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by illicium 9y ago
They're ubiquitous for the same reason as those Apple stickers: bundling, in this case with baby car seats.
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by illicium 9y ago
The better format does not always win, and just like VHS, H.265 already has much deeper market penetration in hardware.
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by illicium 9y ago
Check out libcaca[1], a image-to-ASCII library that already available as a mplayer and VLC output. There's also a demoscene competition where entries can only use text-mode art, TMDC [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by illicium 9y ago
Assuming you have G Suite, create a calendar resource for the room, then add the room to the invite. https://support.google.com/a/answer/1686462?hl=en
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by illicium 9y ago
AAC is also higher quality than MP3 at medium bitrates[1], but this is largely irrelevant for high-bitrate iTunes downloads. [1] http://listening-test.coresv.net/results.htm
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by illicium 9y ago
There is no chicken-and-egg problem because the OS already does color management to map your source color space (sRGB, mostly) to your target monitor's color space. If it didn't, you wouldn't be able to view sRGB content corr
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by illicium 10y ago
VSTs draw their own graphics. They're basically separate applications that have an audio/MIDI pipe to the host.
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by illicium 10y ago
Past performance is not a guarantee of future returns. :)
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by illicium 10y ago
ESP32, the successor to the ESP8266, has both WiFi and Bluetooth, but it's fairly expensive.
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by illicium 10y ago
Bluetooth/WiFi doesn't require embedded Linux. The venerable ESP8266 can be easily programmed through the Arduino IDE.
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by illicium 10y ago
Or I can have the candidate code with me for an hour during the interview, and save $100. They get to ask me questions about the problem directly, and I can see where they are struggling, and how they debug (trial and error? Google/SO?
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by illicium 10y ago
Sounds like Twitter a few years back. These companies are on the same track.
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by illicium 10y ago
That is because: powerful = power hungry = requires a large battery != small.
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by illicium 10y ago
See also Trireme [1], an implementation of Node.js 0.10.32 on the JVM, using Rhino. [1] https://github.com/apigee/trireme
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by illicium 10y ago
Compare the feature set of Endpoints to Edge. There's more to API management than authentication and monitoring.
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by illicium 10y ago
RAD use rANS for their compressors. See ryg's blog [0] for more details, and a bunch more interesting posts about compression and various low-level optimizations. [0] https://fgiesen.wordpress.com/2015/12/21&#
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by illicium 10y ago
I realize that this comment is tongue-in-cheek, but the reality is that Alphabet is a corporation, not a research university. Corporations by definition need to ship and make money.
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by illicium 10y ago
It shouldn't be an issue given that HLL is approximate and that relatively few votes are undone. You could also debounce the vote before recording it in the counter, at the cost of a small delay.
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by illicium 10y ago
Another option is Burp Suite ( https://portswigger.net/burp/ ) -- ubiquitous in the security world.
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by illicium 10y ago
Riemann is a generic event processor. You can use it to generate alerts or aggregate metrics, but you still need something like collectd or telegraf to collect system/app stats from each machine and send it to Riemann.
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by illicium 10y ago
It was always a separate app even after being acquired. That said, Twitter has done pretty much nothing to bridge the two communities.
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by illicium 10y ago
Phoenix is filled with macro magic, and just like Rails is the overwhelming reason to use Ruby, is pretty much the main reason why people pick up Elixir.
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by illicium 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixel
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by illicium 10y ago
Shout out to Shellcheck ( http://www.shellcheck.net/ ), a linter for shell scripts
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by illicium 10y ago
Use <i> if your use case is "alternate voice or mood" or "different quality of text, such as a taxonomic designation, a technical term, an idiomatic phrase from another language, transliteration, a thought, or a ship na
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by illicium 10y ago
Suicide rate or suicide attempt rate?
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by illicium 10y ago
Unless you have the resources of a nation-state, generating a SHA256+ collision is infeasible.
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by illicium 10y ago
When the Bay Area housing bubble collapses in the future, renting will get cheaper, and your mortgage will stay the same.
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by illicium 10y ago
Physio Health: "Time for a nice strecth!"
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by illicium 11y ago
A regular events business, not an engineering events business. They could squash TicketMaster if they wanted to.

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