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lol, yes, sure. But why don't you sound horrified? Version control at least is essential for something of any size with any number of people working on it. You must be able to "rev…

Awesome, thanks for running the test! I can't help but feel it is heavily impacted by ambience of the recording as well. The midi is of course a very rigid and literal interpretati…

Yeah, articulation should be standardized in the midi specification. It's always a custom mapping to control it even when proper articulations are available. "Oh cool, custom mappi…

I wish more people thought this way about computing.

I think you are right in many respects. I would not consider myself one of the accused luddites, but in their defense, this ethos isn't baseless. First and foremost, the luddites y…

I think it is perhaps a function of the way we train ourselves to be workers that passively accept tasks to occupy our attention. Much of school and many jobs provide anywhere from…

LoL @ "Perhaps Apple can't afford..."

It's all really stupid, actually. The competition for the best schooling so that you can get the best job can indeed yield significant benefits for the winners. The private sector …

The problem is that our legislators famously do not write or even read the legislation that they vote on. Sometimes it's strategic and intentional that a party will try to hold a v…

It's easy to say that, but what do you expect the platform to provide? If the platform makes operating your business so trivial that they provide all functionality baked into the p…

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Why? This is not a completely novel concept, and a daemon is not a particularly complicated thing. You can use shell scripts to easily "daemonize" small programs. It's both fun and…

Eh, I don't find this argument compelling. Insurance companies already have significant influence in the government, and the line from sugar consumption to health care costs has al…

Yeah you are right. There is no standardization to the way you interact with such things.

It's crazy. I started writing why I disagreed based on my visceral reaction to the topic. But as I constructed my arguments, they were not sound. So I suppose I agree? Hm. The abov…

This isn't really vendor lock-in, though. It's simply a technical/design lock-in. Going from unstructured to structured data presents problems, and if you do that, it's rightfully …

That's crazy, IMO. This view supposes that the workers simply extract wealth from the company, rather than exchanging wealth for their time, which also has innate value to the work…

The "confidence" of senior people to push back is greatly enhanced by the fact that they won't be expediently fired for doing so. And even so, plenty of senior positions suffer fro…

Maybe! I've only ever glanced at it, but something between awk and python does sound useful.

For scripts requiring any degree of complexity regarding data structures or architecture, for sure, use Python. But like, you can't just use Python to interact with your system. It…

The interesting property is embedded in the parent's use of the word "emerge" I think. It is the property of emergence that takes swarms of ants and forms an organized colony, or a…