ssalazar

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by ssalazar 9y ago
> But I live in one of those 195 experiments, and my fellows that share that with me, my countrymen, I support above the other 194. That's called being human. Nice try, but nationalism is not an intrinsic trait of being a human.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Silicon Valley wages are the highest in the country for comparable work, so, no.
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Software age is a non-sequitur- there are plenty of active multi-decade projects that can update their marketing material once in ten years. Nobody suggested they do so every year, even though it takes what like an hour? For a product cos
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Their pricing pages are also a disaster. I had to drill down a few pages deep to find these epic tables: http://www.lispworks.com/buy/prices-1c.html which presumably could be distilled into 32-bit/64-bit categori
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The point being made is that they apparently haven't updated their screenshots in over 10 years, making their product seem dated- a pretty big marketing fail.
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Program change + general MIDI instrument set is implementation-dependent but was pretty common in the 90s, and encodes timbre in an extremely limited way. Now of course nobody outside of fringe artists really use it.
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MIDI encodes very little information about timbre, which is a huge source of variation in modern pop music.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> and if you're building on Gimp you're WAY past "from scratch". The bulk of it is already there. This could be a good thing or a bad thing if major changes are needed. A project of GIMP's size is a big ship t
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> What's happening is that only students from wealthy families are paying $70k a year, and they are basically subsidizing everyone else. Not just students from wealthy families, but wealthy alums- the Ivies and other top schools hav
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Whoa, very cool. I like the integrated live coding aspect.
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Awesome, really interesting thoughts here and a lot of material for future study. Ive not been to the archive at Goldsmiths, though I once gave Mick a haircut as "performance art" :)
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Thanks, good catch- its really worth watching the whole thing.
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Awesome. Releasing it publicly later this summer!
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by ssalazar 9y ago
For sure. Its a long-ish video, but I defended a few months ago. The recording is online, and hits all of the major points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4xZQxVVnJA Maybe Ill post a Show HN here when I publicly release
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by ssalazar 9y ago
Thank you, awesome, please do! Though hopefully some day ChucK will have proper WASAPI and ASIO.
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Oh wow. I am days away from finishing a PhD thesis on sketching sound and music [1], and Daphne Oram figures highly into my background research. A friend of mine built an iPhone app that emulates Oram's system [2]. Another notable fi
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by ssalazar 9y ago
> we as a society don't understand that the purpose of automation is humanitarian If "we as a society" don't understand the supposed purpose of something that we as a society are enacting, then that supposed purpose i
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by ssalazar 9y ago
More or less horrible than choking the earth with plastic refuse?
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Stock git explodes when dealing with binary files that are above a certain size or are changing frequently. So forget about photo collections, shared Photoshop files, or any other non-text document formats. The workarounds had a lot of
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by ssalazar 10y ago
In consumer product development, the software side is often cobbled together by an intern or entry-level SW engineer, who basically slaps a bunch of vendor-supplied firmware or poorly configured open-source software together until it works.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Not sure about break-even, but Apple notoriously underpays relative to the rest of SV and the caliber of work/time expected.
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Scale and the surrounding economic/social circumstances are new.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
What are the tax implications of NSOs? ISOs are a pretty huge gamble, basically a lotto ticket, if you leave before a liquidity event occurs or is known to be on the near horizon.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Yep. From the beginning, the assumption that the coach or OC "randomly" calling plays is a particularly important goal is pretty flawed. In high quality NFL offenses the QB will walk up to the line with 2-3 plays of varying type
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- Adobe + general creative apps - Functional command line + command line developer tools
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If one party leaves the store not realizing they'd signed a lease agreement, then two parties have not voluntarily entered an exchange.
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by ssalazar 10y ago
True real-time audio. The WebAudio API just connects a pre-existing collection of basic nodes implemented by the browser in C or C++. Being able to write sample-level processing targeted to WebASM would open up a lot of opportunities for
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by ssalazar 10y ago
Yes, ditching physical compatibility with nearly every other connector currently in use, in exchange for a millimeter or two of thinness, is the rational option.
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Capitalism at work!
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Thats a little hyperbolic. These aren't rust belt coal miners. With a name brand like Uber on your resume you could quickly get plenty of competitive job offers in SF/SV without even trying. Its hard for me to see an excuse for

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