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New comment by meggar in "How to play the guitar by ear, for mathematicians and physicists (2000) [pdf]"

meggar — Sun, 09 Feb 2020 13:32:11 +0000

I agree. Beatles songs are great for this. But I would say don't stop after learning a few simple songs, always keep learning more. one new song each week maybe. Keep in mind that most of the musicians whose music you are learning probably learned this way as well. of course, if you want to learn classical or play like Coltrane, you'll need to learn the theory.

New comment by meggar in "Heliogen, backed by Gates, says it has achieved a solar breakthrough"

meggar — Sat, 04 Jan 2020 18:51:34 +0000

Cool, an Archimedes Death Ray with AI.

New comment by meggar in "Why are there no animals with three legs?"

meggar — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:17:01 +0000

Technically a centipede does have 3 legs.

New comment by meggar in "Ask HN: What are your favorite books or essays written at least 100 years ago?"

meggar — Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:04:14 +0000

This was made into an opera too.

New comment by meggar in "Tesla’s Touchscreen UI: A Case Study of Car-Dashboard User Interface"

meggar — Tue, 21 May 2019 12:27:48 +0000

Clearly a giant Blackberry would be a better UI for a car.

New comment by meggar in "Tesla – Introducing V3 Supercharging"

meggar — Thu, 07 Mar 2019 16:46:34 +0000

Interesting, so your house drops you off at work, and then picks you up later.

New comment by meggar in "Time Running Out for Beloved Mechanical Horse-Race Game in Vegas"

meggar — Thu, 31 Jan 2019 01:41:30 +0000

Didn't the casino in Montreal have one of these?

New comment by meggar in "iOS Menu"

meggar — Sat, 05 Jan 2019 11:13:07 +0000

3D Touch could be an alternative to the menu bar.

New comment by meggar in "A list of lists of interview questions"

meggar — Mon, 31 Dec 2018 01:53:55 +0000

The very first Swift question has a partially incorrect answer. It says that "var array2 = array1" creates a copy of array1. But it's incorrect because a copy isn't actually created until one of them is mutated.

New comment by meggar in "Custom string delimiters in Swift 5"

meggar — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 02:44:31 +0000

There's also split()

    let parts = l.split(separator: ",").map{ $0.split(separator: "=") },
        first = parts[0],
        second = parts[1]

New comment by meggar in "Stop Learning Frameworks"

meggar — Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:58:59 +0000

I just put them in a heap.

New comment by meggar in "Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder"

meggar — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:58:43 +0000

Sounds cool, open source by any chance?

New comment by meggar in "Songcraft Beta – A songwriting tool and guitar tab builder"

meggar — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:46:02 +0000

How does the suggested chords feature work?

New comment by meggar in "Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?"

meggar — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 22:12:23 +0000

I was thinking more like a 10 foot wide hole, 1 mile deep.

New comment by meggar in "Can We Grow More Food on Less Land?"

meggar — Fri, 07 Dec 2018 20:39:00 +0000

Maybe Boring Co and Square Roots can do some underground vertical farming so we don't keep running out of romaine.

New comment by meggar in "Oil Demand for Cars Is Already Falling"

meggar — Sat, 17 Nov 2018 14:20:07 +0000

Solar has moving parts?

New comment by meggar in "Ask HN: Which plants can be planted indoors and easily maintained?"

meggar — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 11:31:39 +0000

Cacti.

New comment by meggar in "Ask HN: What does it feel like to master playing an instrument by ear?"

meggar — Fri, 05 Oct 2018 01:56:18 +0000

Try singing/whistling the melody while playing it at the same time.

New comment by meggar in "Show HN: Guitar Dashboard – Open source music theory explorer for guitarists"

meggar — Fri, 14 Sep 2018 20:02:20 +0000

It's also Dorian and Phrygian without the 2 and 6. Plus you can use it in other keys, the A Pentatonic in the key of Bb is lydian, in G it's dorian, in C it's major, etc..

New comment by meggar in "I know why rejection emails suck – I write them"

meggar — Mon, 27 Aug 2018 20:03:19 +0000

I'd try it again, what is the process to reapply?