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by tim2 19y ago
I guarantee you that there have been artists selling some music directly to customers ever since people have been able to record music. No, even before that. This guy used the labels and middlemen extensively already , so he is really a te
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by tim2 19y ago
Sure, I'll say it: If you're saying that publicity is free, you're still wrong. This isn't even a very new model. People have been getting music for free through radio for a long time. What labels have done so far is little more than changi
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by tim2 19y ago
What do you call a professional sax player? -- Homeless.
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by tim2 19y ago
Are you sure you're not overestimating how easily you could land a lucrative job like the guys on the stage? Lots of occupations have very attractive jobs at the top of the field while the masses at the bottom do much less attractive, lower
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by tim2 19y ago
I think the article about the young male elephants that went on a killing spree, brutally ripping apart entire hurds, their own family, siblings, infants, in an uncontrollable rage is relevant here. Link anyone? Of course this example furth
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by tim2 19y ago
Not a total departure from how some people have used many other sites. Eg, the more friends you have on myspace, the better you can advertise your band; the more popular your youtube video, the better you can use it to promote something; sa
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by tim2 19y ago
That is an interesting idea. I will probably try this with my site and make it based on points earned today or this week.
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by tim2 19y ago
There is a good way to do accessibility - the same way you make a mobile version of your site. Make a second version optimized for the domain. You think that not using tables will just automatically give you loads of accessibility? It won't
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by tim2 19y ago
Do what the committees and bloggers tell you to, you must obey! Does restricting yourself to using tables just for tabular data make html coding easier, faster, or more readable? No, it doesn't.
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by tim2 19y ago
I tried that last year for a little while in a very inexpensive part of Europe. Holes: 1. Connections, funding, publicity. Kiss those opportunities goodbye. 2. Travel expenses will cost you, add another $2000(?) just for that. 3. I didn't s
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by tim2 19y ago
I am quite against database ORM, so that's no con for me. Documentation isn't great either but things are generally very easy to figure out. My only cons (last I checked): - Connecting to multiple databases is kind of a hack. - Depreciation
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by tim2 19y ago
I can help. See profile.
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by tim2 19y ago
I'm a little confused by your comment. Does the Europe you know embrace insane work ethic, high risk investments, low job security, and admire those who prefer to start their own companies, or not? Without those, the culture is creating a b
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by tim2 19y ago
In that case, lets ignore whatever problems you find in the article and discuss its basic message. I lived in parts of Europe (though not Germany or France) for a while and found the contrast between there and the US to match the general th
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by tim2 19y ago
No no, the burden is on the person who claims something "impossible." You have no basis to claim that what he said is impossible.
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by tim2 19y ago
Last.fm just seems like music ordered by plays and filtered by tags (often poorly-done tags). Am I missing something? If you like the really really popular stuff then it's alright, otherwise, no. Further, the plays are skewed by what was ho
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by tim2 19y ago
Those are not "half useful." Perhaps a 1/4 of what they could be with better input data and a trivial recommendation algorithm.
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by tim2 19y ago
What other people read/buy/like alone is near useless data. Garbage in, garbage out. I can't believe people are still trying to wave their hands and pretend they have some amazing algorithm to turn this data into half useful recommendations
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by tim2 19y ago
They'd be better than reddit's since there's no downvote.
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by tim2 19y ago
While back at school, with the 4MB/sec connection: Ran web app from desktop -> ssh reverse proxied through to cheep $20/month ~unlimited bandwidth server. sshfs on desktop so static files that were uploaded go through the desktop and ba
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by tim2 19y ago
Don't listen to the quitters. Your money situation sucks but there are much more limiting, harder to recover from factors that you could be up against, possibly in the near future. Maybe what you should look at now is what you have to lose.
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by tim2 19y ago
Wait right there, american girls have no style. This is true!
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by tim2 19y ago
Programming for just half an hour every day is like having sex for just one minute every hour.
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by tim2 19y ago
I'd add one more and split "product" out from "technology." For example, youtube was simply a better product for the market than google video -- even though the back-end technology was supposedly worse. Perhaps there is the assumption that
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by tim2 19y ago
Wall of text.
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by tim2 19y ago
Not the way that I develop. Usually I leave the last 20% for stuff that may actually be rather easy, but just isn't within my expertise or I'm not qualified to do. For example, I may save polishing the design, graphics, copywriting, publici
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by tim2 19y ago
Request clearance from the tower.
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by tim2 19y ago
This article is about the importance of getting a rediculous number of major publicity hits, not so much launching early. Those graphs don't even measure if the product was good -- people often don't find out how good something is until af
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by tim2 19y ago
Personally, I value hard-working as more important. Smart would just be a side effect.
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by tim2 19y ago
> what would it take to make it worth your while? 1. Alignment of goals - something I really want to see exist in the world? 2. Other people are excited about the product - I tend to feed off of others' encouragement. 3. Belief that thi

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