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by dunk010 14y ago
The auth.getMobileSession method in the 2.0 API, and the scrobble 1.0 API were both sticking points.
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by dunk010 14y ago
It's a 1 minute video so it probably took you longer to post this comment than to watch the thing.
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by dunk010 15y ago
Here's the thing: it's not real money. It was a part cash and part shares deal, and the facebook valuation is fantasy till they float. So what they were really arguing here is a) how much cash they could get out now and b) how much instagra
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by dunk010 15y ago
One of my professors once related a quote from an author of one of the course texts. The author declared that you should "make my book the third book you read on this subject", because the third book you read on a subject is always the one
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by dunk010 15y ago
True dat.
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by dunk010 15y ago
It weakens your security overall, as it provides another vector of attack.
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by dunk010 15y ago
You could just rip the trends information from Last.fm.
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by dunk010 15y ago
They're very different from amazon, google, and apple's current/coming offerings as they don't offer streaming on demand; they're a radio service. Even if there were 20 different on demand offerings, their business would still be valid as t
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by dunk010 15y ago
I think that it's some combination of a milk round being a boring and repetitive job (for those who have to go between all the universities) and some sort of youth/milk imagery. I think it's anachronistic as the only person I have ever hear
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by dunk010 15y ago
Er, or perhaps banks have a lot more money than startups (and pretty much everyone else) eh?
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by dunk010 16y ago
I noticed this too. It's not a perfect fit, but it's close.
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by dunk010 16y ago
Actually, we do clean that data up with our corrections system. We have a large fingerprint database which allows us to work out when a track is the same and we update the charts across the site to reflect this. We even expose this as a s
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Firesheep usage leads to Idiocy(jonty.co.uk)
139 points by dunk010 16y ago|82 comments
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by dunk010 16y ago
The web stack at Last.fm is PHP, for better or worse. It's certainly not a pretty language. Or consistent. Or advanced. I've got a theory on why so many large websites use PHP though - from Facebook, through Flickr, Yahoo and Last.fm.
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by dunk010 16y ago
I'm pretty sure that apple will be offering big players a better revshare deal on account of their volume. I'm sure their respective legal departments will have their hands full in the coming months. I think what is more interesting is what
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by dunk010 16y ago
You should come up with a joke about it ;P
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by dunk010 16y ago
Indeed, you are quite right. We frequently target specific artist pages and their related artists and also specific genre and have been for many years. It is a major selling point in a cut-throat industry.
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by dunk010 16y ago
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/cu9vv/lastfm_ha...
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by dunk010 16y ago
The source of this, afaik, is The Mythical Man-Month. You should read it if you haven't. It does get quoted and mis-quoted quite a lot.
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by dunk010 16y ago
I felt the same, basically. There were a few very funny episodes, but on the whole it was pretty much "meh". I think that it mostly pokes fun at the it people, so it's not laugh "with" it's laugh "at".
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by dunk010 16y ago
Same night as pub standards, too. http://www.pubstandards.co.uk
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by dunk010 16y ago
Well, he might just not be smart enough. Large financial institutions and many smaller hedge funds reap countless millions from the markets and much of this comes from proprietary trading (well, all of it in the case of hedge funds.) Ther
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by dunk010 16y ago
An interesting piece, to be sure. Some of the best programmer I know really refuse to be tied down into doing anything they're not totally passionate about. The article was a bit hyperbole-heavy for my tastes, though.
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by dunk010 16y ago
It really is. One of my favourite movies. Highly recommended.
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by dunk010 16y ago
Indeed, I missed a couple of these articles along the way and it was great to not have missed them completely. I wonder if this format has even more potential for communities who don't spend as much time on the internet, where even more of
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by dunk010 16y ago
I think you're right - especially when you're in programming. So much knowledge is lost every time someone moves on it's so much better when there is a handover period.
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Last.fm adds Spotify, MOG, and Hype Machine streaming links to track pages(blog.last.fm)
1 points by dunk010 17y ago|0 comments
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by dunk010 17y ago
Last.fm and Moo are right on teh roundabout, though you're probably just referring to startups.
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by dunk010 17y ago
At Last.fm we're looking for an experienced web developer in London: http://www.last.fm/about/jobs#job_PHP+Web+Developer There are also a few other jobs on the page there, all based in London.
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by dunk010 17y ago
Yeah, I read that in a wired article. It makes sense, and if one press organisation is going to put the time in to comb over the data then they usually need an incentive, like getting the exclusive.

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