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by wheels 6y ago
> the wall of sound type sound associated with 1980s pop music "Wall of Sound" recordings are primarily from the 1960s. "Pet Sounds" by The Beach Boys is the quintessential recording in the style. https:/&#x2
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by wheels 6y ago
> you have to wittle that down further Not really. That list spans 75-ish years of English literature. There are only about 400 years of (modern-enough-to-be-read-by-non-specialist) English literature. If your statement were true, w
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by wheels 6y ago
It takes a while for people to be canonized, but hell yes. I'm 40 and by no means a championship reader, but here's a small set of folks alive or recently departed that will be part of the canon: - Kurt Vonnegut - Hunter S.
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by wheels 6y ago
I posted this on Facebook right after I read the news (a few hours before the HN story): RIP Chick Corea. When I was 18, graduating as a wanna-be-wanky musician from rock and blues, I kind of knew jazz was a thing I was supposed to grow in
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by wheels 6y ago
Wanderlust is commonly used as a loanword in English. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wanderlust
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by wheels 6y ago
Large projects can take dozens of minutes up to hours to compile. It's extremely frustrating if the build system doesn't tell you in advance if it expects the compile to work. Having an error message once every 20 minutes, addin
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by wheels 6y ago
I read novels aloud to my children at bed and nap times. This started after reading Alice in Wonderland to my one year old and realizing that a kid who couldn't talk yet obviously didn't care what I was reading. At this point my
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by wheels 6y ago
Honestly, the Anker Soundcore Q10s are great. I have two pairs of studio monitor headphones on my desk (Sony MDR-V6 and BeyerDynamic DT770s) and I'm usually too lazy to put them on because the Q10s are good enough for anything but det
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by wheels 6y ago
Word. I moved from Michigan to northern Europe (Berlin) and miss Michigan's long, bright winter days. ;-) Michigan's big cities are on about the same latitude as the French Riviera.
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by wheels 6y ago
I'd argue that you tend to see that happen in countries where the largest / most powerful speaker of that language is also the source of the language, such as French and German, and not in countries where the largest (in populatio
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by wheels 6y ago
This is apparently the 16th time this has been submitted to Hacker News. I wonder if that's some kind of record: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
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by wheels 6y ago
Interesting. Since Sony, whose Bluetooth speakers I'd been using for most of a decade, discontinued most of their higher-end stuff, I tried out the JBL Charge 4 earlier this year and was astounded at how bad the sound quality was. Th
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by wheels 6y ago
I go through and explicitly disable notifications for almost every app. I don't really need to be interrupted to find out someone liked a photo, or that there's something in the news, or that it's raining, or that some new s
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by wheels 6y ago
I've considered doing the same. Also, before I ran my own company, I used to never take a phone or laptop with me on vacation. Here are some things I've done as a half measure to make phones more tolerable: - Turn off notificatio
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by wheels 6y ago
It's worth noting that the right response probably isn't locking either of them up. There are a couple of different basic theories of imprisonment, and the US is on the extreme end of the spectrum philosophically (which is part o
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by wheels 6y ago
While parents care more about outcomes, they may not be making ideal choices to support those outcomes. When I have my kids full-time, time with them is a balancing act between being actively engaged and trying to enrich their lives and jus
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by wheels 6y ago
I, for example, have friends that use Bitcoin to move money in and out of Zimbabwe.
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by wheels 6y ago
That was where the "semi-" in "semi-democratic" came from in my original comment. It's in ways similar to Hong Kong's council elections.
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by wheels 6y ago
It's definitely a theocracy, but the president does have some measure of real power (e.g. for better or worse, the nuclear deal almost certainly wouldn't have happened had Rouhani not been elected). I'm not saying that the g
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by wheels 6y ago
Iran is repressive, and fraught with problems, but it's not a dictatorship. There's a reasonably intricate bureaucracy, much of which is semi-democratic: for example, the supreme leader's preferred presidential candidate doe
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by wheels 6y ago
I have Syncthing syncing to a "/shared" directory on my private web server. If the file is under the 20-ish GB I have free there, that's good enough.
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by wheels 6y ago
> They have a lock on mobile devices for the western world. They don't though. There are only a couple countries where they're more popular than Android, and only barely there. There's no country where they have 60% ma
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by wheels 6y ago
Knowing what music you like would be helpful in a discussion like this. (Context: I've spent a lot of my career working in music or music software.) It's difficult to expand your musical horizons just by shooting in the dark a
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by wheels 6y ago
Languages don't maintain internal mutual comprehensibility over those sorts of time frames. This is what English looked like 1000 years ago: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43521/beowulf-old-eng... Th
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by wheels 6y ago
> Not only is this not possible in C ... There are lots of object systems in C that have polymorphism via function pointers.
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by wheels 6y ago
I recently uninstalled Dropbox after years of use. The upgrade nags were over the top, and the number-of-device limitations on the free plan made it no longer usable for me. I like the app, and would happily have paid something for it, b
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by wheels 6y ago
I've actually been using JUCE with CMake for ages using this project: https://github.com/McMartin/FRUT It's meant to convert Projucer to CMake files, but we just create them ourselves. The CMakeLists files c
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by wheels 6y ago
> There was no git in the 90's when KDE started There was no Subversion when KDE started. Like most projects of its era, KDE started with CVS, and moved to Subversion in 2005.
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by wheels 6y ago
I have no idea where in Germany you're based, or what industry you work in, but in the Berlin startup scene, there's absolutely a critical mass of development that has coalesced around macOS. It's a little bit less that way
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by wheels 6y ago
I'll try to take your comment seriously and explain what I like about his stuff. I personally find wrapping the Reichstag to be great. I live in Berlin, and see the building regularly, and it's just such an entertainingly absurd

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