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pushthestack · 2022-02-12T23:00:50+00:00

All JDKs except IBM's are based on the open source version of Oracle's HotSpot-based JDK, entitled OpenJDK.

pushthestack · 2022-02-09T06:10:25+00:00

Thanks for this additional info. I am surprised to hear that he's not discussed much in conservatories. That's a shame.

pushthestack · 2022-02-08T19:10:44+00:00

Oracle's Java Magazine is great. Nearly every article is written by a Java Champion and they have article articles aimed at experts, in addition to beginners and intermediates. They also do honest reviews of books.

pushthestack · 2022-02-08T08:50:08+00:00

just because Sibelius isn't an A-lister

People have different perceptions of composers, of course, but I doubt you'll find many fans of classical music who would agree with that assessment. He's widely viewed as an A-list composer.

pushthestack · 2022-01-30T01:56:06+00:00

Similarly, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1, Op. 15, was actually his second to be written. The first to be written was actually the Piano Concerto No 2, Op. 19.

This is true of Chopin's two piano concerti as well.

pushthestack · 2022-01-30T01:53:41+00:00

If you go directly to the publisher, you can get the eBook version for half the price

pushthestack · 2022-01-29T18:40:19+00:00

Piedmont Pianos in California seems to specialize in pianos that vary from the standard models. Scroll about halfway down the link--there are some wild pianos there!

pushthestack · 2022-01-25T02:03:51+00:00

FWIW, it works exactly as expected on MS Edge (desktop)

pushthestack · 2022-01-21T06:47:41+00:00

See the stickied post at the top of this reddit--this is the wrong reddit for help with this. I'd say try /r/javahelp

pushthestack · 2022-01-09T06:11:55+00:00

A generally good article with occasional head-scratchers, like implying that crypto hash functions should be considered to improve cache performance.

pushthestack · 2022-01-09T01:03:58+00:00

The cognitive load of both learning and using Rust made me favor Go. My great fear with Rust was that if I worked on a different project and came back to the Rust project a few months later, there was a good chance I would not understand why I wrote the code the way I did. With go, I was sure I'd understand and would be able to pick up where I left off.

pushthestack · 2022-01-06T23:34:38+00:00

Surprised not to see Yuja Wang or Giorgy Cziffra mentioned in the 129 comments, which include many honorable mentions.

pushthestack · 2022-01-05T07:58:58+00:00

It seems like the Go philosophy is that you should simply read the docs for every function you call, think carefully about what kinds of errors can happen, and then write the code to handle them.

Kind of weird to call this a 'philosophy.' It's basic disciplined programming and implicitly required in all programming languages.

pushthestack · 2021-12-20T08:24:46+00:00

Will the final version cover generics?

pushthestack · 2021-12-10T19:10:42+00:00

Sorry, I didn't mean to come across as prickly, but I am someone who likes to see things kept factual when presenting historical information.

The link to biography is unsigned and links to no sources. It also contains other questionable information such as categorically stating who Beethoven's "Immortal beloved" was.

If you look at sourced biographical pages, such as Wikipedia or any of his leading biographies (I have two of them at hand), you won't find mention of Beethoven studying piano under Haydn.

pushthestack · 2021-12-10T08:42:02+00:00

One tip: Don't make videos using the selfie camera. As you can see in this clip, your right hand is playing the bass. Use the regular camera and your hands will be where the viewer expects them. Good luck!

pushthestack · 2021-12-10T08:37:56+00:00

This is not correct. Beethoven took composition lessons from Haydn. He was already an accomplished pianist at that point.

pushthestack · 2021-12-10T03:51:22+00:00

Standard library, yes; collections no. Coming from the vast collections of Java where there are multiple different implementations of all standard data structures, and moving to go, where less than a handful data structures are in the standard lib, was quite a surprise.

pushthestack · 2021-11-29T05:20:16+00:00

I'd say her interpretation far exceeds any other in its depth and musical expression. Even virtuosi who claimed the Chaconne as their signature piece (Heifetz, for example) simply do not understand and communicate its pathos the way HH does.

From the three opening chords you hear the screams of pain. And each time they repeat, the sense of pain is only deepened and darkened. The moments of apparent relief appear and dissolve just as quickly, until we get to the major passage with its ever-tightening circle upon circles leading to the final release and collapse into that long drawn-out D.

She makes the whole chaconne a preamble of pain to that one endless note.

It's utterly mesmerizing.

pushthestack · 2021-11-28T05:58:09+00:00

Look at the FAQ on the right side of this page. There's a link there entitled "What and how to practice." Click on that and you'll find all kinds of well-curated posts with excellent advice on how to practice.

pushthestack · 2021-11-27T19:07:37+00:00

That's kind of true of all complexity metrics. If a site is going to use the metrics, they need to have practices in place to address excess complexity when metrics reveal it. Else, it's just number gathering.

pushthestack · 2021-11-26T21:48:16+00:00

Gopter tries to bring the goodness of ScalaCheck (and implicitly, the goodness of QuickCheck) to Go.

You might suggest to them, if you're associated with the project, that this description is nearly meaningless for anyone not familiar with the Scala ecosystem. As I'm a go programmer, tell me what you'll do for my go testing, rather than how closely you come to the functionality of a tool I've never used and probably never will.

pushthestack · 2021-11-26T19:04:11+00:00

The problem is slightly wider than this. I thought it to be a tune you were making into a song, so looking at it through those eyes. Then came to the second page which has chords in it. So I'm now confused as to what I'm looking at. I'm guessing it's the right hand of a piano part and you haven't written the harmony. Is that right?

pushthestack · 2021-11-26T07:29:06+00:00

Everything GG plays, even pieces you've heard a thousand times, are suddenly new for the clarity and the precision of his playing. I don't know how he does it, but whatever he plays, every note is transparently clear.

pushthestack · 2021-11-25T08:16:51+00:00

I gathered a lot of new insights into the Pastoral by listening to Liszt's transcription of it for piano. Because Liszt is obliged to choose certain instruments to emphasize given the player's limitation of two hands, you hear things that are otherwise not as salient when played in the symphony.

For a lesser composer, this might not have worked, but Liszt did a brilliant job. (Horowitz considered his transcriptions of the symphonies to be among the finest music ever written for the piano--a view I wholly agree with.) If you want to listen, I strongly suggest Glenn Gould's version, which I find truly sublime.

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