sqnguyen

Joined 14 years ago

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Software Engineer by trade. I like playing with sound.
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Comment · 5 years ago
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!

Comment · 5 years ago
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.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
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

Comment · 8 years ago
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.

Comment · 13 years ago
Push notification services never guarantee delivery.
Comment · 13 years ago
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.
Comment · 13 years ago
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.

Comment · 13 years ago
Adobe Reader also gives this functionality, however, this feature removes the context switching.
Comment · 14 years ago
Hacking Dropbox's SpaceRace to win is pretty glorious.
Comment · 14 years ago
I find it kind-of interesting how common features on IM services can be rebranded into a startup.
Comment · 14 years ago
Comment · 14 years ago
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.

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