Haha, that makes me think of 'voting' for clojure as voting for Nader.
Funny, since I wrote my blog in clojure/compojure and found it easy going compared to Rails (which, to be fair, I had attempted to learn before having any real programming experience). That was my first experience with "a lisp", and it went well. Unfortunately, I think self-imposed cynicism about lisp is a big part of what keeps it from going mainstream.
EDIT: however, I respect that experiencing lisp not going mainstream for years would kill pretty much anyone's optimism :)
This looks neat, but it appears to be an 'academic' exercise. I couldn't find any source code written for the JOP (the only project in the Links section was down) after scanning some of the pdfs. I did, however, notice the 64 journal publications the creator has on the subject.
OTOH, he definitely appears to have put a lot of work into this, and I would like to test it out, if I can figure out how.
I'd buy that. For me, listening to music while coding is an engineering problem: how to minimize the tendency to let the mind wander without overwhelming it with new input.
For me that means using music that is ambient enough without verging on elevator muzak style irritation. I ended up with instrumental hip-hop (dj shadow, etc).
Of course that 'solution' eventually led to the great schism and many different versions (king james, etc.). So maybe the deeper truth is that people enjoy arguing?
Ah, thanks, that makes sense. What I was thinking of was the many times I've crashed java by trying to load/render decently sized images in memory (something about how heap space takes awhile to dynamically allocate). You could specify initial heap size with a command line flag, but it was hacky and I had a hard time getting it to work consistently.
They should have called it clay (you know, model stuff, like with clay ;); the first thing I thought of was http://www.cray.com supercomputers. Maybe that was intentional.
After browsing the source, it seems they are using Java2D primitives, specifically BufferedImage to do textures and shaders. I wonder if this project could use JOGL bindings...
EDIT: btw, I meant to say that this looks pretty badass
Hmm, you definitely have a point. People have rarely felt musicians should be paid (a lot) for their self-expression; I can't really recall when it was a lucrative career. What I suppose I meant was that the best musicians have often (though not always) been poor business people.
You're also right that sometimes they deserve to be paid. It is my intuition that the free market works against supporting the largest number of musicians. It may work to reward the best, but to me, that doesn't foster innovation (since musicians rarely look at the payoff in terms of money--probably fame). Certain acts are always going to be very famous, but there probably is a lot of room for diversity.
The optimal strategy for creativity/diversity would be to provide a (minimal) amount of reimbursement for attempting to create music. This would not only bring music creation back to the masses (where it probably should be) but could also provide an incentive for creative people to put work out and also buy dinner.
See, but this is very much the problem. Records provided an unequal distribution of wealth amongst performing artists before the internet. Why pay to listen to an up-and-coming classical artist when an exquisite recording of Chopin's work all ready exists?
Now, the internet has magnified this even further. An incredibly narrow band of artists are currently being compensated in any way (live performance, merch, cds), and this trend appears to be continuing. In general, the life of a performing musician pretty much sucks. Take a blog post by David Byrne I found on here awhile ago http://journal.davidbyrne.com/2009/08/080809-edinburgh-so-ho... . He's working pretty damn hard, and he's famous!
I'm not saying that file sharing is inherently wrong, I'm just saying deep down, we know there's a system that will rise out of this that will undoubtedly be regulated. I'd rather be having that discussion, than saying 'oh, I wouldn't have paid for that'
I imagine the startup/VC|Google relationship to be like my first girlfriend: neither of you is sure what it is exactly you're doing. She knows if you want anything to do with her, you've got to come take it. So you're going for it, but you're pretty sure if you act like a normal dude, she'll pass you up for that scene guitarist. The only option, therefore, is to be totally aloof, so as to create enough mystery that she'll bite.
EDIT: btw, it was a pretty mediocre strategy in the long run. Not sure what that means for Twitter, however
Although interestingly, as I post this, Bing returns the one (correct) result while Google attempts to redirect me to a Sopranos Wikipedia page and clutters the main results with a few irrelevant links.
What's interesting is that after reading this article I've realized I always expected e-mail search to be bad. Why? Possibly because, when another entity holds a large portion of my social information, it feigning ignorance about deep technical knowledge of my personal life (which is likely better than my own understanding) makes me feel good.
It's less 'big brother'y, which may explain why poor e-mail search doesn't bother me. It's as though its waiting for me to get the answer first.
Mostly tangential, but I have to code in MFC at the day job (legacy code base). God, the winapi guys must have had a sadistic sense of humor when they designed it. My guess is they were so used to low level programming that they saw object orientation as a crutch for the infirm. I imagine them shoving random subroutines into objects while laughing maniacally to themselves: "let's see these pansies make sense of DDX controls! muahaaha!"