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by colanderman 8y ago
100 cm² (10×10 cm), not 10 cm² (3.16×3.16 cm).
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by colanderman 8y ago
Oh yes! Forgot about them.
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by colanderman 8y ago
Sort of. They control things like volume, panning, reverb, pitch bend sensitivity, tuning, synthesizer parameters, etc. Most controls have a defined meaning, though some (named things like "General Purpose" and "Effect 1 De
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by colanderman 8y ago
The soundtrack of Descent 1 was composed on a Roland SC-88 (or a sister model), which was the "gold standard" Midi hardware module of the era. (Its samples formed the basis of the wavetable synth shipped with Windows 95.) I rend
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by colanderman 8y ago
The blog post may benefit from an editor, but those three points are supported by the footnotes, whose very references – but not content – you included in your quotation. The footnotes themselves constitute more than half the post and incl
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by colanderman 8y ago
I'm a big fan of Tree Line and Miyoko's nut cheeses, and Chao fermented tofu cheese slices.
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by colanderman 8y ago
Faster as in, faster to take pictures. Not faster to code. The native camera app on my phone is horrendously slow to take a picture; Snap is instantaneous.
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by colanderman 8y ago
They deliberately take screenshots of the camera preview so that what you see is exactly what you get. Given the horrendous (i.e. several second) lag of the shutter button on many smartphones, this makes a lot of sense for an app designed t
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by colanderman 8y ago
This is the primary reason. You can no more start a fire with sunlight reflected off the moon at night than with sunlight reflected off a sheet of paper during the day. (In fact you can do better with the sheet of paper, because you could
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by colanderman 8y ago
I also didn't think butter had a strong smell until I removed it from my diet entirely (became vegan). It's a strong and unique odor, especially when warm. I can often smell it well before I visually identify the source.
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by colanderman 8y ago
Haven't used any of these, but this is what a quick Google turns up: http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/ https://rocket.chat/ https://mattermost.com/ https://zulipch
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by colanderman 8y ago
What a great reason to switch to an open-source, self-hosted solution. Fortunately there exist several: http://sdelements.github.io/lets-chat/ https://rocket.chat/ https://mattermost.com&#x
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by colanderman 8y ago
"Pass by value" and "pass by reference" are both wrong with respect to Python. They denote semantics that Python does not have , and coders believe and do wrong things if they believe Python follows one or the other.
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by colanderman 8y ago
"Language for people who are not programmers but who need to instruct computers to do things" is the definition I work with. Scratch, BASIC, etc., aren't really suited to that role. No-one who's just trying to munge some
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by colanderman 8y ago
Sure: >>> [[x*y for y in xrange(1,5)] for x in xrange(1,5)] [[1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 4, 6, 8], [3, 6, 9, 12], [4, 8, 12, 16]] >>> list([x*y for y in xrange(1,5)] for x in xrange(1,5)) [[1, 2, 3, 4], [2, 4, 6, 8], [3, 6
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by colanderman 8y ago
The semantics are identical.
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by colanderman 8y ago
OK, fair point. I misremembered the list interface. `set` is a better example: `set.union`, for example, returns a new set, while `set.add` updates in place. (To be fair, this is with Python 2.7, maybe Python 3+ is more uniform?)
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by colanderman 8y ago
Oh completely agreed. C++ the language is as or more complex/overcomplicated as Python. (Hence my example of Erlang as a simple language.)
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by colanderman 8y ago
The proper analogy for a Python object is `std::shared_ptr<Foo>`: in Python, all "objects" are actually reference-counted pointers to objects (thus making them shareable). And then yes, in C++, you can change to which object
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by colanderman 8y ago
A better reason to hate Python: the internal model is way overcomplicated for what it's meant to be: a beginner-friendly scripting language. "Everything-is-an-object", duck typing, decorators, bizarre scoping rules, etc., a
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by colanderman 8y ago
Python (and Java) do not pass anything by reference. They pass by pointer-value. (If they passed by reference, you could change to which value a caller's variable was bound, like you can in C++).
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by colanderman 8y ago
As someone who regularly eats "grilled cheese with stuff on it" (bell pepper slices are awesome), the distinction hinges on whether the cheese holds the sandwich together. If the halves can be easily separated, it's not grill
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by colanderman 8y ago
Please don't post snarky, unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
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by colanderman 8y ago
I don't think you are reading my comment correctly (or generously, as per HN guidelines). I made no such assertion, nor do I believe, what your question implies.
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by colanderman 8y ago
Bug fixing is very different from being on-call. I don't see the correlation between getting a full night's sleep each night and being an "architecture astronaut".
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by colanderman 8y ago
It gets attention because it is rude and annoying and subway riders would like it to stop, and, despite your experience, very common, and indeed almost exclusive to men. I see one or two men "spread" every day on the subway in Bos
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by colanderman 8y ago
> Also be very, very sure you can take care of the bird for the rest of your life, and will have someone that can take over when you die who the bird will already know and be friendly with. To be clear, the reason is that parrots bond (w
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by colanderman 8y ago
Or similarly, employ "I cut you choose": one player chooses the time limit for black, the other then selects which color they want.
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by colanderman 8y ago
> loud circular saws, concrete saws, jackhammers, vibratory packers I couldn't tell you the last time I ever saw or heard a neighbor of mine operating one of these. Leaf blower on the other hand? Yesterday.
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by colanderman 8y ago
I don't think most "lawn care professionals" care whether they use a rake or a blower, because they get paid hourly, and their wage floor is set by other economic factors. They use a blower because the company employing them

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