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Yeah, it's a struggle. I've attempted to read it twice, and never made it all the way through. Still immensely rewarding though.

but not one side effect!

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

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 re…

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

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.

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 compili…

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

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/ )

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 wit…

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 r…

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 t…

Arch is awesome and I've used it at home and work for years, but the rolling release cycle means that you must keep on top of upgrades. I was once a little too slack (no pun intend…

At 160k it's not really in the true spirit of Emacs. ducks

Rails jobs seem to dominate all the remote programming jobs too as far as I can see. Learn Java they said....

I've used *nix for ~15 years and never used a named pipe or process substitution before. Great to know about!

I'm a little wary of a monolithic solutions to monitoring/graphing/time series data storage - it gives me flashbacks of nagios/zabbix ;) I currently use a combination of sensu/grap…

Yes, but this is meant to be intuative and well designed. Snarky comments aside, where odoo falls down is that it tries to be everything and do everything and unsurprisingly falls …

Looks reminiscent of a fairlight demo from 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezltebzdgjI

I think it's fantastic news - even if the net result is just forcing typesafe to address concerns about scala that have been festering for some time.

Yep. Compile times are comparatively long - the larger the project, the more this is an issue. For me it's not a deal breaker.

I'm sad theres no scala support

anyone try running this with WINE?

While taking for granted the NSA's M.O. (also having read Applied Cryptography some years ago) this leak somehow hits harder than the rest. Yes, we had to assume it was happening a…