Roy van Rijn - Slashdot User

Comment Come on... (Score 4, Interesting) 418

by Roy van Rijn on Tuesday February 10, 2015 @07:10AM (#49024507) Attached to: $10K Ethernet Cable Claims Audio Fidelity, If You're Stupid Enough To Buy It

From the article:

"My first change is from Supra Cat-7+ to Audioquest Cinnamon playing a piece from Eric Satie, a performance by Alexandre Tharaud of Gnossienne No. 1. I immediately notice an increase in air and a wider stage with the Cinnamon. The recording room has grown and the playback is a little more fluid, more natural I would say."

Can someone please do a bit-wise compare between what is received just before the DAC (Digital-to-Analog Converter)...? I doubt there are any missing bits using the 'cheaper' cable.

Comment Re:If I name my server "Coca~Cola" ... (Score 3, Funny) 429

by Roy van Rijn on Thursday March 08, 2012 @05:13AM (#39285351) Attached to: Server Names For a New Generation

That might be a good (new) scheme as well: Coca Cola, Coca Cola Light/Diet Coke, Coca Cola Zero, Coca Cola Vanilla, Coca Cola Cherry, Coca Cola Lime, Caffeine-Free Coca-Cola. And it might be extended with other drinks from the brand: Fanta, Sprite, Minute Maid, Fruitopia, Dasani, Simply Orange, (etc)

Comment Re:Reusing my code (Score 1) 94

by Roy van Rijn on Sunday May 01, 2011 @01:08PM (#35991454) Attached to: Share Your iPhone Location Data Like You Mean It

Whoops, wasn't logged in. Also pretty cool, they immediately posted a blogpost crediting me, tnx guys! http://crowdflow.net/blog/2011/05/01/about-the-java-applet/

Submission + - Open Source Music Fingerprinter C&D'd (google.com)

Submitted by Nushio on Thursday July 08, 2010 @01:59PM

Nushio writes: The code wasn't even released, and yet Roy van Rijn, a Music & Free Software enthusiast received a C&D from Landmark Digital Services, owners of Shazam, an Android application that allows you to find a song, by listening to a part of it. And if that wasn't enough, they want him to take down his blog post (Google Cache) explaining how he did it because it "may be viewed internationally. As a result, [it] may contribute to someone infringing our patents in any part of the world".

Submission + - Amateur programmer meets software patents (google.com)

Submitted by Roy van Rijn on Wednesday July 07, 2010 @06:28PM

Roy van Rijn writes: A couple of weeks ago, in a spare weekend, I wrote software that could recognise music through listening to the microphone, much like SoundHound and Shazam. After populair demand I was just about to release the code into the open source community when I got an email from Landmark Digital Services LLC. They claim my hobby project is infringing their patents. This took me on a journey to find out more about software patents and the validity of the requests I got from the company.

Comment Hold on... (Score 2, Funny) 701

by Roy van Rijn on Wednesday June 30, 2010 @03:02AM (#32741240) Attached to: Knuth Plans 'Earthshaking Announcement' Wednesday

There's a conference for TeX? That's an earth shattering thought on its own!

Comment Re:Maybe C really is "it" for now... (Score 1) 831

by Roy van Rijn on Wednesday November 11, 2009 @05:40AM (#30057856) Attached to: Go, Google's New Open Source Programming Language

What you are describing isn't really a language thing, its more the IDE or compiler. Sure we could use smarter compilers and/or IDE's. For example when you forget a semi-colon in Java the compilers are smart enough to point out the exact location... but it doesn't fix it. Probably because it wants you to learn and correct your code...?

I'd rather have very smart tooling which gets to know me and corrects me. A bit like Spring Roo works in Java, a genie which just assists you. But I imagine something even smarter, like you said, on the fly typo-correction, but also using the knowledge other tools have, like FindBug, detecting (possible) coding-errors while writing them. Maybe auto-generate certain structures that are used a lot.

Comment Re:Hear the heads exploding - Java is fastest (Score 3, Informative) 62

by Roy van Rijn on Monday July 06, 2009 @10:27AM (#28594257) Attached to: Open Source Search Engine Benchmarks

Hrm, this had absolutely nothing to do with the language. It has almost everything to do with the algorithms.

Its very hard to compare languages, maybe if you use the languages to implement the exact same algorithm and let it run for a long while... But that still doesn't really compare it well enough.

Like somebody already said: Bubble sort in C++ is (almost) always slower then a quicksort in Java.

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