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by pierrec 11y ago
If you can find it, I highly recommend watching Jinnah , a film about the founder of Pakistan, in which he played the title role. He often said it was his favorite performance. Sadly it's difficult to find - there's no edition cu
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Crispy Plotter (2011)(cplotter.sourceforge.net)
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by pierrec 11y ago
Not really surprised... Samy's website is full of borderline-blackhat material. One might even say that it's his specialty.
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by pierrec 11y ago
Same experience here. I usually don't have an Apple computer underhand, but I maintain cross-platform software for which I publish OSX binaries. I wish Apple gave some consideration to this situation, which is less of a problem for oth
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by pierrec 11y ago
I've been slowly learning J on and off for the past year or so (well, I wanted to learn it ever since I saw this [1]). It still feels pretty write-only to me, and I wouldn't make any large project in it, but as a brainstorming, re
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by pierrec 11y ago
There are lots of VSTs that do about the same thing. In the xoxos VST link posted above, check out Pling. If you want the exact same algorithm in a VST plugin, you could port it to Lua in my scriptable plugin. In fact someone made a nice Ka
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by pierrec 11y ago
KS is one of the most interesting algorithms to experiment with. You can modify, multiply and recombine it with itself in a huge variety of ways, and always get new and weird sounds out of it. In fact it forms the basis of a large branch of
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by pierrec 11y ago
Sneaky. Most syntax highlighting would make it stick out like a sore thumb, but still, sneaky.
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by pierrec 11y ago
Github does have a pretty good binary hosting / download feature, it's called Releases. There's even an API to automate it. It's not very widely used, perhaps because it only rolled out it 2013. About Releases: https:&#
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by pierrec 11y ago
There's this crazy thing that always strikes me about Wikipedia articles. I read or skim through the text in a linear way, out of habit. Until inadvertently, I get to the "In Popular Culture" section, and it seems the article
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by pierrec 11y ago
Interesting, I looked at Terra before but hadn't noticed the SIMD. The fact that it only supports doubles (instead of float32 which Javascript now supports and vectorizes) makes this a bit less awesome though. SIMD becomes more powerfu
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by pierrec 11y ago
As the author of a program that's both scripting-centric and performance-centric [1], I've looked at this question in detail. I needed the fastest possible embeddable scripting language and interpreter. When I say "fastest po
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by pierrec 11y ago
You mean Star Wars style? In which case the answer is no, not really. Multiscopic displays have never been properly represented in SF movies, as far as I'm aware. A perfect automultiscopic display would be very much like a window, with
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by pierrec 11y ago
This is a surprisingly simple technique for multiscopic display, a back-to-basics approach that relies of the existence of extremely small or concentrated projectors. This research is from 2011, but like most multiscopy research, it's
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by pierrec 11y ago
Wikipedia's administration is far from perfect, but you have to give them one thing: the amount of vandalism they've had to deal with is of historical proportions. It's not as impactful as physical mass vandalism, such as wha
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by pierrec 11y ago
That he seldom had proofs to the level of Western expectations, whatever that means, is an odd assumption to make. You should have read the (captivating) paper that was on the front page two days ago. " The notebooks contain almost no
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by pierrec 11y ago
Going though this thread, so far we have fpp, selecta, peco, percol, numberwang, fzf... Wewh! They are all, how could we call it, command line selector tools? What I'd love to read is a nice comparative review of these tools. Although
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by pierrec 11y ago
That's been around for a while, but it's not a hidden feature anymore: there's a link in the HN footer called "lists" that takes you to a page with all such lists. https://news.ycombinator.com/lists
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by pierrec 11y ago
Buzz is great. It's still being developed (the core as well as dedicated plugins) and doesn't really look like this anymore, being now very themable: https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=theme+site:jeskola.
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by pierrec 12y ago
Actually, upon closer inspection, in Chrome it starts in a buggy state where the sound is enabled but the speaker icon (at the bottom of the page) is set to mute. In Firefox, the buggy state doesn't occur: it's initially muted and
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by pierrec 12y ago
Neat tool and neat landing page (though the colors are really haphazard). Very much like the YAML homepage: http://www.yaml.org/
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by pierrec 12y ago
Actually, the feature is present on a lot of Lenovos (even non-thinkpads). My anecdotal experience it that it works quite well. However it's only accessible from their energy management tray program on Windows, so if you do a clean Lin
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by pierrec 12y ago
Is there a compilation of applications and experiments using each API? The classical example of cool stuff you can do with this kind of API is the world wind map: http://earth.nullschool.net/
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by pierrec 12y ago
The field of generative music is very under-researched, but there are some great things out there, including tonal and "harmonious" ones. Try David Cope: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgG1HipAayU And xoxos&#x27
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by pierrec 12y ago
You probably meant "Its not by chance that France get this kind of law". Because "Not a hasard" (hazard) means "not dangerous", making your whole post confusing.
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by pierrec 12y ago
Wait, you're the author but someone else submitted it as "Show HN"? That's... not how it's supposed to work, but hey, at least you're in the thread. Here's another room (pass is dontclickdispose): https:&
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by pierrec 12y ago
" Static site generators seem like music databases, in that everyone eventually writes their own crappy one that just barely scratches the itch they had (and I'm no exception). " [1] (And neither am I!) See this massive list
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by pierrec 12y ago
I think an in-browser version would make a world's difference in the number of people actually trying it out, although requiring the Unity plugin will not help. Something based on WebGL might be the coolest, but maybe difficult to put
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by pierrec 12y ago
Wow, thanks for taking the time to put into words one of the main aspects that make these books so powerful. At first, there is a strange anguish in being immersed in a world where human minds are just programs, and consciousness seems to b
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by pierrec 12y ago
Greg Egan renewed my faith in Science Fiction. I just finished reading Diaspora, and I am now a fan. It's an incredibly well thought out extrapolation of the future of the human race, much less phantasmagorical and much more grounded i

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