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Re:Show HN: A Global Co-Living Subscription for Nomads on Monday February 09, 2015 @01:21PM (#9022693)
I actually really liked the scrolling effect on this website.
Re:Intel Bringing SIMD to JavaScript on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @12:54PM (#7879005)
For python, can't you use SIMD by way of C extensions?
Re:Chris Lattner on Swift on Tuesday June 03, 2014 @10:43PM (#7843745)
While knowing C certainly helps, it is not essential to learning Objective C, at least it wasn't for me. If you try first to understand it at a high level, then it is very doable (and fun!).
Re:Kill The Hamburger Button on Saturday May 24, 2014 @10:33PM (#7795224)
I don't think that the hamburger button was ever meant to look like a button. It's supposed to be a place that you can drag and move like a grip. The interaction where you can tap it and a menu will appear is just their for user convenience.
I've always felt that it would be only a matter of time before computer vision would be able to solve the (re)CAPTCHA problem. Especially since digit classifiers are able to match the performance of humans.

One approach that I enjoyed seeing was the use of reverse captchas. Here you pose a problem that a computer can easily solve, but a human cannot. For instance, if you ask a simple question (1+1=?), but you place the question box off the screen so the user can't see it. A computer would be able to easily answer the question, but a human user would have no way of doing so.

Re:Five Years of Stackoverflow.com on Friday June 21, 2013 @07:24AM (#5917477)
I strongly think that expertsexchange is a poor name for a website.
Re:Moon illusion on Thursday April 04, 2013 @04:27PM (#5495078)
Now you're just trying to make me look silly!
Re:Song of GitHub on Friday February 22, 2013 @04:02AM (#5263406)
I love it. So simple. So creative!