Just picked up this gem. Ibanez s5470tks

Shecky74 · 2012-05-27T01:11:59.547997+00:00

"Gorgeous"

no period following the word

ChrisHogie · 2012-05-26T18:17:33.000787+00:00

stuff i don't necessarily recommend:

If you look at rock climbing books, there are things like towel hangs, and hanging off a chinup bar with 2 or 3 fingers. Lifting a jug of water with your index finger. (These exercises have a nontrivial risk of injury)

This si $10

if you have to buy stuff

stuff i would recommend: get used to carrying your instrument around, maybe with a headphone amp. Also get used to not taking your eye off it so it won't get ripped off.

If you have $80 and a laptop, consider a dinky MIDI controller

http://www.korg.com/microkey

Rosencrantz202 · 1 day

The issue with those inexpensive guitars is they're assembled quickly, I would play the specific guitar and amp you're going to buy, look for sharp fretwork, noisy or non-funcitoning electronics, gaps between body and neck, and any slight twist in the neck (sight along top and bottom of neck. This may be tricky cause often the fretwork is not even. Better is take a musician friend with you to try guitars

For inexpensive guitars, Ibanez, Squier's higher lines (CV,VM), Peavey, Yamaha and Axl seem to have consistently decent quality control. I've heard good things about Agile/rondomusic and guitarfetish but haven't seen any of them in person

Categoria · 1 day

some others (undergrad and grad)

zagaberoo · 1 day

Always good backgrounders, Okasaki, Van Roy/Haridi, Cormen/Leisersen/Rivest/Stein.

http://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Okasaki/dp/0521663504/

http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-Programming/dp/0262220695/

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-Thomas-H-Cormen/dp/0262033844/

There are a number of language specific recs, also

(C++11)[http://www.manning.com/williams/]

(C#, Duffy)[http://www.amazon.com/Concurrent-Programming-Windows-Joe-Duffy/dp/032143482X/]

There are good resources for lockless data structures and different green/userspace thread models in GHC/Haskell, erlang, F# and scala/akka, as well

snookerdoodle · 2 days

that sucks. Ask teh shops if their employees asked for drivers licenses. If you're anywhere near California, try to get your serial numbers on California's hot list and other neighboring states also. Also find out if your local police department has a $ threshold of loss that they have to do a meaningful investigation. It might be really high and it might be really hard to get to that number.

Anything you can do to get police detectives involved. Check your local paper's crime log and if you can convince the PD there's an active burglary ring out there.

Also make a list for yourself of any mods, dents/dings, weird wiring/components, anything distinctive those guitars had.

gtani · 2 days

Excellent summaries! I might add that LSA is also called LSI "indexing" and is/was under patent, as a specific application of SVD.

So first paper, good backgrounder is the chapter from freely available text by Manning, Raghavan, Schütze.

http://nlp.stanford.edu/IR-book/pdf/irbookonlinereading.pdf

For 2nd, his previous linguistics papers:

http://okmij.org/ftp/gengo/

solire · 2 days

I've seen some incredible guitars in pawn shops in West Coast US, also Ohio, Chicago, Milwaukee.

Himmelmorder · 3 days

Factory fretless 6's are relatively uncommon, aside from Warwick, which i think has a number of 6's with a fretless option, and the Fender Steve Bailey signature model (i don't thick Ibanez or Schechter have ever sold them, but google around

Gomets51 · 4 days

How is it to go thru life with only 1 cajon?

Soundmantom · 5 days

The standard advice is lighter gauge strings, lower action, thumb/index barres, remove notes from chords selectively / alternate fingerings.

If I worked at GC, i would recommend they sell books by Ted Green, Guthrie Govan, Mick Goodrick, among others. I think Govan's book has lots of tips on this.

Stripedkoala · 6 days

This is an incredibly detailed analysis, it might help some people:

http://www.tuckandpatti.com/pick-finger_tech.html

But how you hold your pick is one variable, along with what size/thickness, whether you pinky anchor or heel of hand-anchor or you're picking close to neck pickup. Your mechanical technique consists of lots of things

geocar · 6 days

watching SPJ talk about new GHC features cheerfully (at 27:45 into video) makes those features ok! (interview question: What do you think about Dart's optional static typing?)

http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Charles/YOW-2011-Simon-Peyton-Jones-Closer-to-Nirvana

[Yeah, you can choose Silverlight streaming or ginormous download]

gtani

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