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by rivo 17y ago
This is the most spot-on "tutorial" for today's musicians I've read so far. As a musician (formerly on a major label) with a hacker background, I agree with every single word. It is still hard for musicians, however, to give away their musi
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by rivo 17y ago
Living in the moment doesn't necessarily exclude planning for the future. But it should exclude obsessing about the future. There's only so much planning you can do in this very moment (and it's usually not much, think about how long it rea
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by rivo 17y ago
Once I tell people, however, I find myself waiting for those other people's questions about my progress. And if I don't get them, I do lose motivation although the reasons for them not asking me could be any (e.g. they didn't really underst
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by rivo 17y ago
Taht's pretty much my experience. Being a musician myself, I tend not to have problems with female attention in Western countries. I also met lots of Chinese girls in my life and they looked at me like they felt sorry I couldn't do better t
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by rivo 17y ago
Sounds to me like the product of many years of evolution with many developers working on it, and all that at a large company. Working at a large company myself, I see how these messed up pieces of code / specifications come into being every
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Ask HN: What would you do if you knew the future?
18 points by rivo 17y ago|30 comments
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by rivo 17y ago
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion http://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Busine... The Definitive Book of Body Language http://www.amazon.com/Definitive-Book-Body-Language/dp/05538... +1 to How to Win Friends &
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by rivo 17y ago
E-Readers. Improved resolution, better usability, a sleek design, and an SDK could make it the iPod for text. Combine this with an iTunes-like model for newspaper articles, PDFs, feeds, and books of independent authors and you may even have
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by rivo 17y ago
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/17/Man-jumps-from-plane-... "The Adlair Aviation's two pilots said the man became agitated aboard the King Air 200 turboprop plane Wednesday night, and both tried to calm him down. However, about 110 mi
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by rivo 18y ago
I sent some of pg's essays to other musicians. Replace startup with band, website with music, VC with major label, $ million with $ thousand, and you get a surprisingly accurate description of the music business, its people, and the hype.
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by rivo 18y ago
At my day job, we use linear programming to calculate virtual capacities on airplanes, i.e. overbooking. There's a few other optimization techniques involved, such as dynamic progamming, but if you've ever been asked to take a different pla
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by rivo 18y ago
I find it interesting that the author refers to record companies. It's almost always the producers who make these kind of decisions. Most producers go with the current trend in terms of sound. If a producer wants to give me an 80s sound à l
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by rivo 18y ago
There is lots of research on zoomable user interfaces. A variation is detail-in-context interfaces where the points of interest are magnified while the rest is compressed. The OS X icon bar is a good example. Check out http://pages.cpsc.uc
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by rivo 18y ago
I believe that the only way to make customers pay for articles again is in conjunction with hardware (such as the Kindle) and an online store (such as iTunes). I hate reading long articles on my monitor. (I do it because there's no other op
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by rivo 18y ago
Doing something like TechCrunch in an ever-growing Internet startup world, Arrington is (wrongly) perceived as a deciding factor to success, as a God to some, maybe even. Although it's wrong, I'm not surprised this happened.
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by rivo 18y ago
I just spent five days researching how to generate PDFs dynamically or alternatively how to fill PDF forms dynamically from a server-side script. Just so anyone who purchased a ticket to our concert can print it out themselves (the ticket w
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by rivo 18y ago
I wrote a lot for my own band and that was probably the best way to get into the business and get to know the right people. Our first album was released in 2004 and people still buy it (word of mouth) so I'm still getting royalties. Lately,
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by rivo 18y ago
Songwriting. Royalties. It wears off after a while, though. I'm not John Lennon. And it's not stable income. But still. It feels great when the check arrives.