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by effn 15y ago
The bassdrum is just an impulse exciting a lowpass filter at very high resonance. The clicking noise is generated by a specialized envelope that raises the pitch of the filter for the first few ms. The whole thing is then slightly overdrive
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by effn 15y ago
The 808 has specialized synthesis circuits for every sound. Nowhere does it use a traditional VCO+Filter circuit AFAIK.
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by effn 15y ago
Yes. Translation layers typically have horrible performance, unless the target is designed with the translation in mind.
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by effn 15y ago
Nope, NYT is wrong on that one. I suspect they are referring to the implosion of the real estate sector which brought down a number of companies, but none of them where banks. QE is a word with a specific meaning, it's not just a synonym fo
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by effn 15y ago
Sweden only let one of its smaller banks go bankrupt, in the early 90s, and has never done any QE.
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by effn 15y ago
Given the transaction costs of credit swaps, it doesn't make sense to trade them for companies as small as Groupon. That's why there are credit indexes, and Groupon is not part of any AFACT. They are definitely way too small for single name
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by effn 15y ago
The idea is that Shen has a turing-complete type system, so it shouldn't even be possible to create a more powerful type system (given a specific definition of "powerful").
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by effn 15y ago
The term DRAM is used to differentiate it from SRAM, which is faster but less dense.
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by effn 15y ago
"To make sure that the popularity of one language over another didn’t skew the results, Vos grabbed an equal number of commit messages per language."
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by effn 15y ago
The rating only covers default risk, not currency risk.
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by effn 15y ago
There is some discussion about this app on the monome forum: http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=11648
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by effn 16y ago
That doesn't work either, since then you will have more than one result. Which one will you dispatch on?
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by effn 16y ago
Overloading on return type is fundamentally impossible in dynamic languages, since they dispatch on values, and the return value can not be known before the function is called.
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by effn 16y ago
ARM recommends using Thumb2 for non-legacy software. Thumb2 is denser than x86, so actually ARM is the one with the advantage here (unless you have an existing ARM codebase).
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by effn 16y ago
Many arm chips support both a RISC ISA (the original ARM), and a more CISC-y ISA (thumb2). They consume less power and perform better with the latter. So well, in fact, that some chips don't even bother with the legacy RISC mode.
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by effn 16y ago
Neither Self nor HotSpot uses tracing. It's a relatively new compilation technique, the implementation in the original tracing paper used java bytecode as the source language. I think you are confusing tracing with adaptive compilation.
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by effn 16y ago
Yes, it does have variant types and pattern matching, and an option type in the standard library, just like ML. Contrary to ML, it doesn't require variables to be initialized when declared. The typestate system checks (statically) that they
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by effn 16y ago
The self hosted Rust compiler is probably the largest piece of Rust code right now: https://github.com/graydon/rust/tree/master/src/comp/
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by effn 16y ago
Rust is not very functional at all. E.g. no lambda, no closures (yet).
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by effn 16y ago
Compared to Go: * Rust does not have NULL!! * Rust has parametric polymorphism. * Rust has more predictable memory/cpu usage thanks to forgoing global GC for a novel memory management model based on stack allocation/RAII, immutability, isol
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by effn 16y ago
Calling Javascript a functional language is quite a stretch. All native data structures are mutable, the function literal syntax is extremely clumsy, and there is no algebraic datatypes, pattern matching or TCO.
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by effn 16y ago
Sorry, but "being scared to death" and "being in fear for their lives" are your words, and has not appeared in any news reports so far. The Swedish word "livrädd" just means "terrified", not that you are in fear for your life.
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by effn 16y ago
What about entrepreneurs (who are currently getting hurt by inflation falling below the long term trend)? Why do they deserve to be punished while people holding cash don't?
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by effn 16y ago
Real mortgage interest rates did not go negative at any point during the housing bubble. > For the most straightforward, plain English explanations, I'd recommend Peter Schiff - he was correctly predicting the housing crash almost to th
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by effn 16y ago
You are confusing monetary policy with fiscal policy.
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by effn 16y ago
Do you seriously believe that subsidies of western farmers is helping people in Africa? What is the "tragedy as a possible solution" you are speaking of?
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by effn 17y ago
That's exactly what it is (Sci-fi). It was never operational, just a mockup for propaganda reasons. There is a very interesting video about the entire project here: http://vimeo.com/8000921