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hyperreality··on We're building this in Taiwan: DAMO: Android-based touchscreen for any projector
I like the idea that this product makes the smartphone accessible in a group setting. Really cool idea!

I was wondering if you could comment on latency between the screen and smartphone (and back)?

hyperreality··on Facebook was down
Yup. Down.

http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/facebook.com

hyperreality··on Developing iOS 8 Apps with Swift
As Paul mentions in the video, you are expected to have object oriented programming knowledge. If you are new to programming, I think you'll get confused at some point on the reasoning behind why he is doing/teaching some of the things.

Perhaps start from a tutorial like [1] to learn the basics and also object oriented paradigms. Then, follow the Swift course.

[1] http://code.tutsplus.com/series/python-from-scratch--net-205...

hyperreality··on Selfiecity – A data analysis of selfies taken in 5 cities
I can't take credit for the great work, I came across this work and wanted to share it. :) However, according to their website it seems it was a mix of using an automated algorithm and manual checking. Their website says this:

"In the resulting set of selfie images, we ran automatic face analysis, supplying us with algorithmic estimations of eye, nose and mouth positions, the degrees of different emotional expressions, etc."

"As the final step, one or two members of the project team examined all these photos manually. While most photos were tagged correctly, we found some mistakes."

See the section at http://selfiecity.net/#dataset .

hyperreality··on Intermediate Pythonista: Python Decorators
Very enjoyable read with good explanations and examples. I think I finally 'get' decorators.

I liked it so much that I went and read the other articles written so far!