georgebonnr

Maybe one of the lessons we're learning from removing all the gatekeepers is that Michelin stars aren't a truly objective form of assigning value. Or, value doesn't exist in a vacuum -- it depends on the application, and maybe the applications aren't what gatekeepers say they are.

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best example I can think of! https://www.patreon.com/bay12games

"We're just ordinary guys" And ladies, etc.

Check out his facebook feed... a theme definitely emerges. https://www.facebook.com/richard.eng1

I absent-mindedly opened this in a new tab along with a few other Hacker News stories. Was very confused for a few minutes. Good job!

Actually you'd want the mastering engineer's gear, not the mix engineer. And they both almost never use headphones to do the bulk of their work - it's almost always specialized studio monitors.

Surprised nobody's commented yet about the jarring juxtaposition of the running chat that reflects the sentiment of average Youtube viewers alongside content that's meant for a fairly specific audience (developers).

Or rather... how discouraging it is that it IS such a juxtaposition.

It's well-known by now that Youtube is not the place to go to find quality discussion. It still stings a little bit to see it applied in realtime to people you care about, even if it is just because you loosely share a profession and professional culture.

+1 on the historic arcade. Fisherman's Wharf is a nightmare, but that place is a hidden gem – more interesting than most museums you could go to.

Dave is a great speaker, btw. EDIT re timeouts: Well, that's disappointing! Gotta find the code and re-run it. I presume the point of the talk was still that ng 2.0 is at least as fast as react.

The search on the homepage is confusing to the point of seeming broken. I clicked 'Areas' and selected a few different neighborhoods in SF. Nothing happened. Clicked away. Nothing happened. Clicked the out-of-the-way, 'search' button (which was confusing because it was too wide to be a button and looked almost more like its true calling life was to be an input field). I don't think anything happened? Closed page.

Makes for an impressive read... perhaps too impressive. Reeks of curve-fitting to me. "For instance, if I heard something—a melody, a chord progression—that had an emotional attraction for me, I would draw attention to it in the mix, repeating it and developing it further if necessary." Sounds like a dressed-up version of n monkeys at n typewriters. Let them go, and when you finally see something that's identifiable to you as a word – "dog", tell them to type that more often. So every 20th word is "dog", with pseudo-randomness continuing underneath. We would never enjoy reading a short story consisting of this, but because repetition is one of the most important foundations of music listening (http://aeon.co/magazine/culture/why-we-love-repetition-in-mu...), this works.

To me, while the project seemed interesting to work on, and most people would call the music beautiful, it doesn't really amount to what it's purported to represent.

Another (to me) important point: a lot of the compositions, with some notable exceptions, don't stray far from the pentatonic scale – or the individual elements are pentatonic in relation to themselves. The pentatonic scale is 5 notes that, to western audiences, always sound relatively pleasing in relation to the other 4. You could play something literally completely random in a pentatonic scale (perhaps with certain broad rhythmic restrictions), and western audiences would enjoy it. If anything, I think this is just evidence that the process was actually carefully shaped at every step of the way by human tastes and intuition. The computer was truly more of a servant than a collaborator.

I think more than a couple of people still buy guitar amps!

I think more than a couple of people still buy guitar amps.

Evernote Premium, and that's pretty much it.

It has its flaws, but it's made a big difference as a catch-all brain bin for me.

Austin?

Looks cool. FYI a game called Cards for Humanity exists http://cfh.io/

This is legit.

That is all.

It's called Evernote.

At least anecdotally, things like this don't help. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6293170

The silver lining to robots taking our jobs: remaining occupations will much better align with, extend and fulfill us in our humanity.

I think the only thing that would dissuade me from working at this company is the poor communication of these rules.

There is an easy way to communicate clear goals and principles without sounding passive aggressive and authoritarian. This writer obviously wasn't aware of it didn't care. I can handle high expectations. But I would be miserable somewhere where poor communication was the norm.

I tend to agree with the article... while people can be mean anywhere, seems like there's a certain confluence of characteristics and circumstances that allows "jerks" to have an outsize place in the tech industry.

But I suppose to look on the bright side, I'd rather have somebody be a jerk to my face, even if it is subtle and insidious, than have them pretend to be my buddy and then stab me in the back.

I'll take being surrounded by jerks over trying to navigate some of the intricately constructed, intensely political environments that are common in the business world.

Seems like you don't see as many blog posts or thought pieces about it as opposed to other cultural issues in the industry, like gender imbalances or "startup culture" minutiae.

(p.s. in case somehow it's not clear, this is in reference to this: http://marissamayr.tumblr.com/post/60336044815/geeking-out-o...)

Looks herky jerky and overwrought on my machine. Don't mind the idea, just seems exaggerated in the execution.

And what is going on with the exclamation mark by the search bar when you visit this page? http://www.yahoo.com/dailylogo sigh...

If you watch the video the logo looks fantastic from 0:25 to about 0:33. And then everything goes to shit.

I would think they would need more than anybody right now to broadcast a fresh and youthful design. This doesn't seem to be either. Odd...