brunoc

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by brunoc 16y ago
To be fair, it's more like he pledged 50$ and they gave him a t-shirt.
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by brunoc 16y ago
Good luck with this. My girlfriend (less than a month left of me calling her that!) and I are both techies and DIY'ers and went the invitation-kit way. As we were putting it all together we came to the same conclusion you did: there shoul
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by brunoc 16y ago
I was reminded of Robert Anton Wilson's 'experiments' with E-prime http://www.nobeliefs.com/eprime.htm Any other RAW fans on HN? I'm sure there are plenty of people who dislike him actively on HN as well. :D
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Does Language Influence Culture?(online.wsj.com)
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by brunoc 16y ago
Pretty fascinating stuff. I like to create rituals for the same purpose (i'm sure the OCD crowd is familiar with the idea). For instance if I'm about to embark into a particularly challenging or critical piece of coding I'll meticulously c
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by brunoc 16y ago
Here's an interesting tidbit of canadian culture. As mentioned above in Quebec Pepsi outsells Coke by quite a bit. This is how the "peppers" nickname for Quebecers came to be. Or at least that how the legend goes.
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by brunoc 16y ago
I'd love to hear more about this ruby -> java transition if you're willing to share.
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by brunoc 16y ago
>> feel like I'm evolving my own design patterns I think that this is happening to many people who are doing a lot of 'non-trivial' JavaScript. The language is still very young and because the concepts that were chosen when creatin
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by brunoc 16y ago
There's definitely a lot of interesting stuff happening in Montreal these days. Notably Founder Fuel which is bound to shake things up over the next few years. Why are you surprised? There is a ton of creative work coming out of QC.
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by brunoc 16y ago
It seems to me that it's using Quicktime's midi engine. The focus is not on sound synthesis at all, it's on composition. When you download the composition it's sent to you as a midi file. With that you can easily assign better sounds than
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by brunoc 16y ago
jQuery UI: If you're building a "web 2.0" type web application, jQuery UI is a good fit in my experience. It is lightweight for a UI library and if you're already familiar with jQuery you'll feel right at home. I'm working on such an applic
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by brunoc 17y ago
An alternative to SASS, if you are looking for one, is "less" ( http://lesscss.org/ ).
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by brunoc 17y ago
During the summer 2 friends of mine and I put together a Brian Eno cover band, just for fun. We learned our favorite songs from his rock era and played a couple of shows. It was really amazing to strip down his songs to a point where a tr
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by brunoc 17y ago
There's a band called '12 year old girls'.
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by brunoc 17y ago
I'm impressed that you still use hardware samplers. It's pretty much the first thing that I would think of replacing with a computer (quasi unlimited sampling memory, unlimited storage, etc). I have a S2000 somewhere, gathering dust...
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by brunoc 17y ago
At first I thought here's a guy who's name happens to be Lou Reed but holy cow, it's actually the Lou Reed. This app definitely has a velvety feel to it (groan.)
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by brunoc 17y ago
I listen to a lot of music that some would call noise and here's my 2c on the subject. It is much like being a kid who doesn't like brocoli. It tastes revolting at first, you can't imagine anyone liking it, etc. Sure enough your parents fo
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by brunoc 17y ago
Or simply give you the list so you can check your binaries yourself! Of course the list might change frequently but it would save everyone time and grief.
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by brunoc 17y ago
Brought back memories to me as well but I loved my computer class! It wasn't really a computer class, it was more like sit in front of computers and here are some books. This was in grade 2 for me, using Comterm MAX computers.
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by brunoc 17y ago
Just a heads up, for some reason it didn't work too too well in Firefox 3.0.x; I didn't investigate further. It's fine in the latest 3.5 though.
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by brunoc 17y ago
I flipped both my 4:3 monitors (19") to display vertically. They are 1024x1080. I don't think I'll ever go back to horizontal.
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by brunoc 17y ago
I'm really loving these event-driven servers. If you'd prefer using Javascript, there's also Node ( http://nodejs.org/ ) which is a similar effort.
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by brunoc 17y ago
Candy!? Does syntactic sugar count?
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by brunoc 17y ago
Rounded corners.. giving problems to engineers for 100+ years. :)
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by brunoc 17y ago
When you hit 30 you may discover that Pop Tarts are too sweet and Mountain Dew gives you heartburn. :D
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by brunoc 17y ago
Formulas are a good way to begin practicing something - keep your eyes on the ball; rotate your shoulders; name your variables a certain way; etc. I believe most people dislike giving status reports so having a formula that keeps them short