thelsdj's comments

I'm pretty sure the Bitcoin Core client supports Segregated Witness fine. I believe it will follow whatever the longest chain is (as long as its not larger than 1MB).

Thinking about this even more, I feel like the composition could be represented as a series of transformations that go from simple to complex. So you start out with:

  * Track in C#Maj, 124BPM, 4/4
  * Chord progression I–V–vi–IV over 4 bars.
  * OK but rhythm is that current chord repeats on every beat like a stab
  * Timing should be early by half beat so it would be | I I I V| V V V vi| vi vi vi IV| IV IV IV I|
  * another transformation to adjust the voicing, etc
  * Then you can create a bass track from this that mirrors the lowest note but changes the rhythm, etc, etc etc,.

Any change along the way doesn't affect something else unless it should and then you're given a notice that you should check what was affected.

I tend to mix (and do everything as I go) in Ableton. I just got a Push 2 so I've been building out some templates and racks to try to skip some of the tedium of trying to explore chord/melodic ideas quickly.

I was reminded of this behemoth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndb339l81pU like the interface is terrible, but the DAW should basically know what kind of chord your playing and be able to make transformations to them.

I'm relatively new to producing in general, but one of my main issues with composing in Ableton is just not having easy way to reference the rest of my MIDI clips working on one of them. Or if I decide I want to change my chord progression or my voicing I then have to go and check every other clip to make sure they all match or at least work with the change.

I definitely think that current DAWs are terrible at the composition stage of things, but I wouldn't really want to give up the ease of arrangement / sound design / mixing that they provide. Something that could be used for composition that fed MIDI into my existing DAW would be great.

I'm not OP, but I'll answer. I care about my fellow human beings. I make more than most. I want them to have health care. I am willing to pay more taxes into a system that covers everyone so they can all have health care. I could go around and throw a few dollars into every GoFundMe for healthcare that I come across, but in the end it is more efficient to have everyone under the same system driving costs down than it is for people to have to beg and plead for charity to help cover their medical bills.

The trick is that when a company turns out to have major issues, go looking for the people who predicted it. Go looking for the people who never gave them a pass. Go looking for those who have been critical of these companies from the start.

Then see what other companies they are critical of and try figure out why the industry fails to be critical of them early.

This is needed if only so I don't have to get sucked into a great first book like Wizard's First Rule to then have to deal with 100 page lectures on Objectivism if I want to find out what happens to the characters later in the series.

So I currently have an VS Pro + MSDN subscription. I need MSDN for running Windows Server VMs (I dev on a Windows Server 2008 VM currently). Is there any cheaper version that gives me Windows licenses for my dev systems now that I don't need to pay for VS Pro?

They have yet to say that they aren't still removing all old pictures and changing domain names and thus breaking all tweets. All they've said is that they are acquired which doesn't actually clear up the problem.

I had a modem that would disconnect if someone typed: ATH0++ in IRC.

I spent 10-15 hours (mostly in Ledger) figuring out what my Bitcoin tax liability was. Not (mostly) Ledger's fault that it took so long. Now that I know what I'm doing, I should be able to do this year in just a few hours.

I believe Coinbase holds the majority of their BTC in offline wallets distributed in multiple bank vault around the world.

They are probably one of the groups with the best BTC storage security (while maintaining usability). So yes, if they WERE to be robbed, then that would basically mean that no one is able to properly secure BTC.

That is the implication. He got sent very large sums of Bitcoin, you would expect that he'd just get a bunch of small ones, but he got 2-3 large ones ($5,000 a piece).

There are already too many of these services that don't interoperate with each other, or sources of data in an open way.

http://activitystrea.ms/ is a good first step in opening some of this stuff up for consumption.

The way it is now, each front-end service has to do a ton of work for each data source they want to integrate with. There should be services that translate data into a shared format. And then front-end services can focus on their idea instead of having to parse all the data.

I asked the author this very question and his response seemed to be that he has already been planning on writing the book for a long time and the goal is just a small compensation for doing something he loves.

As you said, $3k doesn't go very far if you're thinking in terms of $/hr.

The only issue for me with backing this project is, the author does not have experience being a write/teacher. As a developer he has experience documenting the systems he creates, but I'm not sure how easily that translates to writing a book aimed at teaching a complex concept like dataflow systems.