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by dsingleton 14y ago
They have some older APIs that depend on MD5(password) being used directly, to compare against auth credentials or to derive other hashes to verify API requests. Though older APIs they're still used by many older or infrequently updated cli
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by dsingleton 15y ago
> There are only 2 groups who don't have JavaScript support That's not entirely accurate. While those are two of the most common cases there are plenty of other contributing factors ( http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2010/10/h
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by dsingleton 15y ago
FYI the map is rapidly filling with non-tech, non-startup companies,including galleries, art, fashion, nightclubs, etc.
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by dsingleton 15y ago
sigh This article is mostly bullshit and certainly doesn't "help grasp what Tech City UK is all about", notably: "which started as a government effort to rejuvenate East London" is laughably incorrect. Silicon Roundabout was a jokey term
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by dsingleton 15y ago
Careful with that, I can already see that person getting abuse whether they are involved or not :/
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by dsingleton 16y ago
They're a) lovely, b) just down the road from us, and c) share some of our old staff. We see them in the pub quite a bit.
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by dsingleton 16y ago
There isn't a Facebook style "Give me a chuffing great zip" option, but there are lots of API wrappers to pull down your scrobble history (for example). It could be friendlier to non technical users, but it's entirely possible.
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by dsingleton 16y ago
That's the easy bit :P Copy wikipedia, disambiguate by genre and/or country . It gets harder when someone scrobbles a track by "Felt", to which artist do you attribute it? There's a whole host of problems like that to solve too.
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by dsingleton 16y ago
I can entirely understand that, and kind of agree. We have more data that anyone could know what to do with, but we should be doing more, I'd certainly like us to be. To try and explain the apparent lack of activity; the last couple of year
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by dsingleton 16y ago
(I work at Last.fm) Spotify is trying to be the perfect on demand music service, Last.fm isn't. It's something we tried and ended up moving away from a year or two back. On demand music is a very difficult market to be in. There are lots of
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by dsingleton 16y ago
It's not ideal, but artist-disambiguation is also a non-trivial problem to solve. The effort of which needs to be balanced against a) how many people it affects and b) what else needs doing.
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by dsingleton 16y ago
> For that matter, what is your character set? Are you using just letters, or alphanumeric characters? Again, I'd prefer the former since you aren't going to get a significant boost from the extra choices. You might also want to take ou
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by dsingleton 17y ago
Honest question, not addressed by the TF article (and unfortunately I don't speak Swedish for the original); Is $167 for all Spotify Lady Gaga plays, or those plays made in Sweeden (and thus under the remit of STIM)? As I understand music l
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by dsingleton 17y ago
Although I'm not a huge fan of Paul Carr, he did work for the Guardian, and now for the Telegraph, so I wouldn't judge him by TC association alone.
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by dsingleton 17y ago
Python
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by dsingleton 17y ago
It's getting a bit trite that every time Last.fm is mentioned (in good or bad light) that someone mentions libre.fm. Don't get me wrong, it's a nice project, but it's as annoying as constantly plugging your startups alternative to a popular
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by dsingleton 17y ago
I would say given the constraints on founders being tied to their companies, the turnaround for leaving is far greater than the length of the TC debacle. (I work here, and have had no indication that the TC allegations are true)
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Last.fm founders quit(blog.last.fm)
139 points by dsingleton 17y ago|38 comments
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by dsingleton 17y ago
I work with a couple of guys who've been doing a lot of work to organise UK (specifically London) hack spaces. http://hackspace.org.uk I think the reason for the popularity is a mix of work discontent and people wanting to do radically di
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A DRM Dissertation: From Cory Doctorow to Microsoft(debiantutorials.org)
1 points by dsingleton 17y ago|0 comments
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by dsingleton 17y ago
There's an interesting comment about "passing information back to record labels" especially given: "It was stated that the labels own 30 per cent of Spotify through equity investments. It may be higher." I'm not implying it's some big consp
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The Great Spotify Mystery(theregister.co.uk)
29 points by dsingleton 17y ago|30 comments
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by dsingleton 17y ago
I wrote a moderately useful lifestream hack a year or so back, just checked on it and it's slightly broken, but usable; http://dsingleton.co.uk/code/lifestream/dsingleton.co.uk The beautiful thing is that it's entire generated from a sin
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by dsingleton 17y ago
Careful tagging on Delicious, combined with a personal Wiki/notepad web app that pulls in links, photos, etc, based on the wiki page/tag.
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by dsingleton 17y ago
"Pogoplug has put the source code for its servers in escrow. If the company goes bankrupt, the terms of the escrow dictate that the code be released to SourceForge as an open-source library." This I like. It wouldn't fly for all companies,
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by dsingleton 17y ago
Be careful doing this for a service with an offline/telecoms aspect. Both my bank and credit card companies ask to verify that information when I phone them,
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by dsingleton 17y ago
It really frustrates me when sites require a question and secret answer like "hometown" or "mothers maiden name". Those are both very easy to find pieces of information. Let me select the question myself too. By forcing me to give you answe
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by dsingleton 17y ago
A lot of advertisers don't want to reach those people though. They want to get their brand in front of influential 20-somethings, not to get clicks, but to generate brand awareness.
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by dsingleton 17y ago
There was some discussion on Reddit recently about ABP usage figures ( http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8j4c7/we_create... ). My rough estimations came out at 6% of FF users having ABP installed, sounds like that was about right
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by dsingleton 17y ago
I actually was looking at this recently. There used to be some foolproof ways to identify ABP, but they removed them - as a bug fix IIRC. They definitely don't want to be identifiably. But there are a few heuristic methods, basically just l

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