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by msluyter 14y ago
Yeah, basically. A cadence is a harmonic progression at the end of a phrase. In classical music it's usually V-I. Sometimes you'll hear IV-I (plagal, aka "amen" cadence), but it's actually fairly rare outside of church music. However, inter
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by msluyter 14y ago
What if you already wear glasses? I wonder if they'll offer Glass with corrective lenses...
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by msluyter 14y ago
Well, as a classically trained musician, I certainly would expect V-I to be much more common than IV-I, as a cadence . (Defining "classical music" as music roughly from 1650-1900ish). But it sounds like the author didn't really limit his a
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by msluyter 14y ago
I don't know of any full fledged terminals that you can embed in st2 at this time. There's a plugin called Shell-Turtlestein that allows you to run a single command. \
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by msluyter 14y ago
I think you can avoid this problem by setting up projects and then switching projects you're working on to contain the search space.
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by msluyter 14y ago
Serendipitous, as I'm planning on doing a lightning talk on ST2 tonight. Editors seem to raise a lot of religious issues, and not to totally discount the distinctions that can be made between them, but I think it's more important to know yo
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by msluyter 14y ago
Just curious -- is the ban on meta-discussion spelled out anywhere? I didn't see it in a cursory glance at the guidelines. It seems slightly ironic to me that a site originated by a LISP hacker would ban meta-anything. ;)
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Developers are key to winning the tech wars(washingtonpost.com)
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by msluyter 14y ago
I was going to write up pretty much the same analysis of the Em->X progression. I think you aptly covered it. Interestingly, though, as you say Em->C sounds relatively static, I bet you see a lot more C->Em than the reverse (whi
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by msluyter 14y ago
Shell window from any directory: Adds a Windows Explorer shell window (screenshot) so that you can right-click on any directory and open a command (cmd.exe) window from that directory. Hmm... but.... why would I wan't to do that? If it op
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by msluyter 14y ago
Survivorship bias. Meanwhile, at the other companies where CEO was too sleepy to make good decisions because he was up all night helping customers configure Windows... well, we don't hear those stories, because they folded. Edited to add: n
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by msluyter 14y ago
And 'platforms' like Pandora, Spotify, YouTube (if you can even consider it as adequate at all in this context), and others will never replace the ability to build a personal collection. I agree. In particular, I would add that many of th
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by msluyter 14y ago
I just downloaded it and while it looks awesome, I see the rvm problem. I haven't used zsh but I'm assuming from your comment that zsh is compatible with RVM. Seems like it shouldn't be too hard to write a fish version of the script that s
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by msluyter 14y ago
I really enjoyed working through the Ruby Koans ( http://rubykoans.com/ ). They're especially nice because you can work on them offline, so I finished them while on a flight to the U.K. I'm considering writing up some "advanced ruby koans,"
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by msluyter 14y ago
The pie charts also don't match the percentages in the tables. Took me a second to notice, but the pie chart shows the relative percentage of usage by sites using a particular category, while the table shows % sties out of total # of sites.
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by msluyter 14y ago
And here is the interesting thing – I mostly ignore everything else on the resumes. In other words, if I did not find any negatives, I assume there are absolutely no positives no matter what is written in the resume. Why? Because people li
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by msluyter 14y ago
The cost of a false negative is essentially zero as long as the employer can otherwise adequately fill the position. I couldn't quantify them exactly, but I don't think the costs are zero. For one, any candidate that you bring in and reje
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by msluyter 15y ago
I hate the new themes. My question is: why couldn't they have provided themes that at least look similar to the old ones? I tried most of the available themes and there only one that I find vaguely satisfactory is the high contrast theme. S
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by msluyter 15y ago
Went through this recently and it's great. Bootstrap is a nice addition -- I know people complain about too many Bootstrap sites, but developing something that looks good right off the bat is highly satisfying. The only problem I ran into i
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by msluyter 15y ago
I recommend exploring your day to day tool set. By that I mean things like your text editor / IDE, various OS features/hotkeys, the unix command prompt, scripting languages, etc... If you have some spare cycles and the motivation, focused l
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by msluyter 15y ago
The analogy between band and math is problematic. Band has various payoffs that math doesn't: getting attention from peers, the inherent joy in playing music, peer bonding via football games, band trips and whatnot. (Not that math doesn't h
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by msluyter 15y ago
I was just browsing around randomly and ran across this. Fun stuff: When you type to UNIX, a gnome deep in the system is gathering your characters and saving them in a secret place. The characters will not be given to a program until you t
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by msluyter 15y ago
And Texas. I'm hoping for a few (very weak) hurricanes.
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by msluyter 15y ago
I used to do OS/2 support as an IBM co-op back when I was in college. In many ways it was pretty sweet -- I did some cool stuff with the built in Rexx interpreter, which -- though not as or widely supported as, say, perl -- was still pretty
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by msluyter 15y ago
I think the article is possibly conflating a couple of different things: a) Open office plans -- for a lot of reasons I'd agree that these suck, but b) Brainstorming -- Recent studies suggesting that it's ineffective are intruiging, but I w
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by msluyter 15y ago
Holy crap! I wish I could give you multiple upvotes for this. I wonder if there's a way to make this the default? This reminds me that I really need to spend a couple of days delving into basic OSX functionality (features/keyboard shortcuts
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by msluyter 15y ago
I've done it recently and it wasn't too bad, with the help of rvm. Getting the entire ecosystem (git, heroku, postgres, etc...) running is a bit more work, but pretty straightforward. Perhaps part of the confusion is that there are a number
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by msluyter 15y ago
Sometimes you actually need to watch the entire thing to get it. As in, your word involves some change over time that you want to portray with multiple pages.
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by msluyter 15y ago
I've enjoyed the game, but it seems to have a short shelf life. I started playing with about half a dozen co-workers last week, and now almost all of them have quit playing. This may in part be due to a.) not enough words (I'm seeing a lot
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by msluyter 15y ago
But HN isn't a representative sample, so our poll doesn't accurately reflect the overall popularity of a language.

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