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871.
by vortico 9y ago
The location of my son is unknown , since I don't know which side of the room he's on right now.
872.
by vortico 9y ago
See this sister comment. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16425313
873.
by vortico 9y ago
Yes, that's my point. This would be an interesting article if it explored the possibilities and difficulties in solving the problem due to the national border instead of just throwing up its hands and saying "It’s possible that no
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by vortico 9y ago
They have it narrowed down to a few thousand feet. To call it "unknown" is just unfair. They might not know which steel plant is producing it, but they can narrow it down to a small handful, far from "unknown". They have
875.
by vortico 9y ago
Garbage, sensationalist title with mentions of "unknown origin". Even the article says the likely source is Zug island, but of course this wouldn't get as many clicks. According to the mentioned University of Windsor report (
876.
by vortico 9y ago
This is a broad, naive question, but the number of responses and upvotes on this post suggest to me that many people actually need to speed up their JS. I've never once come across this problem in web app development. The bottleneck
877.
by vortico 9y ago
A company's "copyright usage terms" doesn't override law, so regardless of what are on those pages, the copyright owner can ignore it and take the proper, typical legal path to protect their IP.
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by vortico 9y ago
It's without a doubt that there is extreme misogyny on the internet and in the real world, but I would be interested in the demographics of the bad responses you got: country, age, gender, etc. This is the natural next step to understa
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by vortico 9y ago
DuckDuckGo still has this feature in their Images search, using the "View File" button. It also doesn't wrap the URL of search results in a Google redirect URL, so you can Right Click > Copy to get the actual URL of the we
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by vortico 9y ago
In my experience, whether an interviewer gives a take-home challange has absolutely 0 correlation to the corporate climate. These things are usually decided on a whim by the interviewer, who has no effect on the nature of day-to-day work of
881.
by vortico 9y ago
Yes, I shouldn't be stealing the term dynamic range compression from the article since that's inaccurate. Hard dynamics would be a better term to describe overcompression, brick wall limiting, and maximizing. Slow-attack compr
882.
by vortico 9y ago
>In recent decades, mastering engineers have been tasked with making studio albums louder via the application of something called dynamic range compression; essentially, the volume gets turned up on the quiet bits, and turned down on the
883.
by vortico 9y ago
Seems to be a quarter of the price of https://textbelt.com/
884.
by vortico 9y ago
You could implement your own so that at least you're in control of your single point of failure.
885.
by vortico 9y ago
Universities try to shoot for 90% correctness/retention for students. In almost every post-college career, that number is 70% or even less in order to be a successful employee. Being correct about facts 90% of the time is less valuable
886.
by vortico 9y ago
>Some kind of updating status or progress is, assuming it's not complete bullshit This is where we agree. If the progress bar is bullshit (like the IE6 loading bar), then it means just as much to most users as a spinning beach bal
887.
by vortico 9y ago
This is a horribly researched article. Progress bars are not benevolent deception, they are deception by incorrect choice of UI elements. >Mask system hiccups to smooth out a user’s experience (like when a progress bar grows at a consist
888.
by vortico 9y ago
No it's not. It doesn't prove anything, and there are ways you can prove it that don't deceive the user, like a status message at the end or a change of button text. The value of a progress bar is for the user to see the st
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by vortico 9y ago
Won't happen, but a number of alternatives have finally been springing up which beat the features of Adobe products. DaVinci Resolve instead of Premier Pro and After Effects to a lesser extent, Unity Web instead of Flash, Darktable ins
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by vortico 9y ago
A beautiful solution to a completely arbitrary problem that they created. Much like needing a dongle to solve their created problem of removing the headphone port. Or needing updates to their operating systems to solve the problem they crea
891.
by vortico 9y ago
I absolutely love good writing like this. If this was a journalist's quick report or a Wikipedia article, it wouldn't be as riviting as this is, and I might have lost interest partially through.
892.
by vortico 9y ago
This case isn't really related to the cat. It's a typical infringement case on a drawn graphic of the cat, just like if you drew a logo for your tshirt brand and a a soda company started using it as a logo.
893.
by vortico 9y ago
Yes, the drawn graphic of the cat is exactly what the defendent infringed on. See the similarity on page 4 of http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/documents/national/grumpy-c... between the second image and the i
894.
by vortico 9y ago
The driver was uninjured, and although his car (which most people on this forum love) appears to be totalled, why is this an interesting news story?
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by vortico 9y ago
Most freshman undergraduate mathematicians have had their fair share debating whether you "invent" or "discover" definitions and proofs. The general consensus is that you "discover" things that are very natural
896.
by vortico 9y ago
>humans can't hear higher than 48kHz Well, it's a true statement! (But yes, I agree)
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by vortico 9y ago
Post the script? I'm curious how one would do this. Something like: for i in $(seq 0 9); do # Offset by (cos 2pi*i/9, sin 2pi*i/9) and expand the canvas somehow convert "$1" ... frame-$i.gif
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by vortico 9y ago
I believe computer science is a solved field now!
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by vortico 9y ago
Right, but many websites have a "Browse for file..." or Import/Export popup which then launches the native file dialog, or the Save function opens the image in a new tab or something. They're making it as close as techni
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by vortico 9y ago
I love how the filesystem stuff is handled! Very smooth, with Open/Save acting like a native application.

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