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by caractacus 11y ago
They read Pitchfork only to be up on what Anthony Fantano is talking about.
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by caractacus 11y ago
And the data size limit is excel is stifling. 1m maximum rows? That can get filled very quickly.
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by caractacus 11y ago
"We want to hear from you and use your material if (i) you take the time to actually email us; (ii) you do so with a coherent and well-thought out response to one of our articles; (iii) you decide to do this even though there is likely
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by caractacus 11y ago
> Twitter is the de facto messaging platform In what world?
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by caractacus 11y ago
This is the BBC's Newsbeat - it's the news program for Radio 1, the beeb's pop music station. So it's (i) dumbed down and (ii) better if it has some kind of music connection.
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by caractacus 11y ago
If you were paranoid, it wouldn't take much to conclude that "worked with" and "allowed" could mean that this doesn't imply that there weren't or aren't backdoors or access that occurred without Apple
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Tech elite meet Chinese president Xi Jinping – and take a photo(qz.com)
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by caractacus 11y ago
I've often linked Chris Poole's approach to this with Matt Haughey at Metafilter. I can remember being amazed at how well mathowie moderated metafilter with a remarkably light touch and yet still set the tne of the site. Moot was
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by caractacus 11y ago
Read up on AKB48. Japanese girl "group" with more than a hundred members split into teams. Often the record company will let fans vote on which members will become part of the next single. To vote? You have to buy the latest CD (a
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by caractacus 11y ago
This might be better: http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/10/the-earliest-use-of-t...
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by caractacus 11y ago
> GPS and motion sensors. Why could they want this? Maybe they will switch up your play list when you go for that run. Seems plausible. They introduced a running feature a few months ago that does, indeed, attempt to match the bpm of a p
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by caractacus 11y ago
What surprises me more than anything about this is that ntlworld.com still exists and still resolves.
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by caractacus 11y ago
Cool. Look forward to hearing more.
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by caractacus 11y ago
What I want with such charting solutions is something to export or copy and paste data from excel and put it into a chart. Just that. No need to manually edit a javascript file or html code beyond customising the appearance once the data is
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by caractacus 11y ago
You may have reached what you thought was a statistically significant size but unless you were selecting perfectly randomly - which I doubt you could in such an exercise - then it could not be called truly significant.
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by caractacus 11y ago
Or the music quality. Same as the iPhone (which is pretty good, admittedly)? Or better?
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by caractacus 11y ago
It's /r/subredditdrama played out in real life. It has to promote the strangest company culture when your just-departed CEO has been suing another firm for gender discrimination in a wildly high profile and contentious court
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by caractacus 11y ago
> She didn't do a good job of it, but at least she tried to stand up against some of the worst of Reddit. These are two separate things. The fact that she tried to stand up against some of the idiots that inhabit the site doesn&#x27
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by caractacus 11y ago
Not a word about it on United's web site. Flight status page doesn't load correctly. "Today's Operations" gives an error message. United's Twitter is silent. Meanwhile news articles and twitter complaints aboun
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by caractacus 11y ago
Ha. First thing I compared it to as well. It's a micro-storm in a very large tea-cup. Reddit will survive and the tiny and temporary (and already abandoned) actions of a few mods might shoot a few people off to Voat or another site but
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by caractacus 11y ago
I think you're mistaken if you think that the majors would voluntarily relinquish three months of royalties from trials of Apple Music just to hurt Spotify, when they could simply pull their content from Spotify a la Taylor Swift to hu
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by caractacus 11y ago
"Flocking" = we don't have any real numbers but here are a couple of people who went to the US and then came back, and look! we use that unicorn word that no current startup article is complete without so you can trust us.
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by caractacus 11y ago
I highly recommend the book this is taken from: Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! The Story of Pop Music by Bob Stanley. Bob Stanley was a music journalist who founded the beautiful group St Etienne. There is no one I can think of better qualified to talk
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by caractacus 11y ago
Yes. Yes I did.
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by caractacus 11y ago
10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UK Liveblogs on the usual Mac sites, Ars, etc. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2015/06/liveblog-apples-wwdc-ke... Edit: EST mindfart
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by caractacus 11y ago
CAPITAL IDEA CHAPS! NO USAGE CAPS, I HOPE?
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by caractacus 11y ago
Wow. The pods are 70c a go in the US? Amazing to find a product that is substantially cheaper in the UK. It's 30p a go here - 45c or thereabouts.
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by caractacus 11y ago
I'm with you on this. There's some great coffee in London - some wonderful nutty and bitter tastes in places around Soho that Nespresso doesn't seem able to replicate - but I'm perfectly happy with a pod or two in the mo
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by caractacus 11y ago
Well that's not on when I pay good money to Vodafone for the same service.
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by caractacus 11y ago
No, the record companies own about 20% of Spotify. The rest is VC and founder owned.

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