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Well this gets subjective almost immediately, but in a general sense, not closely related to one instrument, I think of phrases as the music within the length of time (la dee da dee dum), as opposed to the length of time itself (1234, 1234). I wouldn't play a cymbal crash at the end of 8 bars if the musical climax didn't happen until the end of bar 9. The barlines aren't as important as the music sitting around them.

In an effort not to be snarky, my point is that rhythm is fractal and these are essentially just two different levels of magnification. You're absolutely right that there are conventions and implications in how they are written, but the thing about conventions (let's use a software term: "best practices") is that people's opinions on what they are tend to be heterogeneous. As a jazz musician, to me the denominator is not important, as it only represents the level of magnification. The important part is that the piece is in (some multiple of) 3.

I would argue that We Are The Champions is actually a 12/8 groove (conceptually triplets in 4/4). And we would both be right!

(1) 2 3 | (1) 2 3

and

(1) 2 3 (4) 5 6

are rhythmically identical. You're only conceptualizing them differently.

Anyway, thank you for taking the time to write this myopic and extremely condescending explanation of my area of study. I will be sure to return the favor someday.

> ONE two three | ONE two three

This phrase also has two significant beats. There's just a barline in the middle. See my point?

There is no difference between 3/4 and 6/8 unless you are trying to decide on which one makes your score easier to read. It's just different ways of conceptualizing the phrase. Mathematically (and therefore rhythmically) they are the same, of course. Maybe the site is trying to make some other differentiation but it didn't work at all in Firefox.

(Source: I am a professional drummer)

> There are a lot of people who does not know any other languages, believe it or not.

This is the only reason I can see to use this over perl (which it seems to be heavily influenced by) or python. Then again, learning how to use these higher level language features would probably require equivalent effort to just learning a beefier scripting lang such as those.

Also: As far as hack value, what a great project. I don't mean to bikeshed.

On the other hand, what percentage of developers within Apple use Homebrew? I think they still have major skin in the game, even if they aren't targeting outside developers.

I am so happy to see some of these predators get caught. A former coworker, a very smart but also very naive network engineer from the middle east, was hooked by these people shortly after immigrating. They said they were the US government and that he would be immediately deported if he didn't cooperate. He ending up sending them $30,000 if I recall correctly. :(

HN hug of death.

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> I wish their was one web platform that existed out there, that could stay stable in it's philosophy, and not succumb to embracing the chaos invoked through economic success.

An example that comes to mind is Wikipedia. Maybe the lesson here is that if you fear this happening, don't come to rely on services that are not setup as non-profits.

You'll still see promoted tweets, they'll just get more and more strange as you collect all the bigger corporate brand accounts in your blocklist.

Me (25 y.o east coast male, long-term relationship, no debt but decided due to other factors)

I agree; I have zero interest in installing software using anything other than my system's default package manager. The whole point of package management is centralization, keeping track of chaotic dependencies and install states. Having multiple package managers, that don't know about each other's state, on the system defeats the purpose entirely.

I maintain 14 AUR packages and have also never heard of this happening.

Totally. Wasn't the satirical version of facebook called lifeinvader in that game? very similar :)

The main thing that irks me on Macs is the non-standard behavior of the Home and End keys. I expect them to go the beginning or end of the line I'm typing, and in every other system they do, whereas in MacOS they usually scroll to the top or bottom of the entire page.

I love reading about the end of the commercial UNIX wars. Definitely watch this documentary filmed during a NeXT company retreat, if you haven't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNeXlJW70KQ

Casey openly talks about how the app failed. Him and Matt Hackett's interview on the YC Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvK-CgzxSdM

I've noticed some sites hijacking Alt-ArrowKeys now, too. Since backspace was deprecated, that means those websites prevent the user from using the keyboard to go Back. Very frustrating.

Wow, I've been passively interested in getting a GoPro camera for a long time, but knowing their remote control requires a cloud service (I thought it was local wifi) is a total dealbreaker. Same with Hue lights. It is absolutely ridiculous for the customer to be locked out of their own hardware.

It still uses pacman.

I can't confirm this, but it feels like Arch linux has surged in popularity over the last ~3-4 years. I ditched Debian for Arch in 2016 and haven't looked back.

Turning off location history in your account settings is also important, but turning off location services on your phone will prevent the messages from appearing (since Google will, in theory, not have your location readily available).

Just turn off location services on the phone unless you really need them.

A fresh installation of Windows 10 Professional has advertisements for Candy Crush in the start menu. I don't think anyone's overreacting.

That was fun :)

Seems like a fun (if not particularly effective) way to test CSS graceful degradation too.

How many Googlers are using Linux for their everyday work? I assumed MacOS had as strong a hold on Google engineers as those anywhere else. I personally don't like using MacOS and would be thrilled to see more developers using open source systems.

Wow, $75 for 15/3... I wish them well but that is seriously not competitive at all.

It's a reference to a statement the current president made during his campaign.

This. I am reasonably confident in my security on the client side, but my credit union's janky ASP site does not inspire confidence at all.

HN Tabs are like an unstoppable cancer. I'm on XFCE and I have a whole workspace dedicated to over a year's worth of articles, books, discussions, etc from HN that "I'll eventually get around to reading".