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by m0nastic 16y ago
Yeah, I thought it was neat. I'm not an audio guy, so I have no idea if the tech is actually impressive. As a game though, I've been playing it for a couple hours and it's really well done.
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IPhone Audio-Only Game Uses "3D" Sound(papasangre.com)
3 points by m0nastic 16y ago|4 comments
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I liken TAOCP to Proust. Fawned over by a small subset of people (rightfully so), a larger subset who talks about it but doesn't actually read it, and shunned by the majority as dense and intimidating.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
That was the fastest $10 I've ever spent in the App Store. I'll echo most people's sentiments, this is seriously cool (although I must look like an idiot walking around my apartment pointing my phone at everything).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think this followup is even more illustrative: http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/misc/0004/msg00573.html
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by m0nastic 16y ago
There is also a part 1 (which includes an intro to monads): http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/C9-Lectures-Greg-Mere... I know I've seen some posts recently where people are inquiring about them.
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C9 lecture: monadic design patterns [video](channel9.msdn.com)
2 points by m0nastic 16y ago|1 comments
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I used this as a rationale for learning VIM 15 years ago. The overwhelming majority of machines I've accessed haven't had Emacs installed, so I'm not sure if there's a huge problem with remapping your Emacs config to be something that works
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Basically that I absolutely believe this is a bogus story, but my reasons for believing that aren't able to be shared due to direct involvement. I don't expect other people to take that as evidence of anything (because who the hell am I), b
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I guess I'm balking because my answer to the question "is he a known liar?" is "yes, by anyone who knows him or has worked with him." The problem with that statement is that from what I can see, no one who meets that criteria is commenting
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by m0nastic 16y ago
It's unfair of me to cast aspersions against Greg that the general public wouldn't be in a position to back up; but I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone with knowledge of either him or the situation to not consider him an untrustwor
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by m0nastic 16y ago
To be more accurate: "The ex-CTO of a government contractor with a history of being bat-shit insane just told you there is very likely a set of backdoors in a crypto stack"...
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by m0nastic 16y ago
After conferring with some folks, I will now say that the odds of this being true are virtually nill. This might not be helpful for people here, but the best advice I can give is to "consider the source" (Greg Perry).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I also will go with "no", although I'm a little too close to this story to wager.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I keep seeing comments like this posted in this article, and maybe I'm just being defensive; but I kind of think that's a dangerously dismissive point of view. I think developers have been creating applications long before they had "large s
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Actually, it does support Objective C (at least according to their web page, I've never edited an Objective C file in it).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm actually one of those minority of people who have completely stopped taking my laptop anywhere (and when the time comes to upgrade to a new machine, will absolutely be getting a desktop). I used to write code "on the go" in a computatio
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I can second a recommendation for Textastic. Specifically, it uses Fraise's syntax definition files, so it has support for a crapload of languages: ( http://www.textasticapp.com/manual/lessons/Which_file_types_... ) I see people complaining
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I've always found it odd how many resources they still devote to R&D considering their acquisition strategy. I agree, I actually still like the company (although I was never actually a fan of the Pix's, the ASA's are a lot better). When
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by m0nastic 16y ago
10 years ago I was out drinking at a bar in Santa Cruz with a marketing rep for Cisco who asked us what our thoughts were about the company as regards to other technology companies. I told her that I didn't really think of Cisco as a techno
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think Forbes should have come up with a different headline for this article. I was expecting AirBnB to have solved something completely different from the problem of being cut out of the middle of a transaction.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I actually predominantly learned COBOL and RPG in High School (which makes me feel old, even though this was in 97). I thought COBOL was useless at the time, but amusingly have had to do two separate source code audits of COBOL code in the
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I remember in high school my C teacher made us write it that way, even after most of the kids in the class tried to convince him against it. In his defense, he didn't know C (he was taking night classes at a local college and then teaching
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think this guy's comment (who says he works at Twitter on trends) is a valid explanation for this: http://studentactivism.net/2010/12/05/wikileaks-twitter-3/#c... I'm not so sure it's a giant Twitter/State Department Consipiracy.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I would be very surprised if the Marshall Service doesn't have pretty straightforward guidelines about what sorts of things to avoid when under witness protection. I would expect that having a Facebook account at all is something to avoid.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Right, but they had already had their Paypal account frozen in the past. Once they were able to resolve that, I fail to see how the first order of business wasn't "move all of our money out of that account and find an alternative payment pr
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by m0nastic 16y ago
The most surprising thing to me was the fact that Wikileaks was using Paypal at all. It seems like Paypal is a terrible choice if you're doing something even slightly controversial. Although I'm not sure what their other options would be.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
For me, it's not about being a power user; I'm actually quite happy to see the new era of "stripped down" os's become commonplace for people to use. I just honestly don't see anything that Chrome OS does that Google couldn't already do with
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Actually that could be super cool. You could have your own fleet of unmanned drones able to do your bidding on a global scale.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Considering how much more popular the Galaxy S Phone is in Korea than outside of it, it's entirely possible that the Galaxy Tab is similarly popular there. I suspect that's true, as you can't presently buy the Wifi only version in the U.S.

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