tacos

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511.
by tacos 11y ago
No, it violates almost every rule of advertising, which involves setting context and carefully targeting audience and making a point with brevity and clarity. If you want people to read your thoughts, organize them.
512.
by tacos 11y ago
Nope! Love the concept and the general outlook behind BSD and the spinoffs. Am in no way involved with the community. Don't know a single individual personally or professionally. Have contributed the occasional patch to ancillary proje
513.
by tacos 11y ago
One hopes that his code is more organized than the thought process revealed in this post. Pokemon reference, Spolsky link, XKCD link, flowery metaphors, random paragraph splicing, anagram soup, endless linkouts that are either entirely crit
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by tacos 11y ago
I'm an artist and musician and generally horrified by the amateurish algorithmic noodling in both spaces. When you pick a color you're picking it relative to one already on screen -- or something in your mind's eye. This colo
515.
by tacos 11y ago
HSL is bad for this use case that's why we use HSV. The swatches at the bottom of this Wikipedia article show the difference. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV CIE* gets you more comparative, perceptive un
516.
by tacos 11y ago
I generally find the bias against recruiters here to be a bit narrow minded and short sighted. Yes, they're a pain. Yes, most are idiots misrepresenting themselves from the first second they talk to me. But I'm all about increasin
517.
by tacos 11y ago
Easy to be snarky about this as Yahoo really is drowning in its own shit and daily bad decisions, but I really like the guy's approach. He'll be at Microsoft or Google in a year.
518.
by tacos 11y ago
Microsoft fanboy here. But... this product is total shit. Even if you're tasked with some horror like talking to an overdesigned XML backend written in Java nine years ago that uses an alternate canonicalization for digitally-signed XM
519.
by tacos 11y ago
I wrote some of those original codecs. I'm aware of what they do. :) The original SoundBlaster card was 8-bit. Creative ADPCM is 8 bit. Dialogic ADPCM -- basically every recorded sound you've ever heard over a telephone -- is 12 b
520.
by tacos 11y ago
There were 8-bit "ADPCM" (er, ADPCM-ish?) variants, too! They used 2, 3 or 4 bits for encoding but were deltas against an 8 bit target.
521.
by tacos 11y ago
The Windows 95 startup sound, created by Brian Eno, was coded ADPCM. Seemed to work okay. A billion people heard it. (8 bit MS ADPCM also sounded horrible.)
522.
by tacos 11y ago
You're basically arguing "it's the gear" whereas any musician over a certain age and skill level will tell you "hell no it isn't." Instagram filters don't make people better photographers; AutoTune do
523.
by tacos 11y ago
Distortion adds harmonic content. It is not a filter that lets "only the strongest tone come through." If there's a 600Hz thump as you move your hand between strings, now you've got that same 600Hz thump plus a 1200Hz an
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by tacos 11y ago
Rephrase it as "colored pencils can change a writer's writing ability completely" and you can see the logic error. "Put a little reverb on it" is a good way to comfort a singer or a musician and perhaps coax a bette
525.
by tacos 11y ago
I don't know what that means. But "Two ears = two speakers" must really blow your mind. FFT is closer to what's going on with Cochlear Implants. Which both suck for some of the same reasons.
526.
by tacos 11y ago
DCT, FFT, close enough I guess. No mention of Shannon or Nyquist? Ugh, I see a trend starting here: "This is the first in a new experimental series called Favored Equation. Each month, we’ll dive into a piece of math which makes your l
527.
by tacos 11y ago
They already do. It was NT Embedded back then and Windows Nano Server now. Believe me, they're aware of the value of that kernel. Also it's trivial to replace the UI. Minus the 5 billion dollars in R&D of course. But it's
528.
by tacos 11y ago
Unified VPN (see Azure "Virtual Network" or Amazon VPC), unified offsite management, low latency deploys, restrictions your clients may impose on you wrt data security. "Self hosting" increasingly means "inside my h
529.
by tacos 12y ago
Ex-Microsoft dev manager here. You have no idea what damage this has done to the dev community and Microsoft's reputation. It has caused so many people so much hassle. I want to know which VP nonchalantly set this stupid policy. And I
530.
by tacos 12y ago
I like how the graphic has "Web" and ".NET/Win32" in the wrong lanes, sending you to a sure death in the face of massive oncoming Android and iOS traffic as you try to cross that bridge to a cross-platform nirvana.
531.
by tacos 12y ago
I have the largest cable provider in the country and when I click "watch TV on my laptop" it launches Silverlight. (It sucks, by the way). But people pretending the thing isn't used and isn't supported are really graspin
532.
by tacos 12y ago
Likewise there is immense value in having a simpler solution with fewer parts -- when appropriate and when possible. This is part of what we decide as engineers. It's also easier to sell someone on your component strategy when you do
533.
by tacos 12y ago
See, that's just the thing. I tuned Varnish for 32 bit machines (a terrible idea), I sent in patches. I love everything about OpenBSD. I think the NSA are a bunch of cocksuckers. And I also think that when you combine all those things
534.
by tacos 12y ago
You did a little work, avoided doing a lot more work, and justified it with "more components = better." Fine. Not the only approach but certainly not a radical one either. You could have stopped there. My feeling is that you shoul
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by tacos 12y ago
Obviously depends on the "apache/nginx/whatever" side, especially if "nginx" can do everything varnish does in your scenario and moreso when "whatever" includes in-app caching and load balancing strat
536.
by tacos 12y ago
I'm all for reducing complexity but ignoring the bigger problem so you can focus on a smaller one isn't necessarily the path. Customers are trying to solve a pretty basic, common problem here. I don't see how a ranty, opinion
537.
by tacos 12y ago
Actually the trick is to pick software that meets the needs of the technical problem at hand. Getting a read on where the product is headed -- by being aware of corporate motives or by reading developer's ranty blog posts -- can be par
538.
by tacos 12y ago
It's a good product for what it does -- I've rescued more than one site using it -- but the politics behind it have always been a little weird. Some of it is subtleties of Danish culture and humor not coming through. But if you&#x
539.
by tacos 12y ago
(I don't think that's the whole point of dynamic languages. C++ has RTTI and .NET shipped with reflection as a fundamental construct...) I need to write code that talks to libraries today. I press dot and within 10 milliseconds I
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by tacos 12y ago
Agreed. Nerds in generally tend to make a lot of ... odd ... short term decisions. Perhaps time to admit that a lot of what we do all day is "annoying" while balancing that with the fact that we're some of the best-paid peopl

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