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by smosher 14y ago
Go is... fundamentally different than most runtimes? Probably. Better? Maybe. Better than the comparable ones? I think it's losing that war. You don't even need a special runtime, it can help, but I think the amount it helps is overstated i
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by smosher 14y ago
Absolutely. Even if you're a blub grandmaster, you really ought to know a dozen other things fairly well.
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by smosher 14y ago
I won't wear this kind of branding, but if it was a HN-grey shirt with HN-orange collar/cuffs/trim, that I would wear.
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by smosher 14y ago
Yeah, a more honest comparison between working from the office and taking dangerous drugs is to actually make that comparison: "come into work or stay home and take Adderall." Bonus: you will find out which of your staff would rather stay
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by smosher 14y ago
Thanks, that may come in handy.
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by smosher 14y ago
I was going to ask about the message details but I figured it would make me sound like an asshole, so thanks for that. I've looked for this kind of message specifically and not found it in the spec. Does it specify a note number or do somet
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by smosher 14y ago
MIDI provides polyphonic aftertouch as a standard (i.e. not NRPN or SysEx) message type. I've read the standard and this sounds very wrong to me. If it is in the spec then I know a few synths that are broken.
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by smosher 14y ago
Which is utterly useless in a 1:1 channel:instrument configuration. Most of my MIDI hardware expects to listen on a single channel, as does most I've come across. My plugin/VST host doesn't know about this either, so I would need to assign
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by smosher 14y ago
Sure, but when you depend on synthesis compatibility is a big deal. History seems to support that, with respect to other novel electronic instruments. I was just now responding to a claim that this will work with existing synthesizers. Whil
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by smosher 14y ago
That doesn't add up, unless you're counting everyone with a trial version of fruity loops on their system as having a studio. But even then, I think it's a stretch (everyone I know who does any kind of music production has at least $1k in n
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by smosher 14y ago
It has already been changed. Pianos don't have mod wheels, for example. I could list a hundred or so other changes but the good ones are mostly beneath the surface. But these things aren't really pianos, they just use a piano keyboard. I ag
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by smosher 14y ago
The reason their product hasn't been dominating the market for the past 20 years is not because they were the first to dream it up (they weren't, though there appear to be some incremental improvements here), it's because you can't get it
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by smosher 14y ago
I can see the case for Python, but how do you explain OCaml?
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by smosher 14y ago
You're right. I was disappointed when I found out what it was, but I didn't come to complain about it. I just thought people might like to see something a little more in line with the title.
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by smosher 14y ago
http://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet
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by smosher 14y ago
The question is highly controversial and (separately) not worth discussing. It's not your fault, it was more or less supplied that way by context. It works well as a rhetorical question, but some jackass is going to click "reply." Oh, wait.
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by smosher 14y ago
> But for some types of software there is not a good alternative. This is exactly it. As much as many people dislike C++, not having it at all would be very bad for some areas. Users of the next major systems language should regard C++
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by smosher 14y ago
I think you want what I want, which is some way to marry Scheme and Rust.
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by smosher 14y ago
I mostly agree, every time I see one of these I find trying to read it as a transformed version of the vanilla callback version is the easiest way to understand it. After all, when callbacks do get out of hand, approximating one of these is
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by smosher 14y ago
> I'm really not sure why you would get tired of this "obsession." It's annoying when you spot this kind of thing about 6 times a year. FWIW today I also spotted a story about how you shouldn't be using hjkl.
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by smosher 14y ago
FWIW I wish youtube didn't autoplay. Not that I care about unexpected noises in a situation like this, but I hope we all agree that unexpected and unwanted noises are genuinely annoying to many people.
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by smosher 14y ago
Suppose you have a process which is I/O bound on multiple I/O resources. If instead of blocking on each one, you suspend that sequence of execution and move onto the next, resuming when you get the signal that the call is unblocked, you are
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by smosher 14y ago
Yeah, think of all those blogs they have to comment on. There's a lot of blogs out there.
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by smosher 14y ago
It would have been over a year ago. I am not interested in using it, I was just curious about it at the time. (I don't really get along well with anything that expects me to use a mouse.) I sorta doubt that the emacs/vim support is anything
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by smosher 14y ago
Regarding MonoDevelop, it never worked for me on Linux, it just flaked out completely. If you don't need .Net, OCaml is practically the same language and has lots of vim/emacs support.
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by smosher 14y ago
No kidding, the last console game I bought was by an indie developer, cost about $2 and was downloaded over the aether.
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by smosher 14y ago
I got sick of appending to PATH manually, so I dropped this in my .bashrc: pushpath () { export PATH=$PATH:${1}; } Since it is written in shell it has direct access to update the environment variable.
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by smosher 14y ago
He might have been saying it basically was at the time, like the analogy to television. I don't see how he could endorse the idea that it was a fundamental time-sink though. He expresses his inability to predict it, and prior to its widespr
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by smosher 14y ago
Yeah, I get the different thread usage scenarios, but I'm still wondering about measurements. I'm less concerned about getting enough performance than I am about wasted performance, which is why I am thinking about measurements. If it's 10%
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by smosher 14y ago
After reading this I am wondering if there have been any measurements taken of the time 'wasted' in the kernel. You make it sound like there's a lot less wasted than is claimed by the author. I'm not convinced that the article has it exactl

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