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This exists in a few synths, and is included in Apple’s Logic Pro for software (MIDI) instruments as “Hermode Tuning” (http://www.hermode.com/html/hermode-tuning_en.html)

It’s a really unusual experience using it, because the never-quite-tuned sound is part of a piano’s character. With Hermode tuning engaged, every chord has a ringing pure bell-like quality, especially with 7th/diminished chords (which sound immensely satisfying).

Since few instruments in the real world can tune so precisely, Logic amusingly has a slider to make the Hermode tuning “less perfect” if desired.
Multiple companies working in a much smaller area. (The Netherlands is smaller than 41 states http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territo... but has a larger population than 45 states http://www.ipl.org/div/stateknow/popchart.html) It costs an awful lot more to build the infrastructure needed. Because of this cost, many cities offer monopolies for a number of years so the city doesn't have to spend the money to build the infrastructure itself. In Austin, that is pretty much Time Warner Cable and ATT. Since the announcement ATT has been pushing to get Gigabit fiber out (I'm currently using it), that would have never happened if Google wasn't coming into town.
Actually they split things up nicely so you can use XMLSchema part 2 (which contains the useful data types) without part 1 (which contains the N problems you mention).
"Well considered" is too subjective, I think. There are specific, concrete skill sets that lead to systems with specific, well-defined properties (i.e., architectural soundness).

Your system may be well-considered but if it's not architecturally sound it's going to increasingly tumble over time.
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Hypothetically it hurts the "two guys in a garage" who have to hire a third guy (or pay a middleman Turbo Distribution Network) just to handle dozens of ISP turbo contracts.
any publicly available pics? curious to see what a home setup can achieve.
An article spreading fud on Docker's philosophy is at the top of HN. I added a comment describing the actual Docker philosophy.
Your company's recruiting test for developers is garbage. Almost all are.
A minor can have alcohol with a parent in the state of Missouri as well. In fact, it's not technically illegal there for a minor to consume alcohol. It's only illegal to purchase or possess, but they consider a BAC over 0.02% as possession.
The code signing mechanisms that Apple employs in the App Store removes the risk that a third-party software update server will be compromised and distribute malicious code to an otherwise trustworthy application.

(Probably not a high risk in this case, but on principle...)
Mandarin (a language I speak) does not have as many speakers as you guess.[1] We can be absolutely sure that the number of people in the world conversant in Mandarin is strictly less than the current population of China by hundreds of millions of individuals.

[1] http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/07/content_5812838...

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-23975037
I used to think it had to stick around for some time. In practice you start paying for bad code after about a month and you pay back many times over. If a bunch of people are throwing poor code in, the payback becomes exponential before you know it.
Infact I just copy & past that ..., not the least, I didn't found better words to express that feeling, which I hope it will be wrong honestly because I'm on board with Docker since the early days and I'd like to see it more community driven that private business driven.
"incommensurable" is apparently being used in the sense that their logarithms are not in rational ratios (so no common step size generates them all in the relevant way). The connection to UFDs is that one way of seeing the incommensurability in this sense is through unique prime factorization (as exponent vectors over the primes 2, 3, and 5, the noted values are 3/2 = <-1, 1, 0>, 2 = <0, 1, 0>, and 5/4 = <0, -2, 1>, none of which are collinear).
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People with relative pitch can also discern < 10 cent differences. 10 cents is pretty obvious in the right context. People with perfect pitch don't need a reference; people with relative pitch do.

I play pedal steel, and string 6/G# drops a whacking 10 ten cents when press my A pedal and boy howdy can I hear it - and I don't have perfect pitch, just reasonably good relative pitch.
Ask your issuing bank to stop rejecting the transaction. They probably think someone stole your card.
I know there are reasonable arguments on both sides - I'm really wanting to understand your personal view. It sounds as though you might think that ideas about ethics or good societies are things you prefer not to hold a view on given the quotes.

The second part of your comment only mentioned prices as a factor in terms of what is good or bad for 'consumers'. I realize that you leave room for other ideas of what is good or bad, but in lieu of mentioning anything else, it seems as though this is all you are willing to put forward as a criterion.

I guess I understand a little more about your perspective, but not much.
> there is no realistic way to depose Skype or hangouts with WebRTC

Skype and Hangouts are both moving towards using WebRTC.

https://gigaom.com/2014/07/06/so-long-plug-ins-google-hangou...

http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/559901/does-skype-web-...

EDIT: wow, relevant and factual information is downvote-worthy?
I definitely see the value in taking the time to design things correctly and making sure you're evaluating all angles — I'm not sure if it's 100% necessary to say that to do that you always need to be slow though.

I think the difference between a fast programmer and a slow programmer often isn't that the slow one is methodically designing and making everything perfect, it's that the slow one has so many more inefficiencies in their workflow.

A good and fast programmer generally knows their tools inside and out, and they're willing to learn new tools when they need to (and not dismiss them because their current setup works good enough and it's what they know).

Speed isn't an indicator of good or bad quality. I would say that both mastery and improvement of tool is more of an indicator.
Your comment is itself generalizing and demonstrating ignorance about a very large and diverse group of people.
This seems similar to michaelochurch's thinking about 'guilds' - which I guess is a precursor to formalised 'engineers' or master craftsmen, which is something Software 'Engineering' seems to be in dire need of.
Can someone help me understand what happens to email sent to a domain hosted by DNSimple while it's down?

I'm hoping it will get queued by the sending server, and make it's way back when DNSimple is up and running. Is that correct?
Goodbye from Team Trapster, service is being discontinued
There are no pictures of the product. It is essentially back-end only.
"I’m Glad I’m not a Touch-Typist."

Have to disagree with this 100%. A touch typist can always hunt and peck if they want to or need to for some reason (would love to have a reason for this being a benefit though). Being able to touch type helps greatly with just about everything when you are using a keyboard. Sending emails, writing letters, filling out forms, coding, the command line and so on.

Not only that but it's extremely easy for the average person to learn to touch type (I learned from a book and was proficient after about 3 week).

I really can't think of a good reason (other than taking the time to learn which as mentioned is easy enough) to not learn to touch type. I think it's one of the least talked about productivity boosts out there.
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Fig functionality was not merged into Docker's 1.3 release.

Ansible/Chef orchestration IMHO solves a very different problem than container orchestration.
Google doesn't even care too much about fair use here: any newspaper that doesn't want it's articles to appear in the search results can already take them out.
Concerning Weave that's quite a good news, the weave point of view for docker networking is good and can be easily setup in many (not all of them of course) infrastructure.
Microsoft Sheds Light on Azure’s Storage Growing Pains
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What area are you in? Learning basic sysadmin tasks will take you a long way.

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> Why not hand out serious prison time for first-time drunk drivers? It would increase road safety so much.

I don't think stricter DUI laws will work, they rely on the absurd idea that a drunk will somehow have enough self-awareness to make a rational decision (not to drive).
I am devoid of fashion taste. I use a pretty simple system: when my clothes get holes in them I walk down to Target and buy more off the rack (whatever they have there that day, doesn't really matter to me). When my converse wear out I walk down to DSW and buy another pair.

That being said, I'd like to have better clothes for special occasions / dates / events. I would totally pay someone to pick stuff out for me. Not for everyday clothes, but for those special outfits.
> I was pointing out an extreme case where your reasoning breaks down

No you weren't, you were setting up a straw man that you could easily known down, nothing more.

> Morals sure as hell are math, just like everything else.

No they aren't.

> If someone murdered in cold blood and then went on to save every starving person in the world, then they are also-fucking-lutley a good person.

No they aren't. They're a bad person trying to make themselves feel better by making up for their crimes. They don't ever become a good person after murdering someone. That line cannot be uncrossed.
How does their beta-feature with github work? I can't find any obvious link and it seems frustratingly close to something I offer over at https://dns-api.com/ ..

(I wrap Amazon's route53 with DNS entries read from github/gitbucket/similar.)
I'm not surprised to see this happen. Waze stepped up their game and knocked it out of the park in this area. Yeah, Google snatching 'em up helped, but I still would've thought they'd surpass Trapster's user base and involvement regardless.
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Texas is not realy the USA...

An attractive sentiment in general, but it's not true. Texas is just like every other state, in that they spend way too much on the "enforcement" of drunk-driving laws. The reason is obvious: local police and sheriffs get the same ridiculous federal grants that LEOs in all other states get.

EDIT: Congratulations to Louisiana, I expect they laugh at Texas' patchwork of dry and "partially-moist" counties.
> Curious which languages you use that don't have this problem?

None. It's why I'm burnt out and want to so something different. Not something different from my current job. Something different from developing software.

I've lost count of how many times I've spent entire work days battling against the environment which is supposed to help me write the code I need to, to make a customer happy. Entire days of trying to figure out why IIS is acting crazy, or why Visual Studio is crashing, or why is Windows so damn slow all of a sudden. Entire days of trying to align the planets so that service A can talk to service B, because for some reason there's a cryptic SSL error that's not giving me any helpful information as to what's happening. Or entire days just pulling things from a dozen different sources and figuring out where to place each other so they can work together.

I've recently been to the Living Computer Museum in Seattle. You can play around with old computers there. I was fascinated by the old machines where you'd boot into a REPL. The shell was a REPL to the language you programmed the system in. I think despite all the advances we've made in the past decades and all the great performing technology we have nowadays, we've lost that essence of simplicity along the way.
Why No Quirky for Software?
I really like the concept behind Quirky, however, I am amazed that it doesn't exist for software products.

I came across this link on the topic but wanted to have a deeper discussion with people here: http://www.quora.com/Shouldnt-there-be-a-Quirky-for-Software-Development

Any thoughts on why Quirky doesn't exist for software development?
What's your accuracy on a blind recognition test with a single 440 or 440.2 Hz sine wave, with no "warming up" (let's say you haven't performed the test or listened to any reference frequencies for an hour)?
I feel the same way you do about everything you said, including considering a career change for this same reason.

I'm now fiddling with Tcl/Tk as a way to quickly throw some visual ideas around. I'm using it to build an idea for a tabular programming language that is more visual and allows for letting go of incidental details like syntax, argument order, etc.
> Sorry for having made you comment - it was really not my intention to make people bitter.

I don't think I meant it in that way, but thanks.

> vi

Since we're now talking about editors. If there's people that want to use keyboardy text editors, fine by me. There's definitely a logic to it. But the "control your window manager with vi-like keybindings" crowd: I can't even comprehend what type of mindset chooses this, except some sort of delusional one. If there's one thing that can get me ranting...
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I wouldn't be installing apps from an unknown author, but if it was on github and I could review and compile it myself I'd be a bit more inclined to try it.
Ctrl + 1 - 4 in the demo loads the examples from the post.
Don't be unfair, clearly the 2nd list is nested :)
Don't do PR, just build the better thing.

No malice, just a friendly tip :)
Hope not! Connected to a live DB :-) I'll try to post a bug report tomorrow (GMT+1).
1. Users don't have the manual, and if they did, they wouldn't read it.

2. In fact, users can't read anything, and if they could, they wouldn't want to.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000062....
> I wonder if some standardized tests can be, in principle, constructed to measure programming abilities.

This absolutely misses the point of the article. It is definitively not about programming abilities, or speed of these abilities.

Many authors have hit TFA's points from different angles. For example, Tom Demarco's excellent Slack[1] introduces uses of "efficiency" (what speed is the organization moving at?) versus "effectiveness" (is the organization moving in the right direction?). DeMarco uses these to illustrate that many organizations optimize for the wrong parameters: they want to move at breakneck speed ("efficiency", "butts in seats", etc.), but in doing so trade off their vital strategic ability to think, design, to steer the ship!

In an organization without slack (briefly, the ability of knowledge workers in an organization to engage in vital reflective tasks, a key part of TFA's design process), everyone's so focused on Getting There that no one remains to decide if There is the right place to be going. This can and does result in everything from classic technical debt to strategic business failure. DeMarco describes a pile of organizational anti-patterns that stem from this philosophical damage.

I like that TFA's author connects these concepts explicitly to more recent thinking on the importance of design process.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Slack-Getting-Burnout-Busywork-Efficie...
It's like Cards Against Humanity for Human Resources.
Ops (particularly in Enterprise) doesn't want batteries included by default. Principle #3 and #5 are incompatible IMO. Do one thing and do it well...

Seems to me that post-Docker 1.2, the Docker team has taken Ops concerns much less seriously and is focused almost exclusively on iterating Dev-friendly features.

Hope things change.
How does one enforce such a suspension, without resorting to prison? (I suspect someone will mention "fines/monetary penalties", but that's rather begging the question.)
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