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by FigBug 9y ago
Titles can't be copyrighted. Words can be trademarked, but they aren't exclusive. As long as there is no risk of confusion, then the same word can be trademarked by different people for different purposes. Think: Apple Computer v
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by FigBug 9y ago
In the previous bubble, there was a manufacturer that would 'test' or 'burn in' the miner until it became unprofitable to run and then they'd ship it to you. They'd get paid twice. https://bitcoinmag
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by FigBug 9y ago
Says today for me, maybe something to do with timezones?
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by FigBug 9y ago
I found an emulator here https://github.com/stella-emu/stella , I'll see if it's not too hard to pull the audio code out.
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by FigBug 9y ago
Sorry, that was a typo on my part, I meant Windows / Mac users can get binaries -- Linux users can compile...
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by FigBug 9y ago
If anybody wants to play an SN76489 in their favourite DAW, I found an open source emulation and turned it into a VST plugin. https://github.com/FigBug/SN76489 Also did a SID (Commodore 64), PAPU (Gameboy) and RP2A03 (
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by FigBug 9y ago
I always let my users click on a knob to direct enter a value with the keyboard. But keyboard shortcuts to increase / decrease a value -- that's just a pain. Mouse drag / mouse wheel is far faster at going between coarse and
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by FigBug 9y ago
Knobs are still the best option I've come up with, they act like sliders with the mouse, yet they are smaller so you can have more density. You can also draw a longer track for a given control size, 2 pi r > 2*r. They often get assi
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by FigBug 9y ago
An ASCAP license for a general business is around $3.33 * occupancy per year. There isn't that much money to save by getting out of licensing fees.
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by FigBug 9y ago
Amazon recurring delivery sends me laundry detergent, toilet paper, soap, etc. on a monthly schedule. It I get to much I can pause for a bit.
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by FigBug 9y ago
The doctor chooses. In Canada, doctors can accept whoever they want and they'll only accept patients with good 'fit'. Everybody else is stuck going to a walk in clinic or the ER. How does it work in US? Do Doctors charge diff
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by FigBug 9y ago
> A static local variable in an extern inline function always refers to the same object. > 7.1.2/4 - C++98/C++14 (n3797) (functions are by default extern, so, unless you specifically mark your function as static, this applie
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by FigBug 9y ago
It wasn't funny at the time. I helped develop and app + hardware for measuring the force generated when luge / ski cross / boarder cross athletes start. The handles measure the force and sent the data to an iPad which also re
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by FigBug 9y ago
> Ben Johnson recently was found to be on PEDs Recently? Wasn't he caught in 1988?
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by FigBug 9y ago
I completely forgot about the dashboard, I can't remember the last time I looked at it. It used to be such a big deal / selling point of OS X.
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by FigBug 9y ago
I'm currently working on a DAW, and this is definitely the direction we'd like to head. In our previous version, we added some basic chord progressions. The next most likely chords are suggested on statistics from popular music. B
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by FigBug 9y ago
> 503.03(a) Works-not originated by a human author. > In order to be entitled to copyright registration, a work must be the product of human authorship. Works produced by mechanical processes or random selection without any contributi
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by FigBug 9y ago
> Older developers of HN, what are your experiences? I turned 40 this year, I haven't noticed any differences. I've been contracting since 2010 and I never meet most of my clients, I guess they could guess my age from the lengt
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by FigBug 9y ago
Sliders. Tracktion Waveform, the DAW I also work on uses almost no knobs. (I think the only one is pan on the mixer). The problem with them is that they are big. When we don't have room we make them small and then a bigger one pops up
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by FigBug 9y ago
I hate skeuomorphic UI and wish it would die. The number of users that have ever used a hardware compressor, eq, gate, analog synth etc is much smaller than the number of users that have grown up creating music completely on their PC. I thi
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by FigBug 9y ago
Selective Availability was turned off in 2000, prior to that error was about 50m. Differential GPS could work around it anyway, so there wasn't a lot of point to keeping it on.
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by FigBug 9y ago
It's already happening, last one os gone from downtown Vancouver: http://bc.ctvnews.ca/last-gas-vancouver-s-sole-remaining-dow... It's due to property values, not electric cars, but it would be interesting to see
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by FigBug 9y ago
Unless you live somewhere really hot (Leaf only has passive battery cooling), a Leaf will make it to about 100,000km before it loses it's first bar on battery life meter. (There are 12 bars)
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by FigBug 9y ago
I live in Vitoria, BC. It doesn't get that cold here, but it was below freezing I lost maybe 10% of range. It takes maybe 3 hours to change with my level 2 charger.
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by FigBug 9y ago
Just a note that JUCE is now free for indie developers if your yearly revenue is less than $50K per year. It just adds a JUCE logo for a few seconds the first time your plugin window opens. If you don't like that, GPL is still an optio
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by FigBug 9y ago
http://socalabs.com/ I just started a few days ago, I'm making VST plugins that emulate sound chips from old consoles / computers. (There is also a weird vocal synth in there). Currently working on a C64, hope to
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by FigBug 9y ago
They aren't 50%, highest tax bracket is 45% over 250001 EUR or 294440 USD. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxation_in_Germany#Income_tax Church tax could be another 9% if you are a member of a church. Compare to th
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by FigBug 9y ago
Can you recommend some good parking games?
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by FigBug 9y ago
C++ / JUCE I'm not really aware of another good option for doing AU/VST/AAX plugins.
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by FigBug 9y ago
Selective Availability was turned off in 2000, everybody gets the same GPS signal now. GPS III won't support it, so it won't be able to be turned back on.

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