Gibbon

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by Gibbon 17y ago
Plug your output into an external amp with a volume knob. If it's still not loud enough, get a bigger amp and bigger speakers. Old amps are cheap.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
OSX on the laptop but Arch everywhere else, although I'd prefer freebsd if I could find a suitable hosting provider.
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Future of Music Summit: 115,000 Albums Released This Year and Only 110 Hits.(leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Business idea: A high quality education that doesn't rely on gatekeepers to arbitrarily deny it to you.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Yeah, it's easy enough to find pretty much any book if you know what to search for. It's been that way for years.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Implementation in french is usually "Mise en Oeuvre", "Mise en place", "Application" or "Exécution" depending on the context. In this example, implantation is probably more directly translated to "layout".
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by Gibbon 17y ago
It's like noone here has ever heard of a part time job. I work 25 hours a week and still have 80-90 hours to do whatever I want. Considering the average startup founder works about 50/hrs a week.. there's plenty of time.
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Business is More Volatile According to Deloitte(influxinsights.com)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Firefox 3.5 crashes frequently on both my macbook and my wife's older macbook. It's slow to load, sometimes slow to load some pages and hyperlinks occasionally don't actually work (mostly only on facebook.)
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Roughly 11.5 million lines of code for the kernel.. That's way more than I would have imagined.. 5k lines a day are added and 2k are modified. ( http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/IT-Workplace/68f20d4f-8ab9-40... ) IMHO it doesn't really jive w
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The Social Memex - Mark Carranza's Memory Experiment(kk.org)
3 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I'm a designer and the two books I always recommend to non-designers and newbies are: Design Elements: A Graphic Style Manual ( http://www.amazon.com/Design-Elements-Graphic-Style-Manual/d... ) and The other is the complementary case studie
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by Gibbon 17y ago
The library. I'm not kidding.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I still use CS2.. many of the printers I've worked with in the last few years still use Illustrator 9 and photoshop 7
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Total manufacturing/distribution costs for a CD are around $2.20 with a wholesale price of $6.50. The labels still get the $6.50 more or less for a digital album (although that's falling) but they no longer have to worry about manufacturing
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by Gibbon 17y ago
There was no bubble.. just a market whose time has come and gone, much like the fabled buggy-whip. The record industry (as opposed to the music industry) was a 20th century anomaly. Prior to the invention of the gramophone, music was largel
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by Gibbon 17y ago
There is no "dark" market worth mentioning in this context. There are simply no significant sales beyond the major labels and their subsidiaries. The four major labels account for more than 80% of ALL music sold in the USA and the 1600 memb
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Google's extensive testing does not preclude the possibility that their design sucks. The original "simplicity" of their service was entirely accidental; if I'm not mistaken Sergei either didn't know enough html or didn't care enough to bot
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by Gibbon 17y ago
CD sales accounted for 80% of the 428 million units sold in 2008 (from all media). In comparison there were just under a billion units sold in 1999 and the backstreet boys had the biggest album with over 16 million copies. Last year the top
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Mapping The Archive: 30 Years of Ars Electronica Visualized in Huge Scale(infosthetics.com)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
Americans spend in the neighbourhood of $200/month on clothes? Wow.. I'm so far below that, I doubt I'm even in the 99% percentile on the low end.
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by Gibbon 17y ago
If any of the musicians are ASCAP members, then you're going to need an ASCAP licence and you'll have to pay performance royalties unless you get legal agreements with all the artists to waive their royalties as a part of your fees. There's
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by Gibbon 17y ago
"Artists can pay" is a legal minefield.. lots of potential payola/pay-to-play/bribery issues unless it's made very clear that the artists are paying. Otherwise the more popular you get, the more likely you'll get the FCC crawling down your
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I had six daylight-balanced mini fluorescent bulbs in my living room and I had to remove three of them because they were blindingly bright. These are 8w bulbs.
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The Programming Language Zoo(andrej.com)
2 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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When are you collecting too much data?(go-to-hellman.blogspot.com)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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Parallelized Knuth-Morris-Pratt Search Algorithm(instruct1.cit.cornell.edu)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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by Gibbon 17y ago
I posted another article on these solar panels several hours earlier: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=812551 The bottom of the article includes a link to a research paper: http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1312/version/1/files/.
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The 2010 Buckminster Fuller Challenge(challenge.bfi.org)
1 points by Gibbon 17y ago|0 comments
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The Innovators Dilemma Renaissance Style(broadstuff.com)
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