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Catenary: concatenative programming for JavaScript(github.com)
36 points by sgentle 11y ago|9 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
Ah. I meant more that if I was a troll and I had the ability to comment privately, I could say nasty things to you in my private comment and nobody else would be able to see them (except admins, I suppose, who would quickly become overloade
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by sgentle 11y ago
I think the more pertinent question is: why do we downvote? If the answer is to signal to others that the comment is not worth reading (by greying it out, dropping it down in the rankings and eventually preventing people from reading it at
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by sgentle 11y ago
If anyone else is having this issue, I fixed it like this: document.querySelector('style').innerHTML += '.comment p { max-width: 70vw; overflow: scroll; }'
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by sgentle 11y ago
I really like this. One suggestion: it's a bit jarring that some links (eg "HD" and "turn out the lights" on the main page) navigate you away without warning, especially if you're enjoying the mix of sounds you
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Show HN: Bezier Playground(samgentle.com)
4 points by sgentle 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 11y ago
I recommend watching Ira Glass's video on the gap between your taste and your abilities. He addresses your problem specifically because it's very common: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI23U7U2aUY You need to ref
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by sgentle 11y ago
Relevant (dead) reply from vegedor: From the perspective of a monopolized, unregulated etc. market, it is free of competition, free from regulation, etc. off-topic: what's the preposition to use with free? Actually not off-t
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by sgentle 11y ago
This is pretty fun. I think it would be better if the sounds were in some way related to the data. If you were using the web audio api you could do something nuts like hash any event text fields into synthesizer parameters so each event has
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Expanding Explanations(samgentle.com)
1 points by sgentle 11y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 12y ago
I had a magnetic implant done by Joeltron in Sydney. If he can't do it for you he'd at least know whether there's anyone who can: http://www.joeltron.com/ (some parts of that website are pretty nsfw)
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Less is Moore(samgentle.com)
76 points by sgentle 12y ago|25 comments
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by sgentle 12y ago
Ha, yes, I'd love to do some of that! Actually, having the sound come in on the next loop should be fairly easy - you can just give a start time in the web audio api for when the sample should play. If you're interested, feel free
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by sgentle 12y ago
Oh, I'm sorry to hear that. What OS are you running? And can you play other mp3 files in your browser?
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Show HN: Tabletone – live looping in JavaScript(samgentle.com)
30 points by sgentle 12y ago|10 comments
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by sgentle 12y ago
At first I don't know his brother's name, but I know now.
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by sgentle 12y ago
Does anyone remember DotComGuy? (not to be confused by the similarly named Kim of recent fame) A man with the audacious goal of staying inside for a whole year and just ordering whatever he wanted off the internet. Perhaps not so impressive
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Show HN: Command-line interface for caniuse.com(samgentle.com)
2 points by sgentle 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 12y ago
There's an important related point there: regular vacations are the business process equivalent of the Chaos Monkey. Repeatedly having to do without employees for a short amount of time forces you to make your processes robust. I'
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Show HN: Are you sure? – a minimal alternative to site blockers(github.com)
1 points by sgentle 12y ago|0 comments
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by sgentle 12y ago
I wonder if this might be the push that functional programming + formal verification needs to hit the mainstream. Compare Erlang, for example, which must have seemed needlessly complex and theoretical outside of modern super-horizontal-scal
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by sgentle 12y ago
Okay, how about this: Reverse the problem and talk about Monty's behaviour. Let's assume he wants to help you win the car because he's a nice guy. His goal is to give you the best signals he can. His constraints are: (1) He h
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by sgentle 12y ago
I don't think it's as inconsiderate as you imply. Babel (as in tower of) is a fairly well known biblical reference that I'd expect to find used in all sorts of project names related to translation. Indeed, a quick googling sh
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by sgentle 12y ago
This is the wrong place to ask "what is wrong with me?" because we don't know you. Trying to answer without more information is going to be mostly speculation and projection. That said, it's a good question to ask. I thi
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by sgentle 12y ago
This is an interesting post, but I think it would be better posted as a link rather than text. I believe text posts are penalised in the news rankings and, at least in my experience, tend to get clicked on less.
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by sgentle 12y ago
Yes and no. I think Stallman is right in that it's important to realise the relationships between components are often a bigger and more pernicious source of bugs than the components themselves. It's not a problem when you can p
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by sgentle 12y ago
In security it doesn't make sense to ask "is it compromised?" but rather "can it be compromised?" For that reason, I don't think "we don’t participate in blanket surveillance" and equivalent statement
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by sgentle 12y ago
For what it's worth, I think your comment did a better job of explaining what the author had to say than the author did. I wouldn't go as far as "incredibly boring", but the article strikes me as having its priorities mi
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by sgentle 12y ago
Sometimes I want to explain to someone what "begging the question" means in its original definition as a conclusion that relies on itself as a premise. I've often wished there was a perfect example of question-begging I could
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by sgentle 12y ago
I liked this essay, but it's also important to point out that GDP is very strongly correlated with health outcomes like life expectancy. It might be that we are starving our souls, but let's not forget about the fairly serious con

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