tonecluster

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by tonecluster 9y ago
I think you underestimate the industriousness of someone who really intends on committing tabs.
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by tonecluster 9y ago
Important point here: kind and nice are not synonymous. It's easy to conflate kindness with niceness, and the OP (from what I can infer) is advocating the latter, not the former. Kind is not the same as nice. There are several ways to
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by tonecluster 9y ago
"lack of experience is generally pretty opaque to the people who lack it" Agree! this is a succinct description of a eng management problem. However, it can be mitigated by hiring coachable, trainable (and mature) people. Intere
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by tonecluster 9y ago
I hear this much more often from the less-experienced programmers than I do from the seasoned, experienced ones. Once in a while, and usually in a very large shop, I hear it from an experienced veteran. However, usually (not always, but usu
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by tonecluster 9y ago
Or, much harder to beat writer's block when there's a large audience waiting for more work. If the grip of "10,000 people are expecting X from me..." freezes you, you're blocked. It depends on the artist, IMO. Some
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by tonecluster 9y ago
We have 30 days of time for NaNoWriMo. That's a lot of time! Can get a lot done in that amount of time, or get nothing done, depending on how the time is occupied.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
"...disregard for protocol" is not illegal activity. Any indictments, for example? Anything to back up the claim of illegal activity that could lead to a conviction? Again, outside of wikileaks hacked emails.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
Can anyone provide any evidence of confirmed illegal activity from a source other than wikileaks? E.g., results of any official investigation, etc.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
About discovery: These days, the barrier to entry for discovery is lower than it's ever been. If you get your music on all of the various internet music services and some of the internet-radio programming, you are much more heavily dis
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by tonecluster 10y ago
I disagree. The ones I listen to do just that: not only flyover country, but Canada, Australia, UK, Italy and all over the rest of Europe. And the facebook groups for the genres I follow frequently post music from excellent, up and coming o
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by tonecluster 10y ago
Sure there is. Join the communities that support the genre(s) of music you enjoy. Listen to the various internet radio programs that feature the music you enjoy -- those curators will introduce you to new music, and new-to-you music.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
also, best way for you and for the band: contact them directly for their music. It's legal, and I'm sure they'd appreciate it.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
They do think about your country, and all of the non-US/CA/UK territories. But licensing is complicated, difficult to manage, and is frankly a mess. So it's often not worth it to launch in many territories at first; and in so
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by tonecluster 10y ago
I agree, though as an aside I think this takes the conversation in a new direction. Ad-supported FM radio probably did more to encourage, or at least aculturate, people to treat the internet like just another radio station than anything e
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by tonecluster 10y ago
Amen.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
Maybe we can say that they love musicians, but love business even more? Sort of like the way many CEOs in S.V./S.F. love software developers but love business even more.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
"Free" is the price the majority of users on Spotify (and elsewhere) think is right. In general, consumers have learned that "music should be free!". The fee that Spotify asks for isn't for music; it's for an
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by tonecluster 10y ago
The recording industry LOVES musicians. But the musicians they love most of all are the musicians who don't know how to negotiate.
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by tonecluster 10y ago
Those genres won't be killed-off, they'll be driven underground and further into the background from the pop genres that are much more easily monetizable. Where jazz and classical are now (not dead, but not profitable) will go va
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by tonecluster 10y ago
She talks about risk/reward and acknowledging the benefit new tech can bring to an organization. Minimizing risk doesn't mean no risk. High risk regardless of reward should not be preferred; risk/reward discussions and reas
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by tonecluster 11y ago
CEO: "Team, we have to pull together on this one and I need all of you to work through the weekend to get this feature out the door before open of business Monday morning. I appreciate all of your hard work, and we'll all be nose
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by tonecluster 11y ago
Volunteering is one thing, and very cool to do to take some of the stress off of people with children. But asking an employee is quite another (IMO). It's a form of soft discrimination, though not intended as such I'm sure. (Thou
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by tonecluster 11y ago
So many... so many. me: (up all night fixing bugs in production due to technical debt and mistakes from overworked and tired devs. Sleep from 5am to 9am, show up to office at 10am) CEO (sales background), walking by as he sees me enter the
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by tonecluster 11y ago
Here's one (not solely experienced in startups, however): manager: "Since you're single, can you work through the holidays and cover the systems/push this feature/go the extra mile so that the people with families c
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The running list of things that I hate hearing about the music business(ethankaplan.com)
2 points by tonecluster 11y ago|0 comments
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by tonecluster 11y ago
I have also found that the flatness fails quickly when the loudest, most aggressive, least-respectful-of-authority, best-dev-in-the-room type takes the (de-facto) leadership position, bullying others who challenge him. Schoolyard stuff, to
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by tonecluster 11y ago
"...and cause inter-modulation products in the audible range." AFAIK, this is true in acoustic environments under conditions as described in the original post.
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by tonecluster 11y ago
Yep, I read that too. Even so, there are low-pass filters in some consumer gear that benefit from, say, 96k sampling rates and result in better quality sound. This does imply that at 44.1 or 48 they don't represent up to 20kHz proper
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by tonecluster 11y ago
Some [consumer] digital low-pass filter can benefit from higher sampling rates, leading to an overall better representation of the analog signal up to 20kHz. But there are diminishing returns as the filter "folds" the octaves abo
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The reality of android soldiers and why laws for robots are doomed to failure(techrepublic.com)
1 points by tonecluster 11y ago|0 comments

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