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by rasur 12y ago
That is not an Audio Workstation. It is at best a live-coding environment.
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by rasur 12y ago
Not sure about OSS offerings, but the larger Arista switches come with FPGAs, which I hear is used by some HFT firms to achieve blinding speeds.
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by rasur 12y ago
Couldn't see Switzerland in that list. Am I being blind?
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by rasur 12y ago
Depending on which side of the pond you reside, one could be forgiven that this is an issue with the sartorial sensibilities of people, rather than how intelligent they are.
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by rasur 12y ago
In English, yes perhaps. Aber auf Deutsch, man sagt "vey vey vey". Them's the breaks one is dealt by one's language of choice. (I'm English, but in Switzerland, and have clearly noticed the ease of the alternative..
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by rasur 12y ago
Bread and Circuses always win, usually.
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by rasur 12y ago
What I find hilarious about the discussions going on here is the fact that everyone's generally concentrating on the terrible pain of 'patent abuse', instead of the spectacularly obvious Elephant in the room which is trying t
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by rasur 12y ago
And in other news, standards for passing the Turing test have dropped, dramatically.
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by rasur 12y ago
Hmm, Swisscom have been waving FTTH here (Winti..) for the past few months, and I've seen lots of workers actually laying cable, but nothing to the actual apartment yet.. Fortunately I work for a Swisscom owned co. so there are some be
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by rasur 12y ago
This is usually put more colloquially: "x is alright, till they open their mouth" (and is not gender specific, although it's often used in that way).
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by rasur 12y ago
You could probably squash the 'ssh localhost -p 19999 pbcopy' into an alias too, to reduce the typing further. EDIT: oh wait.. remote host.. ok, maybe, maybe not. depends on your environments I guess.
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by rasur 12y ago
The Scratch I knew from a while ago was built on Smalltalk, and in fact there's an updated version that runs on Pharo Smalltalk, called 'Phratch'. I have not compared the two, but if you want a freer version, I would recommen
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by rasur 12y ago
Our NW Management company has a Giger piece hanging from the ceiling in their reception. I was (pleasantly) surprised the first time I visited them for a meeting. His work turns up in the most unexpected places. ;)
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by rasur 12y ago
I was a big fan (had been since I first saw the images for Alien as an 11 year old in the UK), however my wife (who is Swiss and knew his son, apparently) is less of a fan of him as a person. I'll spare the details (since, in the inter
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by rasur 12y ago
You have my complete agreement on all points.
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by rasur 12y ago
And, parents being human, sometimes even respect can be lacking.
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by rasur 12y ago
That's fine, but it presupposes that one actually likes ones Mother (or even "Parents").
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by rasur 12y ago
Excellent! I look forwards to grabbing a copy later today.
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by rasur 12y ago
Oh now this looks fun! Thank you for posting!
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by rasur 12y ago
I seem to recall Panter ( http://panter.ch ) being a co-op (perhaps mostly a co-op). They're a great bunch of guys.
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by rasur 12y ago
One of the developers at work put an Pi-sized device on one of the toilet stalls, with a page on heroku to show the status of the stall. It worked well, and yes, we do have too few toilets at work.. :(
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by rasur 12y ago
Anything by Fabrice Bellard (Google him, it's worth it).
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by rasur 13y ago
In that spirit; 'higher standards' not 'hire standards' ;)
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by rasur 13y ago
>Not sure why it's so really. FWIW I think it's because the debate over the occupation of Palestine usually devolves into name-calling and accusations of anti-semitism etc within the space of.. well minutes at best, usually. Ma
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by rasur 13y ago
I'm lurching through the wikibook: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Write_Yourself_a_Scheme_in_48_H... with a side order of the Haskell Report/Reference for when things are not clear to me. Both are helping my li
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by rasur 13y ago
Because it's a book, and thus at the whim of the author?
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by rasur 13y ago
I am working through this slowly - it is excellent (although I find myself referring to the Haskell report tutorial too, when I find something that needs further clarification). A word of warning - the pdf version is not as accurate as the
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by rasur 13y ago
Meta are the company to watch in the AR space.
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by rasur 13y ago
I see a vision of the future... where Turkey plays "whack-a-mole" with the worlds DNS..
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by rasur 13y ago
I tend to favour the term "Savage Infants" personally, but "Tall Children" is a winner too, I shall remember that one.

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