revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: NotifoObjC – An Objective-C library for the Notifo API
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revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Support Widget Press against U.S. Patent 7,822,816
I realize I'm late to the game here, but I know the founder and lead developer of Widget Press personally, and he is one of the hardest-working individuals in the indie Mac software development game. I contributed to him despite having never used one of his products commercially, but I believe the type of nonsense that allows trolls like Lodsys and Macrosolve to exist needs to stop.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Self-documenting easing functions
The problem with using a property like height to demonstrate easing functions is that negative height is undefined, so the back/bounce/elastic functions don't really demo very well. It makes more sense to use position to demonstrate the curves that overshoot like that.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Show HN: I Made this Y Combinator T-Shirt (Words from PG's Essays)
Where's "it turns out"?
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who do you eat lunch with?
At times incomprehensible to nigh the point of frustration, but great indeed.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: All That Glitters: Why I’m Not Investing in Gold
"I think gold is more likely to see $500 an ounce in the next decade than $5000 an ounce."
As true as this probably is, it actually highlights the fact that there is money to be made by playing the precious metal markets. This article seems to be written from the perspective of the long-term investor, but plently of us have been trading gold for the last several years and making a killing. It helps the argument to clarify what timeline you're operating on, since a crash may be irrelevant if you can read the harbingers.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Found a nice bug in IOS today, bricks your phone and kills the Simulator
So basically the repeatInterval is expected to have one of the values of an enumeration assigned to it, where the enumerated values are calendar units (representing daily, weekly, monthly, etc.), and it somehow mishandles the value representing "once-per-era"?
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Challenge HN: Can you decrypt these messages? [pdf]
This document is available in higher fidelity, and with greater context, here: http://www.cufon.org/pdf/4_NSA_Tech_Journal_Articles.pdf
They comprise an exercise in interpreting coded messages, and are not intended to be interpreted as a genuine ET transmission.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Coffee Joulies: Kickstarter project keeps your coffee at the right temperature
It's much more likely to be a fusible alloy such as Wood's metal or Field's metal. My guess is that it's closer to Field's metal, since it is non-toxic and has a melting point very close to their advertised ideal.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Cellphone Radiation May Alter Your Brain. Let’s Talk.
So for the authors of the study, claiming health hazards would be reckless, but for journalists, writing a FUD piece in the guise of a science article is just playing it safe.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Cellphone Radiation May Alter Your Brain. Let’s Talk.
From the study:
"In healthy participants and compared with no exposure, 50-minute cell phone exposure was associated with increased brain glucose metabolism in the region closest to the antenna. This finding is of unknown clinical significance."
The specific finding referred to is localized mean differences in brain glucose metabolism of 2.4 μmol/100 g per minute (a 7% increase).
The linked article is a fluff piece providing "advice" for people wanting to avoid exposure to cell phone radiation. The study makes no claims regarding possible health hazards related to their findings.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: How To Make A Million Dollars In 100 Days...The Fruit Guy Interview
The title is sensationalist, and yes, the guy has something to sell, but the interview audio and transcript are available for free, and it's a pretty good tale.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: 3D Theory - Collision Detection
Yeah, that analysis is egregiously wrong: the terms should be summed instead of multiplied. The correct complexity is O(n^2).
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Poll: How do you get physical exercise?
I dance capoeira, and although it isn't full-bore cardio, you spend enough time in the right zones (over the course of an hour) for it to count. Plus, it's good for all-around strength training. I didn't start out with any extra weight, so I've put on a few pounds of muscle across all the major muscle groups.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Infographs are Ruining the Internet
I will never understand how someone can spend hours on a piece like this without reading it once to check for basic grammatical errors.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: The Ethics of Publishing Cease-and-Desist Letters
I feel this comment to be "right" (i.e., I agree with it), and I've published a received DMCA take-down notice, but I'm curious if there's any precedent for one getting in trouble (having their post regarded as another instance of copyright infringement, etc.) for doing that.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Knuth TAOCP, Volume 4A Arrives. Pre-Order Your Copy
It's amusing that they're releasing a box set for Volumes 1-4A, although I suppose it took longer to get Volume 4A to press than the entirety of the Harry Potter series (and they released a boxed set after pretty much every volume of HP).
That's by far the best price I've seen for the collected volumes though.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: TinEye Reverse Image Search
In general, it matches despite differences in size, cropping, some watermarking and subtle differences in coloring. It's not surprising that their image hash isn't invariant under rotations and flips.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Is the NYSE currently collapsing? DOW -130.63 since this morning
Looks like I picked the wrong day to buy AAPL. Wish that announcement had been something more spectacular than The Beatles on iTunes.
revolvingcur | 15 years ago | on: Operations at Twitter: Scaling Beyond 100 Million Users (Video)
Got it. Seeding indefinitely. Thanks for the up.
For example, you stripped the README off the UIColor-DigitalColorMeter project, which includes their license (MIT). I was unable to find any license for the Ahmet Ardal code you incorporated.