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Re:Unhappy Birthday on Monday May 25, 2015 @04:21PM (#9601570)
Or any of these from the Free Music Archive's Happy Birthday Song Contest, almost two hours of happy birthday songs.

http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Happy_Birthday_Song_Contes...

Re:Cultivated Disinterest in Professional Sports on Friday January 30, 2015 @08:37PM (#8975540)
> I also find it hilarious that intellectuals apparently don't go for Heavy Metal

The "Anything But Heavy Metal" paper is based on data from 1993.

Re:'Algorave' Is the Future of Dance Music (if You're a Nerd) on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @12:02PM (#6809359)
It looks like they're using tidal.

http://yaxu.org/tidal/

Re:Holding a Program in One's Head (2007) on Saturday December 08, 2012 @09:18AM (#4891627)
I'd just like to point out that Lojban is a constructed language, not a natural language. It was designed and built from the ground up, as opposed to the GP's controlled natural languages which are pre-existing human languages with a bunch of stuff stripped out of them.
Re:Meteor – The next Ruby-on-Rails? on Wednesday July 25, 2012 @01:54PM (#4292110)
You can edit the PKGBUILD from the AUR. change the pkgver to 0.3.8, and update the md5sums to a292c8d0cd2e9269ea71bcd45f2f7908 and 9a7077a8dd3e5a2c9531e2943cba2f43, respectively. This worked for me.
Re:Confessions of a recovering lifehacker on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @02:12PM (#4014439)
Here's the David Foster Wallace speech he recommends https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5THXa_H_N8 .
Re:Programming Music with Overtone on Thursday April 12, 2012 @11:47AM (#3832822)
I feel like it's worth pointing out the distinction between SuperCollider the programming language and SuperCollider the audio synthesis server. The audio server is stand-alone and can be controlled via Open Sound Control. The language is a music DSL that abstracts over the OSC messages and acts as a client to the synth server. Overtone is another client to the synth server, but I'm not sure how much it's following the SuperCollider language. Also, there's an scruby project https://github.com/maca/scruby .
Re:Tools I Use - tmux on Sunday January 08, 2012 @12:25PM (#3439985)
"setw -g mode-mouse on" in your tmux.conf will let you use the mouse for scrolling and selecting text once you're in copy mode.
I think that just might be the effect of wide angle lenses and maybe cropping. Also, pointing all the cameras towards the center of the band.
Re:Stack Exchange for English Language and Usage on Saturday December 18, 2010 @02:08PM (#2020018)
Judging from the top questions that I read, this is not a site for linguists, at least not ones interested in descriptive rules of language. Nearly all questions asked about standards of written English, which are arbitrary and uninteresting to a linguist, except in that the bickering over what is “proper” might bring to our attention divergent forms among varieties of English.

For people interested in the debate over whether a “correct” English (or any language for that matter) exists, here is an interesting article by Geoffrey Pullum:

http://people.ucsc.edu/~pullum/MLA2004.pdf

Re: written English vs. spoken English Spoken English is a primary linguistic form while written English is secondary or parasitic on spoken forms, so actually from a linguistic perspective, calling written English a language is wrong. English exists in speakers’ minds and written English is a filtered encoding of that language with certain non-linguistic constraints put upon it (e.g. in my dialect of English, dropping an auxiliary at the beginning of a yes/no question is completely okay, but in writing, I hardly ever do this, unless in a very informal context. This is because written standards tell me not to.)

Re:Learning Python – day three. on Thursday October 21, 2010 @03:57AM (#1814652)
perhaps you can integrate a part-of-speech tagger from nltk or montylingua to help it pick the right kind of word.

http://www.nltk.org/ http://web.media.mit.edu/~hugo/montylingua/

Re:Are your pants lying to you? An investigation on Wednesday September 08, 2010 @03:08PM (#1673037)
Apparently the men's measurement in US standard clothing size corresponds to chest size in inches, so the waist measurement was intended to be smaller than the listed size.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_standard_clothing_size#Men

Re:Iannis Xenakis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia on Thursday May 20, 2010 @11:51AM (#1364300)
I would definitely recommend checking out his string quartets. I saw the JACK Quartet perform them a couple of months ago. It was insane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_adso67GUd4 (ST-4/1,080262)