And decoding that to figure out what they really should want. Then convince them of why your solution is better than their solution.

It's funny that one of the commentors mentioned HL7 interfaces. Protip: if you want to break medical record messaging for yourself or your child put |, &, \ or ^ characters in your or their name. I ran into a case where a registrar typed in a name of O^Malley and had everyone confused.

Might be worth adding an aside with Turing. After being robbed, policemen had found out he was gay (referencing a boyfriend). This resulted in a long battle with UK courts handing down an ultinatum of be executed or chemically castrated (a pseudoscientific belief at the time suggested estrogen doses cured homosexuality, but caused many sire effects). He chose death after months of trial and prosecution.

Interesting, I have to say I'd never heard of the Constant-Q, I'll have to read up on it. I ran into similar issues trying to translate frequency to notes. It's definitely ambitious as a project and I'll be keeping tabs on it. Good luck.

I had been looking into music transcription a while back when toying with MATLAB back in the day, but simply didn't have the appropriate programming skills to use another language that would compile to something more user friendly.

What did you use to make this programs, what sort of libraries/extensions? Also, as far as algorithms go, what's the general flow of it? Read in the input and break it into the frequency domain and use visual tools to map them to the spectrograph? Feel free to not answer (or keep things simplified without detail) to protect your IP.

Finally, what's next for your project? Music transcription directly to music writing software like Sibelius or whatever composition programs people are using nowadays to make musical arrangements? Or are you looking to enter that space for yourself?

Agreed. I'd say keep it to a tech subverse at a bare minimum.

I'm extremely excited about this. I just got a contract where I am exposed to pretty sensitive data. Specifically, I'm doing work with medical records. While I'm not directly working with the cybersecurity portion of it, I am interested to learn more. Do you have any experience with HIPAA compliance and standards for protection of patient data?

To be fair though, some people on that thread were agreeing with you but wanted you to present your argument better:

"The author needs to learn how to make a cogent argument. I expected to read an opinion piece on why codifying the conduct expected and required of persons involved in a software project is detrimental to its progress or some other aspect of it. What I found was a diatribe. It revealed more about the author than the subject being discussed."

"Use the story of Awesome-Django as an example of how unhelpful and political some very loud people are. Don't indulge in childish representation/demonization... We're adults who engineer and design things. We're more mature than any "gamer"-like stereotype. And we don't need to make political statements to prove that we need to be controlled."

Reading through the article, I agree wholeheartedly with your content but that first comment did nail it. What would these codes do? What examples have we seen in the past that broke down projects over politics? I mean, screw the downvote brigade there but you came off a bit defensive. The above two posts were constructive criticism.

Also, lol at the guy in your article's comments saying removing Linus as a contributer from Linux in the 90s would've been a good thing.

Not sure if this is the place, but the developers of SpaceChem also made a puzzle game where you code in assembly: TIS-100

After you get your feet wet a bit you can get a feel for it.

Fucking 50 cent party is everywhere

Yup. SF is full of trust fund babies or VCs that can throw money towards coders to make their ideas reality while they play CEO/CFO with their new company they created. It's an environment that encourages start up culture sure, but I've never run into an environment that produced so many wanna-be techies. Plenty of goods things came from there, but that's a numbers game. Just like how even a broken clock is right twice a day.

You mention excel, and as much as I hate the language VB kind of runs the show there. It would be something that would be easy for your excel guys to use once you make it.

Agreed, I think there's far too much emphasis on trying to prove the work environments are toxic as opposed to encouraging women to enter tech in the first place or fostering an environment that gaps that technological divide. The last I checked the applicant pool for my Alma Mater's Engineering School last year was 65-70% male and that was before the 'toxic' environments were experienced.