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Niksko  ·  4768 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Amazing algorithms to enhance images
The GIMP is powerful, don't get me wrong. You'll get used to it if you give it a try, and coming from somebody who's now been using Ubuntu exclusively for about 4 years, you'll come to adore its flexibility (of Linux in general).

The wonky part for me is that there are three separate windows, where as in Photoshop it's all one window with toolboxes that you can drag around. So if you minimize The GIMP, you have to actually minimize all three windows. This is a hassle. Plus, it's sometimes hard to make the windows stack in the right order.

Niksko  ·  4768 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Bookmarklet, button, and groundwork.
Yes, all of those ideas sound good as far as giving me extra ways of finding cool tags, but they're not really the issue that I was addressing.

Specifically, there's a post about the history of the McRib, but since people are allowed to write anything they like as their tag, it's listed as #wheresthebeef. There are no other posts in #wheresthebeef, nor are there likely to ever be. So even though this is a cool story, it doesn't let me find more like it, because of the lack of restrictions on tags. It could be under #food or #fastfood or even #mcdonalds, but as a once off tag it has less utility.

So perhaps if there was an algorithm to suggest tags based on the content of the article it might help.

Niksko  ·  4768 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Amazing algorithms to enhance images
Cool algorithms, but I'll only install them if somebody can tell me how to make Gimp behave as one window.
Niksko  ·  4768 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who do you think are the most overrated/underrated bands/artists of all time?
Queensrÿche - Operation Mindcrime was pretty amazing, but I didn't really like the rest of their work.
Niksko  ·  4768 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Update: Bookmarklet, button, and groundwork.
Looks good.

One criticism I have that has stopped me getting into this site more than my other social news haunts, is that since hashtags can be anything, a cool article doesn't allow me to find other cool articles via its hashtag as often, because it might be something too specific.

I'm not sure if that makes sense, or how to address it really, but perhaps a suggested hashtag feature?

Niksko  ·  4794 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The World's Most Important 6-second Drum Loop
Fascinating! And now I finally know what that break is called.
Niksko  ·  4794 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Which sci-fi/fantasy books got you into the genre?
Fantasy was the Hobbit, an awesome illustrated version that I got for my birthday one year. Cyberpunk was Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan. Led me to read the rest of the Takeshi Kovacs series (which I was so sad to see him finish after only 3 books), followed by some more seminal works like Neuromancer and Snow Crash (William Gibson and Neal Stephenson respectively)