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Re:Show HN: Teach your kids absolute (perfect) pitch on Sunday June 21, 2026 @06:07PM (#48623101)
It can be dormant in adults. I discovered it when I was 16 after meeting a pianist who had it and “taught me” how to do it. I kept getting faster and more accurate as I practiced solfeggio in music school in my 20s.

Crazy thing is it changes with age. At around 30 I started regressing. These days I identify the tones but shifted by one semitone.

Re:Fly.io deleted all my apps without notifying me on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @04:41PM (#40931270)
I haven’t had my apps deleted but the fraud detection system flags me almost every time I interact with the platform. It’s very disruptive.
Re:Ask HN: What is your experience in tech consulting? on Sunday January 22, 2023 @09:44PM (#34484838)
Hey I'm in a similar situation as you. I transitioned out of a dev job recently and I'm putting more energy into my business. I have experience in podcasts, at least from a technical point of view. Reach out if you want to connect [email protected]
WSJ has a very paternalistic view of Chilean politics. Lithium extraction (and mining) pollutes water and uses a ton of it. In Atacama, the driest desert in the planet, it is already extremely scarce for local populations. Chile is not blowing up anything. A sovereign nation can do as it pleases with its natural resources and take any measures to protect its natural environment and population. Anyway, a lithium electric car revolution is a myth, lithium is too scarce to be a scalable solution.
Re:A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @09:33AM (#22812782)
Yes, it's fantastic for indie game developers no doubt. After having a catalogue they can get a good paying job and build a career. Musicians, on the other hand, only get offered more exposure gigs.
Re:A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @09:11AM (#22812598)
So the pay for musicians is exposure? Tired of these business models, just another tech organization taking advantage of desperate people.
Here's a podcast interview to the author of Winners Take All Anand Giridharadas about the damage philanthropists do to public education https://soundcloud.com/haveyouheardpodcast/win-win
Re:Why are so many coders musicians? on Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:06PM (#16548819)
Glad you liked it, more coming.
Re:Why are so many coders musicians? on Thursday March 08, 2018 @07:06PM (#16548817)
It could be there's not a real correlation between the likelihood of being a musician when you're a developer or vice versa. Proving that isn't the purpose of these articles anyways. I was interested in the relationships between the processes of learning and creating/writing music and code that many developers and musicians I've met (and myself) have noticed.