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James K. Tauber
Personal blog · jtauber.com/blogprogrammingmath
James K. Tauber's personal blog at jtauber.com covers programming and math. Since 2007, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “Explaining the Poincaré Conjecture”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Using computers to better understand languages, texts, and music.
Most-linked posts?
- Explaining the Poincaré Conjecture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2008-05-14
What Hacker News says?
The way to learn the logic behind the scales in my opinion is to learn the theory of the early Western music, up to the Baroque era, that was around while the staff was being developed. That is: learn the seven modes of Western music ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(music) ). Each mode is a diatonic scale ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatonic_scale ). Each mode has a particular combination of whole steps and…
Comment linking /blog/2006/11/17/why_a-sharp_is_not_b-flat/
on “Music theory for nerds”Submitted Why 13th Chords as a story · 131 points
HN discussionMy general experience has been that seniority almost implies specialisation. A good compromise is to be super skilled at one (or a few) tasks and have working knowledge of others. The former makes for a good resume and will get you hired. The latter will help you grow at the organisation you join. https://jtauber.com/journeyman_of_some/ is a particularly eloquent way of putting it.
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on “Ask HN: How to find “senior” jack of all trades jobs?”Submitted ApplePy - Apple ][ emulator in python as a story · 30 points
HN discussionI wrote a little on this topic many years ago on my blog: http://jtauber.com/blog/2008/04/30/grammar_rules/
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on “The Pronunciation of Django”Submitted Explaining the Poincaré Conjecture as a story · 7 points
HN discussion(i love the python community, esp the meetings at GOOG HQ. voidspace.org.uk (great dev, great mind, but the un-design, ooh) http://sayspy.blogspot.com/ http://blog.ianbicking.org/ http://jtauber.com/python/ blog.doughellmann.com
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on “Ask YC: What are some of the Python blogs you read?”Submitted Working through the Poincaré Conjecture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionI’m reminded of James Tauber’s blog post on ‘job creation’: http://jtauber.com/blog/2008/11/12/x_will_cost_y_jobs/
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on “Start-ups account for *all* of net new jobs creation”Submitted Numerical Representation of Pitch as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Poincaré Project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python tuples are not just constant lists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open Source Project: Czerny as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cringe Test for usability as a story · 1 points
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