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by necubi 7y ago
Yeah, good point. I take VST as a generic term for audio plugins. Most VSTs (including surge) will have AU ports as well.
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by necubi 7y ago
For Linux, I use Jack [0] (low-latency audio API) + Carla [1] (VST host) + Claudia [2] (session manager) For OS X, Logic Pro is good and very affordable. [0] http://jackaudio.org/ [1] https://kx.studio/Appli
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by necubi 8y ago
The real lock-in comes from using proprietary, cloud-specific services like Kinesis, Dynamo, or Spanner.
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by necubi 8y ago
To me, the clear indication that they're serious about this transition to services will be making them available on third-party devices. Android has ~55% market share in the US, and >80% globally. Roku has 35% of the smart TV market
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by necubi 8y ago
I'm not totally clear on the history, but from the bigtable paper it appears that (at least circa 2006) Bigtable and GFS were not colocated.
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by necubi 8y ago
Indeed, but it's not a new idea. This is Bigtable's architecture after all, which is now 15 (?) years old. There are a bunch of advantages: DB developers can focus on the DB, not the storage layer (which is in many ways much harde
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by necubi 8y ago
That's completely wrong. Chargebacks are _primarily_ for fraud. And any merchant that accepts credit cards over the phone or Internet ("card not present") is liable for fraud, not the bank.
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by necubi 8y ago
> 3. The illiquid stock options and (potentially) reduced compensation are clearly mentioned in the post. It's no secret that the upside and the downside are both magnified for a startup. It's not symmetrical. The downside is m
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by necubi 8y ago
It's a haskell thing. The main advantage is that each line is independent. You can comment out a line or add a line at the end without modifying anything else.
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by necubi 8y ago
Partita for Eight Voices [0] is one of the most remarkable choral pieces I've ever heard. Got a chance to hear it performed live by Roomful of Teeth and was mesmerized the entire time. [0] https://open.spotify.com/album
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by necubi 8y ago
They can be fast (see for example the Rust parser-combinator library Nom [0] which benchmarks competitively with hand-written parsers). However you likely need some level of metaprogramming to make them fast, as the way they're impleme
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by necubi 8y ago
This is from 2005. The state of the art in GC has advanced substantially since then.
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by necubi 8y ago
The off-by-default behavior was the result of a compromise made between the advertising industry and privacy groups. Since DNT was voluntary, adtech firms were not going to voluntarily destroy a huge chunk of their businesses. The only way
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by necubi 8y ago
Microsoft killed DNT by enabling it by default in IE. I was working for one of the largest web analytics companies at the time, and we were fully prepared to support it (the code had been written!). But after Microsoft's move it was im
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by necubi 8y ago
It's not easy to solve because people go ballistic if you suggest removing even a single parking space. See for example the 30+ year struggle to develop bus rapid transit on Geary in SF [0], or the effort Bay Area Bikeshare has to go t
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by necubi 8y ago
Color is determined by random draw. I think most people feel that black has the advantage, but because there's no standardized timing it's hard to find relevant statistics. Armageddon is pretty much a thin chess-like veneer on top
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by necubi 8y ago
That's really not what happened. Spdy (HTTP/2) and quic were in development simultaneously at Google before the standardization process began in 2012. HTTP/2 solves a bunch of performance challenges around running web applica
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by necubi 8y ago
Pretty typical for a mid-level engineer at a top quant fund. More senior salaries get into the low 7 figures. Source: recently interviewed with a few top quant funds in NY
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by necubi 8y ago
I'm sorry, that's deeply revisionist history. Intel kept their dominance through illegal market practices [0], despite AMD's tech advantage at the time. Intel eventually paid out >$1B, but by then the damage was done and i
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by necubi 8y ago
I don't know what level you're at, but my experience (from both sides of the hiring process) is that the market is completely saturated for junior engineers. Many companies are primarily/exclusively hiring seniors, and the ma
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by necubi 8y ago
It's definitely location-dependent. My experience is primarily Bay Area/NYC/Seattle, and salaries will likely be lower outside those hubs. However for very skilled or in-demand specialists, it's definitely possible to ge
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by necubi 8y ago
There's no ceiling for developer pay (or at least, you're likely nowhere close to it). Large companies with technical tracks pay 1MM+/year for high-level engineers. Mid-level ("Senior" in title) engineers can easily
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by necubi 8y ago
The cruise valuation is pretty suspect, as reported by The Information [0]. > When SoftBank agreed to invest $2.2 billion in Cruise, the self-driving unit of General Motors, most of the attention was on the valuation of $11.5 billion. Bu
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by necubi 8y ago
A few years ago I wrote a terminal version of threes (the imho better predecessor to 2048): https://github.com/mwylde/Threes.scala , including ANSI graphics for the gameboard.
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by necubi 8y ago
Even worse, according to the techcrunch article [0] the projection screen is mostly opaque, so passengers won't be able to see out the window. [0] https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/15/grabb-it-wants-to-turn-
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by necubi 8y ago
Other package managers (cargo, gemfile, etc.) also give reproducible builds by using a lockfile. Upgrading dependencies to their maximum version is an explicit action (cargo update). It's not clear to me why the go team things lockfile
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by necubi 8y ago
> They're just pandering to special interest groups --groups they believe will like this move, and since there is no alternative party in the Bay Area, they know most tech workers will not break Repub, so they can do what they want.
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by necubi 8y ago
Haven't tried Rust with Eclipse, but the IntelliJ rust plugin [0] is already quite good and getting better on a weekly basis. Most things work in community (free) IntelliJ, and with CLion you also get pretty a pretty solid debugger UI.
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by necubi 8y ago
This is a hard call when the system is question is your anti-abuse provider. If you "fail open" when they're down, you risk allowing a flood of bad users during outages. Depending on your business, that may be much worse than
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by necubi 8y ago
According to the numbers here [0], SF has grown just 12% since 1950, compared to a 213% increase in US population overall. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_San_Francisco

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