iliekcomputers

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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Yep, we do support bulk import of last.fm data [0]. We also have a Spotify importer that automatically imports stuff from Spotify, if you use Spotify, I would definitely recommend setting that up. We're a really small team (all volunte
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Hey! I've been working on ListenBrainz [0] for the past 3-ish years. Happy to answer questions if anyone has any. [0]: https://listenbrainz.org
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I wrote that comment 3 years ago! It definitely took me a week or two worth of work to figure out what was happening there. The problem was exacerbated by the fact that the influx cli client then had different behaviour compared to the pyth
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
ListenBrainz dev here. We wanted stuff like the ability to do stuff like "DELETE FROM measurement where field = blah" and that support didn't exist last time we looked. [0] Another thing that's not mentioned in the post
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
>Absolutely nobody hates meritocracies, and it's intellectually dishonest to claim they do. I'm not agreeing with the grandfather comment, but there are "post-meritocracy" movements[0] in the world that fall more in l
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
When people talk about privilege, this is what they're talking about. A white person would probably just not be in this situation enough for the need to comply. I remember the first time I was flying to the US, I was adviced by multipl
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
If you read the history books, people in the West have been predicting the death of India's democracy ever since Independence. It hasn't happened, our democracy is as strong as it's ever been, with a much higher voter turnout
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Payment apps are very popular in India, especially in urban India. Most people have one of Paytm, Google Pay or PhonePe installed.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
These companies have too much control over public discourse.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I'm not that good at articulating why I think a lot of what's news these days seems mostly irrelevant to me, but I was very influenced by Aaron Swartz's blog post [0] about how reading the news is a waste of time very often.
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Thank you!
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I've decided to host a Mastodon instance for usage among my friend circle. I'm hoping that that brings down the negativity a fair bit.
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A world that's designed to make you sad and angry(paramsingh.github.io)
64 points by iliekcomputers 6y ago|26 comments
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I have found taking notes to be very helpful for a sort of spaced repetition. It helps me retain more from the books / articles I read. The main benefit that I'm trying to get is well explained in one of Andy Matuschak's note
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Thank you!
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
Could you link said paper?
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I would assume most engineers would like to spend time building stuff instead of migrating already built stuff to a different but kinda similar language. I don't think it's unreasonable to not want to do a CoffeeScript to TypeScri
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
It's just basically me taking notes on the book that I'm currently reading (consciously limited this to 1 book at a time). I underline interesting things while I'm reading and then try to write up notes every weekend. This ba
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by iliekcomputers 6y ago
I've personally had the feeling for a long time that most of the things I write don't feel very worthy of entire blog posts. That meant that I just didn't write anything. However, writing stuff up is a really great way to act
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by iliekcomputers 7y ago
I'm a contributor to the MetaBrainz Foundation (maintainers of musicbrainz.org and other projects) and have written a few blogs about my contributions [0][1] [0]: https://paramsingh.github.io/2018/moving-acousticbr
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by iliekcomputers 7y ago
Could people just join via phone call? Is it possible to get the meeting specific phone number from the meeting ID?
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by iliekcomputers 7y ago
What does filing "Confidentially" mean? How are buyers supposed to see what they're buying?
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by iliekcomputers 7y ago
In this day and age, who thinks that "homos" is a good label to use? And this is at Google, holy crap. How does a place that I'd expect to be filled to the brim with forward thinking techies even hire a person who thought thi
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by iliekcomputers 7y ago
You can feel good about a workplace and still leave (need a change, better opportunities elsewhere etc)
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by iliekcomputers 8y ago
Not to ruin the joke, but I'll just clarify that "mitron" is actually Hindi for "friends" and is used by our Prime Minister a lot (especially in speeches).
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by iliekcomputers 8y ago
If you want to read a book about India, you could read "Delhi" by Khushwant Singh, it is a pretty cool book about India's most interesting city. =)
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Migrating the very big AcousticBrainz db to new hardware as a junior engineer(paramsingh.github.io)
1 points by iliekcomputers 8y ago|0 comments
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by iliekcomputers 9y ago
We wanted to take our own shot at building a reliable open service with new tech. We're also much more focused on providing open and easy access to the data we have as conveniently as possible, so that people can build cool stuff with
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by iliekcomputers 9y ago
I worked on two cool open source music technology projects called ListenBrainz [1] (basically an open source version of Last.FM backed by the MetaBrainz Foundation, the people behind MusicBrainz) and AcousticBrainz [2] (a project trying to
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ListenBrainz (OSS alternative to last.fm) enters Beta stage(blog.musicbrainz.org)
24 points by iliekcomputers 9y ago|0 comments

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