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It's amazing that they knew what they were doing 25 years ago! Where did they have their knowledge from? They were pioneers!

I always thought "it just worked" and they analysed it afterwards, silly me :)

Re:Golden Ratio for Readable Web Typography on Thursday December 22, 2011 @03:17PM (#3383077)
I thought that design (blindly) based on Golden Ratio and the Fibonacci-Series was frowned upon here on HN

http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm

Isn't chord detection / polyphonic audio analysis really difficult? And they do it instantly using an iPad, that's really impressive.

It kind of makes me mad that Google "neglects" audio on Android. The well known latency issues are the reason developers choose an iPad/iPhone over any Android device :(

Re:Can you build beautiful sites with Twitter Bootstrap? Hell yes on Thursday November 10, 2011 @05:57PM (#3222308)
No doubt about it, but why SHOULD you use twitter bootstrap?

These sites could have been created using 960gs-templates as well. Am I missing something here?

Nokia produced the best mobile phones back in the day, solid quality and fair price. They just missed the smartphone trend and when they still could get back they refused to be mere "hardware-producers" and out of pride they didn't cooperate with Android.

So in no way Amazon and Nokia are comparable.

The only thing I don't like about the Kindle Fire is that (although Android is used) the Android-Market will not be useable

Re:A Sister’s Eulogy for Steve Jobs on Sunday October 30, 2011 @03:35PM (#3175223)
Very well written, but I noticed that his parents are never mentioned, what happened to them? (Paul Jobs, Clara Jobs)
Wow, I'm really excited! But it still looks like a "car" :)
their double standard on real/fake names is a disgrace.

they ban people for using their internet handle that they have been using for the last 15 years and on the other hand celebrities like madonna or 50 cent are allowed to use their artist names

Re:Sudoku Solver in 140 bytes on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @04:27PM (#3049731)
I have to admit, I have never seen

.) for-loops used this way

.) an OR-operator in a for loop

.) +a as a shortcut for a.toString()

.) syntax like g&&R(a) (line 24)

.) syntax like a[j^i==j] (line 29)

Where can I learn/read about advanced stuff like this, searching for this information on google is very hard, as I lack the correct terms ...

Re:Sudoku Solver in 140 bytes on Wednesday September 28, 2011 @04:18PM (#3049687)
Could someone help with the syntax on line 24:

g&&R(a)

I simply don't understand it as a statement and I don't get in the context of the for-loop

Re:Eric Schmidt describes Google+ as an "identity service" on Saturday August 27, 2011 @05:51PM (#2932624)
It's a fair point, nobody has to use it, that's true. But what I don't like is that there are exceptions like for "Madonna" and maybe others as well.
Re:Can we believe our eyes? Misleading people with Unicode. on Thursday August 11, 2011 @02:16PM (#2874054)
0x43E (о) is the stuff of nightmares

facebооk.com is still available ;)