christofd

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by christofd 14y ago
nicely done! very helpful intro.
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by christofd 14y ago
nice and subtle :)
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by christofd 14y ago
That explains a lot actually. Powerful and simple explanation for the world we live in. However, pretty much the opposite of the so-called "trickle-down" mechanism... more like "trickle-up".
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by christofd 14y ago
Well said. This matches my experience living for a long time in Germany (south and north), and interactions with French. I remember (from friends) the problems at DLR in Munich (German Aerospace Center) with senior French engineers trying t
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by christofd 14y ago
Pierre Fournier does a super smooth rendering of all the suites... he's like a French machine, technically perfect & soulful interpretation. especially the 6th preludium is a joy to hear as he climbs up the stairway. yeah, Casals is the
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by christofd 14y ago
Yeah, stuff with a scientific bend doesn't get shared, although it has impact. It creates its own niche, with considerably less noise. Sorry to broaden the scope, but this made me think... In stock markets, you have the concept of "noise tr
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by christofd 14y ago
Wow. That's impressive. Big step forward in social analytics.
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by christofd 14y ago
regarding comic sans use at CERN... often found that scientists like hideous designs. it's a way of saying that we work on serious stuff. a lot of sites at MIT, CMU have that mark... the more prestigious, the uglier. of course it has to be
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by christofd 14y ago
agreed. been looking at this for a while. If you're Canada based you gotta reach out internationally (Europe, U.S., Asia) to acquire funds, projects, ideas. Thinking domestic is not optimal.
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by christofd 14y ago
well, this was 30 years in the making...
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by christofd 14y ago
alarms were going off when I read "pitch deck"...
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TouchOSC - cool MIDI control surface (iOS/ Android)(hexler.net)
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by christofd 15y ago
same here, now in Toronto.
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by christofd 15y ago
great wall of text! you have a weblog or so? interested in the intersection of technology and cultural stuff as well... i'm based in toronto, btw. quite often in nyc. cheers.
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by christofd 17y ago
Great advice. My Dad always told me I suck at music. But I just wouldn't give up. I destroyed one Cello bow along the way in frustration for my lacking skill, but now 20 years later I got this beast under control. Then, of course, there are
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by christofd 17y ago
Cello, turntables (vinyl and a digital system like Serato), dabble a little on piano, sang in a choir
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by christofd 17y ago
Good list.
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by christofd 17y ago
Yeah, I play strings and I hated that scene. You can even deduce from this scene that Depardieu hasn't learned to play any type of instrument, which can be said for a lot of Hollywood actors faking it on camera. Although, there is the rare
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by christofd 17y ago
A rough assessment - needs some more thought: Exactly. This advice might apply more to a creative process, where original thought counts above all else. I imagine being truly creative is an exhausting activity, knowing several professional
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by christofd 17y ago
Ah, good to know :)
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by christofd 17y ago
Not sure this is correct procedure, exposing the privacy of a HN fellow. I personally would have second thoughts posting that.
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by christofd 17y ago
Hmmm... you might be right. Business people, representing capital owners in a world with increasing capital concentration, exert a lot of leverage. Leverage pays well.
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by christofd 17y ago
Seconded. BS becomes official. (Dilbert doesn't count; The Economist has to say it)
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by christofd 17y ago
Yes! How to cure the fear of the blank page. One of the first articles that I've found how to deal with this problem. You can't break procrastination head-on. It's gotta be tricked to defeat it.
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MailChannels - new EC2 Outbound Email Service coming soon(mailchannels.com)
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by christofd 17y ago
Interesting idea. I could imagine whole environments of development stacks being defined: e.g. a Rails 2.3.5 production stack, or a Django stack, or a Clojure webdev/ data mining stack, and all according to exact version numbers. I could se
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by christofd 17y ago
Interesting. I'd second that. More to come.
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by christofd 17y ago
Something new to play with. Joe hits the sweet spot, regarding powerful & pragmatic, again. Websockets + Erlang... nice.
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by christofd 17y ago
Very nice seamless implementation: device, connection, web-based, iphone. Full circle. Very professional. Great Name.
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by christofd 17y ago
I actually value the notion to try to attach a metric to a fuzzy term like 'happiness', even though it doesn't work. At least it displays the will to measure everything. Edit: happiness = serotonin level in spinal fluid. Suicide cases show

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