ryrobes

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by ryrobes 2y ago
Didn't take it that way at all. All good. :)
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by ryrobes 2y ago
For anyone who is confused due to the infodump on the GH page, here is a video where I step by step go through some of the SQL and Viz generation features - it's a bit long and doesn't even touch the deep complex stuff (reactive v
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by ryrobes 2y ago
This "problem" had been bugging me for a decade. The schism between "Proprietary BI Tools" (quick and inflexible) and just writing things from scratch (slow and wide open). You customers don't know or care what your
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by ryrobes 2y ago
Heya. Very cool to see this here. Still in alpha and a lot to work on, but I think it's truly a unique offering in this (mostly crowded and nondescript) space. Not to shill too hard, but my X timeline is loaded with little videos and g
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by ryrobes 2y ago
Thanks! Pretty much. The idea is to kind of make easy things easy - but allow a very high ceiling for hacking and modifying them for your use case. Besides, if we generate code for some easy stuff and a low skill user starts to make that me
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by ryrobes 2y ago
Thanks. It's funny about the chosen aesthetic - I had early builds and demos that were very "corpo sterile" and eventually I started going crazy with dynamic themes and openai generated backgrounds, just to keep my motivation
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by ryrobes 2y ago
Project guy here - yes, succinct messaging is an issue I'm working on - there is literally so much there. I've been trying to frame it like an Iceberg - on the above the water level its a nice drag and drop "data canvas"
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by ryrobes 8y ago
ORMs all the way down? Please no.
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by ryrobes 8y ago
Same. Had a Commodore 64 hooked up to a CRT in the living room. Thinking back - "a programming language as an 'operating system'" is actually still very cool idea for those reasons you mention above. Hell, even moving fo
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by ryrobes 8y ago
From what I recall, he didn't like the aesthetics of the license plate (to which I can't really blame him). It's also because CA DMV is a bit of a shit show - buy a car and you won't have plates for MONTHS, so seeing car
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by ryrobes 8y ago
Beautiful and clean. I love how straight-forward your pitch is as well. Nice work, guys!
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by ryrobes 8y ago
At the risk of sounding petty and nit-picky... I hate it when companies start their marketing about how shitty their main competitor is. Really? You couldn't muster an elegant elevator pitch without throwing some shade first? Granted t
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by ryrobes 8y ago
People want viable services not "tech". Red flag: both their concept as well as name have YT's brand name in it. The equivalent of calling your company "Uber for X". I'm all for decentralization where it makes
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by ryrobes 8y ago
This x10. Being aware of "who" / "what" is in the room - and then (the tricky part) self-aware of how they may see you. Use this ance-data to shape your tone and phrasing.
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by ryrobes 8y ago
> web services do crappy things with that data. (Hey Zuck, how was Congress?) Is this kind of snark really necessary in top marketing copy? I get what you are saying in terms of freemiums ins and outs, but I don't know if it should
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by ryrobes 8y ago
OR allow student loans to be discharged in bankruptcy - that would give the schools a hell of an incentive to not ship overtly-debt-addled peeps into the workforce.
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by ryrobes 8y ago
Sadly - this is virtually ALL companies over size X, age Y. The dirty "silos" outnumber the clean by far.
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by ryrobes 8y ago
Hah, that is a great story. Reminds me of ancedotes of devs intentionally wasting ram in old school console game development; locking it up in some obscure way; just so that at the 11th hour, you can remove it and claim "amazing optimi
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by ryrobes 8y ago
I recall seeing a tweet this morning stating the same for ethics committees in academic research papers. Students are being taught to put questionable things in - that are easy to excise. They get challenged, remove the red herring, and are
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by ryrobes 8y ago
Not adding anything productive to the convo - but love the design here. Very nice. Big fan of dark interfaces and visual (relationship) flow-graphs like this.
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by ryrobes 8y ago
>> have these irrational moral qualms, I would have ended the marriage by now A twisted version of Stockholm Syndrome, trust me. That nagging feeling that says, "I don't want to rock the boat and be the bad guy", will n
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by ryrobes 8y ago
This. The only decision you have to make now is how much more suffering you would like to endure. A lifetime more - or a chance to have your own life back into your own hands someday... Being in a bad marriage is like being that poor mous
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by ryrobes 13y ago
Hmm, looks like you are correct. Thanks, I never noticed that actually. Going to fix the offending "encoder" scripts (or whatever you want to call them) and re-index everything over the weekend.
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by ryrobes 13y ago
OP: Thanks everyone for the feedback! Just a short explanation of the (still very rudimentary) query "system" (using the term loosely here)... Tab file gets scraped, broken down into individual passages based on how it's writ
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by ryrobes 13y ago
Couldn't agree more. It was one of the weird UI things that I struggled with initially. It's a bit confusing - and honestly a lot of people don't even realize that it is an input text box at all... Syntax highlighting would l
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by ryrobes 13y ago
Yeah, guilty. The tab I have of Stairway in the DB is a bit different. http://riffbank.com/?q=5--5--7--7--%0D%0A-5-----5----%0D%0A-... I'm actually surprised that I haven't scraped 124 different versions of it by
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by ryrobes 13y ago
I def need to tweak the scoring / ranking. Also the clustering / grouping by song, band is a bit hoarked - esp when you get results that have multiple pages. Scoring seems to change oddly as well and I haven't been able to fl
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by ryrobes 13y ago
Thanks Adrian - big fan of SoundSlice! :) In my case I was initially just trying to leverage the vast trove of ascii tabs out there on the interwebs and see what came out of it hard-coded or not - first step was normalizing the format and s
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by ryrobes 13y ago
Correct, thanks for checking it out. But I've have to convert them first since I'm basically scraping millions of (unknown quality) tab text files (of relatively unknown tuning). But I will def look into the intervals, as people h
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by ryrobes 13y ago
Very true. I'd almost have to write a ton of "synonyms" for each - then again depending on the tuning of that particular song... it's an interesting data / lucene problem.

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