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sqnguyen

899 karma · joined March 26, 2012

Software Engineer by trade. I like playing with sound.
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sqnguyen··on Chick Corea has died
You have plenty of great recs at this point so there's no point to regurgitate what has already been said. (Definitely check out the late McCoy Tyner rec.)

For those who haven't listened to Musicmagic before, that whole album is criminally underrated. Seriously, the name says it all. Been bumpin' to it all day!

sqnguyen··on Chick Corea has died
He left a huge mark on me--I literally have an excerpt from 500 miles high tattooed on my forearm. Chick's work with Return to Forever made me __love__ jazz which led to so many more discoveries. You bet you'll be missed, Chick! Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful compositions with the world.
sqnguyen··on A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript
I guess so... https://tio.run/##K0gtyjH9/z83sUAlR9tWQ9dQU0tLJV5fw1BXJV7LSF...
sqnguyen··on A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript
this is my perl golf version of the same series. You can probably can do something similar with js:

map$l+=(-1)$_/(1-$_2)4,1..<>;die$l

sqnguyen··on Engineers Are Leaving America for Canada
For what it's worth, Toronto salaries have a pretty different statistic on hired.com: https://hired.com/state-of-salaries-2018

Speaking from personal experience, I've seen salaries ranging from 100-120k CAD with 4 years of experience. Rent price increases as of late seem to be affecting much of the costs as well. YMMV. Tax is comparable to California as well. It's not as lucrative as USA, but public schooling is very strong in Toronto.

sqnguyen··on Push Notifications to Mobile Devices Using Amazon SNS
Push notification services never guarantee delivery.
sqnguyen··on Observations from a Tipless Restaurant
Shouting politely is always an option, but I feel restaurants should really adopt having a button at each table that customers can use if they have any requests to make to their waiter or waitress.
sqnguyen··on Introduction to Guitar
I started with an acoustic guitar about ten years ago, but that's only because my father had one laying around. Approach learning the guitar like how most people learn new programming languages: just dive right into it. If you like acoustic guitar music more than electric guitar, then learn it and vice versa.

For acoustic: Seagull, Simon Patrick, and Art and Luthrie solid top guitars make solid learner guitars. They can be had for $300-500.

For electric guitars: visit the SevenString forums. That community is more knowledgeable about it than me.

sqnguyen··on Introducing HelloSign for Gmail
Adobe Reader also gives this functionality, however, this feature removes the context switching.
sqnguyen··on Hacking the Dropbox Space Race
Hacking Dropbox's SpaceRace to win is pretty glorious.
sqnguyen··on Show HN: From an idea to the Valley in less than a month
I find it kind-of interesting how common features on IM services can be rebranded into a startup.
sqnguyen··on Amazon Glacier
This link should work better: http://aws.amazon.com/glacier/
sqnguyen··on Poll: How long have you been programming?
I've been programming for about 7 years or so in a high school class. I was 15. My first language was Turing (Pascal-like language). I remember struggling with recursion, but thankfully I had an awesome computer science teacher who taught me really well.