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> You refer to perfect pitch and absolute pitch like they're different things -- do you realize that they're the same thing?

Are you referring to someone else's comment? I use them interchangeably in the first paragraph

Sure, I just wanted to point out the phenomenon of conflating it with musical talent. I'm not suggesting it's an uninteresting concept or isn't worthy of thought/discussion

There's a strange preoccupation with perfect pitch. It's not very useful today since there are inexpensive electronic and mechanical tools to give you absolute pitch. It wasn't even that useful previously.

I believe that people confuse it with relative pitch which usually translates to the skill of transcribing and memorizing melodies. This is very useful as a musician or even in daily life sometimes. There are people who have an innate talent for that too, but it's unrelated to perfect pitch.

I've tried a lot of programs but always come back to using a low-tech Gmail draft.

In this particular case, the advantage over gist is that you can edit it offline on mobile (I ride the subway) and it syncs automatically

Difficult to find a decent picture of it but both the Amtrak/NJT trains and Lincoln tunnel offramp pass through 450 West 33rd Street in Manhattan.

http://i.imgur.com/NgeSIDZ.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/bEeGinN.jpg

There are a couple of subreddits geared towards algorithmic music (http://www.reddit.com/r/algorithmicmusic and the more general http://www.reddit.com/r/musicprogramming). Definitely cross/post any other resources you find

This is a perfectly interesting post, but why target Snowden? Guess it's eye catching

It seemed like a slick new iteration of Gopher with the capability of inline images (that no one really had yet)

What model laptop stand is he using in the picture?

Yes, I understand the intention of that site and conventional thinking on the subject. Thank you for assisting in my description of an alternative

Yes, I understand that. The fact is that people drink and do drugs. Smart people, stupid people. That's reality.

This is a "thought experiment" that teaches cowardice, IMO

You're missing my point. That information is uninteresting to me no matter what the purpose of this site is

What am I doing? Not giving a fuck about who is hung over or takes drugs

Satire?

Any gem can use ActiveSupport as a dependency, just like Rails does

This isn't music analysis, it's musicological analysis

No doubt. This list isn't supposed to be indicative of what's being written in general-- it's about what code is on github.

Is it not still simple with a single character prefix?

good design implies that there's some advantage to its use

disabling the use of #get as a hashtag is still better than disabling its use as an english word

You're right that it wouldn't be the 48th most common word to begin a sentence. Still, it's not uncommon enough to warrant not prefixing it. This goes for "stats" as well...

"Get" is the 48th most commonly used word in US English. This seems like excusably poor engineering not to prefix commands with a character like $. Granted, I'm not a Twitter user so maybe there's a reason?

Haiku http://haiku-os.org

It's not something that's easily perceptible unto itself unless you get into very radical inconsistencies. As an example using arbitrary numbers, a quarter note would be 500 ticks one time and 493 ticks the next and so on...

It can be measured by recording the audio on a (timing accurate!) dedicated system and analyzing the waveform

Subtle as it may be, timing accuracy has an essential impact on how we perceive music as a whole. This is one contributor among a few as to why vintage drum machines and sequencers have become so sought after as software-baed music production has become more prevalent. The Akai MPC series (at least the 2000XL and previous) models have been found to have the most consistent timing of any machine with the Atari ST being the strongest computer sequencer.

Sorry, I don't have time to cite this stuff (breaking my own rule) but it should be easy to google

As an aside, poor timing accuracy can be a reason why in pulse-based music that some human musicians "just suck" even if they're otherwise proficient. Or some musicians are "just have it" even though they're playing something unremarkable

Total hypothesizing and speculation here but...

I work with audio and music software (in which timing accuracy is a major component). Timing accuracy 20 years ago was generally far, far better than a modern PC. The Atari ST is still the gold standard -- with regard to timing it makes Ableton Live 8 running on OSX look/sound like garbage. Without multitasking, whatever program you were using could prioritize timing over the GUI and other components in a way that a modern name brand OS won't allow

Again, pure speculation here but this may be the case at least to some degree for Win 3.1 because there aren't as many network services and other bells and whistles running in the background. It may even be the case that Win 3.1 doesn't have real multitasking. Maybe someone can chime in on that

Why not use Etsy?