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by sramsay 8y ago
I tend to fail these uniqueness tests pretty catastrophically, and I hadn't heard of Canvas Defender. But solutions like that seem a bit heavyweight to me (and more likely to affect the UX negatively). Is this really the only way to
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by sramsay 8y ago
That's true. RME (definitely on the high end) is remarkably good about supporting a wide variety of connection technologies. Include Firewire.
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by sramsay 8y ago
This. And I think everyone who works with pro audio is stuck with, "Well, where else are we supposed to go?" We'd switch platforms tomorrow if we thought we had a better option. It's also important to understand the co
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by sramsay 8y ago
From the article: "Issues with the way the new chip synchronizes timing causes dropouts and glitches in the audio stream. (It seems basically all USB 2.0 audio interfaces will be impacted. This of course unfortunately leads users to bl
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by sramsay 8y ago
Which suggests that what we really need is a curated Awesome list of Awesome lists.
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by sramsay 8y ago
> The expectation to join a community or to contribute as a cost for using FOSS code is a limitation on user freedom which goes against the free software ethos. It's really hard to argue with this. But I'm not sure "freed
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by sramsay 8y ago
> You get a set of bureaucrats who control who gets to work on OSS and what is being worked on. So I get that a grant necessarily defines some kind of who -- even if the money is given to "the project," it will ultimately boi
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by sramsay 8y ago
From the article: "On the other hand, regulating the production of open source software (for example, establishing an organization similar to the National Science Foundation to distribute publicly-funded grants to open source software
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by sramsay 8y ago
Oversold? A group of engineers put a working robot on a moving object 140 million miles away, and that robot trucked along for fourteen years . I honestly do not see any aspect of this which is not totally and completely astonishing, mar
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by sramsay 8y ago
It is unsurprising only if you fail to consider the implications of it being true (in the strong sense). Some languages have extremely complex ways of indicating tense (making a grammatical distinction between, for example, past events that
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by sramsay 8y ago
From the article: "Languages are often considered to supply the very framework on which our thoughts coalesce—a framework that is completely distinct in each language and gives rise to distinctive modes of thinking and expression&quot
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by sramsay 8y ago
Are you under the impression that authors create indexes? Because generally, they do not. Specialists do it (because it's way harder than it looks). Some academic publishers might ask the author to pay for that work; bigger publishe
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by sramsay 8y ago
Hear, hear! But not the Ethics?!
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by sramsay 8y ago
War and Peace came immediately to mind for me as well, but mostly because I do not think I have ever read a more magnificent novel. I'm a literature professor, and in academic literary study, we don't spend a lot of time talking
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by sramsay 8y ago
Maybe, "Anything that can be Written in Rust Will Eventually be Suggested, and then Celebrated with Great Fanfare on HN as the Obvious Future of Reality." Atwood's Law was a prediction about the future that was based on somet
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by sramsay 8y ago
But the author (vendor?) seems to miss what was actually fun and weird about the "old days." When you screwed around with MySpace like that, you got that pleasurable frisson borne of thinking that you were doing something you w
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by sramsay 8y ago
"Be Less Evil" didn't have quite the same ring. Also: yes.
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It could be worse. You could be a "rustacean."
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by sramsay 8y ago
> [If you’re the kind of person who loves programming on your smallish laptop, you can stop reading now.] I was all about big monitors until . . . my eyesight started to go south. I'm not going blind or anything like that, but it s
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by sramsay 8y ago
Yeah, I think you're describing a very common experience for developers hoping to work with MIDI. "Hey, a standardized format! How hard can it be? Oh . . ." Even without achieving all the things outlined above, just cleari
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by sramsay 8y ago
From the blog quoted above: "Advanced DSP can certainly get complicated with quadrature processing, Hilbert transforms, and cascaded infinite impulse response filters, but this series on DSP isn't going to get that complicated.&qu
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by sramsay 8y ago
Years ago, I tried to teach git to my (college) students, and it was a complete disaster. Like a lot of technical things, it's easy to get them totally confused with a single off-the-cuff sentence (and to be honest, I think I underest
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by sramsay 8y ago
Mine is: "I am sitting with a philosopher in the garden; he says again and again 'I know that that's a tree,' pointing to a tree that is near us. Someone else arrives and hears this, and I tell them: 'This fellow is
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by sramsay 8y ago
I agree with that completely. Wittgenstein's "simplicity" is only apparent, because he tends to write as if he's the first person to ever do philosophy. But he knows he's not, and his grasp of classical metaphysic
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I hope that's not true. Wittgenstein certainly led me deeper into the subject, not away from it. "It's all a language game so why bother" is about as intellectually barren (and misinformed) as saying, "Well, Turing
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> Slight asterisk-- if he was right, philosophers would be employed as counselors, to help people realize that the deep problems they are wondering about are probably just problems with language, or the limits of vague, abstract terminol
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by sramsay 8y ago
I've been a big fan of Wittgenstein since college, and have at this point read just about all of his work. I might suggest that people new to Wittgenstein start neither with the Tractatus nor with Philosophical Investigations , but
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Wow. I didn't realize (until I looked at that wiki entry) that James Gosling -- yes, that James Gosling -- is the original author of sc!
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I sincerely think that the spreadsheet is among the most ingenious pieces of software ever developed. I am just old enough to remember VisiCalc (and clearly remember when Lotus 1-2-3 was new). I remember being impressed by lots of things b
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by sramsay 8y ago
The Modern Language Association ( http://www.mla.org ) is the main scholarly society for the study of literature in modern languages (including English) in North America. "MLA Style" is one of several styles used in sch

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