hvm's comments

You don't need to defend it, you know. That was the point the poster was making - that just because he had a subpar experience he shouldn't judge the whole country by it.

> You learn about Dijkstra, Turing, Fermat and Leibniz, but not Popescu or Iliescu

Andrei Alexandrescu pops into my head and I'm sure I could find a few more if I thought about it.

> And within those that do use it, the vast majority are on Facebook and Youtube

As opposed to the west where everyone is using the Internet for maximizing their productivity.

> There is a lot of impostors in our universities and plagiarism is high. The dean of the Technical University of Cluj plagiarized courses from Berkeley and presents them as his own.

That is true, I've also been at UT, hehe.

Overall I kinda agree with you though. We are poor and the government won't or can't help us increase innovation rate. The talent is here though, anyone looking to create products does have a good opportunity if they choose to start a business here. In the process the native folk might learn a thing or two about what it takes to create a product and sell it.

Static hosting for $5 a month seems too high. If it would be $1 I might use it. But for $10 a month you can get a good VPS that you can use for any hosting needs (including a gitlab/gogs/whatever instance and a demo of your project (if it's on the web)).

Sigh, found one with 128GB RAM for $390. I say great, I might actually think about this. Then I look at shipping cost - $2000...

I'm also thinking that in the case of rule 2 or 3 you could also have an oscillation that has a frequency close to or equal to the acquisition frequency.

The sound is broken on my machine and disabling it from the options somehow makes it sound even louder.

shadow codec - the 'shadow' is either the large approximated image or the small one that only shows the details. Probably the small one :D

This looks interesting, I feel it has a lot of potential.

It will be useful with a standard library or a way to link easily to 'outside' functions without having to create (insert?) them in each cat that uses them.

Lossy video compression currently does that - it creates key frames at regular intervals and all the frames between (i-frames) are based on the previous key frame. Some codecs have i-frames depend on multiple previous frames.

E.g. a 320x240 video has 3 seconds at 25fps, i.e. 75 frames and key frames are created each second. Frame sizes will then be something like:

  20kB 2kB 3kB 1kB 2kB [20 more frames] 22kB 2kB 1kB 2kB [...]

Now, this technique might be good when compressing images - have a large image that roughly approximates the original and then a smaller one reducing the errors. Or even better, multiple smaller images that correct local errors?

I suggest we create a startup immediately. Someone might already have a cool video explaining how their compression algorithm is going to change the web and the world.

edit: others already thought of this: https://sonnati.wordpress.com/2010/10/19/h-264-for-image-com...

I suspect there's a default 'javascript required' message in a file that's included with all pages.

I think the idea still stands. PHP is a fake high level language in my opinion.

A high level language should reduce boilerplate and 'force' you to write concise and predictable code.

PHP does none of that especially in the context of error/exception handling.

Well to be honest after many attempts to try it out I started to get a bit frustrated and annoyed.

From the errors returned I'm pretty sure it's a PHP backend. Considering the expertise of the average PHP developer I don't think I need to say more (this might sound mean but it's not).

Yeah, the site is painfully slow. A site with a multiple choice test should handle thousands of users at a time with a tiny server. How is this thing made?

OK, there are no errors now but I still get the error. Does it use some other port? Do I need to open one?

OK. I see it opens a websocket which I guess I need to also forward to my server.

There is no mention of bower install in the install doc. I'll try that

I followed the installation doc, everything seems fine and the server starts (node bin/curvytron.js).

When I access the server I get an error page. I looked at the browser log and it shows 404 for /js/dependencies.js.

I thought it was because I set it up behind apache but wget localhost:curvy_port/js/dependencies.js also yields 404.

I don't exactly know how to contact the team about this since I can't say it's a bug so I thought opening a github issue about it would be bad form.

I installed it but I get 404 on /js/dependencies.js. I'm not experienced with node.js and the like, what can I do?

Also, like I said in a previous comment, it's interesting to note the 'interview' given to the condemned: http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127

I also wonder what's up with those two names in the 'burnt in hand' section that are anonymized (V--- E--- and G--- C---). Public people not wanting others to know about it? Escapees? People with no public records?

I love this kind of historical information. It's difficult (to me) to empathise with past historical events when we (I) have no knowledge of those people and how they lived.

Reading about their daily struggles gives events from that time a whole new image.

BTW, I found extremely interesting that they gave the condemned an interview which they then wrote down ( http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?div=OA17160127 ).

How many average people from that time have the luxury of their lives being recorded for future people to see? How many of us have that today?

It's programmed after a 14 year old - asking the same question until he gets an answer and then asking it some more :D