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by diydsp 13y ago
> men and women simply have different kinds of friendships I think you nailed it there. This matches what I've been picking up from books by Deborah Tannen, an author recommended to me by a guy at work. Tannen describes men and wom
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by diydsp 13y ago
I once read a book by a retired police officer about how to avoid tickets. (Protip: a new one comes out every few years) His take was that organizations within the police department are just like fraternities on a college campus: You have
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by diydsp 13y ago
Their job is not to spy on behalf of the country. Their job is to keep us safe. Letting us all run around with humungous holes in our security for years was a risk to our national security. How do you think the Chinese were able to clone o
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by diydsp 13y ago
> Same reason why Tide detergent still exists when others are around half as expensive. Tide does not "subsist on brand recognition". "Tide is a perennial powerhouse in Consumer Reports' laundry detergent Ratings.&quo
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by diydsp 13y ago
There were a number of epic one-liners similar to the above. If anyone is interested in the phenomenon, you can read our book 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1));:GOTO 10 which we give away free at [1] and has LOTS and LOTS of details about the hi
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by diydsp 13y ago
And I'll add that it drove me nuts to see random, popcorn-like activity amongst the tiles. I kept trying to find "control panel" to add a second monitor, for example, but one of those tiles spontaneously showed me a video of
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by diydsp 13y ago
From what I remember, they were pointing out an overwhelming majority of their users were only pressing the same 8 or so buttons at the bottom of the taskbar to start apps. And I'm on board with that. It's just that one needs the
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by diydsp 13y ago
eh... Without having any skin in the game, I would say this logo design adequately conveys the meaning: disks, a lock, "authoritative"-looking font, succint tagline. I agree the blurriness could be improved, though. As for people
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by diydsp 13y ago
OK, so are they going to make a shitstorm out of this single issue, or apply principles equally? IOW: Are we (they) going to dig up ALL of the CEOs of all the products they use and find out who else donated money to anti-gay-marriage organi
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by diydsp 13y ago
If the medium itself lends itself so easily to cloning and there is no protection for the mechanics of a game, the game should be combined with protectable assets, e.g. graphics. Look at Chutes and Ladders. Stunning dumb game mechanic, b
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by diydsp 13y ago
see also: http://www.theonion.com/articles/sony-unveils-matteblack-box...
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by diydsp 13y ago
I don't know if you know the answer, but I'm curious: There's a ppa for arm-gcc that I want to use ( https://launchpad.net/gcc-arm-embedded ) , but so far it's still on Ubuntu 13.04. How is it possible to
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by diydsp 13y ago
holy crap! I just played for two hours ( got to 2048 ) and when i was done everything (win7) looked very square, kind of small and ... old-fashioned? holy crap. It got back to normal after about five minutes or so...
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by diydsp 13y ago
just curious what your strategy is- i think i found a way to fill the bottom row with the largest number and keep funneling numbers down there... I think I reached 1024 on another computer. not sure if I should go all the way tonight. I su
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by diydsp 13y ago
As a matter of perspective, it's been fun for me to watch a star/folk hero like jwz rise out of nowhere, a young, wild, productive dude. Now it's interesting to see a generation of developers to whom he's less known and
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by diydsp 13y ago
I wasn't sure if you were kidding about toilet paper manufacturers having booths at the music festival. I found this: http://sxsw.com/film-interactive/news/2014/stop-cottonelle-r... I also wasn't
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by diydsp 13y ago
<sarcasm> What do you have a kitchen for? You can microwave TV dinners all you want. If you want to make your own recipe, say because you want to be healthy, or don't like the flavor of TV dinners, you can just make a simulated
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by diydsp 13y ago
>C++14 brings core language support for binary literals, which means you now can integrate binary literals as such in your code: >char c = 0b01011010 I can't believe this took TWENTY YEARS (or at least that's how long I pers
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by diydsp 13y ago
yes i died catching my breath in the same place. i repeat what person above said about rectangles meriting perfect collisions. still a nice diversion. i like the way on my system, several bitmap redraws occur per screen trace, giving the
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by diydsp 13y ago
Interesting angle. Perhaps if research were to show that "soldier" could be more broadly interpreted to mean "agent of security," you could really get some momentum going for this line of though. After all, we aren&#x27
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by diydsp 13y ago
Don't be defeatist. A key problem I see, that I used to have, and learned from my mistake, is that the checks and balances system works . Yes, you see the executive branch overstepping its bounds. Lots of people getting picked up. H
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by diydsp 13y ago
An apparently deep discussion, but the author cherry picks definitions to match his argument. For example, he states two definitions for Merriam-webster, but they are only definitions 1a and 1b. There are 4 more. Stedman's dictionary
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by diydsp 13y ago
1. Hospitals are not monolithic. They are a mixture of tried and true procedures and desperate, new-wave experiments. 2. Why would you say hospitals are behind in technology anyway? This would be an unfounded claim.
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by diydsp 13y ago
> emergently. As a self-styled knitpicker and guardian of language, I had to look it up. The references I found [1] [2] indicated emergent can mean calling for immediate action or urgent, however, it's only in the weakest use of
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by diydsp 13y ago
The API has some excellent stuff regarding audio segmentation. It represents any track as a list of ~2,000 segments. Each segment has energy in 12 chromatic bins measured, too. There's also information on beat times, and a Machine-L
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by diydsp 13y ago
That's not art from a video game. Therefore, it's not an object of the project's critique and is not likely to be interpreted as Fair Use. That is a piece of fan art about a game. The project's critique is of vid
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by diydsp 13y ago
Thanks for these. I had never heard it before. It sounds like two-three main sounds. There's a snappy one, then a grunty one, then a crackly one. Is the snappy the bombs exploding reaching, the grunty the gun sounds reaching the mic
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by diydsp 13y ago
You've got some good points, but I actually believe it's a bit bleaker :) I believe the role of the musician is too important to be simply cast as a typical capitalist job- e.g. do it 40 hours and get a salary. Although I'll
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by diydsp 13y ago
Yes, a good example of sticking with an idea and growing it slowly and steadily for years and years and years! Also, of pivoting and sticking to business-to-business solutions. Earlier on, their projects involved creative remixing of music
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by diydsp 13y ago
It's too bad you were downvoted to oblivion, but a more reasoned response might have nurtured more conversation. Anyway, having read lots of social theory on music, I'll bite. Go ahead and tell more. Specifically, death relative

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