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While the major labels are setting restrictive terms on Spotify, Spotify itself is turning around and treating independent labels like chumps: http://www.projekt.com/newsarticles/projekt-spotify.asp

From the article: "For a stream on Spotfy, on average $0.0013 is paid to Projekt's Digital Distributor." That means an artist would have to get one million airplays to make $1300.

I'm finding it hard to sympathize with Spotify if that's the terms they set when they have the position of power.
Math professor here.

It is good if your teachers explain the why, but it is even better if you fill it in for yourself. Read your lecture notes, or your textbook, with a critical eye. "Why are they doing it this way? Why would anyone think of this?" etc. If you think your book or prof is being obtuse, try to figure out why you think that way. I curse at math books sometimes...

Instead of refreshing the correct technique and then solving the problem, try solving the problem without first recalling how to do it. Perhaps you will figure out the solution and invent the solution method yourself. If you are more like me, you will fall flat on your ass and produce five pages of calculations that go nowhere. In either case, you should then read the book's explanation and you are much more likely to remember it.

And that happens to everybody. I am constantly having to relearn stuff. If you think it's difficult --- good, you're doing it right.
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Awesome, glad y'all have that figured out :)

I'm loving the site design btw, good work on that! How many of y'all are working on it by the by ?
Are your users referring you to their friends? Are they not? Do you know the answer to that?

Can you think of a way to encourage your users to send your site links to their friends? I see the share buttons over on the left, but I think the button owners' networks benefit more than you do.

I watched a few videos and clicked the three buttons at the bottom. At this point I haven't signed up, and it looks like I can do everything possible without signing up, which is really cool but why should I sign up?

Now I've signed up ... and I don't see anything different. In fact, my video history that you were keeping track of before I signed up (via a cookie I assume) did not carry over into my account, and everything is set to zero. A minor complaint, but a nice touch if you pull it off.

In your orange "+" chiclet you list a lot of ways to share. Not everyone has a facebook or gmail account, but everyone has email, so maybe a mailto: link should be at the top of that popup?

I see that email is buried down in the list of share methods, arranged alphabetically. Maybe bring that link up to the top of the initial popup, or even out into your list of four main chiclets. Or do some AB testing on that and similar design choices.

I tested you reset password link, and got the reset email quickly, so points for that IMO.

But, the fundamental question is why should I use your site? It's an attractive, minimal site, but I don't see anything that it does (and it only does one thing) that isn't done at least as good by more well known sites like reddit, stumbleupon or even youtube itself. I really don't mean to be mean here, but I doubt if I'll come back after this. Have you thought of what you can do to make your site unique enough that people will come to your video sharing site instead of someone else's?

Maybe you can let people share a public list of select videos, so their friends can follow them. Let people write reviews and comments. Let people engage in some way.

Categories or tags on videos, and a way to search those, I really don't want to sit there and click skip skip skip until i see a video I like. Maybe I missed that?

EDIT: I forgot to add, I don't know how to pronounce Cyro. I don't think it's a common English word or name. Speaking for myself, I don't like to say words to my friends if I don't know how to pronounce them, fearing embarrassment. If this is true for other people, you might want to say how to pronounce Cyro, maybe on your About page. Try to reduce every bit of friction in front of your users sharing your site.
Ok, so I was a little too vague :)

The idea I am giving serious consideration to is a tool that I think will be primarily of benefit to designers, front end developers etc and their clients. Kind of a cross between Basecamp and Dreamweaver. If that makes sense?!
The second hand effects of alcohol can also damage your health. As someone who has lived in or around nightlife districts for the last 10 years cleaning up vomit, blood and urine isn't particularly good for you. That said, I don't really care too much as it is pretty funny watching someone trying to discretely vomit in the street at 8pm.

I think society, as a whole, is becoming less tolerant of others. People get offended by the smallest things (for example, people parking crookedly) and call for laws to punish even slightly annoying behaviours. File-sharing laws have been put to the public on the annoyance factor before (that is, their file sharing is slowing down your tubes, so they must be punished).

It comes back to freedom and whether someone else acting freely limits your freedom. Unfortunately most developed nations seem to have a stronger interest in controlling people's behaviour than medieval theocracies.

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Sure. If it were easy to give everyone equal opportunities, that would be the right place to start.

As it is, we have a history of millennia of oppression of women. When my grandmother was born, women weren't even allowed to vote. Men and women didn't enroll in college in equal numbers until '87. Achieving equal opportunity is going to take a while. Until then, doing nothing isn't being fair, it's supporting an unfair system.

What makes it especially tricky is that outcomes influence opportunities. Female legislators and CEOs are still seen as anomalous by many, and that will continue until there are more of them.

A lot of women believe that they have been frequently discouraged from STEM jobs and leadership roles (see, e.g., http://people.mills.edu/spertus/Gender/why.html), so a counterbalancing public encouragement might go a long way to solving the problem.
While the article itself is just a rant, what makes it interesting is that it is Jean-Louis Gassée's rant. JLG is memorable for me as one of the founders of BeOS -- and was with Be right up until Palm acquired their IP in a firesale.

Perhaps he is bitter about how things turned out with Palm and HP?
It's something we're currently working on. We're going to be integrating a XHR binary data fallback as well into our realtime engine.
As a business, I like TwitterContests. On a personal level, I just got done with a long road trip and had been thinking it would be nice to have something along the lines of Re:Trip. Maybe an interactive map of the route with pictures I took at diff locations tagged all along it.
Wow, this is a nice effort Mr Willian Spaniel did here. I just watched some classes, and they are very nice spoken and clear. It's just like Khan Academy!

But the most impressive is the textbook costs, only 99 cents or 2,99 cents! I think I will buy, watch the classes and wait for the stanford free class to make a better foundation in game theory.
Thanks for the kudos. It's just two of us. We both do "it all" but if we have a lot to do, we break up and I'll work mostly front end design, js, etc and Matt, my cofounder, will do back-end (django) cause he's way better than I am.
Wonder if there will be an anti-trust investigation over this cartel.
Given that we're out of IPV4 addresses, it seems like some of the people holding /8 subnets would be prime targets for reallocation, no? Surely Apple (or GE, or Ford...) doesn't need 16 million public IPs?
"And if you did multiple jumps, you can backtrack with <C-o>."

I learn something new with these posts every time! I've been wanting something like this for a while.
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The constructor for the Python HMAC library just defaults to MD5; you can pass any of the hashlib modules to it via the digestmod parameter. I don't know why it doesn't default to something more secure, but it's no challenge to do.
If only I had read this when I first started using Vim!

I've been using Vim for a while, and this is one of the best-organized overviews of Vim I've seen, partly because he doesn't try to enumerate every single key combination (which is the wrong way to learn Vim - the right way is to synthesize the way that the individual operations are logically combined, though that admittedly takes some time). The best two pieces of advice he gives are (1) not to put anything in .vimrc without knowing exactly what it does, and (2) don't use too many plugins.

At this point, I actually don't think I really use any plugins regularly. I have nothing against Vim plugins in general. It might be a bit faster to install a choice few, sure, and someday I might try and figure out which ones work best for me. But for the time being, I'd much rather know how to navigate my file or project with just the standard set of operations and minimal configuration. That way, I can launch Vim on any machine and start using it, without needing to waste time setting it up just so I can use it properly.

(Disclaimer: I have mapped Caps Lock to Esc, which is indeed a major problem if I use another person's computer. I've gotten used to seeing "E492: Not an editor command: W" practically every time I type on a friend's laptop. But it saves me so much time when working on my own machine that it's worth it!)

In short: stick with Vim long enough, and you'll find that you don't really need many plugins or much configuration for it to be incredibly useful. They help, but not as much as you might think, especially once Vim's standard keybindings become part of your keyboard reflexes.
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I do this a lot, not just in book stores either.

For me, it's the reviews. I see a book (or product) that looks interesting, make a note of it and check the reviews online (typically Amazon) to see if it's worth the purchase. If the reviews are favorable and I decide I want to buy it, the choice is pretty simple; I'm already at the online store, the price is usually lower and the purchase is a click away (versus a drive back to the store and potentially waiting in line).

If I do bother to check the reviews on my phone while I'm in the store, then it's a simple price comparison, and the online retailer almost always wins again.
if you wrote out your first paragraph in an actual formula, you would realize what you're missing here. You can't always generate more page views, so gaining or retaining users would then become what you want to maximize (as publishers wish they could). Lose advertisers, get more users or make the ads more effective and earn more. Make a product that users and advertisers like, and you maybe get more of both. Finding the sweet spot remains hard. Ignoring these dynamics is not helpful.

Your point about adwords customers getting someone on the phone is important, because not all adwords customers can. Preferential treatment for large customers is not at all unusual, and I don't think anyone would argue that it is bad. They just want a phone number they can call too.

Netflix and Youtube have completely different streaming models (namely youtube's is not adaptive), but I do see a "report a bug" link on there. But this ignores my point, which was not that google customer service is awesome, just that there definitely is a feedback loop ("there is zero incentive machinery"), and that "product not a customer" still misses the point as much as it ever has.
Maybe they could use revenue as a metric. but I thinks its not very important regarding startups...
Is it possible to use LGPL on iOS to begin with? I've seen lots of debate on the subject but never a concrete answer. The requirement for users to be able to update to a newer version of the library has been the sticking point. I've sent a few e-mails to the FSF asking for clarification but have not gotten an answer. :(
Do they have a choice? I can sympathize with them fine if the choice is between 'screw over indies' and 'go bankrupt'.
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No, that was, "Start here (Midwest), then add the following things to get closer". Obviously none of those are true... even if you were feeling persnickety and critical "no firearms" should have been a bit of a clue!

(Might I also add that farming is increasingly a technological job; they are on the forefront of practical robotics, to say nothing of the knowledge that industrial farming requires about various bits of chemistry and finances.)

I chose the Midwest farming communities because of population density. Even a "small village" today is packed very tightly compared to "the old days"; hooray modern sanitation!
Austin is always on the top 10 best economies list, always on the top 10 tech hiring list, and Round Rock is one of the fastest growing cities in the US. This author is definitely in the minority in her feelings about the city.

If you know where to look and have the skills, the jobs in the $150k range can be found. If you're thinking of moving here, high end homes in the best schools are only $130/sq ft.
This is the important bit that people miss. Google isn't allowed to warn you that changing your age will apply restrictions to your account, and they aren't allowed to let you easily undo it after it's done. This is what happens when Congress dictates user interfaces.
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Bullshit.

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In my opinion, people in the 'it's all about the idea' camp, won't appreciate others immediately competing against them with the same idea. And people in the 'it's all about execution' camp, probably won't care enough about the ideas to pay for a site like this.
Yes, it's using a TXT record precisely so that we can store any endpoint URL. An alternative using SRV records could of course be easily implemented.

The implementation is very much a 1st cut at the moment (no real error handling, no load balancing of multiple records, and the integration of dns.c needs work) and has not been officially announced, will do so on the zeromq-dev list shortly.
Also, the open-source examples he presents don't help eliminate the explanation that it is the attitude with which a piece of software is open sourced that might make the difference - i.e. are you "dumping" it on the open source community or "sharing" it with them?
I don't mean war in a philosophical sense, I mean in a psychological and practical sense. Life was hard. So hard they don't even think to complain about how hard life was because they can't even conceive of the life we live.

My father is into genealogy, and while it doesn't float my boat I'm at least interested enough to listen. He shows me family records, including births and deaths, and even just the late 19th century is a freaking bloodbath by modern standards. Infant after infant after toddler listed in the death records, just to name one example.
As the article points out (and assuming it applies to Spotify):

7. Most favored nation. This is a deal term demanded by every major label that ensures the best terms provided to another label are available to it as well

... means that Spotify cannot offer small labels better deals else it would put them out of business because they would have to match the deal for every label.
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"there's more than one label"
Even though Spotify is a "piracy killer" (at least in Sweden, if not elsewhere), I think the labels will be more than happy to bleed it dry and leave its lifeless corpse on the side of the road as they search for the next Big Thing to strangle, bleed dry and leave behind.

Two reasons:

1. The major labels, like most of the big content producers, are extremely interested in short term gains, even if it means losses down the road. As long as something is still "down the road," it won't affect this year
s/quarter's/month's profitability.

Take a look at Hulu. It's a shadow of its former self. It used to be a solid site with great content, but those controlling the content have decided it's not making enough money fast enough. The fix? Remove content. Move it around. Chop it up. Stagger releases randomly. Put X season on Hulu but have Y season exist only as a selection of clips or have it go missing entirely.

See also: Netflix. Because the major studios are unwilling to trade DVD dollars for digital dimes, they've gone about pricing themselves out of the market. Netflix is also a "piracy killer," but the studios are too concerned with getting the money up front to pay attention to how much content is being leaked out the back.

The studios also seem to think that people will follow them to their own sites or digital offerings, but the content they offer is generally crippled by DRM or requires the installation of proprietary software or another set of logins and passwords and people in general just do not have an interest in setting up yet another account just to watch a couple of Lost episodes.

2. Even though everything mentioned is a "piracy killer," the simple fact is that, for many people, the service (Spotify, Netflix, etc.) becomes the end product. The services don't lead towards more sales of other physical or digital goods. This doesn't fit into the major labels'/studios' plans at all. They want to sell more of their stuff, not necessarily collect royalties from someone else's service.

So, if they manage to drain Spotify completely or at least force it to give up its US operations, it won't hurt them much. By that point, another service will come along and they can pile on and bleed it dry as well. The plan, I suppose, is to keep riding these little income spikes until it's 1994 again, or something.

They must still harbor the belief that, once the other options dry up, people will head back to the brick-and-mortar and purchase content in physical forms that carry much higher profit margins.
I don't really see the point, it's basically just a web interface for the `manage.py startproject` command. It also includes the ace text editor but that's pretty easy to get up and running without Django-IDE.

If Django-IDE included something like an interface for building an app's models and managing the URL routes then perhaps it would be something to talk about.
I think as the distribution channels of music become more prominent through services like Spotify, it will give them a significantly more bargaining power. I think consumer behavior and notable popular services will change the music industries archaic practices. If they want to stay competitive, they'll have to change.

I also see this as a boon for indie musicians. They have access to a much more accessible means of distribution through services like Spotify, Pandora, Rdio, etc. and the ability to compete with the big labels.
I think it would be more productive to promote the licenses whose values line up with your own than trying to police the language. For my part, I will keep pointing out the ridiculousness of saying "$neologism != $foo, because $blog_post says $nelogism = $bar."
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In my experience, face time is very important in an organization and it's not just about productivity. It's very hard to effectively motivate people and align the company's vision if half of your employees aren't even there.
I think Zimbra is a common suggestion, but I'm not sure how comparable it is.
I don't get this. I did this myself with an app called "Camera" already. When I go get my hair cut in a few days, I'm just going to say "Make it like this"
Most men aren't complaining about the lack of VC funding either, because most people don't care about doing a startup.

It's definitely not evidence that we've solve all gender bias issues in the high-tech startup world.
I'm not trying to push a viewpoint--I'm trying to describe the current use of a phrase. How I feel about licenses does not change the way the phrase "open source" is used here and elsewhere.
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You may not think there's sufficient evidence that there's something broken. In which case, you aren't obliged to help fix it. But unless you have strong evidence that things are working perfectly, then by your own standard you should stop interfering with people trying to fix the problems they see.
Labels typically handle their own negotiations, and music services have been known to launch with catalogs supporting some of the labels, but not the others.

The result is mainly an overwhelming 'meh' from consumers, who can find some artists but not the others.
More generally, this is why no one who owns neither content nor un-disintermediatable distribution will ever be seriously profitable. Netflix is figuring this out right now: pipe owners (e.g. Comcast] make money and people-who-fund-and-front-for-content make money [e.g. NBC]. People who sit in the middle of the pipe and the distributor get squeezed. Even friends of the distributors [see: Hulu] can have a hard time.

And by "un-disintermediatable distribution", I mean: distribution without viable substitutes. If Spotify were so awesome that I'd never switch, then they'd be in the money. But I also use GrooveShark and Pandora, so Spotify is in for pain.

Sure, you can make nice money for a short time [again, see: Netflix], but the folks that own the content will raise prices as the market becomes attractive.
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We're not even sure right now, we need advice from a lawyer.
That would only apply if Spotify is already paying indies the same as majors, but it sounds like they're paying much less.
I guess all of those actual vim users had a reason to encourage you to take the "extreme route" instead of the incremental one. Maybe they have never seen anyone actually succeed in getting fluent in vim by incremental learning?
I know I have yet to witness such.

But I'm glad to learn from your link that it's possible. I'll show it to aspiring vim users as an alternative take to learning vim.
Oh! Looks like we found a most unexciting difference in Fx's and Chrome's HTML5 rendering engines. Someone alert the authorities!

What's happening is in fact a little bit more complex than that. Both browsers create the pre element (you can verify that by typing that URI and hitting the tab key to switch focus from the address bar into it).

Now, where Chrome renders a line-sized pre element even when it's empty, Firefox renders it as a 0px element until you feed text into it (that's probably its standard behaviour for pre elements without a child text node, but I can't be bothered verifying that).

Boy, I love getting a rush out of figuring out something completely irrelevant! :-)
It doesn't tell us how many are qualified, but it does tell us how many are not content to opt out of the economy and space out on Tube of FarmBook, at the very least because keeping the lights on long term is not as easy as the earlier comment speculated.
I would second this. Managing with pathogen is really finicky and a huge timesink if you screw things up.

The newer versions of Vundle are fantastic, and give you features like lists of your current plugins and searching of the plugins repository.