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    Comment #17954071

    I've been describing it as a code editor for sheet music, but I guess it's just as much a sheet music editor for coders?

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    Comment #10278086

    Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4235876

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    Comment #10170399

    I wonder how much of the $425 is simply to dissolve the word mark so that the word 'good' can go back to being an adjective in the phrase 'good technology.'

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    Comment #10105620

    The countries on the plot are exactly the 34 countries surveyed in the original paper, "Public Acceptance of Evolution" Jon Miller et al, 2006.

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    Comment #10009924

    Bon Cop, Bad Cop[0] isn't TV (maybe a TV Movie, now) but its use of Quebecois was, to me (my formative years spent within 3km of the Quebec border), quite accurate. [0]: http://www…

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    Comment #9857711

    tl;dr - if you're adding two numbers in your algorithm (like finding the midpoint in a binary search), make sure their sum can be represented in the resultant type. Basically: "wat…

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    Comment #9818732

    From "How much is time wrong around the world?"[1] see this map shaded to show the difference between standard time and solar time: http://blog.poormansmath.net/images/SolarTimeVsS…

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    Comment #9725962

    unsandboxed behaviour being abused... you mean like all other apps written natively for any platform since the dawn of time? There's no vetting process for Windows utilities or bas…

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    Comment #9725947

    [apple-]mobile-web-app-capable yes [1][2] is a non-standard meta-tag that some browsers detect in order to identify webpages who, when launched from the homescreen, want to be trea…

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    Comment #9613716

    Dental, Pharma, and Mental Health are the obvious holes in Ontario's (and Canada's) "Universal" Health Care. Do you want to deal with a person's psych problems or pay for their psy…

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    Comment #9428879

    Poe's Law to the rescue(?): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law

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    Comment #9396300

    Antennas, broadly, need to be some fraction of the wavelength of the wavelength you're trying to capture. Think resonance as to why this is the case. Since FM operates around 100 M…

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    Comment #8357397

    They get paid. To do business legally in a country, you need to abide by that country's rules. One of Canada's is the "Canadian Content" requirement of broadcasters that says that …