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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Quite, MakeMusic, Peaskware, and Alfred have all had a complex relationship. To be clear, the company MakeMusic is not going out of business. They still are running their incredibly popular Make Music Cloud web-based app, used heavily in
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
The format is just so underpowered for what music notation requires, unfortunately. Michael Good pulled off a miracle writing the standard, but it doesn't do enough and now we have to deal with those shortcomings by fixing thousands of
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
You may not understand the scale here. There are about a hundred thousand users, a lot of whom had thousands of scores in this format. Some tens of thousands. It's not a straightforward proposition to simply jump to another platform, e
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
So this is a rather niche industry concern but it's been wildly disruptive to anyone dealing with sheet music in practically any capacity. I run the Music Engraving Tips group on Facebook and I wrote a little essay given the situation,
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
It's just that there's thousands of Finale users who were caught by surprise here, and they are up in arms. I work for one of their competitors, Sibelius, so I have to be on top of it.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Busy day in this niche industry!
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
It's the worst system, except for all the others.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Alex has us covered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCTWyNstpD0&t=55s
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
I've seen this Doll House in person recently, it's on display at Windsor Castle. While it's extremely weird that it exists at all, if you get past that, it's an exceptional example of art and craft. So much incredible de
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
lol on every point.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
No, it does not. The subway is practically always faster.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
"The better MTA's service is - more passengers and more Fare revenue they receive. This is how a normal healthy transportation agency would finance their capital investments." [citation needed] That may be how it works in a c
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
The Day After is a light comedy compared to Threads.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
They make a model of this exact thing: https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/planet-earth-and-moon-in-...
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Bets on how some executive saw their kid really into the hydraulic press channels and said, "We gotta get in on this! Here's piles of money."
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Real hard-hitting, groundbreaking news on HN.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Debt also allows you to live when you can't find means otherwise.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
I love Alec's work on the CED. So good and really nicely narrative-driven, which is kinda rare in this "let's review old technology" genre.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Sort of, there's a lot more editorial that goes into it than only typesetting.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Sure. It's an old-fashioned term for the artisans who engraved music notation onto metal plates. These were then inked for pressing. It's a highly specialized skill and requires a deep knowledge of now notation works and how music
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Yes we do, but it's not nearly enough to cover every major town and county. Stupid flaws in the system like the Selkirk hurdle should be systemically removed.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
They can be rendered at any size.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
But this solution won't even get you that far, let's be honest.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
It's a nifty solution. But speaking as a music engraver, it could use a lot of improvement, and I don't think there's enough tolerance in CSS to make it work. The beams, slurs, and ties, in particular have real problems visua
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Build more freight rail instead.
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
This is super cool and it's great! I enjoyed my brief try in the browser. Couple feedback points: I really hate the health system. I wish it was clearer how much health the potion recovered. I'd almost have it more like a traditio
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by Tokkemon 2y ago
Stick with Consider This and the NPR News. NPR Politics Podcast is great too. I tend to avoid the opinion stuff since, yes, it's definitely got an overly-lefty outrage-bait angle.
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by Tokkemon 3y ago
This is a great use case for the Ryan Reynolds "But, why?" meme.
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by Tokkemon 3y ago
It probably won't take long to cut a hole in the wreckage to at least get one sea lane open so the port can still operate. A bunch of folks with metal cutting torches on a few dozen boats and a floating crane?
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by Tokkemon 3y ago
Yes it's a coincidence.

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