tacos

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by tacos 10y ago
There's a difference between being a prick to fellow community members versus being tough on submissions. I rank myself in the top 5% regarding expertise on a few topics that come up here regularly, and most (not many, most) of the sub
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by tacos 10y ago
The "several flaming errors" were previously mentioned here and as comments on his website (not by me). To detail them again could also be construed as piling on. You are reading this thread outside the timeline in which it occurr
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by tacos 10y ago
And so it ends. The mere act of partnering with Yahoo indicates desperation and signals poor decision making. I'm not sure I understand HN's fascination with this site but this is not a good sign for those who claim to use it in t
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by tacos 10y ago
Yup, not buying it. Too cutesy, too impersonal, too obvious. This is a team effort. And not a very good one.
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by tacos 10y ago
> It's just impossible to "bid" on traffic via Facebook and win out over companies that have far bigger budgets Not my experience at all. Also, have you seen their hyper-local ad-targeting options? As in, draw circles arou
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by tacos 10y ago
Perhaps not the most neutral source for information. I found their summaries of paywalled articles to be a bit... misleading. They'll sell you Swarovski crystals and Himalayan salt lamps though.
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by tacos 10y ago
Repost as a semi-useful thread below didn't meet humor standards and people who aren't logged into HN should see it, too. If you need an FIR filter, click here and push the button. Generates the code too. http://t-filte
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by tacos 10y ago
> The next Gawker will be decentralized and it may follow the Wikileaks model or even publish on the dark web. There are plenty of ways to publish someone's sexual preference or sex video and you don't need to evoke Wikileaks.
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by tacos 10y ago
I see no mention of sales and use taxes. Welcome to Hell. https://www.boe.ca.gov/info/taxoverview.htm#sales
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by tacos 10y ago
I worked there. Ways we solved these sorts of problems include: hardening the other side of the API/HAL when appropriate/possible, simplifying the driver model so that mere mortals could write drivers, writing our own drivers and
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by tacos 10y ago
Citation?
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by tacos 10y ago
For me the issue comes down to whether or not Microsoft does anything useful with this data (probably not, if 20 years of NVIDIA blue screen driver failure logs, Windows 8 and OneDrive are any example of how 'big data' impacts Mic
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by tacos 10y ago
"The telemetry is only in the tools and does not affect your app."
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by tacos 10y ago
Estimate states it did less than half a billion of dollars of damage to human lives, the environment, and the economy. http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/29/vw-excess-emissions-linked-to... Allowing some New World J
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by tacos 10y ago
And 100x quicker than setting the clearly documented environment variable that disables the feature. > You can opt-out of the telemetry feature by setting an environment variable DOTNET_CLI_TELEMETRY_OPTOUT (e.g. export on OS X/Linu
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by tacos 10y ago
You seem to be treating this like "Knuth solved it in 1965, how hard can it be?" I provided a link to 100 language parsers with commit history. A quick Google reveals the most frequent committer has a CS degree from Caltech. Eithe
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by tacos 10y ago
From the release notes: "We used industry benchmarks for web platforms on Linux as part of the release, including the TechEmpower Benchmarks. We’ve been sharing our findings as demonstrated in our own labs, starting several months ago.
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by tacos 10y ago
Way too many compatibility issues unaddressed by that PR to have a hope of getting anything changed there. Also it looks like what you (?) are trying to do could easily be solved with the Path.* and Directory.* path manipulation functions.
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by tacos 10y ago
Meanwhile, Microsoft wins $10,000,000,000 profit by forcing users to upgrade to Windows 10.
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by tacos 10y ago
These broad generalizations about psychoacoustics are simply not accurate. It sounds like what every novice engineer experiences before honing his or her craft. If you're surprised by what you hear after recording something, either you
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by tacos 10y ago
It's XLR. But even then Americans and Europeans couldn't agree on where to stick the three wires. This is the 1992 document that finally standardized "pin 2 hot" among other minutiae: http://www.aes.org/p
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by tacos 10y ago
As odd as it sounds, microphone cables weren't standardized until 1992. Before then companies did all sorts of stuff. Here's a Neumann mic from 1952 that could be set remotely. http://recordinghacks.com/microphones
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by tacos 10y ago
Agreed! Unlike the U87, the RE20 is a dynamic mic so it doesn't need power. Quieter, less to go wrong, built in pop screen, smaller but still big enough to look "important", and you really can't break it. It's less
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by tacos 10y ago
There is bass rolloff in the mic even when set flat. This is the proximity filter designed to correct for the way the mic responds when it is close to a source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity_effect_(audio)
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by tacos 10y ago
That's due to the person being close to the mic. A flat microphone, by definition, emphasizes nothing. Moreover it's other aspects of the signal chain (compression, distortion, broadcast filters) that accentuate sibilance.
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by tacos 10y ago
For a vocal/voiceover mic loud sounds are not a concern. (The U87 has a pad switch for those cases separate from the proximity/EQ switch.) The things you mention (vibrations, LF rumble) are typically handled by the highpass on the
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by tacos 10y ago
Actually it's a terrible interview because the interviewer won't shut up and is far less knowledgable than the person he's interviewing. The "EQ settings" on the mic are actually to compensate for proximity effect.
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by tacos 10y ago
The directory I linked shows Ragel lexers. It was a command line tool that fed a web app. All it had to do was count lines of code, blank lines, and comment lines for a variety of languages. It took years and they never got it right. Partly
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by tacos 10y ago
> Text parsing for programming languages is NOT a difficult problem Counterpoint: Ohloh tried to build a simple line counter. After 7 years even with community support they never really got it right. https://github.com/bl
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by tacos 10y ago
Stewart Brand wrote a book called "How Buildings Learn" and in many ways it's a better version of this post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shearing_layers

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