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There are two distinct marketplaces for guitars, and almost any musical instrument. There is the 'beginner' level, which is basically school aged children where parents may purchase a guitar for them for school, or private lessons. This is where most big chain music stores aim at.

Then there is the high end collector market, who spend the big bucks, and often purchase multiple guitars to stash away. Most guitar companies (such as Fender) try to become the 'be all and end all' across this range. Fender do have a high end custom shop to cater for the more wealthy or boutique market, but at the end of the day, they are spread pretty thin with their Mexican range, USA Standard range, Custom shop range etc.

The biggest problem with the low end market is that kids these days just don't seem to realise the work ethic required to become proficient at guitar. I've played for over 40 years, I have two young sons who play, and I have done some teaching. Lots of kids seem to think that they can be playing at a performance level after only a couple of lessons (perhaps Guitar Hero has something to do with that?), and they quickly become disenchanted and lose interest once they realise the gruelling (boring) practice routine that they have to repeat over and over again in order to build muscle memory etc.

But for a lot of beginners who approach me, I try and model the same thing I do when learning a new programming language, i.e. the best way to learn - REALLY learn - a new language is to actually build something with it. Which is why I find that it is useful to get a kid to tell me his favourite song, and just work out the melody or the riff to the song and build on that, just to keep their interest going and make the inconvenience of the other exercises less of a burden.

The world is also sadly lacking in 'guitar heroes' these days. Not the game, but actual players. Guys like Hendrix, Page and Clapton inspired kids in the 60's and 70's. Van Halen etc. in the 80's, but then the guitar solo ceased to be a central 'thing' in most bands. Modern guitar players like Joe Bonamassa, Guthrie Govan or Julian Lage etc. just don't pull the crowds in like they used to.
Downvote me all you like, but the circulation of individual right-wing nationals like the Sun and Mail exceeds the circulation of all the left leaning newspapers (basically only the Guardian, the Mirror and the i since the Independent folded its offline operation due to lack of sales...) put together. It's hard to argue that "left leaning market forces are stronger" when the right leaning press has more outlets and the individually dominant news source in every category.

It's also pretty hard to argue that the left-wing, Remain-backing Guardian's doesn't publish a lot more commentary criticising the shortcomings of globalisation and berating international capital than pieces extolling its virtues.
First one I'd seen that campaign, absolutely atrocious.

I've been working like that for the last couple of months the and it's really not healthy. It has been at the expense of every other part of my life, I had my own reasons but will be returning to a more balanced approach.
iOS 10 still hasn't got the ability to turn off syncing between certain hours

You can set Do Not Disturb between certain hours on iOS.
View source suggests that your site relies on a commercial conversion service to do all its work. Is there some value you are adding that I'm not seeing?
That Surface Pro commercial struck me similarly. Working 14-hour days is a sign of something terribly wrong, far from being an accomplishment to boast about or to promote.

Several months ago I started leaving my laptop charger at work, so that the time I spend on the computer at home is limited to the battery life. As a result, I stopped staying up late (2am-), which has been a life-long habit until then.

Two weeks ago, I stopped bringing my laptop home. As a result, I've been reading a lot more, going to sleep early, waking up early, and being more productive at work despite spending less time working.
Downvoting is pretty childish, really: moderators want to avoid wind-up merchants and rightly so but too many kids are just enjoying the ride.
I don't see how this addresses the point that millions of people are suffering due to automation. Are you saying only the well off should be able to have kids?
Almost half the world will be online by end of 2016
I have not used ruby extensively, but a lot of times i had to install something with it i got stuck with version conflicts of ruby itself and package deps.

In my python workflow everything lives within a project virtualenv. Dependencies are defined in setup.py with install_requires, extras_require and tests_require. I build against latest, version constraints are added mostly when the latest version of a package has a problem.

Now when i commit to dev, stage or prod branch our ci generates a version pinned requirements.txt which is used to install the virtualenv on stage/prod.

I don't really see the improvements in Pipfile, feels like https://xkcd.com/927/.
>K12 teachers don't want students distracted by phones in class. It's much easier to police which physical device a student is handling than which capability they're exercising.

...Which is why they get away with it. But the calculators are still absurdly overpriced.

Besides, any student can load all sorts of software onto those calculators fairly trivially.
maybe I should have said supposed to be human readable. I share your sentiment. I saw a comment on here once justifying that claim by saying something along the lines of "but if you look at the text and ignore the symbols you get the gist", which is not the original promise of Eve in my opinion [0]

Edit: found the source:
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12819973
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> trade tariff's high enough to make manufacturing things like steel cost effective again in the US

Nota: steel is cost-effective in the US given a modern (and automated) enough plant. As of 2015 the US are the #4 largest steel producer in the word[0], #2 being Japan (the top 10 is China, Japan, India, USA, Russia, South Korea, Germany, Brazil, Turkey, Ukraine). Though part of that may be existing tariffs (US steel production is mostly internal, it's the #11 exporter and #1 net importer of steel)

Global steel employment has fallen like a brick since its heydays, even China's rise in steel jobs and production since the augths haven't compensated for the jobs lost to automation and efficiency increases (at mostly constant production outside of China).

[0] country-specific, excluding the EU block
Having spent a year at a marketing agency, I can imagine this being the case. People took pride in how long they stayed in the office. It was common to see people still there at 10pm (myself included, I'm ashamed to say).
I contributed to this kind of development (It was still a prototype when I left) and AFAIR you can use some ethernet to optic fiber converters. Thoses devices will spit out (or ingest on the other side) one fiber for RX and one fiber for TX, so it makes the creation of the gap very easy. I don't exactly remember the device name though..
Tell that to McDonalds, Marlboro and hundreds of others.

A big, capitalistic company's only goal is to satisfy their stakeholders, nothing more.
If you want to get a sense of what this was like in the "old days," read about Charlie Porter spending nine days, alone, climbing a new, difficult route on Mount Asgard [0], in the Baffin Mountains.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Asgard
And an inbuilt chat :)
The only assumption I made is that childcare is not available at 3am
Sorry- this was a link to an article, although I think it looked like a "no url" post. Fixed it now.
Yes, I noticed that too. Perhaps the writer could have clarified and mentioned 'Classical guitar' or 'Nylon string guitar' as what he meant. Most 'acoustic guitars' are steel stringed, and have a MUCH heavier gauge than electric guitars, thus making it more difficult for a beginner to fret notes and chords.

But look at any entry level (sub $200) guitar and the biggest problems aren't going to be the type of strings, but rather the height of the action (distance from the strings to the fretboard), uneven frets or warped necks - all of which would even make a pro player curse and struggle.

Which is why whenever a parent or friend approaches me to ask what guitar they should buy their kids, I always say to avoid the really cheap ones and go for the mid range ones, which usually have markedly better build quality. That way also, when little Johnny or Susie decides guitar is not for them, there is better resale value in a mid range guitar.
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> Lots of kids seem to think that they can be playing at a performance level after only a couple of lessons

That's not just kids and guitar, it's everyone and everything. Most people have a high-level concept of "I would like to be good at X" without actually liking X, they just like the perks that come with being good at it. These people quit after realizing how much effort it's going to be, be it playing an instrument, programming or woodworking.

> the best way to learn - REALLY learn - a new language is to actually build something with it

That's the best way to learn anything, i.e. to like the process of learning, and the best way to like the process of learning is to work on something you like working on. Nobody likes doing scales, even though they're necessary, so you have to intersperse it with something that will keep people practicing.
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There's actually a nice feature regarding that in Google Inbox. It has adopted the approach first featured in Opera 12's mail client:

Have all mail pre-filtered into categories with a bayesian (or similar) filter trained by the user themselves.

What this means in practice is that you have a bunch of categories for emails that are not urgent, like purchase receipts, ads, mailing lists, etc. and you teach inbox which of the mails you receive belong in there, just through the simple act of moving emails in and out.

Emails in those categories don't trigger notifications.

And for the kinds of emails you consider urgent, you move them out of the category they're in, let Inbox know "don't categorize this type of mail".

Only those trigger notifications.

The result of this is that your phone acts like a secretary on your emails. It sorts them into various inboxes for you so you can review them later on, or lets you know if something came in you might want to look at immediately. It's not perfect, sure, it's more akin to a 12 year old playing secretary. However it certainly stems the "tide" without forcing you to cut yourself off entirely, providing a nice medium you can use for normal work time, leaving DND mode for when you actually need exactly that.
Coolness - I must have been looking in the wrong area (Mail Account Settings). Is there another spot where I can set that?
I don't think adding symlinks to / takes away a meaningful amount of time from the people working on drivers.

I think you're gonna have a hard time convincing people these days that the answer to all the scenarios you listed shouldn't just be "lol cloud", too. :/
Your dad's a smart man. I have an hour or so to myself every morning, and some days, I'm fairly certain that's the only thing that keeps me sane.
I would argue, that it's better to mount / as RO and remount /var, /home as RW.
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It's entirely possible that he's only worked in companies that don't recognize talented people and treat them as just another cog in the machine.

I think outside of a few tech hotspots (and even to a large extent, within them), this is pretty normal, and you can judge this by seeing the pretty terrible average quality of code in most companies.
I'm glad there are people rethinking how we develop programs. But as a web developer, the examples in Eve looks more complex then a naive implementation using vanilla CSS, HTML and JavaScript would look like, for example, how do you make something 10 pixels wider in Eve ?
Two relevant books I recommend:

Deep Work (an article by the author was recently on HN): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00X47ZVXM/

Essentialism: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G1J1D28/
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As usual, the article grossly oversimplifies the position of the people in it, and the discussion on HN focuses on the gross oversimplifications.

Better to hear it from the horse's mouth eg:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56wra39lwA

https://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0019.html

https://mollyrocket.com/casey/stream_0020.html

You might still disagree, but at least you'll have something coherent to disagree with.
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Article mashes up a valid grievance with an irrelevant attack on the quality of Marvel films. Anger is a powerful tool, but it can really weaken your argument if not used with precision.

I also think the message of this particular advert doesn't justify the strength of this attack.
Seems like hyperbole. That's a single line in a single video of an executive at a different company.

DHH on that self-promotion game
> I mean even most of the mobile people were web devs once...

What makes you think that? Most native UI developers I know have never been web devs.
Cool, thanks for positive feedback!
Custom domains will hopefully make it before the end of the year. Will try to get there faster if possible.
I'm saying that the solution to this problem won't come from creating fake work to trick people into thinking that they're productive members of society.

And honestly everyone should be having fewer kids, but the well off already are. Turns out that evolutionary and economic forces of selection don't favor people reproducing beyond their means. People can mistake this emergent property for a planned eugenics program and blame the messenger whenever somebody speaks the truth, but better to realize that wanting all human life to have some intrinsic market value does not make it so and plan accordingly.
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ok, based on this I'm going to give him another go.

Wake had some great ideas but I thought they weren't knitted together particularly well. And all that stuff with the two folk musicians and the playwright was pointless.

Edit: Now that I think of it, if Song of Stone had been the first Iain Banks book I read, I would not have read more.
Klarna is good alternative to Paypal, I am always satisfied with service they deliver in nordics.

Dominance of US in internet should be challenged more by europeans so we need european startups to grow a bit more over here.
https://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+to+set+dnd+on+iphone
RapidAPI raises $3.5M from Andreessen Horowitz
> SoC like Lattepanda can run full version of Windows. I speculate that flagship phones by MS will have Intel chip in it

LattePanda demands a 10W power supply (5V@2W), good luck getting that in a phone.
By the time this is in place it's likely a high end phone will easily be sufficient for average computing. You won't run VMs on it but it should be comparable in power to an iPad Pro.
I never once heard someone say that acoustic guitars are easier to play than electrics. It goes without saying that the first thing you do when you buy a guitar and pull off the strings and put on something else. The stock strings are, more often than not, old, out of tune, and feel terrible. I use Elixer, which are soft and easy to play.

Maybe guitar stores should start tossing in a free set of good strings with every new purchase. This would keep the complaints down, I think. Long term, a guitarist will keep going back for the good string as well.

But Fender as a brand is facing a few issues.

First, the death of the rock star, so to speak, but more specifically, the death of the 70s rock star. There are so many brands to choose from that are equally as good, if not far superior, to Fender for the price point. Fender is still riding on the Strat and Tele, looks that haven't been updated for many years, and the quality of the pickups haven't kept up with the times, especially on the lower end models.

When you are talking about the low-end, meaning guitars up to $500 or so, Fender doesn't offer much that is convincing. For $500, you can buy an Epiphone SG or Les Paul + Orange practice amp for about that price point. It's hard to argue here considering this is a professional grade setup that one would keep and use for their entire life, really.

People quit playing music because playing music is really hard. Even if you are only going to strum C-G-E all your life, getting good at strumming those chords takes considerable practice and conviction. If you want to play leads well, that's a huge rabbit hole.

I think that every musician I've met is plain and simple, a music junky. This was much easier to spot in the old days, as this person would carry around a binder of CDs and read liner notes on the bus. Today, it is harder to spot, but the dead giveaway is someone who lives and breathes music naturally. This person listens to Lady Gaga with the same zeal as they listen to Led Zepelin. This person is now interested in discovering who inspired their favorite bands and they leap down a crazy rabbit hole and try to figure out why the heck all of the shredders are covering Bach, Beethoven, and Paganini. After all of this, they are excited to show you a brand new song by the Junior Boys they discovered on YouTube. If you don't "get" why this person has a wide and apparently conflicting taste in music, you have a natural musician on your hands and get that music instrument.

I don't know, I may be overstating the spirit of a musician, but honestly, I've never met one who didn't have some surprising influences and tastes, and I never met one who couldn't appreciate a night of eclectic open mics. The point is, to play music, you have to be willing to suffer, which includes chopping your fingers up on guitar strings or putting ice on your crimped next from holding a violin for 3 hours. It takes an innate drive and desire that is inexplicable to those who left their instruments for the dust.

Unfortunately, Fender can't make a musician, but they can still sell guitars to those who want to try it out, and that's not a bad thing.
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Is a US factory with a lot of robots better than an foreign factory with people paid less than $8/hour? The rise of the robots is being held back by cheap humans.
>Almost everyone who picks up a guitar, about 90 percent, abandons it within the first year, according to Mooney.

I'd guess that a similar 90+% of beginners quit the clarinet, violin, piano, drums, etc.

If the macro trend of hobbyist guitar playing has declined, I think it's correlated with its lack of prominence in current music.

For curiosity's sake, I just clicked through the top songs on Billboard Hot 100 chart[1]. As of today November 22, 2016, the top 20 songs do not have any obvious guitars. It's all synths, electronic beats, and other artificial sound effects. The first song with obvious guitars is the country song "May We All" by Florida Georgia Line sitting at position 30.

In previous decades with higher guitar sales, you had the popularity of 50s Elvis, 60s Beatles, 70s Led Zeppelin, 80s hair metal bands, 90s Nirvana, etc. It's easier for guitar novices to stay motivated when everything on the radio had lots of guitars in it. At the moment, the zeitgeist is electronic music until guitars make a comeback in mainstream pop. However, it's possible guitars will never become fashionable again and will recede further into isolated genres like country and folk music.

[1]http://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100
I turned off the counter too. I found that red dot way too stressful.
It might be that Apple did that but do you think American employees will be as "flexible" and cheap as Chinese? If American factory workers are willing to work for less then Chinese your argument definitely holds.
But this can be better.

I'll have taken about 8 weeks holiday this year. But for about half of it I'll do 30 min or even 2 hours work. Actually it's been less than half.

That's a pretty sweet deal. I've still got that ability to take a good few contiguous days off, completely relaxing so to speak. But I'm more relaxed after spending 5 min checking on progress in my absence, as I know when I come back to work full time, it won't be hell.
This may be true today but the technology is evolving faster then humans are.
One thing I find with google Inbox which makes it indispensable on mobile is the ability to schedule times for notifications for individual addresses, groups and/or folders. Weekly, hourly, never.. whatever.
Ukrainian here. I've only seen 4m kitchen once in my life, and it was in apartment in 120 y.o. building. In all the USSR-era apartments the kitchen was at least 8sqm.
Thanks! Really like your project as well. We're kinda trying to solve the same problem, but with totally different approaches :)
Yes, and by creating such a public resentment they won't satisfy their stakeholders.

So it's our job to write articles like DHH wrote and make them as visible as possible. No company is able to foresee all the negative consequences they can cause (they should try, however, because it will and should hurt them).

It's up to the society to create strong negative signals that will counteract and negate positive economic signals coming from any activities harmful to the society.
I agree. The critical question isn't "should I be attending a meeting when I'm walking in the countryside?". It's "what's the alternative?"

If it's that you can be walking in the countryside when you would previously have had to come into the office for a meeting, then that's great.

If, on the other hand, it's that you've now got no excuse for not working in times you would previously have been resting, then that's pretty bad.

I work in a company that offers pretty good flexibility. You aren't expected to be answering your emails when you're on holiday, but you are often able to work from home if that helps with your particular situation.

I've got my kid's school play in a few weeks, and I could not do a full day in the office and get back to watch it. But I can stay at home, work in the morning and the evening, and then go to the play in the afternoon. I could also choose to take the entire day off as holiday of course, but then I'd be losing a day's holiday. I appreciate this kind of flexibility.

Of course, there's plenty of companies who take the opposite tack - if you've got a work phone, you're now available to be working 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The advert at the bottom is pretty poor, because it seems to be very much pushing that message.

But most of the original ones could be read either way.
Good tip - Yes, I do have this filtering turned on in my two main email accounts, so that sales emails, newsletters, family emails etc. (even some system related alerts) all get filtered into separate folders so I don't get the constant 'dings' and don't see the app notification counter climbing like an F1 car odometer! Google Mail/Inbox is very good at this, and I have never missed any important client emails this way.

However, it would be nice if the dings completely stopped of their own accord, say, after 6pm and didn't resume again until about 8am. (I know I can do this manually as other have suggested, but I would really like to 'baby' my phone less and have it figure out these things itself, or let me set it.)

After all, if the Google App can work out when I start my car and connect my phone to my car Bluetooth on a Wednesday evening, that I am going to my mom's place for dinner, and it tells me how long it will take to get there, surely it can extend itself to holding off all emails for the evening so I can enjoy a nice family dinner? :-)