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by FigBug 11y ago
> A hard real time task or system is one where an activity simply must be completed - always - by a specified deadline. It should be noted that completing a task too early can be a failure as well.
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by FigBug 11y ago
Oops. Misread "survive to the 90s" as "survive the 90s"
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by FigBug 11y ago
They were entrenched in a few niche markets: Education, Music Production, Desktop Publishing. Photoshop, Pagemaker, ProTools were all Mac first, so that's where the users were and they were locked in due to files, plugins, fonts etc.
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by FigBug 11y ago
If you used a spirograph to create art, you would own the copyright. If you created a spirograph that was robot controlled and could automatically create art then nobody would own the copyright. I don't see how an easel count create ar
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by FigBug 11y ago
This is such nonsense, using GPL software can't 'infect' software you are writing. I could understand having a rule about not putting GPL source code on your machine in the case you might accidently reuse some of it -- but ev
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by FigBug 11y ago
A bank doesn't distribute its internal system so it can use GPL software.
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by FigBug 11y ago
I'd be interested in how the GPL has held back open source and what license would be better. Haven't the licenses like BSD/MIT just made it easier to take open source code and lock it down?
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by FigBug 11y ago
It's beyond that. I also uses the native APIs to create the user interface.
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by FigBug 11y ago
That's what happens when you compete on price. Nobody is going to pay an extra $50 for an Android phone over another comparable Android phone. Samsung alone outspends Apple on marketing. Samsung needs to continuous battle against the o
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by FigBug 11y ago
Yes if you specialize in a specific technology. Not as much if you specialize in something more fundamental like audio DSP. you may have to jump between telephony and pro audio as the markets change, but there will always be work. And the b
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by FigBug 11y ago
Renders fine on my PC (Chrome 43), only renders the earth and anything I click on with my Mac (Chrome 43)
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De-Obfuscating the Statistics of Mass Shootings(charlespetzold.com)
188 points by FigBug 11y ago|166 comments
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by FigBug 11y ago
I was recently working on a case and I need a definition of software library. Couldn't find one anywhere. So many of the basics of programming are undefined it makes arguing about programming incredibly difficult -- see every discussio
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by FigBug 11y ago
> when requested by either a customer, or Live Networks, Inc. - upgrade it as soon as possible to use the latest version of the LIVE555 library code This is not a requirement of the LGPL, the rest is. A user must be able to replace a LGP
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by FigBug 11y ago
Isn't the issue that Google didn't fork it, but instead re-implemented it and the re-implementation had Oracle code in it? If Google had forked it and kept their version under the GPL they would have been fine.
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by FigBug 11y ago
Um, what?
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by FigBug 11y ago
What's the license on this? I'm guessing since it's just a decompiled version of André Michelle's code, the copyright still belongs to him?
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by FigBug 11y ago
What is the correct thread? I am curious to what this comment is about now?
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by FigBug 11y ago
I don't think it's more skill, just different. I currently work on a DAW. I left for a while because I thought my skills were becoming obsolete and I needed to get in on this 'web' thing. I was useless and I lasted 9 mon
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by FigBug 11y ago
Are android/surface tablets seeing a similar decline or are they taking market share from the iPad?
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by FigBug 11y ago
Typically because the hardware delivers audio in blocks. I know mostly about how USB works, but I imagine it applies to other hardware types as well. USB has several transfer types: interrupt, bunk and isochronous. Interrupt is initiated by
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by FigBug 11y ago
Can you recommend some good code / APIs to check out that don't do it block based? I usually use JUCE which is block based, and I assumed it was just a thin wrapper around the OS APIs which we also block based.
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by FigBug 11y ago
> Since the one coming from the hardware is completely fictitious Why do you say this? The USB audio card (or similar) is generating blocks of audio at a fixed rate, no? Maybe for video playback or games you need to synchronize audio and
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by FigBug 11y ago
While true, in 1996 almost everybody knew C or C++. Now, you can get a CSc degree without learning a manual memory management language. While C and C++ are a shrinking segment of the entire market, the market is growing.
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by FigBug 12y ago
By 'this' do you mean why didn't Android completely beat iPhone? Similar reason to why the Mac is making a comeback. The hardware market has changed. In the 80s / 90s, computers were very expensive and it was common to o
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by FigBug 12y ago
I believe the 32-bit id you select needs to be unique from all the ids your OS knows about or else it will install the wrong driver and may crash / encounter other issues. Of course the user could manually uninstall that driver and ins
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by FigBug 12y ago
1998, when they were founded to start promoting the term "Open Source" over "Free Software" to make GPL/BSD etc license software more business friendly. I took a quick look through https://books.google.co
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by FigBug 12y ago
They already did that on the PPC -> x86 switch, and again on the 32bit to 64bit switch. iOS does it as well for the different version of arm. For most applications the code is smaller than the rest of the resources, so it's not real
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by FigBug 12y ago
I've been working at home for the last 5. Doing iOS, android, desktop apps and firmware. I find the firmware the most frustrating, probably because I'm the least experienced at it. Trying to debug things by sharing screenshot of a
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Audio latency tests for popular iOS and Android devices (with source)(superpowered.com)
5 points by FigBug 12y ago|0 comments

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