I doubt it. I think most everyone using social media has shined a spotlight on it though.
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>> That's an easy opinion to have when it's not your livelihood.
> Isn't this sensationalist?
No.
Does consumer centric focus necessitate draconian developer policies?
Holding the mouse button to look around is awkward, but it was fun!
If more democrats stayed in the race after South Carolina instead of all dropping out like flies the day before super tuesday, there is decent chance he would be the nominee right now.
Following politics right now is thoroughly disheartening; it does nothing to help my day to day, nor does it really affect it.
I can't imagine trying to administrate / police all of the people / content on youtube. It's an impossible task. There are hundreds of millions of users with thousands of hours of content being generated every second of every day. It also cost more to run than it generates, so it's practically a public service. I wish there were more customization for recommendations though.
That said, i also think production value in popular channels has really skyrocked the last few years. We've entered kind of a golden age for user generated content, for better or worse. It is very entertaining but very much more addicting.
For example, i watched a guy for years who reviewed classic synthesizers and made silly songs. He has recently made an entire 2hr documentary on the history of ARP synthesizers with engineer interviews and everything! It is like some Ken Burns level stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l31RXiVSI9s Nothing on youtube existed like this a few years ago. It is an amazing world we live in now.
Lately, most/all of the recommendations are based globally on every video i've ever watched, so the recommendations are almost the same no matter what video i watch, so it's tougher to discover new things. For some reason, it insists on constantly recommending videos i have watched before, which is annoying. Maybe it's because i use youtube as a music player often and i do repeat videos. It is amazing for video game OSTs, which i enjoy and are hard to find anywhere else.
I could certainly see how this could lead people into isolated thought bubbles, especially with how the algorithm is lately compared to a few years ago, it has happened with myself to some extent.
It was designed for desktops, as Jobs stated in his thoughts, it really requires a keyboard and a mouse for most SWF's to work properly. It also became feature rich and power hungry at a time when Mobile devices were taking off, so it was never going to run on the mobile devices of the day. This is all besides the fact that its custom networking features were proprietary, highly exploitable and notoriously buggy.
It was great for it's day, and still has features and advantages in animation and networking that JS Canvas or Node can't equal today; but it had to go. I loved Flash and worked as an AS3 dev professionally, so i wanted it to succeed as much as anyone, but it did not adapt or fix its issues so it had to die. Good riddance.
A WASM / Node / Canvas combination with a development GUI similar to Flash that all but bypasses HTML and CSS would be amazing; and if done correctly, possibly revolutionary. It is my dream project for some future time....
There are many things that i do not miss about Flash, and i do think it had to go due to becoming a security hole infested bloated mess and running terribly on smartphones; but boy do i miss that development GUI... and i loved Actionscript 2 and even 3, you know, when they worked...
I am surprised with all of the technology and VSTs we have now no one really uses self adjusting Just intonation or challenges A 440. Musical / mathematical / technical ability are a rare trinary intersection. It saddens me that no one is really trying to push the envelope of acoustic instruments or even new ways of producting digital sound. It's the same old Square and Saw waves with the same instruments we have had for hundreds of years. Sadly i think musicianship has all but died in Gen Z, quantization / pitch correction / take splicing / overuse of compression are rampant, and every popular artist is basically as fake as Milli Vanilli. Protools has raised a generation of lazy and uncreative musicians with awful rhythm. Get off my lawn! Ok i'm done.
I usually compose with a Major or Minor key in mind, but it's kind of a reference and not a be all end all. I like sharp 4's which work great usually and don't fit in either key. A flat 7 sounds great in a major key too, usually. I agree with you mostly, and i am annoyed by people who are adamant about the rules of a key, but it helps me to have a key in mind to both play and compose, even if i break the rules of it.
I find improvising on piano / guitar is nearly impossible if you don't know the key, even after many years of playing both.
Modern science has no idea! I've researched a fair bit. We don't know how the brain intreprets frequency combinations or why different ones sound good or bad together or evoke certain moods. Math can explain harmonics and the circle of fifths and how to assemble keys and modes, sure, but no one knows the Why or How of the internals between the ears. It is just cultural bias and repetition that we intrepret some note and chord combinations a certain way or is there something more fundamental going on with the hardware? Good question! Nobody knows.
All we have is anecdotal evidence and the trial and error of the musicians and composers who make it. Music is still a mystery.
Sure, HTML 5 can do everything Flash can do but there is nothing even close to that envioronment for making interactive animation and full games.