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by vdnkh 10y ago
For a Malthusian exploration of the psychological/technological impact of overpopulation, check out "Stand on Zanzibar" by John Brunner. It's a bit pulpy but has some very cool ideas.
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What you're referring to as Emacs is actually GNU Emacs, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Emacs.
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> Moving around once you've gotten a year or two under your belt is easy. * If your first year or two was at a "top company". Significantly more difficult if you worked anywhere else.
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> Blocking – making it more difficult for someone who is blocked from the site to return If they're talking about IP bans on viewing Wikipedia here, this is a terrible idea. If some troll gets banned on a college campus that will re
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I moved to Kip's Bay in May and thanks for this comment - I'm going to attend a meeting too.
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This is going to destroy HLS playback in a background tab. Playing back HLS with JS is already a very cpu intensive, time-dependent process and we've already struggled with the current background tab throttling - a delay like this will
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*Venice Beach
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> As a result, we are no longer marketing the 2nd generation board as water resistant and strongly recommend against riding in water or wet environments. Riding in wet conditions is a huge no-no for normal skateboards - water waterlogs t
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> no eating at work areas As a person who hates the sound of people chewing loudly, when you eat at your desk, please be considerate of people like me. Chewing with your mouth open bothers more people than you think. Should fall under st
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Header bidding will begin to cut into Google when it becomes more widespread. https://adexchanger.com/the-sell-sider/the-strategic-implica...
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>I love how completely alien they are compared to us. If you want to read a book which takes this idea to the extreme check out Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. It deals with a living ocean which has been completely incomprehensible to humans f
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by vdnkh 10y ago
Onsite | Various Positions |Full-Time| https://jwplayer.com | New York, NY Open to Candidates Authorized to work in the US JW Player is venture-funded, online video software company centrally located in midtown Manhattan. Our te
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I use f.lux on a rather high setting 24/7 at work, most of the day at home (where I have better lighting), and at night on my phone. Using it all day at work with the 20/20/20* rule has greatly reduced my eye stress. * I made
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> Why is Safari not tested on 32-bit machine? >Safari defaults to 64-bit machines and doesn't need to worry about 32-bit anymore. Big pieces of their engine is 64-bit only. As a result showing Safari on 32-bit machines would give
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Will his celebrity status prevent him from getting a "real" sense of the places/people he visits?
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And it's wrong too. Clearkey, Widevine, and Playready are all video DRMs in HTML5. Also, EMEs exist in all major browsers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Encrypted_M...
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What's the battery life on those things? I've literally never seen one being charged.
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Better title: Things I Don't Like About The Surface Pro 4. There's literally nothing positive in this article - if you think that MacOS/iPad is the gold standard for how OS's and tablets should be than you've lost a
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ebikes are ubiquitous in NYC amongst delivery drivers. I haven't really seen any other users using one.
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Yeah I suppose YMMV. I work mainly with JS on a video player which uses no frameworks. I still lean on MDN a lot and use SO for learning new things, but I've learned to rely on myself and my teammates to solve problems and where that i
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> the majority of actual tasks are often googled and stack-overflowed The more I've grown as a developer the less I've had to do this.
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Bell Labs is in Murray Hill, Morristown is ~30mins away.
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[2014] Here's the 2016 update of the "Walkscore": https://www.walkscore.com/cities-and-neighborhoods/ 1. NYC 2. San Francisco 3. Boston ... 7. Washington DC This list makes a lot more sense than the 2014
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Polyfills add a ton of size. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3JJ8qSIg2k
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How does this compare to VP9/10 by a "human quality" metric? There's lots of cherry-picking about stats which makes an encoding sound impressive on paper but result in a worse perceptible quality. This is a really good a
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Your post implies they made the libraries you listed, but they certainly didn't make Mesos or most of those things.
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The technique to fetch the ads here is called "header bidding": http://digiday.com/publishers/wtf-header-bidding/
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My dad wouldn't want a Tesla, but he'd probably want a Bolt.
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Catch-22!
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Much harder than it sounds if you care about live streaming, video playlists, and cross-browser support. Don't forget to mention the 3 big subtitles formats (608/708/VTT) and some smaller ones (SRT/DFXP). Also, here&#x27

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