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by sc00ter 11y ago
Not quite classical - "jazzical" perhaps? There is a freeform nature to the music that is more Free Jazz than classical, but the underlying classical style of the input is still readily apparent. It might be interesting to feed it
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by sc00ter 11y ago
> The only pitfall we've run into was in connecting the manipulation of the rods with the manipulation of the more abstract numbers. You could try clearly printing the numbers on the rods - connecting the abstract symbol to the phys
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by sc00ter 12y ago
The ultrasonic transducer probably does a pretty good job of warding off animals. Nothing quite like disturbing the wildlife while counting how many people are disturbing the wildlife.
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by sc00ter 13y ago
concur.com - mostly with the mobile app, but the web app is also very usable.
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Ah yes, because that kind of thing never happens on HN...
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Which presumably means it's covered with the same disgusting fake chocolate that the rest of Hershey products are made with, which means it's not really a KitKat...
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Just like it says in the article. (You did read the article, right?)
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Wonderful book, but if Norman is updating it, I really hope he drops the 'POET' backronym. It was contrived and awkward, and it's repeated inclusion felt seemed more like a slight to the publisher who changed the name from Ps
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Have to admit, I was more amused by the fake cinder-block wallpaper!
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "drink to forget"!
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by sc00ter 13y ago
'Fork you' ?
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by sc00ter 13y ago
"I hooked up [two] my shock absorbing lanyards" You really didn't read it, did you?
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by sc00ter 13y ago
"six grueling hours of chemistry, physics, and math" Otherwise known as three two-hour papers - hardly the stuff of legend! I'm not suggesting the papers are easy, just that by any measure, at this level the length is nothing
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by sc00ter 13y ago
> The BBC did an edit of the first series of myth busters, they chopped it down to 25 minutes, just by getting rid of the stupid recaps. Now there's a service I'd pay for! It wouldn't even have to sell the edited content,
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What New York City looked like before sanitisation engineering(io9.com)
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by sc00ter 13y ago
At one point Rails 4 was considering Test::Spec, and I for one was disappointed when that was dropped, as it was an opportunity to standardise on declarative style tests in a lightweight native library, and might have stood a chance of buil
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by sc00ter 13y ago
CarrierWave appears to support Rails 4; the rest are not doing anything special other than making jquery js acripts available in the asset pipline without manually installing them, so shouldn't cause any issues. You'll have a bit
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Is it just me, or do quite a few of these look like they've been auto-converted from a bitmap, and picked up jaggies in the process (icon-windows for example)?
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by sc00ter 13y ago
They'd allegedly get lucrative govenment contacts cancelled: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest#Refusal_for_NSA_spying It has also been suggested that the insider trading charge were trumped up as retribution, in
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Blog spam. No original research - just paraphrasing the Guardian article.
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by sc00ter 13y ago
If you read the article you'll see they were convicted of the "puffed up charges". They await sentencing.
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by sc00ter 13y ago
I couldn't help but be struck by the parallels between this case and that of Aaron Swartz, given the significant overreach by the prosection in continuing to add federal charges to the indictment as the case progresses. We have a glims
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Not to be depended on as a substitute for backup, but 'dead' doesn't necessarily mean dead . Forensic recovery (either DIY or professional, depending on the nature of the failure) may still be an option. Logic board failures are common, an
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by sc00ter 13y ago
From his comments defending not visiting ER given a recent unrelated health issue: The hospital billed $11,000 for a cat scan; the insurance paid 6k.' Seriously, if you need a an elective scan and it's going to cost you more than a couple
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Call someone off this list and ask a professional what they think of these people selling Soylent: http://www.landfood.ubc.ca/directory/faculty/professors-and-... . Was it really necessary to post this, or a variation of it, five times?
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by sc00ter 13y ago
You've got to hand it to her, the 'NSFW?' 'WFH!' image is near genius!
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by sc00ter 13y ago
If a flamewar in the comments can be detected, why not demote the comment thread, rather than (or in addition to[1]) the article? [1]In addition to because presumably the logic is that the article content is flame-bait.
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Hardly insignificant.
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by sc00ter 13y ago
Try travelling on a budget. A really really low budget. You'll have to bum lifts, work casual labour, sleep in less than luxurious places... If you aren't making meaningful human contact after a month on a starting budget of $100, then you
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by sc00ter 13y ago
"No one tried or needed to generate images with more than 256 colors since they could not be viewed on anything less than high priced graphics workstations." Except that given this refers to the late 80's, Amigas had been displaying 4096

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