danbmil99

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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   But 100% agree on the pop filter. We used to use pantyhose over a wire hanger shaped like a disc. Now you can get one for 25 bucks
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   Sm57 all the way for me. $150 condenser mic I got at Guitar Center was terrible. As a back in the day old time recording engineer, I had access to Neumanns and AKG mics worth thousands of dollars. But 60% of the time, a sure 57 ended up sou
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   This is why I pat myself on the back for deciding 15 years ago to stop breaking my brain against cplusplus and learn Python. Do I miss the challenges and rewards of working at the lowest level of the stack? A little bit. But it's more
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   Good point. In any case, those arguments suffer from the same weakness. Intelligence is not about formal systems proving theorems; It's about navigating the real world as an organism, attempting to survive, thrive, and procreate.
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   He's hedging his bets because you are a very risky proposition. No employee is going to drink the Kool-Aid like the founders until the project proves itself. If it's going well, he'll come on full-time. If not, he doesn'
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   I think John Searle wants his Chinese room back
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   How many interviews involve asking the prospective hire if they know how to gather and define requirements?
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   Go ahead and build, but make damn sure you are being rational about people's behavior when it comes to driving and transit. My ex moved into a condominium complex that has exactly zero parking spots or loading docks for visitors, and n
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   by danbmil99 7y ago

   For what it's worth, I've had a decent career as a self-taught programmer. Over the years, I've absorbed most of a Cs education in the following way: Whenever I approach a new problem that I don't understand, I take the
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    This. Any company with any kind of marketing footprint is going to be the target of numerous lawsuits, from disgruntled employees, investors, shareholders, customers Etc. The people who do best with Fame are like Bill Clinton, who ignored i
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    I was a studio engineer in the late 80s and I work on music now using modern tools. It's a different vibe, that's for sure. I could go on for days about the technical differences, analog 2-inch tape versus a to d converters and so
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Btw attempted to contact you at the email you put on your page. Interested in talking about this project.
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    > The cloud can't sequence DNA, as far as I know. Not yet. Famous last words?
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Question at the meta-level: what software/platforms are producing, analyzing, modifying & consuming this data? Is it possible some legacy systems that produce and consume these massive files on-site would more sensibly run in the c
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Please borrow it. In fact, steal it.
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    This subject probably requires it's own HN post but let me just put this here since it's on my mind. There is a hierarchy of ways that you can provide value to a client. I call it the TKPV ladder. Each letter represents what you p
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    I believe a number of Open Source projects still maintain IRC communities on freenode.
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Funny story: My dad was in a play that John Simon loved, but no one else did. It closed within a week.
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    I'm referring to their gamesmanship wrt AV1. Of course they supported Mpeg4, they were part of the patent cartel (MPEG-LA) with a get-out-of-jail antitrust exemption and cross-licensing to other bigco's such as MS and Sony. One re
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    sure, if by support you mean "embrace, extend, extinguish". Today, Apple is every bit as monopolistic and anti-competitive as Microsoft was during Peak Ballmer.
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    > It's unclear what their motive is for not supporting them. What's unclear? They want to monopolize the market for smart phones, or at least hurt the competition and splinter the market. Clear as day: they are not good citizen
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Google supports AV1 which is royalty-free (to the degree possible, given the plethora of patent trolls out there). Apple joined the orgs but in the end made the dick move of not accepting a performant, free codec to become standard in HTML5
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Frankly most people obsess about things like finding a mate, playing video games, collecting comics, politics, reading books, watching & discussing TV shows & movies, social websites (such as this one), sex, porn, fashion, sports, t
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Once it formats your text, you are forced to use the formatting menu to change anything. They are clearly moving towards WYSWYG-only, markup is minimally supported now to facilitate transition. Sad.
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Would this have problems with sites like LinkedIn that aggressively ban address blocks from cloud providers?
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Wow, I learned my synth chops on a Buchla synthesizer at Brandeis University in 1977. The professor there claimed that the instrument was relatively useless since it couldn't produce a diatonic scale. I proved him wrong by using attenu
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    Why?
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    In my experience, technical debt is much more about time-to-market minimization than it is about reducing costs. Here in Silicon Valley, raising capital is usually not the limiting factor. However, the spoils to be had by being first to Mar
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    This could be a book but I'll do the tldr for this thread. We were a small scrappy startup with our own video compression and streaming tech. We had just gone public and raised 15 million dollars, and were pivoting to being a content c
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    by danbmil99 7y ago

    It would be interesting to analyze these abilities from the viewpoint of evolutionary adaptation. Perhaps from the perspective of a band of proto-humans, it was highly adaptive for some members of the tribe to have strong episodic memorie