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by jtheory 15y ago
I got the impression that arrakeen is saying, if the article were correct, then that would mean geeks don't know much music. Because if they went searching for music that ticked off all of the boxes listed in the article, they'd fine othe
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by jtheory 15y ago
Guitar or piano, it's still just patterns that are generally well burned-in. Study any instrument seriously and you'll play scales enough that they're quite natural "forms" that you just lay on the keyboard/fretboard in your imagination. P
903.
by jtheory 15y ago
This isn't much different from what I'm saying, I think -- you mention frequencies, which don't come up much in most study of music theory beyond more or less what you have in your comment. Beyond that, well, I suppose you could say it's "m
904.
by jtheory 15y ago
I admit I'm a Radiohead fan. But music theory isn't much rooted in math -- I mean, sure, there's a bit of math involved, there are composers (mostly within the last 60 years) who've decided to build lots of math into their music (but much o
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by jtheory 15y ago
It can get rough, or even very rough in some parts of the US (let alone some other parts of the world... a few months ago I was following the case of a Saudi Arabian who posted a few tweets expressing atheist views; he had to flee the cou
906.
by jtheory 15y ago
Yup, not discounting them -- it's just been noticeable to me that the percentages of believers in the general population (where non-believers are a minority that's completely discounted and/or actively discriminated against in many places)
907.
by jtheory 15y ago
Kindly don't post links in isolation -- what is this? A joke? An insightful speech? Something else entirely?
908.
by jtheory 15y ago
Meh -- "smart" doesn't work on a single scale. Your boss can be smarter than you at his job , and successfully hire you, smarter than he is at your job . That's an odd way to word it, but the fact remains -- there are generally different
909.
by jtheory 15y ago
Well, I don't do it much anymore, but in the past I've wasted innumerable hours arguing online about religion, or in debates that are irrevocably tainted by religion (like abortion, evolution/intelligent design, etc.). So that's a negative
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by jtheory 15y ago
Here's a project I've worked on completely solo over many years (it gradually turned from a school project, to a hobby, to a solid low-maintenance income): http://www.eMusicTheory.com tl;dr: when I work on just that, it doesn't go well;
911.
by jtheory 15y ago
Still, you hear grade schoolers play it. And wow, if you've ever been forced to play the part of anything other than violin -- I played the viola part innumerable times in HS orchestra, and the cello part was even worse -- it's almost a p
912.
by jtheory 15y ago
Is Pachelbel's Canon considered complicated as far as music performance goes? Reading that knocked me right out of the flow of this article. What's he thinking of? Maybe someone's complicated improvisations on top of the (really simple)
913.
by jtheory 15y ago
No need to analyze it to death, now! I didn't make it very far through this article... tl;dr. Though from my POV: I've read at least one other parable on the blog (a rather more obvious one about free office space), and so didn't really en
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by jtheory 15y ago
Patients Know Best (patientsknowbest.com) -- though we're not hiring aggressively at the moment (which is why we don't have an entry on this page otherwise...), I imagine it can't hurt to keep in touch if our mission looks interesting. Our
915.
by jtheory 15y ago
I'm not looking at the moment, but just wanted to say kudos for your approach to remote work! I'm currently living mostly in rural France (with a month or two per year in Kuala Lumpur), working full time with a Cambridge-based startup that'
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by jtheory 15y ago
To be sure. I recall we'd mostly stick with the two strategies I mentioned (words with most rare letters, or words in very common patterns)... then when you're settling into a pattern (and your opponent's first guesses are "x" or "q" or si
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by jtheory 15y ago
I kept waiting for the other foot to drop, and it never did. This is great if you're playing hangman against a computer. Probably, you're not. You're playing against a person, who probably has some sense of your strategies. Even when I was
918.
by jtheory 15y ago
I think you can cross out the bit you quoted and it still adds up. Whether you're working with the "merely proficient" or "coder deities" you still want to give them tasks that will push them to expand their skills, rather than just a never
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by jtheory 15y ago
Not terribly coherent w/ just part 1.
920.
by jtheory 15y ago
When you have a particular task at hand, and you also have someone available who you trust can do that task better than you can, delegation is easy. Sure, there's a minor jolt to letting anything go, but it's a no-brainer. Harder: delegatin
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by jtheory 15y ago
I haven't been keeping track of it, but is there still a "looking for/selling freelance work" thread that accompanies the "who's hiring" thread at the start of each month? If so, that's probably the most appropriate place for it. (If not,
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by jtheory 15y ago
No; Grandma already has Skype installed & linked to your usernames, because you (or some other relative) did that for her. Probably at the same time you bought her a laptop. So it's just ring ring "hello?" Vs. sending an email to t
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by jtheory 15y ago
There are lots of things that I could do in a web browser, but still don't, yet. Old habits die hard; that's part of the problem. But also, we're still not there yet, AFAIK, turning browser apps into applications. Sure, I can tweet a li
924.
by jtheory 15y ago
Here's a relevant question: Were they hiring any male waitstaff to serve beverages? Or any women waitstaff over 40, for example? I'm pretty sure they weren't doing either of those things. Which makes it more than just a PR flub. About over
925.
by jtheory 15y ago
There's worse out there (well, that's just about always true), but sure: that's sexism. It's pretty obvious if you take it apart a little. You're singling out the one woman in the room, commenting on her physical characteristics, and saying
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by jtheory 15y ago
Ha! Yup, in the past I had a catch-all on "tellmelater.com", and there were a bunch of people who apparently use that domain as part of their "I'm not gong to give you an email address" address.
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by jtheory 15y ago
Well worth noting: auto-correcting the email addresses would be a very bad idea; ditto for stopping them from submitting the form if this is triggered. But just showing a little note "are you sure you didn't mean username@gmail.com", then
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by jtheory 15y ago
I've written more on this elsewhere, but you're generally right. PCI compliance rules are designed to test the serious risks that can be tested. If the credit card data doesn't pass through your servers, then it doesn't pass through your
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by jtheory 15y ago
Yup -- I went (in Mozilla) to the Web Developer plugin's "View Generated Source", which works but likewise is cheating.
930.
by jtheory 15y ago
I liked this idea, but it's also very obvious that this must be quite a young company, with an employee base that's also mostly quite young. After all, the window of time between when you enter the workplace and when you start having the ki

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