rosejn

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by rosejn 14y ago
...or why types and the lack of anonymous functions combine to make a language painful, ugly, and annoying.
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by rosejn 14y ago
Apple Corp. sucks as a member of society. As one of the wealthiest and most successful companies on earth they continue to play dirty by abusing the patent system for their advantage. Most of the patents they are "protecting" are describi
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by rosejn 14y ago
Great concept. This is kind of similar to an editor we've been talking about for Overtone. How about, * allow for render plugin functions so values can be rendered with images, rendered canvases, control elements, etc. * treat the AST as
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by rosejn 14y ago
You're right, and in Overtone we haven't really tried to mirror SCLang at all. The DSP core of scsynth is a great piece of software with many years of testing, debugging, and extension, so it's wonderful that we can leverage this externall
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by rosejn 15y ago
Actually, one of the initial motivations for creating Overtone was to experiment with automating "feel". I was getting into electronic music, and it seemed to me that many of the painful aspects of EQing and adjusting instruments and timin
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by rosejn 15y ago
It's not necessarily that SC is complicated, but it is a custom language that has to be learned to use a single application. Also, many musical ideas and projects extend beyond what sclang can do, or you want to use external libs, etc. By
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by rosejn 15y ago
He has to turn comments off on Daring Fireball or else he would be called out as an Apple fanboy/lobbyist after posts like this. Plenty of companies are willing to compete by creating better products rather than taking their competition to
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by rosejn 15y ago
They did, and using the manual improved performance considerably.
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by rosejn 15y ago
You make good points, but there are a few factors you have to think about. First, the built-in AI has been designed by people with great knowledge of the game and its strategy. The fact that a totally generic AI system with zero knowledge
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by rosejn 15y ago
I was about to fix it, but using jekyll that breaks the link...
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by rosejn 15y ago
yeah, I screwed up on the date...
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by rosejn 16y ago
I very much agree with the sentiment. LaTeX works well and it produces the best technical documents of anything I've seen, but the world could really use a modernized replacement. The syntax is a pain in the ass, the error messages are ho
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by rosejn 16y ago
Seriously, why does anyone care what this Apple fanboy thinks?
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by rosejn 16y ago
Microcosm: E. coli and the New Science of Life - Carl Zimmer * This was one of the best science books I've ever read. Zimmer uses e-coli as the primary actor a tour of genomics and history of the big breakthroughs in micro-biology. I'm a
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by rosejn 16y ago
Routing traffic to wikileaks would have been a perfect demonstration of this new system. Instead they decided to show how much they respect freedom of speech. And tptacek, yes we should speak about wikileaks when discussing Amazon, from no
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by rosejn 16y ago
I was pretty happy with my cybook before leaving it on an airplane. Don't go Kindle, unless you want to support them after dropping WikiLeaks, thus taking the freedom of the press and flushing it down the toilet.
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by rosejn 16y ago
Go for Clojure. It's a modernized common-lisp with access to the wealth of Java libraries. There are resources online, and you should be able to get up and running in a matter of minutes.
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by rosejn 16y ago
We had a blind classmate all through my undergraduate program in CS, and he was a very capable hacker. He lived inside emacs using emacspeak with a high speed synthesized reader voice, and you could often hear his terminal talking to him i
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by rosejn 16y ago
I found it interesting that in the post he criticizes previous discussion of lock based concurrency, while not providing anything close to the level of analysis that he apparently requires of his fellow disputant. '“Locks are not modular an
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by rosejn 16y ago
I've had more eye opening experiences programming in Clojure than in any language I learned before it. (C, C++, Java, Python, Ruby, common lisp) It provides a fairly unique set of tools that really let you boil programs down to their esse
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by rosejn 16y ago
I am incredibly happy that this will never happen in software development. Elitist, protectionist mechanisms like this would dramatically limit the talent pool, slow down innovation, and restrict thinking to a set of norms agreed upon by a
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by rosejn 16y ago
I'm interested in learning more about bio-tech research, genetics and synthetic biology. I hope to finish my doctorate in CS soon, and after that I'm going to take some time off to travel and read. Any advice for a computer geek who wants
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by rosejn 16y ago
I'm using Clojure for my PhD thesis project, implementing a distributed computing framework for building P2P applications. I've also been creating an audio synthesis and musical live-coding system, available here: http://project-overtone.
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by rosejn 16y ago
If you don't know what's fun about coding, then you should just find something else to do that you do enjoy. Everyone I know who really enjoys hacking has been into it since day one, including myself. It's the general joy of wrapping your
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by rosejn 16y ago
If you are younger than 40 and in good health you should focus on a varied diet full of fresh fruits and vegetables rather than supplements. They will provide the vitamins and minerals you need while also providing lots of anti-oxidants an
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by rosejn 16y ago
I don't think people actually looked at this before voting it up. Vimclojure and swank-clojure and probably every other Clojure IDE plugin has a syntax highlighted REPL. It would have been cool if this was for the terminal though...
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by rosejn 17y ago
This sounds like a humanist reaction to the increasing amounts of research and evidence that intelligence does in fact have a large genetic component. Nobody says environment and hard work aren't vital factors for success, but it's already
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by rosejn 17y ago
Tryout http://kgnu.org if you want to expand your horizons. They have a live stream and a back catalog from the last two weeks of shows. It's a non-profit station in Boulder, Co, and they get hundreds of new CDs a month representing eve
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by rosejn 17y ago
Practical Common Lisp, or even better, Programming Clojure.
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by rosejn 17y ago
If an intro to Clojure and/or musical programming (live-coding) sounds interesting to people I'd be happy to present and demo an audio synthesis system I've been working on. ( http://github.com/rosejn/overtone ) It uses an interesting DSL f

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