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Meeting music’s Nostradamus: economist predicted decline of music industry

bbc.co.uk

3 pointsby njonsson11 anni fa0 comments

v1.1 of htty, the HTTP TTY, is out

blog.nilsjonsson.com

1 pointsby njonsson16 anni fa0 comments

htty, the HTTP TTY

blog.nilsjonsson.com

128 pointsby njonsson16 anni fa29 comments

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2 mesi fadiscuss

The best high-GI food I have found is Welch's fruit snacks. They are superior to glucose tablets: (1) Can be swallowed whole quickly and easily, or dissolved by saliva. (2) More concentrated, so you can pocket or pack more glucose in less space. (3) Can be compressed in a pocket or backpack without turning to powder that leaks everywhere. A packet of fruit snacks is 17 g of carbohydrate, which is small enough to catch moderate crashes and large enough when doubled to catch major crashes.

3 mesi fadiscuss

The sound is more like that of a kayagŭm (a Korean traditional instrument) than violin pizzicato.

5 anni fadiscuss

In 2020, the Amazon Principal Engineer community added a ninth tenet. Much effort went into crafting the new tenet, as was the case with the others. The new tenet may be my favorite of them all.

LEAD WITH EMPATHY

Principal Engineers shape an inclusive engineering culture where others are heard, feel respected, and are empowered. We are conscious of how our words and demeanor impact others, especially those with less influence; we take responsibility for that impact, intentional or otherwise. Our work builds productive relationships across teams and disciplines, and across a wide range of life experiences.

6 anni fadiscuss

I got a lot of mileage out of the x modifier, too, until I bumped into the Composed Regex pattern. https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/ComposedRegex.html

7 anni fadiscuss

Nitpick: The talk by Dr Cliff Click is dated February 2007, closer to 13 years ago than six years ago.

7 anni fadiscuss

I’ve performed Jean-Marie Leclair in recital — the violin sonata, op. 9 no. 3 in D major (see https://imslp.org/wiki/12_Violin_Sonatas%2C_Op.9_(Leclair%2C... ). There are beautiful recordings of this piece by Szeryng and Oistrakh.

8 anni fadiscuss

Simpler, yes, in the sense that just one instrument (the soloist) would have to play notes they were not prepared to play. But a concerto (typically a long piece for one or more solo instruments accompanied by orchestra) showcases the solo instrument, both by exposing it and by demanding much from the soloist’s technique and interpretive powers. It’s a shorter order for the orchestra to adapt than for the soloist to do so.

8 anni fadiscuss

“Solvitur ambulando.”

9 anni fadiscuss

The size of S is k.

10 anni fadiscuss

It only applies to procedural knowledge, of course, but there’s a similarity here between “teaching it to a toddler” and writing a program that does it. I often find huge gaps in my domain knowledge and understanding, not while I’m composing a readme up front but while I’m writing code.

10 anni fadiscuss

Unless they chose the ternary path. It’s closer to base e and therefore closer to optimal than binary.

11 anni fadiscuss

Unless I’m mistaken, if Alice pays 9% of $117,000 (i.e., $10,530), then Bob pays 11.7% of $234,000 (i.e., $27,400).

An 18% tax rate would apply to earners of $1,170,000 (i.e., $210,600 in tax).

The high end would be a 63% tax rate applicable to earners of $117 billion (i.e., $73.71 billion in tax).

11 anni fadiscuss

This calls to mind the office scene in Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash in which Y.T.’s mother reads a directive from her employer. She self-consciously scrolls through the dull text — aware of her employer’s automated surveillance system as she does so — pausing and returning to an earlier section of the text to create the impression of careful reading.

11 anni fadiscuss

I’d love to see a permalink feature. If you don’t want to store poster definitions, put them in the URL.

12 anni fadiscuss

DIY biotech. Bespoke pets for the risk-averse, and bespoke personal physiology for the rest.

13 anni fadiscuss

It strikes me that an hourly rate that increases over the life of a project might be a way for a freelancer to skew his billable hours toward new development and away from maintenance. It also reflects the fact that the freelancer’s knowledge of a particular client becomes more valuable over time. On the other hand, an increasing hourly rate is a tougher sell to potential clients.

13 anni fadiscuss

I had an elevated Lp(a) level and was able to reduce it dramatically by taking niacin, under the supervision of my cardiologist. YMMV?

13 anni fadiscuss

I have to admit that the “OVER!” scene from “Portlandia” came to mind as I read Tom’s post. http://youtu.be/YlGqN3AKOsA

14 anni fadiscuss

  Plus, in the history of the world, he said, is there one
  thing you can think of that has been hand-made, and on such
  a large scale as software, that was as complex?  [I cannot
  not.]

Yes: musical compositions. The largest software projects are more complex, and take longer to complete, than symphonies. But the failure rate is probably comparable.

There are probably plenty of commercial composers who write music mostly because it’s a job they can do, and they derive a modicum of satisfaction from it. But the composers who have made history — just like the programmers who have made history — do it because they must. If they give it up, they cease to do what they were made to do.

15 anni fadiscuss

All decent suggestions. I quibble with this, though:

  // Don't do this:
  function getData() { }
  // Do this instead:
  var getData = function() { };

The assignment is righteous, but by omitting the function’s name, you make stack traces more difficult to follow. Better this instead:

  var getData = function getData() { };