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by nerme 16y ago
Your parents probably love the hell out of you. Do enough stupid shit, and they'll end up just being happy that you're alive. That's what I did. :)
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by nerme 16y ago
It is not a straw man. I am not replacing "person who spent a lot of time and effort to attain monetary wealth" with "boring douche bag", and then attacking "boring douche bags". I am merely pointing out the unintentional consequences of a
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by nerme 16y ago
I can't help but think that it is advantageous for a general population to have government regulate currencies, be they physical objects, promissory notes, or digital representations. If you follow the history of currency from a piece of go
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by nerme 16y ago
I have no idea why, but I'm not obsessed with getting rich. I AM obsessed with doing whatever the hell I want to do, which I've basically been able to do for most of my twenties. Hell, I've been dead broke and still been able to do whatever
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by nerme 16y ago
On the bright side, I don't think many people reading Hacker News fall in to the category of brutish, construction worker-type. :) I did work construction when I was younger, and I must say, I enjoyed it immensely. I always love to help out
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by nerme 16y ago
What is labour intensive now is going to be rather easy to do in twenty years. Just think of some sort of Machinima based "gaming" program. Have your basic set of gestures for the actors, write up a little script, have someone control a cam
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by nerme 16y ago
Wow, so weird... I'm constantly having my friends and family give me astonished looks when they see what I can do with a computer! I get tons of recognition! I do a good amount of web work for free... for friend's bands, small businesses...
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by nerme 16y ago
How much of this list is currently present in the nightly build of Webkit?
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by nerme 16y ago
Why is there so much interest among web developers and entrepreneurs with the business of music? I really can't figure out it. Why are you all trying to "solve" an industry that you have no interaction with and seemingly know little about?
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by nerme 16y ago
There is a rather large spiritual aspect to mankind's creation of art. If you look at the history of art, in the western world and elsewhere, it is strongly tied to some sort of religion. Religious practice typically implements some sort of
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by nerme 16y ago
I know, I know, really immature... but... ...isn't it kind of funny that he made the venn diagram on mammograms look like the same body part being tested for cancer? :D
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by nerme 16y ago
From scratch? Like, rewrite all your libraries and nifty little UI tricks? Of course not. But sometimes ripping out the plumbing and throwing the bigger pieces back together works wonderfully. I guess that's called refactoring, though. :) T
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by nerme 16y ago
Haha! Well, I don't know how much we have to worry about production oriented software disappearing. From what I see, the web has caused a shift in the production of cultural content, away from centralized media industries to something resem
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by nerme 16y ago
This is just from your personal experience. I've got a large number of friends who smoke pot everyday. They're far from non-functioning. Two of my closest developer buddies smoke all day long. Like, literally, all day long, smoking as soon
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by nerme 16y ago
Reminds me of this article on Aphex Twin (and others) embedding images in spectrograms: http://www.bastwood.com/aphex.php
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by nerme 16y ago
I'm a musician. I'm also a freelance developer. I did the startup thing, and it's not for me. Right now I've been programming for about 6 months of the year and spending the rest of the time on music. Starting a music project, be it a band
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by nerme 16y ago
Me too! And I do! I frequently work at my band's practice space. :) Are you in SF?
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by nerme 17y ago
If you're not making art, you're not taking part in the conversation. However, you CAN learn the language, and then at least listen in on the conversation. There is a reason that those paintings are hanging on the walls of museums like MoMA
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by nerme 17y ago
Phil·is·tine (fĭl'ĭ-stēn', fĭ-lĭs'tĭn, -tēn') n. 1. A member of an Aegean people who settled ancient Philistia around the 12th century B.C. 2. a. A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or ant
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by nerme 17y ago
I take some issue with the basic thesis. I don't think you can outright separate the appreciation of music in to two camps, that of the musical content and that of the lyrical content. Much as in poetry, the sounds and rhythm of the words a
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by nerme 17y ago
The modes of listening to music are always in flux. Singles are very popular right now. Not a lot of people are listening or even making 70s-style albums that are meant to be listened to in their entirety. I'm an anomaly. I only listen to m
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by nerme 17y ago
I think they understand their market just fine. You're just not in that market, so you don't notice. It is niche music, there is no doubt about it. The jazz festival circuit seems to be doing just fine, albeit, most of the popular festivals
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by nerme 17y ago
"r.zip contains an executable file. For security reasons, Gmail does not allow you to send this type of file." And I was trying to play a nice little trick on a few of my friends with that one, too...
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by nerme 17y ago
Awesome, so what kind of people are working for you? Did any of them pretty much single handily engineer tumblr? Or do you have a bunch of shmucks who plod in to work, do what they are told (and never any more), and then plod back home? Hav
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by nerme 17y ago
Maybe Hacker News should try and organize free 2 hour "Introduction to the Internet" classes for the elderly? I'm sure it's mainly a matter of ignorance and not a matter of intelligence.
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by nerme 17y ago
I'm very interested in the state of audio -> MIDI... right now I'm using Max/MSP (the fiddle~ object) for pitch analysis, but it leaves a lot to be desired. Eventide makes some great pitch related tools and the PitchFactor stomp box see
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by nerme 17y ago
Yet another parallel between programming and musicianship... :) I think any musician knows where to go to get their guitar fixed or where to find a rehearsal space. Those sorts of things are pre-requisites to having any sort of future in th
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by nerme 17y ago
Well, people ARE trying. :) Here's an article from Billboard: http://bit.ly/7qevgk The concept was very interesting but unfortunately it had a lot going against it, which is why Jake got out of the music industry. Jake didn't really know
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by nerme 17y ago
"Why can't artists get regular bank-loans to fund their business?" This is one of the fundamental questions that is most often overlooked! Ok, so three long haired dudes working part-time jobs at coffee shops wander in to a bank and strike
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by nerme 17y ago
Here's the very best point that is brought up: "And musicians need them to survive so we can use them as banks. Even bands like us who do most of our own promotion still need them to write checks every once in a while." While the major labe

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