mpdehaan2

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by mpdehaan2 3y ago
North Carolina person here and yes, all of that going to mexico/elsewhere did lower the quality of everything, as well as the expectation that furniture should be cheap. Highpoint now has a furniture market without much production. S
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by mpdehaan2 4y ago
Yeah you are absolutely not alone. I was lucky enough to have a startup make it about seven years ago. I do not think I could do it in today's environment AT ALL and also don't know how to use any of my past 'success' to
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by mpdehaan2 4y ago
I don't post here much because I tend to hate the comments. When someone has shared a blog where I referenced mental health once, I was called out for it as "one of those people" and that's messed up. Yes, tons of peopl
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by mpdehaan2 5y ago
I am probably the most commercially successful user of the multiprocessing module :) It's basically fine anywhere you need a function call that you can dispatch out to like 50 or 500 workers on a queue and then do something after that
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by mpdehaan2 5y ago
I could write a few pages here and hope maybe they can help someone. Leaving the industry has been a hard adjustment (years) - but folks can get through it. I've been thinking about this a lot, so here goes. Ok, so, my theory is that
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
no videos at this time, there are source codes all the tracks in git (linked below the soundcloud player on the homepage) - and that should give an overview. Basically I'd be talking through the source code. If you go up one directory
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Not sure if that is exactly the answer, but frustration with sheet music is kind of why guitar tab also exists... except I don't play guitar. The Roman numeral analysis is somewhat related to https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Yes you can definitely do non-musical thing without thinking, you should in that case maybe just not do those things if you know better :) Clarification: you can also type "1 O+1".
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Yeah, I don't know what it would take. We're currently using very few dependencies so... maybe? Shoot me an email using the links on the homepage if you like and we can continue the conversation.
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
I completely concur with Western music theory being crazy. I would love to be raised by aliens where music was cleanly lined up with decimals or base negative three integers or ... anything. There's all the string vibration stuff that
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
The "6" would be the first note of the next octave, and 7 and 8 would be up that 1 and 2 scale notes. Except there's no "from" the straight minor per se, because entry is in scale degrees vs notes from the start.
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
to add to the above, on OS X, instead of loop MIDI, you can create a Virtual IAC bus instead. For someone with a Windows machine that has loopMIDI, if you want to send me a patch for Windows setup instructions, I'd love to add them. I
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Those sequencers do not include Ableton, the Monomachine, Bitwig, Logic, or any that I have experience with. They all use force to scale mechanics that make accidentals impossible. I suspect Numerology might. I've only seen semitone t
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Here the Python API is just expressing the pattern language to user land, the user does not have to deal with python arrays at all. See some examples at https://bitbucket.org/laserllama/warpseq/src/master&#x2F
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
oh cool, I had a friend who mentioned (I think another one though) program that generated tiny MIDI clips. That would be great for dragging into a DAW and repositioning them around. Nice!
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Nope! With those systems you have no way to input accidentals. Here, notes are entered in scale degree, so if you say "4 5 6" you get the 4th, 5th, and 6th scale note, every time. If you later want to transpose to Eb Pentatonic, e
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
that's a cool interface - "impossible to play a wrong note" kinda leaves out the ability for intentional accidentals, but... not bad for a lot of things. Bonus points if they get the glowing holograms floating in the air work
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Yep, that's true. For now there isn't a user interface and doing some youtubes about the API is definitely planned. the API will remain around forever though, and is useful for generative composition today. Do a checkout and you c
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Hi everyone, I've been making music with synthesizers for a long time, and I always saw great ideas in DAW tools and in hardware, but never all of those ideas in one place. I wanted more music theory awareness in my compositional tools
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Show HN: Warp, a Python based music-theory aware MIDI sequencer(warpseq.com)
98 points by mpdehaan2 6y ago|35 comments
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by mpdehaan2 6y ago
Hi folks, I'm Michael DeHaan, and you may remember me from making Ansible. I know there are a lot of doc frameworks out there but I wanted an easier one, one that allowed me to use HTML and template things with Jinja2, but mostly stay
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RockChisel – new minimal docsite generator(rockchisel.com)
6 points by mpdehaan2 6y ago|1 comments
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
You are welcome! Yeah the thing I was worried about with that kinda went away. Feedback would be welcome, stop by the forum sometime!
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
First off, it sounds like your playbooks sucked - sorry about that, with great power comes great responsibility. Even as I wanted to make things simple, all things could be abused, and in adding more flexibility I've seen some evil th
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
It's ok if you think of it as such, the veneer over that actually isn't that deep, and that's ok. The trick is there are some norms you want to express in the language, things like handlers and such, and if you write direc
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
Valid point. I started this about a month ago, and as APIs were evolving I did not want to slow my velocity by having the tests fight against shifting it around. I suspect the first release will be in about Feburary, but the time to collabo
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
I'm all for more standards! LOL. Actually this was meant to describe what we do when we work on OpsMop. It's like "hey, let's all figure out what we want in an ideal universe and build it together". Versus like &q
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
I'm a big fan of the Chef people and they are good folks. Habitat is about a way to distribute applications to remote nodes and is somewhat an alternative to docker. It's kind of apples and carbeutors. Just like Habitat does not
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
"(not whatever Ansible was passing off as YAML" It at least was parseable. The trick was, it was always supposed to be at the level of complexity of "grocery lists, but..." ... but frequently I think people tried to prog
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by mpdehaan2 8y ago
My historical argument was always that if a playbook looks ugly, it is wrong. Over the years I haven't been around to keep saying that, but I'd be inclined to have to find ways to open up the programming model while still keeping

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