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by bgruber 5y ago
Slated to be previewed in java 18 https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/405
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by bgruber 6y ago
The tapestry in that image is from a different set ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn ). The set at the Cloisters is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hunt_of_the_Unic
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by bgruber 6y ago
While you do have to know what you are looking for, and walk the long way around from the larger Bletchley Park site, the National Museum of Computing is still (as of last year) there with volunteers showing off the workings of a bunch of r
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by bgruber 6y ago
I had an issue with my own address on google maps (not as severe as this, it just had the wrong zipcode). After trying to correct it using the tools built in to maps 3 times and having my correction rejected every time, I tweeted my complai
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by bgruber 8y ago
this is precisely the case: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0873.html
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by bgruber 8y ago
When going from JFK to somewhere else in queens, yellow cabs are supposed to get a voucher from the dispatcher that allows them to skip to the front of the line when they get back to the airport. The fact that he was surprised when you said
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by bgruber 9y ago
walmart ( http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2015/6/30/walmart-runs-clojur... )
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by bgruber 10y ago
Re: daily standups. A lot of what the OP criticizes standups for is what I like about them. The content is only half of it. In my experience, it can be very easy for a team to cease feeling like one and instead become a loosely-coupled coll
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by bgruber 10y ago
it may not be possible to conceptualize all parts of a system simultaneously but that doesn't mean nobody can fully understand the system. A layer of abstraction isn't about not having to understand what's beneath it; it&#x
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by bgruber 10y ago
try again, and try doing a hard refresh (i needed to)
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by bgruber 10y ago
i love DoTT, and this looks nice, but I'm disappointed that they don't seem to have given the same attention to the music they did to the visuals.
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by bgruber 11y ago
Another (much more expensive) "standard" reference for synthesis algorithms is Curtis Roads' "The Computer Music Tutorial" http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Tutorial-Technology/dp/...
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Amazon.com: Handmade Products(amazon.com)
1 points by bgruber 11y ago|0 comments
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One Tweet Shows What Silicon Valley Really Thinks of the People It's Crushing(mic.com)
7 points by bgruber 11y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 11y ago
we had hailo. they pulled out of nyc.
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Facebook and the media: united, they attack the web(baldurbjarnason.com)
1 points by bgruber 11y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 11y ago
> Few people actually do this. Is it everything? No. But according to WGBH's media access group, "All major studios now caption and describe all wide released features and nearly all independent studios caption all releases.&qu
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by bgruber 11y ago
When I say that it seems no harder than adding more language tracks, what I'm talking about is adding pre-existing description tracks to Netflix. Of course producing new description is harder than adding existing language tracks.
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by bgruber 11y ago
Agreed that starting with their own content makes sense. As for the difficulty of adding existing AD assets, I'm unclear as to why this is any more difficult than adding more language tracks, something Netflix has been doing for years.
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by bgruber 11y ago
a non-press-release version of this story, from the washington post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/04/14/ne... this is the result of a multi-year fight by disability advoc
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Inside Putin's Information War(politico.com)
1 points by bgruber 12y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 12y ago
The Samsung TVs do perform voice recognition through the mic on the TV as well as on the remote (well, at least mine, which is a couple years old, does). Even if you have the voice recognition setting turned off, the one on the remote still
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by bgruber 12y ago
if you're using android, i suggest you try bubbleupnp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft... . It doesn't seem to have the problems you describe, and it's also very happy to
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by bgruber 12y ago
well, i guess that means miracast is done for.
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Lyft Sues Former COO for Stealing Confidential Documents(slate.com)
1 points by bgruber 12y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 12y ago
i've been rooting for hailo, but in new york, the experience i've had the last 3 times i've tried to use it has been that despite an initial promise with a time estimate, they were unable to actually get me a car. sadly, no r
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by bgruber 12y ago
redhat also makes a prettier version ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.fedorahost... ). not as pretty as authy, but less sketchy w/ the pointless permissions. Also, authy cloud syncs your acco
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by bgruber 12y ago
Before Max 5, making vst plugins with was very much supported, and was explicitly dropped in favor of Max for Live. Here's a blog post exploring some alternatives from when the drop in support was announced: http://createdig
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The NoPhone, a technology-free alternative to constant hand-to-phone contact(kickstarter.com)
5 points by bgruber 12y ago|0 comments
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by bgruber 12y ago
if this bothers you, meetup is hiring: http://www.meetup.com/jobs/

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