If you had a blog or other place to post your list, I would be interested in reading it.

Looks like I wrote it up already about 2 years ago on Reddit, at least from the 1920s thru the 1950s. 1960s and later is easier for most people on this board: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1qtvav/iama_professio...

First post has a lot of good recommendations from the 20s that I stand by. I'd rewrite most of the second post, though. I'll just do an overview here of what I'm familiar with:

30s -- swing/big band, western swing, acoustic/country/delta blues

40s -- western swing (cont), electric blues, honky-tonk, bop, vocal groups (less familiar)

50s -- bluegrass, rockabilly/rock & roll, honky-tonk (cont), folk revival, post-bop

60s and onward is a lot harder to follow, but...

60s -- folk, folk-rock, psych rock, psych folk, PLUS all sorts of jazz (bossa nova, modal) and country (Bakersfield Sound)

70s (note country drops off the map here) -- jazz-fusion, free jazz, disco, soul, singer-songwriter (less familiar), prog (less familiar)

80s -- post-disco, smooth jazz (yes, it can actually be good), punk, detroit techno, proto-house, rap (less familiar), new wave (less familiar)

90s -- house and beyond (my knowledge outside of dance music drops off pretty hard after the mid 80s)

The oil industry is filled with examples of people not "knowing" exactly what they were doing. Choosing to drill in a given location often included the possibility that there was actually no oil/gas to be had...that the well would end up being a "dry hole."

"...cheaper...to just move to a better school district..."

Unless, of course, you're stuck underwater in a house that you'd lose lots of money on if you sold it.

Yeah, if you have a negative net-worth, you're in trouble.

Used it here - http://www.eastofcleveland.com/flashcards/notereading.php

Don't discount PHP yet; the CodeIgniter community is great (http://codeigniter.com/forums/)

You mean like this?

http://www.eastofcleveland.com/misc/hn2009sal.php

Edit: I guess I'm cheating, in that it doesn't "automatically" update...but just visit that, and keep hitting F5.

The specified CGI application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.

I noticed you're asking your users to enter a vimeo URL by hand. I know that during signup it's impractical to bounce the user over to vimeo to authenticate, but once the user is signed up do you give them the option of picking the video from their albums instead of entering a URL?

I've definitely thought about that, but decided that it was too much work relative to the gain it would bring. Maybe I'm wrong, though...

These work great for keeping your pants cuff out of the chainrings:

http://www.amazon.com/Pant-Cuff-Clips-Bike-Bicycle/dp/B000MM...

My family has always just used two strips of velcro. Mate ~1/2 of a few inches each, and the remaining tails stick to each other. Wrap & go.

Advantage: you can wrap it around the handlebars / a part of the bike when not in use, so you never have to remember to carry it.

Pretty cool. I liked the sound of some of my pet projects.

I just showed this to a co-worker. He asked, "How about the reverse? What's the URL for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony?"

It looks at the "body content of any web page" and translates that, so the correct question to ask would be "What does the website look like for Beethoven's Ninth?"

Also, news.ycombinator.com doesn't work on it, must be blocking it =(

taxes

oh, I thought this was an "Ask HN"