tbirrell

The other way around. There are 7 notes and the accidentals give us a 12-tone chromatic scale.

Musical notes are a base-7 system denoted with the letters A-F repeating. Given that it is not a numerical system, different A's or B's (ect) are marked with numbers rather then continuing like hex. i.e. A3, E5 (etc) with lower tones being lower numbers.

To answer your question, you won't. Perfect pitch usually develops in people who have had musical training since very young childhood. Just like you can't really remember learning your native language, they can't remember learning this skill. But like everyone, they did learn it at some point.

Explain the role in management/development centric terms. Project management can be "lead a team of devs" or "managed a project". Think of it more like translating to two different languages, rather than being selective with the information you are sharing.

You could also say "not sure how these are better than buying a 2-year old pixel". If good-enough is what you want, there are a ton of options, I won't disagree. I buy latest (at the time) phones because I plan to hang onto them for 3-4 years at a time.

So its really all about what you are looking for in a phone. If you think Apple has better UX and you don't mind the direction their hardware is going or have any aversions to their ecosystem, then, by all means, get an iPhone.

yEd Graph Editor

https://www.yworks.com/products/yed https://www.yworks.com/products/yed/download

This seems super generic. Why is this tool better than any of the others? Also, smooth scroll is a blight that should be eradicated.

Not a script perse... But this runs behind the scenes to truncate excessively long paths in the terminal and present git branch and status at a glance.

For example

    (master):~/p/s/my-app$
    (mobile-css):~/p/s/m/css$

https://gist.github.com/tbirrell/459a0c65a4dbfcfe3de4669498f...

Probably that it uses CSS as opposed to SASS or LESS or some other thing that requires preprocessing.

Do you have any recommendations of where to start?

I think both are true. If someone kept a phone for 2 years on contract, anything priced over ~$750 is absorbed by the carrier (probably made up by reoffering the phone cheaper to someone who doesn't need the latest and greatest). But on the flip side, phones these days are truly impressive. And by raising the prices, Apple is choosing Quality and Speed over Cost. If they have to pump out 3 phones a year, and each has to be better, then spending more allows them to keep going.

WordPress does if I recall correctly. Though it's been a few years since I've worked with it.

As someone with synesthesia, "typecasting" one sensory experience to some other sensory experience is not the same thing at all, and will almost certainly be considered the "wrong" result by anyone with synesthesia. That sound does not make that shape/image and vice versa.

No... That's not really the point of the article. The secret sauce is that /that/ ritual, its /any/ ritual. The premise is that by doing the ritual, you are more liking to do the "correct" thing. Probably (and this is my speculation here) because thus far the "correct" thing was tied to the ritual, and as humans, we like the sense of completion, so once we start the "random" part of the ritual, we want to finish the process, which involves doing the thing.

I don't understand. Why are the points of light moving?

That obligation is separate from the right to life. It falls more under the social contract than human rights.

The right /to/ life is different from the right /of/ life.

The right to life means that no one can deprive you of your life, but neither is society obligated to ensure you have a life.

The right of life means that you are owed a life and it must be given to you by the relevant authorities.

The reason this is important because the former gives you control over your life, and the latter operates at the whim of the governing authority. To make that a little clearer, the right to life requires passive governmental involvement, the right of life requires active governmental involvement. Guess which one goes out the window as soon as its inconvenient.

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In my mind, I'm paying for convenience, not content. I can find the content I want to watch. I have for years. The reason I watch Amazon Video is because I have Prime and why not? The reason I watch Netflix is because the amount of content I want to watch that is in one place is worth the cost. It also lowers the barrier of entry to some random stuff I'd never otherwise watch. So it works for me. But I would have no issues canceling and going back to less ethical sources if the cost outgrew the convenience.

This is why I started paying for Spotify years before I paid for Netflix. It is simply easier to find music there and let it sync between my phone and computer via their service than find every single song, download it, and sync it by hand. Also, there is no way in hell I'm paying $1 per song for thousands of songs. That method is vastly more expensive with none of the conveniences (and usually some sort of lock-in, even if weak).

So in my opinion, companies need to figure out how to make their services more convenient than the alternative. Spotify figured it out, Steam Games figured it out. Netflix figured it out when it was in competition with Blockbuster and Redbox but has since lost it. The fact of the matter is, all the content is scattered across all the services, and the combined cost is not worth it. If we had different services serving all the content (similar to pandora/last.fm/spotify/youtube red) then people could pay for the service, not the content. And ultimately, the first service we are willing to pay for is convenience.

If someone has a reasonable grasp of English (Like OP appears to have). I would highly recommend Grammarly[0]. It should be able to compensate for those "frustratingly arbitrary" facets of our language.

  [0]: https://www.grammarly.com/

I clicked around for about a minute and couldn't figure out what this is or what I'm supposed to use it for.

IDK, I'd have trouble stringing together enough words to even qualifies for book-length status.

Why is this superior or YNAB or Mint, or any of the online services that I can connect to from my phone? What problem does your service solve?

If I can use the software to connect to my bank, how can I be sure its not running behind the scenes doing malicious things? How do I know an external service can't connect to my computer through your program? Or worse, connect to my bank through your program.

Also, the supported institutions search is fairly unhelpful.

This needs an RSS feed.

1) Because listening to something in my browser is a pain.

2) Manually importing to my podcatcher is a pain.

3) I'm gonna forget about this by 5, and if more episodes come out, I'd like to know without having to rely on that announcement hitting HN front page during work hours when I'd see it.

Unfortunately, in the past, the SCOTUS tends to side with law enforcement on civil asset forfeiture cases. But since Justice Thomas has spoken against it, I am cautiously optimistic that this might be the time that they rule in favor of the citizen. Civil asset forfeiture has gotten way out of hand. We really need some sort of precedent to start curbing the flagrant abuse we are seeing all over the country.

Flash memory == RAM

I think...

I think thats the point, Greece doesn't want Macedonia to be able to claim the territory of Macedonia by virtue of naming.

Okay, but who decides? Unlike ads, which are objectively present, the apparent bias of the news can be very subjective.

Because its still cheaper and easier to get a pizza from Domino's at 3am than it is from a mom n pop.

You say this like they are trying to trick me out of my money. If something like this boosted the price of pizza significantly, then perhaps I might care, but it's likely that this came from their marketing budget, and if I have a choice between Domino's and an equivalent chain, I'll probably get Domino's because it will encourage them to put more money into their marketing budget, and thus into things that benefit me as well. Plus, if other business see this as being successful for Domino's it will encourage them to invest in similar projects.

Nice idea, but all this seems to do is hide the post.

I'm more concerned about constant keyboard use exacerbating existing injuries. I don't have any caused by computer use, but all my fingers are double jointed and have a tendency to get hyperextended and hurt doing other things, such as playing american football (though I have injured my hand doing something as trivial as tucking a bedsheet in), so I'm carful about what keyboards I used since the tap-tap-tap all day will hurt otherwise.