** UnhandledExceptionEventHandler :: OFFICIAL LC / CHATTER THREAD **

[sylar]

Originally Posted by tyler_cracker

ok i think i finally understand what you want to do: you basically want global state.

i guess for something small or for interface things it could make sense, but basically it's a slippery slope and you're better off without it.

Global state is a legitimate requirement though. It's just that doing it through static variables is dangerous for reasons like race conditions, parallel design, etc. We always implement it through an interface, and provide two impls, one through a local singleton pattern and another through some sort of service (db, keystore, cache, whatever). seems to work well.

[Ryanb9]

Originally Posted by sylar

Global state is a legitimate requirement though. It's just that doing it through static variables is dangerous for reasons like race conditions, parallel design, etc. We always implement it through an interface, and provide two impls, one through a local singleton pattern and another through some sort of service (db, keystore, cache, whatever). seems to work well.

can you give any more details? xD

[greg nice]

Originally Posted by Gullanian

Any of you read this on an alternative to A/B testing? (Posted on HN) It was an 'aha' moment for me and is a really great read!
http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=132

Surprisingly for me a lot of HN comments just didn't get it, a lot of people criticise it for this and that without realising the same criticisms apply to A/B testing.

thank you sir, i need to read HN more..

[MrWooster]

Originally Posted by greg nice

thank you sir, i need to read HN more..

I also subscribe to Hacker Monthly, its a monthly print magazine (tho I subscribe to the digital version) of Hacker News articles

http://hackermonthly.com/

[Burnss]

got my samsung 7chromos today and it looks very very very sweeet!. thanks for the suggestions guys

[Ryanb9]

If this is out of line plz dont give me another infraction but... does anyone know how to rip audio from a ROM? (more specifically, a M.A.M.E. ROM). I've spent about an hour looking for a sound and I cant find it so this is the only thing I can think of. I'm sure its possible but I'm afraid it might be harder than it sounds.

[Neil S]

Originally Posted by Ryanb9

If this is out of line plz dont give me another infraction but... does anyone know how to rip audio from a ROM? (more specifically, a M.A.M.E. ROM). I've spent about an hour looking for a sound and I cant find it so this is the only thing I can think of. I'm sure its possible but I'm afraid it might be harder than it sounds.

Well "M.A.M.E. ROM" is a very vague concept. MAME supports many kinds of hardware, which suggests many different audio formats.

There's going to be no general answer to this, even among the hardware types that use standard encoded audio that may or may not be compressed in memory.

[_dave_]

probably easiest to just try and capture it on playback

[Ryanb9]

Originally Posted by _dave_

probably easiest to just try and capture it on playback

But then I have sounds mixed together >.<

[gwp]

one place to start would be the MAME source code, could be a fun project

[jukofyork]

Originally Posted by gwp

one place to start would be the MAME source code, could be a fun project

Yeah, I think this is prolly your best bet although I think it'll be pretty hard going as they just simulate the hardware and the actual software on the ROM could be using some weird encoding/compression.

Are you trying to get something akin to a tracker track or just the samples themselves?

Juk

[jukofyork]

Had a quick look and I think your best bet might be to see if you can hack the source to dump the raw sample here:

http://mamedev.org/source/src/emu/sound/samples.h.html

See the start_raw() function.

It depends if there is software mixing going on in the game or not.

If that proves to be a dead end, then see if you can find out what hardware your MAME ROM is running on:

http://mamedev.org/source/src/emu/sound/index.html

Juk

[Freakin]

Yeah it is likely encoded in MIDI in the ROM in some way

[Ryanb9]

Thanks guys, now I will be busy again xD

[myNameIsInga]

Originally Posted by gaming_mouse

this is kind of badass: http://www.cnn.com/2012/05/29/tech/w...ame/index.html

Judt read about this in NY-Times, supposedly 20mb in size, quite extraordinary it went undetected for so long