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I'm a software engineer working with scientist-turned-programmers, and what I've experienced is also exactly the opposite of the author. The code written by the physicists, geoscie…

> Because the music of the past was written in a notation that’s different from that used today, it’s necessary to translate and input every mark of the original score – notes, dyn…

This, I believe: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres_(database)

Well the titular "whistleblower" of the article has claimed the U.S. recovered a saucer from World War II dictator Benito Mussolini on a tip from Pope Pius XII. Sorry but that's fi…

> [he] described an expanding and self-replicating bureaucracy that is growing ever more expensive to maintain This seems to me a key piece of the problem. Rises in tuition have ma…

Yes, a wok is a somewhat strange choice for that dish. I'm not really an "expert" on Pinoy food but my partner is Filipino and I've seen this made many times by him, his family, or…

I don't get the sense that those varietals will only grow in Guimaras, but the locals will tell you that it's not just the varietal but also the specific soil, micro-climate, and c…

Well in the spirit of a friendly flame war, I'm going to put my stake in the ground and say that Carabao mangoes from the Philippines and specifically the Galila, Tablan, and Fresc…

You managed to perfectly put into words something I was trying to articulate in my own comment on this thread about the limitations I kept running into with open source notation to…

I've stubbornly stayed on Sibelius 6 for years, but it no longer works on OS X Catalina, so I was pondering biting the bullet and upgrading to 8. But after seeing this... Does anyo…

“Black Lives Matter's Effect on Police Lethal Use-of-Force” https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3767097 Give it a read, maybe it will change your mind. Organization…

Haskell Programming from First Principles ( https://haskellbook.com/ ). Not free but, hands down, the best book for someone looking to pick up Haskell.

I’ve found Charles Rosen’s book _Arnold Schoenberg_ to be an excellent introduction to the composer. It’s a short, well-written book. Not so much a biography, as an exploration of …

My lawn definitely has it's share of crabgrass which I don't mind. But Kentucky blue grass and clover (both native) seem to do better. Which unfortunately means mowing.

Along with other commenters here, I've given up on trying to have a perfect lawn. As long as it's green, it's fine with me. I'm also trying to gradually reduce the amount of proper…

I dislike the wishy-washy passive construction in their summary graf: > In the massive global network of manufacturers, distributors, sellers, and resellers, it can be nearly impos…

> The only way this may change is if we change how we pay for our care. Agree 100% on this. The incentives in a fee-for-service world are just so badly misaligned with the goals of…

Also #7, "want to use graph databases? noSQL? good luck" Is incorrect. How do I know? I've built a non-trivial Django app with a Neo4J backend. It included an API using Django REST…

> I hate to sound mean spirited, but I have a hard time being sympathetic to intelligent well educated people who chose to pursue careers that obviously don't pay well. I think the…

It's kind of funny to me that every single one of these more or less came true with one notable exception: "Have you ever carried your medical history in your wallet?" As it stands…

Yeah, it's hard to take anything in this article seriously when you're one line into it and the premise: "Of the well-known composers of the 19th century, Fryderyk Chopin is the on…

This gets us classifications all the way from "no starch at all" (i.e. soup) to "non-starch surrounded on all sides by the starch" (i.e. calzone). But I posit the existence of an e…