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matclayton

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About matclayton

Coder based in Cambridge, UK.

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    Comment #43335932

    Our experience is the opposite, we have a pretty large flow typed code base, and can do a full check in <100ms. When we converted to TS (decided not to merged) we saw typescript wa…

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    Comment #40622933

    Selling is a whole other set of issues and one we could likely solve, but not one we’ve worked through.

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    Comment #40608793

    We’re an online platform dedicated to DJs, licensed with free and paid tiers. We mainly do ondemand streaming but added live in 2020.

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    Comment #40608565

    We've talked to twitch on and off over the years, but nothing specific to this. Music licensing data pipelines are a massively complex topic and very hard to get right. Its one of …

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    Comment #40608497

    100% its way less than 1% of their streams, the CEO said as much recently. However that doesn't mean that the music labels are ok with copyright infringement being on the platform.…

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    Comment #40608447

    It'll depend a lot on the deals being struck, I can only speculate on the structure. The weird rules stem from the US copyright laws, and are therefore are impossible for a company…

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    Comment #40608410

    Thank you, massively appreciate it :) Any feedback just hit up support@mixcloud.com and they'll pass it all on to the right folk!

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    Comment #40608407

    Depends on if you are on free or Pro account as the uploader, if you are on Pro we up the bitrate substantially. Beyond this, it also depends on the device the user is listening on…

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    Comment #40607489

    Have you got a reference for how they are tackling publishing rights? I've been looking for it and only found references to labels so far.

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    Comment #40607420

    Co-founder of Mixcloud here. We've been doing live streaming and licensed for years at this point ( https://www.mixcloud.com/pro/live ) Surprised it took twitch so long to make the…

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    Comment #27420343

    That serial number sends shivers down my spine. I also used to work on this system, and still do! At one point seagate admitted that the firmware was faulty. It would periodically …

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    Comment #22517183

    What’s frustrating about this change is that Apple keeps changing the terms on it. Until last week the T&C’s included the phrase “exclusively”. This allowed you to provide the user…

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    Comment #14988845

    Give us a try, mixcloud.com

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    Comment #14988839

    Thanks for the vote of confidence! (Mixcloud founder)

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    Comment #14988822

    Mixcloud founder here, thanks its appreciated. Theres one big different on engagement, we tend to see lower play counts, but higher number of minutes listened per play. You'll star…

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    Comment #14714135

    That's fair and we're highly focussed on improving that this year. The groundwork is now laid, time to crunch out the features :)

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    Comment #14714126

    Mixcloud Founder here, thanks for the support and if you ever have issues reach out. We're working hard on the app, but we're a super small team, so bear with us!

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    Comment #14713201

    Mixcloud founder here, thanks for the vote of confidence. One key difference is we internally measure success or engagement in terms of minutes listened not play counts, and active…

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    Comment #13745557

    I had the exact opposite experience, I went in to a store with a MacBook Pro (2013) which had morphed by a good 1-2cm's due to the battery expanding over the course of the previous…

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    Comment #7601368

    We built Speedbar for django which does this as part of its summary information, but also provides full page profiles as well in production. https://github.com/theospears/django-sp…

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    Comment #5327610

    We're a django shop, and pt-online-schema-change is an amazing tool. We're run it on tables with 10-50M rows in production with minimal downtime, <1 Second. I can't speak highly en…

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    Awesome idea, I've wanted something like this for iOS/Android for a long time. It would be nice to have a self hosted version, with a one off fee.