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The EQ and plugins in Winamp is amazing. I’ve yet so see any of the other players come close. You notice the difference when you play this through a PA/DJ system.

Back in the days the tools were Winamp, Audiogrbber and Xing MP3 encoder.

Finally!!! Moves like this will help small and medium businesses compete...finally we won’t have to pay 25.00 to mail a small book to China.

Perhaps they’re afraid that some stiff regulations might come out of this, affecting their bottom line, so they just deny it?

Nice work!

Dropbike - send this candidate an email saying “You, sir, are hired”.

Oh boy! Is that why some in the US are so expensive?

I just got a new Samsung tv and while setting up the Netflix app I was prompted to pay an additional for HD stream.

Thanks for sharing! I just started researching how to analyze text for a project. I am tasked with analyzing content to see if they match my client products or something similar. Matching my the product name is easy, but matching by similar is what’s throwing me off.

Is there an api service for these type of text analysis?

Wouldn’t reversing each password (reading right to left) produce a new list of “Half a Billion” passwords to use?

I ate an entire box of baby aspirin when I was a kid. Seriously. I clearly remember hiding under the bed while crunching away. Nothing happened.

Come to think of it, I got the flu twice in 30 years.

I have the same understanding here. It allows those who switch to IPv6 easily communicate with IPv4 (backward compatibility?)...a bit confusing though since this is handled at router level.

We had a strange case recently...some of our remote staff were unable to connect to our NY VPN from SC. After tracing we found their ISP started using IPV6. Anyways, after we made changes...within a few hours the isp went back to IPv4.

Edit - 19 years to switch is a long time...old as the modern internet. Don't fix it if it ain't broken :)

Brings back so many memories...and felt like a kid again.

I was at a new client the other day and notice that for all their tables in SQL SERVER, they use an IDENTITY column for primary keys, obviously seeded by SQL SERVER. What I found strange is that they allow deletes of records, allowing gaps in the sequence.

Is that normal practice? Their DBA was insisting that its normal.

I go by this - breaking changes require versioning. And once I version, there is no time spent on backward compatibility. Time is money.

So, you wanna cry? Cry all you want. MS did the right thing.

Look. I get all the cry about changing OS versions. This becomes more evident when you move up the ranks and into management. One get to see the true cost of doing business.

The problem here is that MS gave a lot of notices regarding moving from XP. They even did an extended support...remember? 10 years was enough time to:

1. Move to a newer version of Windows.

2. Change dependency on Windows...seek alternative.

3. Hire the professionals.

Companies need to hire professional IT staff, not the fing FLY BY NIGHT SPACE CADETS, to run their operations or they risk getting what they paid for. Simple as that.

This is now shared responsibility. Different times. Thinking we can go around blaming the vendors is a waste of time.

Employees are also the weakest fing link. How many companies do you know of spend time educating their employees about malware, phishing etc.

Thanks for sharing this. I immediately like his energy...I find KNN and TSP very interesting problems and I see he has a videos on those...bon weekend!

The same is happening on UW. Not as much.

I also find this extremely confusing, even after using .NET since 1.0.

I wish they would make a chart, diagram...call it what you may, on MSDN or the Github repo, indicating all the frameworks, a description and what developers should target when using one e.g. Desktop, Web or API, Mobile, Cloud etc.

That way, when comes the time to develop an app, we reference the chart and go from there.

This is similar to a yoga in the Hindu religion. I read about this a while back. When performing this yoga, you call out every action silently or quietly. So, for example, when picking up your cup of coffee..."I am going to pick up this coffee", then.."I picked up the coffee".

I have to go look this up again.

An interesting way to look at this, but wouldn't it be possible to pluck this pattern out from relevant data?

On top of this is insurance. If you live in NYC it's like paying for a second car.

Winamp is still my goto player since version 1. I could never find an alternative. During my days of ripping I used:

Audiograbber, Xing MP3 encoder, Winamp

When Winamp announced they were wrapping up I downloaded multiple copies and stashed all over the place, yard, garage and all.

That was wicked cool. It's the first time I saw Mathematica in use...really cool.

I bought a teeter hangup about a week ago. So far it helps. After a long day, spend 5 minutes inverted.

What I also do is running, in the office. Yes! Our building is pretty big, whenever I go to one of the office on the far side, I do some running. I even sprint up the stairs when I can.

At what point do you determine who is responsible for securing the environment? The "Gatekeeper" mentality is stemming from this. There is no clear line in any organization and I see the blame-game all the time.

A couple of things:

Person develops 2 or 3 apps, setup 2 or 3 databases and thinks he/she is a professional.

Many businesses and managers care less about security and more about getting the deliverables into production.

Many CEOs and managers lack the understanding that once you launch (app, store, website etc) it doesn't end there, instead, moves into maintenance.

My company just hired an external company to assist with our IT infrastructure. I was asked to meet with the person that showed up to begin the take over. He was not interested at all in understanding what we do as a business. If you don't understand your clients, their interests, their responsibilities and obligations then, simply put, they are fucked!

My experience - I was a bit overwhelmed and decided to outsource one of my project. A company from India contacted me, said they have a branch here in NJ and have many clients in USA, just finished a mobile app for Walgreens.

My requirement was simple. I needed an app which will allow the end user to enter their zip code and it will fetch a list of our retailers within x miles radius. You highlight the store and get the address and phone number. That's it!

The first phone call turned to two, three, four...being introduced to several team members/project managers etc. I had to provid detail requirements.

They storyboard the shit out of this and came back with 30k for a native iOS app. No shit!

After back and forth they offered to do it for 15k.

It took one evening and I did it in hybrid for multiple OS.

EDIT - I kept the quote on my desk. Showed the boss the following week. He said, that's why you make the big bucks! Earn your keep.

Same issue on my iPhone 5s. I changed to text mode and was able to view.

This is true. I've done this in production and shaved a lot of times of some queries.

Wow! Never heard this one before. I will have to research this. Thanks!

So true. It took me 10 years to master my skills. Am I perfect? I still question my skills on a frequent basis. Here is what I can confirm - it gets easier over time.

I can take on any small, large, extremely large and complex projects head on and amaze myself at the end.

The most difficult thing - being disciplined.

I will always admire someone else's code. I find it inspiring. I have on my bookshelf "Beautiful Code".