stevestreza

Offering and offering and offering and offering. There's no way to say "I don't want this", you will get "offered" (meaning: advertised to) all the time when using these apps that previously worked just fine.

The Tumblr blog theme is resizing them. Just click the image and it'll show in a lightbox.

Click the images, the lightbox is a nice way to browse.

That's what the App Store serves.

This project is closed source. I'm planning on doing a follow-up post on how to write an IMServicePlugIn.

There's a button on the add account screen that takes you to an advanced form with an "API Root" field. You can set this to whatever you like.

Just added the endpoint needed for that.

For me, the key parts of its success to emulate are:

- capitalizing on a meme at the peak of its popularity

- combining popular (LMFAO) with nostalgic (Offspring/Bloodhound Gang)

- catchy beat

- using the songs to differentiate the story (Offspring singing about the guy that thinks he has style, while showing the yellow-suited dancer)

- healthy mix of original song and mash-ins (keep the verse to one song intact, but layer the chorus)

As making music has been a dream of mine for most of my life, and I had no actual barometer of skill besides personal preference, you bet your ass that it was terrifying.

People like you are why I actively avoid comment threads on Hacker News.

Thanks you, and thanks for the YouTube Search tip! I'm not at all ashamed to admit I'm refreshing that page like crazy to see the count go up, haha. :)

I prefer Logic Pro because it's (to me) the most straightforward, but you can use Ableton or Reason or whatever; all the DAW (digital audio workstation) apps are basically the same.

Of all the EDM I've tried to make - dubstep, drum/bass, house, trance, chillwave - mashups seem to be the easiest, because you start out with all the ingredients.

Find some instrumental tracks and a few a capellas. You'll want them to have similar keys, so they don't clash when you hear them (my mashup suffers from this in a few places), which can be tough, and pitch-shifting won't necessarily get you there. You also have to beat match everything, which means adjusting the tempos of the a capellas so they match your music track. Easiest way to do this is to find a BPM tapper and tap out the BPM for your song and your a capella, and plug those numbers into your DAW's tempo changer. If it's not perfect, you'll just have to slice the track during gaps so that major vocal cues land on specific beats.

After that, you just have to sequence everything together so it sounds good. In a mashup, this means making the lyrics and the music mesh well, and having hooks that throw your audience off guard. For example, in my mashup, my favorite part is the transition into the Offspring song because it just flows so well ("uno dos tres quatro cinco cinco seis" "let's go" "you know it's kind of...") and it's unexpected. Balance the lyrics so that one thing is being said/sung at a time.

Overall, just make it fun. A mashup is supposed to be a unique spin on other songs. Mix things up, and keep it interesting.

I went through YouTube's copyright dispute process, and said it was a fair use derivative work. YouTube's response is apparently to ask the copyright owner if they feel it's fair use. Which, of course, they didn't.

Ironically, it was LMFAO's label that had the problem, and yet LMFAO posted the song to their Facebook and Twitter profiles. C'est la vie.

Thank you! :)

Is there an easy way to detect when type is rendered with ClearText?

Thank you. :)

Absolutely satisfied with the response. Learned a lot from this, next time around the technicals should be much tighter (I hope).

Yeah, I'd thought about maybe doing a re-cut. But it's kind of late now. I couldn't replace the existing video, so it'd have to be separate, and nobody would find it. Oh well. Lesson learned for next time!

I was stunned. I never expected that to happen. It was a great honor.

(It was also a little ironic, as there's a copyright dispute on the video coming from LMFAO's label.)

Thank you. :)

Stores like iTunes often carry instrumentals, at least for the singles. There's also acapellas4u.co.uk and Beatport for finding acapellas.

I wasn't writing this for the Hacker News audience, I wrote it so it could be understood by anyone. In this context I used "server team" to refer to the umbrella of devops (which is opaque industry jargon).

Behaviorally there will be differences between how your users act and how your load test plan is executed. A small difference in the two can cause problems you didn't expect. That's the point I was trying to make.

Hand coded widgets and Backbone. No frameworks like jQuery. When last I used these frameworks they were too heavyweight to load quickly over a mobile connection.

I'm probably going to do HTML5 local storage of talks you've watched more than a couple times. It's just a static page right now, so adding a login system would require a lot more infrastructure.

Sounds like it was the primary reason you had low sales. Without similar placement in the Android Market, you really can't claim that one market was more successful than the other purely on its own merits.