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by gtycomb 8y ago
It is not about the instrument alone but also who is playing it, and how, certainly. Here is violinist Hilary Hahn playing Bach Partita No. 3 -- it is emotionally moving, to the human ear. It represents so many years of her training and per
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Irvy Gitlis talking about his Stradivarius, 1713. Note his awe of the instrument builder even though it is only a "piece of wood with a string attached..." he says https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRxtDaMei8Q
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by gtycomb 8y ago
A basic book on finance or accounting to help you scan over the Annual Reports of companies. Their write-up on finance, product strategies, marketing, sales tactics, pricing, compensation, company valuation, etc can familiarize you with man
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Wow. Among all conversations, haven't heard this simple truth mentioned any more. Would love to hear more discussion along these lines.
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Thank you. A remarkably clear youtube video. I wonder what kind of camera/lens was used.
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by gtycomb 8y ago
> then went on define net neutrality as the exact opposite This guy and my former Arizona senator must have gone to the same school. During the campaign, we listened to a PBS feature of this future senator and family from their kitchen,
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by gtycomb 8y ago
I tend to strongly agree. Online meetings for me are direct, initmate and focussed. If we are not prepared yet, we call it off in a minute or two and go do our homework before we decide to meet next time. Productivity, progress made, places
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by gtycomb 8y ago
Such introspection for me began at the end of my college days – Books and essays by Herman Hess, Camus, and Kafka. Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann was a high point. Its interesting that its these books that prepared me for the Bible, to start
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by gtycomb 8y ago
> There is not multiple ways of doing things (at a presentation level). Love the insight. Established businesses like banks look for this kind of stability. And upstarts who build from ground up to challenge status quo, they go on to fig
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by gtycomb 8y ago
The puzzle is, when and how will this state of affairs (running legacy technology) change. Is it because C-suite movers and shakers doesn't have skills to bring about change? Or is it that things we take as trusted and agile modern sys
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by gtycomb 8y ago
A nice application oriented book is the 'Handbook of Neuroevolution Through Erlang' by Gene I. Sher, from Springer. It has the code and a model for distributed agents (for neural networks in biology)
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by gtycomb 8y ago
I recently went half way in a project using Erlang back-end but didn't get to a production stage mainly due to political reasons in my organization. Mnesia (Erlang’s distributed database) is remarkable and in the Erlang way it comes co
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by gtycomb 9y ago
This reads like a comedy now, the flow of logic faultless, reminding us how fleeting these technologies are along with the anxieties we have about them taking over the world.
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by gtycomb 9y ago
Just by the fact the a language is well engineered doesn't make it a popular language in the industry. The time and the way in which it appears makes a difference. When C appeared (from Bell labs) it fit nicely with the Unix ecosystem.
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by gtycomb 9y ago
"Mastering the Complex Sale: How to Compete and Win when the Stakes are High" by Jeff Thull. When selling enterprise software, you have to convince many decision makers, there is often no point person to sell to. You may not know
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by gtycomb 9y ago
This line too in the article -- 'So I’m cool with it. Lean, Agile, Waterfall, whatever, the fact is we need some kind of common ideology to co-operate in large numbers. '
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by gtycomb 9y ago
"Elizabeth I and her Circle" by Susan Doran from OUP, and related biography. What got me glued to the 1500's reign of Elizabeth I is her art of far reaching strategic management when organizational resources are sketchy, and
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by gtycomb 9y ago
How is memory consumption on Fedora 27? I am using Fedora 24. When I check with 'free' after it boots, slightly more than half a GB is used on my laptop. In any case, thanks to the team for a very fine open source OS from RedHat.
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by gtycomb 9y ago
Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann. The first time it was slow read, but I went back the book several times later in life and it has much to tell. The Glass Beads Game by Herman Hess. Several books by Steinbeck - Travels with Charley, Log from t
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by gtycomb 9y ago
Those 1980's were quite messy too. Larry picked a robust solution (SQL) to build upon, something the market desperately needed and he somehow grasped it better in the smoke and noise of the day. Of course this is not the only ingredien
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by gtycomb 9y ago
English Conductor Sir. John Eliot Gardiner, who grew up singing and learning Bach cantatas as a child, he has published a lovely book "Bach: Music in the Castle of heaven". I think these lines from the very opening of his book wil
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by gtycomb 9y ago
It’s about 15 or so years ago I tried Prolog in an application for analyzing features of images. I remember two things from that – 1. Even though concurrency is elegantly described through guards, implementation turned out to to be not tha
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by gtycomb 9y ago
Enjoyed reading this article. The Greeks had this amazing knack to get into subjects like this and then _write_ about it, isn't. I am thinking of Plutarch's narration of the Ship of Theseus, a good starting point on issues related
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by gtycomb 9y ago
>When I was a teenager, around 15-16 years old, I started to learn C programming by reading the source code for the Linux kernel. True story from a part of my life from around the time the author mentions: A Fields Medal winner (this is
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by gtycomb 9y ago
I have not really used Rstudio, so I can't compare. I tried RStudio first, but then I was up and running with ESS effortlessly and have looked no further. Its the integration of Emacs with other development enviroments that keeps my li
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by gtycomb 9y ago
ESS for R in statistics. For me Emacs is spectacular here. So what you are longing for is possible. https://ess.r-project.org/
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Nothing to do with insurance or VC. Think of a consumer service at Walmart or Home Depot, helping people get very competitive services at prices to fit people's need. Yes, travel is not a total solution for all 300 million people, but
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by gtycomb 9y ago
I agree with you -- the cost here is prohibitively high for many folks I know, and the politicians makes hay each election season switching groups that will take the most hit. So HN, this field here is ripe for disruption. Like the kitchen
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by gtycomb 9y ago
Instead of your 7th new programming language, learn accounting, read annual reports of corporations, write a profit and loss analysis for three years forward (this will be vague, nevertheless spell it out the best you can) and know worst-ca
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by gtycomb 10y ago
Can SQL do resolution or backtracking similar to Prolog, I wonder.

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