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New comment by ianremsen in "This DX7 Cartridge Does Not Exist"

ianremsen — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:24:42 +0000

Yes. You get a generated patch file for the Yamaha DX7 synthesizer.

Music Software and Interface Design: Steinberg's Dorico [video]

ianremsen — Sun, 17 May 2020 21:59:24 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-3wEC6Fj_8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23215886

Points: 3

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New comment by ianremsen in "Inglehart–Welzel cultural map of the world"

ianremsen — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 18:28:28 +0000

How on earth are these metrics defined even somewhat objectively? How is it justified that countries such as China, India, and Russia occupy only one point despite being stunningly diverse polities? Why are all 'traditional' values rolled into one category? Why are 'survival' and 'self-expression' considered opposite extremes?

New comment by ianremsen in "The Last Pirate of New York"

ianremsen — Wed, 28 Aug 2019 15:35:48 +0000

Commentary Magazine isn't exactly known for its wokeness, I'm afraid.

New comment by ianremsen in "Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)"

ianremsen — Sun, 19 May 2019 16:30:36 +0000

I hung around #lichess on freenode (where the wonderful dev team exists, including the founder Thibaut) a lot at the time (and I still do) and I was more or less definitively told about concerns of further splitting the userbase. The most recently added variant (Racing Kings) is not terribly popular, and they've made a commitment not to remove variants once they're added, so I appreciate the caution, but something in my bones told me then (which was about two years ago now) and still does that S-chess would be SUPER popular.

New comment by ianremsen in "Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)"

ianremsen — Sat, 18 May 2019 18:29:05 +0000

There's a variamt of chess created by GM Yasser Seirawan wherein he seeks to stoke the heady flames of tactical attacking chess where he introduces two new pieces: the hawk (which moves like a bishop + a knight) and the elephant (which moves like a rook + a knight). The problem is, there's absolutely nowhere to play it online! I wish I had the skills to build a site/mod lichess to make it work, but lichess isn't interested in adding new variants. If anyone's looking for a project...

New comment by ianremsen in "Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)"

ianremsen — Sat, 18 May 2019 18:20:53 +0000

You have to be good at slow chess to be good at fast chess, because slow chess builds that intuition you then cash out on in time trouble.

New comment by ianremsen in "Aggressive Chess Openings (2012)"

ianremsen — Sat, 18 May 2019 18:20:02 +0000

People particularly love attacking chess (possibly because expert, constricting, prophylactic chess is a slower burn and takes more skill in a lot of cases to appreciate), and with that being said, it's interesting because chess is sort of the opposite of that Sun Tzu quote: "Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat."

If you're a strategic chess master but you can't see tactics, that mastery doesn't matter and your opponents take all your pieces. If you're likely to get ground down in an eighty move game but you can sniff out an attack on your enemy's king, you can usually at least get a shot at doing that and crush your opponent.

New comment by ianremsen in "World’s No 1 bridge player suspended after failing a drugs test"

ianremsen — Sun, 03 Mar 2019 03:34:45 +0000

The reason (in chess at least, which is what I'm familiar with) is to encourage more women to play chess, to close the gender gap formed in the first 150 years centuries of international organized chess.

New comment by ianremsen in "Lost at Sea on the Brink of the Second World War"

ianremsen — Mon, 30 May 2016 04:12:38 +0000

In my opinion, World War II started on September 18, 1931, when Japan invaded Manchuria, because 1) the Chinese and Japanese didn't stop fighting until 1945, and 2) it had much the same spirit as the following conflicts. Admittedly, this subjective timing stuff is awful fuzzy.

“How the Genius Bar handles data during customer repairs sucks.” [video]

ianremsen — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:46:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39WOfTZHyrg

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11531775

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Battle of the Bits (Kickstarter)

ianremsen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 04:57:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/523870291/battle-of-the-bits

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11302662

Points: 7

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New comment by ianremsen in "Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’t Need"

ianremsen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 03:05:25 +0000

My point was that the 'average' computer user is easily bewildered by many things, and using an IRC client isn't especially difficult compared to them. Using a link to a ready-made config for a web IRC client is easy and relatively painless and doesn't require any additional magical insight and fairy dust by a group of Silicon Valley dreamers. The use cases for Slack is arguable an Euler diagram circle exactly on top of those for IRC, a slightly different one than those for FB Messenger or Skype. Slack is redundant/bloated because of IRC, Messenger isn't.

New comment by ianremsen in "Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’t Need"

ianremsen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 01:30:54 +0000

No regular person ever renames files. No regular person ever uses a browser that didn't come with their system. No regular person ever properly navigates an average website without help. Your point is?

New comment by ianremsen in "Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’t Need"

ianremsen — Thu, 17 Mar 2016 00:51:48 +0000

I would imagine most non-technical people could scrape by with a certain client, even a web one. As someone who's on Freenode, Lord knows they do.

New comment by ianremsen in "Why Messaging Startup Slack Keeps Raising Money It Doesn’t Need"

ianremsen — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 23:58:57 +0000

I still really do not get why technical people don't just use IRC with a decent client (Hexchat?)

The Secret Life of a Silk Road 2.0 Mastermind (2016)

ianremsen — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 21:01:52 +0000

Article URL: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-secret-life-of-a-silk-road-20-mastermind

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11269497

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

An open letter to Quora

ianremsen — Fri, 11 Mar 2016 18:04:42 +0000

Article URL: http://pastebin.com/jHXi2esv

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11268309

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

CuriosityStream

ianremsen — Sun, 28 Feb 2016 23:28:31 +0000

Article URL: https://app.curiositystream.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11192892

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ianremsen in "Pull request acceptance of women versus men"

ianremsen — Thu, 25 Feb 2016 06:23:15 +0000

I'd like to hear your reasoning for why it's relevant enough to have added value to the results.