DjangoReinhardt

I wish to gently but firmly disagree.

The thousands of $$ on audio software are spent because they actually provide the exact output needed. Think of them as a precision-tooled machine part critical to the production flow in a factory. Sure, you can replace it with a cheaper alternative but the cheaper part will likely have rough edges and the errors caused by those rough edges will cascade into your final production output...

3 min, hardcore mode (w/ proofreading):

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Hardcore mode blurs every thing you type, so you have no idea if you are writing correctly. All you have to go by is your judgement and the belief that you do not misspell your words. And even if you did, you are willing to edit it all out later.

I can see the appeal of doing this for people who worry too much about what they are writing and constantly go back to edit their words and spellings. However, this is a stupid idea because going back to make minor edits allows the brain to formulate the next thought and frame it into better sentences.

By vomiting everything in one flow, you are simply increasing the amount of work required in terms of editing and re-writing the incorrect parts. Not to mention the large amount of proof-reading work that will inevitably follow all your work.

Does hardcore mode allow pauses? Let's see. Five potatoes to figure it out... Yes it does. Same five-potato time-limit.

Ah, too many potatoes.

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I was sweating buckets the whole time. I hate the idea of my writing vanishing, so the pressure was quite high to keep typing...

Seems interesting, but no link to download the html file? Or am I missing something?

I feel like I should point out that their name isn't storytelling but I also feel like I shouldn'tdo that... :/

This handle was still available when you registered?

Can we call this the R-Diddly law, please?

I think Ingress is a close match to your description. Also, Lyft and other ride-sharing apps work along the same principles, I think. Similar techniques are also being used for the new-age anonymous messengers, but I may be wrong about those.

I knew of people attempting to create 'discount floats' based on geo-location - as in, a retailer with the app would 'float' a specific discount at a specific point and anyone with the app who happened to pass within a certain radius would get a notification/coupon of the discount.

However, it didn't pick up here in India because smartphones and app downloads weren't all that ubiquitous two years ago, when they tried to implement this idea. Now, the results may be different, who knows.

I am more disappointed by the comments than the announcement itself. The first few comments seem to be blaming last.fm for 'giving up' without actually trying to understand why they made those (extremely) difficult choices.

The music publishing and licensing industry (vastly different from the actual creators, mind you) isn't as straightforward as people believe it to be. Music licenses are extremely tricky and (often) subject to the whims of the publishing labels.

There is no standard rate for a licensing specific tracks (or set of tracks) and the licenses that are available in the market are either too broad and expensive or too narrow and useless.

The entertainment industry in general is a mess - nobody knows how to handle the internet as a viable platform and nobody is willing to risk their profits to attempt and make mistakes either. They are trying to force an outdated method built for a one-way channel (needle-hour plays) on a platform that primarily believes in two-way interactivity.

In other words, they are trying to license content by syndication in a world where RSS, APIs and interactive conversations are the norm - not only is it a ridiculously laughable concept, but it goes against the very grain of the entire thing.

The whole entertainment publishing and licensing industry is in dire need of an overhaul. Unfortunately, the question everyone is too busy asking, is the question everyone should be trying to answer together: "Who will bell the cat?"