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by jmcphers 5y ago
My own experience is that I can't really develop the appropriate expressiveness and dynamics in a piece until the notes and fingering can fly on autopilot. So learning it by rote is sort of a necessary first step towards owning it. But
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by jmcphers 6y ago
There often just isn't a choice. When I was shopping for co-working spaces I'd see tons of open plan space, with maybe 1 or 2 tiny phone closets for 50 - 100 people. They were always in constant use. I don't know why open off
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by jmcphers 6y ago
I used to view NPR as a relatively unbiased source, but lost a great deal of respect for them (to the point that I now rarely listen) during Trump's presidency. I am not a Trump supporter in the slightest, but was appalled at their nak
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by jmcphers 6y ago
Are you looking for PhosphorJS? https://phosphorjs.github.io/ It's the UI platform Jupyter built to power JupyterLab but is also a general purpose UI framework.
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by jmcphers 6y ago
This test is widely available in the US from e.g., Counsyl[1]. It's pretty amazing how many conditions they are able to check for with just a sample of the mother's blood; it's not just Down's but virtually any chromosom
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RStudio.cloud is now generally available(blog.rstudio.com)
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by jmcphers 7y ago
You're describing the behavior of https://www.passwordstore.org/ almost exactly! Give it a try.
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by jmcphers 7y ago
They serve this UA on purpose to some sites to prevent being detected as the "old" Edge (which was not Chromium-based).
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by jmcphers 7y ago
No, RStudio will remain AGPL licensed.
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by jmcphers 7y ago
There's a fictional podcast which has this as its premise: a company trains an AI on your loved one's social media corpus and then sells you the ability to continue to interact with them after they're gone. A fun listen: htt
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by jmcphers 7y ago
I was part of this program during my tenure at Microsoft (the earlier HiPo one mentioned already). I can confirm that it was a tremendous networking opportunity, but -- anecdotally -- almost 100% of the people I connected with, including my
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by jmcphers 7y ago
You can easily store notes on a TI calculator. I had a TI-85 in college, and was occasionally guilty of writing TI-BASIC programs to make tests easier (for example, I had one which computed Euler's method).
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by jmcphers 7y ago
This is the webcomic in question: https://xkcd.com/927/
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by jmcphers 7y ago
I glued fzf and vimwiki together to do something very similar. If you have both of those tools installed, you can use a mapping like this: nmap <Leader>wp :Files ~/git/vimwiki/<CR> so that you're just a coupl
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by jmcphers 8y ago
Previously on HN, a similar approach demonstrating that command-line tools can be hundreds of times faster than the fancy distributed approach (for certain classes of problems): "Command-line tools can be faster than your Hadoop cluste
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by jmcphers 8y ago
Yes, we do (a little bit). Uric acid and urea in human sweat: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12817713
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by jmcphers 8y ago
Instapaper integrates with the Send to Kindle feature and will mail you a "newspaper" with all of the articles you've saved to Instapaper in the last week. It's fantastic.
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by jmcphers 8y ago
Re: (1), I recently upgraded to a bike with "brifters", and was delighted to discover that newer Shimano levers have mostly solved this problem. When downshifting, you can push the lever further to the right to dump multiple gears
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by jmcphers 8y ago
I'm a heavy Flickr user, with 14 years and ~200GB of data on the service right now. My usage pattern is mostly that of "convenient backup of every photo"; my phone auto-uploads to Flickr and I meticulously upload everything w
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by jmcphers 8y ago
I built one of these with my kids (5 and 7 at the time), and painted it to look just like our house. I expected it to stand unnoticed in the corner of our driveway as people buzzed past in their SUVs. That's not at all what happened. P
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by jmcphers 8y ago
This is the case for me. I live about 6.5 miles from my office. Congestion is so bad (I'm in the Seattle area) that it can take upwards of half an hour to get to work -- yes, that's an average speed of 13 miles an hour in a car. M
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by jmcphers 8y ago
I think it'd be interesting to see the distribution of commute distances over the period in question. Anecdotally the #1 reason people tell me they don't commute on their bike is that they're busy and it just takes so much lo
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by jmcphers 8y ago
There's a way to fix that. ;-) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vimium/dbepggeogba... http://vimperator.org/
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by jmcphers 8y ago
If you're using vim already for journaling, you should try Vimwiki. Out of the box, it has a diary, and typing Leader-W-Leader-W opens a buffer with today's diary file, ready to record things you've done or serve as a scratch
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by jmcphers 8y ago
I've been a heavy Vim user for 20 years, and I hear people say this all the time. Recent converts especially love to write breathless blog posts exalting Vim's editing model as the One True Way, but the truth is that if your editi
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by jmcphers 8y ago
Anecdotally my own experience matches that of the rodents in the experiment. I've found that when I'm getting regular strenuous exercise (I bike up a steep hill as part of my commute) I almost never get sick, and can go > 1 y
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by jmcphers 8y ago
I'm not sure I buy this statistical justification for gun ownership, because if you're into statistics then you owe it to yourself to look not only at the odds that you will need a gun at some point in your life (which is what thi
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by jmcphers 8y ago
+1. After a couple of years of Yahoo (now Verizon) ownership I knew I needed to get off the sinking ship, but now I can stay on a little longer. I hope Smugmug is a better steward.
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by jmcphers 8y ago
> Demonstrate you can get 20 PRs merged to 20 different top-tier projects, adapting to their needs... This would be very impressive... but would also require _months_ of effort. I don't know any successful engineers who have that mu
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by jmcphers 8y ago
This blog post asserts that Mode Studio supports R Notebooks. It's worth noting that these don't appear to have anything to do with the R Notebooks that you get in RStudio[0]. They appear to be identical to its Python notebooks ex

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