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by jtheory 14y ago
How much in taxes did you pay during the first 19 or so years of your life, though? Enough to fund your medical care, education, etc. during that time? Taxes can't work as a real pay-as-you-go system. The times in your life when you'r
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Look for other people who are new -- new to town, new to the company, etc.. They'll probably also be more open to new connections. The trouble with everyone else is that they already have their daily routine, their set circle of friends, p
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I remember this as well -- there's a particular feeling in my gut that I recall, sitting down in front of the computer at 9am, feeling sick and drained already, to work on a task that would be both tedious and difficult and didn't interest
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by jtheory 14y ago
Advice I'd add: pay careful attention to the responsibilities you take on. Owning a car -- you have to maintain it, possibly repair it occasionally, insure it, etc.. A pet is quite a large one -- want to travel for a few months? And you'
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by jtheory 14y ago
Quite a few people find a life partner and/or a best friend or two during college -- if you're lucky, these people won't go down the same career path that you do, and you'll have an automatic link to new potential friends that way. It's i
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It was certainly attempting to capture something useful about the test-taker's approach to interaction and problem-solving, though -- unlike astrological signs and similar things (which are based only on birthday). Of course, it depends o
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Clickable link to the post: http://www.process.org/discept/2011/11/17/draco-death-to-the... Original HN thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3771214
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...per month? On x downloads per month? Thanks, it's helpful to get some numbers.
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Thanks -- can you mention any actual numbers (vs just the percentage increase)?
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This is a good statement of the problem. I'd be quite curious to hear suggestions on the solution(s). Direct attacks on something as huge and culturally interwoven as "religious belief" is probably ineffective and even counter-productive. B
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This isn't my argument -- I've never taken this approach -- but if the need came up, it would never go into source control; it'd only be there long enough to run test suites locally and find the broken code that needed fixing.
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I believe "temporarily" was implied.
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I know all that; but I'm looking for at least one specific use case that would become unfeasible. Mild ghosting -- e.g., if you leave a static image up for 3 minutes with no change, then switch to a gray background you can see the outline
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by jtheory 14y ago
> For that reason, they should put every effort into ensuring that it is good as it can possibly be for anyone that pays for it, no matter the cost. Every effort? No matter the cost? They still have to run a business, I'm afraid...
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I can't imagine it's that clearcut. What's the "intended purpose" for a general-purpose laptop? Editing text, watching video, playing music, etc.., plus the long tail of more unusual things that may be possible depending on what software yo
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by jtheory 14y ago
A few tips I've picked up by finding a few ebook marketing websites recently by accident: * Long-form! Write a lot of text explaining why your ebook will be useful, giving helpful examples (but not real answers... that's in the ebook) an
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The author does mention the "anti-advertising talk in the hacker world", but unfortunately he doesn't seem to be interested in addressing any of the arguments commonly made. The "values" in the title just means "money" in context. This i
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What's the security model for browser-native audio recording? That's a worrying security hole, if you can record without getting any permission from the user -- sites could eavesdrop on visitors and upload the audio to who-knows-where (know
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My suspicion is that they wrote the "secure" DRM first -- probably actually encrypting the video files -- and realized that it was way too slow to decrypt before playing the file, and for whatever reason couldn't figure out streaming it to
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The ticket number isn't to confirm your identity -- it's just so that you can pick up whatever message they need to deliver. Before giving you that message, they might ask you security questions, etc., which you'd be able to answer (because
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> Unfortunately, I know this wasn't the case You can't know -- just because it wasn't in your office doesn't mean it didn't happen. One of the first readers to see it may have mass emailed his/her colleagues who all read/upvoted when
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by jtheory 14y ago
If Java applets don't make you wince too badly, I have some interactive music theory concepts and drills freely available here: http://www.emusictheory.com/interact.html and here http://www.emusictheory.com/practice.html I largely ran o
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I'm thinking mostly of teaching theory via textbook, website, etc. -- but even one on one with a good teacher, very few of them actually manage to make it interesting . Just conveying the material clearly is important. Finding a way for t
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Yes, one page at a time. After providing your age (I just turned 99 today!) among other required fields.
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Teaching music theory is damned hard . You very quickly find yourself making statements like this (taken from the second PDF in this series): "A tuplet is any non-standard division of a note. These are usually written as a group of notes
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There needs to be a logically-valid reason to bring gender/age/country of origin/etc. into the discussion at all. I.e., if you're interviewing an individual for a job, that means you're evaluating that individual's ability to fulfill th
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I have to do any high-concentration work at night as well, and have likewise found that successfully finding some level of silence in life makes me more sensitive to noise... In my case I've made a concerted effort to remove all aural adv
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Sometimes your family & friends are already spread all over the globe, and you can't live near more than one or two of them at best. Sometimes the city you're living in is a haunted place for you already -- after a severe personal loss,
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In the example Django Reinhardt song, there's a bit where he plays the same pitch a few times fretted, then a few times on the neighboring open string. I can imagine software that would analyze fret noise, vibrato, timbre, hand positions, e

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