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True | electric_mouse | null | Softlayer?
I moved to the cloud from Softlayer because getting Softlayer's techs to make any configuration changes was like playing Russian Roulette.
One time I had them add a new drive to a machine and they mounted the filesystem on /dev/sdc (NOT /dev/sdc0) -- there was no partition table. I don't know the whole st... | null | 0 | 1319771188 | False | 0 | c2v2ssx | t3_lrnvt | null | t1_c2v2ssx | t3_lrnvt | null | 1427793943 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ALAC and FLAC are very similar. IIRC, ALAC was developed specifically to support the iPods, and its encoding/decoding characteristics were designed to promote better battery life.
One comparison: http://members.home.nl/w.speek/comparison.htm | null | 0 | 1319771189 | False | 0 | c2v2st4 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2st4 | t1_c2v2qie | null | 1427793943 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mrkite77 | null | A z-machine is very powerful. There's ZBasic which is a full implementation of BASIC in zcode. | null | 0 | 1319771216 | False | 0 | c2v2sx0 | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v2sx0 | t1_c2v2j4j | null | 1427793943 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arstin | null | I'm thinking specifically of CS101-type university courses. DWIM makes it more likely that a student will get the correct results without complete understanding, and do suffer at exam time. Furthermore, those exams love to mine the corner cases, which become even more complicated under DWIM. TIMTOWTDI makes for tough d... | null | 0 | 1319771221 | False | 0 | c2v2sxq | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2v2sxq | t1_c2uj841 | null | 1427793943 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mmhrar | null | > For instance, sometimes you might want the choice of returning null, and a constructor can't do that.
Why would you ever want new to potentially return null?
> Another big problem is that you might want to have an object that has, say, 50 optional configuration parameters that are all immutable, and it can be... | null | 0 | 1319771289 | False | 0 | c2v2t8i | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v2t8i | t1_c2uxi5r | null | 1427793947 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glassFractals | null | Awesome. Back when I was on a Windows machine, I always wanted some way to convert ALAC to other codecs and vice-versa, but only iTunes could do it (and didn't support many, many other formats including FLAC).
Now I have an OS X machine and can use Core Audio to convert between ALAC and other formats. But it'll be g... | null | 0 | 1319771481 | False | 0 | c2v2u4d | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2u4d | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427793964 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x86_64Ubuntu | null | No, its not bad. But I do miss the idea of going to new and different places and learning different skills. Also the take home was MUCH better. On the flip side, being a consultant can be stressful since you don't know what kind of technical and personnel situation you are parachuting into. My first contract was a ... | null | 0 | 1319771505 | False | 0 | c2v2u91 | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v2u91 | t1_c2v1s0i | null | 1427793963 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | I will never understand why people feel the need to proudly announce to the world the fallacies of their thought processes. | null | 0 | 1319771519 | False | 0 | c2v2ubs | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2ubs | t1_c2v2sns | null | 1427793971 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | whozurdaddy | null | Only if it can call web services. As long as Apple insists that interpreters stay within their own sandbox, this becomes a useless toy. Kudos to the developers though. | null | 0 | 1319771640 | False | 0 | c2v2uvy | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v2uvy | t3_lqwwq | null | 1427793972 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yes. What's your point? | null | 0 | 1319771679 | False | 0 | c2v2v31 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2v2v31 | t1_c2uxtih | null | 1427793974 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wiiaboo | null | Libavcodec (from FFmpeg) already can encode and decode ALAC since [v0.5/March 2009](http://ffmpeg.org/releases/ffmpeg-0.5.changelog), so anything using can already do so freely since then. | null | 0 | 1319771751 | False | 0 | c2v2vf6 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2vf6 | t1_c2v2bga | null | 1427793976 | 61 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | butrosbutrosfunky | null | What? Volume control is not implemented at the codec level. | null | 0 | 1319771867 | False | 0 | c2v2vyk | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2vyk | t1_c2v2e9k | null | 1427793983 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arstin | null | I've been in Bioinformatics courses and taught web development workshops that used Perl for the *fast* reason with good success. But an Intro to Programming course is different. My CS211, oh so long ago, was taught in Scheme. I've never used that language outside of a CS class, compared to using Perl regularly through ... | null | 0 | 1319771975 | False | 0 | c2v2wgk | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2v2wgk | t1_c2ujp64 | null | 1427793989 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aristus | null | No worries. The pre-orders are for signed, early copies, so they are a bit more expensive.
Retail will be about $12-15 for the paperback and $4-$6 for the ebook. There might be a hardcover edition as well but I'm still working that out. | null | 0 | 1319772025 | False | 0 | c2v2wp5 | t3_lq2mm | null | t1_c2v2wp5 | t1_c2uu108 | null | 1427793992 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319772119 | False | 0 | c2v2x4s | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2x4s | t1_c2v2ubs | null | 1427794003 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mattindustries | null | Fuck apple pie!
EDIT: Aww, come on. He said he didn't like it because it has apple in it... as does apple pie. You guys are no fun. | null | 0 | 1319772196 | True | 0 | c2v2xit | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2xit | t1_c2v2sns | null | 1427794006 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xopj | null | Rendering mostly. I work with a lot of very heavy large front end driven websites so they tend to sort, display, and handle a lot of dynamic options the user can control on their side. Client side storage has really made this work awesome and using a rest service on the backend to support it further lightens the number... | null | 0 | 1319772249 | False | 0 | c2v2xs1 | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v2xs1 | t1_c2v0xu7 | null | 1427794008 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319772389 | False | 0 | c2v2ygk | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2ygk | t1_c2v2ubs | null | 1427794028 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cb43569 | null | I have never heard of WikiVS before, but they really need to step up [some of their pages](http://www.wikivs.com/wiki/Google%2B_vs_facebook) in terms of quality. Wow. | null | 0 | 1319772426 | False | 0 | c2v2ymk | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2ymk | t1_c2v2qie | null | 1427794019 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319772558 | False | 0 | c2v2z90 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2z90 | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794030 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bipolarruledout | null | Are they hoping to harness the energy from Steve Jobs turning in his grave? | null | 0 | 1319772571 | False | 0 | c2v2zar | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2zar | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794030 | -22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bdesham | null | You might be interested in [xACT](http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/14246/xact), an OS X application to decode and encode a bunch of different lossless formats. | null | 0 | 1319772595 | False | 0 | c2v2zf8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v2zf8 | t1_c2v2u4d | null | 1427794030 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Reminds me of [this](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj7-Bev6HuY&t=10s) | null | 0 | 1319772658 | False | 0 | c2v2zpr | t3_lr8d2 | null | t1_c2v2zpr | t3_lr8d2 | null | 1427794033 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cb43569 | null | I started coding with Game Maker. Now I'm pretty accomplished. I think it's a great tool for getting into game design, personally - or at least, it was, back in version 5.1 and 6. | null | 0 | 1319772752 | False | 0 | c2v306m | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v306m | t1_c2uwtp3 | null | 1427794038 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SanityInAnarchy | null | > it's going to take a while for free programs to implement ALAC.
They've had it for awhile now. This just might legitimize the practice, so that they'll be included with the "free" codecs and not with the patent-encumbered ones, so they'll actually be in distros' default versions.
Plus, alternate implementations ... | null | 0 | 1319772842 | False | 0 | c2v30mj | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v30mj | t1_c2v2bga | null | 1427794043 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manberry_sauce | null | I think he might be referring to "Apple" being in the name, and Apple being highly litigious in protecting their trademark. Someone creating a simple program touting that it supports ALAC encoding/decoding may be sued for *trademark* infringement, since the A stands for Apple.
It would be quite a reach, but compared t... | null | 0 | 1319772877 | False | 0 | c2v30s8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v30s8 | t1_c2v2ubs | null | 1427794046 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Are you seriously unaware that Apple releases and maintains quite a large amount of open-source software? | null | 0 | 1319772881 | False | 0 | c2v30sy | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v30sy | t1_c2v2zar | null | 1427794046 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Warshredder | null | They should just make FLAC work in iTunes already. | null | 0 | 1319772887 | False | 0 | c2v30uc | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v30uc | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794047 | 324 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cb43569 | null | Provided that he has an Intel Mac, of course. | null | 0 | 1319772910 | False | 0 | c2v30ye | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v30ye | t1_c2uzpo2 | null | 1427794048 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Yeah, no, that's just silly. | null | 0 | 1319772936 | False | 0 | c2v3132 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3132 | t1_c2v30s8 | null | 1427794050 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison#Comparison_Table
Hydrogenaudio is an amazing reference if you want to learn more about audio codecs. | null | 0 | 1319772970 | False | 0 | c2v318q | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v318q | t1_c2v2qie | null | 1427794052 | 58 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | neurorootkit | null | Is there a good/easy way to convert my FLAC to ALAC while keeping tags under windows 7x64? | null | 0 | 1319773019 | False | 0 | c2v31gw | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v31gw | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794062 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eliasp | null | Very very nice, thanks a lot! | null | 0 | 1319773119 | False | 0 | c2v31yi | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v31yi | t1_c2v318q | null | 1427794061 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SirChasm | null | So basically FLAC is better in every way? | null | 0 | 1319773265 | False | 0 | c2v32mc | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v32mc | t1_c2v318q | null | 1427794074 | 94 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | I can believe that they bought him a parrot, but not that they bought him a parrot after not reading the rider.
More likely however, the stuff about not buying a parrot because it's a big responsibility, blah, blah is just something everyone who likes parrots spouts at every opportunity. I know I've previously heard ... | null | 0 | 1319773284 | False | 0 | c2v32pe | t3_lqn76 | null | t1_c2v32pe | t1_c2uvsbc | null | 1427794071 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SteveTheMiner | null | What's your point? I see a lot of Java hate here. What's wrong with it? | null | 0 | 1319773330 | False | 0 | c2v32xj | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v32xj | t1_c2v13lr | null | 1427794075 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mb86 | null | I think the fact that hundreds of millions of devices out in the wild that currently support it might be a bit of a plus. | null | 0 | 1319773375 | False | 0 | c2v334z | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v334z | t1_c2v2bga | null | 1427794077 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | It's always nice to see Apple throwing the open source community a bone, even if it's an ultimately pointless one. I sincerely doubt this will uproot FLAC's position as being more-or-less the only lossless codec that "matters." | null | 0 | 1319773385 | False | 0 | c2v336m | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v336m | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794077 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | no. | null | 0 | 1319773421 | False | 0 | c2v33d0 | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v33d0 | t1_c2v2lvi | null | 1427794080 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SteveTheMiner | null | Hipster Berv:
>Thinks iPad is mainstream.
>Wants to have sexual intercourse with its maker's boss. | null | 0 | 1319773596 | False | 0 | c2v346a | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v346a | t1_c2v0srs | null | 1427794090 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Well, yes, but ALAC honestly seems like the best competitor at the moment. FLAC is better than *every other* lossless codec in every way besides actual compression ratio, and the differences are too minute to be worthwhile. I've played around with the higher-compression codecs (that foobar2000 can support, either nativ... | null | 0 | 1319773611 | True | 0 | c2v348i | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v348i | t1_c2v32mc | null | 1427794098 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | powerpants | null | Uh-oh, I think you just blue yourself. | null | 0 | 1319773739 | False | 0 | c2v34sq | t3_lr8d2 | null | t1_c2v34sq | t1_c2uz5x3 | null | 1427794097 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wierdaaron | null | You receive your reward in shredded cash. | null | 0 | 1319773744 | False | 0 | c2v34tm | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v34tm | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427794098 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I got my CS degree 4 years ago and we started with C. We did stuff like scheme, C++, x86 asm, sparc asm, etc.
You can't understand how a computer works when you're using such high level programs. Everything is a magical box and you just type stuff in and things happen.
If you want to be a software engineer or a dev... | null | 0 | 1319773821 | False | 0 | c2v355j | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v355j | t1_c2v32xj | null | 1427794103 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | It looks like it should be fairly easy (if tedious) to put in whatever song you want by tweaking song-data.js
http://www.baroque.me/js-baroque/ | null | 0 | 1319773858 | False | 0 | c2v35bi | t3_lr8d2 | null | t1_c2v35bi | t1_c2v13mm | null | 1427794105 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I've never had a programming job before, so I'm not entirely sure how it works. But...
25 x 8 hours = 200/day
200 x 5 days in a week = 1000/week
1000 x 4 weeks in a month = 4000/month
4000 x 12 months in a year = 48000 salary.
That's probably pretty low for a programmer's salary (I hear starting you can make 70k a... | null | 0 | 1319773918 | False | 0 | c2v35la | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v35la | t1_c2v2pb9 | null | 1427794108 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Can you elaborate on what you meant by that? The only thing volume-related I can think of a codec controlling is ReplayGain support, and seeing as how FLAC is probably the codec that supports that *best*, I sincerely doubt that's what you meant. | null | 0 | 1319773933 | False | 0 | c2v35no | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v35no | t1_c2v2e9k | null | 1427794109 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yknmb | null | Probably another contest for which the time and effort required to implement and test the necessary machine learning/image processing algorithms outweighs the expected reward. | null | 0 | 1319773963 | False | 0 | c2v35sb | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v35sb | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427794110 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | totallygeek | null | bandarji:~ sje$ curl -I http://gwan.ch/ 2> /dev/null | grep ^Server
Server: G-WAN
bandarji:~ sje$
Well, it at least seems to serve content. | null | 0 | 1319774007 | False | 0 | c2v35z1 | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v35z1 | t1_c2uyu19 | null | 1427794113 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | I like how FLAC has very good hardware support and ALAC just has good. I have never seen anything that plays FLAC in real life except my iPod with Rockbox, but thats a long way from stock hardware. I have seen many many many things that play ALAC, granted they are all from the same company, they still outnumber FLAC pl... | null | 0 | 1319774141 | False | 0 | c2v36kp | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v36kp | t1_c2v318q | null | 1427794121 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | At elance you are competing against foriegners charging $15/h. Fuck elance. | null | 0 | 1319774234 | False | 0 | c2v36z9 | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v36z9 | t1_c2v1i8a | null | 1427794126 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | I'm personally quite fond of [XLD](http://tmkk.pv.land.to/xld/index_e.html) | null | 0 | 1319774263 | False | 0 | c2v374e | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v374e | t1_c2v2zf8 | null | 1427794129 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | undershirt | null | Man, what a wonderful presentation of both mathematical and musical beauty.
**edit:**
I just realized this means the timing of the notes is directly proportional to the sine function. right? | null | 0 | 1319774435 | True | 0 | c2v37xc | t3_lr8d2 | null | t1_c2v37xc | t3_lr8d2 | null | 1427794141 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | "Very good" refers more to [quantity of unique players that support it](http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=FLAC&x=0&y=0). Only three product lines support ALAC natively (iPod, iPhone, iPad)... but they support FLAC as ... | null | 0 | 1319774475 | True | 0 | c2v384a | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v384a | t1_c2v36kp | null | 1427794142 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | This could change over the next year or so, now that [recent versions of Android support FLAC](http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.html#core).
(Personally, though, I don't want or expect lossless audio on portable devices. Flash storage is still too small to make it worthwhile.) | null | 0 | 1319774503 | False | 0 | c2v388v | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v388v | t1_c2v36kp | null | 1427794146 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lotu | null | But this is incompatible with my world view that Apple is Satan. | null | 0 | 1319774537 | True | 0 | c2v38er | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v38er | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794146 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Hello_Internet | null | Still waiting for Apple to follow up on their promise to open up Facetime as a open standard. | null | 0 | 1319774555 | False | 0 | c2v38hs | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v38hs | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794147 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grahamboree | null | Is it
#include "/dev/stdin"
The page won't load... | null | 0 | 1319774701 | False | 0 | c2v395n | t3_lrk48 | null | t1_c2v395n | t3_lrk48 | null | 1427794156 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnnyfortune | null | I totally agree about the DNS breakup. I would love to see server side code become client side available.
I do love web apps tho. Write it right once and everyone can use it. | null | 0 | 1319774789 | False | 0 | c2v39jt | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v39jt | t1_c2v1upp | null | 1427794161 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikankun | null | Why is it that whenever someone lays some praise on screen people feel the need to pimp tmux? | null | 0 | 1319774846 | False | 0 | c2v39tm | t3_lrn80 | null | t1_c2v39tm | t3_lrn80 | null | 1427794165 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kindall | null | Go ahead, step up some of their pages! It's a wiki after all. | null | 0 | 1319774910 | False | 0 | c2v3a4j | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3a4j | t1_c2v2ymk | null | 1427794168 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pixpop | null | OK. But don't let it happen again. | null | 0 | 1319775112 | False | 0 | c2v3b1h | t3_lrttn | null | t1_c2v3b1h | t3_lrttn | null | 1427794180 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Nope. Not in battery conservation which is pretty fucking important when it comes to portable players | null | 0 | 1319775163 | False | 0 | c2v3b9m | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3b9m | t1_c2v32mc | null | 1427794183 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | freeballer | null | I have most of my music in ALAC and when I need FLAC to give to a friend I just convert the ALAC file to a FLAC file in XLD. Since it's lossless to lossless I shouldn't see any difference in audio quality right? Would it be the same if I had originally converted CD to FLAC? | null | 0 | 1319775185 | False | 0 | c2v3bct | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3bct | t1_c2v348i | null | 1427794184 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kiafaldorius | null | He's a programmer:
if (dog.bark? or dog.jump?) and !dog.small
continue
else
run
| null | 0 | 1319775198 | False | 0 | c2v3beq | t3_lqn76 | null | t1_c2v3beq | t1_c2uvszl | null | 1427794185 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | godofpumpkins | null | Someone high up probably accidentally shredded his marriage certificate and needs to get it back before his wife finds out | null | 0 | 1319775284 | False | 0 | c2v3bsf | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v3bsf | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427794191 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HibernatingMonkey | null | The problem he's solving is what expression yields the result. Put another way: Using the integers 1 to 5, in order, using only the operations +, -, etc., what expression will yield the answer 2011?
So yeah, you have to evaluate expressions, but you need to make the expressions first.
| null | 0 | 1319775352 | False | 0 | c2v3c33 | t3_lr1eo | null | t1_c2v3c33 | t1_c2v2c4k | null | 1427794195 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | As long as the source audio that was used to encode to FLAC/ALAC was lossless (CD, or any properly ripped lossless audio you... acquire... online), the decoded audio will be bit-for-bit identical between all lossless codecs. | null | 0 | 1319775377 | False | 0 | c2v3c7j | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3c7j | t1_c2v3bct | null | 1427794196 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | There was already one [open source decoder](http://crazney.net/programs/itunes/alac.html). The [Rockbox ALAC decoder](http://svn.rockbox.org/viewvc.cgi/trunk/apps/codecs/libalac/) is based on it. | null | 0 | 1319775380 | False | 0 | c2v3c82 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3c82 | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794196 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Wriiight | null | Checking for numeric overflow does not have to come at ta high expense to performance. Anytime arithmatic takes place on the chip, a series of flags are computed: what I remember from assembly class ages ago (and unfortunately I have no done any assembly since) is that after every computation it is trivial to test whe... | null | 0 | 1319775448 | False | 0 | c2v3cia | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2v3cia | t1_c2uec04 | null | 1427794201 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Pretty sure RMS doesn't use ruby. He's more of a C and Lisp kind of guy. | null | 0 | 1319775466 | False | 0 | c2v3cl8 | t3_lqn76 | null | t1_c2v3cl8 | t1_c2v3beq | null | 1427794202 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrReddits | null | If i recall correctly, the reason they developed ALAC was due to technical limitations or considerations for the old iPods; the FLAC codec may have required to much CPU power or drained battery life too quickly. I'm not certain but that seems to come to mind.
It probably wouldnt benefit Appel to support FLAC now since... | null | 0 | 1319775480 | False | 0 | c2v3cna | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3cna | t1_c2v30uc | null | 1427794212 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | According to the benchmarks there and Rockbox benchmarks, FLAC decodes faster. Would this code decode ALAC faster, or is ALAC only optimized to decode faster on a DSP? | null | 0 | 1319775574 | False | 0 | c2v3d22 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3d22 | t1_c2v2st4 | null | 1427794209 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChaoticXSinZ | null | You could have used ffmpeg. | null | 0 | 1319775634 | False | 0 | c2v3dba | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3dba | t1_c2v2u4d | null | 1427794213 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kalobkalob | null | I see, do you know why? | null | 0 | 1319775724 | False | 0 | c2v3dod | t3_lqb73 | null | t1_c2v3dod | t1_c2v1jg7 | null | 1427794215 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | Satan can quote scripture for his own purpose, so too can Apple toss a few scraps to open source. | null | 0 | 1319775730 | False | 0 | c2v3dp5 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3dp5 | t1_c2v38er | null | 1427794215 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SValient | null | The details are a little fuzzy on this. Are we required to create a mechanism for OCR on the strips or are we supposed to also engineer a way to take the papers from a garbage state into a sift-able state?
Coding-wise you'd probably be looking at:
* scanning the strip
* doing automatic colour correction / de-fuzzing... | null | 0 | 1319775734 | True | 0 | c2v3dpq | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v3dpq | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427794221 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [dBpoweramp](http://www.dbpoweramp.com/) can convert to and from ALAC in Windows. | null | 0 | 1319775780 | False | 0 | c2v3dx2 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3dx2 | t1_c2v2u4d | null | 1427794218 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nightfire1 | null | Ahh I see. It makes sense now. I guess I didn't read that first section closely enough. It's a curious problem though. I wonder if there is any application beyond its academic novelty. | null | 0 | 1319775809 | False | 0 | c2v3e1f | t3_lr1eo | null | t1_c2v3e1f | t1_c2v3c33 | null | 1427794220 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nanothief | null | I don't think it is a pointless move. Unlike with lossy compression codecs, you can easily change between codecs. As ALAC works on iPods and FLAC doesn't (I think), a lot of people will find it more convenient to have their music in ALAC format rather than FLAC format. | null | 0 | 1319775831 | False | 0 | c2v3e5a | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3e5a | t1_c2v336m | null | 1427794220 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rz2000 | null | I was just looking it up, too. I was surprised that FLAC was only around 3-4 years before Apple Lossless, and Shorten/SHN was only a couple years before that.
Anyway, I think I remember the main difference was that metadata was a pain with FLAC, but I can't find anything suggesting it is now, or maybe it has changed s... | null | 0 | 1319775853 | False | 0 | c2v3e8q | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3e8q | t1_c2v2qie | null | 1427794222 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319775864 | False | 0 | c2v3eap | t3_lh611 | null | t1_c2v3eap | t3_lh611 | null | 1427794222 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [dBpoweramp](http://www.dbpoweramp.com) can do the conversion and keep tags. | null | 0 | 1319775870 | False | 0 | c2v3ebn | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3ebn | t1_c2v31gw | null | 1427794224 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | It was a rather basic decoder, however, that was achieved only by reverse-engineering. Having the actual documentation on how to properly decode the format is still extremely useful and will quickly deprecate the linked ALAC decoder. | null | 0 | 1319775874 | False | 0 | c2v3ece | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3ece | t1_c2v3c82 | null | 1427794224 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kiafaldorius | null | Twas pseudo-code, but in C it would be a similar chain. You can probably parse that sentence better as Lisp constructs... | null | 0 | 1319775879 | False | 0 | c2v3edd | t3_lqn76 | null | t1_c2v3edd | t1_c2v3cl8 | null | 1427794224 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vocalbit | null | Elisp is a pretty weak lisp. Try Racket or some other scheme with a decent tutorial. The fruits of learning lisp are not immediately apparent so I hope you don't give up on lisp yet :). | null | 0 | 1319775904 | False | 0 | c2v3ehh | t3_lqffy | null | t1_c2v3ehh | t1_c2uuhi1 | null | 1427794226 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Whoops, well *that* was exactly what I meant. FLAC never agrees with me when it comes to ReplayGain. I've had better luck with R128's volume normalization than RG. It keeps making the deeper sound come off as almost silent.
Now ALAC uses a method called Sound Check, right? I can't seem to find any documentation on it. | null | 0 | 1319775956 | False | 0 | c2v3eqa | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3eqa | t1_c2v35no | null | 1427794229 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I meant normalization, not volume control. | null | 0 | 1319775978 | False | 0 | c2v3esz | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3esz | t1_c2v2vyk | null | 1427794230 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thisthatwhat | null | AFAIK, they are using open standards. Opening it up is great though. Android FaceTime to an iPhone would be super cool. There is still Skype though (and yes others as well but not all of them can video call to a MBP for instance). | null | 0 | 1319775979 | False | 0 | c2v3et7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3et7 | t1_c2v38hs | null | 1427794230 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MachinShin2006 | null | Awesome! | null | 0 | 1319775979 | False | 0 | c2v3et9 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2v3et9 | t1_c2v2jcl | null | 1427794230 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I meant volume normalization, not volume control. | null | 0 | 1319775999 | False | 0 | c2v3ewg | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3ewg | t1_c2v2hn4 | null | 1427794231 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | iTunes exists to bring people into the Apple ecosystem and make a profit. FLAC doesn't help that. | null | 0 | 1319776049 | False | 0 | c2v3f3y | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3f3y | t1_c2v30uc | null | 1427794233 | 131 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KuloDiamond | null | I use FLACs in my android phone with PowerAMP. | null | 0 | 1319776144 | False | 0 | c2v3fj3 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3fj3 | t1_c2v384a | null | 1427794238 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vocalbit | null | Wow I didn't expect so many responses! Most are of the form 'the terminology is technically correct' and 'you can have a lisp without closures - store state somewhere else'. All valid responses, nonetheless the unfamiliar (I chose that work carefully) terminology and lack of features remain real problems I face everyda... | null | 0 | 1319776153 | False | 0 | c2v3fkl | t3_lqffy | null | t1_c2v3fkl | t1_c2utl6f | null | 1427794239 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's a candidate for deletion! I'm sure you can find lots of crap on Wikipedia that's a candidate for deletion. | null | 0 | 1319776154 | False | 0 | c2v3fkv | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3fkv | t1_c2v2ymk | null | 1427794239 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tsotha | null | The problem is if you're a freelancer you don't work full time. Much of your time is going to be spent managing the things your employer manages when you work for someone else - primarily lining up the next job.
You'll waste a lot of time talking to clients that never end up engaging your services. You'll spend some... | null | 0 | 1319776212 | False | 0 | c2v3fui | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v3fui | t1_c2v35la | null | 1427794242 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hackmiester | null | Well, now we know rms is the user who connects, uses ssh for 30-45 minutes, and disconnects. ;) | null | 0 | 1319776221 | False | 0 | c2v3fvv | t3_lqn76 | null | t1_c2v3fvv | t1_c2v179n | null | 1427794243 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tekmo | null | I'm a functional programmer and what is this? | null | 0 | 1319776225 | False | 0 | c2v3fwf | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v3fwf | t3_lr1g7 | null | 1427794243 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Syntaximus | null | it will :( | null | 0 | 1319776229 | False | 0 | c2v3fx8 | t3_lrttn | null | t1_c2v3fx8 | t1_c2v3b1h | null | 1427794243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319776318 | False | 0 | c2v3gbg | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v3gbg | t1_c2v38er | null | 1427794248 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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