mhax

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by mhax 1mo ago
Terrible take. Trying to moral gymnastics your way out of taking responsibility for who you work for. If you're working at meta it's unlikely to be your only good option. Yes, the janitors get a pass.
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by mhax 8y ago
Yeah, it's a struggle. I've attempted to read it twice, and never made it all the way through. Still immensely rewarding though.
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by mhax 9y ago
but not one side effect!
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by mhax 9y ago
Was it a 'functional programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing' kind of joke?
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by mhax 10y ago
This reminds me very much of Parag Mital's work on audiovisual resynthesis: http://pkmital.com/home/ IIRC he has been beset with takedown notices for his 'smash up' videos which resynthesise the weeks #1
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by mhax 11y ago
"Not many outlets selling fried chicken"... in Peckham?? I'm not sure the authors data is all that accurate.
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by mhax 11y ago
That image was so striking and appeared to come out of nowhere. Was it some kind of marketing ploy do you think? I'm glad to have found the source anyway.
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by mhax 11y ago
So true - I'm not sure what I expected. It always comes down to the fact that: a) There is no intelligent auto-complete (not compared to an real IDE) b) Background tasks of compiling/testing will block the UI. With scala especiall
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by mhax 11y ago
After the Snowden leaks, none of this should be surprising. Still makes me cringe though, just to have it confirmed.
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by mhax 11y ago
This is actually really well done. Nothing new technically, but presented really well. (I thought this was going to be another posing of https://mosh.mit.edu/ )
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by mhax 11y ago
It's not just a matter of 'better' frequencies. It's trivial to have a softsynth or something similar set up to use just intonation (and many modern composers have experimented with this), but that has practical problems
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by mhax 11y ago
That book looks really interesting - thanks for the recommendation. What still twists my melon about harmony is the Pythagorean Comma. Harmony equating to integer ratios seems so right... But the fact that a perfect 5th on a piano isn'
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by mhax 11y ago
The hardware you intend run on will impact your architectural decisions. Given the wide scope of hardware targeted by android, it's not that surprising that it performs less well than a system targeting a very limited set of devices. H
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by mhax 11y ago
Arch is awesome and I've used it at home and work for years, but the rolling release cycle means that you must keep on top of upgrades. I was once a little too slack (no pun intended) and had several hundred packages that needed upgr
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An inside view of a Russian 'Troll House'(theguardian.com)
22 points by mhax 11y ago|2 comments
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by mhax 11y ago
At 160k it's not really in the true spirit of Emacs. ducks
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by mhax 12y ago
Rails jobs seem to dominate all the remote programming jobs too as far as I can see. Learn Java they said....
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by mhax 12y ago
I've used *nix for ~15 years and never used a named pipe or process substitution before. Great to know about!
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by mhax 12y ago
I'm a little wary of a monolithic solutions to monitoring/graphing/time series data storage - it gives me flashbacks of nagios/zabbix ;) I currently use a combination of sensu/graphite/grafana which allows a lo
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by mhax 12y ago
Yes, but this is meant to be intuative and well designed. Snarky comments aside, where odoo falls down is that it tries to be everything and do everything and unsurprisingly falls short if you compare it to a single purpose application.
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by mhax 12y ago
Looks reminiscent of a fairlight demo from 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezltebzdgjI
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by mhax 12y ago
I think it's fantastic news - even if the net result is just forcing typesafe to address concerns about scala that have been festering for some time.
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by mhax 12y ago
Yep. Compile times are comparatively long - the larger the project, the more this is an issue. For me it's not a deal breaker.
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by mhax 12y ago
I'm sad theres no scala support
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by mhax 13y ago
anyone try running this with WINE?
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by mhax 13y ago
While taking for granted the NSA's M.O. (also having read Applied Cryptography some years ago) this leak somehow hits harder than the rest. Yes, we had to assume it was happening and we'd have been foolish not to. But to have it l
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by mhax 13y ago
The $199.99 price tag is a surprise. Could anyone speculate as to why they'd be pitching it this low, given the price of competitors products?
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by mhax 13y ago
a 'ps aux' seems to hang it...
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by mhax 13y ago
Goes to show, you don't always need to do things the hard/proper/science way to make something like this convincing. Smoke and mirrors ftw. (although this particular set of smoke and mirrors could probably do with a little op
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by mhax 14y ago
I wonder if these stats hold up when looking at modern stoves (which have burning efficiencies upwards of 70%). Bundling open fires, which are highly inefficient along with these stoves seems a little unreasonable. Lots of modern stoves, in

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