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by flavio81 9y ago
Frank Zappa fan here. The ironic part of all this is that FZ records are a case for getting into LP records. For example the original version of the Hot Rats album (1969) has the original released audio, while the CD version (1987) has a
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by flavio81 9y ago
Javascript is a weakly typed language and no superset like Typescript or Flow will solve this problem, just mitigate it. However, on the other hand, I think that a good , experienced developer has no problem with that. The bugs that the
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by flavio81 9y ago
"Dynamically typed languages for large code bases are terrible." Perhaps this is what you believe based on your experience or opinions on internet. However large code bases, complex systems, have been used successfully, for exam
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by flavio81 9y ago
> And what you say about DACs has not been true for many years. These days, even run-of-the-mill DACs employ oversampling. Oversampling does not solve the issue i have commented, which is that 44KHz is too low. Read about filtering at th
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by flavio81 9y ago
According to a lot of music lovers and studio engineers, if you are within that scene.
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by flavio81 9y ago
Phillips already experimented with an audio laserdisc in the late 1970s. It requires the audio to be modulated (using FM) and thus this introduces serious barriers to the sound quality. On the LP, the audio is baseband. It isn't modula
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by flavio81 9y ago
The problem is not digital audio, the problem is CD- quality digital audio. It isn't as good as state of the art digital audio.
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by flavio81 9y ago
This is theoric considerations, not practical. For frequencies from about 2Khz to the limit, the dynamic range of the LP is over 100dB. The quoted 60-66dB dynamic range is only because takes into account low frequency rumble. CDs are master
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by flavio81 9y ago
The Racket ecosystem allows developers to create DSLs as they like. Does it qualify as a "language workbench"?
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by flavio81 9y ago
Thanks for your reply, Sean. Googling on lockfiles i found out more about the features of the Yarn package manager. Perhaps that's what I should use. However what i meant with my comment is that I feel that package managers should be s
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by flavio81 9y ago
Yes, but jumping between Python and Javascript is really easy. I do it myself, even in the same day, without problems. In the same way as people who can talk English, Spanish, French, and Italian, can easily jump between those languages in
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by flavio81 9y ago
Apparently it is difficult, but in reality, as you progress in learning Lisp, it becomes second-nature and really easy. I have never found or read about any lisper (any programmer who wrote useful, complete code in Lisp) complaining about p
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by flavio81 9y ago
The thing is, if you actually set yourself out to create an application in Lisp, and you do learn the language and the tools made for programming in that language, not only you will have no problem with parentheses... ... but you also will
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by flavio81 9y ago
> "The web is the greatest application delivery platform on Earth, and frankly it’s a stain on our profession that you need to know five different programming languages (...) Really, all you should need is to be able to code."
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by flavio81 9y ago
And then, the page shows, as a supposed example of the reason for not using javascript: > And here’s how you’d do it in Javascript. I count three separate callbacks here. I’m not exaggerating - this is an example straight from the docum
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by flavio81 9y ago
> TC39 is currently working on over 30 active proposals. What else does the future hold in store? These days we download our packages from npm. I am surprised that no more mentions of NPM were made. I hope that commitee TC39 addresses th
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by flavio81 9y ago
Well, i was wrong on that one. The software displays its cover overtly.
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by flavio81 9y ago
Records are actually a very very long-lasting information storage medium, better than magnetic tapes (even when you put redundancy checks on them). So much that sometimes when music from the 1940s to 1960s is to be restored, restauration ex
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by flavio81 9y ago
Drums. In 1980-82, many people in the recording industry thought that drums (as an acoustical instrument played by a human) were going to disappear. 1980s drum machines (starting with the Linn) were big hits and used everywhere. Entire reco
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by flavio81 9y ago
Yes, but most solos by Brian May are hugely musical and compliment the music. Also, Jeff Beck's records are really interesting, good, entertaining, innovative solo guitar.
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by flavio81 9y ago
> How many people in the electronic genre could play Bach ? You should know that the first record of electronic music to be a hit record, was a record full of Bach music... by musician Walter Carlos (now Wendy Carlos).
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by flavio81 9y ago
My music player is very efficient, it practically doesn't waste any milliwatt-hour from my laptop's battery. The audio quality is good to superb depending on the source material. It can display the covers of albums with excellent
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by flavio81 9y ago
I think good programmers, by default, try to write readable, easy-to-maintain code. If you ask them to write high-performance code then they will do it, knowing that readability might suffer because of it.
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by flavio81 9y ago
What I mean is that I wish THEY were the ones who ran one major newspaper and covered daily news with the same depth and subject-matter insight that they did in this article. A great article.
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by flavio81 9y ago
I wish IEEE had a newspaper! A really great, comprehensive list. Really good that they have added also the CCD chips and the DLP micro mirrors as well!
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by flavio81 9y ago
While you persist on your belief system, a big, award-winning code controlled the NASA Deep Space One out in space for several days. Done 100% in a dynamic language. A really big and complex program, is right now doing airline planning for
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by flavio81 9y ago
Agree with you. Too many myths!
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by flavio81 9y ago
". Large programs written in statically typed languages are orders of magnitute more readable, more maintainable, easier to understand, and far less error-prone, than programs written in dynamically typed languages." That's
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by flavio81 9y ago
Sun, Apple Lisa, Apple Macintosh (& descendants), Atari ST series, Commodore Amiga Series... ... the Motorola 68000 was a very successful chip!!
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by flavio81 9y ago
As a drummer && music-lover && audiophile myself, I always stress out to other people the importance to protect ones' hearing. For me, hearing is an even more important sense than vision and I think good old Ludwig van

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