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The tapestry in that image is from a different set ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lady_and_the_Unicorn ). The set at the Cloisters is this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T…

While you do have to know what you are looking for, and walk the long way around from the larger Bletchley Park site, the National Museum of Computing is still (as of last year) th…

I had an issue with my own address on google maps (not as severe as this, it just had the wrong zipcode). After trying to correct it using the tools built in to maps 3 times and ha…

this is precisely the case: http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/archives/git/0504/0873.html

When going from JFK to somewhere else in queens, yellow cabs are supposed to get a voucher from the dispatcher that allows them to skip to the front of the line when they get back …

walmart ( http://blog.cognitect.com/blog/2015/6/30/walmart-runs-clojur... )

Re: daily standups. A lot of what the OP criticizes standups for is what I like about them. The content is only half of it. In my experience, it can be very easy for a team to ceas…

it may not be possible to conceptualize all parts of a system simultaneously but that doesn't mean nobody can fully understand the system. A layer of abstraction isn't about not ha…

try again, and try doing a hard refresh (i needed to)

i love DoTT, and this looks nice, but I'm disappointed that they don't seem to have given the same attention to the music they did to the visuals.

Another (much more expensive) "standard" reference for synthesis algorithms is Curtis Roads' "The Computer Music Tutorial" http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Music-Tutorial-Technology/…

we had hailo. they pulled out of nyc.

> Few people actually do this. Is it everything? No. But according to WGBH's media access group, "All major studios now caption and describe all wide released features and nearly a…

When I say that it seems no harder than adding more language tracks, what I'm talking about is adding pre-existing description tracks to Netflix. Of course producing new descriptio…

Agreed that starting with their own content makes sense. As for the difficulty of adding existing AD assets, I'm unclear as to why this is any more difficult than adding more langu…

a non-press-release version of this story, from the washington post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2015/04/14/ne... this is the result of a multi-year fight by dis…

The Samsung TVs do perform voice recognition through the mic on the TV as well as on the remote (well, at least mine, which is a couple years old, does). Even if you have the voice…

if you're using android, i suggest you try bubbleupnp https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bubblesoft... . It doesn't seem to have the problems you describe, and it's …

well, i guess that means miracast is done for.