Not relevant to the topic, but how do sites expect you to read articles like this on your phone when they have 50% of the screen taken up by ads, many of which slide onscreen as you scroll, covering part of the content you were reading? This is so intrusive I couldn’t finish reasing it.
I know they have to have some way to pay the bills, but does this technique really work where people get so frustrated they decide to subscribe rather than close the site like I did?
The ad load isn’t heavy to convince you to subscribe. It’s heavy because many readers use ad blockers, and the publisher wants to stay in business somehow.
Hijacking the back button, on the other hand, is just rude.
The design of this website is horrendous. Poor information density, inconsistent vertical spacing, haphazard font choices, lists that aren’t lists, and more.
I recently needed to buy a car and my criteria was essentially I wanted least expensive new car on the market (I know I could have gone used but for this particular need I wanted a new car). The number of new vehicles that start under $20k is slim pickings. There are, what, maybe 3 in the US (if you don't count a couple that are discontinued)? And once you get into tax and title, you're going over $20k anyhow. Plus, with interest rates as they are, I don't know how the average person in Amercia affords a new vehicle these days.
I started a new project to test out CC and constantly find I have to ask it to fix ts errors…it’s nice I don’t have to tell it what error it is (ie “fix the ts errors in file.tsx”) but I’m surprised it doesn’t have a “check ts” step automatically (i even added something to CLAUDE.md, which seems to work sometimes, but not always). It’s especially bad when working with recently updated libraries. It keeps suggesting thing that don’t exist anymore even though ts clearly knows it’s wrong.
Otherwise CC has been stellar and I live it’s a CLI + optional vs code extension.
I’ve used Cursor a good deal and also CC. The CC JetBrain extension replaces my code in the IDE, shows me a preview ans allows me to confirm, decline, etc. Am I missing something super specific about Cursor’s behavior? It doesn’t seem that practically different to me.
Same here. I managed to see a video on the App Store. It creates a video with a waveform and the audio you recorded. I like it!
It would be great if I could also add some pictures and have it create transitions while the audio plays. If I only pick one photo, it could just display the image with the waveform on top.
I like sending a picture of myself, or a few of my dogs, cats and gf, because it adds that human touch that IMO is needed when talking to family and friends.
If you could make my mouth move with the audio, I'd definitely be willing to pay more for it.
This is not necessarily true in practical terms when it comes to hiring or promoting. Often a senior dev becomes a senior because of having an advanced skillset, despite years on the job. Similarily, often developers who have been on the job for many years aren’t ready for senior because of their lack or soft and hard skills.
From the article, in regards to Blakey, Monk, Bird, Dizzy, and Trane: “…because of their drinking, drug use, and frenetic schedules, labels wouldn’t work with them.”
Is this claim documented somewhere? (All but one of the footnote links are dead for me)
author here! sorry for the broken footnote links, i fixed 'em.
There's a lot of documentation of those players' heroin and alcohol use. Miles Davis' autobiography has a list in it somewhere of all the players that were abusing substances; a lot of it had to do with their need to play gigs back-to-back through the night to make a living. As for the schedules, I think it was Miles' book, but I can't find it exactly ... because they played all night, and rehearsed early in the morning after the clubs closed, it was hard to keep a group on a predictable recording schedule. The majors wanted big names with well-known hit songs, and the loose ensemble nature, original compositions, and unpredictable improv of bebop was pretty much the opposite of commercially viable at the time.
Scott DeVeaux's The Birth of Beebop is a great source, too.
I enjoyed the article, but I think this particular part is sloppy writing and connecting two things without proof. Despite substance abuse issues, it doesn't necessarily track that that's why majors avoided them. It could just as easily be because of these artists not being well known enough at the time. Or even other factors. If you're going to make such assertions about these people, I'd have the citations to back it up.
Plus, Bird had many labels release his music, including Savoy, Columbia, and Mercury. Dizzy was notoriously straight-laced, especially because of what happened to Bird. He lectured musicians about this all the time. He also preferred dealing with independent labels as opposed to the majors (although Bluebird was a subsidiary of RCA).
I know you don't include Miles in the list of people that labels avoided, but he didn't exactly have a reputation of being easy to deal with, and he signed with Columbia in 1955.
As for Trane, if I recall correctly, he was constantly panned by critics in the earlier years. He was signed to Atlantic in the late 50s before Giant Steps was released. They were certainly a major, no?
I also came here to say this. If you really want to compete with Docusign, you’d probably benefit from a name that decision makers can obviously pronounce. It seems silly, but it will be a barrier for some.
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