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by scrozier 14y ago
John Adams (living composer) has said of a certain period of musical composition (the period when I was studying the subject in college; the late 70s) that "we forgot that music was supposed to sound good."
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It's the learning new stuff that keeps it fun. (54)
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by scrozier 14y ago
54, programming for 34 years. Numerous adventures in entrepreneurship, one of them successful. Came back to programming in the last few years because it's the most satisfying work for me. Making stuff that amazes people and makes their live
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by scrozier 14y ago
Amen. "Rock star" or "awesome" in a help-wanted post are code words for me, meaning that the hiring company or manager is a) a douche, b) woefully inexperienced, c) doesn't understand developers, or d) all of the above. I hit the "next" but
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by scrozier 14y ago
Paul has articulated clearly what I had as a visceral reaction after attending this year's RailsConf: Rails is being relegated to being an API machine, and DHH et al are none too happy about it: http://amillionbetterthings.com/2012/04/26/t
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Smart Ruby constants(pragdave.blogs.pragprog.com)
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by scrozier 15y ago
This ad hominem post doesn't belong on HN. "Perverted thugs"? And 500 complaints out of how many millions of passenger flights? I'm no fan of airport security, but this sort of Fact Light bashing of TSA employees is not useful.
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by scrozier 15y ago
This post and comments has made me reconsider the word "trust" entirely. "Trust" is an emotion-laden, rhetorical word used by a someone who wants you to do something. "Just trust us." Trust is not fragile, trust is an illusion. Replace the
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by scrozier 15y ago
Yes! And speaking at least for myself, I've found that I'm just as capable of underestimating the difficulty of marketing as non-tech folks are capable of underestimating the difficulty of software development.
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by scrozier 15y ago
$1k for an image slider strikes me as completely reasonable. As csomar relates, lots of work goes into something as "simple" as an image slider. That's why (as I mention in a separate comment) non-tech folks will always struggle with the
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by scrozier 15y ago
I've found that "looking for a technical co-founder" often means: "I had my father's colleague's son build a prototype for us. It does almost everything the final product needs to do. It took a couple of months and only cost us $4000. But h
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by scrozier 15y ago
I so wholeheartedly agree. I was just thinking about writing about the decline and fall of documentation. It seems to me that as open source software has risen, good documentation has declined. That is probably inevitable, but it doesn't ma
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by scrozier 15y ago
(Re)creating ancestral forms of current proteins. Seems obvious once you say it, but I don't recall hearing about it while in grad school recently. What a beautiful thing it would/will be to see the evolution of a complex protein complex li
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by scrozier 15y ago
Fascinating stuff, isn't it? No wonder computer geeks and music geeks are so similar.
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Yes, not bad. Perhaps as opposed to "entertainment music"?
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by scrozier 15y ago
Jgrubb, as a 53-year-old musician/programmer/entrepreneur (formally trained [in parallel, mostly] in the first two), may I posit that you're not a late-comer to anything yet!
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by scrozier 15y ago
Absolutely, dextorious. Something of a semantic issue. Maybe we should say, "serious" music or "concert music" or some such. I really don't like any of the terms. In any case, your point is well taken. It would be interesting to trace the p
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by scrozier 15y ago
Grew up playing classical and pop music, basically 3-4 chords (maj, min, 7th, etc). Went to the best jazz school in the world (U of North Texas) and woke up to jazz...an order of magnitude more harmonically complex than classical. Will spen
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by scrozier 15y ago
This hits me like the most elaborate humblebrag ever.
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by scrozier 15y ago
Given a scale of 1-10 for design skills and programming skills, it's my experience that individuals significantly over 10 are rare indeed. In fact, If you find one of Spinal Taps' mythical 11s, hire him or her now. I myself am an 8 + 4, at