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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by heinrichhartman on Thursday April 16, 2020 @11:29AM (#22890393)
The hardest part about professional music, is that you have to perform at a schedule. It takes a lot of effort to perpare your body physically and mentally for peak performance ... and often-times you just fail. Have a bad day. That happens.

There will be many concerts, where you are just at 70% of your peak ability.

As a professional musician, you have to make sure your 70%-version is good enough that people gladly pay for seeing it.

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by coldtea on Thursday April 16, 2020 @12:39PM (#22891132)
>As a professional musician, you have to make sure your 70%-version is good enough that people gladly pay for seeing it.

Or you just do electronic music, so that's not an issue!

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by snazz on Thursday April 16, 2020 @01:47PM (#22891771)
A lot of live electronic music performances involve some pretty serious showmanship.
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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by strbean on Thursday April 16, 2020 @04:42PM (#22893336)
One of my favorite "laptop DJ" moments -

I saw Brock Hampton at a festival in 2018. Hadn't heard of them before, and they were described to me as a boy band so I had low expectations. Their performance was bizarrely wonderful - they were all painted blue and wearing orange jumpsuits. Anyways, they have a DJ with a Macbook and a bunch of rappers. At one point mid-song they have a bar of silence, and I swear I saw the DJ lean forward and hit spacebar to pause the track and then resume it after.

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by coldtea on Friday April 17, 2020 @04:16AM (#22897161)
Showmanship, yes, which is different that musicianship and needing your "70%-version" of the musical performance to be "good enough".

Also, a lot of other live electronic music performances have almost zero showmanship, so there's that too.

(Speaking as an electronic musician)

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Re:For Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautifu... by meestaahjoshee on Thursday April 16, 2020 @05:31PM (#22893783)
to be fair, a lot of them are just pushing a play button as well
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