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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Audio latency issues on PCs are largely alleviated thanks to better softwate (device drivers that shorten the path to/from the hardware - such as ASIO4ALL) combined with better hardware (soundcards interfacing over PCI-E/Firewire&
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
I don't quite resonate with the analogy here. It's about using the right tool for the job. Most small-scale personal projects, by their very definition, don't require an orchestration framework.
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Which companies performed the security audits?
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Product: Everhour. HQ: Minsk, Belarus"
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
So Go is somehow immune from a similar fate? What's the reasoning behind this?
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Memory management in Kit is manual (no automatic garbage collection), with some convenience features to make this easier." I was curious, but there aren't any examples of this on https://www.kitlang.org/
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
I see there's no privacy policy, and no clear guidelines on opting out. Why? Privacy was the focal point of 2018, but you're somehow ignoring that altogether?
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Because after a day of work, most people just want to see funny pictures and check their email and login to a bank account to pay some bills. They're consumers, not producers." You're simply saying people want affo
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Numpy is fast thanks to having much of its code compiled as a native library. They were purposefully working to reduce abstraction, since performance mattered from day one. WASM is a huge step backwards in that regard. If you care about per
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Part of an effort to make a Jupytr notebook-like environment without relying on server side code." So there won't be any server side code, you'd just be downloading the entire Python stack and dependencies every ti
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Finally they let you hire some help and instead of getting busy helping writing tests and refactoring he starts thinking about the best way to throw you under the bus to your superiors." Here's what actually happens.
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Do you seriously think they care about re-using a name for a throw-away non-classified project? People have better things to do with their time.
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
A different approach to decoding vibrations into speech, involving a laser microphone: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_microphone
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Now let's get this down to earth. You're walking outside, it's dark, you get catcalled by a passerby. What's next? Do you pull out your phone and call the police? Try and take a picture of the person catcalling you? Wher
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Simple stress tests should've revealed this. Basic profiling should've revealed this. This article makes it appear that they've went live without ever really testing the infrastructure under any kind of load whatsoever. The a
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Because of quotas, there is more diversity in tech. That's a fact." Fair enough. Besides the obvious "diversification" of the company's populace, what other success factors can be directly attributed to q
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "This is an obvious false correlation. You have no evidence that Apple would not be even more successful were the engineering team more diverse." This argument goes both ways. We also don't have concrete evidence proving
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Do you like discrimination?" I'd argue "diversity quotas" are the very archetype of discrimination.
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
"We moved to GraphQL because things were bad, and now things are good. GraphQL is amazing". I don't want this to come off as a personal attack (and I apologize if it does), but your comment contains absolutely no information
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Is entanglement an actual physical phenomenon? What exactly needs to happen in-order for a photon to "become" entangled?
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Is there a geographical bias in your skepticism? Would you be as skeptical if this kid was from Norway or Sweden or Austria?" Nothing in the parent comment implies a so-called "geographical bias", yet there you are
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Davidson sued, arguing that he was owed royalties for unauthorized use of an image of his statue" Orthogonal, though can't help but wonder whether Davidson got Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi's approval before re-creati
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Not refuting your theory, but in all probability, you (like most others in the industry) have friends ("friends"?) that simply relay info to recruiters from these two companies. Poaching is often done that way. Also, at least in m
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
So, which came first to the bay area? the engineers, or the companies? Are we at a point where most people move in to the bay area for work? Or is it the other way around (ie. companies wanting to establish a foothold in an area known for i
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
Are you seriously suggesting this is an issue? That's entirely up to you to solve in your custom allocator. Use whatever mechanism is available to you. Use a global condition variable, check it atomically every time you're enterin
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
void * your_custom_allocator(size_t size) { // Handle your locks. // Sanity checks, assertions, bounds checks, etc... void * result = g_your_buffer + g_position; // "Commit
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "You're imagining a world where everything is Node or Python or Java, or at the worst C on top of the well-defined standard library. And I'm telling you that the world is bigger than that." Why do you keep putting w
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Pollution is in the eye of the beholder. There are many circumstances where a project or subset of a project needs to work without a heap, they just don't necessarily overlap with the "application layer code in a virtua
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "The library mustn’t call malloc() internally. It’s up to the caller to allocate memory for the library. What’s nice about this is that it’s completely up to the application exactly how memory is allocated. Maybe it’s using a cust
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by xtrapolate 8y ago
> "Yes, PHP and Node.JS and Ruby all are just as bad or worse than Python. That's the whole point!" The original comment I was replying to was taking a stab at Python in particular. All I'm saying, is that in the open

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