February 2012
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Feb 13th
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“When our parents sent a letter in the mail, nobody was allowed to open it to...”
– I Don’t Care About The Entertainment Industry’s Profits, And It Enrages Me That You Think I Should - Falkvinge on Infopolicy (via rafer)
Feb 13th
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Dan Kantor: Listen With →
Totally on the money here - people haven’t gotten the experience right, and frankly I don’t think this experience matters that much.  If it mattered, I’d see as many people using Turntable/FB_Listen_With as people making playlists on Spotify.  The synchronous experiences that are useful on the web are very few (like Skype and IM), and all the rest fade quickly in adoption due to...
Feb 10th
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Feb 6th
“They’re made out of meat.”
– Terry Bisson’s “They are made out of meat” Most excellent (via Alex)
Feb 6th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 4th
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Feb 1st
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Feb 1st
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January 2012
37 posts
Jan 28th
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ListenВладимир Высоцкий - Песня про козла...
Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 16th
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“There are so many music/entertainment websites that copy one another, scrambling...”
– Daytrotter.com radiates passion. This is from their about page.
Jan 15th
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Jan 13th
“The last thing we need to do is encourage our customers to stare at their...”
– Mark Cuban on apps that augment sports events.  Same can be easily said about concerts. Sorry, startups. (via Ian)
Jan 12th
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Jan 10th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 5th
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gdal2tiles.py semi-transparent border issue
It turns out that if you try to use gdal2tiles.py (and other utilities that are based on it, like MapTiler) to make Google Maps-compatible tiles out of an image, the software arbitrarily adds a border to certain sides of your generated map. This happens because while interpolating your tiles, gdal2tiles gets confused by missing data around the edges of your input image.  There are bugs open about...
Jan 5th
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Jan 5th
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“The 2-person company solves a big problem for more financially secure couples,...”
– - TC on Be Couply If we held a competition on eroding the value of social gestures, this one would do well. More on this earlier.
Jan 4th
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Jan 3rd