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by metajack 14y ago
"I don't 100% get the band limited signal bit. How does band limiting imply that there's only a single possible reconstruction of the digital signal?" The band limiting here means removing frequencies above the Nyquist limit. This allows fo
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by metajack 14y ago
Monty and the Xiph.org team have been slaving away at this for quite some time. They put an amazing amount of work into it, and it really shows. You might be interested to know that there were about 50k lines of code[1] written for the demo
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by metajack 14y ago
This was a point that Brendan Eich made in "Why Mozilla Matters"[1]: "Mozilla is not Opera. If we were a more conventional business, without enough desktop browser-market share, we would probably have to do what Opera has done. But we’re no
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by metajack 14y ago
&yet put on a great RealtimeConf for two years running. I heard only good things about the pre-conference RedisConf they did last year, so I think a WebRTC conference will be a huge success.
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Gödel Numbering: Encoding Logic as Numbers(scientopia.org)
2 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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Probability as a Basic Modeling Language(randomcomputation.blogspot.com)
1 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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An Epic in the Comments(lunametrics.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com)
10 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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The Future of JavaScript(blog.printf.net)
1 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
This was an excellent talk at the Conj, and the talk was the best explanations of entity systems I've yet found. I also recommend his Anatomy of a Knockout which also covers more of this topic: http://www.chris-granger.com/2012/12/11/anato
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by metajack 14y ago
I had no idea about impatient-mode. It looks awesome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV6XVyXjBO8 Also, defadvice is great for fixing annoyances in various modes. It's really easy to use too. Hopefully they'll find some way to fix it for n
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The Limits of Emacs Advice(nullprogram.com)
7 points by metajack 14y ago|1 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
I always thought Advogato's trust metric[1] was really interesting. It was part of Raph Levine's (of libart and Ghostscript fame) PhD thesis, but he later switched topics. As I recall it worked fairly well, but Advogato was a small communit
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The trouble with social news(corte.si)
64 points by metajack 14y ago|21 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
It amazes me that the DNC and RNC don't have tech projects going all the time in order to prepare for the mid-term elections in two years. It's awesome what these people accomplished in the short time frame they had, but if it's so importan
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Depth- and Breadth-First Search(jeremykun.com)
1 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
Wow! The website is certainly improved. ANTLR is pretty cool, and I've used it via Clojure for a few things. It was a lot more pleasant to work with than many other similar tools. Here's a short interview about some of the new things: http
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by metajack 14y ago
I didn't mean to imply there was. Sorry. It does seem to be the lowest hanging fruit.
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by metajack 14y ago
She knew the issue was the lack of submissions, so she worked hard to get lots of talk submissions from women. When she actually selected the talks, she did so without knowledge of the person's gender. She got the ratio she wanted by encour
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by metajack 14y ago
It's hard to beat patio11's great blog post on the subject: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/ I'll also add this for inspiration; it's the story of one woman's success at the negotiating table after going outside of
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by metajack 14y ago
I think partly this is because Clojure programmers already understand the ideas behind Datomic's data model, since it is somewhat of a natural extension of Clojure's model of state. Rich has given talks on the architecture and talks on the
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by metajack 14y ago
I can't speak for best, but: Ocaml is used and praised by Jane Street [1] Python has a nice suite of financial tools available [2] It may be that the best tool for analysis and for trading are different. For the former you want visualizatio
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by metajack 14y ago
“If your system of finding worthy students or speakers to promote is to have them come to you and ask, but a solid body of research shows that women won’t do so, you’ve institutionalized a gap” This applies just as much to finding employees
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Scala type level encoding of the SKI calculus(michid.wordpress.com)
1 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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Static types are great, but I don't use them in practice(brehaut.net)
12 points by metajack 14y ago|8 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
I had this problem as well. Turns out that drip fails silently if you have Java 6. If you get drip from the checkout (very easy and instructions are at https://github.com/flatland/drip ), it will work fine. Alternatively you can upgrade to
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Why Web Literacy?(third-bit.com)
3 points by metajack 14y ago|0 comments
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by metajack 14y ago
I made a similiar type of library for Erlang called props[1], which also includes common data manipulation tasks like merging, replacing data at a path, etc. [1] https://github.com/greyarea/props
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by metajack 14y ago
I don't think Erlang's syntax is at all inconsistent; it's just different. Once you understand what periods, semicolons, and commas are actually doing, there is no confusion. In the same way an English writer doesn't get confused about when
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by metajack 14y ago
The original song really didn't have a melody, and Coulton's version clearly does. If his melody is original, it seems like this has to be a violation of copyright. Certainly the melody of the Glee version is identical to Coulton's. Hopeful
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by metajack 14y ago
A similar anecdote from my own experience: Chesspark had a web and a win32 native client. It kept track of your friends with a roster (the underlying stack was based on XMPP). As a way to make new users feel welcome, I and a few coworkers w

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