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Re:GitHub, fuck your name change on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @06:05AM (#26488868)
I think OP is from Estonia, in which case it ended around 30 years ago.
Re:Zoom improvements requested by music schools on Friday January 15, 2021 @07:50AM (#25790333)
I've spent most of 2020 building something similar. Now I just wish I had a landing page ready so I can plug it here instead of over engineering the app itself, but oh well :)

Anyway, what I'm building is meant more for the repetitive kinds of electronic music, but I solved the problem by just making it work like a shared loop pedal that records up to 16 measures of audio.

Everyone works asynchronously and can add or remove audio on their own time, but loops get synced to other players as they get recorded.

Best part? You can do cool stuff with browsers nowadays (even record uncompressed audio). So it just needs a web browser.

Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:53PM (#25784839)
Thank you! :)
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @06:42PM (#25784712)
Yes you can! :) I just put my email up on my profile, ping me and I'll let you know when the private beta is online! I'm aiming to get an MVP and a landing page online in the coming month.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:26PM (#25783650)
I'm working for a browser-based app for electronic musicians to jam together online (not real-time, I think I found a compromise)

Funny how I didn't anticipate that the biggest obstacles to launching it will be my own mind, in the form of imposter syndrome and insecurity. That, and the lockdowns have been a bit rough. Almost there though, and a lot of lessons learned. I assume there's probably some more lessons in actually getting the first users coming up next, but I'll cross that bridge when I get there I guess :)

Re:Operators of Coin.mx arrested by the FBI on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @06:12AM (#9928669)
> * No, bitcoin is totally meaningless if you can’t pay for food in it.

Thuisbezorgd, the largest site for ordering take-out food in the Netherlands accepts bitcoin.

Re:Russian WW2 parade: A tank-spotter's guide on Monday May 11, 2015 @12:00PM (#9525677)
I personally know someone who went to a job interview to one of those propaganda comment factories in Russia (before she realized what it was and got the hell out).

They (try to) recruit educated people.

Ask HN: How would you implement a verifiable open-source web application?

Wasn't really sure how to make the title descriptive enough without putting the full question there.Anyway, I have been toying with the idea of creating an open-source web application. Open-source in the way that I would host the product on my own servers but the full source code, except, of course, authentication info, tokens and things which shouldn't be under source control anyway, would be...

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Re:The stupid cookie law is dead at last on Thursday January 31, 2013 @06:57AM (#5144551)
A similar law is still going strong in The Netherlands. As of this year, most Dutch sites greet you with an annoying pop-up.
I tried using Pimsleur to learn Dutch, but I must say that I didn't like it too much. The language they used was way too formal, and people here in the Netherlands don't really speak like that too much.

Michael Thomas courses, on the other hand, have been very helpful. Instead of just drilling how to ask for directions, you get taught how to form sentences.

Then again, it probably comes down to personal preferences.

Re:How Google makes Google(+) fast on Tuesday November 15, 2011 @04:00AM (#3237603)
Yes, the magic number is 4095 selectors. And it's still true, even in IE9.
Re:Textmate 2 - Alpha this year on Monday September 26, 2011 @06:47AM (#3038309)
Same here, I switched to vim when I realized that TextMate 2 was basically the "Duke Nukem Forever" of text editors.

I don't think I'll switch back, but I will play around with it and see what was so awesome that took that long to develop.