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by ssalazar 4y ago
This can cut both ways. Even after the recent massive dip, Snap's valuation is an order of magnitude greater than Facebook's notorious buyout offer. Twitter's Fleets feature lasted less than a year, and Im not sure that the
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by ssalazar 5y ago
Even higher end brands like Samsung are pulling stuff like this. Market forces demand constant growth, and in a saturated market this means some business unit manager will keep adding more invasive advertising as long as people keep buying
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by ssalazar 5y ago
Strong nope on pretty much all points, and its rude and presumptuous to tell me what my job should be or what other work it entails. We’re going to just have to disagree here.
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by ssalazar 5y ago
As a hiring manager I’ve worked with internal recruiters and a good one is invaluable. - the transactional part of setting up interview loops, coordinating schedules, etc is extremely tedious for a field of 3-5 serious candidates for a give
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by ssalazar 5y ago
> So, what makes a job a "bullshit job"? Well, the defining criteria would be that they only exist to the benefit of their employer. They don't generate any value as far as the stakeholders of an employer is concerned: cli
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by ssalazar 5y ago
VCs aren't primarily looking for brilliant visionaries, even if its a popular narrative--the (high) risk/reward profile of a business venture is at least as important to them as the character of its founding team. The thesis behin
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by ssalazar 5y ago
This is putting a lot of undue blame on product managers who only have so much autonomy in a business regime set up for perpetual "growth" that is necessarily quantifiable and ultimately aimed towards economic growth. Constant gr
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by ssalazar 5y ago
> That is, can’t all these sounds simply be digitally produced rather than relying on circuitry? Even for an almost fully digital synth like the DX7 a bit-accurate emulation is difficult (there is a rich discussion of this in one of the
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by ssalazar 5y ago
I do wonder if DCOs (much less susceptible to drift) would be more amenable to analog FM, though they were not common for musical instruments during the DX7's early R&D phase. That said, it seems like music manufacturers were searc
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by ssalazar 5y ago
Agreed- though for MIDI 1.0 Kenton has some helpful boxes that act as a USB MIDI host to DIN MIDI converter.
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by ssalazar 5y ago
This specific technique for synthesizing a single operator wasn't patented, its one small part of a much broader patent.
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by ssalazar 5y ago
Hey there, sounds like the audio IO engine itself is not successfully able to start or connect to Jack- is the Jack server running? That said Im a little rusty with Linux audio so might not be the best help here!
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by ssalazar 5y ago
> I wonder if its possible today to port the RTAudio lib ChucK is based on to the Web Audio API. Can we possibly see a ChucK.js for use in browser? This is in fact underway! Jack Atherton has been working on this though I am not certain
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by ssalazar 5y ago
The output is just a raw stream of digital audio- the engine itself is implemented in C/C++, but there is an effort underway to port this to Web using emscripten.
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by ssalazar 5y ago
This is a great idea and actually wouldn't be that hard to automatically generate from the example code that is provided.
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by ssalazar 5y ago
Ha, great to see ChucK on here again! I'm one of the early developers of ChucK along with its creators, Ge Wang and Perry Cook. Happy to answer any questions anyone has.
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by ssalazar 5y ago
Not really. Housing resembles nothing like a free market. Supply and demand is driven a lot by political forces (regulation, political favoritism) that effectively limit supply. Large land-owning political entities or blocs have outsized
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by ssalazar 5y ago
Profit motive drives your rent up.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
To an extent yes, but there are limits: > OxyContin, introduced in 1995, was Purdue Pharma's breakthrough palliative for chronic pain. Under a marketing strategy that Arthur Sackler had pioneered decades earlier, the company aggress
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Yeah no. If you think that cherry picking facts counters the US government's waffling on basic preventative measures like mask-wearing, public contradictions of lifelong non-partisan health experts, and failing to muster sustaining ec
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Nearly anyone is capable of voting, helping with voter turnout efforts, donating to campaigns and advocacy groups, and voicing their opinions in public or private regarding political situations and outcomes. You can't conclude from &q
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by ssalazar 6y ago
You seem to be mistaking me for someone else.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Lucky for you that politics doesn’t have any direct influence on your life, but in the US having a semi-functional government during the Covid pandemic would have led to a lot fewer deaths and a lot less economic damage.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Neither "conservatives", "republicans", nor any other actual political affiliation are being shut out by any of these companies. People who affiliate with "opposing a democratic election with direct violence"
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Not my logic. Refusing service to someone based on their sexual orientation, religion, or color of their skin is a very different moral proposition than refusing service based on facilitating the subversion of the democratically elected go
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by ssalazar 6y ago
If banks and a score of major tech companies independently decide not to do business with someone, maybe that someone is the problem.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
> who gets to define what is violent and damaging? "They" are literally the ones attacking and threatening the seat of American government. This isn't a thought experiment at this point.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
In a similar vein, JT Nimoy has an illuminating writeup on her work for Tron Legacy's "futuristic hacker interfaces": https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/misc/tron-legacy-effects-...
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Amazing work! Would love to read/learn more if you ever have the time/motivation for a blog post about it.
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by ssalazar 6y ago
Brian Eno’s quote comes to mind: > Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these wi

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