singular

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Tidal – mini language for live coding music patterns(toplap.org)
4 points by singular 13y ago|0 comments
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by singular 13y ago
For anyone else who is playing with this in OS X Mavericks, I've written a blog post describing how to get things working on it (there are a couple steps that need to be tweaked.) - http://blog.ljs.io/post/71424794
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by singular 13y ago
I'd give it at least 3 months and really try to assess whether the discomfort was due to the job being a sucky situation or me being challenging/experiencing natural discomfort after a big change, i.e. getting the job, or even pot
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by singular 13y ago
I think this is a great example of how well-studied algorithms crop up in (potentially) unexpected places, i.e. convex hull. Often in day-to-day work algorithms aren't immediately useful. But when they are, they really make a differe
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by singular 13y ago
There was a definite style to a lot of e.g. game music on the amiga that made it feel quite unique both at the time and since, and listening to this reminds me of that style. 'the number of voices is limited to four. To have somethin
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by singular 13y ago
I think it's worth exploring non-standard means of establishing networks no matter how ostensibly silly as they can come in extremely useful when e.g. governments try to restrict internet access in oppressive countries or natural disas
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by singular 13y ago
Actually - "This smells a bit like linkbait to me" I don't think that quite qualifies as personally accusing you of intentionally posting linkbait to HN. There are plenty of articles submitted here by people who aren't t
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by singular 13y ago
This smells a bit like linkbait to me (and amusingly similar to some of the items in the 4chan parody not so long ago.) I think this would be better as a blacklist. I definitely don't find as much abuse as is claimed, but it does happe
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by singular 13y ago
> But that is mostly a problem because incremental compiling in C++ is difficult for well-known reasons. Incremental compiling is well-supported in many other languages (e.g. Java) and is usually very fast. So, the issue of compilation t
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by singular 13y ago
Absolutely, I should have said 'build' rather than 'compile'. It's both compilation and linking.
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by singular 13y ago
Wow. I'm really impressed with that. I'm looking at >1hr on a mid-2012 Macbook Pro Retina for Chromium.
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by singular 13y ago
Wow, that's quite something. I really feel the tech around batteries needs particular focus, as the one thing computing technology seems to lag on is battery life - I dream of a time where I can charge my laptop once a year and not hav
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by singular 13y ago
I'm trying to contribute to the Chromium project and believe me, when you're waiting over an hour to compile 1 day's worth of patches, you begin to dream of faster compile speeds :-) I think having some sort of optional &#x27
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by singular 13y ago
I don't think it's rewriting history to say you were aggressive and attacking, I do absolutely accept that you might have been 100% in the right and justified in that. I got the impression you were being bullying - my whole point
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by singular 13y ago
Understandable that it came off that way, genuinely not intended as that. It's bloody hard to express something sincerely on the internet without sounding like you're just being sarcastic.
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by singular 13y ago
...but this comment which is sincere, genuine and offered to someone for whom this could be greatly helpful has made me seriously reconsider. Kudos. I felt you'd appreciate an unhedged opinion rather than me adding a bunch of weasel wo
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by singular 13y ago
"I have for a while thought of you as (total honesty here) a bullying cock" Notice the past tense. I based that opinion on the many aggressive attacking posts by Zed (for which he is well-known), particularly the attack of Mark Pi
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by singular 13y ago
I have for a while thought of you as (total honesty here) a bullying cock (though talented at what you do), but this comment which is sincere, genuine and offered to someone for whom this could be greatly helpful has made me seriously recon
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by singular 13y ago
Yes, you're right, other than the idea that the job posting isn't entering into an argument - I'd say that it is, the person is taking a position that they feel this is a reasonable and justifiable job to advertise. We can re
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by singular 13y ago
Discussing an accusation of ad hominem inevitably involves you discussing that person's ad hominem-ism, which is ironically meta-ad hominem. Unavoidable I think... though strangely comical I must say!
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by singular 13y ago
So it's ok to be an abusive arsehole as long as you're honest about it? The only crime is to be a dishonest arsehole? How about being a decent reasonable human being/employer? Or is that just off the table altogether in this
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by singular 13y ago
Ad hominem is attacking the person rather than their position on the topic at hand. This guy has played his hand and shown us his position. Now what you want is us to take your personal view of this person as read and ignore his clearly lai
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by singular 13y ago
I know I'm going to get downvoted to hell but... Are these the beginnings of a new silicone valley?
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by singular 13y ago
Yeah, I have to say I feel like a bit of a dick right now. Sorry man. I love what you're trying to do with this page. Helping get people involved in open source projects rocks, so apologies for the spot-on 4chan impression of a typer H
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by singular 13y ago
I don't mean to be overly judgmental or ungrateful for his great work, it just seems very out of character with the rest of the site which seems focused on the technical stuff. I don't mean to be judgmental in that horrible anonym
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by singular 13y ago
Ah fair enough, hadn't noticed. Yes, it does seem a little unnecessary + irrelevant.
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by singular 13y ago
Commenting on the wrong article? This is the article on contributing code to firefox :)
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by singular 13y ago
For those who are interested, pleasingly it's considerably easier to buy/sell btc in the UK these days, [32] and [33] are very functional - I used [32] to buy coins and then [33] to sell some just today. [33] looks much better val
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by singular 13y ago
Container analogy, is a bit of fun and is a nice alternative to a plain page - does everything on hacker news have to be super-serious?
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by singular 13y ago
It's a nice idea, but this strikes me as a bit of a puff piece for OkCupid. The fact the name of the site is used and not 'an online dating site' makes me question it. I am somewhat biased though as I am a bitter + twisted un

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