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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Reddit has an interesting comment on Ticketmaster: http://www.reddit.com/r/reddit.com/comments/gmyhv/over_ten_d...
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
He (original poster) dropped the class before attending any of the lectures.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Why bother signing up for the class in the beginning? A quick Google search would result in good textbook recommendations.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Nice! I'd eliminate the reflection, I was rather confused when I saw a reversed screen. At least add a transparency gradient to it (let me know if you need help). Also, are you selling it while giving away the source code for free, or just
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Apologies if I wasn't clear, I was referring to the above poster's comment about this technology being patented.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
The ability to focus afterwards is at the tradeoff of image size and quality, assuming they use a microlens array similar to the study located here: http://graphics.stanford.edu/papers/lfcamera/ . However, this is cleverly marketed towards
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
This technology has been around in research articles for at least 15 years. http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=light+field+ph...
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
404. Edit: Nvm, back up.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Plain ol' Helvetica is also a good choice.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Great advice. However, it seems like a (false) generalization to say that all Asians cheat.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Google Summer of Code is only offered to college students.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Works fine for me. Just uploaded the Quantum Entanglement PDF from the front page of HN onto my Google docs. I can see this being big.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Anyone know the pros and cons of using Readability over Instapaper?
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
There's probably great uses for this, such as learning and adding on to other CoffeeScript scripts. I think it's hilarious that Javascript converts to Coffeescript, which then converts to Javascript.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Its supposed to stop at philosophy..
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
I hope he had permission for all those photos.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
I'm not familiar with the industry, but is 50/50 split considered good?
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Off topic, but that was the one with Stephen Colbert singing Friday, correct?
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
The linked example, http://maxvoltar.com , works fine for me for the spacebar and pagedown. I'm using Chrome beta build.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
> The recommendation I've seen from some gateways is to add multiples of 3 years until the date is in the future. Did you read the rest of the post?
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
success != academics.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Was it?
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Scribd links automatically generated for PDFs. I wonder if they check for mimetype, or they just assume it from the extension..
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
I don't have a source for this, but I remember reading about how the "autistic" brain dedicates more of its capacity for more intellectual, rather than using it for social purposes.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Actually, you can run it through an article scraper, then hash it.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Yeah, just reminiscing about the past. ;)
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
That's either a really sensitive watch or the ring produces a large magnetic field.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
Should we be drawing more or less attention to newcomers? The green is more obvious than the default gray.
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
AskJeeves and Dogpile are still going strong. I could have sworn Dogpile didn't look so spammy before..
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by shadowpwner 15y ago
:first-of-type is valid CSS3, though.

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