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Here's one thing that has bugged me for a while. Why is it said that the great red spot is around 500 years old? How do we know that it hasn't been around for much longer? Do we ha…

https://birchtree.me/blog/the-apps-are-too-damn-big/ I'm not the original poster, but I have to agree. As a developer, dealing with assets in iOS is a huge pain. Designers typicall…

Folks… despite the 'dreadful' link baiting in the title, this is a pretty great article.

Picture a piece for 3 players -- 2 soprano instruments and Basso Continuo (a bass instrument + let's say, harpsichord). It's a piece with a recurring harmonic structure; say, Passa…

No, bars were not standardised at all! One could interpret placement of barlines as something close to paragraph markers -- not all the time, but often enough that they seem to ind…

Musician checking in. Reading music in the original notation I have found to be particularly enlightening. Where the manuscript writer (or print publisher) chose to put bar lines, …

It's great for me to hear that Grendel's is still there. I used to love to go there for their Sour Cream Chocolate cake. I don't imagine Elsie's diner is there (and also Tommy's). …

Wow, how is this not a thing? Great idea.

I used to hang out there all the time in the '80s. My most memorable moment would have to be the time I complained to the waitress about the cockroaches that scurried from beneath …

I guess my uninformed concern is… if I write an app that has an interface that manages a device that is suddenly embroiled in a class-action lawsuit, what are the chances that I'd …

Are any developers avoiding working on IoT devices/interfaces because of the uncertainty regarding the security of these devices? I have no idea of the liability of developers in t…

Watching this made me nostalgic for world.std.com, in Boston -- that was many folks' first dialup ISP.

To be clear: It's a reed organ kit enclosed in a box that looks like a bible.

Your comment brings up a good question. Would a spanish-speaker transliterate those terms into a musical context, or into a language context first, since the words themselves are p…

I am thinking it's a question of filters. I first encountered 'despacio' in a piece of music. Now that I'm living in a spanish-speaking country, whenever I come up to that word, th…

As a musician, I've often wondered how a performer whose native language contained such words as "allegro", "largo", "andante" interpreted those markings vs me, whose native langua…

It's got more to do with the tuning system. Think of it as '6 degrees of separation'. The further away I am away from the starting point, the more alien the tuning would be, and th…

Your comment makes me think of playing catch. Do we really calculate parabolas in our brain when choosing how to catch a ball?

Take a gander at an actual 17th century composer playing with that idea in a most audacious way [0]. The section of the piece I'm referring to begins around 3:26. The idea seems to…

Back when I was still a student (of music), I read The Inner Game of Tennis and found it to be incredibly useful! I also recommend it.

I continue to be impressed by the Jazz Crusaders, with their incredible melodic/rhythmic hooks. Those are works of genius.

* the Major Scale, * the Standard Chord Dictionary, and * the difference in feeling between the Major and Minor Triads. • Major scale... in what musical period? • Standard Chord Di…

Hmmm… would you rather hear your uncle tell his joke repertoire over thanksgiving dinner, or would you rather hear Louis CK at a theatre? Music isn't just a series of clever notes,…

You know -- you're right. Music is incredibly complex, and I'm so glad to have a conversation about it. Perhaps I've been too strenuous in my objections to the article, but at the …