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What career path did you have your sights on before wanting to become an entrepreneur?
Why? I understand that Pandora wants to be compared to terrestrial radio, I just don’t buy into it, as users can manipulate the stations to their liking. If you have a Pandora subscription, why would you still buy CDs or digital tracks? Pandora costs $36 per year for unlimited streaming; I currently spend way more to purchase a few dozens tracks per year.
Let me guess, they no longer sign emails with "Death to America"

And this "The officials spoke anonymously because they were not authorized to speak about the intelligence matters publicly."

Shouldn't that be "traitorous leakers"?
I don't know many other popular commercial games with their up to date code based on GitHub.

By posting Source source, it opens up learning opportunities for new developers and all other sorts of BS.

For example, the way they do their sphericals didn't occur to me and for my next project I'll know better...
The sooner these "hard" drug sellers will be busted - the better for everyone, including Bitcoin future.
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My point is more even if they continue to use Jingle on the backend they defeat the point of Jabber by putting the auth servers in a proprietary backend. The whole point of XMPP was to stop making messaging / communication formats that don't play in the same sandbox and can't interopt. I can't contact someone in a hangout (via chat or voice) with anything but a hangout.
Here is what the Unix manual from Bell Labs (the origin of Unix) says about /usr/bin versus /bin:

Commands generally reside in directory /bin
(for binary programs). Some programs also
reside in /usr/bin, to save space in /bin.

There were hardware limitations in the early days of Unix. Short command names (like “ls” and “rm”) were used to save memory and paper (teletypes were used in the days before video terminals). Each byte mattered back then. There must have been a constraint on how much they could put in /bin (I am guessing).

Here is the manual:

http://plan9.bell-labs.com/7thEdMan/
Is it 2004 again? why are we having the same argument? Pandora is a radio station. comparing it to something like buying a song is totally absurd.
It's not possible to say what goes to who as it's different for everyone. An independent artist will get 60-70%.
Allah don't have cell phone; use prayer rug.
It makes me so happy that this type of thing actually happens in the world.
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A few years back they introduced a "restartless addon" api, so addons didn't use XUL (firefox's internal language) directly. This allows them to be both enabled/disabled while firefox is running, and not need to be rewritten every version. Look for the "restartless" tag on the addon website.

The six-week cycle probably helped as well, since there is less changes between versions; not to mention improved auto-updating.
Incorrect terminology should now be fixed. Thanks for calling that out.

Note that Google's SMTP servers do store the messages in your sent mail folder. I don't claim to know exactly how they do this (IMAP, direct access to filesystems, whatever), but the messages are stored -- and yes, obviously the SMTP protocol doesn't facilitate this but their SMTP servers perform this action.
Do you know these to be facts or are you just regurgitating something you've read or heard elsewhere?

Because:

> you can use the editor of your choice and the terminal instead of Xcode.

This is possible with Obj-C, but using Xcode is a far superior experience to RubyMotion and any editor.

> you can use the interactive console to debug your app or to live test new code

Ditto for lldb in Xcode

> you get all the great wrapper gems like BubbleWrap which are heavily influenced by the "rails way" of doing things

There are plenty of powerful 3rd party Obj-C abstractions too.
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You are awesome, thank you. That worked great. :)
From the license:

You may, free of charge, download and use the SDK to develop a modified
Valve game running on the Source engine.

It seems using it to modify a Valve game running on the Source engine is all hard requirement, which in turn requires Steam.
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Studios are creators, just like publishers are integral to the creation of a book. Why else do so many hiphop and pop acts prominently mention their producers? Besides managing the production process, labels are also investment companies, who take all the risks. How much did Courtney Love pay upfront to get the album made and the tour organized?

Also, hundreds of thousands of independent musicians offer their music directly through iTunes, or via a cheap intermediary like CD Baby.
How long until they can fix my vitreous floaters?
I don't think he's arguing they're a radio station at all, in fact quite the opposite. A radio station reaches X thousands of people per play. A Pandora play reaches an individual.
I think you couldn't be more wrong.

First of all you compare value that YOU pay ($1 per song) on iTunes to what CREATOR is paid for on Pandora.

Second of all, Pandora is like radio, not like iTunes. You cannot select song, you have to listen to the ads. The utility of the song on iTunes or CD is very different to the song listened on Pandora.

Thirdly, your assumptions are based on no data and I doubt match reality.

The only fair comparison to Pandora is terrestrial radio, and based on all information we have Pandora pays MORE per spin then average radio station.
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Saw a banner ad for the Pink Floyd catalog being on Spotify tonight. Forgot to screenshot it - but maybe that relates to trashing Pandora?
So no more Service Packs? Now they're just calling them "new versions of Windows" ?
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Yeah, Al Qaeda didn't know that NSA listens and reads to their communications. That's why Bin Laden used couriers to personally deliver thumbdrives and had no telephone or internet.
My argument is trying to judge Pandora in the same way as radio, in that the number of plays as counted on Pandora reaches far less people than the number of plays as counted on radio. What the artist wants is to be paid for every person that listens to their song right?

So when you say "Only if you claim every radio has an average of one listener by this methodology as well", I think you misunderstand the core problem, which is that the article compares stats that aren't equivalent.

The issue is in how these listens are counted. So yes, you can pretty much claim every Pandora device has an average of one listener. Users of Pandora have their own personalized streams, and every time a song is played on a person's stream, it's counted as 1 play, and is heard by 1 person.

In contrast, radio stations have one stream that many many people listen to. When a radio station broadcasts a song once it's counted as 1 play even though that song is received by X radio-receivers and heard by X people (where X is the reach that station has, for example, 150k).

The issue is the article compares plays on Pandora (where each play as counted reaches 1 listener on average) to plays on radio (where each play as counted reaches upwards of 150k listeners).
Just now I thought I'd try Pandora out. Went over to their website expecting to have to sign up or download something. Nope, they let me pick an artist and just started pumping the tunes out. Awesome! After a few songs I start getting interested in one of them, so I click a link to show more info about the artist. Music cuts out abruptly and I'm put in front of a sign-up page. I spent ten seconds trying to figure out how to get the music back on before signing up. Discovered I can't do this, so I closed the browser tab and fired up iTunes.

The experience was so annoying I actually had to write a comment about it.
This is one of those things that requires the letter of the law behind any enforcement. You can admit to any crime you'd like, but absent evidence that there was indeed a crime, law enforcement can't exactly put you away for years.

Unless law enforcement found these people breaking the law, or "knew" that they did and found evidence of such, there's no recourse. Photos of people at an "illegal" gathering? Maybe the organizers indeed had a permit for whatever space they were in; maybe it was all staged inside a warehouse that they owned; maybe the whole story was concocted by the author.

Ultimately, unless they get caught or leave obvious evidence of exactly what took place in which location involving which people ... there's nothing to prosecute.

Edit: All that said, I'd hate to see the consequences of someone being seriously injured during one of these events. I'm hoping the "Agents" can get the person safely to the surface and that the injured party will remain mum on the details.
The actual problem is that the license they are using is neither a valid free software license nor a valid open source license. The GPL would honestly be their best option if they wished to build a bigger community around Source engine modding, but I doubt that will ever happen.
I don't see why it should be bad to do by hand. I have never experienced any difficulties with this style when using any other language in Vim.
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> If you have a Pandora subscription, why would you still buy CDs or digital tracks?

This question might make sense for Spotify (disclaimer: I have never used Spotify, and don't really know how it works), but it makes no sense for Pandora. You'd buy the tracks so you can listen to them on demand, more than twice a day. Maybe even twice in a row! I have a pandora channel on which one song that I particularly like rarely plays, even though it's thumbed up. I'd be happy to buy the track, except it's only available through iTunes.
I'm not entirely sure how to do it anymore, but playing with the perfect AI posted somewhere else in this threat convinces me it's impossible to win if you don't start first.
Not to be critical, but off course the Chinese laborers were for all intents slaves. After the railroad was built, they were put to work digging 1000 miles of cancels that became the Sacramento delta region.
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Web Apps Or Firefox OS Apps?
It will be annoying if they do it like OS X, where they always default to that folder and give you no way to turn it off other than waiting for some kind soul on Hacker News to tell you the magic command line incantation. :)

I mean, I assume that even if it behaves like a regular folder, unless the user actually wants to store the file on SkyDrive, then that folder would not be where they want to save the thing.

I actually even store most document-y stuff on Dropbox, which made Apple's whole "iCloud? Wanna save that on iCloud? Put it in the iCloud? What, Dropbox, you sure you didn't mean iCloud? iCloud? Hey, try saving it in iCloud! Look, iCloud! Woah, by Dropbox, I think you meant iCloud, right? iCloud? iCloud?" behavior so annoying...
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Yes, add goto. If JS is going to be the "assembly language of the web", it needs a general branch construct or it will suck.
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Good question... why did you buy your cd? Why not just signup for Pandora?

I really fail to see your logic? Buying a CD (which is a dying industry, which can be seen by the number of CD selling companies going out of business) has nothing to do with pandora. Pandora is an internet radio, end of story. It streams music over the internet, your radio streams music over the fm/am waves. Buying a CD is more expensive, because it's suppose to become yours, while you may personally listen to it 10 times, that is not a problem for the CD seller. You paid $20 to buy their songs, you can listen to those songs millions of times over 15 years and play them in front of your friends, or at a house party. Or you can listen to it 1 time. But you don't pay for the number of plays, because it could and can be unlimited. You could play that CD 24/7 for 10 years if you want.

That is what you are paying for.

Oh and if you think artists get 60% you should go talk to one. While some indie artists may get that. Anyone who sells a fairly nice amount of CD's makes next to nothing on CD sales, some even lose money. I'm not sure how accurate it is but http://www.theroot.com/views/how-much-do-you-musicians-reall... is an example (there are probably more out there)
Yeah, this new Pandora thing better figure out how to get some users or they are doomed!
It's the bikeshed principle: nobody here feels qualified to comment on the nuclear reactor design.
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I've recently spent half an hour in Google Earth after turning on the ‘photorealistic atmospheric rendering’ feature + time slider. Makes for some landscapes…

(Update: Should've checked prior to posting… Photorealistic rendering is on by default in Maps with Earth plug-in, despite still being called experimental in Earth settings.)
Didn't know that about nix, nice. I forgot to mention that about it being only supported on windows for now.

Still waiting on Opera to make a move for mp4...especially with the promises that H.265 make in regards to reduced file sizes with great qualities.

Although I know mp4 is patent encumbered, it's too prevalent to ignore (thanks to Apple and Microsoft products).
It's a totally different business model. When you purchase a license to a song on iTunes, you do so in order to be able to play the song whenever you want for as long as you want. When you use Pandora you give the control to Pandora to choose what you listen to.

You yourself admit that you spend a lot more to purchase songs as opposed to using Pandora, which tells me that purchasing tracks provides value to you that is unattainable via Pandora.
I'd actually be really curious to see what their metrics are on that particular policy. Sometimes the most annoying things turn out to be the most effective.
Sure. You can save files locally (SkyDrive is not compulsory) or you can have SkyDrive automatically sync docs on all your PCs and/or Macs.

But if you are creating documents online using the Office Web Apps in SkyDrive, then it would be very odd if the default storage was a local PC, tablet or phone.

All these things are true today under Windows 7 and 8 as well as 8.1.

If cloud storage is such a terrible idea, it seems odd that there is so much hype for Google Apps -- which apparently 100% of startups use -- and for Chromebooks and similar thin client operating systems.
I see what you mean, and as for traditional radio, I agree. However, Pandora’s value lies in the fact that it learns your taste in music. Supposedly, after a while it shouldn’t play music you would hate.

If Pandora’s service would provide several orders of magnitude less value than handpicked purchased tracks, then no-one would pay for it.
This is a terrible blog post. Why post such a stupid and long-winded defense when the facts are on your side? Pandora pays the music business far more than traditional radio per listener. The RIAA wants two things:

1) No direct payments to artists

2) Set a high rate with Pandora as a benchmark because in FM and CDs are dead when thinking more than a few years into the future.

While I completely think Pandora is right, the RIAA is playing their hand well, and Tim Westergren just shit the bed with this stupid posting. I have no idea why Tim felt the need for all the bullshit:

> Pandora is a company founded by artists to help artists.

You mean "that helps artists"?

> an email from me asking artists if they would show their support ... We did not play these conversations out in the media

You send an email to hundreds of thousands of people, and think it is private?

Pandora needs a new PR person. When the facts are on your side, there is no need to spew bullshit.
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+1 Miles, well said.

All things considered, including economic, terrorist, military industrial complex mega over reach, etc, I feel like our government's actions are making us much less safe. Just my personal opinion.
Good call on the Flask-Script mention. I will add a note about that.

As far as configuration based on environment goes, I really dislike environment based configuration in my project repository. So I use Flask's instance folder functionality:

http://flask.pocoo.org/docs/config/#instance-folders

This file can be used to configure the app based on its environment wether it be local development or my production environment. The shared factory method attempts to load this file and fails silently if it does not exist.

Regarding your SQLAlchemy comment, well...thats just not really something to add to the article now, is it? ;)
True, but it would likely be impractical to use couriers to communicate between Al Qaeda H.Q. to any Al Qaeda cells in the U.S., or even in an adjacent country.
The option has been in firefox as far back as I can remember. It's in the Preferences, under Privacy; you'll need to select "Use custom settings for history". I've never noticed any breakage, and I assume in-part because iOS and Safari set it as their default a few years back.
you mean the paragraph that includes "...will correct the crashing error – sometimes. I’ve used instance variables and have still experienced crashes in blocks" ? That one? Or was there a paragraph I missed that included a workaround that actually solved the problem rather than minimizing it?
> you're supposed to get a permit for events over 50 people

That sounds unconstitutional.
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Well, it seems proper to me that there's a high premium on explicitly chosen products vs algorithmically-recommended ones. Pandora lets you pick an artist but not a specific song, and it's rare for any artist's entire output to be in their library.

But sometimes I wish there was a way to reward artists with long standing personal value to me. The $15.99 CD I purchased in 1987 doesn't feel like adequate tribute for the thousands of times I've chosen to listen to the songs. It might balance out (from the consumer perspective) with all the crap I've bought and listened to once only -- but in many ways that is all the more galling.
>> So what? Islam has 1.5 billion "members" and I don't recall any special Ramadan doodles.

Not sure if they are any doodles for Mohammed or Ramadan in Arabic and largely Muslim countries but I don't see why they should be any in countries where Islam barely registers. That applies to any other religion of course. Google would be insane to put a Christmas doodle in Pakistan, Indonesia or Saudi Arabia for example. Local sensitivities should apply.

>>In short: not everything is about Jesus. Hopefully, this trend will continue.

Like I said, this is Google's page but simply because they did it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. Google surely loves to take boatload of adwords money for Easter and Christmas. Why do they respect local sensitivities when it comes to making money?
I'm tired of comparing Pandora's one million listeners to a radio that reaches one million listeners. I don't even know which way that argument cuts - both, I imagine - but it's just a confusing comparison since they're entirely different things.
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BlackBerry is in a good position with the Z10. It has encryption and privacy features no other phone has, and innovations like the hub. I switched my iPhone 5 for the Z10 and it's way more graceful.

Yeah, RIM were coasting for many years and they paid dearly. But I'm glad to see them back.
A lot of the land in the western U.S. was given out by the government in square plots to anyone willing to settle there and plat some crops/trees. I believe this was under the homestead acts.
Perhaps some kind soul can put up screenshots of whatever should be seen? (At least for Python & Javascript, which is what I'm interested in.)
> you compare value that YOU pay ($1 per song) on iTunes to what CREATOR is paid for on Pandora.

No, I compared my spending habits on iTunes to Pandora’s subscription costs, and I compared what creators get from iTunes for a track to what Pandora pays creators for a ‘spin’.
That's a good question. I'm not really sure, but I'm almost positive it's related to Ruby or RubyMotion internals, not ARC in general.

As best I can tell from the article and the filed bug, it comes down to not retaining captured variables in blocks. In Objective-C, there's some automatic memory management that happens for you when you capture a variable in a block:

id x = ...;
^{ NSLog(@"%@", x); };

Because the block depends on x, the lifetime of that object needs to be tied to the lifetime of the block. As such, the compiler emits code so that if and when you copy the block onto the heap, it automatically retains x. When the block object is destroyed, it automatically releases x.

Note that, while definitely "automatic reference counting", this isn't, strictly speaking, ARC. Because this is so critical to being able to use blocks without going completely insane, this bit of cleverness was introduced with blocks on 10.6, even though ARC didn't exist yet.

The note in the bug says that it's complicated because they don't want to introduce a performance regression. This suggests that they're not having trouble with retaining objects referenced by the block per se, but rather with being smart about it, so that it's only retained when necessary. The Objective-C compiler does this by constructing blocks on the stack, and requiring an explicit copy to move them to the heap. Only when explicitly copied do they retain the variables they capture, so simple inline cases remain fast. Perhaps Ruby or RubyMotion have something that makes this harder to do.

If that's correct, then I can't say I find the excuse a very good one. Performance regressions are bad, but generating incorrect code is much worse. They need to fix it immediately, take the speed hit, then see about ways to improve performance while maintaining correctness. However, I certainly could be wrong.
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tl;dr. What did he say?
Nah, you're not seeing it like a normal user. I work in an office with non technical people and they NEVER know where they saved something. They just always use the program's default. My whole family except me does this as well. For the average person its a life saver if every program always defaults to SkyDrive. Now they only need to remember one or two folders ever to look for stuff. SkyDrive and Downloads. Now if they could just get downloads to go straight to SkyDrive then normal people will be set.
Are you kidding? Sounds like every company everywhere.
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I hear you on the "core" library idea. I have strived for this separation before with varying success. I just did not feel as if I wanted to go that far with this article.
I didn't know creating a basic account was that big of turn off for people. Just keep a throwaway email for services like this. It's not that big of a deal.
It's only plaintext by default to get up and running as fast as possible, which is why I wrote the extension in the first place. Armin has, on occasion, expressed interest in improving the extension ecosystem but nothing specific yet.