February 2012
17 posts
“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)
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...
“They’re made out of meat.”
– Terry Bisson’s “They are made out of meat”
Most excellent (via Alex)
January 2012
37 posts
Владимир Высоцкий - Песня про козла...
“There are so many music/entertainment websites that copy one another, scrambling...”
– Daytrotter.com radiates passion. This is from their about page.
“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)
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...
“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.
