andybp85

Totally agree with this.

A guy from a band I'm into (The Disco Biscuits) just started making band-themed NFTs and he's doing private events and stuff for the owners. The band also released a free limited one (I think 420 units, because jam band) that gives the bearer access to a concert video that they're not releasing elsewhere.

It definitely seems like the community aspects to NFTs is something that can be leveraged to do cool and interesting stuff. I'm not rushing to buy one but I'm pretty curious to see what else they do.

And of course this isn't unique to NFTs, if you buy a Porsche there's plenty of Porsche clubs you can join.

dear god, why???

I worked through the first four chapters of The Little Schemer in Hy a bunch of years ago: https://github.com/andybp85/hyLittleSchemer

I moved on to Racket shortly after (which I sadly don't use nearly as much as I should these days), but that work definitely made me a far better programmer!

I'm reading this now and while I already understood a lot of what he's talking about, the rest of what he's saying is the only complete, serious, logical take on human drug use I've ever read. Highly, highly recommend this.

My company's going to be going with a hybrid model, which is exactly what I want. I hate purely working from home, but I definitely would pretty much every Monday and Friday.

I've been saying this exact thing about the copy and paste shortcuts for years. If I had a dollar for every time I copied the thing I was trying to paste over, I could afford to crusade against this injustice.

you have to use `npm ci`, which was added a few years ago. my team ran into that kind of issue right after `ci` was added, thankfully, or we would've had to do something similar.

i now have this aliased to `ni`, so i get to say `ni` to the app often.

> You are 1% basic. Jimkata and The Disco Biscuits? Where do you even find this shit?.

That might be the highest compliment I've ever received!

Aaaannd it's down. I can't wait until this comes back up so I can send it to a bunch of my ex-bandmates lol.

That's how I felt when I was learning to compile stuff from source.

Or, how to get your app rate limited in one easy step lol. Patiently waiting...

The concept of "objectively good music" is hilarious enough that this is already a win in my book.

I never thought I'd be a programmer. I actually took HTML in grade school (late 90s) and C++ in high school, but they didn't stick. (Of course now I wish they did!) I originally went to school for TV production, which I had worked in at a local news station all through high school, but wound up getting into a band, took some time off to try that out, and then went back to community college for music.

I started hacking around with windows mobile circa 2006, not really programming but taking the OS apart and making custom ROMs and whatnot. A while later I decided to take a networking course as an elective, because I had been getting more interested in tech. The teacher was all about networking as a field that you didn't have to get more than a two year degree plus some certs for, and I thought hey, I like this enough, they'll be plenty of jobs, and it's not much school. So I changed my major.

The next year my mom (who teaches at a college) said "Go see if they have any internships", so I did. The lady at the department checked what she had and said "Here's something at (a major media company) as a web producer, is that applicable to your major?" "Sure!" I half-lied immediately, because it sounded very cool. The internship was great, but beyond just CMS/production stuff, they throw Javascript/JQuery at me. I got hooked immediately. I guess I was always a tinkerer and problem solver, but I hadn't realized how much fun solving all these little problems and getting to see what I built come to fruition was for me. I bought some books, started teaching myself web dev and Linux (which had always intrigued me, and by '08 I had a server running FreeBSD serving up my music collection for all my friends out of my parents' house. When I graduated with a network admin degree in '10, one of my teachers immediately got me a job at a liquor store doing web and IT.

The great postscript to this is that today, after working in a few different places across the spectrum of web and hosting, I'm back at the media company as a software engineer.

I stumbled across J years ago when I was messing with Supercollider[0]. I wish I had a use for J, it's very cool.

Slight tangent, Supercollier is one of the best langs I've ever played with. Smalltalk + J. Totally blew my mind when I first wrapped my brain around it!

[0] https://supercollider.github.io/

Google translate auto-detects it as Russian as сработа: https://translate.google.com/#view=home&op=translate&sl=auto...

Punching that word into google.ru suggests работа, which then translates to various forms of "work" https://en.openrussian.org/ru/%D1%81%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B1%D0%BE...

I know nothing about Russian beyond a few swear words, but seems like a transliteration nuance, and "it's done" could be a fair translation. I'd definitely defer to a Russian speaker though.

Depends on the venue; I've played things like coffee shops that required us and the people putting the show on to bring everything inc. drums and a PA system.

That's also specific to musicians, like I said there's a bunch of things that have these same types of requirements. Catering comes to mind off the top of my head, and they have to worry about temperature control for their products as a safety concern. I've never seen a caterer on a subway lol.

I did read that before I posted that comment, and the explanation isn't what I got from it. Things like productions (catering services come to mind too) fall into a very different category than emergency or humanitarian services. I could support something that allows exceptions for reasonable needs.

I think focusing on the history as justification perhaps results in an incomplete argument. What people care about is how is this going to affect my life, so to really convince people who currently rely on cars to do business and make stuff happen in NYC, one needs to explain the implementation and how it won't make their lives way harder. That being said, I love history, especially the history of the places my life is intertwined with, and I enjoyed the article in that regard.

Autonomous delivery vehicles in a pedestrian-filled area sounds like sci-fi given the current state of technology.

The amount of gear required for even a small production can be significant. I also do sound for a wedding DJ, and the rig that we bring to any event even if they have their own PA requires multiple trips with a large folding cart to bring from the vehicle to where it's going. We currently handle this by finding the closest place possible to pull up, throw our hazards on, get all the stuff inside, and then go find parking. Requiring another mode of transportation to and from the venue would add a bunch of time and difficulty, no matter how convenient it is.

This isn't a hypothetical; we did a gig in Atlantic City last December that was at the end of a long pier into the ocean, and the closest we could get was a no-parking zone on the other side of the board walk (the venue actually told us this was SOP). After unloading we put the cars in a garage a few blocks down (when you're using muscle power to move hundreds of pounds of gear, you get as close as possible, it's a safety concern). Not only did it take hours in freezing temperatures, but we had to bring an extra person with us to stay with the cars to make sure they didn't get tickets. It sucked. Hard.

This sounds like it would suck big time for musicians and the like who have to transport gear to bars and whatnot, which I've done plenty of times since high school (I live just outside the city in NJ). Having to carry all my gear like 10 NYC blocks (or more) after having to pay tens of dollars to park in a garage (what would availability even be?) would definitely make me think twice about trying to get gigs there. My girlfriend's an artist and does shows there occasionally, and she'd be in the same boat.

Obviously I'm not saying "there'll be no art or live music in NYC if this happens!" I have a car and unless I have a damn good reason I don't drive into the city, especially during the crazy traffic hours (the PATH trains run all night). I think we need to consider what other damn good reasons people have for driving into Manhattan before we consider something as radical as this.

I borderline take offense to this lol.

I first got interested in computers and eventually programming by playing with custom ROMs for my Windows Mobile phone when I was in college, circa 2006. If it wasn't for smartphones, I never would have taken a networking class (I was a radio/TV major) and realized I was very interested in what I could make a computer do (I'm a software engineer now).

I think that the kids-these-days who aren't hacking their smartphones are the same kind of people who didn't do much more than watch TV in years past.