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Superlogical(superlogical.com)
796 points by yan 2mo ago|458 comments
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by yan 3y ago
Can you share more about where you took the class? Continuing education, or a vocational school? Did you take it purely as a hobbyist, or hope to get into the trade?
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by yan 4y ago
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F/0.3 – The Impossible Lens – Building a Large Format DoF Movie Camera(youtube.com)
2 points by yan 4y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Who was the most competent person you worked or collaborated with?
111 points by yan 5y ago|13 comments
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by yan 5y ago
To solve the wide-screen, narrow text problem, I once threw together a demo with a hacked up Chromium/WebKit to create a flowing, multi column view mode that created a long virtual scroll surface and scrolled it like newspaper columns:
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by yan 6y ago
I believe what you’re looking for is: https://www.telescopictext.org/ (demo is at .com)
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by yan 7y ago
This is essentially how a wingsuit works, although inflation happens in flight through inlets. That is in general how nylon wings (e.g. paragliders) work as well.
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by yan 7y ago
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2014/02/worlds-worst-market...
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by yan 7y ago
"I drive, I ride my bike, and I walk places, but when I do one, I hate the other two"
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Ask HN: Who was the most competent person that you've worked with?
2 points by yan 8y ago|1 comments
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by yan 9y ago
Did your degree help you with that decision?
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by yan 9y ago
You'd be remiss if you don't mention Binary Ninja[1]. A relative newcomer that's already extremely capable, has great scripting support and is under very active development. [1] https://binary.ninja/
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by yan 9y ago
If you're healthy and using a normal, dynamic rope, no it won't. It won't even hurt. A factor 2 fall onto webbing or dyneema can totally mess you up though, even from a couple of feet.
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by yan 9y ago
Unsafe for what? Almost all of the fall forces should be dissipated by a dynamic rope, not the harness.
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by yan 9y ago
Man, talk about the ephemeral internet: One of my first projects[1] in Haskell was a small tool to go through my Google Reader favorites and download posts I tagged on ffffound. [1] https://github.com/yan/hhhhoard
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by yan 10y ago
Something that made filling rentals cars easier: there's a triangle on the dash that points to which side the cap is on next to the "fuel" symbol on all the cars I've been in.
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How a mechanical watch works(animagraffs.com)
43 points by yan 10y ago|7 comments
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by yan 10y ago
Moxie explicitly gave Zizek credit in his speech.
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by yan 10y ago
He addresses that in the book as well. His goal is to give rough estimates and a framework to reason about energy sources, not provide conclusions.
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by yan 10y ago
I recently started reading "Sustainable Energy Without The Hot Air"[1], which is available as a free book, and it's been a wonderful introduction to reasoning about alternative energy. The author also gave a talk a few years
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by yan 10y ago
When I first discovered Music for 18 musicians, it's all I'd listen to while working and commuting for weeks and weeks.
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by yan 10y ago
What most recent topic in the field of programming languages, or computing more broadly, have you changed your mind about in a substantial way?
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A collection of post-mortems(github.com)
22 points by yan 10y ago|5 comments
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by yan 10y ago
I agree it sounds similar, I was just pointing out that it's likely a reference to the plasma device and not a comment on Mac computers.
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by yan 10y ago
How? Только != Тока
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by yan 11y ago
Slightly related, but I had a small epiphany when taking a class on DSP on Coursera. The kernel that is used to blur an image and that which is used to remove the treble/high frequencies from an audio sample are identical, except one i
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by yan 11y ago
For anyone interested in DSP, the Coursera DSP class is superbly well done: https://www.coursera.org/course/dsp
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by yan 11y ago
It is. ssh-agent caches it though.
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by yan 11y ago
To paraphrase Jay-Z: he's not a C++ developer, he's C++, developer.

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