aristoxenus

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by aristoxenus 16y ago
Man, you need to get rid of that TV! There are plenty of ways to procrastinate in the world, but that one must have the lowest "value added to life"-vs-"time utterly wasted" ratio of them all.
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'People become immune to coffee boost', experts believe(news.bbc.co.uk)
2 points by aristoxenus 16y ago|0 comments
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
It's really hard to get that kind of straight-talk from instructors or native speakers. The best rationalization I can think of for someone learning this language, is that if you enjoyed the meditative focus of learning how to write cursive
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
Getting further OT: I used to agree wholeheartedly with this, but have you noticed how slow Gmail is getting? I recently switched back to Apple mail, after insisting on Gmail as my frontend for years. Can't beat Google on search speed, bu
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
"Full disclosure" is a discussion about the ethics of publishing an exploit. Publishing exploits is customarily done in a descriptive manner -- I've never seen it done by publicly sharing the spoils of using that exploit. Did you try publi
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
To someone with the proper technical skills, it's trivial as you say. But until you do something like what these guys have done, it's dishonest (or geek-myopic) to say that it was trivially available before. When you package it up like th
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
Let me put it another way: we all have a problem right now that we're trying to solve, which is that FB is screwing people. Your clever idea is screwing them worse, with no foreseeable gain for ethics either now or long-term that another d
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
Point taken, but what's with the collateral damage? Search for something that's not going to ruin people's lives. FB has a problem. You outing these people on the web isn't helping anything. If you wanted to be classy, you'd leave out th
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
You might be able to scrape color + ratings data from sites that offer downloadable themes / editor color schemes / etc. Or why not, a dataset of fine art paintings.
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Ancient building came with DIY instructions(news.discovery.com)
1 points by aristoxenus 16y ago|0 comments
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
Unfortunately, that in itself is fairly common (gets past one reviewer but rejected/removed much later by another).
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
That's cool. Should have said "happy" instead of "impressed" -- knowing nothing about the technical side, I was imagining the impact of letting kids program ipods/iphones. They must have loved that.
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
I agree that it should cause more concern -- but how about more "reflection and rethinking" than "outrage". The kids with the most to gain from an encouraging tool like Scratch can't afford iPods anyway.
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
That post really puts the "C/C++/Obj-C" thing into much starker relief than the "wish I could use lisp" discussion. Geeks can get around 3.3.1 if they're clever enough; replacing a democratizing technology like Scratch, on the other hand,
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
Ok, and one more thing -- poetic license. The guy is a great storyteller.
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
At least two things at play there: 1) Intuition. His non-conscious brain has developed an understanding of the machine. 2) Focus. When you're a warrior in his situation, you can't be second-guessing your horse. That calculation was made o
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by aristoxenus 16y ago
Always nice to hear when the good guy gets the girl.
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
I'm not comparing The Fame Monster to the Diabelli variations. She's (very) commercially successful -- her revenues have surely long since eclipsed the entire D&B economy totalled over time. Among commercially-successful acts, her produ
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
Have you noticed how much more sophisticated Lady Gaga's music is than the rest of what's popular these days? Her popularity has nothing to do with that. It's the way she throws in catchy verbal chants and is equally brilliant at visual a
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
Nah, not useless -- come on. The speed variations aren't going to be that huge, and the variations will matter even less on an iPad. I can imagine a number of technical solutions to this issue that don't involve any signal processing. It
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
Because by being so strong and unkind, it amplifies the recognition of a material or perceptual accident of nature into a needless conceptual flattening of a person's entire presence in the world. Depending on the self-esteem of the person
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
I think it takes a certain lack of humanity to use the word "hideous" to describe anybody's born appearance.
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
As fascinating as I find the work Chris is doing and writing about over at the OkCupid blog, I've been pretty disappointed by his willingness to use all that data to "objectify" in demeaning ways (calling people ranked low in his attractive
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
This guy has certainly met a lot of resistance in his day, but I'm tempted to assume that most of it has been from the pre-Atari generation (certainly pre-Internet). The story mentions that he's contracted with a "pop group" -- if it's anyo
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
Seriously, you guys are making me sad. Use some imagination -- there is a lot more to tinker with for your dollar in 2010 than there was in the good old days. For the price of your dad's ][e you can now buy multiple linux boxes, a bucket
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
What's great about his axe isn't that it looks like a normal instrument -- it's the way it maps touchscreen interfacing to the guitar form. I'm an electronic musician too and have seen plenty of history and modern experimentation; somethin
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
Electronic music still hasn't found anything near an ideal mode of performance -- this guy's guitar may provide a glimpse into how that can be achieved. Imagine a dionysian Jimmy Page up on stage, orchestrating a wall full of synth process
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How Do You Look When Merging Fails(andialbrecht.wordpress.com)
269 points by aristoxenus 17y ago|30 comments
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
It's hard to imagine it playing out otherwise -- you need to start somewhere, and that stuff is: a) more familiar to the ear b) more plentifully recorded c) more widely discussed and recommended etc.
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by aristoxenus 17y ago
The main buyers and patrons of "classical" music turn out to be a pretty conservative bunch. Have you ever listened to radio stations or concert promoters try to be humorous or hip? It's generally pretty puritan and sad, like something yo

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