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Well. I loved the piece you linked! 22-TET does not sound nearly as dissonant to my ears as 15 does. Thank you for sharing.

I tried listening to a 15-tone ET piano piece ones. Sure, maybe I'm not worthy, and too limited in my musical understanding (although I have been a musicians since the age of 6 and i'm now 43), but it just sounded like a piano out of tune. 12-tet is more than enough to experiment with for the rest of my life

Absolutely amazing. I'm a coder and a musician and I've been complaining to myself about a certain tendency to repetition in my compositions lately, this is amazing stuff to break patterns.

can you elaborate?

Falcone (a man who knew a thing or 50 about organized crime) said that once you have taken money out of the hands of organized crime they are dead. Freeze accounts, suspend influx, cut the pipe. Without subventions to the south, the Mafia has nowhere to pick that money up.

Honestly - how long more can Lombardy help the South. The freaking dogs on the street know about the Cassa Del Mezzogiorno. My father emigrated from Naples in the 60s and found a job in Lombardy, where he met my (Lombard) mother. I emigrated from Lombardy to Ireland. Not advocating emigration at all costs, but certainly governments of the last 50 years have advocated centralization and unfair redistribution of wealth to the detriment and frustration of the North. The South of Italy has so much potential (between UNESCO/POIs sites and wonderful landscape, tourism alone would get everybody employed year round), how it remained poor all these years is a mystery that goes beyond reductive punts on organized crime.

> yet 10 hours after we do not even know precisely how many people have voted.

hehe - and that's why this piece of news is on hacker news.

the whole debate always seems very confused to me. SQL refers to the language with which you interact with a database, NoSQL refers to the database system itself and it's normally used as opposed to traditional RDBSs. So really the debate should be either SQL vs NON-SQL interfaces or RDBS vs NoSQL databases. Also NoSQL meaning "not only SQL" means SQL can be a subset of NoSQL, so the debate is over. Really we should review the terminology of this entire subject...

that's right, they are american. Sicilian immigrants could barely afford beef in their native Sicily, so when they started having a little more money in their pockets in America, they started adding beef to everything. Which is where spaghetti with meatballs comes from as well. No italian has ever had spaghetti with meatballs.

hey @ldehaan i'd love to hear more about the shortcomings of Loki, i never had a real-life need for really high volumes so I would greatly appreciate some insights in order to improve it.

syncing isn't as straight forward mainly because not all DBs have replication protocols like CouchDB does. However, LokiJS provides a Changes API which serializes changes from a set point in time so you can easily process those.

this is actually something we are playing with :) we have a couple of drafts in the pipe but you are welcome to bring some wisdom over to LokiJS - it's free for all to use and for all to contribute, even if it's just on a theoretical level. Cheers

the destructuring for optional arguments is a very useful use-case I had not thought of. Nice post!

yeah sure - I was a bit troll-ish in the language. Let me elaborate. Imba is a spin-off of javascript intended for front-end use whose syntax is a mix of coffeescript, jsx and python as well Ruby imho; that said, please name a single use case in which Ruby will be without a doubt the #1 language for performance, scalability and all the other aspects involved in maintaining a business (including availability of programmers). Ruby is only second to PHP, which is just unreedemable (I'm even certified on it... http://www.zend.com/en/yellow-pages/ZEND005898 so don't think I'd refrain from criticizing languages I know, even very well).

This is good! Now take away all the unnecessary references to that pile of junk that is ruby and it'll be great.

Funny, when i make a mistake i exclaim "what the!" instead of "the fuck". "wot" is my suggestion for a better name.

Being Italian and accustomed to such stories (and very much an ancient and medieval history enthusiast, so not dismissing the importance of this discovery) my curiosity goes to the hypothetical menu of Trattoria Faggiano.

disclaimer: self-submission (author of LokiJS).

It's precisely why I created LokiJS in the first place, then it grew much bigger than that but yeah - that is where it all came from.