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by ctrager 6y ago
All the tools have links at the bottom to their respective github repos, so contact via github.
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by ctrager 6y ago
I can't really make it work with singing either, but it works well when I play violin. My motivation is just pitch, to give feedback to me playing violin or my wife trying to learn viola.
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by ctrager 6y ago
Please forgive me for being self-centered. I DO think AudioMass is great. I'm running it locally and I even contributed by posting a legit issue in github. But here's the self-centered part: The other day I posted a "Show H
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Show HN: Tools for practicing a musical instrument as single HTML files(ctrager.github.io)
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by ctrager 6y ago
I'm a retired software developer. I hadn't really coded in like four years. But with the lockdown, and my wife in the next room sewing masks, I got the urge to craft something too.
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by ctrager 6y ago
Violin duets. Worst case, I can learn both parts, record one part, and then play the duet with myself.
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by ctrager 7y ago
Portnoy's Complaint taught me certain...skills...
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by ctrager 7y ago
I apologize if I'm duplicating info here because I didn't read TFA or all the comments, but the resources I've use are the offline maps in Backcountry Navigator (paid), ViewRanger (free), AllTrails (paid), Maps.me (free, no
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by ctrager 7y ago
I try to choose activities that also will increase my social circle. So, like, with learning an instrument, avoid piano, which tends to be more solitary, and go with viola, which, if you get decent, will put you in demand. Or if studying a
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by ctrager 7y ago
"Mating" by Norman Rush. Fiction. I think the Amazon review has it right: "Had Jane Austen been in the Peace Corps in Africa in the 1980s, Mating is the book she might have written."
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by ctrager 7y ago
"The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down", non-fiction, about the cultural clash of modern American medicine and Hmong immigrants. The author demonstrates an amazing amount of empathy for both sides.
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by ctrager 7y ago
"House" by Tracy Kidder. It's non-fiction about the design and building of a house, but it all transfers to software development.
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by ctrager 7y ago
In a real game, if players can't find a set in the 12 cards, then dealer deals another row of 3. How does that work in your game?
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by ctrager 7y ago
I take my Kindle when I go backpacking. I like that it's light, sturdy, waterproof,and lasts many days without needing to be recharged. It doesn't compete with my phone. It competes with lugging a bunch of paperback books in my ba
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by ctrager 7y ago
My father was a sperm donor, back in the mid-fifties. I didn't know until I was in my thirties (in the eighties). In the past few years, via 23andMe, I've discovered three living half-siblings. I think it's been totally mind-
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by ctrager 7y ago
Thank you for introducing me to smbc. I kept hitting the "RANDOM" comic button and hit this one, which is meta like the speculative one: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2015-01-28
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by ctrager 8y ago
I'm retired and I think my money situation is good but STILL when I read the article and comments I feel a spike of anxiety, PTSD-like.
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by ctrager 8y ago
The people passing through Afghanistan and Pakistan back then were heading eventually to three hippie places: Katmandu, Goa, and Poona (back when Rajneesh was there). I didn't use drugs, so i didn't relate so much. I was doing the
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by ctrager 8y ago
I wouldn't say that the feeling was that I was more FREE . I would say that the feeling I had was that I was more AWAY , remote. But even so, I remember that one of the inspirations for my trip was a pic in National Geographic, a str
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by ctrager 8y ago
It's harder travel without a smartphone when the travel world is set up expecting that you DO have a smartphone.
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by ctrager 8y ago
Also, parenting and childing were different back then (the 70's). For example, I remember when I was 16 I secretly hitchhiked solo from Detroit to Washington DC and then Chicago and back to Detroit. I explained my absence to my parents
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by ctrager 8y ago
I don't remember it being discussed. At that time, I and my parents lived in the USA, my one and only sibling in Israel. Me and my brother would exchange letters like may be twice a year. Likewise, my friends who lived in other cities,
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by ctrager 8y ago
I wasn't making a comment about freedom to travel, just the FEEL of travel, but regarding places that are open and closed (to me, an American), right, China, Russia, Vietnam, Cuba, Eastern Europe weren't open back then. Now they a
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by ctrager 8y ago
All about the fonts in 2001: https://typesetinthefuture.com/2014/01/31/2001-a-space-odyss...
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by ctrager 8y ago
In 1978 I went overland from Greece through Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan to India. I later learned the route was called the "Hippie Trail", but I never heard that term at the time. The route shut down just a few weeks a
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by ctrager 8y ago
So, what actual book/tutorial would you recommend for somebody who wanted to learn web development? Regardless of the problems with Rails itself, what's a better learning path that the Rails Tutorial?
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by ctrager 8y ago
I would say yes, because I don't know of a better learning resource for "learning web develeopment", especially for somebody starting at zero, teaching oneself, than the Rails Tutorial: https://www.railstutorial.or
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by ctrager 10y ago
Relevant article by a violin maker who is interested in innovation: http://josephcurtinstudios.com/article/innovation-in-violinm... "It must be remembered that the violin is a cultural icon as well as a working to
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by ctrager 11y ago
Prescient New York Times article about Japan and oil, 1935: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=9F02E1D6123DE53... And the US military was busier in China that you might think: http://query.nyt
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by ctrager 11y ago
The US was maybe more active in Japan's neighborhood than you might be thinking: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yangtze_Patrol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Panay_incident

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