If you open an MP3, speed it up in Audacity, and save it as an MP3, you are still re-encoding it and decreasing quality, which is what I assume you mean by "conversion".
After any processing step, you should save to a lossless format to avoid this. You can start with whatever format you want (AAC from iTunes and MP3 from Amazon are pretty indistinguishable in subjective quality.)
Better yet, use a portable player that can change playback speed on the fly while decoding. (many "DJ" apps, a hardware player than can run Rockbox, etc.)
"A certain small number of very vocal men (and it was always men) resented that we were not letting [them] try to exercise additional control over our team members. This was true even though compelling research has shown that servers do not adjust quality of service as a result of tips; instead the idea that the restaurant was not offering our servers up as objects of control, was heresy. For these people, the primary service they wanted from the restaurant was the opportunity to pay for favors from the server..."
I was a TA at this one (and the last). It was really great to see the high turnout and how passionate the organizers are. Many thanks to all involved.
If you want to improve your people skills and ability to explain technical concepts (I'll be honest, I'm not very good at either, which is why I do this as practice), I really recommend answering beginner questions from people of a different background than your own. Apart from getting better at teaching (you work in a team, right? You need to explain your code) you can get a lot of insight into how programming language design is user interface. Users are a diverse group.
Unlike most people, I have a protected Twitter account (my tweets are not public). In order to "opt out", I have to authorize their app to be able to read all my tweets! Insane.
I guess I'll just continue to hope they're not building a "shadow profile" on me based on my friends' public tweets (and pretending said profile doesn't exist... I don't appear to have one, anyway).
I did not sign in with Google, but the import page still says "Importing…" without any action on my part. Will there be an option to manually upload a list of feeds?
It's ironic that the standard one-liner for this uses a pipeline but only counts the first word of the first command of the pipeline. Given itself as input, "sort" ought to be the most used command, but "history" is the only one counted. (I bring this up not for the sake of standard HN nitpicking but to point out that you probably do want to cover at least `sort` in your workshop, and it will be underrepresented in these results, along with `grep`, `wc`, etc.)
Unfortunately, shell grammar is complex enough that a correct one-liner is probably infeasible. For example, one of my top "commands" if you count by words is an environment variable setting prepended to an actual command.
EDIT: you can get good enough results by just splitting on "|", as others have suggested here -- any parts of regular expressions, etc that aren't really commands will probably be infrequent enough to get lost in the noise, and treating || as containing an empty command won't hurt. If you're going to catch ||, though, might as well get && too... and now you're going down the rabbit hole :-)
"And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are [corporations]. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first."
(as others have noted, the program actually doing something here is bash: it attempts to dynamically allocate as much memory as it can to store the output of 'yes no'. Hopefully the author discovers ulimit.)
I long for something that would just wrap all big paragaphs of text at 70-ish characters without hacking at element widths (I've tried user stylesheets, scripts... nothing satisfactory). If this were implemented, I imagine it would be easier to do that.
(For example, the first line of the first paragraph of the post renders as 134 characters on my screen. Maybe I am just old, but I find this hard to read.)
After any processing step, you should save to a lossless format to avoid this. You can start with whatever format you want (AAC from iTunes and MP3 from Amazon are pretty indistinguishable in subjective quality.)
Better yet, use a portable player that can change playback speed on the fly while decoding. (many "DJ" apps, a hardware player than can run Rockbox, etc.)