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Thanks Kim, this was great!

There is a more recent version of this paper published here: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092v3 At Flipboard, we did not have time to do a full comparison of related upscaling resea…

FWIW, waifu2x was inspired by this paper from researchers at Chinese University of Hong Kong and Microsoft Research Asia http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.00092v3 waifu2x is a great demons…

There are several examples in the article that show original, bicubic and DeCNN upscaling side by side for comparison.

Back at Flipboard, for our RSS typography processing, we used a rule of thumb that all-capped words 3 letters or longer would get small-caps treatment. It worked pretty well.

Generally, but not in all cases. IANAL, but if you are an officer or key employee of a company that's acquired, the acquirer can enforce non-competes because it affects the value o…

Yes.

Understood. We just happened to have unconventional constraints that suggested an unconventional solution. There are many ways to lobby for improvements for things (especially Web …

Thanks Filipe! :-)

Just go to https://flipboard.com on your mobile phone!

Security. Malicious JPEG encodings could break hardware codec implementations.

Probably not without some work. I think you have to get the PageSpeed Optimization Library and build it from source, as described here: https://github.com/pagespeed/ngx_pagespeed/w…

Have you heard of Pianoteq? http://www.pianoteq.com/

Palo Alto, CA, USA - Flipboard We're seeking web developers, data analysts, and backend service engineers with a passion for designing, crafting, and scaling things. (H1B) http://f…

While we would love to, there are many ideas and designs that may appear in a future release, so they stay in the design vault for now.

Facebook continues work on their own fork of Android towards releasing a phone and Facebook mobile app platform. Perhaps an IPO to coincide with it.

On iOS, updates to the UI happen on the main thread, but all animation, surface compositing, and rendered graphics run on the dedicated Core Animation rendering thread.

Palo Alto, CA - Flipboard, Inc. H1B We're seeking iOS and web developers with a passion for design and craftsmanship. We're doing crazy things at the intersection of native and web…

Misleading headline. The employee in question was not an Apple executive or even an Apple employee. The employee worked for Flextronics.

Palo Alto, CA - Flipboard, Inc. H1B We're seeking iOS and web developers with a passion for design and craftsmanship. We're doing crazy things at the intersection of native and web…

Just a note about onswipe's Safari crashes: Excessive use of hardware accelerated CSS transformed elements (translate3d(0,0,0)) can use a lot of memory on iOS devices with a few kn…

Palo Alto, CA - Flipboard Seeking iOS, service, and web developers with a passion for design and craftsmanship. (No remote is possible.) http://www.flipboard.com/jobs [NSString str…

The folks at IntoNow are amazingly awesome product folks, congratulations!