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  3. Posted

     

    This has it's own problems. Tagging isn't uniform and even the smallest deviation in one area of the tag could throw off the hash, edge cases of two different combinations hashing to the same value, etc. However it is infinitely superior to the current method. INFINITELY. Like I don't understand why it wasn't done this way to begin with. Hire me today five years ago and I could have fixed this.

     

    Now it's too late. We all have an expectation of our scrobbles being preserved through updates. Since they've mixed listening habits of many different artists together over many years into one page as well as allowed these "hacks" to move throughout the website, trying to bring together like artist pages while also separating scrobbles from Artist A from scrobbles from Artist B, while making sure A and B really don't have two tracks named the same thing, while then doing the same for each song is an exercise in futility. At this point, they'd just have to redo the system, nuke everyone's scrobbles, and start over.

    Either that, or direct people to the tool that restores lost scrobbles and modify the tool to do these hashes and then reinsert? That's even more hacky though.

    tl;dr - last.fm was designed badly from the ground up

     

    It's definitely not a 100% effective way, sure. But it could be coupled with a wiki-like community management of content - Nothing intrusive, but something like... when you log in, a small box (NOT a popup) shows somewhere saying "Hey! You've scrobbled some tracks that we don't recognize. Mind helping us assign them to their rightful places?" that would direct them to a simple tool to select the artist, album, and track to be added.

     

    Now take that and times it by the thousands of people that used their service. You'd have a pretty well established artist/album/song library with a dedicated community behind it.

     

    Though in the end, it kinda boils down to Google-like AI and machine learning to truly make it smart enough to pick up on things (hell, could be coupled with using Google itself to anticipate releases for artists and pre-add them).

     

    My developer brain is starting to go off the rails now, so I'm going to end it with that.

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    I wish they fixed the way they detected artists/songs - it's blatantly really only geared for popular western music as they only go off the artist name tag - leaving communities like ourselves to resort to "hacks" such as tagging artist names in UTF-8 to give them their own "proper" profile. There's a lot of other things they could be going off of to distinguish artists that may share the same name - song titles, song lengths, album titles, etc. You query all this data together and you have yourself a unique hash in which you can determine the correct artist that should be scrobbled.

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    I'm sure you've all noticed that DS hasn't been up for the past few months. I want to apologize for this - we ran into server issues with our host that knocked the site down. This happened shortly after I moved the forum to our new host, and by that point I was pretty burnt out.

     

    Nothing was lost. I'll be working on moving DS to the new server this week and getting things back online. Once it's back up, I'll jump back into building out some missing features of the site (specifically, artist profiles).

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    This has nothing to do with Fox or any other news cast. It's simply a message being shared online (and is not the original source of the video - which I think should be apparent enough by the title alone - why would the original uploader refer to himself in the third-person as "black man").

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    You can also thank the media for highlighting events like this, because they know it will cause a shit storm allowing them to have higher ratings. If something happens to someone who is not white, they have to fucking HIGHLIGHT it like it's the reasoning behind the event. If the kid were white, it would have been reported as "local teen shot by police after a dispute" rather than "cop shoots unarmed white teen".

     

    Many others have already said it before, but this rioting is bullshit and is not an answer to anything. It's just an excuse for people to steal shit and cause mayhem due to what's called deindividuation and disinhibited behavior.

     

    Read about it.

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    I don't see how this is funny in any way. This is sad, that two children became so delusional that they tried to kill another to summon something that only lived in their minds.

     

    Then again, this is nothing new and has been going on since the beginning of mankind. I hope they get the help they need mentally, as well as the girl who was stabbed to make a grand recovery.

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    I like the feature's that it brings, but it is drastically slower than ST - which can be tough at times (especially if you're trying to open a large file).

     

    It has great potential if they can work out the speed kinks - but at the same time it is understandable as it's built off of web technologies housed within a stripped down version of Google Chrome.

     

    Also I highly recommend http://www.laracasts.com - while it's geared towards Laravel, you also learn about some pretty important design patterns. There's also http://rebuildinglaravel.com/ which is another good read that also goes over some design patterns.

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    So I was trying to bleach my hair up to platinum/silver... however I really didn't want to bleach my hair again and I got tired of constantly toning the warm colors out of it... so I dyed it brown AGAIN.

     

    Just so you know, to get silver/platinum hair it's not just simply bleaching your hair - if you were simply bleaching it hoping to get it to silver/white (and I hope you were using a peroxide-based bleach), you were damaging the shit out of your hair. Even then though, it'll take your bleaching your hair 2 - 3 times over a short span to get it primed.

     

    I don't know the full details but my girlfriend had silver hair for a while - she used a purple toner in combination with the bleach, and had to put the purple toner in our conditioner (also, you can forget about actually shampooing your hair as it'll strip a lot of the color out). The roots had to be touched up about every two weeks or it'd look just off. In short, it's super high-maintenance and takes quite a bit of planning to pull off.

  25. Posted

    Never fear dear citizen of the net! We have Google on our side!

     

    If anyone is having difficulty loading the forum after the server move, it simply means you need to clear your browsers cache and flush your local DNS records.

     

    Say wha? Flush DNS records!?

     

    It's easy. Just follow the steps here: http://www.liquidweb.com/kb/flush-dns-cache/

     

    Close and re-open your browser, and you should be bathing in MH glory.

     

     

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