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Very nice. Took quite a while to load. Would be great if the user could slow down the pace which also slows the pace of the music and vice-versa.

Sure. But what I don't understand about the spam video responses meme in this thread is that the video owner can currently choose to automatically accept video responses or not.

There are lots of guitar competitions hosted on YouTube. The way to enter this competition is by replying to the original video.

Maybe by using the title, description, etc. the competition creator can aggregate them and create a playlist but that's more work for them. Just browsing through the video responses is a much quicker way currently for both the competition creator and participant.

A great hack which I use (still not very good at it though) is the 2 minute technique in the GTD book. Although in the book, the author advocates it in a different manner, I prefer to use it to stop my procrastination.

So I say to myself, let me just work on the code for 2 minutes, not more. And believe me, 2 minutes is a long time! By the time the 2 mins is over I don't even notice and continue coding. This also really helps me in guitar practice. Learning a new song, or a a lick is pleasant. It's the mundane repetitive exercises one needs to do to increase the strength and endurance of your fingers. So again I say to myself, let me just do it for 2 minutes. Believe me, on certain days, that 2 minutes ends up to 4-5 hours of practice.

So if our Universe is a computer simulation, this might imply that the advanced civilization that created this simulation consists mainly of computer programmers. I like!

I first heard about Iain M. Banks here on Hacker News. I've now read Use of Weapons, Player of Games and Consider Phlebas. Now currently reading Excession. This guy's writing is incredible. Lovely poetry with a crazy wild imagination.

Player of Games will be one of my all time favorite books for a long time. I can't wait enough to forget all of it so that I can go back and read it once more. I love you Flere-Imsaho!

I started using Debian around a year back. Been a Linux user for all my professional life. Started with Red Hat, then Fedora, then ArchLinux. I was always aware of Debian but I got the idea that the installation process was a bit tricky (this was way back).

I finally installed Squeeze and the installation process was painless. The dist-upgrade to Wheezy too was easy. And now I'm really glad to see they have a 1 CD download containing only Xfce, which is my display manager of choice.

Happy Birthday to the Debian project!

Whats with the luck factor? You can hire newbies and train them to learn Perl. The Learning Perl books are fantastic.

If you have an experienced team and new programmers willing and eager to learn Perl, lady Luck can go for a fuck.

The problem with drug and tobacco companies is that marijuana is a garden weed. Anyone can grow it (if it becomes legal). Or rather, no large investment to start a weed farm.

Tobacco and drug manufacturing plants require a significant larger investment. So the lobby for anti-marijuana is strong and controlled by rich people.

Is this due to our Sun's rotation or because it revolves around the center of the Galaxy?

I turn 36 in 3 weeks. Nothing much has changed except health issues. I just took a full medical test yesterday (liver, kidney, diabetes, etc.) and turns out I'm quite healthy. I exercise regularly.

But not mentally. I've suffered from alcohol addiction since the past 4 years. I've been diagnosed with soft bipolar disorder and acute social anxiety. Occupational hazards I guess. :)

So, people who are below 30, watch your health! That's all you have left as you get older.

This is great news! Been waiting for this. Now if only I don't need to use javascript for this. :)

I've recently started to compose music, and nothing beats the simple notation software like TuxGuitar. I don't even attempt to use any other complicated software. Note I'm only talking about composing, not effects and mixing.

But a very impressive looking software and very cool introduction video. And a good composition too!

I don't think that's American at all. In all modern societies we first define an individual as which company he works for.

Picture yourself meeting new people. The first question to eventually come up will be "So, where do you work?"

Personal experience is the best. I work alone. I get the business requirements from the Client. I decide on the hardware i.e. the hosting provider, the OS, the web server. I can install and configure Debian, apache, MySQL, Perl and PHP. I use my own web framework. I write my own HTML/CSS.

Realize this sounds quite narcissist, but IMO, I am a full stack web developer. :)

Vim since the past 10 years.

Yeah. That why I use TaskCoach (desktop app) so the timer icon is always shown in my notification area. But you can use the dashboard for this.

A year back I had started building a web based time tracker using HTML5 background workers and stuff. But I lost motivation. :(

Clean looks. I immediately checked out the task timer feature which does not work as expected. If you start the timer and then go to the dashboard (I should expect to see all "active" tasks here) and back the timer is stopped.

I currently use TaskCoach to keep track of all my tasks and invoice my clients on a hourly basis.

Very nice! I'm currently experimenting with the HTML5 WebAudio API, and I know Firefox does not yet support this fully. So I guess you just using the audio tags?

I've been using Vim for close to 10 years. Can't live without it. My only gripe is the session file created with mksession is quite huge in size.

Great writeup. I just started using git a month back for a pretty huge code base. tig will definitely help me out.

Great news. Although I've been running Wheezy on my desktop for quite some time now. Guess its time to update my laptop which is running Squeeze.

Its not about "as evolved" compared to "how" are eyes developed. The way are imaging system and the model in the brain works to "see" red will be quite different to an alien species. It sad, I will never actually really know what 440 Hz sounds like (concert pitch).

> In the meantime, Perl works for us. It's not cool or sexy > but it gets the job done.

What is not cool about Perl? You don't need to transition to a new framework outside of Perl. You can upgrade your backend by investing your time in rewriting the Perl code to newer standards.

I've spent the last year taking some serious time to compose some music. I always knew how to read sheet music and I think the current notation has survived cause its easy to read and write. This Hummingbird notation looks relatively much more complex to me.

I've been trying to learn Perl 6 for a long time now. The PDF book is great but nothing beats a paperback style novel you can read anywhere. I got hooked onto Perl (long time back!) after reading the Programming Perl book (Camel book). IMO Perl 6 seriously needs a book release. No e-book, PDF, etc. just a old style paperback!

Set it as my desktop background. Made me realize how dirty my monitor screen was. :)

I just ordered the first three books. Will start off with Player of Games. Sad news indeed.

1. The Blind Watchmaker - Richard Dawkins 2. Anxiety, Phobias, and Panic - Reneau Z. Peurifoy

This is just brilliant!