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Rocksmith [1], which can be described as Guitar Hero for real guitars and basses, does a pretty nice job with the UI, difficulty levels and such. It would be cool to see a more open version of Rocksmith where you could load up tabs/songs on demand.

For reference, I wouldn't pay for Soundslice, but I have already shelled out $100+ on Rocksmith (Game, Bass expansion, songs, cords, guitars, etc) and am willing to shell out more (Ex: A Rush Pack just came out I believe.)

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=k...

I'm pretty tired of moocs being hailed as the greatest thing ever. Its just the same old format replicated on the internet.

*don't get me wrong, more education for more people is better, but we can do better than moocs

But seriously. Interesting point about Icelander off-road driving style. It makes sense for terrain that could stick you while in four wheel drive, but it's never occurred to me to drive like that. Ex: Chicago snow storm about 2 years ago, I just drove super-careful but many people had to abandon their cars on the side of the road.

The view I take is if someone has such hostility towards my tattoos that we can't work together, we probably shouldn't be working together anyway. (Tattoos to me are representative of my life story and are given a lot of thought/designing)

I find out about my YC application tomorrow, so I may not need to take client work for awhile, If I don't get an in person interview for YC, I will probably need to pick up a contract before January.

tldr; I do only work between 6-9 months a year or less.

He stated that he had started doing things he didn't necessarily agree with and wondered how these behaviors could have become habits.

One potential explanation was that you are the sum of the people you have your five closest interactions with, over time. So your five people in any given situation are likely different from other situations and the average of all of your five person cliques are what effect your behaviors when you aren't actively cultivating them.

The person (actually people) I live with has actually become a daily toxic influence, so as a last resort I'm making the environment switch (moving to San Francisco) to attempt to generate a better environment.

"Hacker News Postmortem (Personal YC app site)" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4686050

and if you're super interested in what's happened YC-app wise since then:

"Takeaways From Firing A Startup Cofounder" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4744655

The original post was to get my personal site reviewed by Hacker News for my YC application. This worked well and I ended up going with a simpler design (and different content) for the final version. Unfortunately either the day after my submission or the next day, I had to fire my cofounder at the time for reliability issues. I submitted my application as a single founder and reflected on what would make a good cofounder. I called up the one person that ended up fitting the criteria and ~36 hours later we were filling out an update to the YC application. So the application is in, with many changes over time. Tomorrow is the first day I'm actually going to try to make sales (I currently have been physically going to talk to the targeted customers and get feedback) as we have an MVP.

If all roads can be precarious, the answer is all of the above, thus solving the dilema of the test taker understanding the need to be more perceptive in colder weather. We cannot control for all variables that would make a road slick or dangerous, and therefore cannot test them all individually, but must group them together into a situation (ex: road conditions changed). If we accept that driving in and of itself is an active activity, then we should not have to distinguish between specific changes in road conditions for any change in road conditions should be enough for the driver to reevaluate their driving.

This question on the test should then be changed completely to reflect the fact that a change in road conditions necessitates a reevaluation of driving style.

I would further contend that "hidden questions", such as the one described, test one's ability to take multiple choice tests. If I know A and B, I have no need for C and there is no need for me to even look at it. In fact, if there were 40 options, "All of the Above" still has to be the correct answer, even if I have no clue what the other 37 options are.

Teaching is not the intent of a test. Unless, of course, we are assuming that the test taker did not learn anything before taking the test; In which case the intent is not testing them at all but ensuring that they have some basic skills to get by.

However I agree with your intent, the creation of questions for a test is not a trivial pursuit.

The problem as I see it is that the test-makers are trying to be overly clever and not ask the question they want the answer to. If I have to "extend" the language to say something it doesn't, the test maker has failed because the test question is the only source of truth.

This is the issue I see most often with these sorts of questions.