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Behind the Scene: “Subete ga F ni naru” ED

LogicHoleFlaw — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 18:25:24 +0000

Article URL: http://baku89.com/article/2394

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10641870

Points: 25

# Comments: 6

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Pets Allowed: Why are so many animals now in places where they shouldn’t be?"

LogicHoleFlaw — Mon, 19 Jan 2015 12:21:48 +0000

After being zapped by one of these myself, I had to tone down my disapproval of them. It was uncomfortable but not particularly painful, similar to a 'handbuzzer' gag gift.

My bigger problem was that it was not very effective at stopping barking.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Seamless and GrubHub Announce Merger"

LogicHoleFlaw — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:25:21 +0000

Speaking from experience... apartment numbers are one of the most difficult things to process correctly when geocoding, particularly if your service is backed by Google. The experience you describe sounds exactly like someone didn't correctly handle the edge cases surrounding subunit numbers.

I spent quite some time banging my head against these issues for a former employer. Lots of trial-and-error was employed to build up a basket of test cases around apartments. Certain addresses remained intractable.

Rap Genius launches Poetry Brain

LogicHoleFlaw — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:21:33 +0000

Article URL: http://www.businessinsider.com/this-startup-could-wipe-out-cliffnotes-2013-2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5280114

Points: 8

# Comments: 0

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Reddit user captures video of 2012 voting machines altering votes"

LogicHoleFlaw — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 20:02:07 +0000

In my experience the campaigners are instructed by the officials running the voting site what that radius is and stay outside of it.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Small but significant usability sins that websites should never commit"

LogicHoleFlaw — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 18:02:39 +0000

How does that respond to middle-mouse-clicks? I use that for open-in-new-tab functionality all the time. There's no need to chord the mouse and keyboard together for it. Right-click->context menu is the same way.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Cisco’s cloud vision: Mandatory, monetized, and killed at their discretion"

LogicHoleFlaw — Mon, 02 Jul 2012 23:45:50 +0000

My WRT54G is still going strong. I run the `tomato` firmware on it, and haven't had to mess with the configuration in years. If only the rest of my hardware could be as reliable.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Firefox finally plugs the leak"

LogicHoleFlaw — Tue, 08 May 2012 13:31:58 +0000

I've easily burned through 8GB of memory when I'm crunching numbers on large-ish datasets in Octave. (And through twice that when I had a bug in said Octave code...)

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Carmack on why transatlantic ping is faster than pushing a pixel to the screen"

LogicHoleFlaw — Wed, 02 May 2012 00:37:25 +0000

I have seen test rigs where the button switches are in series with an LED - the LED lights essentially instantly, and it is very obvious on-camera when that circuit is closed.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "The Sharp Dropoff In Worker Happiness"

LogicHoleFlaw — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 20:25:59 +0000

The implication is that it is more important to adjust one's perception of the actions of others than it is to alter the actions of others.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Mozilla: Are We Slim Yet?"

LogicHoleFlaw — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 23:39:34 +0000

I installed a new Win7 partition last week. Yep, almost exactly 2GB memory usage at start. This was a clean Win7 Pro, no third-party crapware installed.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Coding tricks of game developers"

LogicHoleFlaw — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:22:42 +0000

I played that port so much back when I was in college in that time frame. The VR missions too. Great stuff.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "How much of Settlers of Catan is Luck?"

LogicHoleFlaw — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:37:37 +0000

I find that, in Settlers of Catan, if you're winning - it's skill. It's only luck when you're losing ;)

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Why, oh why, do those nutheads use vi?"

LogicHoleFlaw — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:32:13 +0000

...I have a persistent Vim session with ~600 files open. It's been in active use for over a year. It works great.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "How to set up a mail server on a GNU / Linux system"

LogicHoleFlaw — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:16:03 +0000

Sendgrid's Event API (http://docs.sendgrid.com/documentation/api/event-api/) does something similar to this. Their mail servers act as a gateway to allow your app server to both send and recieve email over HTTP. I've used it at work as part of a not-yet-released feature of our product.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Is My MacBook Pro Always Listening?"

LogicHoleFlaw — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:30:41 +0000

Yep, my father used to work in high-security (think live nuclear sites)... the standard answer was to use a drill press to ream out any camera lenses on cell phones that needed to be on-site.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Dear Comcast, I'm leaving you because..."

LogicHoleFlaw — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:40:43 +0000

Are there any decent maps of where Frontier is offering FiOS in Redmond? Supposedly there is service a few blocks from my apartment downtown, but I can't get a straight answer out of anyone.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Dear Comcast, I'm leaving you because..."

LogicHoleFlaw — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:37:32 +0000

I'm not too happy with the situation in Seattle myself. Currently I've got $60/mo 1.5/384 DSL service from MegaPath (formerly Speakeasy). Business line to my home, very reliable. It's just not fast enough for some of the things I want to do.

I can't get FiOS from Frontier at my apartment, even though there is service about two blocks down the street. And I have no desire to do business with Comcast.

Clear is out of the question since I want to start doing video broadcasting.

Not sure what to do here. Move to a new apartment? I might end up doing that for unrelated reasons, and just make FiOS a requirement for the new place.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "Why I'm considering giving to beggars."

LogicHoleFlaw — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:58:46 +0000

...which promptly can be sold for cash money.

New comment by LogicHoleFlaw in "What's the one Linux command you wish you knew years ago?"

LogicHoleFlaw — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 20:43:21 +0000

How do people use CTRL-A for screen without being driven batty that the emacs-style 'start-of-line' command is not available? I use that constantly!