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vgbm··on How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?
Interesting, I didn’t realize that the “Bro” app from Silicon Valley was based off of a real app.
vgbm··on Roku update turns on hated motion-smoothing feature, with no off switch
A really good video on the subject: https://youtu.be/_KRb_qV9P4g?si=x0pmLkBhLYXud4G0

The gist is that, for animation, frame interpolation messes with intended timing and can produce incoherent images on interpolated frames and odd frame rate issues for certain kinds of animations. Interpolation can thus cause animations to lose their punch and feel wrong.

While interpolation may be nice for live action films, it should still be an option to turn off.

vgbm··on Ask HN: What are some iconic comments on HN?
I couldn’t find the first one.

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31610005

3: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36570438

4: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30723129

vgbm··on Reddit faces content quality concerns after its Great Mod Purge
If you are using the app, I believe you can get rid of this under settings > username > enable home feed recommendations. Turning it off makes the app way more usable.
vgbm··on Why we switched from Python to Go
I believe the parent means templating in the sense of generic types: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_(C%2B%2B).
vgbm··on Django 1.11 beta 1 released
As far as youtube tutorials go, I thought sentdex had a pretty good one: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQVvvaa0QuDeA05ZouE4O... . It helped me get my first django project up and running.
vgbm··on Nim Programming Language v0.16.0 released
To supplement the other response, [T] declares a generic type, so [T] is a public method with the generic type T. I'd agree though that the is initially hard to parse, especially when taking C and C++ into account, where * means something entirely different.
vgbm··on Announcing .NET Core 1.0
From my experience, Rider is pretty stable and usable. Have you tried it out at all? https://www.jetbrains.com/rider/