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8 tahun yang laludiscuss

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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9 tahun yang laludiscuss

but not one side effect!

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Was it a 'functional programmers know the value of everything and the cost of nothing' kind of joke?

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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 most viewed youtube video from the next 9 most viewed videos http://pkmital.com/home/youtube-smash-up/

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11 tahun yang laludiscuss

"Not many outlets selling fried chicken"... in Peckham?? I'm not sure the authors data is all that accurate.

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11 tahun yang laludiscuss

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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11 tahun yang laludiscuss

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 especially, this is an issue.

c) No comparable refactoring capability.

I once had high hopes that eclim would be the answer, but I think it's just the wrong tool for the job. Let's not pretend vim can be something it was never designed for.

Neovim however might help to solve this problems, but when that will see the light of day, it seems to be hard to find out.

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11 tahun yang laludiscuss

After the Snowden leaks, none of this should be surprising. Still makes me cringe though, just to have it confirmed.

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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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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 of it's own. Problems which were the very reason that equal temperement took over in the first place. This page has some wonderful examples http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/asn/homepage/teaching/exp-l...

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11 tahun yang laludiscuss

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't really a perfect 5th troubles me at some existential level.

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11 tahun yang laludiscuss

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.

Having said that, it performs 'well enough' for the vast majority of use cases.

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