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by xbryanx 10y ago
Similar to the IBM story. the principles resonate across different consumer types.
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Claim made for hydrogen 'wonder material'(bbc.com)
3 points by xbryanx 10y ago|1 comments
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by xbryanx 10y ago
Just about every professional display or projector has a RS-232 control interface. In arenas, museums, airports, restaurants, any place you see higher end digital signage, you'll likely see a RS-232 serial cable connected to the displa
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Python Study – Explanation(userstudies.cs.uni-saarland.de)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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by xbryanx 10y ago
It was not at all clear to me. I spent some time navigating the site and believed at first that it was just anonymized real data. Using the word "synthetic" and something like "these are not real people" on the front pag
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Yahoo says Marissa Mayer will leave board after Verizon deal closes(venturebeat.com)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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Edith Ackermann, developmental psychologist and learning researcher, dies at 70(news.mit.edu)
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What Super Mario Run would look like as a free to play game(pocketgamer.co.uk)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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by xbryanx 10y ago
I'm curious what some of the industrial or business use cases are for a service like this. I'm not saying there aren't any, I just wonder who this scratches and itch for.
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by xbryanx 10y ago
Where do we draw the line between "dark patterns" and "smart design?" I feel like the Hacker News community could be advocating for a persuasive pricing page design one day and decrying its dark design pattern the next.
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by xbryanx 10y ago
If you're implementing the 'positive reinforcement over negative' approach into your life, it's important to trust the large body of research that demonstrates its effectiveness. Be skeptical of your own internal percept
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My Patient's Sky-High Blood Pressure and 'The War on Science' – CommonHealth(wbur.org)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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Ava – Communicate Beyond Barriers(ava.me)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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Now your photos look better than ever – even those dusty old prints(blog.google)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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by xbryanx 10y ago
Side note...stop spreading this ridiculous and incorrect frog metaphor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog#The_science
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by xbryanx 10y ago
I do, only because it's from the institution that actually owns the real painting. Museums try pretty hard to get colors right on the digital images that they put online. And since the project is about color, it seems like an important
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by xbryanx 10y ago
The colors in that image seem super bright compared to the original. https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79971?locale=en
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Man hacked his Alexa to speak out of a singing fish, and it's horrifying(mashable.com)
43 points by xbryanx 10y ago|9 comments
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by xbryanx 10y ago
The work to open source something is often extra work. So it would effectively increase the cost or, keeping costs fixed, reduce the impact of the software on it initial target...those who it was developed for. I also imagine that in many c
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by xbryanx 10y ago
I'm always confused by the interface outrage from hard core devs around new laptops. As a dev, I spend the absolute minimum time possible developing by interfacing with my MacBook itself. 98% of the time I'm plugged into a mechani
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by xbryanx 10y ago
I have the CAPS LOCK mapped to the escape key, which is great for Vim, etc. However, there's one weird edge case problem. In After Effects the CAPS LOCK is the one quick way to speed up rending of animations, by disabling the render to
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The ExoMars Spacecraft Approaches the Red Planet(nytimes.com)
15 points by xbryanx 10y ago|1 comments
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by xbryanx 10y ago
Wow, the link to http://www.ec2instances.info/ alone is so helpful. I wish I'd had this set of resources a year ago when I spent weeks trying to understand AWS' own documentation.
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by xbryanx 10y ago
Moving several systems over to the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).
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House Republicans cite concerns over SpaceX explosion(washingtonpost.com)
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by xbryanx 10y ago
It's important to understand that this arrest is happening in concert with a major operation to disrupt sex trafficking rings outside of Backpage specifically. http://www.startribune.com/feds-to-announce-bust-of-global-
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by xbryanx 10y ago
This is really fantastic. It sent me looking for source materials for the character choices made for each language. I'm dealing with a media experience in Dakota and Ojibwa right now where we have source material that is spelled/c
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Estimote Mirror Combines a Smart Beacon with TV Displays(readwrite.com)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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Controversial Maya Codex Is the Real Deal After All(gizmodo.com)
1 points by xbryanx 10y ago|0 comments
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by xbryanx 10y ago
Sure, it's harder to screw up. But, dang it's just so remarkably slow. If you're used to the commands from the keyboard, where you're likely already typing from your editor...can't imagine going back to the GUI.

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