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How does it sound? You might want to leave it.

If you want to clean it up, drive the compressors/limiters less. ie. Turn the input trim down or turn compressor input gain down.

Another option is to open the compressors up. Take some (or all) of the compressors in the chain and halve their ratios.

A/B and compare.
The LouisCK as a service is the same idea I had pretty much but for script (movie) writers to find a production crew, directors, extras, etc. Like Rent A Movie Crew.

Best of luck on your current endeavor.
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Most times I just read the comments and then read the article. Now I feel dumb, but it's my version of reading the book from back to front.
what did you build to familiarize yourself? do you have any websites currently up? if you don't, sounds like that's where to begin. create a demo/portfolio website of some kind.
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I've always thought it a nice feature of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer (bear with me here...) that the general confession covers "those things which we ought to have done" before mentioning "those things which we ought not to have done".

All that is required for evil to triumph is that good men do nothing.
I don't know if this affects everyone as it does me, but light text on black background is really, really tiring for me to read. It leaves white and black horizontal stripes in my vision for many minutes. On sites like this I have to open my developer view and fix the CSS.
Trying not to sound smug, but it's just humans being humans, welcome to the internet.

Sidenote - Try and find a large group of people communicating in real life that don't have this problem (should be pretty difficult)
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I believe:
"Whoa, you could have saved me some time if you had just quoted that at me. I'll never pay it." being an acceptable frequent response to be able to charge quite a large amount of money to larger clients (Fortune 500 Patrick mentions).

Allowing him ALSO, to set his rates continually higher then one would expect (fast-growth of pricing, from 20k/week to six figures).

So, it was "ok" to have a "wasted" conversation between parties who couldn't afford his rates, to be able to continually raise his rates for those that could afford it. While, not publishing this pricing, and creating his own ceiling.
Chris mentions the 3 things that motivate people. Good video about this from RSA Animate if you haven't seen it yet:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6XAPnuFjJc
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Several comments have talked about 35 year or longer potential sentences.

Those big numbers come from simply taking the maximum possible sentence that can ever be given out for each charge, and adding them all up.

There are two things that make that unrealistic in most cases. First, the defendant is almost always charged with several similar or related crimes that have mostly the same elements. If convicted on more than one charge from such a group, they are only sentenced for one of the convictions.

Second, the sentence takes into account the severity of the particular acts that constitute the crime, and the prior criminal record of the defendant. To get the maximum possible sentence you'd need to have gone way beyond what ordinary violators of that particular law usually do, and you'd have to have a serious criminal history.

What Swartz was actually facing if he want to trial and was convicted was something ranging from probation to a few years, depending on just how much damage the court decided he caused.

If he took the plea the prosecutor was offering, he was facing up to 6 months.

Details with citations on the above are available at [1] and [2].

In the dozens of discussions of the Swartz case we've had in the last year here, the 35 year or 50 year myth has been repeatedly busted. Yet it keeps coming up in each new discussion--often from people who were in some of the previous discussions! Why is it so persistent?

[1] http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-charges/

[2] http://www.volokh.com/2013/01/16/the-criminal-charges-agains...
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So, I had a long response written out, but I decided it didn't really get to heart of the matter. Here's the short response:

Every time you start a new character, it takes a while -- at least a couple hours -- to get to a comfortable level of survivability (by that I mean: food, water, equipment, weapons). Even once well equipped, it's incredibly easy to die. So, when you're scrounging around for some food or poking around a military base for better weapons and you hear a gun shot, the adrenaline rush is like nothing else. The two hours you spent gearing up could literally be wiped out in an instant by sniper that you never even saw on some hill side.

Even better, everyone else is in the same situation as you no matter how long they've been playing, which leads to some really intense/scary/funny encounters in game.
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Let's keep in mind that there is a pretty good example of external pressure and/or threat of persecution elevating suicide rates: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_among_LGBT_youth

If you also consider the differential susceptibility thesis (which seems to apply to Aaron rather well) then it's easy to argue that the government's conduct most likely did significantly contribute: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_susceptibility_hyp...
To be fair, a better comparison would be with debit card transactions, which are 21 cents plus .05%.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/story...
While Twitter a is cool service I can't imagine what 1000 engineers can do all day long? Based on this maybe they are building their organization wrongly and following their footsteps isn't the correct way to follow.
Snapchat has released an official post about the recent leak of 4.6M usernames and phone numbers from its servers.
> Their biggest liability is their customer service infrastructure

I think this is a problem with all of the major US mobile carriers. I have heard so many bad customer service anecdotes about all four carriers that despite being thoroughly disappointed in my own carrier's horrible customer service (AT&T), I do not think switching would help things.
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I don't know how it actually works, but I would hope if the government uses its right to force you to sell your land, which the US (and likely others) does have under eminent domain, that they would pay above market price. Market price would cover the cost of you purchasing an equivelent home, it would not compensate you for moving expenses, time, possible lost wages, ETC.
This is written like some kind of sales pitch for US Treasury bonds.

It's so lopsided that I doubt the authors believe their own thesis. They're trolling -- http://xkcd.com/386.
I guess he was told to write something with a possitive spin for the new year...
the actual publication is a little less cryptic: http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v109/i10/e100404

basically, the uncertainty principle still stands. what is being questioned is the application of the uncertainty principle to describe the relationship between measurement and the disturbance it creates, which has never been proven, but is commonly taught as an application.
Thanks! That was exactly what I was looking for. Particularly trying to figure out of Neukoelln is "up and coming" or "a neighborhood too far".
>we've lived through the gilded age, japanese internment, slavery, trail of tears, etc.

Having overcome stuff in the past is not a guarantee of othercoming other stuff in the future.

To put it in another way, your words could might as well have been uttered by some roman, just before the fall of the Roman Empire. They also had a long history of "living through" troubled times.
done. i'm not a physicist by trade, but i did my university studies in physics.
> Reality is much more subtle. Language only determines what we have to pay attention to.

If you put it that way, it's as obvious as a brick wall and I'm wondering why there is no way further onwards here.

Thinking about it: Language didn't develop without reason, I'm pretty sure. Language developed to communicate more precisely, since it provided an advantage to communicate more efficiently. Thus, language only expresses what it needs to express and develops from there.

In a sense, which I find rather funny, you don't have to venture into different lands to find linguistic problems. Just look around in your company. We developers have words for things and our marketing guys don't even know that these things exist, and I'm darned sure it's the other way around, too.

Similarly, the inuit have tons of words for snow, and I have like... 6. I don't even know how many forms and characteristics of snow they even distinguish there.
I'm not totally positive, but I think it depends on the object. You'll need to tune the arrays of speakers such that they generate some kind of 3D interference pattern that perfectly matches whatever you're trying to image.

So as seen in the video, you can get a cool stepped pyramid shape (when the particles are thrown into the air), but you'll have to be pretty smart about what kinds of images you'll be able to display.

Can someone prove me wrong? I'm speaking at a very elementary wave/particle physics standpoint.
Especially considering that Moore's Law is stopping to work in its original field...
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This doesn't surprise me one bit if its a hypervisor hack. You have to design in this stuff from day one rather than tack it on as an afterthought. To quote Theo de Raadt on virtualization, who I agree with:

"x86 virtualization is about basically placing another nearly full kernel, full of new bugs, on top of a nasty x86 architecture which barely has correct page protection. Then running your operating system on the other side of this brand new pile of shit.

You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes."
I know that feeling. I'm still struggling with it and it has kept me confined to very few things for ages.
Agreed.

As well as the reasonably good ansible documentation, checkout the ansible-examples github repo. ( https://github.com/ansible/ansible-examples )

There's a few initial 'conventions' to figure out (roles, group vars, playbooks), but then it's so incredibly simple to get into.

My dad is playing with a raspberry pi at home, wanting to set up a web kiosk thing. I'd been doing something similar a few months ago for work, so I send him my ansible playbook. He could follow it as if it were a plain text checklist/tutorial, without needing ansible at all. If he wants to automate it, he can.

That, I think, is one of the benefits of ansible. It's not a lot more work than just writing an overview of what you need to do in the first place, but with the benefit of it being repeatable and automated.
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Sorry, that sentence is terribly written. Let me try to express it in separate thoughts:

Hidden pricing will inevitably create some circumstances where a lead and I spend a bit of time talking to each other despite that lead not being a great fit for my services. From my perspective, this is OK, because if I were to unhide my prices it would make it impossible for me to do things like pitch BigCo on a million dollar engagement, which is valuable to me. Unhiding prices would also limit my flexibility in changing them. Over the 2.5 year course of my consulting career they went from $100 an hour to $30k a week, often with discontinuous jumps between engagement N and engagement N+1. Clients who were prepared to pay the price I quoted N+1 might be less inclined to pay it if they were aware that, mere days earlier, I had been charging the rate I charged for engagement N for what might, to that client, feel like "the same" thing.
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My attorney is $250/hour, I think? patio11 talked about billing out at five figures per week: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...

My starting figure for freelancing was around $1000/day, as a designer. I've developer friends whose base rate is $300 and $500/hour. (I've also friends whose base rate is less.) You could probably go work as a CTO-in-residence with an incubator, overseeing technology for a stable of startups, just being a guiding hand. Or do freelance systems architecture design, partner up with a project manager, oversee complicated system integration contracts for companies without a lot of in-house skill and overworked IT departments.

But I think the real issue isn't changing jobs, it's changing you. Are you really going to go work somewhere else and magically not feel like you have to work an 80 hour week? Normally that's something we put on ourselves, and as a founder, it's not like there's anyone who will fire you if you don't overwork. (Practically, this probably means you don't know how to delegate; that's a skill you'd have to develop, too.)

If you're going to overdo it, in the end, no matter what, then you have to take the initiative to change that. You have to make it okay, starting with you, to not do that, and you can do that just as well in your current job as in a new job. There's a great lede in an old BW story about Best Buy's move to flexible work hours (since rescinded):

One afternoon last year, Chap Achen, who oversees online orders at Best Buy Co. (BBY), shut down his computer, stood up from his desk, and announced that he was leaving for the day. It was around 2 p.m., and most of Achen's staff were slumped over their keyboards, deep in a post-lunch, LCD-lit trance. "See you tomorrow," said Achen. "I'm going to a matinee."

http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-12-10/smashing-the-... (they killed the program six years later)

When I work as an in-house designer, I set parameters from day 1, not by asking permission, but through my behavior. I don't show up before 10am. I decline any meeting scheduled for the same day. I leave meetings where we're not getting anything done or there's no agenda. I leave the building for lunch and I take at least an hour. I am comfortable leaving after my last meeting if no-one's expecting anything from me, even if that's at 3 in the afternoon. I show up after lunch or leave early on days when I'm hosting meetups. I book multi-hour blocks in Outlook, and often also in meeting rooms, so I can focus, which means if you want my time, book me in Outlook, because I have work to do.

When I am working, I am working, and I make sure I am able to be productive, and the rest of the time, I may not even be in the office.

And for over six years, I get my work done, and no-one has ever cared that I took a three-hour lunch to see Iron Man again.
A lot of these ideas are great. Perhaps executable for other countries as well. Thanks Scott!
How I and the ocasional lock smith uses lock pick "practicaly":

1. get any torque wrench (L-shapped metal that goes in the keyhole)

2. get any triangular pick (any thin metal that goes in the hole, saw a triangular tip)

3. insert the pick as far as it goes, apply some tension to the torque wrench, pull the pick out it pressing against the lock pins.

4. repeat #3 until lock is open. you will usually ram the lock like there is no tomorrow, so some graphite or other kind of lubricant may help.
It has been said time and time again, Clojure is suitable for anything that Java is suitable for. Clojurescript is extremely similar, so much so that you can expect most lib's to be trivially refactored between CLJS/ClJ.

There are some issues you are going to face, there's no way around them.
First the tooling, it is beautiful in it's own right but takes a while to get used to. Leiningen is the preferred build tool, it cleanly handles almost everything for you but learning it seems to the beginner like just another thing preventing them from getting productive.
You will miss your debugger for a while, until you realize having a debugger allowed you to write confusing, messy code that could be funged into working.
There are many editors available, but when switching to clojure I decided to also learn Emacs 24 and now use it as my primary editor for every language/document.

Second is productivity, coming from php/js you will simply not have the background to lay down code quickly, let alone for-see potential issues. It took me approx. 5 months of study, every single day, to reach a comfortable point in the language where I could pump out Clojure code at a faster rate than C# code. I'm not even sure if it is faster or just my Clojure code doesn't have as many issues or is architecturally more sound. Why I feel more productive is a mixmash of things that I could probably write a book about. It's also very strange doing java interop with Clojure constructs. I often find myself getting caught up on clojure's lazyness or lack of types. Once you get a handle on it though it is extremely simple and my preferred way to write java code.

Lastly, I seem to have poisoned my brain a bit with these ideas, I approach almost every problem now as a functional one, yielding crappy looking C# code. I often have to take a step back, stop trying to make things fit into a functional category that are clearly OO.

I am risking sounding like an evangelical but Clojure has changed every aspect of programming for me, and made it fun again. I find getting in "the zone" is much easier when things seem to spookily just work. Looking at problems through the Clojure lens more often than not resolves in a simple, composable solution.
I think it's an interesting concept, but it'll be difficult for Luna to work because you'll need to scale by building a warehouse in every new city. For consumers, you are also competing against free. Why pay $7 when UPS or Fedex will come back another day?
> I do not think switching would help things.

yeah, everytime i hear someone in the US says he switched mobile company because of customer service, i think of the simpsons episode where Earth is enslaved by some aliens and homer says "I voted for the other [alien that would also enslave Earth] one".

Ironically, Mesh networks never took off because everyone would be weary of having your data, even encrypted, passing trhu random people networks. Little did everyone know the telcos were the worse on this front.
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I don't understand or recognize this attitude at all. Vacation is important, and everybody I've ever met recognizes this. Life can't be all work with no time to relax. When a coworker goes on vacation, everybody wishes them a fun time and wants to know where they're going.

But I'm not an American. If I understand correctly, Americans often get only 2 weeks off per year, and are often pressured to work more than 40 hours per week. It's clearly a cultural thing. Though to me it seems that this "sacrifice your life for work" culture is very harmful.
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Yeah you have to have a lot of engineering savvy to build stuff off blog articles and work out the missing bits.

I've built a few things this way including a complicated 20m transceiver and there are many pitfalls. Many a project ended up in the trash.
Vacation isn't for the weak; it's just for those who don't like their jobs very much. If you love what you do, there's not enough time in the world for you to do it as much as you want. If you're just working for a pay-check, then the business day can't end fast enough for you and you're constantly watching the clock.

I'm getting ever closer to forty and I've never taken a vacation and it has been at least a couple of years since I've even had a day off due to illness (and, then, only because I was so ill that I physically could not crawl out of bed). My boss has been prompting me for dates when I want to use my vacation for the last several years, because I've always been maxed-out, and I've been coming up with excuses and delays to not have to take the time away.

A lot of that has to do with work-ethic. I strongly adhere to the belief that a man's work is his legacy. It is his definition. More of it has to do with how much I enjoy my work. If my work were more of a chore than a joy, I would probably want to take vacations and would surely not hesitate to take a day or three off when sick.

It's the same way that some people talk about how they can't wait for their in-laws to go away when they're in-town and you never hear a word from other people. In-laws are only a problem if you don't like them or can't stand them. That isn't the case with everyone. Just like vacations and work.
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6 figure budgets and you'd cull by bullet points without talking to a sales rep? I always thought that online pricing was more for the $50/month/license models rather than the large scale corporates.
I knew it was just a matter of time before someone made this. Nice!

Maybe a good feature would be to generate an html homepage for the coin, as well as a forum post for the alt coins section in Bitcointalk. Also a coin icon generator.

Lastly, perhaps charge the fee after the person can see it's all there.
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He highlights Twitter EventParrot and MagicRecs, both compelling experiments:

EventParrot for news alerts: http://www.theverge.com/2013/10/10/4823278/twitter-eventparr...

MagicRecs for notifications: http://www.theverge.com/2013/9/24/4767290/twitter-will-notif...
I'm sure everyone here realizes that there's a maximum amount of hours you can work continuously in programming per day. Well it also applies on a longer timescale. Taking some time off will boost your productivity in the long term.
> there is probably years of work behind existing libraries

this is often good thinking, but it is fallacious.

for high performance or critical code i've found many situations where platform or ancient libraries or software have enormous bugs, memory leaks or are trivially outperformed

memcpy is perhaps the best example of this, yes, memcpy... e.g. http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/memcpy-performance and skim reading that I already know how to outperform their implementation - even if its a tiny bit. (and no i'm not thinking cache hints which suddenly seem to be flavour of the month now that script kiddies have discovered them...), but i've also found bugs in increasing numbers over the years, the latest flavours of Microsoft madness (WinRT) is pretty leaky and hand tying whilst slowing you down - Objective-C/Cocoa Touch isn't far behind with overkill super generic late binding interfaces that spunk my performance up the wall and a reference counting system which has caused me more trouble than new and delete ever have... not to mention various bugs, especially with the wide character and unicode support in their c std lib... don't get me started on *nix - even make has a serious fail by using timestamps to detect changes!

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