brynedwards

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by brynedwards 9y ago
I've been going through Syntorial[1] which is an interactive synth tutorial. I'm about half-way through and I've found it very useful for understanding not just what each part of a synthesizer does to the sound, but how it ch
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by brynedwards 9y ago
For those complaining about the appearance of the article: it looks like the original link [1] now redirects to the wired.com version but used to redirect to medium.com [2], at least that's what happens when I enter it into archive.org
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by brynedwards 9y ago
One I know is Bitwig who recently changed their licensing model so you get 12 months updates with your perpetual license and can pay to continue receiving updates after 12 months[1]. [1] https://www.bitwig.com/en/17&#x2
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by brynedwards 9y ago
There is a list at the bottom of this page: https://www.djangoproject.com/start/overview/ Disqus Instagram Knight Foundation MacArthur Foundation Mozilla National Geographic Open Know
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by brynedwards 9y ago
There are also patches for Chromium that remove Google integration and improve its privacy features: inox-patchset - https://github.com/gcarq/inox-patchset ungoogled-chromium - https://github.com/Elosto
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by brynedwards 9y ago
The reason this law still exists is because blasphemy is included in the Irish constitution and so to remove it would require a referendum which "would rightly be seen as a time wasting and expensive exercise" [1]; the law is eff
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by brynedwards 9y ago
Having switched to Kak recently, I've found this painful since I sometimes SSH into machines with only vi installed and so have to switch back and forth between kak and vi; it's a real headache...and a real shame since kak's
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by brynedwards 9y ago
I think Kakoune is particularly interesting here because it integrates window splitting using tmux and a client-server model instead of re-implementing it which is what vim does. This is part of Kakoune's design philosophy: to be compo
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by brynedwards 10y ago
Good point, I guess detecting something as e.g. showing child abuse would be much more difficult.
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by brynedwards 10y ago
There's this by Yahoo: https://github.com/yahoo/open_nsfw
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by brynedwards 10y ago
The list seems out of date, InfiniDB has been open-sourced since Calpont went bankrupt, and Greenplum is open-sourced under Apache 2 license[1]. There's also MariaDB Columnstore, a fork of InfiniDB[2]. 1. http://greenplum.or
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by brynedwards 10y ago
There's also a document maintained on GitHub that gives a rating of Haskell's support for different domains: https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md Which backs up your state
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by brynedwards 10y ago
Found this on Google Play store, looks like another one: http://www.mindhabits.com/mobileapps.php
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by brynedwards 10y ago
Interesting idea. Also, DuckDuckGo can do the same: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%21ducky+inurl%3Aen.wikipedia+%s I also use Google's "I'm feeling lucky" as my default search so I can type e.g. "m
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by brynedwards 10y ago
Probably SimCity, there's a bit about Microsoft adding a workaround for a bug in the game in this article http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000054.html Edit: Maybe not this since it's unrelated to
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by brynedwards 10y ago
I recently wrote a browser-driven scraper using Nightmare[1], which uses Electron under the hood. Another option for those who prefer python is dryscrape[2], although I haven't tried it. [1] https://github.com/segmentio
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by brynedwards 10y ago
Reminded me of the Interface Hall of Shame[1], which, now that I think about it, might be evidence against his claim that software is getting worse... [1] http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/stupid.htm
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by brynedwards 11y ago
The idea is that the plugins themselves implement asynchronous functionality. Neomake is a new plugin that checks syntax just like syntastic, but does so asynchronously. Another popular async plugin is vim-plug. https://github.co