express the rules in code. This seems like such a clever way to do it. Fun!
2359.
by tobr 13y ago
This is true, but it's still much better than pixelated blur or aliasing. Also, most of the time you have the same problem when authoring a bitmap with vector tools too, unless you very carefully target a specific output resolution. If
2360.
by tobr 13y ago
BioShock is so stylized that it's hard to compare to Riven's attempt at photorealism. But the big difference with prerendered, even 15 years old prerendered, is the lighting. You can't get this kind of light quality in a mode
2361.
by tobr 13y ago
An interesting aside: I can't seem to right click that link in Safari (6.0.5). It seems to be the "../../.." in the tag content that does it, because it works if I edit it out in the inspector. Does anyone else run
2362.
by tobr 14y ago
Several is "more than two but not many" according to Oxford Dictionary, so three should count as several.
2363.
by tobr 14y ago
Mine was almost identical, except with i++<100 instead of ++i%3? etc. Also 64 characters. But is there really no way to end the ternary operators without parenthesis?
2364.
by tobr 14y ago
No, "user" is a great word if you're talking about what it's like to use the product, and how to improve the experience of using it. A word like "buyer" or "seller" might be better in some cases, but risk being to narrow, because a seller f
2365.
by tobr 14y ago
Fun idea, but doesn't seem to recognize non-US keyboard layouts.