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It's not necessarily that SC is complicated, but it is a custom language that has to be learned to use a single application. Also, many musical ideas and projects extend beyond what sclang can do, or you want to use external libs, etc. By using Clojure you get all of the power of sclang and more, because you also get lisp macros, while also getting access to the whole java ecosystem of libs. We've got a gui library for Overtone in the works, and it will be a good example of this in action.
I have a Yamaha DGX-500 that I bought from a bloke at my office. It works great and is compatible with FL Studio. Saves about 5 songs, though.
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This isn't unusual, a number of larger companies have created internal social network clones. Big companies seem to have a bunch of little pet projects that get started because somebody important is trying to look good and be noticed. A lot of projects. Large companies spend a massive amount of wasted effort on very poor internal software projects. It is sad.
Agreed, it took me a few page scans to realize that the "drop zone" is at the top of the webpage itself.
I think that future was coming regardless of anything he could do as commander in chief. There is no putting that toothpaste back in the tube.
the problem is finding a software sequencer you can get comfortable with. pick one and stick with it, and use it every day. don't give up on a track till you've spent an hour on it, as there's no better practice than finessing an idea you're not sold on to improvement (this will come in handy if you end up doing it for money). with an apt combination of keyboard shortcuts and smart combinations of presets, no amount of software will hold back your ideas from fruition. i use FL studio in this manner to great effect, and can have a 5 minute song assembled to some structure in about 30 minutes. from there it's a matter of EQ and balancing.

another option may be to use something like audiomulch or PD to create the sort of work-flow environment you need to sit down and start sketching.
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Thanks, man. I'll check on the Safari bug and agree about a standard file input. Will definitely take into account the need for clarity in instructions, too.
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This is what happens when enterprisey frameworks are overused. Every link on the front page wants to log me in using js to submit a hidden form containing thousands of bytes of base64 crap to express what they know about me, namely nothing. The unenhanced <noscript> version is generic and completely useless, of course.
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You're right, my level of support now is not as great as it could be. When I was initially introduced to the idea, I loved it. I still do. This is why I am still involved. But I do not like the zealotry behind it. You can believe in an ideal without casting out everyone who does not fall in line 100%.

I use and contribute to open source because I believe a lot of the best technology comes from it. I do not use it because I believe closed source is inherently evil.

RMS is a dick and I can accept that. What bothers me is the pass that he gets when he is a dick and the percentage of others who are like him in the free software community.
Generative / algorithmic music is its own world. I'm a musician too and I can't imagine being very expressive (and musical) with this compared to my shakuhachi or doumbek. I have a hard time imagining how this could be used in live improvisation vs something like Ableton. But this type of music is really its own thing, and I don't presume to understand it.

Something that I found interesting, a video game approach to music: http://kotaku.com/5847212/compose-your-own-musical-villages-...
Depending on your digital goods, have you thought about sending a link in email, as part of a receipt even? Could easily setup a mail server to forge the time back 15 minutes and make it look like it was instant and just not send it if it was fraudulent. It's a little sleazy but it'd at least give a completely different impression than, "Please wait 15 minutes".
Unfounded assertion. Also, I'm mainly interested in the technology, not the license. I'll use whatever helps me get my job done the best and I'll pay good money for it too.
The apple2 screensaver that comes with xscreensaver can be used as a terminal emulator. You can also get a chintzy version by fullscreening xterm or gnome-terminal with the vt220 TrueType font and green-on-black, but that doesn't give you CRT distortions, or for that matter even correct-looking reverse video.
Perhaps it's a generational gap. I am under 30, so I only became familiar with Macs in the mid-90s. I can understand those of you who grew up in the late 70s - mid 80s and have much more nostalgic sentiments towards Apple and the Macintosh. It created industries and careers that didn't previously exist.
Yeah, I need to clarify the instructions. If the files are dropped anywhere but the blue navigation bar, they should be converted.
Actually, one of the initial motivations for creating Overtone was to experiment with automating "feel". I was getting into electronic music, and it seemed to me that many of the painful aspects of EQing and adjusting instruments and timing so they don't interfere with each other could be automated. We haven't really gotten to this point yet, but I tend to believe that this is yet another area in life where people will argue forever that software will never compete with humans, up until the point where many of the top tracks are being generated by software. It also opens the door to all kinds of interesting things, like live composition of multiple instruments, or meta-composing, where you modify parameters along axis like tension, emotion, drive, and vibe, rather than figuring out how to modulate to the next key. For now I agree with you though, most of what I create in Overtone still has a robotic feel. Hopefully that won't be the case for long. We'd love to have more musicians joining the discussion though, so if you have ideas join the mailing list.
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I'm sure Steve would appreciate the parent link painting him as a liar and manipulator. ergo, observe the word "plausible" and humbly suggest that you missed the point. Mr.Jobs had strong Christian colleagues / friends and so am fairly certain a deep theological idea wouldn't be beyond the scope of appreciation.
Ok, I just saw the link someone posted to "This Binary Universe." I stand corrected: you can make some pretty amazing music this way. :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve8WaGmyhfI
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I'm going to take an optimistic stance on this topic and say that war technology evolves; we shouldn't be scared of it just because it was sci-fi 10 years ago. I think the development of the nuclear bomb was more scary than some line-manufactured drones.

Yes, Obama has been awfully militant lately. He may have thought that it was the best thing he could do in an attempt to get positive approval ratings from the general public. Killing an American citizen w/o trial may have gone too far, even for middle America.

The drone arms race is going to be an economical one. And, given the state of the world economy, no country is going to spend billions of dollars on a drone war anytime soon.
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Surely, as commander in chief, one of his responsibilities is managing the scope of "this war?"

But let's not get into politics...
I don't see choice in the message when it comes to the FSF. I do in other open source communities but not when it comes to the FSF. I see "use our alternative" but I do not see choice.

Choice would be to educate someone about the benefits of open source technology and then let them make the decision on what philosophy they would like to follow. Not, "your company choose to make your product closed source so you are now going down an evil path". I'm exaggerating a bit so I can illustrate my point. You can think that your philosophy is the right path without necessarily thinking that the other path is "evil".
> Thus fetching a sandwich, reliably, is a creative task, and any entity capable of doing it has achieved human status.

Robots in Futurama are near human status. Real robots (including the one you described) are not. Fetching a sandwich as a robot is an algorithmic task.
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I always thought it would be cool if a company built a big bird's nest tower in cities that would host a bunch of flying drones. Then, consumers could rent the video-capture drones online to fly over approved areas, upon which the drones would return to nest for re-fueling. Think maybe you could subsidize the cost (possibly even make a profit) with the video data, or by streaming some feeds for the population to watch. Though have no idea of feasibility (FAA, equipment, real estate), I do like the idea of eyes in the sky for consumer benefit. Maybe something like this could be used for defense - giving population more awareness of airspace.
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Noah Wyle's intro at Macworld is better than Andy Samberg at f8.

Funnily enough I'm watching the movie right now - Mike Markkula just showed up and Steve just named himself employee #0.
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I don't know too much on his history tbh, but didn't Sun go to hell when he was CEO?
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There is ClamAV, although I don't know if it supports on-access scanning these days (it always used to be manual scanning). I also don't know how the definitions are sourced.
Btw, congrats on the notoriety. I just saw your image on an NYT article.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/business/steve-jobs-and-th...

That's awesome. Would love to know how that worked out for you.
> I'm not really sure what you would use this for.

"Live coding" means you go to a nightclub, hook your laptop up to the sound system and a big projector, and start programming, while everybody is watching you program and listening to the sounds your program is making.
My choice of late has been OSX and iOS, actually. I was just on Linux at the moment. I'm not moaning about Linux. I'm suggesting ESR's actions are unaligned with his goals. My actions are perfectly aligned with mine.
But then you need a battery or something. How about switching to the secondary memory if you plug it in, pull it out and plug it in again? Then you might be able to get away with a small capacitor that would get charged on the first connection, and could activate secondary paths afterwards.
So how would this affect what languages we use? How different data structures perform? etc. Will this amplify the end of the free lunch?

I'm especially curious how Rich Hickey's approach to state, time, and identity in a functional language fit in?
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UAVs are currently not allowed to be flown by commercial entities in US airspace. If/when that changes it will be fascinating to watch the variety of startups that crop up to take advantage of it.
No nest needed, here's a sophisticated RC plane flying over NYC with no issue: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2010/12/how-a-rc-airplane...
An area this article does not go into is how the increased use of robotics in the military could cause the military to classify large swaths of it as controlled weapons research. This would limit the ability of researchers and companies to publish or even work in that area.
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Drones are far cheaper then other options.

I'm taking a pessimistic view. When the costs of war are externalized (as they are now and will be even more so with drones and robots) we no lose the incentives to not have war.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Taste_of_Armageddon
Filesharers may offer files on P2P networks for free, but they don't print books or burn millions of DVDs for free. That would still be a privilege of the copyright owner (and its licensees).

All that distinguishing them accomplishes is make the law more complicated because there will need to be some kind of definition of "commercial" and that can get tricky.

That already exists. For example, in the US copyright infringement is a civil case, unless it's done for "commercial advantage or private financial gain", then it becomes an actual crime¹.
The EU law has also a bunch of exceptions/fair use clauses that only apply to "non-commercial" use.

I suspect they are making the distinction to try to make people think that legalized non-commercial file sharing would not have much impact. They want people to think of it as the kind of sharing you do when you loan your neighbor a DVD, or borrow a CD and rip it...perhaps technically illegal but because it is on such a personal level it isn't going to have a hugh impact.

I doubt it; anyone who even considers voting for them knows that's not really true. It's just to differentiate the intention, which is already extremely important in most laws.

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Took me a bit to realise where to drag to as well but I thought it was pretty cool when it worked.

I was going to say it didn't parse ``` properly but then realised that's part of Github-flavoured Markdown. Nice work! :)
As the number of cores per socket is steadily increasing it is becoming more difficult to keep all of the cores on a single computer operating efficiently. A higher clock rate per core, or more cores per socket, is not very useful if they are all waiting on memory.
I think the scariest part of this drone trend is the opportunity to wage war without losing human life. This shift in risk will dramatically reduce the barrier to starting a war and will further reinforce the power of those already on top.
This is very cool. I remember there was another clojure music library that came out several months ago. It was very cool, but nowhere near as cool and extensible as this.

EDIT: this was the library I was thinking of http://mad.emotionull.com/
Apple's "change the world" model has always been about user experience. With the Macintosh the phrase was "the computer for the rest of us". They seek to enable ordinary people to express themselves with usable tools. This vision has unflaggingly informed the trade offs they have chosen, and their current strategy is just a continuation of that. I think you read too much into that commercial. They have never been militant freedomistas. That's RMS's shtick.

It does not bother me that you disagree with the tradeoffs they have chosen. Let's not revise history to make a point, though.
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Amen. I have lost count of the number of times where I saw engineering teams taking the full blame for failure where it was middle management dropping the ball with regards to dismissing the massive engineering risks engineering have found with third-party components, vendors, etc.

When morale and motivation is in the pits, don't expect miracles or heroics to save the day.
Improvisation requires plenty of practice - http://www.amazon.com/Improvisation-Its-Nature-Practice-Musi...
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Max/MSP is this times a million. check it out if you haven't heard of it. cycling74.com it does the exact same things but with more options, complexity, and a more usable interface. It also has visual fx.
I’m seeing educational value in this, musical output as a way of teaching programming to beginners, especially to auditory learners (or to the blind, for that matter). Is there anything out there like this that’s specifically intended as an educational tool?
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It seems like a Quicklook generator for Markdown would be a more convenient solution in this case, since the workflow already involves going into the Finder and selecting the files... There has to be something out there for Github-flavored Markdown, right?
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*McNealy, 56, co-founded Sun in 1984 and was its top executive for 22 years, making him one of the longest-serving CEOs in Silicon Valley history.*

he both built it and oversaw its fading
Try and explain how to restore a MacBook from back-ups over the phone to a frantic parent who's just lost their hard drive.

I did that. It took two minutes. It worked flawlessly.

Sometimes to gain more command over your technology you have to give up some theoretical freedom, but that's freedom you'd never have been able to exercise.

An F-16 pilot would find the controls in a typical car so disappointing. Where's the lever to adjust the fuel/air mixture? The GPS waypoints? The brake bias dial? The air pressure indicator? The temperature of the tires? All of these things are theoretically important to driving, but they're not of any concern to someone simply trying to get from point A to point B.

That's all most people using computers are trying to do.
"It is well that war is so terrible, or we would grow too fond of it." - Robert E. Lee

Fighting war with robots resembles video games. Everyone associates video games with fun. Therefore, we do run the risk of making war seem less terrible and, thus, becoming more fond of it.

One of the reasons why the co-op portion of Portal 2 uses robots as player characters is that the designers knew that these characters would die frequently. In order to keep the E10+ rating and in order to quell any outrage, the designers used robots that are not even vaguely human in shape aside from the fact that they are bipedal. TVtropes calls the effect "Slapstick Sociopathy."
Understanding you perfectly well isn't the issue at point, it's the manner of how you present yourself - witness all the crap in this thread about RMS from those people who now accept that he didn't wish Jobs dead, but still say he should have been more polite about it. You don't have much of a credible leg to stand on if you don't engage in that which you request of others.

Edit: changed 'moral' to 'credible' to avoid semantic bickering about the loaded word.
Isn't this incredibly old? I swear this has been on ENTP's portfolio page for at least 2 years now... http://entp.com/work/
"This is a great lesson in capitalism. When you're the boss, nobody gives your partial credit for good attempts. Either the team succeeds and everyone is happy, or they don't, and the boss takes the fall."

Perhaps in pure capitalism & small business, but what with the era of large salaries & golden parachutes often those who mislead aren't really "punished". There is also plenty of CYA & scapegoating in the professional world along with a lot of people who eat it up.
this is ridiculous. not allowing porn into app store = jobs abhors pornography...the man who did multiple interviews for playboy. Someone who admired Ayn Rand, because Woz said (a few decades later, mind you) "Atlas Shrugged might’ve been one of [the books that inspired him]". Claiming he did "nothing whatsoever in common with the Left’s political agenda", despite giving to Obama and Gore. Saying he created /anything/ at Pixar is absolutely wrong. He bankrolled john lasadder, plain and simple. Jobs was a acid-dropping, weed smoking barefoot hippie for a long damn time, and would probably call this guy a slime bucket if he could read it.
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Are pi digits useful for anything? Maybe some encryption technique or random number generation? Are the digits of pi easier or harder to generate than other irrational numbers?
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The problem is that lives will still be lost, just not by our side. If we could have war without losing any lives, that sounds cool—stick in some cameras and we'd happily pay to watch.
More like, on this battlefield there is no war.
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Logic or Digital Performer on the mac, Cubase on PC. If you're very score-centric, Sibelius. Buy a quality audio interface with MIDI ports. Not cheap, but the only way to get genuinely high quality MIDI and score editing.

Trackers are a crutch for people without a musical education and simply aren't sophisticated enough. They represent music mechanically, using an abstraction that collapses in the face of something as mundane as triplets. There are no good sequencers on Linux. Lilypond does excellent engraving, but there's no Free software that'll prepare a score without endless hair pulling.
Signal flow approaches like Max/MSP and PureData are awesome and have their own strengths and weaknesses - but certainly they have no more or less 'options' or capacity for complexity than any similarly mature text-based DSP system like SuperCollider or ChucK.
any good examples?
Morals? I think I have been talking squarely about effective communication, not morals.
... but still, why upgrade the clock speed if it's a net detriment to you?

If you're making the comparison for yourself, why up the clock speed unecessarily, if you know it causes problems for you?

If you're making the comparison in general, then it's not really an excuse that you were doing it for yourself to omit the benefit of the significantly faster clock, particularly since you're drawing attention to the negatives of it (shorter battery life)?

Please don't interpret this as a serious attack or anything, I just find it a little odd.
Yeah, the horror of war without lost life is something I think the survivors of, oh, say, the Hundred Years War, would call (in the modern parlance) a First World Problem.
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This is a largely quick hack and Proof-of-Concept done in less than 30 minutes. Ideally, it would be implemented entirely with Unix sockets and it could be implemented this way, but I had trouble getting socat to do this. More work with socat or writing some Python would be a reasonable long-term solution.

This does the opposite of 'ssh -A'. With 'ssh -A', a local agent is forwarded to an untrusted remote host. The agent lives on the client and the remote server can use your local keys for authorization.

This script allows you to connect your local SSH clients to a remote agent. The remote agent may be managed by another user. The use case is when you intentionally want to do this, allowing other users to authorize themselves with your key, without directly revealing the secret.

This is quite simply, a way to have a (somewhat) secure shared-secret with SSH. It is not a way to use your own secret, private key with an ssh client living on a remote host.

The only way that 'ssh -A' can replicate this functionality is if another user on the remote system connected to your (forwarded) socket and did an ssh-add. That is a reasonable alternative, but it would be difficult to automate that process in a secure way.

The README has been updated to note the danger of using TCP here.
I don't know where you're getting that LinkedIn asked Jason to keep his mouth shut about anything.
I was working on an australian focused social network for oracle a while back (almost three years now) and this was an example site given for what they had done overseas, at that point it was also a rails app, and I note in the portfolio it's a rails app too. Higher up in the comments here I can see someone referring to this as an overused enterprise framework, so maybe it's been relaunched using one of oracle's tools? Couldn't be bothered to fiddle with it and figure it out.

It looks pretty much the same to me from memory.
Max/MSP and Clojure are not either/or http://www.cassiel.com/2011/08/01/clojure-in-maxmsp/
But lives ARE lost, aren't they?