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Hello HN,

I created this tool to learn fretboard notes as well as chord and scale shapes. I also wanted to improve my knowledge of music theory so I wrote all code related to theory from scratch instead of using libraries. While the latter is only beneficial for me, I hope that others find this tool useful for making music. I'd love to get your feedback.

One issue I'm aware of is that for non-diatonic scales (e.g. minor pentatonic) the shown triads are not correct. I just leave the triads for the last selected diatonic scale. What would you do? Hide them?

Not every CPU you find in the different Chromebooks is equally suitable to run Linux. Most Chromebooks on the site actually have the CPU model and number listed though.
Re:Language Trends on GitHub on Wednesday August 19, 2015 @03:33PM (#10087856)
IIRC the guy who wrote this article http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/05/02/github-language-tren... about GitHub language trends scraped the numbers from the search page, e.g. the following search yields all repos created in 2014 and the language breakdown in the sidebar: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=created%3A%22%3E%...
Re:Legends in D3 on Friday July 17, 2015 @06:13AM (#9902005)
> people, please don't use discrete color scales for continuous parameters

There are arguments against using continuous scales:

* By using classes (e. g. quantiles) you can reduce the impact of outliers. On a continuous scale an outlier can cause everything else to be perceived as one color.

* Perception of color intensity is not strictly linear.

For some more details, check out this answer on StackExchange http://gis.stackexchange.com/a/86679/24164

Re:Awesome D3 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:43PM (#9806547)
For the basic chart types, I think dimple is a good choice. Here is an example for creating a responsive bar chart http://dimplejs.org/advanced_examples_viewer.html?id=advance...

By default, as fas as my experience goes, charts will fit the containing element, if width and height of the chart are not set explicitly.

Re:Awesome D3 on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @12:35PM (#9806490)
And even a List of Lists of Github Lists https://github.com/yaph/lologl (shameless plug)
Re:What to know about encodings and character sets on Saturday June 27, 2015 @06:28AM (#9789733)
> There is no reason to store encoding information in an html file.

That's simply wrong. If you use libraries like D3.js, that contain non-ASCII characters in the source code, and you do local development with a server that sends no encoding headers or even without using a server at all, your code won't work.

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