wreckimnaked

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Comment · 10 years ago

I was surprised that there are no curls on the curl logo.

Comment · 10 years ago

>I just don't believe you can force a language on people.

What about all of the American continent?

Comment · 10 years ago

>If you look at a lot of Western countries like Spain, France or Italy, you’ll easily realize that they are not doing very well: they are mostly lazy, complacent, nothing much going on there.

Such a simplistic and borderline racist analysis of the economical situation of these countries. This kind of narrative reminds me a lot of what was said on some media outlets during the recent Greece bailout episode.

Comment · 11 years ago

It doesn't have to be facebook, any of the whitelisted websites could potentially be used as a proxy.

Comment · 11 years ago

Sure, on a normal computer that may be the case. But, products like the Kemper Profiling Amp (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0SmSl1aS1w) are on the same price range as high-end amps and have been able able to model _any_ amp with an incredible precision for years already. Still, it's easier to find a wide selection of analog amps in recording studios than one of those. That said, I think it has a lot to do with the guitar player "fetish" of recording on a boutique valve head with a pair of 4x12 cabinets.

Comment · 11 years ago

Minecraft!

Comment · 11 years ago

or PureData/SuperCollider (:

Comment · 11 years ago

sounds very Berlin, to be fair :D

Comment · 11 years ago

Have you tried last.fm?

Comment · 11 years ago

You clearly never programmed in Qt.

Comment · 11 years ago

>Most references to the people on the American continents are to North Americans, Central Americans, or South Americans. Referring to the collective as 'Americans' is rare and virtually meaningless

The terms Latin/Anglo-Saxon America are just as used used exactly to highlight this aspect of the continent.

>given the total lack of shared culture, language, or ethnicity between say, Canadians and Brazilians, comparable to comparing Britons and Chinese.

This is not true. Apart from Canada and the US the rest of the Americas are actually quite close culturally.

Comment · 11 years ago

Do you ever use the word "European" or the word "Asian"? If the founders of the USA were programmers they'd probably avoid that unnecessary namespace collision.

Comment · 12 years ago

In Brazil it's called "gambiarra", and the same mixed pride/shame feelings also apply.

Comment · 13 years ago

Great stuff! I happen to really like all recommendations that came in for me.

Some suggestions: this pure social graph approach could be vastly improved for music recommendation by aggregating tags, à la last.fm, or adding music-related features yielded by some waveform analysis.

For instance, I typed in Tame Impala and got these results in this order: Real Estate - Girls - Beach Fossils - Toro Y Moi - Washed Out - Wavves - James Blake. The first three relate well to modern psych rock of Tame Impala, but then things get a little strange: two chillwave acts, one correctly similar psych/noise rock act and a dubstep/downtempo artist!

Comment · 13 years ago

I'm a Ricty user, but Hermit looks really good, nice job! Also, loved that jellybean colorscheme.