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Serial podcast was great. Tim Feriss is good, Dan Carlin is awesome. Any other podcast you'd recommend? Excluding the self promotional internet business types.
QOD. James Altutcher and Steven Dubner (freakonomics). They have one question each day they talk about. Both have GREAT perspectives. It's almost always a paradigm shifter.
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QOD. James Altutcher and Steven Dubner (freakonomics). They have one question each day they talk about. Both have GREAT perspectives. It's almost always a paradigm shifter.
I cant understand how James Altutcher has A list guests and horrible audio quality, so annoying.
I listen to a huge assortment of retrocomputing related podcasts (partial list here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544576 ) using the podcast addict app. tbh, I'm subscribed to far more than I can ever listen to, and I'm in my car for at least 2 hours a day. Right now, I'm addicted to the ANTIC podcast which features an almost impossible number of interviews with people from all over the early computer industr…
Interesting. I like to dabble a bit in retrocomputing in my free time (mainly older languages, some of which I've used before, others not). Looked at that list of podcasts. A majority seem to be for games, which I'm not much into - I only play a few, sometimes. Only a few, like "retro computing roundtable", seem like they may be about more general computing topics. Do you know if any others are?
I listen to a huge assortment of retrocomputing related podcasts (partial list here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8544576 ) using the podcast addict app. tbh, I'm subscribed to far more than I can ever listen to, and I'm in my car for at least 2 hours a day. Right now, I'm addicted to the ANTIC podcast which features an almost impossible number of interviews with people from all over the early computer industr…
>I listen to a huge assortment of retrocomputing related podcasts Interesting. I like to dabble a bit in retrocomputing in my free time (mainly older languages, some of which I've used before, others not). Looked at that list of podcasts. A majority seem to be for games, which I'm not much into - I only play a few, sometimes. Only a few, like "retro computing roundtable", seem like they may be about more general comp…
I believe they've even had a couple episodes reviewing the different dialects of BASIC available for the Atari 8-bit computer platform.
AMICast is a relatively recent show with not many episodes, but it's about the Amiga from a very European perspective.
I'd love to know more as well.
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> than a compliment? You mean a complement ?
Thanks for clearing that up. I was unsure what the previous comment meant, but now I know, thank you for using grammar for its intended purpose: looking superior on the internet.
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>I listen to a huge assortment of retrocomputing related podcasts Interesting. I like to dabble a bit in retrocomputing in my free time (mainly older languages, some of which I've used before, others not). Looked at that list of podcasts. A majority seem to be for games, which I'm not much into - I only play a few, sometimes. Only a few, like "retro computing roundtable", seem like they may be about more general comp…
I'm not aware of too many. ANTIC is relatively holistic in terms of subject area, but focuses on Atari 8-bit computers. I believe they've even had a couple episodes reviewing the different dialects of BASIC available for the Atari 8-bit computer platform. AMICast is a relatively recent show with not many episodes, but it's about the Amiga from a very European perspective. I'd love to know more as well.
I understand that a huge percentage of podcast listeners are based in the US but the number of hours I've spent listening to completely irrelevant adverts is insane. Surely someone can make a service that takes a podcast feed and packages it with different adverts for different markets and then creates new feeds. I'd make it but the scaling sales end is not something I know how to do. I suppose it depends how Apple i…
The major problem is that you can't control the behavior of a podcast client. Some of them will cache you media files "forever", unless you explicitly change the guid. But changing the guid has negative effects on some clients too, as they will re-download the episode because they will see it as new, thus creating duplicate entries. This is the reason why you just cannot create dynamic ads if you want to stick to the…
As far as cached mp3s that are already downloaded, I don't see why that should have a huge impact on ads. The most important episode for advertising purposes is probably the most recent episode, and if someone pulls an archived mp3 that should have the new ads too. As for already-downloaded, cached mp3s you just gotta let those go.
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I admire your desire to adhere to the law, but in the DC area I never see traffic enforcement applied to cyclists and I rarely see it applied to cars, so I doubt an officer is going to nail you for having some earbuds.
> I admire your desire to adhere to the law, but in the DC area I never see traffic enforcement applied to cyclists and I rarely see it applied to cars, so I doubt an officer is going to nail you for having some earbuds. In DC cops occasionally like to sit in the 15th Street Cycletrack and write tickets for running red lights. I'm sure if they found any violation of the law, they would also throw in another ticket. F…
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> I admire your desire to adhere to the law, but in the DC area I never see traffic enforcement applied to cyclists and I rarely see it applied to cars, so I doubt an officer is going to nail you for having some earbuds. In DC cops occasionally like to sit in the 15th Street Cycletrack and write tickets for running red lights. I'm sure if they found any violation of the law, they would also throw in another ticket. F…
Out of curiosity, are you just really observant or does your work involve traffic laws?
I've just been hit by a car (I was completely uninjured) and I know people nailed for Virginia's reckless driving law (which can send you to jail).
I understand that a huge percentage of podcast listeners are based in the US but the number of hours I've spent listening to completely irrelevant adverts is insane. Surely someone can make a service that takes a podcast feed and packages it with different adverts for different markets and then creates new feeds. I'd make it but the scaling sales end is not something I know how to do. I suppose it depends how Apple i…
I considered trying to start a service that hosted Ad-less podcasts. I figured I would get sued immediately. I just skip the first 2-5 minutes of most podcasts and the last 1-3 minutes and pray they don't have ads in the middle.
I've personally thought about a paid platform where users subscribe to the podcasts they like best and get the perk of avoiding ads since they're contributing to the podcasts creators