msutherl

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by msutherl 15y ago
I am (the man) from Nantucket. Any other Nantucketers on HN?
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To be thorough, you might include Sound Synthesis if you're going to include Graphics. Or you might swap one for the other depending on your interests. While Graphics will have you learn applied linear algebra, Sound Synthesis will have you
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Max/MSP/Jitter. Dataflow 4 life.
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by msutherl 15y ago
Dataflow environments like PureData, Max/MSP, Quartz Composer and vvvv are very much like 2D GUI-driven shells that handle various data types. Max/MSP was, at least, explicitly conceived as a sort of UNIX for multi-media. After working with
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I'm curious if anybody has written something equivalent to CoffeeScript for C...
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by msutherl 15y ago
My experience is that the 11" is unusable and the 13" is fine. Definitely something to test in the store!
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by msutherl 15y ago
Strange, I coincidentally dreamt about pg having posted stats today. I didn't bother to look assuming he would never do that.
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by msutherl 15y ago
Abstraction comes at the cost of reduced specificity.
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[repost from blog] – This is really spot on. I would like to refer you to a couple of things that come to mind that you might find useful for advancing this line of thinking. (1) I saw a talk by Jonathan Edwards that was very much along the
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Douglas Adams' final, and posthumously finished and published book, The Salmon of Doubt, discusses in depth the great utility of the phrase "it turns out".
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After SHRDLU, Winograd denounce AI as hogwash and was instrumental in starting what we now know of as interface design/HCI.
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As a designer, I have to object to this way of thinking. Perhaps I should say "ethico-aesthetic" a la Guattari.
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I'm new to ZeroMQ. Would you be willing to provide a quick example scenario where this might be useful?
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by msutherl 15y ago
As far as front-end web development is concerned, I was in a similar boat – not sure what was the best place to start learning 'everything'. Then I found a copy of _Javascript: The Definitive Guide_ and it solved the problem. The book has e
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by msutherl 15y ago
There's an interesting ethical question here. If you charge more for your app, you may make the same amount of money and save on support costs, but you're also denying less wealthy people access to a good tool. It's much like, for instance,
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by msutherl 15y ago
Whoops, I guess I was just wrong about that. It was the only reason I bought the 7506 over the V6, but I guess I was misinformed somewhere along the line.
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Yikes, I meant the 770's!
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The only difference is the magnet in the drivers as far as sound is concerned, but more importantly the 7506 has a 'pro' very long coiled cable while the V6 has a shorter, straight cable. From what I understand, the V600 is not in the same
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by msutherl 15y ago
Bose is a scam. Everybody who knows audio equipment knows this. Period.
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I'be done A/B with the Sony's and the Sens and I can attest that they sound very similar. I went with the Sony's. However, I must say that the sound is nowhere close to my Grados. If you want closed-back headphones with a nice balanced, tra
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I find it interesting that emacs is basically the modeless Vim. I imagine that there are modes involved, but chorded input is basically modeless. I wonder if it makes a difference to the craftsman. Perhaps I should learn emacs to understand
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I was at that talk and, let me tell you, there was magic in the room: http://vimeo.com/36579366
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Au contraire, I find this to be a great learning tool. As a post-novice vimmer, this is the first time that I've been able to see it all laid out like this so that I can see what I know already, what's left to learn and how it all fits toge
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by msutherl 15y ago
Speaking as somebody who learned Vim two years ago, I'm able to follow this diagram and recognize most of it, but in everyday flight I don't use all of it. A little bit every day and you'll be there in no time. EDIT: I should say, I took so
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by msutherl 15y ago
In my humble Experience, and I don't posit any particular mechanism, women, on the whole (with exceptions) excell in areas that befit a good manager. Such areas may include understanding intuitively others' needs, knowing how to create a pr
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by msutherl 15y ago
This is a wonderful idea that I've had before, but never got around to trying. I think I'll start now! If only it wasn't such a pain on the iPad -- or maybe that's an advantage.
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Chomsky's writings are still standard reading for people in various activist communities. He will most likely be remembered for both, and for the fact that he contributed both.
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How would you go about stealing code from Goldman without being detected?
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I think one of the guys from Crystal Fighters is from my home town. On the other hand, Deadmau5 is not really an "independent artist" (though I think most of his releases are on his own label) – he's probably the single most popular electro
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I've been making electronic music using all sorts of software for 15 years and this seems really confusing. I think he could improve it considerably by reducing the visual complexity when zoomed out[1]. He could also create tools for making

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