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by nanook 14y ago
If you're not an absolute beginner, you should check out all the REH/HotLicks videos. Some really amazing lessons there - Petrucci's Rock Discipline, Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock/Terrifying Guitar Trip etc.. lots of advanced jazz stuff too.
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by nanook 14y ago
That's like buying a Porsche to learn how to drive. Sure, you can drive it around, look cool and feel good but you won't know what to do when you break something. Also, you're going to sound like shit if you're forced to play a cheap, badly
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by nanook 14y ago
I'd say don't buy a guitar right away. Ask around among your friends, I'm sure someone will have an old unused acoustic lying around.. use that. When you get good, you'll have a better idea about the kind of guitar you want to buy. Its als
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by nanook 14y ago
That video makes it seem like they cured cancer or something. But no.. they uncluttered the news feed!! Is this really such a big deal?
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by nanook 14y ago
> Mac OS is a bit too much of a (my personal opinion remember) toy for serious work other than writing, photoshop or any other artsy productivity I've read a few comments that say the same but I've never understood why. What serious wor
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by nanook 14y ago
In a parallel universe: Gates returns, fires Ballmer and turns MS around. Reality: He's probably happier solving much bigger problems in the world. But still, it sucks to see someone drive his company to the ground. Has Ballmer ever done a
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by nanook 14y ago
> he reveals himself to be a sensitive, seemingly grateful, and thoughtful person. Definitely. He wrote a bunch of blogposts last year on improving life, called "Raw Nerve": http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rawnerve Wonderful writing.
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by nanook 14y ago
Terrible terrible news. What troubles me the most is that this could happen to any one of us. RIP Aaron.
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by nanook 14y ago
An interview with popular HN users will be awesome. I often find myself looking up profiles of people who've left interesting comments/submissions to see the stuff they're working on.
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by nanook 14y ago
Took me a few days to get used to the color but now I really like it. Sometimes I'd stare at the screen so much that I'd have watery eyes by the end of the day.. doesn't happen so much anymore. (I'm hoping this is not just a placebo) Anothe
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by nanook 14y ago
I'm having a hard time keeping up with all these awesome classes. Coursera's PL class is starting in a few days: https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang Brown's Intro to PL class: http://cs.brown.edu/courses/cs173/2012/Videos/
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by nanook 14y ago
I remember really struggling with cross-domain AJAX requests. I wish they'd talked about that. Also, its quite likely that one would be using jQuery (or some other lib.) to do all of this in practice.
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by nanook 14y ago
You could try Time Sink ( http://manytricks.com/timesink/ )
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by nanook 14y ago
This is amazing! For those who haven't seen this already, Stephen Wolfram's been tracking such data for over 20 years ( http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic... ). I'm going to try to track some of my data this year.
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by nanook 14y ago
Is the website not accessible for anyone else? It always happens to me with this website.
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by nanook 14y ago
Had Apple bought dropbox, they would've made support for other platforms secondary. Dropbox is still the only cloud storage service that works beautifully on both linux and mac (and windows).
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by nanook 14y ago
I wonder when they're launching. They've been invite only for a really long time now.
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by nanook 14y ago
How do you tell what music is controlled by the RIAA?
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by nanook 14y ago
> things that clearly have little to no future, like Firefox Mobile or Firefox OS, just doesn't make sense. Firefox OS has to be the most exciting thing they're doing. Why does it not have a future?