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Some amount of people always go above the number. I have someone on my own $5 level paying $10. And it's perfectly common for people to put $3 in a $1 level. I wouldn't be surprised if the first person to take me up on my $200 level doubles it.

That said, because it's normal for people to pay more than you ask, it's not a bad idea to have a higher level or two if you have lofty goals for it.

I don't think it's really impulse spending though. Most of the people on my Patreon are people I talked to for a year or more on social media before they signed up.

>> "Minecraft: Java client development left behind with inferior investment, no feature parity with native Windows client."

You should try enabling snapshots.

I assume you're not using Google's GitHub profile as a measure since Google's has fewer repositories than Microsoft's. Where does the 2000 number come from?

Police murdering Chelsea Manning would raise lots of suspicions considering her history. A lot of police are conservative, and a lot of conservatives are mad the last president commuted her sentence.

>> If the purchase freaks you out, ask yourself if your existence is rooted in the truth and present, or in the past, where Ballmer's MSFT was an adversary of the open-source/Linux community

The truth is that Microsoft spent decades destroying and hindering competition every way they could to create and sustain a monopoly. The present is a few years of good behavior.

People are allowed to be wary. People are not obligated to give them another chance.

>> "Ah, I get it, it's value is making the people use it feel special because only "the right kind of people" will get their jokes. Just a new generation of children using slang."

You sure do have some text there.

>> "Why was that so difficult to use words to describe?"

The medium is the message.

HN doesn't support emoji, so here's an example: https://cybre.space/@Riley/100149464360818801

The meaning is immediately clear to anyone familiar with the reference. It's basically a pictographic language that leans heavily on a shared culture that's largely internet-based.

I read the whole thing.

The emojis serve a purpose. Text doesn't serve that purpose. I don't know how to describe the niche they fill with text. They're not a stand-in for emoticons.

You don't get it. It's okay. Not everything is for you.

If you haven't seen how emojis are used in the wild to enhance communication, it's probably not for you.

It sounds like an ocarina to me. Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DHecFcDhbw

I–V–vi–IV is just a chord progression. Using it does not make a song unoriginal. You can build a billion melodies on it in just one mode of a scale. Then there's all the other stuff: instrument choice, arrangement, rhythm, lyrics (if you have them).

A song is so much more than a chord progression.

For those playing along at home: modern pop favorite I–V–vi–IV is also the chord progression used in some arrangements of the 1788 classic Auld Lang Syne.

Maybe this means Netlify will speed up adding GitLab support to their CMS.

You didn't say anything about that. I've never used it, so I don't know anything about its quality.

That acquisition was almost 7 years ago under the old leadership.

Especially since Microsoft's own version control thing has this.

>> The atmosphere of holding a Game Boy connected to a bunch of audio equipment is certainly a lot different than sitting in a DAW with an emulator (assuming software exists to marry those two kinds of things... maybe via MIDI or something?)

Most chiptune-inspired synths come in VST format. They run inside the DAW. I usually just put something together in Serum when I want a chiptune-esque sound, but I used various chip synth VSTs before I had Serum.

None quite match the feel of composing in Mario Paint on a friend's SNES decades ago.

This is why people use those same Game Boys to make chiptunes instead of using a good softsynth. It might be possible to make a perfect replica of a Game Boy sound chip in software, but it's still not the real thing.

And the guillotines this time around will be aesthetically flawless engineering marvels made by people who graduated into a saturated job market.

It's the policy of redlining, outlined in this extensive history: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-cas...

The resulting economic disparity may sustain the segregation without anyone doing it on purpose anymore, but the source is clear.

People have no idea how much of their favorite music is built on the same handful of chord progressions. And it's fine because the real magic is in the notes you lay on it, the sound design, the way the different instruments work together.

There's a host of reasons why the dysfunction goes all the way down to the low efficacy of voting, but HN is notoriously unable to handle these kinds of discussions without several 500-post demon threads.

For example, people tend to get stuck in tribal thinking where one party or the other is to blame when the seeds of the problems go all the way back to the founding of the country. It's hard to shake people out of it so they can have a productive discussion even when everyone's trying to be fair and honest.

Some of my favorite people are coyotes. They get a little rowdy, but they're good conversationalists otherwise.

The Dust Bowl was among the many times nature called humanity on its hubris.

The alleged (last I checked) Deep Space 9/Babylon 5 scandal is interesting to read about. Good starting point: https://www.reddit.com/r/babylon5/comments/7qbjn7/did_deep_s...

I had to stop watching The Walking Dead because of the endless commercial breaks. At least it reliably comes to Netflix. The spinoff, on the other hand, is missing the last season. I suspect it's because AMC is pushing their own streaming service with "watch the full current season now! Don't wait!"

People who disagree with you often disagree with each other as well. This doesn't come through in a media (of all political leanings) that tends toward a narrow set of well-funded viewpoints.

Paying for early access is not a new thing. It's no different from a pre-order. It helps fund development.

If a few inches of fake fur[1] is enough to block it, I don't see how it can be tracked at a distance.

[1] (the video is loud) https://twitter.com/The_Sass_Hole/status/982519966225305600

Finally, real innovation.

Or forever, depending on the country.