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cjmoran··on T-Mobile seals merger deal with Sprint
Any prediction on what this merger might mean for a T-Mobile MVNO customer like myself? (MintSIM)
cjmoran··on NeXT logo by Paul Rand (2010)
You don't have an untrained eye; you've looked at logos all day long for your entire life. Some of this guy's work was great, and some of it was crap. The same could be said of a collection of any person's work.
cjmoran··on Largest US radio company iHeartMedia files for bankruptcy
Really happy to hear this. These guys have such a massive hold on US radio stations, we might finally get some more variety in music selection and programming now that they're out of the picture.
cjmoran··on A UI Experiment with the iPhone X’s Front-Facing Camera
I've always found these pseudo-3D effects (including the slight "floating-icons" effect applied to iOS wallpapers) to be unconvincing in real life.

I suspect they look much better in demo videos like this because there's no depth information in the objects surrounding the phone either -- the person's hand, the floor/desk behind them, etc. This makes it much easier for one's brain to map "pseudo-depth" onto the entire video.

In real life, you have depth perception for everything except the images on your phone's screen, making a demo like this look "flat" even at its most convincing. Real 3D requires two distinct visual inputs; this is a gimmick.

cjmoran··on Face-verify.js: Monitoring who is physically looking at a website
"We noticed that you've looked away from your screen. Please continue watching the advertisement in order to continue!"

"Eye roll detected. Would you like to send feedback to this ad partner?"

cjmoran··on Ask HN: Booking.com sends raw CC data to Hotels. Is it legal?
My bank (Bank of America) offers this feature, but it's a bit buried in the menus. Custom limits and everything, it's pretty useful.

But there are plenty of reasons not to do business with Bank of America. I'm no shill for them.

cjmoran··on Norwegian Student Takes Secret Street Photos In The 1890s
Or who could afford a $15 camera like that. ($400 in today's money based on another comment)
cjmoran··on 'Very, very pink' tap water in Alberta town
The pink water is safe to drink.
cjmoran··on Ask HN: How were the super bowl led torches synced?
I believe this is the correct answer. The people in the "crowd" holding the torches were also dancing in synchronization with parts of the music, so they obviously practiced beforehand and I'm tempted to assume they each had an assigned spot to stand in at certain times. Given that they were in predetermined positions, the LED synchronization would be trivial.
cjmoran··on Poet: I can’t answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems
Seems to be about on-par with the way high-school English is taught, honestly (at least in my area). I remember my English teacher dedicating a full class period to the FIRST TWO WORDS in "The Scarlet Letter" (the words being "A throng"). I found it absolutely nonsensical and told her as much, but even though much of the class agreed, she shut down our complaints and kept teaching this way.

Later in the year she began scrutinizing yet another book at the molecular level, but one of the kids in our class was the son of this book's author. He ran our teacher's analysis by his father, the author, and the guy found our teacher's reasoning hilariously inaccurate.

I'm all for teaching kids literacy, but there's only so much meaning that can be gleaned from any given passage of text. At some point you're assigning meaning where there really is none, and I felt this was prevalent in some SAT questions and other standardized tests I endured during K-12. This was in a very well-regarded school district: CHCCS in North Carolina.

cjmoran··on Is Facebook’s Massive Open Office Scaring Away Developers?
Hah, that old server room on the second floor of 500? That place was incredibly depressing. I worked from home nearly every day (breaking the "two days per week maximum" policy) because I couldn't stand it in there and my team wasn't located in RTP anyway.
cjmoran··on VNC Roulette
I have to ask, how does one come across such open servers? Do you just try common ports on random IP addresses until you find one that works?
cjmoran··on Google, D-Wave, and the case of the factor-10^8 speedup
The YouTube channel "In a Nutshell" released a good summary on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhHMJCUmq28
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