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by ubercore 15y ago
Is there a site that compares (up to date) catalog sizes of the different services? Rhapsody used to have the largest, but I couldn't abide their website. Rdio has a great site, but their selection wasn't so great. Mog has been a decent com
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by ubercore 15y ago
I see the thinking behind it, but it seems like it would be a mistake to make Circles any more conceptually complex than they are now. People are already making a decision about what circles to put things in, and what circles to share thing
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by ubercore 15y ago
I'm kind of an outlier, but I really believe that context places a huge, huge part in the "superstar developer" mythos. We're very quick to overlook a lot of contributing factors in the rush to declare some developers legendary. "Outliers"
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by ubercore 15y ago
Isn't it only potentially a hell of a lot more, if Groupon stock holds its value, as opposed to cash/GOOG?
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by ubercore 15y ago
While I think I may agree with your sentiment (though maybe not your tone), I think it's kind of humorous to compare interstellar exploration and colonization with modem speeds. Edit: Curious about downvotes?
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by ubercore 15y ago
Ahh, right. Thanks for clarification.
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by ubercore 15y ago
Non-physicist here. If the modulation is annual, does that imply that the Dark Matter they're detecting is stationary, relative to the Sun (meaning it orbits the Milky Way on the same path as our Sun)?
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by ubercore 15y ago
Haven't read it either, just basing it on "The pre-eminent symbol of our the multicultural, multiracial society", and I'm not sure why you mentioned racism here
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by ubercore 15y ago
Is it? His point is about multiculturalism in our society, and using his name is a pithy (and, imo, appropriate) way to make that point.
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by ubercore 15y ago
Even without recording too loud, room can have a HUGE impact on recording. As can mic, pre-amp, mic placement, speaker cabinet, pickup selection, pick choice, string choice, playing style. I'd try to minimize or at least make transparent th
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by ubercore 15y ago
Just to add a counterpoint, I had a lot of trouble making the connection. I wasn't sure how github would map to "guitar and bass players". Is it sharing instruments used on recordings? Is it sharing what equipment you have? Is it sharing
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by ubercore 16y ago
I think it's interesting that their _entire_ DNS seems to have gone down. Seems like a pretty big failure of architecture, and given the size of prevalence of Media Temple a topic for HN.
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by ubercore 16y ago
Thanks, that's a good distinction I was overlooking. It does seem to be somewhat dependent on the network we're talking about though. Twitter swings far to the broadcast side, but Facebook seems to push the needle back towards a conversatio
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by ubercore 16y ago
Calling out social networking for being trivial is a bad analysis of what social networking is all about. Your social networking experience is defined by your friends and what you choose to socialize about. Scoble is socializing about mobil
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by ubercore 16y ago
I'd disagree that it's never going to be worth doing something of that scale. Protovis/D3/Raphael visualizations could easily get to that level of complexity. I've already used Protovis to display 2mb geojson files, so I think people will u
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by ubercore 16y ago
We've been using it for our band, and it's been working great. A really useful tool that the non-techy members have had no trouble adopting.
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by ubercore 16y ago
They were given notices of _intent_ to fire. Most of those orders will be rescinded before the school year is over. The law requires that teachers be notified by March 1st of any possible change in employment by the end of the year. The cit
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by ubercore 16y ago
I think you're missing my point: if it's infant mortality that keeps average life expectancy down, it's false to say that "caveman" diets are optimized for only aging to 30. I think it's closer to the truth to say that cavemen either died a
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by ubercore 16y ago
Doesn't infant mortality greatly skew life expectancy? I thought I remembered reading that it's the single biggest thing we've done to increase life expectancy, meaning if a hunter-gatherer reaches adulthood, they don't have an especially s
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by ubercore 16y ago
Understandable, and I agree that they definitely tackled the meat of the problem. I think there could be some interesting problems in the computer vision aspect of it, though. Seeing and interpreting the board is subtly different than a str
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by ubercore 16y ago
I'd like to see the next version take the avatar concept further. They went half way by making it physically buzz in. Go the rest of the way, and make it only receive input from the avatar. Add a computer vision and speech recognition compo
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by ubercore 16y ago
The exception that proves the rule. I think the Python community is, to a certain degree, split on the usefulness of doctests, and in my experience most devs see them as useful documentation first, and tests second.
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by ubercore 16y ago
I'm not sure how much this adds to the conversation, since I think it's a pretty common experience, but I honestly can't recall a single thing advertised in facebook. I don't have AdBlock running, I've just developed a complete blind-spot f
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by ubercore 16y ago
My band is on facebook primarily for event invitations. We use bandcamp for posting songs, and our own .com that basically serves as links to facebook and bandcamp. We also use reverbnation on our facebook site. We _also_ commission physica
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by ubercore 16y ago
It doesn't have the same energy-saving properties as e-ink (no power to display, only on page changes). E-Ink also looks different at the pixel level: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/08/pictures-kindle-and-i...
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by ubercore 16y ago
> I think the scale of this attack is larger, but still That's a pretty large but, when a DoS is, by nature, all about scale.
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by ubercore 16y ago
I don't disagree with your point in general, but I would point out that humidity can put a serious hurt on passive cooling options like that.
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by ubercore 16y ago
I honestly had a fairly positive reaction to the design. The rainbow color scheme feels fresh and modern to me. The mozilla page you posted is exceptionally well done, but not as visually interesting, in my opinion.
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by ubercore 16y ago
Sorry, didn't mean to imply that NoSQL and AJAX had any relation. I was just using it as an example of an overly broad term that came to mean more than it possibly should have (ie, any advanced Javascript was/is called AJAX, whether it uses
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by ubercore 16y ago
I'm not too deep in the NoSQL world, but isn't this article conflating MapReduce with NoSQL? NoSQL is a broad AJAX-y term, but generally I thought it was referring to schema-less/document databases, not MapReduce. You don't have to use MapR

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