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rugoso

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About rugoso

http://rugoso.com/

I make music apps (synths, sequencers, efx) to make my own music, I'm still not that good though :S

i use a mac, and my apps are made in cocoa

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    maybe instead of just a loud sound, they should put a loud voice telling them the situation and what to do ... I guess some alarms do that

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    Comment #4468043

    About 90 dollars a month in a little iPhone app called TweakyBeat .. it was free for like three years, then some day I asked myself if I could change it from free to pay, and yes y…

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    Comment #3527953

    hmmm, mission impossible? which one?

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    Ask HN: what are your favorite coder related videos? (any length, any kind)

    as title says, any kind: comedy, tutorials, documentaries, movies, whatever

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    Comment #557307

    agree, if you've got this far, why not show it real time, as an option maybe

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    Ask HN: how to get tough

    Do you have any good ideas about how to consciously get tougher (without necessarily working on a successful startup). In pg's latest essay, he mentions toughness as "a quality you…

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    Comment #253381

    thanks raquo, and yes, this is kind of the teaching i meant ;) this is certainly useful information for me, something i could try

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    Ask HN: Best way(s) to teach someone else to program, person to person.

    I was wondering if you have any sort of experience teaching someone to program, and specially a 1 to 1 kind of teaching, and what's your advice on the matter.

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    Comment #220503

    I'm in mexico city, if you ever visit this city ;) ....... ok not exactly south america but anyways ;)

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    Comment #157832

    i thougth your where talking about the grand theft auto "rockstar" company, that would have been interesting ;)

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    Comment #137984

    "could the age of celebrity finally be over?" Thats like saying that the piano would kill all virtuosos, because all the notes are already there, as opposed to a violin where the p…

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    "Taking the time to author original, thought provoking and/or informative posts ..." But maybe you should do this sort of thing just because is good for you in the first place (as …

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    Comment #133856

    thanks!, supercool! ;)

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    Comment #133823

    hey ericb, can you tell us how you learned social psychology? maybe what books, sites ... etc ? also im checking the material that FleursDuMal mentioned ;)

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    thanks jgc ive heard a lot about the arduino, i think im gonna get one or build one but i also want to be able to build my own circuits, to learn to program the microcontrollers, s…

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    Comment #128139

    i have recently been interested in microcontrollers, chips you can program, to control things like motors and leds, and to recive data from sliders / knobs (potentiometers) i got s…

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    Ask YC News: a good way to learn electronics/microcontrollers?

    i'll be very specific: i want to be able to make simple hardware controllers (buttons, faders, leds) that can comunicate with the software i make (software to make music), using us…

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    LOL, this is always one o my favorite insults, "he uses tables in his html"

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    I usually listen to only one track in repeat (for about an hour), one that I'm very familiar with, so i don't get distracted by it (it may or not have vocals) I've notice that by d…

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    Ask YC: recommended code reading?

    what good code is out there that we should read to make ourselves better programmers? (inspired by 2 recent post: "It's Harder to Read Code than to Write It" and "Alan Kay's list o…

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    i think it's a great book, not a "serious" book, whatever that means as i mention in another comment, I'm willing to call it mental-masturbation, in the sense of exciting one's min…