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   by sramsay 7y ago

   Well, I am a connoisseur of command-line weather apps. In fact, I've written three: 1. wu -- written in Go some years ago, and actually pretty successful (as these things go). Picked up by a couple of distros, etc. It used the Wea
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   I love showing students sed, and then teaching them regular expressions, then showing them sed again, and then showing them stuff like this. sedtris is another fun example: https://github.com/uuner/sedtris
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   Definitely. I propose we do this properly using only GNU parallel and m4 macros.
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   Looks great! Also looks like academic abandonware.
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   I got a much-needed laugh out of it. Especially: > My dude, I can barely make a website, much less a mini NSA.
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   I think Expert C Programming is a great book (really, as much a classic as the K&R), but I'm not sure I'd put it on the OP's list. At least not right now. It says something about C (I'm not sure what) that it&#x27
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   I think you might be missing the main point of what this person is saying, which is: "I'd claim that the less they used C++ and the more used C++ compilers to write a C-like code" And I bet that's true. I doubt there&#x
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   Yes. Or, at least, the second part. I'm not sure what you mean by "lack of abstraction in C." "Abstraction" is not a straightforward property of a language; it's a thing you create with programming languages.
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   by sramsay 7y ago

   I take your point about the age of some of these projects (though it's not like there weren't any "more appropriate" languages around when most of them started). And I'll also admit to agreeing with the idea that c
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I'm so tired of hearing about what you can't do in C and the "only thing" it's good for. You can't write big systems. It's only for embedded. It's such a crackup, because the number of developers wh
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I actually have very few $200 PDFs lying around. Do you really go purchase the standard documents from ISO? Or does your employer? I'd love to have the actual standard "around for reference," but 700-page technical document
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    It sounds like you're not asking, "How do I learn the language?" but "How do I know I'm doing it right?" I think Gustedt's book is superb if you're just trying to learn the language, and it does a goo
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    My collaborator and I create animation art with SVG (he is the animator, and I'm the composer/video editor, though we work together on the overall concept). Some samples of our work here: https://vimeo.com/user1776
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    > They add way too much surface area to the language by allowing too many ways to do a given thing. Not relevant to most situations, but I'll just add that this also makes it extremely difficult to teach a language. I have taught
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    Hacker News: Hyperventilating about Rust Since 2010.
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    The lack of which suggests that the author (and who is that, exactly?) may not have given a moment's thought to any kind of responsibility they might have in the midst of a health crisis. Oh, what the hell. Let's write some Java
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    Any day now, it's going to overtake Logo on the TIOBE index. You just wait.
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    A thousand times yes to Trollope, and I think there are a lot of nineteenth-century novelists who are like that (not quite as well known as the biggest names, but absolutely superb). Wilkie Collins ( The Moonstone , The Woman in White ) i
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I think the Greens get off way too easy in this article. "In 2017, for example, a consignment of ancient Iraqi cuneiform tablets they had purchased was found to have been smuggled into the US as 'tile samples'." To be mo
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I think your point about "listener fatigue" is important, because that's a big part of this. It's not just about the way a squashed track won't sound as good or as interesting (though it won't, of course). And
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    Check out the manual for Loudness Penalty. It has a table that says what the different services do. So, for example, Spotify enables normalization by default, they target -14 LUFS, use limiters, normalize both tracks and albums, and will t
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    All he said is that the "tools are getting smart[er]," and he's right. I still can't bring myself to hit "Mastering Assistant" (still less, "Mix Assistant" in Neutron) and call it a day. But honestl
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I assume they set a target of, say, -14 LUFS (Loudness Units Full Scale), take a reading of the integrated value for the whole track, and then turn the volume of the whole track down by whatever dB value will hit the target. This avoids the
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    Ian Shepherd -- mentioned in the article as the founder of "Dynamic Range Day" -- is one of the great warriors in this battle. He's an extremely knowledgeable mastering engineer (among the darker arts in audio), and has real
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    What a fun list! And it has some great lines: "SICP is an exploration of programming free-love. Indeed, the tone, examples, references, and hearken to a programming life that if true, would be an absolute blast to live in." It&#x
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I'm a humanities scholar, and I have given talks where I basically hit every single point you make (we tend not to typeset our own work, and we create more book-length monographs, but aside from that . . .). I consider the situation t
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    Honestly, if you're a total beginner, you almost can't go wrong with DAWs these days. All the mainstream ones are superb. After awhile, you may well find that one or another is more to your taste, but that's the kind of thi
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I have used most of the major DAWs at one point or another (including deep dives into Cubase, Ableton, Logic, and Pro Tools). I switched to REAPER years ago and never looked back. It's absolutely outstanding. People often cite it as
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    I'm an English professor who's been publishing since the mid-nineties or so, and I don't recall ever seeing publisher's guidelines that didn't insist on gender-neutral language when possible (I believe it's bee
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    by sramsay 7y ago

    Gardini's book sounds like fun, but I want to put in a plug for an older one that might be of more interest to this crowd: Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin and the World It Created by Nicholas Ostler. This is a general-reader histo