greffer

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by greffer 3y ago
I fully agree. Compare to natural language: Monologues have their place, but speaking to others is essential to learn, and so is interacting musically with others. I do also think that some education philosophies focus too much on notation,
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by greffer 3y ago
Often (not always), you can clealy taste the difference.
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by greffer 3y ago
A difference may be that you start speaking around age 1/2 and then the written word follows about 5 years later. If you start learning to play the piano at age 8 and wait for 5 years to be introduced to any musical notation, then this
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by greffer 3y ago
> but one may wonder how players would locate the different notes with such a systematic and uniform layout. Gitar and violin players also manage.
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by greffer 3y ago
The symmetric keyboard is a fun concept, but its existence as niche is similar to why QWERTY is still dominant. Inertia. Most keyboards have it, and computer keyboards are much easier to change than pianos. Once you have reached a certain f
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by greffer 3y ago
> you create something not because “I think they might need this,” but because “I find this so fucking interesting.” This is a fantastic insight. I also find that it's what often gets overlooked in open source projects that start as
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by greffer 3y ago
> I personally want to make a living making software products, not services. GPL doesn’t seem to offer me a way to do this. These two things are pretty unrelated. For Android apps, a common model to have a paid version in the play store
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by greffer 3y ago
> it is absolutely a fact that the GPL takes away some rights. Expressing it like you did is misleading. One man's freedom is another man's restriction. It's two sides of the same coin. It is absolutely a fact that laws ag