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I've been using cmus for a few months now. After trying countless music players on Linux and feeling frustrated that none of them ever felt right, cmus was the first one I thought I could get used to. In fact, I think it's the first project where I'd rather contribute new things than try to find a new project where more things feel right. So if I ever find the effort, I'll see about digging through the code and adding a couple things.

> My solution was the DS/3DS line of consoles... snap 'em shut, bam, paused.

I'm a fan of this as well - works for PSP and Vita too, just quickly press power and it's in sleep mode. However, I have run into one game that didn't properly pause itself when closed. I think it was Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. Its cutscenes didn't pause when I closed my DS. Otherwise, yeah, this is the greatest.

I am very much in love with this idea. There's a chicken-and-egg problem, though, where I live in a city that I doubt will get a host spontaneously (Amarillo, TX) but I'd want to attend one of these to get a feel for it before I'm willing to host one myself. I wonder if there's an opportunity there, to have a sort of "training materials" that can better bootstrap a host in this kind of situation.

Related to this is Lizard, a Kickstarter project that got funded last year, where one person is writing a new game for the NES. He's posted some development blogs as updates to the project, and it's fascinating reading about the design considerations he's taken:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1101008925/lizard/updat...

(Of note, this is the same one who made MOON8 - a cover project for Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon for the NES [0] - and more recently, getting the "2A03 Puritans" album, a NES chiptune collaboration album, onto a rom and cartridge [1].)

[0] http://rainwarrior.ca/music/moon8.html

[1] http://rainwarrior.ca/projects/nes/2a03puritans.html

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I've personally only messed with the NES from an audio perspective, having spent a lot of time a few years back in FamiTracker [2] to write music for it. I always found it interesting that the Famicom had the ability for cartridges to include their own audio hardware in addition to the mapper, battery-RAM, etc. Like the mappers, the vast majority of these games that included expansion audio chips kept to a small-ish set of chips. Chiptune (especially Famicom chiptune, due to the time I spent tinkering with it) is a fascination of mine, so I could point out some samples for the various expansion audio chips if anyone would like.

[2] http://famitracker.com/

This is pretty much the primary reason I would ever get a smartwatch. Once I can put Tokyoflash-esque [1] faces on the watch, then I would consider jumping in.

[1]: http://www.tokyoflash.com/en/watches/1/

I'd like to see this kind of analysis done on /r/all, since it seems to more closely operate like the author anticipated. The default front page is meant to weight the subreddit like they discovered, but IIRC /r/all is strictly based on score and time, as if everything was submitted under the same subreddit.

I almost want to liken this attitude to Lua's approach to stability: The general look of the language will remain the same, but some base-line things may change between releases. That's the impression I got from the OP. (Granted, Lua gets used in a far different environment than Rust, so people holding onto an older version for their own projects is not a big deal in Lua. I don't think Rust wants to engender that attitude for its use. I'm not sure, though; I haven't really used Rust nor spent any time in the community.)

I've seen a couple independent artists pull their music from Spotify due to the poor proceeds they were receiving, or from a dislike of the revenue model. That may have been the case once or twice.

This is something I wanted to build for myself for a while, at least as an RSS feed or email notification or the like. That way I could track bigger releases the same way as my Bandcamp music feed emails. I'll give this a shot.

EDIT: I like the app, but my immediate thought is to offer a feature request to explicitly not track a certain artist. There's at least one artist I spotted in my recent releases that I don't want to pay attention to, and receiving notifications for them would seem like a waste. Otherwise, it's great! Much better than last.fm's release tracking, which had a tendency to get confused by similarly-spelled artists more often than showing actual releases.

I've used xmarks for several years now and I like it. Sometimes it can be awkward when different browsers' conventions both sync in (like Firefox's "Unsorted Bookmarks" appears as a folder in any other browser), but otherwise it's been nice.

I like the concept, so I gave it a download. The first immediate comment is that I keep trying to edge-swipe to get from a post back to the main feed, and it's not working. Otherwise, I'll have to poke around more to get a feel for how the community develops. Seems like an interesting experiment.

Reminds me of MML, but more general. I like it.

I would love to hear this writer's take on chiptune, since he seemed way too amused that it was a "dance club"-type setting without any of the "dance club" stereotypes. I don't think most chip shows have the live generation like this, but there is a component of live-editing there.

Huh. Works for tracks and playlists, not anything else, looks like. Still, much better than nothing. Thanks!

That may be part of it; I never plug my phone into my desktop, and I get my music on my phone via iTunes Match. But whether or not I have Match enabled on the device, I'm still not able to delete tracks/albums/etc with this behavior.

I've seen that, and I guess as an iTunes Match subscriber I can be okay with that. It's just that I was able to delete individual songs/albums/artists off the phone in previous versions, so I was anticipating that here.

Strange, I can't get the swipe behavior in the Music app. I've yet to plug the phone into iTunes since the iOS 7 update, but whenever I swipe across an album or song, it acts as if I tapped it.

Also missing from Music.app: The ability to delete music from the device. Fortunately I still have some space left on my phone, but barring plugging the phone into iTunes, I don't know how to decrease the amount of music on my phone.

I'm with you: iTunes Radio is nice, but the rest of the music app feels a bit worse off.

Pakistan, I'd say, by virtue of being a short boat ride from the Pakistani coast.

This reminds me of people using tools to generate maps for Dwarf Fortress based on given elevation/biome data. People have made maps of North America and even the whole earth this way.

So toss a packet-sniffer between your phone and the backup servers. See if the iCloud backup has sufficiently more data inside than before.

> "Smartphone usage has skyrocketed, and some advertisers have begun to experiment with aggressive, new techniques to display ads on mobile devices. This includes pushing ads to the standard Android notification bar, dropping generically designed icons on the mobile desktop, and modifying browser settings like bookmarks or the default homepage," explains Lookout.

Wait, seriously? Perhaps I'm too accustomed to iOS, but I wouldn't expect a smartphone app to change the browser homepage.

Have you looked into F-Droid? It's a directory of free-software Android apps that doesn't require a sign-in to use. I watched my friend use it (iPhone user here) and it looked like once you load the APK from their site, you're good to go.

My understanding is that he'd disappear somehow, either silently or violently.

Even better, most of the demos work fine in IE10! It's like everyone is converging on some kind of central specification on how web pages can animate...

It looks like the Windows/OS X corners of that compatibility list are really because of Chrome. The dev kit is available for iOS, Android, and Chrome Apps: https://developers.google.com/cast/developing_a_sender

Since I'm completely unfamiliar with the structure of a Chrome App, I don't know what's sandboxed away in that environment. But I'm stopping short of calling full Windows/OS X compatibility there.

Author believes the assumed social imposition of reading a message without replying is worse than the benefit of understanding whether the receiving connection is open.

They also make a statement that iOS turns on read-receipts in iMessage by default now, and I'm not sure when that was started, since I had to turn mine on explicitly.

Sounds to me like someone just packaged up the Monomyth[0] in a version that makes more sense for movies. Formula in fiction is not necessarily new, as the article points out at the end. The trick is to dress it up, change it around, or throw it out if necessary.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monomyth

I know I've seen that quote before, but I forget where.

Excellent! Thanks for the information; to be honest, I hadn't looked and made an erroneous assumption. I had let the HN bubble affect my perspective, too, so now that I think about it I had an awkward view of the scale of cities across the country.