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Focusing on harming the labels directly is probably not the best idea, but unfortunately that's what everyone seems to have focused on.

To me the most important question is why do new musicians go to the labels at all? If technology can help at all, it'll probably be by creating solutions that address that question better.

Instead of better tools for distribution and discovery of old label music, it might be better to focus on the tools for creating new music, starting from composing/jamming to recording to releasing the music to listeners.

But, regardless of how good and effective such a technology may be, it will still boil down to the benevolence of the largest successful company that produces such technology.

For example, Amazon has done a great job of dragging books into the 21st century, but its evil colours are beginning to show. Going from paper books to ebooks is a bit like going from Encyclopedia Britannica to the Encarta CD-ROM, only worse because they can be remotely erased. I have high hopes for Wattpad to take us to the Wikipedia stage, but once they're there, who knows how evil they will turn out to be?

Similarly, someone may solve this problem for music temporarily with superior technology, but in the long run, it will come down to how greedy they are.
Vice-Versa is also true. There are few things that universities are good at, most of the professionals are not. I don't think it is wise to compare universities with professionals.
Just used Delicious and Evernote together. With keeeb I don`t have to use 2 tools (and their cluster-function is nice for my research to do's at a financial investment company)
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How to denounce a colleague?
A friend has a situation. A co-worker repeatedly said stuff in front of clients that are complete no-goes insulting the clients and disqualifying other colleagues the clients depend on. My friend works closely with this colleague and they normally act as a team of two so there are no other witnesses. How can he act to protect the company from damage done by this colleague without taking damage himself?
No. Microsoft has a lot of undisclosed research projects. They're just really bad at marketing at them. Media is going gaga for Google's driverless cars and wearable computing.
But that's google's garden. What is stopping them from getting bored of reading penis enhancement spam and shuttering gmail or reader?
I suspect the fact there's GNU Guile, an entirely in-house Scheme ecosystem, has a lot to do with it. Use Python and be beholden to the Python community (outsiders!) Use JSON (as someone else suggested) and be beholden to the Javascript/JSON community (outsiders! oh and that awful JSON license!) etc.
I am almost certain that had Woz been praising Apple, it wouldn't be on* the front page.

*corrected spelling.
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Have you given up on automatic handling being feasible? It seems like the performance wins could be enough to justify something like a module-level constant explicitly stating that you're not doing metaprogramming, monkey-patching, etc. and allowing implementors to optimize as desired.
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Right, so Google keep this a secret to protect us. How is this open again?
The article missed some of the message, which read:

IDKFA IDDQD IDCLIP IDCLEV
Managers would prefer a master, not recruiters. Recruiting requires throwing everything at the wall that remotely looks like a fit (I know .NET, am not a master, but it's on my LinkedIn - every freaking unsolicited recruiter contact I get is for .NET) Also, if they can get a novice in there, there's a chance they can pay less yet bill the client the same (talking on w2 contracting here)
They should have the policy that once someone requests a document it is made public (just the document, no the request). Bootstrap the digital index with the most interesting documents as suggested by public demand.
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Since we are all plugging our competing projects, here's mine: https://github.com/alexstaubo/tootsie

* Written in Ruby with Sinatra.

* Supports both SQS and AMQP (eg., RabbitMQ).

* Simple REST interface for submitting jobs.

* Can get/put both HTTP and S3 URLs.

* Image support: Scaling, cropping, format conversion, EXIF/IPTC stripping. Uses ImageMagick.

* Audio/video support: Scaling, format conversion, thumbnail extraction from videos. Uses ffmpeg.

* Has a helper component that provides live upload progress, jQuery uploader, etc.: https://github.com/bengler/tiramisu

Tootsie is intended as a generic conversion/transcoding framework, so it does more than just thumbnail images.

Oh, and it has been run in production for a long time.
I think you did the right thing. The (potential) customer wanted to unload a set of obligations onto you - for small compensation.

We have a small (Local Authority) customer who keeps trying to get us to indemnify their risks when upgrading networks and other infrastructure (will we guarantee our software will still run and they will suffer no data loss?) - all for a similarly priced software purchase quite a few years ago. We simply refuse but it does not stop them trying and they don't even pay for maintenance.
I think you missed his point, and mine.

His solution is simply that the real world is broken and needs fixing, which it sorely does.

If you want that Star Trekky future, throw the corporations out who want to partition everyone into markets like cattle. Then build stuff for the good of humanity, not for cash. Oh wait - there's GNU already in that space.

Jobs, Bezos, Disney just worked out how to sell shit, not respect our freedoms or improve the world.
I think it takes at least a year to learn OO design enough that you can write code worth (re)using. The Java ecosystem is also so big that it takes years of experience to really get your head around it. And don't get me started about C++.

Sure, a decent coder can learn to write "hello world" in any of those languages, but if you need to pick up a legacy system and understand what's wrong with it (I think this is 80% of the jobs) it takes depth. If you've got enough depth in how systems work you can get sort-of up to speed in various languages quickly, but there's no substitute for taking the time to know the details of what you're doing.

As for LOB work I can say that LOB systems can be a lot of fun to develop. Your average e-commerce or social media site is basically an LOB system. Developing a system of practices that lets you deliver LOB systems on time and under budget is a challenge, but in the right environment it can be done and there is something very satisfying about delivering something that makes people's work easier.

The trouble with LOB work is that it's usually not greenfield work when it comes to you. They had some junior guy who never heard of primary key integrity build an app in an access database and a year later the database is full of junk and the app doesn't really work.

The process of rebuilding the schema is tortuous and then you need to update every single screen and script to work with the new schema and then there's the long and involved process of reconstructing what the database contents should have been with minimum data loss.

Although maintenance programming can really widen your skills and ability to deal with "it" there's also something destructive about spending all day deeply understanding the logic of terribly flawed code.
I noticed this too. Here is a screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/dxdvT.png
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The elders in any industry are always worth listening to. As input, not dogma, of course. So I think the answer is independent of any judgement of Wozniak's contribution.

There aren't very many smart, public personalities around that have been part of The Revolution since the beginning. There are even fewer who bring this particular perspective. It's valuable for that alone, and I'm glad Wozniak's considered newsworthy.
I'd hardly've said that that 100+ years after the Montgolfiers had already done it.

The physics of flight had been understood since Newton; powered flight (which I suspect is what you're getting at, though again that had been done in 1901) was just a matter of making a light enough engine to combine with existing flying technology. There were a long series of incremental steps along the way, e.g. a powered but tethered aeroplane had been flown in something like 1850.

A better analogy for saying you can solve all human ageing would be saying you had a way to cure all diseases before the germ theory had been invented, or claiming you knew how to make a child inherit the best traits of both parents before Mendelev.

I don't think preventing ageing will always be impossible. But it's a pointlessly distant goal to have at the moment.
Na I don't think it is BS, especially if you've spent time rating your music. I've had an IPod since they first came out and I've been rating my music ever since, and then using playlists to ensure anything I rate poorly doesn't get transferred. I really wouldn't be happy losing that information in a move to Android.
Glorious news this morning. Enabled it on my Nexus 4 with Telus and I can confirm that this works absolutely fine.

However, I'm quite curious about the battery life impact. So far the N4 isn't a champion in this category. Adding LTE..
Long after Steve Jobs is relegated to the dustbin of Past Industrialists and Apple has regressed to the mean, Stallmans work will still be moving both technology and our society forward in ways that are meaningful and positive.
"I'm sure there's a huge amount of interest for this in SF, and taxi service is so bad, you might even be able to make this an election issue. But other cities like Vancouver I'm sure don't have as bad of an issue, so it might be harder to make it an issue that politicians will take notice of."&

I've lived in Orlando, DC, SF (Santa Clara, but went to SF regularly) and Boston. All of those cities have major issues with cabs. My experience in NYC is better, but I have never lived there. At any rate, Uber is doing well, in part because cabs are terrible.
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Yes: https://github.com/clojure/clojure-clr

Clojure can run in the CLR, so if you have .net/mono you can (presumably, untested) run clojurescript onto top of the CLR

If you could port clojure to emitting LLVM bytecode or similar then it would be able to run as a native binary instead.
Agreed, and much of this would not have been possible without the draconian government protection of DRM (such as in DMCA). I could totally see some kind of PC application that would liberate all your iTunes, Kindle etc. material (which you legally own, mind), but it's illegal under the current laws.
"Because you haven't improved much since yesterday so your salary should stay more or less the same" - they may answer :-)
Media is what ties the uninformed to an eco-system. There are more options for paid DRM-Free media today and several DRM systems are trivial to break. I remember people that had an iPod and MP3 player because they thought that their Napster music couldn't work on their iPod and didn't know how to add them to their library.

More telling is the author's complaints about the complexity of integrating his Android device to a NAS, etc. It is the pre-built integration between Apple devices that sell their ecosystem and keeps people coming back for more. All of the integration in the world is meaningless if it doesn't work when your friends are over or it crashes halfway though a movie (Windows Media Center anyone...)
As I see it, using DDG instead of DuckDuckGo is not the core problem. It's not that doing so dilutes the brand (it does in way, but that's really irrelevant) I think the main point is that if the users feel compelled to rename then there is something in the original brand name which is inefficient or cumbersome which thus detracts from the brand's overall value.

And I do not think it's ridiculous to assume that repetition builds brand awareness. The study I linked to said as much, indicating that repetition was one of the best ways to establish brand identity in the minds of consumers. That's why as a company you're best served by aligning your brand name with whatever moniker people are more likely to use and hence why a short, memorable brand name is more powerful than a unique but long-winded archaic name (at least in this day and age).
Usually when there is no clear answer to this in a FOSS project, I think it's safe to assume the answer is ego.
Cool. Now just let me buy one, please.
Central London is a massive city. Obviously there's a shit-ton of CCTV there. It's in no way typical of the UK though.
Add to resources/community #scala on irc. When I was doing Scala app dev, it was a wonderful place with a small group of really helpful people.
I thought it was amusing that he went on to say "Much of Fog Creek uses the Microsoft Stack. I can’t even spell ASP.NET and they’d still hire me." - Joel Spolsky wrote a great article on the value of knowing a language in depth:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LordPalmerston.html

That said, his point is still largely true - you don't need your entire team to be specialists. But don't underestimate the value of knowing <some significant technology> inside out, backwards, and upside down.
Non-technical users don't understand GTLDs. Ask an audience of 100 nontechnical people to record themselves visiting color.io or any other .io domain. I would be willing to wager at a minimum 50% will type color.io.com.
To shuttering next Friday if the current trend on here is adhered to.
Amazon is a bit of worry for me, I like the Kindle software especially being able to use the Web version, but only being able to download (some of?) my books in AZW3 format is a PITA that is making me think twice about buying books from them in future.
The background color of the page is irritating my eyes. May be it is happening only to me
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And, unless he was particularly colorful, I doubt he'd make the front page dissing Microsoft. People hating MS does not make news.
> when you give people a fully featured language to fool around with, things you could never imagine can start happening.

Maybe a package manager is not the best place to have that flexibility? (I noticed this seems to support "unprivileged package management", but still...)
That feeling when one of this fits you, both in title and beard.
...sorry, didn't knew this style was considered rude around here, just used it instead of the bold/strong style that's available on stackoverflow and most other discussion boards
So in a nutshell, Some chap doesn't seem to know the history of how music and movies became available online. So it's Apple's fault.
You have to look at the facts the message was sent by
Sjt W Stot.

You do a search and you find this.

http://www.archieraf.co.uk/archie/1037zau.html

And you will find that there was a sgt H H Stott and his crew position is w/op Air Gunner so hence the sjt W Stot.

You will then find that On 27th April 1942, the crew of Halifax W1037 ZA-U from 10 Squadron failed to return hence the need to send a message.

You will also find that on the birds ID NURP.40.TW.194 and NURP.37.OK.76 - NURP” was the National Union of Racing Pigeons so it was british so this back up the fact it was send by the RAF. The number 40 relates to 1940 but you can't read to much into that if you see this website.

http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-Birds&...

You will see pigeons with number 38 was used in 1941 and 1942 and a pigeon with number 39 was used in 1945 and a pigeon with number 41 was used in 1942.

So this backs up the argument that the date would be between 1940 and 1945. So the date of the crash in 1942 wouldn't be far off.

All you have to do is find the codes used by Halifax W1037 ZA-U from 10 Squadron. The RAF would have records once you get that you can decode the message.

I thought the GCHQ had smart people working at it.

sgt H H Stott personal number is 1058698 take the first four numbers 1058 and use that as the ciper.

So the first letter A is plus 1 the second letter is O plus O the four letter is A and it is plus 5 which is G and the four letter K is plus 8 which is W so.

The first row is as follows.

BOG WT NHF LD KVG JB GJD IK

Which so far I have translated as.

BOMBER ON GROUND WITH TROOPS NEED HELF FAST LITTLE DEFENCE k___ v____ G_____ J___ B____ G____ J____ D____ I___ K___

Need help solving the rest.
Violence begets violence. Violence doesn't solve anything unless you're an entity which can totally dominate another entity. And in this case, the entities we're talking about are (rather large) businesses. So applying violence in this domain is the surest way to undermine your own goals.
I suggest at some point it could also become Apples problem.

They do charge a premium and they do make mistakes so they must have users moving to other platforms.

Right now the move to another platform is painful, but obviously anyone who goes ahead and moves despite that pain is going to have far less chance of ever moving back.
I hear that in the new Kindle Paperwhite you can't even add other type of books anymore. Only Kindle ones.
Palm made it work? Isn't this the same hack where they advertised themselves as an Apple device completely breaking the USB standard? They made it work by breaking their own agreements to be USB certified.
So I believe they mention that 42 governments apply censorship. Which are these governments??
Looks like it does still support mobi, and i'm guessing you can still use an app like Calibre to load them onto it?
love the friday humor guys ;-)
LTE as implemented on current gen SOC's actually has improved battery life VS 3G. Its the first-gen multiple radio variants like the Thunderbolt which gave LTE a bad rep in that regard.
Ohhhh, you are just sooooooo edgy saying 'fuck' in your headline.
I said "like this" not "exactly this". Just a demonstration of how it could work.
>> Na I don't think it is BS, especially if you've spent time rating your music. [..]. I really wouldn't be happy losing that information in a move to Android.

That's a tad specific don't you think? Do you really propose that every piece of software in the world should be able to use every single bit of metadata ever used in any other random piece of software, on any other OS and any other device? Most of the iTunes metadata is in the ID3 tags, so it gets transferred. Not sure about ratings, but if they are not there it's probably because not all ID3 tag versions support it, or because different players interpret these fields differently. Anyway, tools exist to export this data from an iTunes library, nobody is stopping you from using them.

I don't really see how this is different from moving your music + ratings from Android to any other OS anyway. It's not like I can export a music library from Android or WP and preserve and import all their non-standard metadata into iTunes, right?
Hi there :-)

I read the message slightly differently (I believe some of the supposed 'w's are 'u's and one of your 'F' s is I believe a 'G'. As follows:

AOAKN HVPKD FNFJW YIDDC
RQXSR DJHFP GOVFN MIAPX
PABUZ WYYNP CMPNW HJRZH
NLXKG MEMKK ONOIB AKEEQ
UAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH
LKXGH RGGHT JRZCQ FNKTQ
KLDTS GQIRW AOAKN

Also do you know who 'Mason' is? Maybe the person who sent in the photo? Is this a recruiting sergeant for GCHQ? :-))

Not being a code breaker myself what relevance does AOAKN have? Beginning and end of message.

This pigeon was found in a chimney - what can we learn from that? What was the procedure when a message was sent but not received? This can be solved :-)
That's a silly argument. Yes, improbable things happen, but our beliefs should be informed by whatever hypothesis is assigned the highest probability.

The difficulty that a hypothesis with very low prior probability (like this one) has is that in order for it to reach a level of probability necessary to compete with the more mundane explanations like dust or birds, it is going to have to be backed by very strong evidence. This is the Bayesian expression of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence". The hypothesis needs to make some predictions that are exceptionally unlikely given those mundane hypotheses.

Unfortunately, it's difficult to see what predictions those might be. The authors of the paper don't give any, and their primary "evidence" for the hypothesis - that nobody else saw the object - is actually more likely given the birds/dust hypothesis than the comet hypothesis.

So yes, there's a tiny possibility that this could have been a comet, but if so, it's hard so imagine that it could ever be elevated to the point of a hypothesis that we should even take seriously, much less one that we should believe.
80 pct seems to be exaggerated. I live in India and have seems big cities to small villages. I know that big population lives on half dollar a day but not 80%
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Not to start a flame-war, but I would argue that Python is not as fully featured as a LISP language-wise.

And as far as LISPs go, Scheme is extremely simplistic and friendly.
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>> No, what I'd like is if there was a published specification for storing a music library. Then, any device could implement it.

If there were one published specification for storing a music library, before you know it some people will demand features that are not supported by it, and some software vendor will create and sell some piece of software that extends the format to provide it. It's just supply and demand.

I really can't wrap my head around this, are you really asking for generic, one-size-fits-all file formats, applications and hardware for everything, or are you just being naive?
The idea of doing "curl -L <URL> | bash" fills me with horror. Is this really the best way to install software in 2012?
The worst offender is actually Amazon. I just bought a Kindle Fire HD and boy am I disappointed! The only apps it runs are from Amazon App Store... but only the local one in your country. I can't access the US Amazon App store from France!!

And of course one can't transfer Kindle books from one account to another.

The answer is jailbreaking and de-DRMising; it's a pain of course but it's very much worth it.
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Nice breakdown of the current landscape, I'm working on one of my own and I'm really in need of feedback before I give it a public push.

Mine doesn't really do a cart yet, but it does the purchasing flow with only one code insertion on the site. Stripe and a few other features are in my short term roadmap.

Here's the link for now:
https://magicshop.herokuapp.com
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> However, I'm quite curious about the battery life impact. So far the N4 isn't a champion in this category. Adding LTE..

Just get a bigger battery. I got a 3900 mAh extended battery for my Verizon LTE Galaxy Nexus from Mugen Power[0]. Now my phone can run for 2.5 days without any problems. After a week, I didn't even notice the added thickness.

0: http://www.mugen-power-batteries.com/mugen-power-3900mah-ext...
I'm probably just being naive :-)

Look at email as a standard - a few people have tried to extend that and it hasn't worked.

Or, look at HTML as a standard. People want to extend that so they fight in a committee and collaborate until there's something which is mutually beneficial.

Or, look at USB. Literally a one-size-fits-all plug on both ends and a common transport layer - but you can stick whatever device you want on either end.
The Nexus 4 has a sealed battery. Upgrading will be a bit tougher.