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by daydream 15y ago
I'm sure all their large investors are pushing for it. Given the, uh, irrational exuberance we're seeing, they may well get more for their stake in a very liquid market, and it probably easier to buy or sell in public rather than on the sec
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by daydream 15y ago
For this reason I have all my personal finance data on an encrypted disk image, backed up offsite to a service that lets me provide my own encryptionkey for the backups. It's more manual than one click to evernote, but I am concerned about
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by daydream 15y ago
Many people doing serious audio work use Firewire interfaces. PCIe cards are certainly still used, moreso with higher-end setups. I've seen setups that can get around 4ms of round-trip latency, which is quite impressive.
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by daydream 15y ago
I'm a big fan of FreeBSD/OpenBSD as server OS's. I've put OpenBSD/pf to great use as firewall machines, as they're VERY easy to configure, and the docs are most everything you need. FreeBSD has been great for general-purpose workloads. For
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by daydream 16y ago
Totally agree that complexity is evil. Who hasn't seen code bloated beyond all recognition to the point where it has to be rewritte? Or fantastically complex engines where it was impossible to debug all the edge cases? The list goes on and
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by daydream 16y ago
At both the office and home distractions abound. Different distractions, and there's generally less at home, but they're the types of distractions I either can or need to engage with. At a coffeeshop there are distractions, but they general
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by daydream 16y ago
Sure, but in practice for a single-user dropbox account it's not a big deal, IF you unmount the volume when you're done with it. I do the same thing that the GP does - mount the disk image, work with the files, then unmount. It's been work
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by daydream 16y ago
The author is "is a professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles." Not a reporter.
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Music Theory for Beginners: Rhythm(whitakerblackall.com)
2 points by daydream 16y ago|0 comments
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by daydream 16y ago
Also, the name of the author isn't anywhere on the printer-friendly version of the page. I had to go to the full version to find it. I wonder if that's intentional? I can't see how it would be, but it seems like a huge oversight.
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by daydream 16y ago
Come on. The world doesn't revolve around programmers, despite what we read in the NYT and LA Times. It doesn't revolve around anyone. The fact that the fellow doesn't program doesn't mean that he's a newborn infant in the woods. It takes
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by daydream 16y ago
Don't overlook Audacity. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it: http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ Free/open source, for Windows, OS X, and Linux. Overall I'm not a fan, but I come from a background in more complex/full-featured DAW's like
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by daydream 16y ago
Norway is a counterpoint. Western, plenty of oil money, yet has very low corruption and a very high standard of living for most of the population. The country has used their oil revenue wisely.
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by daydream 16y ago
I doubt the office was for spying. More likely it was for working with emerging technologies coming out of MIT.
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by daydream 17y ago
Yes to everything the parent said. You can learn most of what you need to know from these two books: "The Investor's Manifesto: Preparing for Prosperity, Armageddon, and Everything in Between" - William J. Bernstein "The Random Walk Guide T
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by daydream 17y ago
Life is not always as straightforward as your advice implies.
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by daydream 17y ago
Electroputas "3" is the record I was thinking of. There's basically no high end on it. It was so noticeable that I actually emailed the label about it, thinking I got a bad press or something, but to their credit they admitted that the bas
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by daydream 17y ago
For live sound this is mostly true, but for recorded music there can be artistic reasons to pan low frequencies to one side or another. (Just like there could be artistic reasons to do just about anything.) It seems to be more common in el
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by daydream 17y ago
This is why, on most vinyl albums, the low end/bass sounds are panned dead center. Lots of low end panned hard left or hard right can result in the needle jumping out of the groove, and can result in unnecessary compromises in mastering....
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by daydream 17y ago
Why would it need to make any money? Look at roads: they cost huge amounts to build and maintain, yet the vast majority don't bring in any direct revenue whatsoever. Let's turn this statement on its head, and reframe it as a question: wh
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by daydream 17y ago
This is a good idea, but poor execution in that it's horribly ugly... very aesthetically unappealing. As you mention Pixar does it way better, and there must be a middle ground where you have something cost effective yet attractive to work
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by daydream 17y ago
That's what I thought too, but on the page they state: "Cards containing inappropriate content will not be mailed, and information supplied here will not be retained or used for any purposes outside of delivering your card."
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by daydream 17y ago
When I looked into this a few years ago dyndns.com was a good affordable service.
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NSA Is Giving Microsoft (and possibly others) Some Help On Security(npr.org)
6 points by daydream 17y ago|0 comments
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by daydream 17y ago
For me the best by far was Paul Buchheit, because he was not only honest in a general sense (all the others seemed so as well), but also intellectually honest. There's no one way to do things, what works for one won't work for another. His
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by daydream 17y ago
I know exactly where you're talking about - it's BEAUTIFUL out there. I love Lincoln, I worked out there for 4+ years and it's a wonderful place. I'd encourage folks to go for the scenery alone! Is the software you're working on Knowhi? I
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by daydream 17y ago
I moved to San Francisco from Boston about two years ago. I really liked Boston (terrible weather though), and I really like SF. But Bill Wyman article touched on something that jumped out at me when I first came here: the quality of journa
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by daydream 17y ago
I'd rather not post the name publicly, but I'd be happy to talk more with you offline if you're interested. oscillations at gmail.
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by daydream 17y ago
"But it does mean that if you’re involved in nonprofits (or predictions), you need to be much more careful about making sure you’re doing a good job. Unfortunately, few nonprofits do that." Oh really? So he can cite research that says, for
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by daydream 17y ago
One useful way of thinking about nonprofits: a nonprofit fills a need that the free market on its own cannot meet. For example, the free market will not provide free meals to homeless people with HIV in Manhattan. Nonprofits should not be m

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