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by pierrec 9y ago
>although Rust is cross-platform, I don’t have a Windows machine to develop on... Well, Windows VMs aren't hard to come by and they work quite well on any host platform (contrarily to some other OSes cough MacOS cough ) A native wi
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by pierrec 9y ago
This is a really useful codebase to compare what the code looks like for different APIs and the tooling around each (not so much for directly comparing the graphics, which should go without saying, but a lot of people seem to be missing the
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by pierrec 9y ago
The best argument I've seen for using orthodox C++ is when writing something you want to compile to both native platforms and web using emscripten, while aiming for good performance and small distribution size. For example, this is wha
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Celtic Knot Generator with Paper.js(online.rapidresizer.com)
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by pierrec 9y ago
This is cool and a lot lighter than WINE, though the important keyword is self-contained Windows libraries. I gather this won't work on DLLs that call any of the plethora of Windows APIs. I'm actually very surprised that any non
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by pierrec 9y ago
Modern virtual instruments are capable of much more than what standard Hollywood soundtracks might make you think. 1) Performance morphing. We have moved from straightforward sampling to hybrid sampled/synthesized approaches. It will n
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by pierrec 9y ago
The list of software synths using and expanding on this algorithm piles up pretty high and is still rising. Perhaps you don't hear the name a lot because most of these plugins don't explicitly say so in their descriptions and mark
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by pierrec 9y ago
I pretty much left that out as bait for someone to reply, though it seems you've nearly identified it as such :)
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by pierrec 9y ago
Just before seeing this on HN I was listening to Buxtehude's organ works on my way home. Buxtehude was one of the main inspirations for Bach as a composer¹, and I always find it interesting to go back and forth. But there's a reas
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by pierrec 9y ago
It might be completely deliberate, as the WoW generation might be coming into positions where they are now the "enterprise guys" that need to be targeted. Or maybe I'm just reading too much into a whimsical name.
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by pierrec 9y ago
As another abuser of the C preprocessor, I'll point out that you can greatly simplify your call to gcc... by not using gcc, just call cpp directly: cpp -P -H $main $out should be equivalent, unless I'm missing something.
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by pierrec 9y ago
I think this sentence sums up the severity pretty well: The attached proof of concept demonstrates this, but please be aware that downloading it will immediately crash MsMpEng in its default configuration and possibly destabilize your syst
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by pierrec 9y ago
Glasswire seems quite good, though you have to buy it in order to get the basic "ask to connect" feature. I've been planning to try it since forever. Zonelarm is nice too (or at least it was when I used it years ago).
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by pierrec 9y ago
Doing what you suggest would require closing and re-opening the project (which can take a while when working with GBs of samples). Moving through the version tree could be as fast and efficient as undo/redo operations, which are usuall
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by pierrec 10y ago
Having an interest in ethnomusicology, my favorite testimony of Britain's tumultuous dropping of coal is the song Coal Not Dole . It's originally a poem written by the wife of a laid-off coal miner. Dropping coal may be considere
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by pierrec 10y ago
>My final (and favorite) observation is that developers in Paris take the longest and most consistent lunch breaks. Well, if I lived in Paris, I would too. A contributing factor might be that a lot of French companies include meal vouche
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by pierrec 10y ago
Yeah, log diving is bread and butter, but reading your original comment it sounded like UrlRoulette had some kind of magical feature, where one submits a URL, then gets to see how long the stranger spends on the submitted website. Hence the
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by pierrec 10y ago
Let me get this straight, you're using a monitoring tool for the website you work on, to check out how long individual people spend on it after you sent it to them via UrlRoulette? That's kinda neat (in a slightly disturbing way).
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by pierrec 10y ago
Excellent work, I would get it if it was available on other platforms. Do you have (or plan to add) velocity per note? I find it important to compose expressively. I'm also wondering how it would be visualized with your interface. Mayb
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by pierrec 10y ago
One of the musical UI elements I always rant about (here we go...) is the global modular view, which is a way for a DAW to show you everything that's going on in your project. It should show the project's complete signal routing.
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by pierrec 10y ago
>I went through several different ways to approach responding to your comment before writing this version. I also edited it quite a bit (but now I'm done, promise...) One of my points is that replication does not require a separate
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by pierrec 10y ago
Sure, you could start with metabolism first, and then get structure later. But you can narrow it down even further by saying this: you start with self-replication , and everything else comes after. Evolution stems from self-replication. Th
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by pierrec 10y ago
Their description made it sound like a really cool lower-level tool, so obviously it ends up being a letdown. Drawing/art programs generally have a line smoothing feature - just smoothing your wobbly lines as you draw, using relatively
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by pierrec 10y ago
You can use Electron to handle performance-sensitive large datasets and spreadsheets for a desktop app. But I think there is an even better solution for this: you could program it in DOS 5.0 batch and ship it with a Windows 3.1 VM to real
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by pierrec 10y ago
I will once again link to xoxos VST plugins (my fanboyism is showing): http://www.xoxos.net/vst/vst.html#models Scroll down to the "virtual machine" plugin. It's closed source but there is a PDF that exp
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by pierrec 10y ago
I think "loop-free" just means the language encourages you to think without loops, even if the implementation may or may not use traditional loops under the hood. This is basically common to all languages with a strong emphasis on
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by pierrec 10y ago
Are we looking at the same article? Chromium and Electron are very much mentioned, and the author clearly states their position on the topic. I'll rephrase: Chromium is a browser. An extremely full-featured browser, made to support the
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by pierrec 10y ago
I particularly liked how they capitalized it in the middle of sentences. The spellchecker was just doing its job, forcing the capitalization of a notable Roman historical figure.
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by pierrec 10y ago
That's not really how Python packages work. Public packages need unique names, mostly because of PyPI, where package names are all on the same namespace. This can cause some interesting problems: https://www.python.org/
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by pierrec 10y ago
>in some boats, you pull up the centerboard to reduce that drag. Oddly enough I'm writing from such a boat right now :). Though in our case the main purpose of having it retractable is to allow navigating shallow waters (like smalle

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