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by chipsy 14y ago
I believe the pace of change has actually increased recently. As Hague himself has noted, we have a lot of computing power to throw around now. 30 years ago, serious usage of academic languages was still restricted to "big iron" environment
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by chipsy 14y ago
The "Category 8" housing is a somewhat amusing coincidence from U.S. eyes, since "Section 8" housing here refers to public housing projects and private rental assistance.
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think the problem is really that nobody is being taught in school to constantly redefine their language to create an ideal representation of the problem, when that's what "ideal" code tends to involve. The comfort zone is what you know, a
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by chipsy 14y ago
The way forward is going to be via the Google-led Web Audio spec, as well as the complementary MIDI device spec - it's not "there" yet, though, since these specs are still non-finalized. But I'm working on building up the playback capabilit
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by chipsy 14y ago
JPEG artifacts are unrelated to the definition of pixels. They're an artifact of using lossy compression, much as how MP3 exhibits some distinctive artifacts at lower bitrates. Monty is only talking about plain old uncompressed sampled data
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think async architectures are worthy but miss something important - the idea of "typed connections" between processes. Actors passing arbitrary messages doesn't make for an efficient "assembly line." Similarly, the Unix-style concurrency
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by chipsy 14y ago
FWIW I've also recognized the problem and wrote and implemented my own configuration syntax, which makes the aforementioned JSON data look like: [because=[[80=percent][of=JSON;is=brackets]]] The implementation, which is in Haxe and has an
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by chipsy 14y ago
Despite that, the thread easily illustrates the difficulty of writing valid JSON by hand.
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by chipsy 14y ago
I'm referring more specifically to mipmaps. They let you cheat when downsampling.
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by chipsy 14y ago
The most useful thing I ever learned about interpolation was how it relates to resampling to different rates and the specific techniques used to perform resampling when dealing with the Nyquist limits. If you're removing samples, the bigges
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by chipsy 14y ago
After watching that video, I will now go around with the UNATCO theme in my head all day. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBPK_oXeJgA
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by chipsy 14y ago
I just spent a few days off-and-on Android tablet shopping/researching. It's an exciting and fast-moving market. The generics have some great selling points - they're always the first movers on new chipsets, so you can get good specs for ch
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by chipsy 14y ago
Yes, I've only learned about this after experiencing such fraud firsthand. The worst part is that many of the parties that operate the financial markets also have incentives to remain willfully ignorant. They can profit indirectly from the
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by chipsy 14y ago
More to the point: As soon as you want to mix audio levels, <audio> alone is completely insufficient. You need mix control in order to fade background music and loops. I consider this a basic need; the Mozilla API allows you to roll
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by chipsy 14y ago
I happen to be working on my own implementation of Web Audio in Haxe(for easy portability into Flash or outside the browser). I'm still at an early stage and admittedly am heavily guided by the Webkit implementation - while working on param
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by chipsy 14y ago
The reason why it's missing velocity is because the MIDI.js implementation used is a simple sample player - it converts Soundfonts into a subset format. Basic features like pitch bends and vibrato are not possible from this format. (With th
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think that with respect to game royalties, that ship set sail a long time ago. Publishers in the earliest generations would often give creators huge royalties, and it's just been on a gradual decline since then. The topsy-turvy situation
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by chipsy 14y ago
Hey, I recognized Alpha Waves! But I have to agree that the open approach seems to be a better career move...and maybe increasingly so these days since there are so many programmers around that if you don't open something, someone else will
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by chipsy 14y ago
Shoot me an email. (I just updated my profile)
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by chipsy 14y ago
Two related things I've been studying in more depth lately: Dataflow programming and behavior trees(the game AI concept). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataflow_programming http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2011/02/24/introduction-to-beh...
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by chipsy 14y ago
Energy drinks like Red Bull or Monster are also sweetened. Consuming sugar is going to raise your heart rate...
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by chipsy 14y ago
I don't think hitting bottom is all bad. Within my own life story to date, at least, the bottom(s) were part of the learning - the part where daily reality collides with plans and expectations. It's okay, as long as you can find your way ou
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by chipsy 14y ago
I think the necessary reworking is going to happen, but it will take a few cycles through the "Wheel of Reincarnation" to make it fully realized - with the rendering example, we now have Canvas and WebGL; instead of relying on the browser,
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by chipsy 14y ago
Haxe has a similar (but not quite identical) bag of tricks which act as a "gradient" of stronger/weaker couplings. You have to specify that an implementation can use a specific interface, but you may overload an implementation with multiple
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by chipsy 14y ago
Poettering gets things wrong more than once, and Draxinger could have stomped him, if he were a little bit more informed on the details.
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by chipsy 14y ago
We aren't very rational, when it comes down to it, because rational people have trouble making decisions. Political issues are hard to visualize or experiment with - they seem to be distant from daily life - so most people, in a "natural" s
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by chipsy 14y ago
As a side project I've been contributing to a remake of voxel FPS Ace of Spades based on a C/Lua stack: http://github.com/iamgreaser/buldthensnip It's already a playable game at this point, but I have some interest in following the progre
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by chipsy 14y ago
That's easier, not simpler. When part of the stack breaks you're even less likely to know how to fix it than 15 years ago. http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy
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by chipsy 14y ago
I agree with the trend, and also with the sentiment around interfaces. Mutable/encapsulated approaches(which don't end at OOP, but rather continue into language design) act to define protocols. Protocols have a necessarily stateful nature;
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by chipsy 14y ago
I would like to point out that there is a lower limit to budget mixing, of course - when the equipment fails to translate any noticeable change, even if you're sweeping the parameter a great deal and listening carefully. At that point you h

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