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I'm not sure that anyone has to agree to work on one at a time. If each person worked on one at a time, that would be great! Nobody is going to get mad at someone for consciously trying to use "women" instead of "girls&q
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For loads of other public domain scores/recordings, see the Petrucci music library at http://www.imslp.org . As a music academic/teacher, IMSLP is invaluable for me. There are also CC-licensed recordings, though I don&#
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I'm writing my dissertation (music theory) with LaTeX; the text is all stored in git, and all of my examples are PDF files in a submodule (so the main repo doesn't get huge). I need to have the examples tracked, and the submodule
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Or use a chalkboard.
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I'm not an astronomer, but presumably a satellite would still have night to contend with. Anything orbiting the earth is going to spend half its time in Earth's shadow, right? I remember a Radiolab [1] where they describe the ISS
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I do this a lot for printing out (research) articles, and the answer is that the text gets shrunk much more, and the margins increased to account for the difference. (This actually turns out to be useful in practice, since there's much
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> Finally, Perl 5 has many unsolved problems that will hinder its evolution in the upcoming decades. I'm wondering which unsolved problems you're referring to in particular. (Surely Perl 5 is not the only language which might h
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At the very least, I'd change the <title> of the home page to remove some ambiguity. Right now it says "Get Composer | Composer.js", and the URL for the PHP composer is getcomposer.org.
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I've always found these images [1,2] from Wikipedia to be helpful in explaining how the torus is a product of two circles. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus#mediaviewer/File:Sphere-l... [2] http:/&
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I wanted to put in a plug for Open Music Theory [1], for anybody who's interested. It's an open-source [2], Creative-Commons licensed music theory text designed for use in college music theory classrooms. It's written primari
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Just a quick note: if I turn the audio off and then tap "Main Menu" in the settings screen, the audio turns back on. I like the game!
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I had the same reaction when I saw the title, but then I saw the author. Her book on repetition won the outstanding publication award from the Society for Music Theory this year. I haven't read it yet, but I've heard her present a
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> I have a config snippet[2] that I got from somewhere (sadly, I don't remember where) that remaps incorrect combinations of Shift and letters to be dead. Very likely from Steve Losh (I did this too, and it helped a lot): http:&#x2
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The biggest problem I usually have (on a Mac) isn't so much that it's difficult; it's that the MacTeX package is 2.4 GB, which often means an hour or so of waiting before I can actually do anything.
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Of course it's not. I was just responding to the thought that a theory explains an observed phenomenon, and trying to show how for at least one definition of music that the OP was indeed "music theory." It never claims to be
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> A theory is something that explains an observed phenomenon. That's true, but if you take the "observed phenomenon" to be "Western, common-practice tonal music (and notation)," then this certainly helps to expla
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> E.g. pianos don't even have perfect octaves. This isn't true (at least in theory). Octaves on piano are (or should be) exact, otherwise the 12-tone equal tempering doesn't work out. A4 is 440 Hz, A5 is 880 Hz, and A3 is
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Also worth reading is Manning Marable's excellent biography Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. http://www.amazon.com/Malcolm-X-A-Life-Reinvention/dp/014312...
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I switched to a compact version (Poker II) after developing some wrist pain from keeping the mouse so far from the typing position. The mechanical switches tend to hurt my wrists a lot less and the compact layout is ideal (with a bit of cus
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FYI, the Github link to KSS in the article is broken (href just reads "KSS").
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Or without the extraneous cat: "pbcopy < ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub"
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That's true by default, but it's trivial to add your own filetypes with a .ackrc file.
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https://github.com/petdance/ack2 I'll send Andy a PR about putting the Github link on the site somewhere.
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That's true, but the point the article makes is that Twitter is not primarily a tool for talking to people you already know, but instead for publishers/content creators to broadcast their material. These sorts of things change muc
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The equal-tempered major third is 14 cents higher (1 semitone = 100 cents) than a just-tempered third, which is pretty noticeable even for non-trained musician.
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Your intuition is basically right: perfect octaves/fifths/fourths are called "perfect" because they have the most acoustically pure: 2:1, 3:2, and 4:3, respectively. They're also the oldest consonances, described su
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My favorite example of this is the Waffle House (24-hour dive). In Indiana, "Waffle House" was already taken, so the national chain had to use "Waffle & Steak" instead. Of course, since we used to call the Waffle Hou
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If someone's argument is that info is hard to learn, it's pretty unlikely they're also an Emacs user (the standalone info uses emacs keybindings by default).
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Earlier this morning when I looked it looked like OP said...it looks like something has changed in the three hours or so intervening.
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> As an added bonus it supports some Python and PCRE-specific extensions. This is a bit of a strange thing to say, since nearly all of the advanced regex features showed up in Perl first . PCRE stands for "Perl-compliant regular ex

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