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by loso 14y ago
I agree with you about OF's deal being similar to Wu Tangs. My main point was that in the end they did sign and on a side note I think they are a group that really did not have to. I think they might have less buzz now than they did when th
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by loso 14y ago
While some of the rappers you mentioned were noticed in the blogosphere, the point is that they didn't remain unsigned. That is a big difference. Drake did not become a household name until signing with Cash Money. Kanye West was actually t
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by loso 14y ago
Honestly, I agree with you. When I submitted the story to HN the title was "First unsigned artist in modern history to hit #1 on U.S. Charts" but HN changed it to the title on the blog. I wanted to highlight why I was posting it in the firs
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by loso 14y ago
In the past few years this has been happening a lot when it comes to rap. A lot of artist have been powered by the internet, gain a big following, but then they end up signing up to a major label. Drake, Soulja Boy, ASAP Rocky, Odd Future,
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by loso 14y ago
When I read the article I had in the back of my mind that this had been done before but I could not remember who. Thanks for the reminder. Her song was introduced to people because of the movie Reality Bites. This song going number one I wi
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How an unsigned rapper changed music(silentattraction.wordpress.com)
209 points by loso 14y ago|168 comments
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by loso 14y ago
When I first got into programming it took me months to truly understand the purposes of methods/functions. I picked up on pointers quicker than I picked up on functions. This was a little over 15 years ago. I could write them out but I coul
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by loso 14y ago
If you want to learn how to draw, besides the basic drawing courses or books, another good idea is to learn about Photography when it comes lighting and composition. I know a lot of people on this site have DSLR cameras so learning how to u
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by loso 14y ago
I just went through this process myself. Drawing from your imagination takes taking the rules that a book like "Drawing from the right side of your brain" shows you and basically practicing. For example, once you learn how to draw the basic
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by loso 14y ago
wow, thanks for that. I do have delicious installed. The fact that it could have been a plugin is why I didn't do a bug report. I just did a fresh install, still had the problem, and was going to go into safe mode after that. I wanted to se
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by loso 14y ago
When I type in the address bar I can't see the URL's pop up like I used to. All I see are the favicons. When I have a window open and try to open another one Firefox freezes and crash. There are a few more things but those are the major pro
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by loso 14y ago
I actually really like the idea of this type of site. More open source projects should have one. The entry point into getting a project that you want to help with can be a little tricky. On a personal note, this probably was the wrong time
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The Patent, Used as a Sword(nytimes.com)
179 points by loso 14y ago|75 comments
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You won't believe how nice Notch's office is(kotaku.com)
159 points by loso 14y ago|112 comments
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by loso 14y ago
This article lack of detail derails the point that it is trying to make. Yes, there are millions of people who try to enter certain creative fields at any one time but a very small percentage truly have what it takes to enter the business.
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by loso 14y ago
I think its kind of funny that Visual Basic doesn't inspire the kind of hatred that it once did. Now PHP has taken its place. Reading through the comments there seems to be a level of fond remembrance going on. In the past, if you used VB 6
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by loso 14y ago
I used to work club security for a lot of years and it happens all of the time. The people at the bar have seen it before. When the alcohol starts to flow some people can change their whole demeanor and surprise even the people that they ar
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by loso 14y ago
I started off as a hobbyist developer who thought you had to use Visual Studio to develop for Windows. So I pirated a copy because I couldn't afford the real thing. As soon as I figured out that there were cheaper or open source alternative
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by loso 14y ago
Yeah, when you are taught to draw, they always tell you to hold the picture up to a mirror. Any errors become blatant when you do that. Its also why you have to be careful when you draw at an angle when sitting down. As soon as you sit the
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by loso 14y ago
That is not what being a professional cook is about though. My girlfriend is a pastry chef and it takes more than being able to follow a recipe. Part of being a professional means knowing why certain ingredients taste the way they do when m
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by loso 14y ago
I think most of you are taking the post too literally. He is going against the rising trend of post implying "EVERYONE SHOULD CODE, IT'S GREAT, YOU WOULD BE CRAZY NOT TO, ITS SO EASY". It almost sounds like an infomercial. Of course anyone
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by loso 14y ago
I've posted about my disdain of the practices by the RIAA before and this is only just a digital example of what they have been doing for years. I've spoke about this before on this site so I will not be detailed as I have been in the past.
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by loso 15y ago
The article falls flat on its face in the first two paragraphs when he says that car technology has not advanced in the last 126 years. That just being ignorant of how cars work if he believes that. And to call them a stupid technology is p
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by loso 15y ago
I don't know what to think of this article. It reads as if it was written by someone who may have heard of Tupac but definitely wasn't a fan. I can't say that a fan of hip hop music would consider Kurupt to just be the answer of a trivia qu
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by loso 15y ago
I don't go to too many conferences but I have been to a couple of hackathons and meet ups in NYC. Before I became a programmer I worked in a lot of nightclubs. And maybe its just a matter of scale from what I've seen before but I don't see
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by loso 15y ago
I'm not talking about for the benefit of the company. I am talking about for the benefit of his fellow employees who took the deal. His article does not put them in the best light.
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by loso 15y ago
While I don't agree with how Dan Porter came across on Twitter I think I can understand the frustration. You are having one of the best days of your life and then out of left field someone you know does an article that sideswipes it. I read
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by loso 15y ago
Most people know that when they go to a web site, if they are not paying for it, then there is going to be ads on there. If they are put right in the open how is that deceitful?
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by loso 15y ago
Trying different business models is a great thing. Businesses become successful in different ways. When they announced Milk they said that this would be their business model and they have stuck with it. It is going to be interesting to see
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by loso 15y ago
Microsoft is not responsible for people hating to type commands in the command line, early computing is. In the past you were forced to type commands to get anything done and a lot of people hated it. The introduction of the GUI made things

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