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by ratww 5y ago
Sometimes I code without the internet (on vacation, on trains and planes, etc) and it's not too hard. The major difficulties are indeed around the things you mention, but one solution for that is having a few large projects open in ano
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by ratww 5y ago
> and most of the artists sampling it would have taken that sample from other electronic artists rather than from the original Winstons vinyl It was already popular in hip hop several years before it became popular in the underground e
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by ratww 5y ago
I wonder if there's more to this story than meets the eye. The author claims a label offered to buy the masters by 1996. So there probably was money in the licensing of the sampling (or at least the risk of being sued, and the label
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by ratww 5y ago
It wasn't exactly just a niche sample used in niche music. It was already one of the most sampled songs in Hip Hop when the authors found out about it.
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by ratww 5y ago
I used that to make tracks with Hammerhead in the 90s. Some of my friends also did. I was too young to club in 1997, but I knew Prodigy. The "Jungle" preset showed the secret to the some Prodigy drum sounds. Being young I was quit
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by ratww 5y ago
Lots of them do. They try, for example, 8080, then 8081, then 8082, and so on.
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by ratww 5y ago
I don't it's fair to characterise this as an "argument against deduplication". It is rather an argument against using deduplication as an excuse for having complex solutions.
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by ratww 5y ago
I’m very happy that even the new generation of affordable synths is mostly analog with single function knobs. Arturia MicroFreak/MiniFreak, Korg Monologue/Minilogue, lots of Behringer clones. You can get productive with them in mi
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by ratww 5y ago
Also constant emails tellig you’re out of storage space trying to upsell iCloud storage space. Which, fair enough, is cheap but the emails are a bit spammish. On the other hand, is not as if every single other company doesn’t do it, which d
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by ratww 5y ago
The David Bowie version is pretty cool too.
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by ratww 5y ago
At least not in New York.
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by ratww 5y ago
I’m not forced anymore because I work at a nice company, but in several jobs I had before: yes. I was forced to use a specific OS, and a specific browser. It is still extremely common in enterprise. And before you say I “should have changed
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by ratww 5y ago
It's not that it struck a nerve, it's just that you're wrong. If the neighbours want absolutely no heat escaping, they need better insulation. Similarly, if grandparent wants less than 19°C, he needs better insulation himself
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by ratww 5y ago
Just voting with my wallet. I simply don't want to pay for wasteful, insecure, low-quality software that I consider detrimental to me (and for the hardware needed to run such software). I would be ok with optional/uninstallable so
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by ratww 5y ago
I'm not a radical. I'm totally ok with embedded software, or with the legal restrictions you mention. I'm also ok with software that is optional or uninstallable too. What I dislike is companies putting unnecessary, unsafe, c
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by ratww 5y ago
So the car requires a remote connection to work? It took me long as heck to find a quality non-smart TV because I didn't want the lack of control, programmed obsolescence and shitty-ness of smart TV software. I wonder if I won't b
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by ratww 5y ago
> When I'm interviewing, I prefer interviewing with multiple companies while still earning an income That's what I do too. But my strategy is taking vacation for interviews, and then taking a "real" vacation in-betw
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by ratww 5y ago
I kinda agree. When I started in the early 2000s, the norm was a 1-2 hour battery of psychological tests that somehow tried to assess my intelligence before someone technical even spoke to me. 1-2 hours of leetcode, or a 5-6 hours take-home
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by ratww 5y ago
Slur filters are a clbuttic mistake.
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by ratww 5y ago
I agree. The lack of distinction between Demo and IAP apps manages to hurt apps with demos, free apps and users. I really fail to see Apple's angle on this. Maybe they're trying to educate customers to accept IAPs.
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by ratww 5y ago
I'm sorry, I don't think your posts have anything to do with my message or with this thread.
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by ratww 5y ago
> Well a simple email would be too easy to forge. Email is how thousands of SaaS handle cancellations today already. > But I'm sure its not hard to setup something I "your account" page. That's the whole point of t
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by ratww 5y ago
You don't have to "build" anything. Just have a button "cancel subscription" with a mailto: link... or even some text saying "email us at @ from your account and it will be cancelled within N hours/days&qu
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by ratww 5y ago
There is a sane middle ground between tiny and bloated, though. I don't see how using a false dichotomy justifies the issues we're complaining about. Especially when most of those packages are almost never used by themselves, and
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by ratww 5y ago
Babel's splitting doesn't make much sense and is purely ideological. It's a monorepo, so split repos are not a development advantage. Plus, releases are often in sync. Plus, they recommend using presets rather than cherry-pic
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by ratww 5y ago
The creator claims it's not satire, he claims he was learning to code.
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by ratww 5y ago
Indeed. Some of packages that depend on it seems to be "hello world" NPM modules created from boilerplate projects.
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by ratww 5y ago
No. What programmers want are solutions to problems. Nobody is asking for the madness of having proper-sized packages split into 100 smaller packages with zero advantages and actually a few disadvantages (difficult to audit, impossible to f
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by ratww 5y ago
Security matters. Performance matters. Hackability/forkability matters. This kind of practice reduces security and auditability of systems, and makes projects harder to hack and fork.
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by ratww 5y ago
It is an uphill battle, lemme tell you. There is a bit of a culture clash inside Javascript. Even when you're a veteran contributor, sometimes maintainers resist changing packages, as simple as they are, because there is an implicit as

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