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Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by tjr »

Informal music notation. Existing systems are fine enough for formal classical notation, but if you want to make a quick rough sketch (e.g., lead sheets in The Real Book) it's pretty cumbersome, and the amount of time & effort it takes doesn't seem commensurate with the sort of document desired.

I've been pondering this off and on for years; I think it might require a pretty fundamental switch in how the data is entered. So far the best I've come up with is, uh, pen and paper...

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by harscoat »

Expense reports - eg. receipts collection, sorting them, scanning them (even if some solutions exist) but then accountants always want it in a different format/system that I use. (no standard especially outstide the US)

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by bluemetal »

grep wrote: post #14

Reading posts with a lot of comments in HN. I never know what comments are new without looking to the date (sometimes they are hundreds).

I've got a chrome extension called "hckr news". It shows you which comments on a HN thread that are new since the last time you visited that page. So far I'm liking it

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by s-phi-nl »

tjr wrote: post #21

Informal music notation. Existing systems are fine enough for formal classical notation, but if you want to make a quick rough sketch (e.g., lead sheets in The Real Book ) it's pretty cumbersome, and the amount of time & effort it takes doesn't seem commensurate with the sort of document desired. I've been pondering this off and on for years; I think it might require a pretty fundamental switch in how the data is ent…

Sorry for the accidental downvote. I meant to upvote because I have been thinking about (more formal) music notation on and off for years, too, trying to come up with a better format than Lilypond.

Re: Ask HN: What annoys you?

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Post by tsycho »

grep wrote: post #14

Reading posts with a lot of comments in HN. I never know what comments are new without looking to the date (sometimes they are hundreds).

I was thinking of this same problem yesterday. I will try to hack together a Firefox extension for this over the weekend to give the HN comments page Slashdot type filters (min. point thresholds), and date sorting.

Will post on HN if it works well.

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