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by tonecluster 11y ago
Thank you. If there are two things to be expunged from conversations within our profession, they are "FAIL!" and "tl;dr".
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by tonecluster 12y ago
Thank you.
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by tonecluster 13y ago
It becomes unpleasant very quickly regardless of the quality of the skills of the programmers.
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by tonecluster 13y ago
Who in their right mind would want to work on a team of highly-intelligent, socially-challenged, culturally-homogeneous young men whose experience to date is primarily steeped in the casual misogyny, homophobia, and racism of MMORPG chat-ch
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by tonecluster 13y ago
Ain't that the truth. And (if you're doing it right), the older you get the more holes you spot. And, in filling those holes, keep collecting the lightbulbs from over your head when the "erkennen" mallet strikes.
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by tonecluster 14y ago
Auto-play wouldn't engage the viewer. Tapping does. A call to action ("keep tapping!") isn't so exciting if you take away the action ;)
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by tonecluster 14y ago
OK, very fair point. Thank you.
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by tonecluster 14y ago
New rule: don't hire anyone who's posted abject idiocy in a comment thread on HN :/
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by tonecluster 14y ago
It's idiotic because it is idiocy. A vaccine is a vaccine; arbitrary judgments about it's general efficacy over some hand-wavey timespan doesn't change that. And no, it's not justified to redefine it.
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by tonecluster 14y ago
Wide distribution has become much more accessible and much less expensive, which makes it easier for exceptional musicians (or performers) to get attention and gain traction. The key word here is "exceptional". Some guy messing with Protool
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by tonecluster 14y ago
Paul Desmond wrote 'Take Five'. For an example of Brubeck's masterful "great code", check out "Blue Rondo a la Turk". Genius.
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Neil Young's better audio(digitalspy.com)
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by tonecluster 14y ago
Hiring one or two engineers (per team) who are as technically capable as they are socially capable is ideal. The Rodrigos on the team will rely on this person to communicate what the hell is going on, and the Gabriellas will (must) raise th
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by tonecluster 14y ago
To be really clear -- I didn't write "don't use frameworks". I will happily say "Don't use megaframeworks; use microframeworks.". And, I'll add "read the code in these microframeworks, learn what they do and how they do it, and start to see
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by tonecluster 14y ago
Could this be because you're much more acclimated/familiar with to Django then you are Flask (and the Flask stack you built)?
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by tonecluster 14y ago
This assumes that the software is proprietary - which is something I didn't write in my comment. gEvent, etc, aren't proprietary - they're open-source. There's no reason an engineer who's been around the block at least once wouldn't be fam
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by tonecluster 14y ago
I disagree, respectfully, that a skilled engineer would create a framework in the process of writing an app. Instead: they'd write the app using the microframeworks chosen. There's a big difference -- creating framework that solves a gener
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by tonecluster 14y ago
I'll be a contrarian here: don't use mega-frameworks (Django, Rails). Instead, use micro-frameworks. Stay away from ORMs (I'm looking at you, Django). A skilled engineer can get a product comprised of small packages up and running in the sa
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by tonecluster 14y ago
I've found the same thing. On occasion, I'll waive the 50% upfront deposit (or reduce it dramatically). I also don't have any penalty terms; they're a waste of time. If a client is not going to pay on time, they're certainly not going to p
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by tonecluster 14y ago
Life shouldn't be all about the money, agreed, but it is reasonable for someone to require enough salary to not run into the red every month paying for basic living expenses. Also, while money isn't a good motivator (see D. Pink), not eno
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by tonecluster 14y ago
It depends about what you're arguing. A "python vs. nodejs" argument carried on for days isn't valuable; other arguments w.r.t. tech/engineering might be. Related: An advantage of a "non-diverse" engineering culture is so the arguments can
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by tonecluster 15y ago
Good point. I've been programming since the age of 9, and I'm well into my 40s. What that statement doesn't say is that for some of those years I learned very little (even though I was spending some of that time coding, I wasn't really "doi
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by tonecluster 15y ago
You're not crazy; it was ludicrously bad (or at least ill-informed) advice. And you are correct - unless published under a specific license, music "fixed" into some format is (c)All Rights Reserved.
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by tonecluster 15y ago
It is possible that BMI will send a bill, eventually, if they notice. Note that this is separate from paying for a license to use the master (the recording).
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by tonecluster 15y ago
You're correct that this would fail a fair-use test. Once it went up on a blog it's akin to a public performance, and use of the master recording should be licensed. It is improbable that someone is going to issue a DMCA letter because of
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by tonecluster 15y ago
Seriously, perhaps you could learn an thing or two about focus. And paying attention.
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by tonecluster 15y ago
You guys are missing the modifier "once upon a time". It's true: once upon a time, some (at the then once-upon-a-time time) geeky reporters got some interesting stories out of radio scanners. And now, it's not geeky to own a computer. But