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stoj.io 9y ago

An algorithm (computer vision) watching a movie trailer

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hackaday.io 9y ago

“Lixie”, an LED Alternative to the Nixie Tube

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blog.schema.org 12y ago

Schema.org Actions

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www.marco.org 12y ago

Penny Arcade’s Insultingly Horrible Job

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

Automattic acquires Lean Domain Search

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thenextweb.com 13y ago

Boxee to discontinue its Cloud DVR service on July 10

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seancoates.com 13y ago

Web developer

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rssjs.org 13y ago

Rss.js

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www.stereoplex.com 13y ago

Introducing django-lazysignup

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www.droid-life.com 14y ago

5 Months Ago Today the Galaxy Nexus was Released, It Hasn’t Been Updated Since

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www.uie.com 14y ago

Why We Sketch (UI design)

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thenextweb.com 14y ago

DVD.com redirects to Netflix’s DVD home page, hinting at a domain purchase

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entreproducer.com 14y ago

How a Minimum Viable Audience Helps You Create a Successful Startup

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www.appadvice.com 14y ago

Apple Has 163 Reasons To Release 'iPad mini'

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thenextweb.com 14y ago

IMified to shut down May 1st

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www.kickstarter.com 14y ago

Kickstarter 2011: The Stats

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groups.google.com 14y ago

Nick Bradbury asks: Is Google Reader being retired?

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gigaom.com 15y ago

Developers Confirm: This Is The Year Of The Tablet

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thegreatestmovieeversold.com 15y ago

The Greatest Movie Ever Sold

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stackoverflow.com 15y ago

Google Code + SVN or GitHub + Git

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www.engadget.com 15y ago

XBMC available on AppleTV2

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About five years ago, I took my kids to a petting zoo with baby animals. I was so struck by how cute baby goats were. I couldn't shake the feeling that I had made fundamentally wrong choices in my life because I didn't have more time with baby goats.

This is my current daydream to own goats (because that's probably the best way to get consistent access to baby goats). I was specifically looking at the breed of Nigerian dwarf goats. There would be cheesemaking, vegetation clearing, and current dreams also include an apiary.

Ahhhh.... goats.

Affinity 1.10 5 years ago

Totally, I too am not in a pro vfx type person. But I have been slowly learning Da Vinci Resolve (which is really nice). I'm just a real fan of Serif, which as been producing solid apps for a reasonable price.

Affinity 1.10 5 years ago

What strikes me with the performance is the potential to use the engine for a motion graphics app. Think somewhere in-between After Effects and Apple Motion. This might be wishful thinking, but I would love to see it and would purchase it in a second.

Except the NYT and Wapo have a much better history of correcting mistakes. Comparing Daily Mail and NY Post to other serious news organizations is really an apple to oranges comparison.

RIP Google Reader 5 years ago

The last interaction/version of Bloglines was really quite good, but at that point the user base has switched to Reader.

RIP Google Reader 5 years ago

The real missed opportunity for Google was expanding reader's social/collaboration features into a more robust social network.It would have saved them from trying to ham fist Google+ for everyone. It could have been a home for Wave and Buzz type of tech. Instead they threw out the baby, be damn the bathwater.

That being said, I have a found NewsBlur a great replacement.

Antidotally, I was a fan of Fitbit's focused model and owned several of their middle range devices. I ended up buying an Apple Watch for two reasons (one in FitBit's control and the other not).

1. Connectivity with my iPhone was spotty. I mostly blame the iOS ecosystem for this; long-running apps will sometimes lose connectivity to BLE devices. This would happen even when they are in the background, probably how apps are suspended and resumed.

2. Band quality, at the one year mark they the band would start to fall apart. Fitbit support, for their part, was always easy to get a replacement (usually free). But after the 3rd time, I kinda of felt that I shouldn't have to deal with that every year.

So when Apple announced the waterproof Series 2, it was right around the time my Fitbit was falling apart again. The Apple Watch (expensively) solved my two issue.

I'm not sure that being adult excludes me from having fun with the single most used device I own. I occasionally send Animoji to my family to say something whimsical.

I don't think wanting to work on open technologies and other political activities is a binary position.

Open software is built by groups of people and one part of building a community it deciding what sort of people you want to work with.

If you are a developer and build a product using react. When do you ask the business to buy support?

While you're building you assume you'll have to gain your own level of proficiency. So you don't know at what point you'll need support.

Having to go back and ask for an increased budget after it has shipped is a harder internal sale.

As much as I appreciate rethink's approach, I can see it as a challenging business to be in

Except that he is still using Disqus, which is free to use because they have moved to ad supported model (for the most part).

Even if he isn't running the ads, they are using the script to track users across sites and then feeding that into ad networks.

A couple nitpicks:

- Virtual Reality - still hasn't demonstrated mainstream appeal. I'm pretty bearish on it being the next 3d TV's

- Resolution - Does anything north of 300dpi really matter at this point? Maybe for VR, but see above

- Privacy - as data breaches become the norm, where/how do you want your data stored?

I appreciated the candor of this note in "What's The Catch?"

HyperDex does not have anywhere near the market penetration of MongoDB. This means that it's easier to find a developer who has used MongoDB than one who's used HyperDex

Then simply allow all scripts on the domain to load, only blocking 3rd party scripts.

It is a cat and mouse game.

If I add a rule to allow the ads.js to be loaded for only that domain (an possibility adblockanalytics.com) it completely defeats the detection.

In my experience once you start blocking any content the ad blocking community will make a change to the EasyList to have that exclusion included.

I am now convinced that Faraday is not a front for Apple. Showing concept designs of a product is not a typical Apple move. Faraday wouldn't dispel the rumors because it fuels interest.