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Re:Ask HN: What accelerated your understanding of how the world works? on Thursday August 27, 2009 @09:58PM (#790563)
Learning how to learn.
Re:Ask HN: Recommend chair to comfortably support my hacker ass for 12... on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @12:11AM (#539600)
Do sun salutations each morning and night (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surya_Namaskara), this relieved all my back pain and other aches. Aeron is the best way to go as far as chairs go, plus they have a killer warranty.
Re:Chrome Gets Plugins: How to Write a Chrome Extension in Three Easy ... on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @04:09PM (#522246)
http://www.w3.org/TR/xbl/

Check out the editor of XBL - for those not familiar, XBL is what XUL is built on top of as well as all the widgets you see in the mozilla platform (ff/tb etc), including all your html controls. I think if google went this route, they are definitely picking up where netscape left off and where moz foundation has limped along with, ie. building a platform around the browser.

Re:Why PHP won on Friday January 16, 2009 @03:56PM (#437255)
Without getting off topic about what a good programmer is etc - One thing to point out that is relevant is the fact that there are a lot more beginner programmers than non-beginner programmers out there - all the content being generated around forums for performing specific tasks (code snippets and QA) created an insane feedback loop for the PHP community - I think that this is where PHP really beats out everyone else - There is much more google searchable support than any other language out there. Fast ROI of your time/instant gratification which fuels beginners to learn more/ask more questions generating more content and answering more questions.
Re:Hack your brain: OpenEEG on Thursday November 13, 2008 @10:58AM (#363157)
http://www.emotiv.com/
Re:PD: real-time graphical programming environment for audio, video, a... on Thursday July 31, 2008 @11:54AM (#263086)
http://audiosynth.com/ - supercollider has it together a bit more - both need better documentation -
Re:Anyone here do any music software design? on Saturday April 26, 2008 @03:33AM (#174229)
Whats kinda crazy about approaching sound design, at least from a programmers point of view - is all the concepts you have to learn about sound and then learning how other programmers decided to implement these concepts and then sort of procuring all the universal approaches in a specific area. This was my major hold up along with there being really really bad documentation for supercollider. On top of that, most of the code is insane when you try to take it apart and learn from it. I actually thought of digging into the C++ and learning it that way, but that code is pretty bad too. What other stuff are you into right now?

Anyone here do any music software design?

Posted by gregp on Saturday April 26, 2008 @02:23AM
from the self-post dept.

I have been playing around with various environments etc for the last 5 years or so - on and off. I have tried diving into supercollider (http://www.audiosynth.com/) a few times but have never put anything hardcore together. I have also played with chuck and pure data. Anyone play around with any of these?

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Re:Microsoft Signs Letter Of Intent To Acquire Xobni on Sunday April 20, 2008 @03:20PM (#168613)
When did xobni get started,anyone know?
Re:Ask YC: Recording the Startup School talks? on Wednesday April 16, 2008 @09:51PM (#165876)
Where are the 2006 recordings located?

My Opinion: Google wants Microsoft to buy Yahoo

Posted by gregp on Friday February 08, 2008 @07:29PM
from the self-post dept.

I mean when you think about it in terms of the mythical man month and the amount of entropy introduced with a merger its kind of interesting. Plus you have a bunch of processes going on here - consolidation, shift of resource etc. which generally dont win tech wars.

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Re:Critique our new website: Gatherama.com on Sunday November 18, 2007 @03:04AM (#81162)
what problem are you solving?
Re:Hacker Music? on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @02:39AM (#61971)
luke vibert all day long.
Re:What is the average startup entrepreneur age? ie your age (I am 26 ... on Wednesday September 05, 2007 @08:20PM (#50795)
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Re:IP address - locality resolution suggestions on Monday September 03, 2007 @12:07PM (#49696)
Which service was that specifically?
Re:IP address - locality resolution suggestions on Monday September 03, 2007 @01:48AM (#49612)
Anyone have any suggestions on some straight up locality databases (city,state,zip,country, international)?

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