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This is not at all new news. We've known how to transcribe Greek notation since at least the early 20th century (and probably long before that; my memory of Greek music theory is failing me this morning). This particular piece is one o
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I'm honestly not sure (I don't have a Tumblr myself; I just read my wife's blog!) I think that probably users could block comments from people, or have some kind of moderation over their own, but I'm not sure about flagg
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I knew about the chat, but it's not really the same thing at all. That's as if Facebook removed the ability to comment on posts, but said "Oh it's cool, we still have chat!" It works ok, as you say, if you just want
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Beats me. The announcement about them disabling it was in late October ( http://support.tumblr.com/post/131951272032/pardon-our-dust-... ), and on Nov. 4 they confirmed they were coming back, eventually ( http:&#x2F
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They were using an in-house thing; some blogs also have Disqus comments enabled but nobody really uses them, as far as I can tell. (Even when they did, they were outside the stream of native Tumblr replies, and didn't show up in users&
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Tumblr has recently (actually, not so recently any more) disabled commenting on their platform. My partner is part of a relatively close running community that used to use Tumblr to connect with others, give/receive encouragement about
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Do we also lose the progressive tense, then? How would one express something like "The car ran me over while I was walking to the store?" I suppose "The car ran me over while walking to the store," but that's ambigu
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What I've always wanted, and no one seems to do, is to have the update box pop up on startup (as usual), and then have a button that says "Install on quit." Then I wouldn't have to be interrupted when I opened an app to
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Fair enough. (I hadn't actually looked up the statutes; I just believed him based on all of the hoops he jumped through to try to do it.) There does appear to be a ban on commercial imports; even though the ivory in question was legall
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A colleague of mine ordered a Steinway grand piano from Hamburg with an ivory keyboard (legally made in Germany). He went through a long process of trying to get it into the US (including a few phone calls to the Secretary of the Interior),
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I had the same thought, but he appears to be tenured (has taught there 9 years, and is an associate, rather than assistant, professor): http://math.fullerton.edu/people/full-time-faculty/item/bour...
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I tried with a picture of Aziz Ansari ( https://thenypost.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/aziz_ansari.jp... ) and it guessed Jim O'Heir, which I got a kick out of.
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It depends on how much it's played. A Steinway in your home is likely to last a lifetime or more. The Steinway in the recital hall at our school is between 20 and 30 years old (I think), and well past its prime. It's played (hard)
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Sure. I'm always on the lookout for new things, because I'm unsatisfied with most solutions out there. The best way to learn/practice ear training is to find someone who's decent at piano and play through some progressio
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I added that R binding a couple of months ago, and it is magical. I hated having to git log, copy the sha, and then 'git rebase -i [paste]' every time. I've mostly switched over to magit, but this is one thing I still use tig
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The Alliance really isn't gonna like that...
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Sure. (I wasn't as clear as I might have been...it's early yet.) I was preempting a response that I often hear when this debate comes up, which is that "the market" will fix the problem of underemployed PhDs. This often
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I appreciate your point, but this kind of attitude often (intended or not) leaves humanities PhDs out in the cold. Sure, for a PhD in computer science you might convince the public that your work is worthwhile (there may be some practical a
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I've done that, but I was more wondering if there was some place (a blog series or something) that people here would actually recommend. The top hits are all just lists with single terms like "B-to-C" and the like. They'
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Related: is there some reliable "startup jargon for dummies" page somewhere? I'm often confused with all the talk of rounds, vesting, dilution, and whatnot. I know there are books, but I'm not planning to get into the st
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The saddest thing about the Epitaph is that the last line of it is now ruined, because in the late 19th century its owner ground it down so it would sit flat to hold her flowerpots. If anyone is interested in ancient Greek music/music
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This idea isn't entirely new (is anything?); for an earlier version, check out Klavarskribo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klavarskribo . It didn't really take hold, because it's much more inefficient tha
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As someone who has stolen a lot of Vimscript from his dotfiles, I know that he prefers Mercurial to git (see https://github.com/sjl/dotfiles ), and so he's more active on Bitbucket than Github.
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Right. It probably also has to do with the fact that it's optimized for speed. The thumb is flexible, but not particularly fast. Many of the thumb keys on the bassoon are for notes that aren't played often, or alternate fingerings
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That's true. Part of the problem is that for the smaller woodwinds, the right thumb is responsible for holding the weight of the instrument. When a clarinetist is playing an open G, no keys are depressed, and so the instrument is suppo
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Kind of off-topic, but ironically the saxophone is probably the most optimal of the woodwind instruments. It was designed much later than the others, and so Sax was able to take the best parts of the others and avoid all the annoying bits
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Plus Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, and Ahmad Jamal! (Can't believe I left them off the first time.)
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Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Benny Golson, Herbie Hancock (a little younger), Chick Corea (noted Scientologist), just to name a few off the top of my head. All of them are still playing fairly regularly, too.
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And one of those was to his own earlier work!
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See also the MEI project at http://music-encoding.org . Not quite the same thing, but still noteworthy. It's an attempt to provide a parallel to TEI ( http://www.tei-c.org ) for music notation. MEI is still under d

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