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by mmjaa 8y ago
Thus, another maxim: It doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you've got a User, the computer is doing the work, and as long as the computer is doing work for someone, there is a User. Alas, which leads to this: Programmers are
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Haha, very funny. Disclaimer: been running Ubuntu Studio for 10 years, and it is still the #1 music-/audio- processing system in my studio, which of course has great MacOS stuff too, but still .. UbuntuStudio .. just freakin' grea
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Nope. There are still bad developers, i.e. those who can't manage themselves. And, just because someone "thinks" they can manage, doesn't mean they can manage. The only metric that matters: number of USERS . Good deve
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Just goes to prove my ol' personal favourite maxim: "If you think you can computerise it, do it on paper first. Then, see if you still need to computerise it." 80% of the time, you don't.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Hey - just to ping you on this, your project sounds pretty interesting - any chance you're interested in some feedback/collaboration from another synthesist? I've been in the game for some time now and your project sounds ve
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I've been using the local Electric Moped rental to get around my large metropolitan city, and I have to say it is really delightful to use and experience. I have all the best parts of having a moped to use, without any of the ownershi
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Hi Jon - great work - I've been a happy registered user of ST for years and I find it a wonderful tool in my productivity kit - so thanks! Will there be a home-brew cask for us on MacOS, by any chance?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Because the military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex exerts an enormous influence over American politics, both domestic and foreign, and if they want war: they get it. (cf., the last 40 years of illegal American wars.) All this attacking
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>And why would they? Because they're reading the blog, and are interested in the content - i.e. because next generation IPFS-friendly browsers participate in the pinning, as they should. I mean, think about it: there is already a
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm in that business and am currently actively working on the same sort of project. Maybe we should talk... (Email is in my profile..)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I was wincing at that too, but then I realised its probably just as well it was tested in such an environment. ;)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Fantastic platform on which to base a synthesiser, music effects module, or some other such creative device. The synths from Modal Electronics are some good examples of what you can do with an embedded Linux system .. they're using a $
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by mmjaa 8y ago
.. and as well, exercise an iron grip over the third worlds' economy ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
In 2007 the World Bank issued a report stating, in effect, it wanted more right-wing governments in power around the world because they tended to borrow more (for wars) and it was better for the World Bank to have right-wing/crypto-fas
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I don't remember voting for the UK to police my countries sovereign waters. Fact is, the UK has no real place in the world if it isn't policing things such as the worlds oceans, or its finances. This is a role it has granted itse
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by mmjaa 8y ago
To establish precedent for the UK policing the worlds oceans - a goal its had on its roster for centuries now.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I keep my phones for 2 - 5 years. During that time, I'd need to replace the battery at least once, maybe twice. Its not a straw man argument - but I find your response telling. Perhaps its not clear to a majority of HN users, but not
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by mmjaa 8y ago
This is only convenient for users who can afford to be without their phone for a day or two, and also those who are anywhere near an Apple store / service centre. Perhaps there is data that supports the statement "this is most us
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The machines needed rebooting because of bugs further upstream in the stack - these were the bad ol' days of DOS, and each system was really being used as a client to the database backend. For whatever reason, the sysadmins decided to
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I really wish someone would have the balls to do something really ass-kicking, like make a PhoneOS that can run all your functions and still give you something special .. it seems to be within grasp in various and sundry vertical embedded m
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Smallest program I ever sold, for near-5-digit profit, was a "REBOOT.COM" which saved a sysadmin from hand-rebooting 200 machines, daily, and which earned me $9,000 on account that it was my monthly rate at the time, and its all I
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by mmjaa 8y ago
My solution has always been to treat such keys and secrets as financial instruments, and therefore prone to use only through direct processing - i.e. build/deploy environments have to have explicit requirements of allowing the finance
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The 10's of thousands of families living on skid row don't get anything from NATO membership. The millions of people with zero healthcare: same. (Unless they're in the military, which of course at least feeds them and keeps
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by mmjaa 8y ago
American (military-industrial workers) need to eat too, yo. Its poor uneducated thug classes, currently serving in the military, need something worthwhile to justify their existence and continued participation in what can, in all fairness
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its not justifiable, thats the point. But those folks who assembled the white phosphorous bombs that were dropped on innocent people, and who live in Americas 'heartland' in safety, surety and comfort, sure did need to get paid
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by mmjaa 8y ago
crickets Nobody seems to care. I guess its because, without that spending, America would be a third-world country by now. EDIT: you can't discuss America's illegal wars from the perspective of the innocent victims. This will ge
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by mmjaa 8y ago
It is "phobia" if you hit the wrong guy back. Which is something America is pretty good at doing, all the while still crying foul.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Your reading comprehension not so good? Blinded by hate? Look at the person whose message I responded to - it was them who mentioned it was a Russian. >well-known trolling group Yeah, thanks for proving my point that America is in th
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Is this kind of derision really necessary? Americans are just as capable of making stupid mistakes, and have - many times over - during the course of their space program. This story should be about how American astronauts and Russian cos
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The only reason it matters if it was a Russian engineer or not, is so that Americans' currently engaged in two-minutes hate can use this story as yet more confirmation of their bias against Russia. There's simply no other reason

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