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I don't know what I'd use this for. But I sure am glad it exists.

This seems like a great time to post the phenomenal Everything is a Remix [1]. Part one discusses movies, part two film, and part three discusses interfaces for computers, with spe…

You could enhance that second point by adding some noise to the function so the difficulty isn't a smooth ramp — you get some tough monsters earlier and then maybe the next group i…

Definitely after. Cooking denatures the myosin and releases water; a seared steak soaking in water isn't going to have the kind of texture you'll get (and want!) from the Maillard …

The worst part of R is that array indices begin at 1, and trying to get an array at 0 will fail silently by returning 0. I've spent many a night trying to figure out why all my dat…

Not everyone measures success by money and leisure time. Especially in more creatively-derived industries, like culinary arts, I find that money has little to do with what people j…

The fact that he's just using canny suggests to me that it's just a simple hack he threw together. There are LOTS of other edge detection algorithms, but canny is pretty good and s…

There is a lot of inconsistency in gyroscope accuracy between Android devices. The developers of Bounden posted about it here: http://gameovenstudios.com/bounden-on-android-delayed…

What I meant was to shy away from approaches that are PURELY based on statistics if you have no background in it, because it can get overwhelming quickly. Of course, if it's worth …

Edward Tufte's book The Visual Display of Quantitative Information is a monumental book. He writes not about how to make your graphs look pretty, but how to display vast quantities…

If the iPhone was going to threaten Nintendo, it would have done it already. Game Center-like backends are hardly uncommon on it. OpenFeint has been around for a long time, and it'…

Why do I need this?

This gives me that really excited feeling in my gut that I get when I see something cool. I've always wanted to learn how to play piano, but I was always overwhelmed by diving righ…

Then you shouldn't be focusing on the quote itself. The quote is just an efficient preview of the material. Focus on accurately giving people news they want, and make THAT the sell…

So what you're REALLY providing isn't a quote-aggregation service, but rather an intelligent method of showing people content from around the internet based on how much they like a…

I can do all of this on Tumblr -- with the exception of finding people's quotes. Sell me on why that's the killer feature.

Have you tried using www.google.com?

Now I feel like a dick, re: the post above me.

Also, no one uses Ogg.

I feel like this is another attempt of humans to avoid natural selection.

The movie review idea is very interesting. It sounds like what Netflix is doing. I hate to be one of those crazy predictors, but I wonder if Google will ever partner with Netflix o…

Freemium.

I'm not sure this author has actually spent any amount of time on Chatroulette. The article reads as a list of video stats glued together with some exposition about the magic of th…

Only if it can be used to add a layer to spam filters that cut this sort of message.

It's a good start, but it feels like it's a bunch of unconnected ideas at this point. I think you need some better copy, but you also need to refine your layout. Overall, it feels …