For those looking for harmony try letting the machine lead .. if you mimic it's style and complement with a hint of your own rhythm it can be satisfying.
Why would I? While I use computers to play music all the time, I don't think using computers to write music is a good idea in the first place.
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@jgalloway___: I'm not sure if I'd call it an “expectation”. I just dislike it when people throw random shit at the wall and see what sticks. When you write music, you should first think how it's going to sound, convince yourself that it's plausibly good-sounding, and only then actually play it just to make sure it sounds good. If you do it the other way around (first play random stuff, then filter out what doesn't sounds good), you're a wanker.
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@ohitsdom: I'm totally fine with improvisation driven by ideas, not random computation. Coming up with ideas on the fly is good. Passing noise as genuine ideas is not good.
That's fine that it's not your style, but experimentation is a huge source of new music and reinvented ideas. Dismissing any music that wasn't strictly planned seems a little silly.
Look, it couldn't even follow a basic tempo when I was playing. That's not even close to being a "duet" as described. Maybe whoever wrote it has a limited grasp of English, because that experiment is a far, far, far, far, far, far, far cry from a "Duet" experience.
Well, one where you don't look over at your partner and wonder if the have any clue how music works before pushing them off the piano bench.
As an experiment I think this is well done. It's fun to mash the keys and see what happens. If there was a feedback loop to register if the user was happy or displeased with the results via facial recognition or other input with expanded training data it could become quite interesting I think.
Looking over their public work experience and perhaps open source contributions you will already know if this person will be a good fit.
When tasked to interview I have found that asking a question which you know the candidate will be unable to answer will show you the most-intriguing parts of their character. Something deceptively simple like a puzzle or logic problem but scales up quite quickly.
This is when you can learn things about them that they would not put to paper and thereby determine if they are for you.
Eh. I think you're misreading this a bit - it's not about the use of the service, it's about the fact that employees knew the service was being used illegally. So sure, if the manufacturer can be demonstrated to be aiding criminal behavior, then sure.
The fact that a manufacturer doesn't sell direct is another reason to think there's no relation to this case.
Well if the employees manufacturing the guns take payments from criminals to alter the guns in some way to help them do bad things AND the gun company knows it, but ignores it then yes they should.
Given the direction of IoT devices, I hope the generic form (if the employees manufacturing the X take payments from criminals to alter the X in some way to help them do bad things AND the X company knows it, but ignores it then yes they should) of your statement is always true.
Store owners and employees are absolutely prosecuted if they fail to run background checks, or sell guns when they have even a suspicion that the buyer may be purchasing it for someone else, or intending to use the gun for illegal purposes. They're frequently audited, as well.
I pitched something similar a few years back to a client and the client's architect agreed there was value in it but we couldn't make it fit in our sprint schedule so went with some other user stories.
I had an experience in Hawaii while I was on a scuba tour.
In retrospective I kind of wish it hadn't happened but I appreciate that I have experience to share:
The PADI divemaster located one while we were scouting a reef and chased it out with knife then placed it on my hand. I disagree that the experience was forced upon the octopus now .. I respect them; they are very intelligent.
Anyway -- in my hand it expressed itself with touch. Initially tightening and posing itself in a drawn-back manner it spread on my hand and decided I was safe to explore. Our eyes met and my body relaxed. The octopus began to relax.
A tentacle wrapped around my wrist almost reassuringly. The octopus let me know I was not food. He / she seemed content to just hang out but I chose to let the encounter deescalate and put my hand near a rock then slowly unwound his / her tentacle.
The octopus seemed to understand my intent (my fear?) and glided over to the nearby rock to watch me go.
