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Xyzodiac··on Teenage Engineering has won over kids and professionals with a synthesizer
There's a really cool project for the Organelle called Orac[1] that turns it into a super cool modular synthesizer. It's also available for Raspberry Pi and Bela Salt

[1] https://github.com/TheTechnobear/Orac

Xyzodiac··on Dank Learning: Generating Memes Using Deep Neural Networks
I was expecting this to use some formats that aren't from 2012. It would be interesting to see a neural network that could decide text for more complex meme formats that trend on twitter and instagram.
Xyzodiac··on Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists
Really not the same thing. You could produce the same C++ program in Notepad that you could in any other editor or IDE. Here the artist is working with restricted tools in a way that the restriction becomes part of the work itself
Xyzodiac··on ES6 for beginners, part 3
I found it confusing it was mentioned in this article because of this. I wonder if they just wanted to show off how elegant arrow functions are and used those as an example?
Xyzodiac··on Modern “Hackintoshes” show that Apple should probably just build a Mac tower
It's not just design, there's also a heavy reliance on Mac only (or at least Mac and Windows only) pro video and audio programs. I will say though, I've always loved running Linux on desktops where this isn't the use case.
Xyzodiac··on Firefox 39.0 released
It's fixed in the dev channel, it just hasn't propagated to stable or beta yet.
Xyzodiac··on GNOME 3.16 on OpenBSD [video]
I believe the significance is that Gnome 3.X+ relies on systemd? Though I may be mistaken.
Xyzodiac··on Blue Moon: The “Craft” Beer Made by Coors
Fest?
Xyzodiac··on ASCII art editor designed for the Mac
This looks really promising! I'll probably use it to make diagrams for org-mode in Emacs.

One thing though, please charge for it. I'm sure plenty of people would be willing to throw money at you for this.

Xyzodiac··on F.lux updated
It is the only reason I jailbreak, I couldn't deal without it.
Xyzodiac··on Microsoft just sponsored Daring Fireball
Slow news day?
Xyzodiac··on Sublime Text 2 Web Inspector
This looks rather nifty, anyone know if there's anything comparable for Emacs?
Xyzodiac··on Did PayPal Just Clone Stripe’s API Documentation?
A voice of reason! It's definitely a stretch to call it a clone.
Xyzodiac··on Tron Legacy (2010)
I think it helps with the point, there's been a large influx of reposts lately.
Xyzodiac··on Hazel for hackers
I've been meaning to try maid, I installed the gem but I've yet to do anything more. Thanks for posting this, as now I have some incentive to configure it.
Xyzodiac··on Ravi Shankar dies at 92
That's saddening, I love Shankar's music and am always going to think of him as the greatest sitarist to ever live. RIP.
Xyzodiac··on Plastic Found on Mars
I'm quite sorry I even submitted this, I saw it on Slashdot and half read it. Big mistake.
Xyzodiac··on [dead]
I posted it first, just saying.
Xyzodiac··on Math for Game Programmers 04 – Operations on vectors
Funny enough, vectors aren't usually discussed in a math setting until Calculus III. Despite being a relatively easy concept.
Xyzodiac··on Taking GNOME to the Next Level
Gnome is very much alive, the blog entry from a month or so ago was concerning but it's still very much a lively project.
Xyzodiac··on YouTube.app
Seriously, Youtube is a business and has to generate revenue somehow. The air of entitlement stinks.
Xyzodiac··on What killed the Linux desktop
I'm in the same boat as the author, I really have few complaints after moving full time to OS X from Linux.
Xyzodiac··on Firefox 15 available to download, finally fixes add-on memory leak
And it breaks pentadactyl, I feel entirely helpless.
Xyzodiac··on Motorola Launches “Unlock My Device” Site – Bootloader Freedom Has Come At Last
Unless your one of the unlucky people that bought into Motorola dual-core devices too early. My Droid X2, a solid dual-core Android phone, is stuck on Gingerbread and will never get official ICS or an unlocked bootloader. The community has managed to port ICS, but it's buggy and lacks a fully compatible kernel.
Xyzodiac··on Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization
Sounds good, despite my first post Meteor is the most interesting framework out there atm IMO.
Xyzodiac··on Meteor 0.3.9 adds search engine optimization
Wait, they added SEO before database authentication? So very logical.
Xyzodiac··on Nokia sells Qt to Digia
I knew this was going to happen, seriously glad Digia is bringing it to mobile.
Xyzodiac··on Google Now is awesome; merge them with the iGoogle team and make it amazing.
I thought about this as soon as I saw the keynote for Google Now. The visual elements of Google Now would really work well in a multicolumn layout in the browser. That would be one of the best home page experiences imaginable.

The only thing I'm wondering about is how aware could it be as far as location/traffic goes. I wonder if it would have to pull from the data collected on an Android phone or tablet to be truly predictive.

Xyzodiac··on "Computer Science" is Not Science and "Software Engineering" is Not Engineering
Try telling that to my university, the majority of my non CS classes that are required are suffixed with "for engineers".
Xyzodiac··on Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password Resets
Agreed, epic is a definite overstatement.
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