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IOW, why would music that is intentionally written to peak in the top 10, require to be musically diverse or innovative? Marketing the artist, or creating PR 'buzz' in the press seems to be more important than how many scales or time signatures an artist can play.
I actually don't see any issues with F#, it's more:
- The ubiquity of powershell and the ISE. powershell is installed on every server, and to step outside that means deploying a new compiler/runtime and its dependencies to production servers.
- Doing operational tasks is easier with powershell (in the short term) because the existing cmdlets for managing servers are provided with the language. An example would be bulk updating 500k users in AD (with complicated logic that compares data between 4 or 5 other systems)
- Using the Add-Type cmdlet to include F# libraries into Powershell requires a few manual steps that might break over time: https://tahirhassan.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/embedding-f-in-p...
- Awareness/ecosystem - powershell feels like its being used to solve all 'server related' operational problems at the moment, and that F# is used for apps. i dont think my team mates would appreciate me solving a problem in F# unless everyone was happy about the choice of language beforehand.. Same goes for them if they wanted use python, rust, prolog. etc.
"oh there's bob, does bob want to say hi or is he busy? he looks stressed probably dont want to interrupt him, should i say hi? nah well he's talking to fred now so i'll go back to fixing this unit test i guess...now where was i? oh look there's gary, i probably should say hi, (he's also a manager), does he want to talk about issue X if i interrupt him", nah it will probably piss him off without a meeting and a heads up, plus i'll look like a noob,
ok back to the code again..."
x 200 times per day.
everyday.
some quick searching says that spotify pays the record companies monthly, around 50-70% of revenue for the music licensing.
however there seems to be a serious distinction between free subscriptions and paid.
Because free users are getting music for free, this seems to be where the Spotify Group may be packaging up and selling data to music companies or elsewhere to pay for hosting, salaries etc.
I guess the opt out is to disconnect your facebook from spotify;
Or, create a new separate spoitify account. But, because your billing/email settings would be the same.. it's would be easy to join/coalesce the account data in the backend.
or just buy cd's
(Direct quotes from their privacy policy below)
"Consistent with the permissions you give us to collect the information, we may use the information we collect, including your personal information:
1. to provide, personalise, and improve your experience with the Service and products, services, and advertising (including for third party products and services) made available on or outside the Service (including on other sites that you visit), for example by providing customised, personalised, or localised content, recommendations, features, and advertising on or outside of the Service;"
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And here are some of the parts about data collection:
"We may also collect other information available on or through your Third Party Application account, including, for example, your name, profile picture, country, hometown, email address, date of birth, gender, friends’ names and profile pictures, and networks.
You may also choose to voluntarily add other information to your profile, such as your mobile phone number and mobile service provider.
...
"When you use or interact with the Service, we may use a variety of technologies that collect information about how the Service is accessed and used. This information may include:
information about your type of subscription and your interactions with the Service, such as interactions with songs, playlists, other audiovisual content, other Spotify users, Third Party Applications, and advertising, products, and services which are offered, linked to, or made available on or through the Service;
The details of the queries you make and the date and time of your request; User Content (as defined in the Terms and Conditions of Use) you post to the Service including messages you send and/or receive via the Service; technical data, which may include URL information, cookie data, your IP address, the types of devices you are using to access or connect to the Spotify Service, unique device ID, device attributes, network connection type (e.g., WiFi, 3G, LTE) and provider, network and device performance, browser type, language, information enabling digital rights management, operating system, and Spotify application version. motion-generated or orientation-generated mobile sensor data (e.g., accelerometer or gyroscope).
You may integrate your Spotify account with Third Party Applications. If you do, we may receive similar information related to your interactions with the Service on the Third Party Application, as well as information about your publicly available activity on the Third Party Application. This includes, for example, your “Like”s and posts on Facebook. We may use cookies and other technologies to collect this information; you can learn more about such use in the section Information about cookies and other technologies of this Privacy Policy."
Is this facebook data being funneled back to the record labels and their parent companies to sell advertising? my research says its likely, this feels similar to the CA situation, just not as political..?
However, many smaller B2C businesses (that aren't chains), still, fail to modernise. This has been the case for 2 decades.
It will be interesting to look back at this article in another 5 years.