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Scratching my own itch to get alerts when a job / task / service has failed and near real-time alerts are needed. You can self host it, you can use email or webhooks for alerts. My…

Well. I loved the piece you linked! 22-TET does not sound nearly as dissonant to my ears as 15 does. Thank you for sharing.

I tried listening to a 15-tone ET piano piece ones. Sure, maybe I'm not worthy, and too limited in my musical understanding (although I have been a musicians since the age of 6 and…

Absolutely amazing. I'm a coder and a musician and I've been complaining to myself about a certain tendency to repetition in my compositions lately, this is amazing stuff to break …

can you elaborate?

Falcone (a man who knew a thing or 50 about organized crime) said that once you have taken money out of the hands of organized crime they are dead. Freeze accounts, suspend influx,…

Honestly - how long more can Lombardy help the South. The freaking dogs on the street know about the Cassa Del Mezzogiorno. My father emigrated from Naples in the 60s and found a j…

> yet 10 hours after we do not even know precisely how many people have voted. hehe - and that's why this piece of news is on hacker news.

the whole debate always seems very confused to me. SQL refers to the language with which you interact with a database, NoSQL refers to the database system itself and it's normally …

that's right, they are american. Sicilian immigrants could barely afford beef in their native Sicily, so when they started having a little more money in their pockets in America, t…

hey @ldehaan i'd love to hear more about the shortcomings of Loki, i never had a real-life need for really high volumes so I would greatly appreciate some insights in order to impr…

syncing isn't as straight forward mainly because not all DBs have replication protocols like CouchDB does. However, LokiJS provides a Changes API which serializes changes from a se…

this is actually something we are playing with :) we have a couple of drafts in the pipe but you are welcome to bring some wisdom over to LokiJS - it's free for all to use and for …

the destructuring for optional arguments is a very useful use-case I had not thought of. Nice post!

yeah sure - I was a bit troll-ish in the language. Let me elaborate. Imba is a spin-off of javascript intended for front-end use whose syntax is a mix of coffeescript, jsx and pyth…

This is good! Now take away all the unnecessary references to that pile of junk that is ruby and it'll be great.