Wow, you guys are really good. Why haven't I heard of you before? Anyways, definitely gonna buy the album after I finish reformatting my music hard drive.

I use DO for a lot of things as well, but lately have been playing around a lot with Amazon EC2 instances. The good thing about the EC2 instances is that, similar to the easy set-up boxes that DO does, Amazon has a bunch of apps and guides for quick deployment of systems for various purposes. I am looking at integrating some mobile platform stuff into some of my existing projects and the Amazon Web Services keep it all pretty well containerized.

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my.Explosion wrote:
Vellain wrote:

I should preface my enumeration with an advisory that I do computer security for a living.

Languages (In no apparent order):
[holy crap load of languages]

Skillsets:
[awesome stuff]

You are basically what I want to be, aren't you? LOL big_smile

Great set of coding skills there! wink

Edit: currently learning a little bit of assembly. Hope I can understand enough of that for it to be useful.
Aaaalso actually researching pen-testing and stuff like that. Not that I necessarily want to make a living as a computer security guy, as I'd definitely suck at it, mostly just because I've always had a sweet-tooth for how that stuff works.

Hahaha, if you want to get really good, you should play CTF (Capture the Flag) competitions. They are kinda of like jeopardy style competitions where the difficulty of the challenge corresponds to the number of points you receive for it. The challenges will be across a wide variety of areas, but almost always include exploitation and reverse engineering. A good beginner continuous (no end) CTF is http://overthewire.org/wargames/. Other than that, read a lot of http://reddit.com/r/netsec. Netsec always has good writeups on real vulnerabilities and exploits. Stuff like assembly take a long time to get good with and practice makes perfect. I know some guys who do malware analysis and they can take apart polymorphic code like a first grade reading assignment only because they look at it all day everyday.

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(31 replies, posted in General Discussion)

I should preface my enumeration with an advisory that I do computer security for a living.

Languages (In no apparent order):
C
C++
Ruby
Perl
PHP
Python
Java
Javascript
SQL
Assembly (x86 and x64)
Scala
MongoDB
HTML
and others...

Skillsets:
Linux
Exploitation Development
Penetration Testing
Reverse Engineering
Digital Forensics
Intrusion Detection and Prevention
Machine Learning

In terms of music, I have dabbled with most available trackers and software but generally stick with LSDJ, Renoise, and Sunvox.

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The Roboctopus guides off of Noichan are clutch: http://www.noisechannel.org/category/protips/lsdj-you
Welcome to the community!

Grew up in Tacoma, but live in New York now for work related reasons...

Wish I could go, but will be out of the area around that time... Haven't seen Boaconstructor play since the Noise Rodeo days.

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I would be down for some stuff too. Haven't done too many live events outside of just smaller house parties, but you can't get any better if you don't put yourself out there, right.

Arecibo Radio ceased their operations and their DJs moved to 8bitx (http://www.8bitx.com/). Kinda sad, but things go that way sometimes.

Nullsleep is gonna be there, awesome. Definitely gonna show up now. Also, seems like there are a lot of Argentinians lately, wasn't 2 Games 1 Boy from Argentina as well? He had a good set, so looking forward to this show.

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(35 replies, posted in Trading Post)

Yeah, I bought me some super rare pepe collections off of ebay once. A quick search with the keywords "dank meme" tells me that there are still folks selling real genuine pepes.

Honestly though, if he really does get over $800 for it, then good for him. I personally wouldn't want to shell out $800 for it, but I am not saying other people can't do what they want with their own money.

Hmmm... That is a very difficult thing to ask. I guess my best answer would be to just make music that comes naturally. I generally don't think too much about trying to create a very specific style. I don't think I am giving you a very good explanation, so I will use an analogy: music and people is like DNA and people. Every person will listen to music and interpret it in their own unique way and similarly each person will create their own unique music.

Even if you feel like you are only creating music that sounds like artist X or if people say your music sounds like artist Y, that can be a complement to both you and artist X or Y.

As for the CC you have gotten in the past, it is likely that people are commenting on how they don't feel your same emotion in the piece (usually the case). <- I don't really see it though.

I think you are on the right track, just don't try to force anything and all the pieces will fall into place.

I recommend setting up a Linux VM. If you aren't familiar with what a Virtual Machine is, think of it as a computer inside a computer. The 2 best freeware virtualization software are Virtualbox and VMware Player. As for what Linux distribution to go with, Ubuntu is pretty friendly to new users. As for compiling C programs, in Linux you use GCC (GNU C Compiler). By typing gcc --help in the terminal, you should be able to go from there.

Hahaha, I didn't know anyone actually uses MML anymore. Been a while since I wrote anything in MML, but this seems like a lot of fun. Gr8 job m8!