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by scrozier 5y ago
Of course both perspectives are fine. And fair enough for you to point it out. I may have misinterpreted the person I was replying to. I got the impression that they wanted to better understand music from a musical point of view, and I resp
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There were about 250 people in the audience that night, which I thought was amazing for a program of experimental music involving pump organs, a banjo, and a Korean mouth-blown reed instrument.
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I love the direction you took this. I happen to love experimental music and agree that it is a wonderful and fruitful avenue for musical exploration. I'm fascinated by your process of disassociating your emotional responses from what y
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Many people in music know the answer to that and related questions. Sometimes the answers prove interesting, as you say. What I'm saying is that I don't think questions like that are a useful/effective route to understandin
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Addendum to the above: I also had lots of direct instruction in music: piano lessons, theory classes, music history classes, various instrument lessons, composition classes, etc. It all adds up.
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by scrozier 5y ago
Ah. That's a very interesting way to put it! I think it's possible that some people just don't have a "feel" for creating music (call it talent, something you're born with, etc.). But I sense that you enjoy mus
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by scrozier 5y ago
I understand your frustration. However, as a trained musician and working programmer, I get very frustrated with programmers posting here in HN that want to somehow fit music into their programmer worldview. Although I understand that it&#x
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by scrozier 5y ago
I know that people use their inboxes as to-do lists, but I no of no one who likes it or does it well. Use a plain ol' email account and a decent to-do list. I've been doing it for years and get to inbox zero daily. Feels so good.
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by scrozier 5y ago
I think GP is correct. This essentially takes the idea of a lean to-do list and constantly barrages it with junk (email). I've used the Get Things Done ideas for years with a plain ol' email account and Microsoft To-Do. Each does
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by scrozier 5y ago
This article, and many of the comments here, commits a central mistake: declaring things to be true with no evidence. "Users love settings." Umm, prove it. Even more glaring, the author goes on to use his own anecdotal story to ma
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by scrozier 5y ago
Absolutely. I was talking about what would probably be called "very small businesses," in which I was almost always working directly with the owner. Probably in the range of 5-50 employees. 300bps has an interesting take on the si
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by scrozier 5y ago
Your point about learning about business is spot on. I feel like I got an MBA in entrepreneurship early on, by doing this kind of work. That said, it's a very rough way to make a living.
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I have spent a good deal of my career trying to figure this out. I love small businesses and not-for-profits (not to muddy the waters, but they pose similar challenges). I've reached the same conclusion as you. To a small business, eve
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"Thanks."
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by scrozier 5y ago
Interesting point. I guess I don't tend to look at the world that way, for a couple of reasons. First off, hard work often trumps innate talent. Secondly, life is a mosaic of niches, and I don't have to compete in her niche to be
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by scrozier 5y ago
Having recently moved to New York City, that part of the article hit home for me. NYC is so loaded with talented, successful people—living sometimes literally on top of one another—that it really makes you push yourself. For example, I atte
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by scrozier 5y ago
I did dabble in writing. In junior high, my book, "Marvin, the Shy Elf," threatened to bring me fame not only amongst my classmates, but in the wider town of 1200 where I lived. At the last moment, I cleverly sabotaged the work by
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by scrozier 5y ago
Mr Minchin is spot on. I was fortunate enough to realize the same thing at age 2. From then on, I steadfastly refused to become famous. It wasn't always easy, but when--as a toddler--you clearly see the devastation that fame can bring,
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by scrozier 5y ago
I'm not using gmail, but am seeing the exact same thing in the last 3-4 weeks with my email provider (Hover). Mine are all loan-related. Marking as spam has no effect.
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by scrozier 5y ago
Which is exactly how evolution works. Unless you want to exclude us humans from the process. Which is not a bad argument now, but probably less good in prehistory.
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Because we can definitely fix things better than evolution can.
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by scrozier 5y ago
Great question. Generally easier to get a contract job, as the people hiring you tend to want your skills, and care less about things like "culture fit." Generally, I would say the contractor hiring process is more pragmatic. &quo
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by scrozier 5y ago
Not that it's a contest, but I'm 63. :-) After a mostly entrepreneurial career--but always around software--I'm back to coding every day for a living. I love the sense of accomplishment--always have. Great advice here, to whi
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Trying to figure out why in the world your comment was down voted.
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I suspect you're wrong. :-)
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I was in a rental vacation house at the southeastern end of Lake Michigan three years ago. It was a pretty big house, and as you walked from one end to the other, the time zone would change. Really messed with me until I figured that out.
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by scrozier 5y ago
In junior high, my best friend and I spent weeks doing exactly this, and spending hours in our math teacher’s classroom, excitedly showing him our work. Thanks for reminding me of this. I can still remember some of our approaches.
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I'm an old fart, but this is pretty exciting to me as a technologist and a musician. Sam Brukhman, the artistic director of the choral group, is a friend, and a visionary musician. I was at the premier of this piece. Seeing and hearing
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Startup choral group meets startup NFT art platform(edition.async.art)
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by scrozier 6y ago
Oh, that cuts to the quick.

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