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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 resynthesise the weeks #1 most viewed youtube video from the next 9 most viewed videos http://pkmital.com/home/youtube-smash-up/

"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 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.

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 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...

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.

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.

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 intended) and had several hundred packages that needed upgrading and there was simply no easy way of making it work. It was around the time of the systemd introduction, so that may have been a significant complicating factor.

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/graphite/grafana which allows a lot of flexability (albeit with some initial wrangling with the setup)

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 short if you compare it to a single purpose application.

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 and we'd have been foolish not to. But to have it laid out in no uncertain terms, is somehow quite devastating.

The $199.99 price tag is a surprise. Could anyone speculate as to why they'd be pitching it this low, given the price of competitors products?

a 'ps aux' seems to hang it...

Goes to show, you don't always need to do things the hard/proper/science way to make something like this convincing. Smoke and mirrors ftw. (although this particular set of smoke and mirrors could probably do with a little optimising. I'ts a good effect nonetheless)

I wonder if these stats hold up when looking at modern stoves (which have burning efficiencies upwards of 70%). Bundling open fires, which are highly inefficient along with these stoves seems a little unreasonable. Lots of modern stoves, in the UK at least, come with defra ( http://smokecontrol.defra.gov.uk/) exemption, meaning they can be used in smoke controlled (i.e. built up urban) areas. These controls are more to do with air pollution, rather than direct human harm, but the two measures must be somewhat correlated.

My thoughts exactly. Virtual Music gives a great insight into Cope's ideas: http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/virtual-music

Sadly his code (lisp if I remember correctly) isn't on github either...

>> But forcing pharma and regulators to publish all trials, and fund independant on-the-job training will not lead to order of magnitude changes.

No, but it will allow people to make more informed decisions about what medicine they should take, and give a more realistic picture about its effectiveness. There is no justifiable reason to withhold trial data...