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Spot on. It's telling that most DAW UIs are based on archaic ideas (like mixers/tracks and MIDI/step-sequencer grids). Even BuzzTracker (2009) outshines many of the current DAWs wi…

The project started a few years ago adapting generating functions to Complex waveshaping, with the waveforms correspond to certain constructions in optics, celestial dynamics, etc.…

I make my own digital synthesis algorithms using (relatively, w.r.t. the field) esoteric mathematics. [1] At some point (e.g. once I obtain patents) I hope to commercialize the pro…

Relatively speaking... Cultural optimism is likely to follow periods of growth and abundance, like buying a property in the 1970s for $5K and selling it in the 2000s for $2M. The l…

The connection between language and humour is an interesting topic, and brings to mind the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis (or more generally, linguistic relativity [1]). It can be difficul…

I agree of course - a society with at least some understanding of statistics, logic, anthropology (of media), etc is essential to a healthy democracy. It would be great to see poli…

> I never said arts/humanities are useless. >> inability to pick a useless major I agree with the sentiment though, that (in general) an Arts degree (or whatever) alone it's not en…

Yes, those things are also wrong. As are decreasing socioeconomic mobility, racially & religiously motivated violence, lack of code hygiene and unit testing, etc... If you read my …

If I was designing policy? Really all I'm talking about is not defunding/sidelining Arts etc "because it's not financially viable". The idea is really to provide a well rounded edu…

Sure, through the lens of "smart investing", an arts degree is a shitty investment, and therefore shouldn't be funded. I just think that's a bit reductive, and that the value provi…

Part of the problem here is that the terms/interest is so crippling that they can't take out another $160K debt to "pivot" into something more financially practical. Further, I thi…

Not inversely proportional, just somewhat orthogonal, reflecting a (largely) different set of priorities. Plus I'm not sure that the "mechanisms of compensation have been democrati…

You could say that about anything though, and I'm sure many in engineering do (about everything from design patterns to category theory...). The value added by quality in-person tu…

Emphasis on "usually"... As far as evidence goes, more experiential - I've studied visual and sonic arts at a few different universities/colleges (in Australia). Generally, not man…

There seems to be a strong sentiment in this thread that the only value provided by education is the contribution to career (e.g. that loans should only be provided for financially…

It's not clear to me why (in the pattern presented) the decorators don't return a subclass (which would preserve the dynamic and static properties and methods, etc). Instead you ge…

> Where, in any of my day-to-day job duties, ... Off the top of my head, or at least where I've used them recently: > kth permutation of a set of numbers? Producing all pairs of a …

My guess is that in OO you are typically only parameterising `this`, and therefore only talking about one facet of the domain. Family polymorphism (or virtual classes) provide a wa…

I think the most important skills you can learn as a programmer are the fundamentals , including control (continuations, generators, etc), data patterns/structures (template method…

I tend to agree (though I appreciate divergence from time to time). The real value (for me) in HN (and Reddit) is the discussion (as opposed to the articles themselves). HN is some…

> The goods and services consumed have to come from someone working somewhere. Like your former self? Retirement fund contribution is compulsory in Australia (as a %age of income),…

It is kind of absurd. Music is intrinsically about reuse, recycling, and reinvention [1]. Sampling is really just a continuation of that. [1] Axis of Awesome, The Four Chord Song, …

The song that the article refers to is Amen by The Winstons (1969), a cover of the gospel-like Amen by Jester Hairston (1963). Though the drum break was played (and probably "compo…

Apologies in advance for the unsolicited monad tutorial (it's my turn to be that asshole)... Firstly, saying "`X` is a monad" is the same as saying "class `X` implements the monad …

I think using Haskell's type syntax is misleading in this context (and doesn't really imply the required associativity (much less commutativity if you wanted to consider Abelian mo…