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by tommyd 11y ago
Also see my reply above for an example of an album that plays seamlessly for me in Spotify. It may just be that I have got lucky, to be fair quite a lot of the mix CDs I listen to on Spotify are uploaded as one single hour-plus long track s
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by tommyd 11y ago
I have no idea I'm afraid, just going off a fuzzy memory. This seems to go into a lot more detail than I ever could: http://wiki.hydrogenaud.io/index.php?title=Gapless_playback . There's no way to go back and fix o
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by tommyd 11y ago
House, techno, general electronic stuff. Here's an example of an (excellent) mix album split into tracks that plays perfectly for me: https://open.spotify.com/album/4ZYcd1FAY9GjtIphGqL4Ot (and I mean perfectly, I&
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by tommyd 11y ago
Both iTunes and Spotify have perfect gapless playback for me - I wouldn't use them if not, as I listen to quite a lot of electronic mix CDs and any gap ruins the flow. On iTunes it does depend if the source was ripped properly (e.g. wi
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by tommyd 11y ago
You might find Site Prism interesting: https://github.com/natritmeyer/site_prism (there are alternatives such as http://watirwebdriver.com/page-objects/ and https://github.com/sens
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by tommyd 11y ago
I seem to recall reading that the BBC did the same for the BBC Micro, although I can't find a reference now. Waiting half an hour for a game to load just to find the tape had got corrupted right near the end ("R Tape Loading Error
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by tommyd 11y ago
According to their test, I am a "strong pro-tan" and an unlikely to get much benefit from the glasses - I would have been curious to try the effect, but it would have been something rather special for me to consider parting with t
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by tommyd 11y ago
I'm unsure if you'll see this reply with the topic being quite old, but I found out today (via a Youtube ad, no less - well targeted, sort of!) that Nixon Williams now have an online portal, called Vantage: http://www.n
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by tommyd 11y ago
Ad impressions
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by tommyd 11y ago
Got you - I completely agree, I think that is a disgusting attitude. I wasn't sure if you were referring to people saving a few extra £k a year by running a Limited company and expensing things in a totally legal way, or something more
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by tommyd 11y ago
> Had my own Ltd, took home about 65% of my day rate. No funny business What do you define as "no funny business"? Just curious what you mean by that. I operate a Ltd, take a low salary and the rest dividends (as recommended by
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by tommyd 11y ago
> Then donate that "optimized" tax money to a charity where it does more good Took the words out of my mouth, exactly my thinking
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by tommyd 11y ago
Ask your accountant. Seriously, that's the best thing to do in a situation like that - random strangers on the Internet have no idea of the ins and outs of your company structure etc. and so could potentially give bad advice, even if t
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by tommyd 11y ago
Other recommendations of accountants with decent online systems would be greatly appreciated. My current ones (Nixon Williams) seem fairly good as accountants, but the spreadsheet based expenses (and having to use email to take dividends, c
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by tommyd 11y ago
> Are you a photographer? I'd love to be having that much success, if I end up with three good photos out of 500, I call it a good day. Heh, notice I said "photos", not "good photos" ;) Really it depends what kin
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by tommyd 11y ago
Tangentially related, I have to give a shout out to Chris Marquardt's "1000 Pics 1 Hour" Lightroom workflow: https://shop.chrismarquardt.com/bookshop/product/1-hour-1000... . Simple but effective way
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by tommyd 12y ago
Interesting - I've just started playing around with jspm and system.js as showcased in the "Javascript in 2015" video that did the rounds ( http://glenmaddern.com/articles/javascript-in-2015 ) and I'm
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by tommyd 12y ago
It didn't post to my feed but did "like" the page without asking me. Not on.
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by tommyd 12y ago
"×" seems to be the hip way to denote a collaboration these days :)
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by tommyd 12y ago
Your experience is definitely unfortunate - stories/features being fully tested before being considered done, and therefore potentially shippable, is a key part of a successful Agile process. Without it, you are missing out on a lot of
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by tommyd 12y ago
Impressive looking stuff - I'm currently learning Scala and getting deeper into functional programming, and a lot of the concepts I come across (e.g. Option types) make a lot of sense, so it's cool to see them being implemented in
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Welcome to Sweden – the most cash-free society on the planet(theguardian.com)
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by tommyd 12y ago
Was going to say the same thing, saw that both on my iPhone and on my desktop (with a half screen width browser). Way to piss users off.
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Spotify UK turned a profit for the first time last year(factmag.com)
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by tommyd 12y ago
I've reached the same conclusion for our suite of UI tests (which are based on Cucumber + Capybara + SitePrism) - Phantom has random issues that don't occur with any other browser/driver (e.g. elements not being found even if
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by tommyd 12y ago
Really sad to hear about this - I love their iOS Apps, "Wild Friends" and "National Parks" in particular - beautiful photographs and I love the story telling aspect and frequent updates. I'll have to have a good loo
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Is: A better way to write JavaScript conditional statements(github.com)
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From Obamacare to Marks and Spencer: when websites go wrong(theguardian.com)
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Facebook admits manipulating users' emotions by modifying news feeds(theguardian.com)
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GitHub: Building an army of robots(speakerdeck.com)
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