Historiopode

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by Historiopode 13y ago
I wonder if there's a way to preserve their cloud.typography service through this. The article states that ownership of the fonts was transferred, but I imagine most designers would disdain the very idea of subscribing if the allegatio
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by Historiopode 13y ago
On technical counts, I agree. The scenario of a poorly implemented filter reminds me of "porn before the Internet": young people learning the basic tricks to gain access to forbidden material and then spreading them within their g
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by Historiopode 13y ago
I think that is rather straightforward: http://elixir-lang.org/blog/2013/05/02/elixir-on-xen/ Most of the work really is on the Erlang side of things.
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by Historiopode 13y ago
Something along this idea[1], but properly drawn by a designer in more than three minutes? [1] http://i.imgur.com/DR2w9Jl.png
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by Historiopode 13y ago
What brought you to develop this library rather than relying on Incanter/Colt? The scope of HipHip seems different, of course, but there is enough of an overlap to warrant the question.
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by Historiopode 13y ago
Wonderful, thanks for the continuous updates. I hope you will keep gaining momentum around this initiative; having a solid community-supported set of benchmarks which routinely improves would be a true asset. By the way, I would like to off
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by Historiopode 13y ago
A warning: this traditional, over-the-top gesturing is particularly common in certain cities and segments of population. (The kind of colourful things that short tourism&culture articles like to talk about.) Elsewhere? Not so much. If y
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by Historiopode 13y ago
It seems to me that downloading a subset of a typeface from a webpage would be less practical than downloading an entire collection from a torrent. Concerning the service itself: according to their product page, H&FJ requires you to inc
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by Historiopode 13y ago
Ironically enough, the lead actor (Ulrich Mühe[1]) had really been under Stasi surveillance; a surveillance to which his then wife allegedly collaborated. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_M%C3%BChe
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by Historiopode 13y ago
Does it offer PGP integration? Well-designed email clients with proper privacy seem to be very hard to come by, and new players in that niche would be welcome. Particularly in the current climate, I would argue.
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by Historiopode 13y ago
While I lack the skill set to fully appreciate the paper, I must say that it is very refreshing to see innovative proposals on this kind of all-important foundational elements. These are the kind of submissions that make HN worth visiting,
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by Historiopode 13y ago
I am fairly sure that Light Table is a node-webkit[1] app, so your assumption should be correct. [1] https://github.com/rogerwang/node-webkit
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by Historiopode 13y ago
Many would argue[1] that “responsibility” is an entirely perfunctory concept when you admit that society should judge and control you based on the actual consequences of your actions (and expectations of similar future behaviour). [1]One of
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by Historiopode 14y ago
I must say that I am very glad to read this, since I am also looking forward to deploy RethinkDB alongside Clojure (or Erlang, but I fear that will have to wait for quite a while). Nonetheless, I must agree that focusing on the DB itself is
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by Historiopode 14y ago
The new UI is quite nice, although its striking similarity to Sonora's design leaves me with quite a bitter aftertaste. Unfortunately there seem to be no substantial improvements over metadata and format handling; it looks like I will keep
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by Historiopode 14y ago
I would argue that your hopes would be better served by Unity Engine[1] and Mono[2] than by Steam. While high-budget releases have almost completely ignored the Mac and Linux platforms despite Valve's effort, the popularity of those tools h
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by Historiopode 14y ago
Yes, they will need to be updated, for the most part. I am fairly sure that Sublime Text 2 was Retina-ready after a couple of days from Apple's announcement, though.
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by Historiopode 14y ago
I assume it is not relevant, indeed: I was merely asking for comments over an unrelated point that was made in the essay, which is that there are no working Lamarckian mechanisms in biology. I certainly agree over your second point, which I
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by Historiopode 14y ago
(My interest in evolutionary biology is quite lax, so bear with me if I say something particularly wrong.) I was under the impression that, in recent years, there had been a small but significant surge of interest in the possibility of epig
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by Historiopode 14y ago
I think that this comment bears a certain indulgent mixture of patriotism and naïvety. Dismissing Iran as an "evil theocracy" and a "a totalitarian terrorist state" is not entirely without grounds, but I would invite commenters to tone do
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by Historiopode 14y ago
A very interesting feature of the Ivy Bridge architecture is a new digital random number generator code-named Bull Mountain, which uses teetering as an integral part of its workings. [1] While consumer-oriented reviews rightfully ignore suc
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by Historiopode 15y ago
I would be curious about the details of such "unpacking". The apparent volume ratio of the born insect over its egg's is quite stunning.
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by Historiopode 15y ago
I personally find The Necks very good for almost any kind of work. They produce minimal jazz, which I prefer to more distracting music — even if I might listen to it otherwise, such as electronic. While their tracks are not available for fr
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by Historiopode 15y ago
I agree on the quality of the description, but only to a certain point. I think that neglecting to state that their actions are largely retaliatory could have been used to not-too-subtly tinge them as "pranksters" rather than "activists".
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by Historiopode 15y ago
Allow me to interject for a due correction: the inuit "having x>>1 words for snow" is a widespread misconception; Eskimo-Aleut languages feature compounding (as German does), thus allowing an arbitrarily high number of variations of
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by Historiopode 15y ago
This is not surprising, since ACTA is still months away from being effective and news concerning its dangers and shortcomings are only now starting to be visible. However, there is also another, perhaps major, issue: the tech sector is just
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by Historiopode 15y ago
Out of curiosity, has there been any exchange (either formal or informal) of ideas and/or data with other organizations which suffer from the same issue? Quora, which spoke very openly about the problem of mantaining a high standard of qual
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by Historiopode 15y ago
Given this answer (and the amount of downvoting on my previous statement), I think that I might have been ambiguous and left too much space for misunderstandings. What I am challenging is not the overall value of the initiative (through mar
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by Historiopode 15y ago
This is the reason to be interested in such matters, but I fail to see much of interest in this initiative from the strict perspective of textbook quality. (I will admit, however, that I am alien to the current e-textbook market and technol
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by Historiopode 15y ago
Europe is the same, indeed. I wish general and regional distribution issues received more attention when discussing piracy, the latter point standing despite (this) web being US-centric. Publishers deliberately introduce artificious policie

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