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by gardano 10y ago
Yeah. I'm definitely a western-music oriented person, but the assumptions baked into this article just made me see red.
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by gardano 10y ago
I'd love to read a paper that modernises pythagorean music theory with modern mathematics. However, medieval music theory would balk at modern piano tuning -- much less 2nd Viennese School compositions -- so at first blush, I can'
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by gardano 10y ago
In 13th century music, the major 3rd actually comes across as a dissonance , and also to mention that music during that period was taught as a species of mathematics. Music theory is as easy (and as difficult) as trig. Learn the language.
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by gardano 10y ago
Given that in the first few pages of this article, the author never mentioned temperament (tuning) systems, I had a heck of a time parsing the argument. Well-Tempered? Equal Tempered? Mean Tone? Pythagoric? I had a hard time even concentrat
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by gardano 10y ago
You read my mind. I'd love to see this feature, too.
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by gardano 10y ago
My point was less about what they are like, but more alluding to the fact that they are their own nations.
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by gardano 10y ago
and do native american countries/territories count too?
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by gardano 10y ago
That was my first thought too. Would it be even possible in today's world to have a country that is purposefully underdeveloped/feudal, but without an oppressive regime?
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by gardano 10y ago
To me, the vote was actually non-binary. There were the Remain votes, the Leave votes, but then there the Protest votes -- which from my perspective were votes that said "I want to Remain, but dammit I don't like how things are go
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by gardano 10y ago
I've found the other way around to be my reality on Monday Mornings cough bittorrenting when my network is somehow constrained. Tumblr refuses to load the `next page`, and I don't want to hit the refresh keystroke combination
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by gardano 10y ago
That was my first thought too. A return to nation-states a la ancient Greece.
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by gardano 10y ago
I have nothing but respect for the gentlemen running the above websites, and cast no blame on those that prefer podcasts (indeed, it would be strange if marco in particular didn't have a podcast). None of the aforementioned sites are f
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by gardano 10y ago
Naive question: Are our ad-blocked web sessions killing the small guys? My morning routine starts with: • loopisight.com • daringfireball.com • marco.org • verynicewebsite.net • inessential.com and with some exceptions, posts these days are
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by gardano 10y ago
Back in the late 80s, my brother (baroque cello), a friend and I (Baroque Violins) started busking in Harvard Square for fun. One of our favourites was the Mozart Organ Sonatas. We generally made enough money to buy beers at the end of the
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by gardano 10y ago
I immediately thought of Sam Vimes too. Well done!
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by gardano 10y ago
In an ideal world, what you say is probably correct. In the real world, the Streisand Effect comes into play.
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by gardano 10y ago
I really want to know this too. Anybody? It's funny because it's true.
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by gardano 10y ago
I wanted to mention the radio series as well! When I (re)read the books, I always hear the radio series in my head -- which is just and right, I might add.
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by gardano 10y ago
I enjoyed that built-in ambiguity in your comment. I know which 2 I enjoy!
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by gardano 10y ago
Dammit, now I've gone down a Terry Pratchett black hole again. Thanks, cujanovic.
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by gardano 10y ago
While I disagree with the tone of your comment, I would have to agree that Apple has made it a good and responsible action to oppose such open-ended Federal requests.
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by gardano 11y ago
Agreed, that C# doesn't inherently turn you into an architect. It's more like C#/Java has a culture of 'architect'. Objective-C is seriously in MVC-Land (or maybe MVVM-land too), and pretty much discourages the more
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by gardano 11y ago
When my primary platform moved from C#/ASP.NET to Objective-C, it took me a while to realise that one of my biggest reliefs was that I didn't have to deal with "software architects", and just to get on with coding. I beg
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by gardano 11y ago
I believe you've hit the nail on the head.
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by gardano 11y ago
I can maybe understand rage-posting once , in a momentary weakness, but man, this guy just can't put it down and go for a coffee or a smoke…
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by gardano 11y ago
Fascinating. Thanks!
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by gardano 11y ago
As a rank amateur, I have a question. Is the question of speciation a useful construct anymore? I mean, birds are dinosaurs and (some) dinosaurs were birds. There is Neanderthal and Denisovian DNA in Homo Sapiens. Is the definition of what
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by gardano 11y ago
You hit the nail on the head for me. Exactly how I feel.
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by gardano 11y ago
An article I read way back in the early days of the internet said people were in one of two categories: Searchers and Navigators -- that is, people who were more comfortable getting what they want by searching, and people who were more comf
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by gardano 11y ago
When I was prevented from upgrading Xcode/Swift for a project last year because of podfile dependencies, that cemented in my mind that every time I include a dependency, I'm putting myself at risk. If I can spend half a day writin

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