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Liese S. - Feb 20, 2016 7:20:24 am PST #24769 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

That would be fantastic, Gud.

My market wouldn't ever hit millions of users, but I think there is a reasonably sized songwriter market out there that might bite, if I got it off the ground beyond, hey this sure is nice for me. I would have to give some thought to the ins & outs of monetization at that point, though, because the bit that makes it valuable is also sort of sensitive data, and I'm not sure how well the labels would take to me encroaching on their ground, even if I am using all publicly available info. And I guess I'd need to figure out how I'd scale once I got to that point.

Linking to files is fine. It's more just that I need to have one place I know I can go to in a hurry to get the right info in a predictable format. I mean, I need to do that sort of data organization work on my side anyway, regardless of how I access it, so that's probably just a project on its own.

Ok, thanks a lot, guys, this gives me a good point to get researching on. It'll be fun to get my code feet wet again.


Gudanov - Feb 20, 2016 4:51:41 pm PST #24770 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

Cool. I'm sorting out authentication on the front-end right now. Once that's in order I can shoot some code your way.


Liese S. - Feb 20, 2016 6:54:39 pm PST #24771 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Perfect. I really appreciate it.


SuziQ - Feb 22, 2016 10:03:35 am PST #24772 of 25496
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame

Not quite sure if this is the best place to ask...but I need some advice on buying walkie talkies. I am one of the coordinators of our Good Ole Fashioned Hoedown at the stables in April. We want to get 4 units so that we can communicate easier. The longest distance is about a mile over hilly terrain and a few buildings.

We need something that is reasonably priced but reliable. Any tips?


Gudanov - Feb 23, 2016 4:45:30 pm PST #24773 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

Hey Liese,

What I'll probably do is create a project on GitLab with a generalized version of what I'm doing for this study. I still have a bit to work out before I can get there though.


omnis_audis - Feb 23, 2016 6:57:23 pm PST #24774 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

SuziQ, I purchased a handful of these for work in the theater. They might get 1 mile line of sight. Not sure about through buildings. They are cheap Chinese knock-offs. The ear/mic pieces don't work so good. The connector on the ear/mic piece is a fraction of a size different than the connector on the radio, which causes lack of connection in the mic. So, if you don't need to use those, it's not a bad radio for cheap. [link]


DXMachina - Feb 24, 2016 3:33:43 am PST #24775 of 25496
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Oh fun! Microsoft has started sending ads to the Win 10 lock screen. Details (and how to turn it the fuck off) here:

http://lifehacker.com/windows-10-is-showing-ads-on-your-lockscreen-heres-how-1760984834


Gudanov - Feb 24, 2016 4:50:02 am PST #24776 of 25496
Coding and Sleeping

Still not regretting my switch to Ubuntu.


Liese S. - Feb 24, 2016 10:39:20 pm PST #24777 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

No worries, Gud. I'm not anywhere close myself. I am at an event this week with my songwriting prof and bunch of writers, so I'm going to try to do some requirements gathering, though.


omnis_audis - Mar 04, 2016 3:16:15 pm PST #24778 of 25496
omnis, pursue. That's an order from a shy woman who can use M-16. - Shir

On my work browser (Firefox 44.0.2), while cruising the Amazon website, anytime I open a product (versus seeing search results), I get a script error that says:

Warning: Unresponsive Script
A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped responding. You can stop the script now, open the script in the debugger, or let the script continue.

It then gives a "script: [web address of product]

I click the "stop script" and "don't ask me again", but since each product is a different script, it always pops up. I wrote to Amazon, and their response was

I'd suggest clicking the "Help" link at the top of your window (above the browser commands) for browser-specific troubleshooting tips. If that doesn't solve the issue, you may need to contact your Internet service provider directly.

But the help menu had nothing about unresponsive scripts that I could find.

Is anyone else having this issue? Does anyone know a solution?

TIA.