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A generation who can't imagine the novelty of performing a first search on Napster or Direct Connect. Magic!
Audiogalaxy. Was always impressed how easy it was to find 320kbit versions or even some extremely rare songs...
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A generation who can't imagine the novelty of performing a first search on Napster or Direct Connect. Magic!
Audiogalaxy. Was always impressed how easy it was to find 320kbit versions or even some extremely rare songs...
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Well you might be forgetting about Uber and AirBnB disregarding laws in their operations.
that's who I was referring to - they get criticized it's pretty hard to be innovative and not be illegal somewhere . Difference is many today see being illegal in China, Turkey, Iran, or wherever as a good thing while being illegal or borderline illegal in the USA is a bad thing The USA has regulatory capture that is just as bad as ideological or dogmatic religious capture is in those other nations. It just happens t…
The reason Uber and AirBnB are the subject of scrutiny is simply because the difference between them and any other business is non-discernable except that they have the money to stall out legal issues. Just from a "feel" perspective, they don't really feel like they're fighting the fight for everyone, they're just trying to line their pockets. There's a world of difference between what they do (offer a service at cost) to something like bit torrent or gnutella.
I can't really say where or what the limit is on something like this, when a software maverick stops being a maverick and starts playing the game, but admittedly I haven't really carefully analyzed it beyond just "here's why I see a difference". Uber and AirBnB (and quite frankly, many other SV start ups) don't really have that hacker feel to them like we'd see with older projects - instead it feels much more like they're rooted in business and business alone.
I still use winamp as my mp3 player, one of the first things I install when I reinstall my Windows. It's everything that I need without the BS.
I'm also a fan of Foobar2000: not as pretty, but surpremely small and functional :)
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that's who I was referring to - they get criticized it's pretty hard to be innovative and not be illegal somewhere . Difference is many today see being illegal in China, Turkey, Iran, or wherever as a good thing while being illegal or borderline illegal in the USA is a bad thing The USA has regulatory capture that is just as bad as ideological or dogmatic religious capture is in those other nations. It just happens t…
I think the criticism lobbied against AirBnB and Uber is for a reason, and the reason isn't the same "up-yours" attitude of past maverick tech companies. It's a little easier to buy the maverick attitude of something like gnutella when the author isn't getting close to billion dollar revenue yearly. It may seem a little strange, but the ethos is a bit easier to believe when you stay outside the system and benefit eve…
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I agree, REAPER is very highly regarded in music production circles. Anecdotically, I have been producing electronic music as a hobby for many years now, and while I own much more expensive programs (e.g. Ableton Live Suite which cost a staggering AU $999) I find REAPER to be an extremely enjoyable piece of software and I have found myself using it often.
I wouldn't really consider it a competitor to Ableton Live, though there's some overlap. But, as a competitor to Pro Tools, it's hard for me to think of anything even in the same ball park as REAPER (and REAPER costs a fraction of what Pro Tools costs, as well). I use FL Studio or Renoise for the stuff that people use Ableton for; but, REAPER blows them all away for recording live musicians and then mixing the result…
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Also, don't forget Licecap, one of the easiest to use and most consistent cross-platform gif-screen-capture tools: http://www.cockos.com/licecap/ I said a very audible "holy shit, this is that guy?" when the link to jesussonic took me to Cockos.
Wow I didn't know he made licecap as well. As far as gif recordings go, it really whips the llamas ass!
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Wow I didn't know he made licecap as well. As far as gif recordings go, it really whips the llamas ass!
Licecap definitely changed how I worked. If you want the rest of your frontend development team to think you're a god, include licecap or other gifs of features/bugfixes on code reviews. It's a thing most developers don't even think of doing (at least most didn't in my experience). Makes it easy for stake holders (if they're allowed near your code reviews/tickets/whatever), devs, qa, to easily see how functionality h…
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Wow I didn't know he made licecap as well. As far as gif recordings go, it really whips the llamas ass!
Licecap definitely changed how I worked. If you want the rest of your frontend development team to think you're a god, include licecap or other gifs of features/bugfixes on code reviews. It's a thing most developers don't even think of doing (at least most didn't in my experience). Makes it easy for stake holders (if they're allowed near your code reviews/tickets/whatever), devs, qa, to easily see how functionality h…