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If I had tried it, I would have said something about it. I'm reluctant to try it, because my routing needs are somewhat solved now with the onboard MIDI stuff, and because Rogue Amoeba are the ones who killed Soundflower in the first p
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Soundflower (and more importantly: SoundflowerBed) hasn't worked right for me since at least two major OS versions now. The project has changed hands several times, and is only being partially maintained.
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India is projected to be one of the twelve countries who together will account for 50% of the world's population growth until 2050, at which point it's assumed India will host 1.7 billion humans. Asia will in total have gone from
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Like others have said, QuickTime (which is part of OS X) does this for you. Sadly, it fares less well with recording desktop audio along with the video. In general, the audio routing options in OS X are relatively limited, although you can
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In my experience, no. Maybe that's partially due to my skillset, but I wouldn't advise using this thread in earnest to find work. Personally, I mainly post here because I like the idea of potentially doing a project with/for
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SEEKING WORK / based in Germany / remote or on-site (Europe/US preferred) I'm a generalist developer with two decades of experience. I also have a background in biosciences and have worked for advertising agencies, resea
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> disagreeing with a person is not trolling The word troll has evolved to encompass any sort of dishonest internet activity that is designed to manipulate the response and attitude of the larger audience, but I agree: the right term
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What's most striking to me is how easily this could have been avoided, everybody knew what liabilities would arise from betting your entire mobile platform on the goodwill of a competitor. With the massively overqualified talent pool G
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> So you do chemo to prolong or for a chance to fix or both ? Chemotherapy is used both curatively and palliatively. Yes, it's often a treatment option to shrink or at least slow down tumors, in order to prolong qualitatively mean
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This article falls somewhere between a strawman argument and a deliberate misrepresentation of scientific understanding. > " But here is what we are not born with: information, data, rules, software, knowledge, lexicons, representat
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I don't know what the rate of mass loss is (I doubt anyone knows), but most objects in the solar systems are not static: they gas out but they also accumulate dust particles. Most of the gas giant moons have been emitting gas and parti
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I posit if you want to make sure your code survives you, write video game code. Nevertheless, my own examples are all non-games. In the early nineties I wrote a program in Turbo Pascal to manage grades and print report cards, I heard one el
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Not an atmosphere like we know it, more like a wispy and weakly-bound envelope of outgassed material (probably mostly water vapor). If Earth's moon had volatile components on its surface it would have this kind of envelope, too. The te
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Matching other people's expectations about grief is a fool's errant, and I completely understand the impulse to just hide it - in fact, I believe that's a good default plan. When my mother died from cancer, there were two ext
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8 points within 30 minutes = second place on the front page, an article of questionable quality and substance from TC, I agree that HN's ranking algorithm could use some serious tweaking. It's also interesting to see how younger a
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> but I believe there are too many developers because there are, in general, not enough jobs True, but that is sort-of hidden under development methodologies and frameworks that enable untalented people to do less with more. It's
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I think (and have often said) there are too many software developers. However, I also believe that way too few people are technologically literate, and if anything that number seems to be going further down. To live effectively in an inform
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No, it's not related. This is about escaping strings in queries, it should not have anything to do with whether programmers thought about all the things that a string can contain or not. User data inside queries absolutely must be esca
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We don't know yet. Which is not the same as "my deity did it". And by the way, postulating a creator god should be unsatisfying to you as a believer, too. Because even in your own framework, this raises only more questions li
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> Same could be said about science. Correct? We are making stories out of randomness? And it's laws only have meaning in a learned context? Are you arguing semantics? No, that's not it. If you only ever need to talk about the
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> If the universe was not created, why can we predict it with such accuracy? Scientifically, there is nothing to suggest these two are related in any way. I could ask "if cows weren't orange then why do Oreos have white filli
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> Can you elaborate on that? By "constant-vector-forward time-dimensional context" he essentially means causality. > Seems to me there must me a creationary force that is uncreated. That is not strictly true in the large
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Why not discuss something tangentially related if people feel like it? Is it necessary to play did-you-even-read-the-article gotcha?
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> In practice it might be impossible to tell the difference. I agree there is no perceivable difference. As far as I'm aware, the "goodness" of those deities is imbued to them by definition , not because their actions a
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That's a fuzzy concept though. By that definition, you could easily make an argument that everything we see is supernatural because aspects of natural laws that are not well-understood can be conjured up in any number of ways, especi
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That's essentially the old " any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic " saying that was coined by Clarke back in the day. The interesting part of this comes into play when we're talking about
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This is extremely wonderful, thank you! CF WS support means I will no longer have to keep around a separate, direct-to-server (sub)domain around for my WebSockets projects, and this also means goodbye to any websockets-related SSL certifica
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There is a drastic oversupply of programmers, and I firmly believe more than half of us should not be in software development at all. I think you have a choice to make as a programmer: a) do something interesting b) do good/high-qualit
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> For several domains I know something about, the comments here are painfully misguided and just bad There is also a lot of the opposite - but just as bad - phenomenon going on: I believe shouting out unreflected gotcha!-style rebuttal
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> If your knowledge of evolution is limited to having read 'The Selfish Gene', you should be aware that you likely carry several misconceptions I know this is veering wildly offtopic, but when I see misconceptions about evolu
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