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_wp_

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    Comment #31056412

    There's quite a bit of overhead in execing and piping data from ffmpeg. If performance is a concern, then using the C ffmpeg API is a better bet(see pyav for a good example of this…

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    Comment #27687448

    I didn't say that the book's approach contradicted TDD, I'm merely quoting from the book and refuting one its claims (that TDD doesn't lead to good design). I agree that narrow and…

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    Comment #27687437

    I strongly agree with your first two points. Good naming supplants the need for commenting. I find diagrams a far terser communication tool of architecture than comments.

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    Comment #27687225

    I bought this book off the back of the referenced discussion trashing Clean Code. Whilst Clean Code has its problems, well articulated in that previous discussion, I am loathe to r…

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    Comment #21555539

    > To use people's random images for training, they would have to be manually annotated by a human (e.g. facial boxes, eyes, nose, mouth, ears drawn in). That's not true. There is a…

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    Comment #19861616

    Allegedly around $200 source - https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2019/05/pinebook-pro-video-demo

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    Comment #19377026

    The Atavist magazine version of this is available at: https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind It's a fantastic (but long) read, I highly recommend it.

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    Ask HN: How do I learn Excel as a programmer?

    I've come to appreciate some facets of Excel and feel it could be a valuable tool in my arsenal in addition to other languages I know. There seems to be a dearth of material on lea…

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    Comment #16122578

    Could you provide an equivalent Makefile to the one written in the article to demonstrate best practices?

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    Comment #12759015

    The repository is here: https://gitlab.com/open_nsfw/open_nsfw.gitlab.io/tree/master

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    Comment #12512793

    I don't think that's particularly fair on Julia. I have found her posts very useful, even the ones written in this style. Documenting her journey from newbie to proficiency is very…

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