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by FigBug 9y ago
I thought HRM had a very odd skill curve, started out very easy and then got difficult quickly. I think overall it's too hard for somebody who isn't a programmer, and there aren't enough hard problems for a programmer. And on
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by FigBug 9y ago
This is true for any ISO standardized language: C, C++, ECMAScript/Javascript, COBOL, Ada, Forth, Fortran, Pascal, Ruby, SQL and more. C# dropped their ISO standard after 2.0
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by FigBug 9y ago
What do you mean oldish version? Looks like it's from 2017 , or from an old version of pink trombone. Do you have the latest code in source control anywhere online?
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by FigBug 9y ago
Milkdrop, by the same author has been open sourced.
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by FigBug 9y ago
Where are they getting that the battery costs 50% of the vehicle? I'm seeing batteries cost about $220/kwh, which is about $6000 for a Nissan Leaf.
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by FigBug 9y ago
Not really. According to the GNU FAQ if you only use GPL software and don't distribute it then there are no conditions that apply. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoDistributionR...
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by FigBug 9y ago
There are two reasons I won't use GDrive anymore. - If it starts up and your GDrive folder is empty, it deletes everything from the online version. - There is no history like Dropbox, so once you fuck up and delete everything there is
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by FigBug 9y ago
JUCE has always been music focused. Originally it was created at the same time as the DAW Tracktion. It was split out of Tracktion and become its own product and Tracktion was sold to Mackie. Roli ended up purchasing JUCE and Tracktion was
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by FigBug 10y ago
I looked at doing this several years ago on Windows and I seem to recall that Python had a lot of global state. So you could only have one instance of the Python VM and therefore only Python script running at once. Is this still the case? I
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by FigBug 10y ago
When I was in University I had never even heard of Git or Subversion, but that was because the didn't exist.
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by FigBug 10y ago
> Ever tried packaging a QT application for Mac, Windows and Linux? How long ago? I've never done Linux, but Mac it comes with a script that does everything and spits out a .dmg. On Windows it spits out everything into a folder you
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by FigBug 10y ago
Why not use DigiKey? They'll arrive the next day and be really cheap.
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by FigBug 10y ago
If you want you house lights to do the same thing, get some Philips Hue bulbs and this app I wrote: https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/circadian-hue-for-philips-hu... My old office didn't get much external light
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by FigBug 10y ago
No, but a quick Google turned up two in the Bay area: http://www.spinnaker-sailing.com/timeshare-sailing https://sailtime.com/san-francisco-bay/
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by FigBug 10y ago
I've owned several boats and I'm done with that. I now belong to a coop where I pay $650 a year and have access to a 30' Catalina and 24' C&C that I can use almost as much as I want. There is no such thing as a cheap
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by FigBug 10y ago
I'd buy a sailboat and take people on tours in Greece. Except I hate people, which is why I work in tech.
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by FigBug 10y ago
I gave up on G Suite after the second time somebody blew away all our documents by moving their Google drive folder. You think they could put a safety check in there when G Drive starts up and the folder is empty, "Do you want to delet
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by FigBug 10y ago
That's a good story, I didn't get much feedback from users at the time. Nice to hear to what people were doing. And yes, my megahal got 'trained' as well.
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by FigBug 10y ago
I'm out of the loop. Not even sure what the differences are. But as long as people are still interested in developing it and using it, I think that's good. Hopefully the fork will rejoin sometime in the future.
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by FigBug 10y ago
Around 2000 I got annoyed with the ads and crap in ICQ, so I wrote Miranda ICQ, now called Miranda IM ( http://www.miranda-im.org/ ) based on libicq. One of my main inspirations to write the app was I wanted to connect a chat
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by FigBug 10y ago
I've mad a few: Command line tool for OSX to upload images to imgur: https://github.com/FigBug/imguru Copy and paste for Windows command line: https://github.com/FigBug/ccopyppaste Mac App to
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by FigBug 10y ago
They are cheaper
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by FigBug 10y ago
I used SuperBBS and Remote Access.
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Today’s Innovations Are Tomorrow’s Baseline(collaborativefund.com)
51 points by FigBug 10y ago|9 comments
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by FigBug 10y ago
Yes, one of my co-workers had a spin desk. He said you couldn't really ride with a heart rate above 100 bpm and still concentrate. He was doing a huge amount of very low intensity riding, it didn't have much benefit, but hugely in
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by FigBug 10y ago
I've just recently gotten into http://zwift.com/ , it's the only thing I've found that makes riding indoors tollerable, almost fun. The power meter on the bike connects to zwift, the more power you put out, th
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by FigBug 10y ago
1999 seems to be the first year CIPA tracked digital camera sales. Also, I hadn t realized how completely digital camera sales have collapsed. http://petapixel.com/2015/04/09/this-is-what-the-history-of-...
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by FigBug 10y ago
> I would seriously move off iOS if I was making music with it. Can you explain this?
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Change.org lays off 30% of its staff(finance.yahoo.com)
4 points by FigBug 10y ago|0 comments
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by FigBug 10y ago
I never understood why Boeing risked it all on the 747. The Boeing 2707 was supposed to be the future of passenger travel and the 747 was supposed to get relegated to freight. Why risk it all for what was expected to be a stop gap product?

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