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danraon Real-time audio feature extraction with the Web Audio API

If you are into this, also check out Sonic Visualizer (http://www.sonicvisualiser.org), with its support for VAMP plug-ins for analyzing audio.

danraon Git's initial commit

This. I find that learning from original documentation tends to be much more efficient than learning from third party blogs/tutorials which try to "simplify" things, and usually do the opposite.

danraon WireEdit – A Full Stack WYSIWYG Editor for Network Packets

Looks awesome. Waiting for the Mac version :)

danraon Dealer’s Hand: Why are so many people paying so much money for art? (2013)

Very important people line up differently from you and me... they get as close to the door as they can, claim a patch of available space as though it had been reserved for them, and maintain enough distance to pretend that they are not in a line.

That's curious - ---holes do that too!

danraon Apple takes down another indie dev

> It's as if history is repeating itself:

> Apple rolls out new features/platform.

> Developer forges ahead in gray area (there's history here with apps that launch other apps).

> Apple "clarifies" their stance by rejecting said developer's app. (In Apple parlance, clarifying means issuing a firm opinion on their openly stated policy of "we'll know it when we see it".)

> Development community cries out.

> Apple remains singularly focused; stringently enforcing their policies (even if they are often unclear or inconsistent).

You missed the last step - one iOS version later, Apple copies the killer feature it originally rejected as a misuse of the platform, and makes it its own.

danraon Apple Design Awards 2014

Device 6 is amazing. Reminded me of a David Lynch movie.

danraon Shell Scripting with Objective-C

Cringed when opening the link, expecting to find AppleScript. Things turned out better than expected!

danraon Popcorn Time is back

Does anyone have the specifics of what malware time4popcorn includes?

danraon Apple, Google to pay $324 million to settle conspiracy lawsuit

I think the repercussions of this are wildly underestimated by Apple's and Google's management, and they are not doing nearly enough to prevent upcoming mass resignations of their engineers.

I'm just extrapolating from my own emotions on the issue. I'd previously thought very positively about going to work for Apple. Not so anymore. To me, the fact that Tim Cook's voice isn't clearly heard, completely rejecting this sort of practice, issuing a public apology on behalf of Apple, and ensuring to compensate employees by more than a few thousand dollars each - Is just too big of a de-motivator.

We need the CEOs to clearly voice their accountability, and their plans to prevent this from happening again, the sooner the better.

danraon Metacademy

Metacademy looks like a great source for learning, one which preserves most of the associativity benefit of learning through e.g. wikipedia, but which allows for much more focus.

Thank you so much for doing this!

danraon Does your browser rejected revoked certificates?

Post heartbleed, the right way to go is for all browsers to deny https access in case the OCSP check fails, not just ignore the failure. The CAs are those who should scramble to fix whatever doesn't work. Captive networks have to be configured to allow CA access, or just disallow https.

danraon Facebook CPC – Don't Waste Your Money

While it's definitely possible that OP's ad campaign sucks, that's not the main point in the article, so how come many comments focus on that?

The post's conclusion is that there's a strong indication of Facebook charging for mis-clicks and double charging for non-unique clicks.

danraon Apple and Google’s wage-fixing involved dozens more companies, over 1M employees

I wonder what the general mood is regarding this in Apple and Google. More importantly, I wonder if there are going to be any significant repercussions. Would appreciate comments from employees of these companies, whether this information being uncovered has had any effect in the workplace so far.