tessierashpool

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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   > There's less mobility in social class quick point of fact, this used to be true but is no longer the case. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/05/us/harder-for-americans-to...
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   You absolutely can get a job, kid. You've been programming since you were 12, you're primarily a web developer, and you know several languages? You absolutely can get a job. Work on your your portfolio, your GitHub profile, and yo
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   I live in a town with an unusually good community college. The new president just got fired because she enacted a graduation-centric agenda which antagonized both the faculty and the student body. Part-timers enjoying themselves outnumber s
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   that's the long game. the KGB basically became the Russian Mafia when the USSR went under. maybe the NSA's thinking ahead too.
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2013/11/new-ebook-hacking-m...
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   Very easy to do. No degree here, building web apps on and off for twenty years almost. I've met tons of other developers who had no degree also, some of them very successful open source "stars." However, it's not possibl
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   just want to say that I've read this book and it's quite good. I've recommended it to people both in the context of an ebook I wrote on a similar topic (music hacks) and in person. its introduction to reading music is especia
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   I'm curious if you make that statement having played 808s in real life (and my assumption is the answer's no). I've got analog synths, digital synths, and soft synths. My $40 Korg Monotron is more expressive than my $700 1997
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   by tessierashpool 13y ago

   Massive coincidence, I just wrote an ebook about hacking music with Overtone (and also Node.js) and published it on my blog. I hope the link doesn't get me hellbanned: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2013/11/
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I think the lack of discourse is considered a feature by the lobste.rs community, as the easiest way to keep its signal/noise ratio high.
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I have heart disease. if I hadn't followed the advice of Dr. Joel Fuhrman (drfuhrman.com) I'd already be dead. I don't have time to get into it here, but conventional cardiology is essentially malpractice in my opinion. if yo
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I do something similar with bash when I start a new project. Code's here: https://github.com/gilesbowkett/rewind It's just useful to profile the team in terms of who writes the most code, or to profile the pr
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    just wanted to say I recommend your book in my own latest ebook, which I used Docverter to build. I freaking love Docverter btw. (my latest ebook = http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2013/10/new-ebook-software-...
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I saw a great presentation with this weird guy who runs his company based around the idea that all you need to succeed is gratitude and long-term planning. (Epic oversimplifying paraphrase.) Anyway, here it is: http://www.youtube
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I only have half an answer: Markov chains. It's probably going through text and using Markov chains to create "similar" text. Then question then becomes what text to go through, how long the Markov chains are, how you vary th
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    bomb squid : best typo I've seen in a long time. the story provokes the imagination as-is, but gets a lot better with the addition of a bomb squid.
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I've had good experiences with fasting and I'd recommend it to anyone. My longest fast so far was 7 days. No food, just water. I lost about 20 pounds. I worked from a book by Dr. Joel Fuhrman, and have since undertaken a few more
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I actually helped leanpub get going, way back when, with some UX advice and stuff like that, but I have my own little system which I prefer. might be a control freak thing. re music theory, I think I could basically write your dream book, w
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    sorry, working with some sleep deprivation here. substitute "frequencies" for "pitches" in this sentence: The good news is that with Overtone (the Clojure interface to SuperCollider) you can specify individual pitches ra
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    blatant self-promotion: I'm considering writing a book like this, as a product for sale, but using examples in Ruby, CoffeeScript, and Clojure (using Overtone, which is fantastic). background: I just quite recently went to a two-week w
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    by tessierashpool 13y ago

    I recently attended an academic workshop on algorithmic music in Common Lisp and wrote some relevant code in Clojure while there. A lot of people there had strong music theory backgrounds and were very interested in both alternate tunings a