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by asher 7y ago
Well, we do have that law for patents. They expire in 20 years. And the patent itself "open-sources" the process being patented.
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by asher 7y ago
Regarding Depeche, people on Youtube have broken down exactly what each band member was playing during the 80s shows; you might find it interesting. The parts are simple. I don't say that to knock them at all, on the contrary it shows
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by asher 7y ago
Good question. Definitely learn the rudiments of piano playing, up to playing block chords (triads) with either hand. Beyond that, I think they diverge too much. A lot of piano technique is getting both hands working together to play rhythm
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by asher 7y ago
Cool, thanks for making this. This is basically the Roman Simplex font used in CAD packages, and included in the Hershey fonts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hershey_fonts Hershey and CAD fonts are stroke-based, so lin
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by asher 7y ago
One path is to use sequential ints internally and encrypt them externally with something like idgen: https://pypi.org/project/idgen/ That provides IDs that are both opaque and, if you want, user-friendly. (disclai
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Printing Directly(wildsparx.com)
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by asher 9y ago
The Bell System (America's telecom monopoly until it's breakup in the 80s) pretty much avoided Phillips, etc. screws. Everything was slot (or pin-hex tamperproof). I do see mention of a Phillips driver in this 1961 BSP: http:&#x2
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by asher 9y ago
Thanks for the report; don't know why that happened; no iframes involved.
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by asher 9y ago
Good catch. Will fix the accidentals.
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by asher 9y ago
In the Parsons Code section, if I'm reading correctly, the chords are conceived along an up-down axis. However chords do not really have that relation. Going from 1maj to 5maj can be up a fifth or down a fourth. To illustrate this, fir
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by asher 9y ago
If you want to try these chord progressions in your browser, check out: http://wildsparx.com/rhythatom/ Coincidentally I just finished it. Source is here: https://github.com/wildsparx/rhythatom In
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by asher 9y ago
Related: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/idgen/0.0.1 That's one way to ensure safety of domain names, at the cost of mnemonics ;)
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by asher 9y ago
I used to think like that. But consider two things. The capabilities of the state actors are high. They cooperate with chipmakers and OS makers (or subvert or hack them). They compromise routers and hard drive firmware. Second, Kaplan'
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by asher 9y ago
Yes, Kaplan's book touches on the silliness of the term (it was consciously borrowed from William Gibson) but policy makers and advocates seem to use it in discussion. Of course there are more impressive terms when needed, like "I
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by asher 9y ago
Seems like it's trendy to hate the NSA. It gets conflated with an anti-authoritarian mindset. I wish smart people would gain some perspective - I got some by reading Bamford's books and a new one by Fred Kaplan - Dark Territories,
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by asher 9y ago
This story reminded me to clean up a very different synth and put it on github: https://github.com/wildsparx/synthem80 Unlike NSynth, synthem80 is directed to a specific and humble goal - make early 80s-style arcade so
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by asher 10y ago
I guess I phrased that wrong - I think server candidates should know vi or emacs. No need for both.
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by asher 10y ago
I'm at shopkick. We're a mobile app. We hire server, Android and iPhone engineers, but many will move across these platforms. We look for smart generalists. So, although we use Python on our servers, we don't expect server ca
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by asher 10y ago
One aspect we shouldn't overlook is stratification by intelligence. People of very different IQs have trouble communicating. So, "hateful repetition of populist punchlines" is a natural form of communication for average-intel
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by asher 10y ago
Shopkick | Redwood City CA, Seattle, Toronto | iOS, Android and Server Engineers | On-Site Full-Time | INTERN VISA We're a well-funded post-acquisition startup providing a mobile app to millions of brick and mortar shoppers. Our app he
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by asher 11y ago
My Dad had a Vector in the 80s - learned a lot from it. It had a big reset button on the front, which instantly booted into the "monitor" - a program which let you inspect and disassemble RAM. (RAM was not erased in the reboot.)
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by asher 12y ago
>Where are the apps that are even half as feature-rich as a typical Windows application from the '90s? I hear you. One reason for this is scalability. You can build richer web apps if you aren't shooting for scale. I worked o
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by asher 12y ago
Have you tried fluxbox? Did XFCE offer something beyond fluxbox?
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by asher 12y ago
I never worked on Adware, but I worked on a system called PrintMe, which enabled users to print to printers in Kinko's, airports, hotels, etc. (I saw PrintMe as a logical next step after working on Cisco's internal CEPS printing s
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by asher 12y ago
Man pages are more convenient for the typical unix hacker - command-line oriented, vi-using. They are rendered in less, which supports vi-like searching. Info, on the other hand, is one of those odd pre-www hypertext systems. Advanced for
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by asher 12y ago
I suspect that at least two aptitudes are involved, and different programming languages/platforms place different demands on those two aptitudes. One aptitude is essentially the math/engineering ability. The other is linguistic.
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by asher 12y ago
Cool project; I'm working on something similar. But I'm using BFSK, which means two frequencies instead of 16. You don't really need an FFT (expensive) to decode these 16 frequencies. Instead, you can shape them into square
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by asher 13y ago
When I worked at Yahoo, the policy was to not use C++ exceptions. We used integer return codes. We mostly followed your #1, in which constructors do no actual work. The Google coding guide, at least a few years ago, prohibited throwing C+
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by asher 13y ago
Would you mind telling me what business and finance communities you've found interesting?
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by asher 13y ago
How does a wise and tactful man react to a tactless remark in a large group? He doesn't. He might try to direct the conversation to more agreeable matters. He certainly doesn't draw attention to the offense and impress it indelibly in the

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