duffdevice

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by duffdevice 10y ago
I would strongly recommend building up a portfolio of cool side projects and making them publicly available on github. I think more and more tech interviewers are starting to look at candidates' github accounts and taking it seriously.
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by duffdevice 11y ago
Counting cards in poker? Say what? The deck is shuffled between every hand. Unless you're referring to the basic skill of determining odds to make a certain hand based on your hole cards and the common cards?
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by duffdevice 11y ago
For a product like this, the extra weight is a good thing.
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by duffdevice 11y ago
Nit: The first articles in the series came out in 1999, so more like 17 years old :)
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by duffdevice 11y ago
I dunno, the classic Sound On Sound "synth secrets" covers all this and more, in a lot more detail IMO http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/allsynthsecrets.htm
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by duffdevice 11y ago
Yep, it's closed source. I dream of a day where they open-source it, but IIRC the creator has turned down various monetary offers so as to retain complete control of the game, so it seems unlikely that he'd ever release the code.
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by duffdevice 11y ago
Interesting read, thanks for posting this. I was flabbergasted to see that he had only been diving for 4 years when he made the attempt. Two points in this article really rang true to me in particular: - the tendency for divers to speed thr
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by duffdevice 11y ago
This is a good step in the right direction, but this piece is still incredibly insensitive. Using words at all is literacy privilege. The author really needs to start thinking about people who either can't speak, or have lost the abili
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by duffdevice 11y ago
I really want to want one of these but I have no idea what I'd use it for, and not enough space in my euro rack to risk on it. I'm so glad that we live in a universe where this exists, though.
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by duffdevice 12y ago
Seriously. Thanks a lot, jerks. Well, I guess I can cross it off my to-watch list.
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by duffdevice 12y ago
It's been said before, but in the opinion of many would-be DF players, it's really the interface that could use a massive amount of love. The ascii graphics may not be your cup of tea, but at least they would be functional if, IF
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by duffdevice 12y ago
This is not sexist. This is anti-his-girlfriend-ist. Some people just love being victims I guess.
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by duffdevice 12y ago
This is really cool. Somebody already asked for a reverse button, how about a way to playback the evolutionary history of your biomorph (animated)?
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by duffdevice 12y ago
Knowledgeable and cool user name. Approved.
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by duffdevice 12y ago
Dolphins aren't pinnipeds. Just sayin'
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by duffdevice 13y ago
As far as I understand this article, there's no reason to believe that the signal was of constant amplitude, only that it hit Big Ear's detection threshold when we pointed directly at it. So it could have been something super non-
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by duffdevice 13y ago
Yeah, I was thinking "Isn't that kind of how it already works?"
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by duffdevice 13y ago
As an emacs user, I find this post incredibly offensive.
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by duffdevice 13y ago
1988?
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by duffdevice 13y ago
I believe Ernest Hemingway invented this technique (or the writing equivalent, on which this is based).
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by duffdevice 13y ago
Please, this is nonsense. It has to be 12 hours of brown noise, followed by 12 hours of pink noise, followed by 24 hours of white noise. Really, the amount of misinformation around here about basement orchestra break-in procedures is astoun
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by duffdevice 13y ago
Obviously this is true, but rarely do they need help being physically located. If he needs psychological help or emotional support, clearly that is a different matter, and not something that can be provided by rallying as many random, well-
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by duffdevice 13y ago
I don't mean to be callous, but what exactly are you asking for help with? He's not a 4 year old child, he's not an elderly person with dementia. He's a grown man. If he can't be found, apparently he doesn't wa
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by duffdevice 13y ago
one similarity you called out is "They also share a risk loving profile (though maybe not to quite the same extent)." I don't really follow this. Maybe it's true that engineers in early-stage startups have greater risk t
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by duffdevice 13y ago
a millenium is one thousand years.
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by duffdevice 13y ago
Kudos to your team for rising to this challenge! I love the idea of using games to help kids learn, well, anything really. But this part sort of took my breath away: > COD is Call of Duty, the latest ultra-violent first person shooter wh
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by duffdevice 13y ago
Am I the only one who finds it supremely annoying when somebody lists a string of hex numbers and says "this is the hex translation for <some string>"? There's no such thing as a hex translation of text. Of course, if y
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by duffdevice 13y ago
Massive profits for the war industry and for-profit prison systems, for a start.
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by duffdevice 13y ago
Also, poker has the "everyman" factor going for it. When the amateur Chris Moneymaker won the World Series in 2003, the popularity of the game exploded. This could never happen in chess.
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by duffdevice 13y ago
love it, very useful. my only suggestion is to accept an artist name if I type in the whole thing (rather than forcing me to select from the dropdown)

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