joeberon

You sound like an incel. Anyone who cares about this stuff is already weak.

Unfortunately common among many technical users, they have no sense of page design whatsoever, and instead go for the "raw data" approach. It is bizarre

"at their own peril"? It's really not a big deal lol

> Non technical people only have the patience to learn / listen to very basic concepts.

What a stupidly arrogant comment. Have you not heard of philosophy, for example?

Are these seriously the quality of comments we are happy with on Hackernews these days?

> This is exactly why I used that term

That's a lie, because:

> I think I was used that particular poetic flourish to emphasise how complicated the academic, mathematic explanation is, in contrast with the diagram

is a totally different to what the person you are replying to said

Yeah it's a shame, on the other chips you can get amazingly air-y textures by setting the LFO to noise and then putting the frequency all the way up. See this video for example: https://youtu.be/_xL3qr-9-ZE

"frequency" would mean the same thing in your weird practical analogy.

I love the DX7 but it's a shame that the maximum LFO frequency is so low. It really hampers the sound design possibilities

I've had an inane conversation with them previously. Probably they have two-digit karma as they are downvoted a lot.

The goal of a pitch meeting is to sell your non-shit idea. OP had a shit idea. That's what blocked him. Hence why "standing out" didn't actually get him funded.

Even scarier, a lot of people in this thread seem to think it's a good thing.

Why would the emotional outburst suggest that when he's already spent so much time on something the YC interviewer considered a non-solution?

GDC7 quite consistently posts incomprehensible shit. Honestly a lot of HN regulars have become incomprehensible recently.

True, but your idea has to at least be good or relevant, which OP's unfortunately wasn't. It doesn't take some weird emotional outburst to stand out, it takes having an actually good idea. Of course you need to convince them it's a good idea, but again you don't need an emotional outburst for that, if it's an actually good idea it should not be difficult.

How are you inferring that from this blog post? Everything about it seems to be saying "I've heard this solution a million times, and seen a million failures, do you have anything new?"

The answer is to have a solution that has not seen a million failures.

> I can't really see any other way to possibly stand out than to try to be radically genuine and sincere

You could have a unique idea that isn't shit. If you can't have a unique idea that isn't shit, you shouldn't be a startup founder in the first place.

I would guess that most people feel like .Net, Go, and Javascript have very easy distribution and package management

Python is much faster than MRI Ruby used to be back in the day

I don't see how any of that is relevant to the article, but the reason python beat out ruby was almost entirely due to ruby being really really slow.

Python distribution is honestly horrific. The worst thing is that I actually see people defending it or saying it isn't that bad if you simply learn it "properly" but I have no idea what they mean when they say this.

Exactly the point they were making. All these problems were already around at the time. In fact people didn't even see them as problems. Read gang of four, and they don't really mention working around the limitations of the language. It is as if they are not really aware how many of their problems are arising due to the language's design, and think their patterns are just a generically good to do it. People don't use a majority of them now because there is just no need for them anymore in modern languages.

I actually thought the old butterfly keys were fine back when I was using them, but after getting an M1 2020 mbp, going back is HORRIBLE

> Your comment is remarkably dismissive IMO.

You'll survive

Are you sure that's your point? It's a bit strange how you "believe" that it is your point. Surely you should know it for sure?

There's also this dude who has spent 2 years trying to get a mac touchpad experience on linux

https://bill.harding.blog/2020/04/26/linux-touchpad-like-a-m...

https://bill.harding.blog/2019/03/25/linux-touchpad-like-a-m...

Just accept that others have a different opinion to you. No need to come up with some conspiracy about why we're not a homogenous blob.

Wow! That's actually the first time I've ever heard this opinion

Tbh, those people are the ones with huge egos. Mathematics is getting done on the raw ground regardless of if they are present or not. I hate this whining bullshit, if you want people to collaborate, make the tools to help people do so, rather than cringy pointless posturing.

> turning Mobile, AL into a Cambridge or a Zurich.

You are extremely naive if you think that this is something that would happen by raising general mathematics literacy. Nor is it something that we should necessarily even want to happen. Stop living in a dream land, not everyone needs to or should be a mathematician. We should aim for general literacy in statistics at most.

> If people in math cared about explaining their thoughts the way philosophers and rational thinkers do, then it could be possible.

Well, mathematics is in a much better state academically than philosophy, and literally in the UK we have ZERO philosophy education in the entirety of school. Philosophy hardly seems like an ideal to strive for, the average person know even less philosophy than mathematics and academically it is far smaller and less well funded.

What has any of this got to do with "emerging as a field"? Mathematics is alive and well and, indeed, popular. It's not like Mathematics lectures are empty or that huge numbers are shying away from engineering or physics because of the Maths involved. Like, it's doing fine, and clearly "emerged as a field" centuries ago.

I don't give a fuck if people hate Maths, it's doing fine lol. You sound like someone who has literally no connection to the field and therefore can not perceive how it is actually doing, and instead you think "wow Maths must be in a bad state if everyone hates it". But no, that is just not true...

If there is any relevant criticism of Mathematics it is much more about going extremely deep into vastly theoretical domains without any reference to how practical such solutions might be than anything to do with whether or not the lay person "enjoys Maths".

All of this is irrelevant bullshitting. Maths emerged as a field centuries or even millenia ago. Please read the wiki page on "Mathematics".