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by fat0wl 13y ago
I guess it's nice to see that they put some thought into it but it still seems, well... over-engineered. If you are trying to be the monolith that your customers buy EVERYTHING from then you should be a little more realistic... nobody
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by fat0wl 13y ago
ehehe this is is sick. at least they used more than 1 sample, lol. i gotta figure out ableton.... i use it but mainly to process live tracks with max. WHY DONT I USE MY SAMPLING SOFTWARE FOR SAMPLING GAH also... <3 the sprite cameos
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by fat0wl 13y ago
also i wasn't gonna say anything but can't help from chuckling about it -- i am an audio DSP engineer so by nature I've probably done more work/research concerning SNR than 99% of people on the planet ever will lol. i di
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by fat0wl 13y ago
obvious logic, link to wiki for explanation of common term -- u my friend are due for about 5 upvotes in the HN chain of circular validation. i understand it as a way for SNR sure, but mostly its just a way to fade the text of people you di
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by fat0wl 13y ago
like other people are saying -- HN is news by committee. just try to post a joke on here one day & see how many rapid downvotes it gets if you ever need proof of how lame & uptight the HN crowd can be once they hit that 500 rep. i p
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by fat0wl 13y ago
plus -999,999 times this
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yes i see what you're saying. thank you for the intro to freenode! it's real-time (well, the time it takes for someone to return to computer & read your question) IRC q/a for Lisp? very cool. upload the logs & i bet i
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh i know u were. i get what youre saying here but my issue with that is it just leads to like watered-down pseudo-journals of questionable reputation. it almost feels like a better alternative would be for the students to run their own in
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by fat0wl 13y ago
the only actual beneficiary i can think of is the people charging students to publish without even having to deal with the overhead of hiring someone to read the damn thing
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Well I mean.... calm down, this was done as an experiment by the author to see what kind of corrupt shakedown his students were being run through. These things need to be tested in order to improve the academic system. Otherwise the misinfo
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by fat0wl 13y ago
heh yes I always wonder about these analyses -- is the # of questions on SO an actual correlate to popularity? Or is it the sign of an opaque or buggy language It's funny (be warned, this is sortof flamebait i know) I left RoR to enter
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Hah someone countered this quite elegantly once -- something like "You mean the risk of leaving their computer on overnight a few times 3 years ago?" No, that should not make you vastly wealthy...
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea but my view here is that you don't need to understand cryptography to derive the value of a Bitcoin. It is akin to other currency systems that have come before it. the crypto aspects are new, sure, & provide a good infrastructu
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by fat0wl 13y ago
lol this this thisssss! bitcoin culture in a nutshell. the major economists & finance analysts say stuff like "explain how this is not a speculative bubble", for example, because they outright see it as one & the bitcoin
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by fat0wl 13y ago
"UPDATE: We really are douches."
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by fat0wl 13y ago
eh comeon tech workers are just people doing a job. the same issues/judgments apply to any profession (law, finance, journalism) but these guys are clearly just demonizing tech workers as a group when... they don't really cause an
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yea exactly. the Java tools are not about lightweight/modern web dev it is about powerful commercially-developed libraries. If they could offer those tools without having to buy/house a bunch of proprietary hardware i think a lot
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by fat0wl 13y ago
isn't the whole point of this though that Oracle has superior enterprise software, its just not cloud-enabled? (hardware is debatable... oracle has stuff going on there but yes so does amazon too now) Amazon gives you access essentiall
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yeah i was wondering about that too. is it just because the lib is left in even if it's not being used you think? i haven't heard of anyone using H2 for production, if they are i'd like to know more about how/why
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by fat0wl 13y ago
yes yes yesss. the biggest headache in tech america is that the recruiters and hiring managers dont know who or what they are hiring. there are so many people at my job who i look at and think "why were they exempt from a rigorous tech
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Oscar Bluth, anyone?
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by fat0wl 13y ago
why is that? i assumed HN would like then since i remember a bunch of articles about RG being big RoR proponents
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by fat0wl 13y ago
eh i think this falls into the category of "if you don't care don't click the link". some people are interested in stats...
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by fat0wl 13y ago
"OK, now we'll really stop surveilling. promise!" they invested so much I'm sure this is how it is for good now, no turning back. that's the screwed up thing. America seems to have a lot of sunken cost fallacy. On
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by fat0wl 13y ago
ahahah "eccentricity" best adjective craftsmanship ever... looks like a cool idea but i feel like hardware-optimization stuff will be wrapped into server OS eventually if its meant to be (I'm sure it already is in some ways).
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by fat0wl 13y ago
it almost always is, with the crypto-currency crew. unbridled greed is the driving force of the movement now
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by fat0wl 13y ago
also just so you know i think AI, for example, is beyond the scope of this web stack quest. When "complex" is used in a web app it means concurrency issues, asynchronicity, eventing. Not necessarily computational stuff beyond that
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by fat0wl 13y ago
(In fact, for heavy processing stuff I'm pretty sure it's architecturally preferred to have it on a separate machine than the web-app server)
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Hmmm I don't know. I think the conventional wisdom is to use a service-oriented architecture with the best front-end tools you can find. The advantage of JVM in my opinion is that a lot of their toolchains have this approach in mind an
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by fat0wl 13y ago
Hah I am the wrooooong guy to get angry at. I'm just speaking from experience and observation of others -- personally I greatly prefer the open source world. I'm sure there are tons of crummy Java devs out there but there are also

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