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To be fair, as soon as you start messing with swing, it's no longer strictly a "grid" you're limited to. Timing and breaking the rules is where musical talent starts dancing with grids and boxes.

Ableton even recommend thinking beyond machine-perfect rhythm.
https://www.ableton.com/en/blog/get-swing-drum-programming-t...

I find it funny the term "humanizing" is used in regards to adding swing. I guess no worse than a term like "moderate rock".
Oh man that is a rabbit hole you don't want to go down. Modern software synths are extremely complex, but also extremely powerful.

I mean, look at the interface for Serum, probably the best synth on the market right now:

https://d84g6yundlaof.cloudfront.net/assets/serum/serumall-b...

It looks like an airplane's cockpit.

Sound design is a whole another part of music. Most amateur musicians don't even bother with it because it is way to technical to master. They just use presets.

I personally hate it, but if you have a technical bent, you might enjoy it
Says more about how long I haven't used a MS OS than anything but I initially had a 5 second "why are they installing it on their floppy drive?" moment there :-)
This looks like an iPad / tablet charging stand with speakers and better mic -- which there are plenty of in the market. You can get one of these for $20 (or $99 if Apple makes it!). Amazon is just hoping that the success of Echo will push this forward. This will be another Fire incident for Amazon.
I actually wrote a House Bill for Montana in 2013 that would have been a pretty comprehensive privacy law for the state. My friend Dan tried his best to get it passed, but it was a bit too much new code for legislators to stomach. Thankfully Dan has broken the original legislation down into smaller parts and has really succeeded in improving privacy in Montana.

https://legiscan.com/MT/text/HB400/2013
In the Army, yes. But "every Marine is a rifleman".
Of course I agree that if someone can simply move to a better working situation, they should; that seems tautological. In practice, doing this takes preparation, and you can never really know what to expect until you've already made the jump. It's important to realize that going nomad any time work goes sideways will lead to a lot of instability over a period of years.

It seems a more tenable solution is to control the response to one's working environment and then seek to control/improve the working environment, leaving the mirage of greener pastures as a last resort.
Right, but who would take out a $750k loan on a $8.5M house?

I concede I lack the data to prove my point, but common sense would tell you that these loans are almost all within the middle class home bracket.
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Sadly, that is not out of ordinary. Learning how to achieve in such environment would be useful to you.
It is currently in-place at $1m of mortgage debt, and this fact was mentioned numerous times in TFA. It was mentioned in the article that Rep. Keith Ellison wants to move that number down to $500k.
Yes, it's a lot better for small creative projects where the work has been done and it just needs to fund a print run.
> you can ask your contacts to install an app if it's useful enough.

Sure, for personal devices, but with business devices, installing an app can be a multi-month approval process.
I'm kind of flexible on my terminology, perhaps more flexible than others, since my approach to testing has largely been self-taught from the experience of several shops.

To me, unit tests are when I'm testing the behavior of a "thing" in "isolation", for some definitions of those terms – and yes, I agree that those definitions vary greatly. However, I don't agree with you that the flexibility of the definition is an issue.

Integration testing for me is when I'm testing system interfaces, so I'm focusing on how my systems behave when they come together. Sometimes I do this in isolation, using stub services or even internal stubs to simulate another system's behavior, but generally I do it with an actual system when it's convenient.

I don't generally use the term functional testing because I personally think it's ambiguous – I'm testing functionality in either case! But I suspect our differences really just boil down to how you slice it. If you prefer to divide tests into black-box vs white-box, but don't care as much about the specific level of isolation involved in the test, functional testing is perhaps the term you'd prefer. I prefer to categorize tests in terms of the amount of isolation I'm using, in which case I'm basically thinking unit, integration, e2e.
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Students don't have office jobs. Get a real job and suddenly things like Outlook or TB make a lot of sense. Webmail is ultimately overly limiting compared to a native client for many common work-related use cases. Not to mention, your phone email app is an email client.

I like to think of myself as being minimalist and flexible in some ways, but if I started a company tomorrow I could see myself springing for Outlook running the front end for a postfix/dovecot server just for the convenience.
> "It is difficult to think of another social policy that more successfully multiplies America’s inequality in such a sweeping fashion."

> "In 2015," "That same year, the federal government dedicated nearly $134 billion to homeowner subsidies."

The article author isn't thinking of the Fed's various QE programs, which have subsidized lenders through the purchase of ~1.8 Trillion in mortgage-backed securities over a five year period after the financial crisis. MID is a drop in the bucket next to that.

If you treated the 1.8T as a single 30 year mortgage at, say, %3.5 interest, that's about a 10 Billion/month mortgage payment we're collectively carrying to bail out whoever sold those MBS to the Fed. That's about the same as the aggregate homeowner subsidies mentioned in the article.
The articles subjects definitely highlight that. But it also highlighted income inequality. If people don't earn enough they have no chance at saving. High rents are not helpful. They should be talking about ways to incentivize lower rents.
> I always wondered why musicians keep up with the
> conventional musical notation system, and haven't come
> up with something better (maybe a job for a HNer?).

Before starting down that path, I would recommend familiarizing yourself with the wide range of music notations that already exist and continue to be used, and then the ridiculously varying plethora of failed alternative music notations that have been invented over the centuries, and why they failed to see wider adoption.

And, of course, it's fascinating to study the evolution of the existing "standard" music notation, and see the changes that have been adopted, and the ones that weren't. For all its apparent stasis, it has definitely evolved over the centuries, in response to the changing needs of musicians.
shameless plug :) lightspeed, the sightreading flashcard game.

http://buzzcola.github.io/lightspeed-music/

Requires windows and a MIDI keyboard.
In Norway here, many municipalities do not have property tax. Oslo implemented it recently, but only for property greater than a certain limit (and there is a push, of course, to remove it.) You can tax write-offs on interest from mortgages and also writeoffs and hire interest if you save in a BSU account (Bolig Sparing for Ungdom, or House saving for the young, which only applies to those 18-34.) Also, I think you can get any rental income written off if you rent a room or a basement apartment for 7000 NOK or less.

The fact is now, Oslo is experiencing what people are calling a housing bubble. Prices are also impossible given salaries (given conversion rates, they do not compare to the prices like in NY, for what it is worth.)

All these things tend to point to two directions: a) there is such a drive to own your own home here that it has done something to housing prices and b) they want people be maintain debt. Unlike the US, you can write off credit card and personal loan debt. It's a nice thing to be able to do but I'd presume that encourages a credit boom.
> If the test isn't necessary, then neither is the code.

How did you come to this conclusion?

What if the code is just glue code for different libraries?
Ableton is probably the best DAW right now simply because it has the most tutorials online.

I remember way back when I used Cubase. Couldn't find any decent help online.

With Ableton, you are spoiled for choice when it comes to tutorials and lessons.
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I think the ease of getting a home equity loan and the ease of refinancing (see Rocket Mortgage, etc.) has reduced this forced saving dramatically. If you don't have the saving mentality, it is easy to get in the habit running up credit cards, paying high interest, getting a home equity or refi offer in them mail, deciding "save money" by cashing out any home equity built up to pay off the higher interest credit cards, repeat as necessary. This cycle is even more tempting in places where the price of homes have rapidly appreciated and the cost of living is going up much faster than wages or the official inflation rate.
Anyone's who's thought through this problem has arrived at the "Uber for sex" app idea. Though I don't know anyone who's actually attempted to build it. I'd imagine a quick boom and a just as quick bust by the authorities.

Separately, the domain name hosting this story is apt.
The argument is that this kind of group project arrangement is crappy; It's possible for work group projects to be terrible for the same reasons but it's absolutely guaranteed in school projects.

If anything, we are just training students that your terrible group work experiences are normal.
Although the parent poster was being a little inflammatory with the choice of words, there is a bit of an interesting point there. Is there a benefit to society in general from people owning homes instead of renting? High portability can benefit the renter, but a bigger commitment to the neighborhood perhaps benefits the rest of us? Maybe enough to incentivize?
> Home ownership lowers income mobility by reducing the competitiveness of the labor market

Yep. But I still bought anyways, even though houses are what I consider "bad investments" if looking at them in the abstract:

* high transaction costs
* illiquid
* concentrated
* requires maintenance
...

But the calculation was that since the local market and job market for me are amazingly hot right now, it'd transfer my variable costs into fixed costs and be a cash transaction.

Still worth it in some cases.
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If it is just about "start playing", then it sounds like you are just looking for a hardware synthesizer or groove box? You don't need a DAW to play an electronic instrument, for many they only come in when they start recording.
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> If someone gets cancer and requires the lifetime work of 10 people to survive, then guaranteeing that treatment for everyone would be have very negative results

1) Living people are taxpayers and consumers. Dead people are not.

2) This is the whole point of insurance. Very few people will be very expensive and most people will be relatively inexpensive. With preventative care and the advancement of research, fewer people should be expensive over time.

Regardless, the US, as a society, has more than enough money. There's no reason for someone to buy his second $50M yacht while someone else dies of the flu because they couldn't afford the $25 vaccine.

3) You can make these hyper-rationalist arguments, but the vast majority of people are willing to pay a lot of money to live in a society that doesn't just let them die of something curable.

I genuinely believe that people who are uninterested in the social contract of the US or other developed nations should be allowed to "opt out" of society: the citizens of the nation will pay for transport to any border of the country, and then citizenship is permanently lost.
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The management company can probably manage and maintain a large number of properties more cheaply per-property than a homeowner can maintain a single property. So even if the management company is turning a profit, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad deal for the homeowner. Your argument is basically the same as "no one should ever hire a plumber because the plumber is turning a profit which makes it a bad deal."
I don't think my observations relate to sales and marketing. They are more a matter of engineering...intended use, documentation, process. Engineers will use Bash and Vim and Chrome developer tools whether or not they have trendy UI's and are backed by marketing campaigns. They use them because they make them productive and or profitable.

Or to put it another way, if you're not good at lying or telling half truths or spinning bad news, then just tell the truth as best you can. Developer tools are mostly about the tool and only sometimes eventually about the marketing and sales.
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Agreed. If anything, tax incentives should be offered to businesses that allow telecommuting. From a resource/green perpspective as well as providing a more efficient employment environment, it's a 'good' thing.
I see what you did there.

"Apple's products were very carefully designed..."
>In 2013, Frances said that "psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests

Well, in many areas the biological tests are simply not there yet, and subjective judgements are the best we have.

In many fields, subjectivity is the best we have. In business management, venture capital, and even certain branches of software development, the best decisions are still being made based on fallible subjective judgements.

I may be wrong though - perhaps you can show me a biological test that will differentiate between attention deficit caused by biology, versus one caused by bad habits?
Not the parent. One thing that prevents me from using text-only mail clients is that I have to read mail where in-line replies are distinguished from quoted content only by font color set in HTML. This means that I have to disable even Thunderbird's "Simple HTML" feature (which makes all text black).
You make a good point! Non-technical folks are certainly less likely to suggest how to tackle a backend problem.

I think though the backend really suffers in the sense that is not seen and not heard unless there is an emergency in many cases.
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Sure, but the opportunity cost of making me aware of a product repeatedly seems pretty high. I wish I could make the ads more targeted.
It seems that he is the Sophos guy.
Bye bye JCP then. Oracle's just going to go it alone from now on.
> I don't think suggesting their vote against Jigsaw is somehow a political plot to benefit OSGi

RedHat and others clearly do want Jigsaw to be a meta-module system though, which to any sane person who has no financial interest in existing module technologies is ridiculous, and would be exactly the kind of mind-numbing complexity that people hate on Java for. Eclipse's No vote even came with this comment:

“The Eclipse Foundations looks forward to a revised specification which will enable independent implementations”
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I, very breifly, dabbled in erlang to try and contribute to a blockchain project that use it. It turned out to be a terrible decision because it's not a language with a large and active community and finding people to contribute to the codebase proved difficult for the project. On the surface, erlang made sense for such a project: mainly due to the concurrency primitives and the OTP framework. I still believe erlang is a bad choice for an open source project that deals in difficult problems and depends on lots of eyes and contributors, such as blockchain development.
Hey all, Scrimba is on Product Hunt today, if anybody wants to join the discussion there as well. You'll find us on this list:

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Would this app be nice for a beginner with DB's for data analysis?
I imagine it'd be worse than that. Those are just personalized ads. You ever have a dumb jingle that you can't stand, but you can't get it out of your head? Imagine that not only with a visual component, but as a fully unfiltered thought you did not consent to.

In all honesty, that description sounds like a mental disorder.
It's great to see Gnome adopting Rust. Vala was OK, but we all Vala compiled to C rather than binary.

I think the move to Rust should attract more developers to the Gnome ecosystem. The learning curve of C or Vala + GTK + GObject and related tech can be a bit steep.
Indeed you are right! Unfortunately, that's even worse.
What problems have you had in trying to land a full time remote job?
Can anyone speak to how taxes are appropriated? Because in all of this talk about MID and perhaps how eliminating it might level the playing field, that only seems to make sense if that money is then appropriated to lower income individuals. I mean the government could simply take that surplus of taxes and shove it into the military for all we know, which in the end doesn't help anyone given our already exorbitant military spending budget.

I also wonder how much of this is personal accountability, and I say this as someone who has voted for and willingly pays additional taxes to provide low income housing opportunities in my community. I mean one of the families that was highlighted was a family of 6 that lives off of $50k/yr with only one parent working. Personally I can't imagine raising one child on $50k/yr in the greater Boston area, let alone 4, and knowingly not trying to have both parents employed. The wife even mentions that the husband was out of work for 8 months...were you not trying to fill in the gap? Even a minimum wage job should cover the cost of day care for their youngest child, who is too young for full-time schooling. I'm really trying to be on the side of some of these folks, but their stories and situations find it hard for me to empathize.
I think that isn't entirely fair. Several are quite careful in their wording ("the spec as submitted", meaning the things that are still being worked on need to be sorted out), and significant progress has been made since the spec was submitted. I doubt the EG will achieve a consensus on all issues, but if I had to guess I'd say it will go through no the second vote.

Disclaimer: These are my views, not my employers, I'm not involved in the JPMS work.
I just personally disapprove of 401ks. For one, I remember the Great Recession. They bailed out the banks and left the little guy/gal to ruin. Contemporaneously, all those fancy market valuations stink of an economy about to tank, again. I value investing in stocks/bonds, but in current conditions I would not trust a 401k investment broker.
Here's the thing: music is a lot like math. The more you practice it, the more you find yourself becoming a "natural" at it.

I used to be terrible at math. Then I found a teacher who basically made me work every day on math problems.

Within a few months, I found that I actually enjoyed maths, and was even good at it.

Of course, without natural talent you're not going to become the next Bowie, but even a bit of practice can make you surprisingly competent.
Besides the hordes of Apple users that seem to use WhatsApp/FBM/Signal etc without any problems?

All three of the examples you laid out have specific use cases that propelled their popularity

WhatsApp: free SMS which was a bigger deal, especially internationally when it hit the scene. The Echo Show is US only for now.

FB Messenger: access to the walled garden of people that live in FB

Signal: secure private communications.

I'm not saying that Apple users won't use other message mediums if there is a compelling reason but I am saying for Apple users that are in predominately Apple-centric family/social circles the Echo messaging/video chat app doesn't offer meaningful differentiation from iMessage/FaceTime.
If you're an iOS user, I highly recommend the "Music Memos" Apple App that nobody talks about. Pretty great. Even better if you were to get something like the Rode iXY to go with it!
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Of course, but if you are going to try and make a product which relies on well working and fast "smart" (or otherwise) TVs and there aren't any (or enough) of them today, your product isn't going to get very far.
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Wouldn't that be a good path: start with initial experiments based on types-by-macros, and see how well that works. Can't be worse that C++'s template meta-programming.
Yes, this is the right thing to do.

From /r/personalfinance:
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Very nice job on the website! Works perfectly on iPhone.
> unfortunately HTML email is the way of the world

Is it really? I still use mutt, and I have found 99% of the time, heavy HTML in e-mail means the mail is spam.

Occasionally an important e-mail (bank, etc) might contain a few HTML links, easy enough to visually parse. Real individual people IME send plain text, even non-techies.
Sounds like he was massively underutilised and underpaid!
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I have the same problem too - I solve it by humming/singing the melody and recording it on my phone. Afterwards, I'll find nice synths, put chords to melodies, write horn arrangements, tweak drum fills, etc.
The problem is not a technical one.
It's about idealogy/belief.

The left believes that healthcare should be a right - that everyone should get care regardless of whether you are homeless, or a billionaire.

The right believes that it is not a right. That you should only get healthcare if you earn it. If you are homeless, too bad. You die.

Now, conservatives know that they can't come right out and say it that way, but ultimately, that's what a lot of people believe. They don't want to pay for someone else's care.

So, the arguments aren't really about 'what is the most efficient way to pay for everyone to get healthcare'.

The arguments are about the fact that half the population doesn't want to pay for healthcare for someone else.
I believe the CFPB has at least put the fear of god into most banks, at the very least Wells Fargo changed from largest-first to time-of-transaction ordering for debits from the account in the past couple years - and I believe most of the other big banks have done so as well.

Of course, the CFPB is looking pretty dead at this point, so who knows what they'll do after Trump dismantles it.
Excuse me. Could someone please explain why is goldman on the list? I do not think they are qualified as a reviewer based on their engineering standard.