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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
This seems to have been how one of my favorite composers, Arnold Schoenberg, died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnold_Schoenberg#Superstition...
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
For anyone wanting to fly along with the birds, the movie Winged Migration is truly stunning. It is shot in a very unique way where you really feel as though you're flying with the various birds. (Same director has another great movi
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
At a glance, the screenshot on the main page seems indistinguishable from Visual Studio Code with the remote-ssh plugin, which is my daily driver and works fantastic.
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
Completely agree, especially since it would be pretty easy to reword things to focus on the diversity of the content as opposed to the intended audience, thereby removing the divisiveness inherent in the title.
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
I've historically spent all my days SSH'd into a remote server in a screen/tmux session writing code in vim and doing various admin/db tasks. Recently I started using vscode with the remote-ssh plugin and it has surprisi
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
Suggestion: If the search result is a synonym of the search query, display a message at the top saying so. As a layperson, I searched for "aspirin" and got a result for "Acetylsalicylic acid" and I didn't know if th
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
I had a root canal just yesterday and also have some ptsd from bad procedures when I was younger. What has helped me is mindfulness meditation and bringing some sort of fidget/distraction thing to keep in my hands. My endodontist&#x27
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
I'm a big advocate of what might be called mindful or active music listening. Listen to music in the same way that you would watch an interesting movie or read a novel. It's actually kind of bizarre that such a rich artform is s
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
The number one reason at this point in my life (44 years old, fulltime programmer) that I tend to not have any side projects at all is my absolute disdain for physically being tethered to a computer. After a full week of staring at a screen
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by daviddaviddavid 5y ago
The history here seems a bit cherry-picked and rock-focused. Hard to imagine that a lot of the work in establishing tom dimensions wouldn't have happened during the big band era, especially since for quite a while drummers were often
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
For those who like workbook-style exercises and using pencils and staff paper, I highly recommend "Practical Theory" by Sandy Feldstein: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0882842250 I've been teachi
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I would disagree that "it's not a theory in any sense of the word". There is an established sense of the word "theory" in which its meaning is derived from how it contrasts with "practice". Theory vs Pra
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I could be wrong but this album (which I've had on CD for years) might be the only studio recording that has both Chick and Metheny. My favorite part is Chick's solo on the Gershwin tune "Soon". Some of his phrases are
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I bought this on CD when it first came out. There is a big fold-out with gorgeous cartoon paintings by Jim Woodring. It's worth having the physical object if you like the music.
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I've been waiting my entire career for my twin loves of cycling and logic programming to combine, but this is not what I expected!
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
When it comes to "Swing", one thing that would be really nice is if you could have each quarter note broken into 1/8 note triplet cells. For example, for me the most intuitive way to represent a standard jazz ride cymbal pat
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
"...and their children will be more likely to grow up with two married parents, which provides them the best chance for success later in life." It seems odd to make such a blanket claim without any citations or clarifications rega
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I recently had an epic earworm that involved lots of old school manual searching, which I'm kind of proud of. For about two weeks I had this beautiful haunting melody stuck in my head. It would just turn on at certain times in the day
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I agree wholeheartedly about Gould's technique (at least in his early years) but whether one appreciates the music he makes will always involve other non-purely-technical criteria. For example, I'd almost always rather listen to
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
Funny, I've been a bit obsessed with Alfred Brendel's recordings of the Schubert impromptus recently (especially No. 2). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yaUxihBZXs He's an exceptional world class pianist and
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
Both Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes from Animals as Leaders are amazing guitarists who are pushing the boundaries while making really kickass music.
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
The analogy with music is interesting. Superficially, the musical activity which looks most like typing is simply playing an instrument. And sight-reading does feel a bit like typing. But I wonder if he's talking about transcription
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
The article mentions Martin Kleppmann. Go buy a copy of his "Designing Data-Intensive Applications". It may well have been titled "Practical Distributed Systems for the Everyday Developer". It is an absolutely fantast
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
Slightly off topic, but Rupert Sheldrake's son Cosmo Sheldrake is a very unique and interesting composer/multi-instrumentalist. Much of his music can be found on his youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channe
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I have a 1964 recording of Bach's Two and Three Part of Inventions in which the piano emits an audible double-tap hiccup/echo throughout the middle register. It is pretty maddening. If I recall correctly from the CD liner notes
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I'd be very curious to see relative rates of repetitive stress injuries in stenographers vs regular typists, controlling for amount of time spent typing, etc. On the one hand, when I see something like this I think: Maybe this would be
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
As a regular old non-theoretical-CS computer programmer, it amazes me that a fellow Buffalonian (Dr Ken Regan) pops up on HN and related sites so often for writings in the headiest areas of CS and chess, etc. Not too many internet celebrit
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
Totally agree! When I was in school, I took a logic class that used Boolos & Jeffrey's "Computability and Logic", which is a really great book. Chapter 2 is a very clear presentation of Cantor's diagonalization pro
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
"Programming Perl" is absolutely chock full of great quotes. I think one of the things that attracted many programmers to Perl was how genuinely witty Larry Wall was in his writings/talks. Add to that his background in ling
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by daviddaviddavid 6y ago
I have many Prolog books and by far the most practical or "real world" of them is "Prolog Programming in Depth" by Covington/Nute/Vellino, which the lead author has made freely available as a PDF: http:/&

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