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by amvp 5y ago
The extreme values for "Optical Size" really alter the character of the font for me. Changing the angle of the lower arc of the "e" for example really alter how the font feels, and it's unrecognisable to me as Helve
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by amvp 7y ago
Also see The ParkRoyal on Pickering in Singapore. https://wp.architecture.com.au/international/award-for-comme... Today the plants along the edge have grown and hang off the balconies, and I think it looks even better:
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by amvp 8y ago
This is pretty cool. A couple of years ago I found an old map of Singapore and built page to compare it with a contemporary one [1] - this a lot better! The reclamation completely changed the outline of the island, and the reservoirs change
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by amvp 12y ago
This is cool. I'm pretty excited about AWS lambda. Keep in mind the current limitations of the AWS lambda at present: A process can't take longer than 60s. Only 25 concurrent executions. The zipped package containing your code an
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by amvp 12y ago
I'm almost disappointed to see a post like this with no comments - because while it's often quite negative - HN comments often provide me with context and a counterpoint that's really quite useful. My first reaction is that I
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by amvp 12y ago
That sounds secure, but help me understand: Is it the same password everywhere? How do you manage the different passwords for different services? How do you enter your password to login on an ipad, or on your phone? My biggest problem with
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by amvp 12y ago
I agree somewhat, but I think the article underlines a problem with the Genius UI as it is now, rather than the concept. The current Genius UI of 'annotation' restricts the concept to highlighting words and phrases. This is limiti
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by amvp 12y ago
Base82? You mean base62 - 26(letters) x 2 (other case) +10 (digits)? Or am I missing something?
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by amvp 13y ago
Yeah, but shouldn't they try to pay people back before they spend what's likely tens of thousands of dollars on what amounts to superficial marketing? I mean, it's not even much of a re-brand!
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by amvp 13y ago
www.gox.com is now redirecting to mtgox.com. For an organisation which is insolvent they must have invested a fairly significant sum on a 3 letter .com domain. This happened yesterday! What's going on here?
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by amvp 13y ago
Which by itself is great news. The Indian program involves giving multiple doses of the oral vaccine to babes (Pulse Polio). Unfortunately the number of does of the oral vaccine babies receive is correlated with AFP - Accute Flacid Paralys
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by amvp 13y ago
I'm afraid I don't remember. I read somewhere that when asked to count in their minds, people count in one of two ways. It's my understanding that the majority do so verbally, sounding out the words in their minds. But some p
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by amvp 13y ago
I tried a number of things over the years, and the technique that finally worked for me was counting in my head as I read. By occupying the verbalising part of my mind I found I was able to train myself to read without it, and with a little
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by amvp 13y ago
This looks to be from the same team that produced singapore's http://getgom.com/ - Go Away MDA, a response to non-optional censorship of several adult websites in Singapore. If so - well done guys! I guess increased gl
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by amvp 13y ago
Carmack has been talking about working on it for for well over a year now - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kw-DlWwlXHo . When I saw that last year, I thought it was already his company.
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by amvp 13y ago
I think it's a fairly well implemented hack. One question: does the iPhone mail client load the contents of iframes by default? Don't these clients typically not load remote content like images?
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by amvp 13y ago
I did not realize you could setup a MX record for a wild-card subdomain. It would seem like there are lots of applications for that setup - how come it's not something I've seen dome more?
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by amvp 13y ago
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/426239067/424327227/banksy-kid... This piece which you see sold to 'the lady from New Zeland', seems to be part of a run of 25 pieces and priced at 100k-120k.
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by amvp 13y ago
And I believe the codes on the TWIT network are not limited to a single term like this one.
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by amvp 13y ago
LibreOffice is commonly used as part of a system to convert and generate previews for MS Office files. I would assume it has something to do with thumbnail generation or preview generation. However I don't seem to see thumbnails or pre
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by amvp 13y ago
Example of the the baader-meinhof phenomenon? I learnt about this it a few days ago, as its the same phenomena used by Brain Brushwood in this weeks scam school - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at0xRBacJF8 where he attributes it to the 'b
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by amvp 14y ago
> How many Americans have been killed by drones? A handful? How many of those were actively fighting for terrorist organizations? All of them. (American born) Anwar al-Awlaki's 16-year old son was killed in a separate drone strike, 2 we
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by amvp 14y ago
I didn't realize spot instances were so much cheaper than on-demand. A small on-demand instance is ~47$/month
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by amvp 14y ago
Didn't the order require the statement to be: 1. Made on the home page itself 2. In a 14pt font which (according to http://www.getallfix.com/2011/11/convert-empxpt-and-in-css/) should be some 19px high. Instead this is a link to th
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by amvp 14y ago
I'm a little confused. I thought windows RT didn't have a 'classic mode' - and all apps were metro-style?
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by amvp 14y ago
Take a look at this. http://www.wallpaper.com/images/98_02032007_prada_f.jpg The LG Prada phone - released before the original iphone anouchement (though it looks quite a lot like the current 4/4s). Rectangular, touch screen phones weren
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by amvp 14y ago
It looks interesting, and the the palm rejection is probably the feature that will make or break it. It looked to me from the video that nobody was actually resting their palm on the surface - they either suspended their hands above the scr
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by amvp 14y ago
This is beautifully designed. But I didn't quite get the cover. All [something] is a matter of belief. What's the something? Money?
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by amvp 15y ago
I think it's because you've specified the type attribute of the input box as URL. Certain newer browsers will force validation on that (latest chrome and ff both do).
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by amvp 15y ago
In Singapore too.

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