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jadavies | 4 years ago | on: Kunst Der Fuge Collection – Free Classical MIDI Files

Looks good. However the sign up process takes far too many clicks to eventually get to "Select your subscription level" then I get:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers error '80004005'

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver] Field 'tblUsers.UName' cannot be a zero-length string.

/-/db/registration.asp, line 136

Oh well I'll come back later

jadavies | 4 years ago | on: I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it

Oddly enough I was just thinking the same thing. From what I can remember every ( Android) app that I've ever installed has come from a recommendation from somewhere else. I can't see how you'd ever get any traction if you mainly relied on the app store search results.

jadavies | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

A desktop tool to assist with planning a piece of writing using the book architecture method ( https://thefriendlyeditor.com/tag/the-book-architecture-meth... ) Uses GTK and is released under a GPL licence - https://github.com/john-davies/mapter

Problems / improvements are

* Improved Editor with features like search/replace and undo. At the moment the GTKSourceView component looks a likely candidate.

* A method of moving or swapping the contents of cells without a lot of cutting & pasting ( drag & drop? )

* There's also an annoying bug with the tree control drag & drop that I need to fix

I'm currently using it to try and write a novel. I'm about 35% of the way through and it works surprisingly well.

jadavies | 5 years ago | on: Welcome to the Old Internet Again

This absolutely.The good stuff is still out there but it's been diluted to homeopathic levels by the infestation of the "look at me" marketing crud.

jadavies | 7 years ago | on: A French town that ages wine in the sea

Agreed although there are probably easier ways to achieve stable temperatures, e.g. a cellar.

The rest is definitely marketing hype. For remuage the sparkling wine bottles are slowly tipped from horizontal to vertical so that the sediment gathers at the cork end. The sediment can then be removed and the bottle recorked. There should be very little or no sediment in wine that's for sale.

jadavies | 7 years ago | on: Ask HN: What are some alternatives to Google maps?

Depending on your use cases OpenStreetMap may be suitable. For commercial use you probably need to set up your own servers but that can work to your advantage in that you're better insulated from random price hikes.

jadavies | 7 years ago | on: Argue with your customers

You make a good point about the ego thing. We had several enquiries from customers who would prefer custom development rather than make small changes to their business processes so as to be able to use off the shelf products.

jadavies | 7 years ago | on: What happens when we work non-stop

Agree 100% and that was my philosophy as well. They key phrase in your comment is "when it doesn't appear to be necessary" In my experience long hours are rarely necessary and certainly not on a continuous basis. Simply measuring hours worked just degenerates into a pissing contest which benefits nobody.
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