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This is quite pointless. Just saying.

And you shouldn't just run around and add people without their consensus. Yeah it's the internet and nothing is safe, but what if said person intentionally does not want to be included in your list?

Arith was also not posting here to be added to the list - so I don't know why you're getting upset over the rules; she clearly understands them. This is an open forum, where it's users are allowed to freely post their opinions on whatever is at hand. She was making a point. This "census" will be vastly incomplete and inaccurate.

If you're curious to how many users we have in each country/whatever, could have simply asked.



There's also already a feature in the forum that would display which country you're in automatically in each of your posts - but it's not enabled as some people like a bit of privacy.

Older picture from when I had it done. But as a developer, how could I have not gotten this tattoo!? Caffeine molecule.

Dual screen, Ubuntu Gnome 

Dual screen, Ubuntu Gnome 

Dual screen, Ubuntu Gnome 

Dual screen, Ubuntu Gnome 

My September 2015 Arch Linux desktop screenshot
Playing Chrono Trigger. Learning MongoDB.



My September 2015 Windows desktop screenshot
♪ カメレオ - 【5 BEST】 15.大馬鹿者 (Kouichiソロ)

swapped my years with Win to Ubuntu. been using it for ~1.5days and i'm totally loving it. specially the clean and easy-to-use UI
 

If last.fm started like that it would have been an amazing, revolutionary service. It might have actually succeeded at it's original goals if they combined the machine learning with the radio so it would try to infer things you would like Pandora-style. But now we have Pandora and Spotify so it's too late to the party to matter. This is why I said that scalable architecture and software engineering is an art form (and I'm sure you agree).
The trick now is to decouple several terabytes of artists and track data, assign them some new IDs, and then decouple songs, give those new IDs, and then assign them to the right artists. This probably falls into the category of intractable problems that are easy to describe and difficult to implement. Though if they can't get this update sorted out sooner rather than later this may not even matter...

It's definitely not a 100% effective way, sure. But it could be coupled with a wiki-like community management of content - Nothing intrusive, but something like... when you log in, a small box (NOT a popup) shows somewhere saying "Hey! You've scrobbled some tracks that we don't recognize. Mind helping us assign them to their rightful places?" that would direct them to a simple tool to select the artist, album, and track to be added.
 
Now take that and times it by the thousands of people that used their service. You'd have a pretty well established artist/album/song library with a dedicated community behind it.
 
Though in the end, it kinda boils down to Google-like AI and machine learning to truly make it smart enough to pick up on things (hell, could be coupled with using Google itself to anticipate releases for artists and pre-add them).
 
My developer brain is starting to go off the rails now, so I'm going to end it with that.

As a programmer, don't blame the programmer. Blame management.

I only have two things to say about this entire fiasco:
Obligatory disclaimer that you can't please everyone all the time but this update is pleasing nobody. In an attempt to look modern it just looks cluttered. I use last.fm for statistics and I don't need a fancy layout that tries to infer what I'll like three days from now staring me right in the face. I just want my statistics in a nice, clean format. I also want to be able to load everything on my profile page
    Pretty much.
 
 
 
This has it's own problems. Tagging isn't uniform and even the smallest deviation in one area of the tag could throw off the hash, edge cases of two different combinations hashing to the same value, etc. However it is infinitely superior to the current method. INFINITELY. Like I don't understand why it wasn't done this way to begin with. Hire me today five years ago and I could have fixed this.
 
Now it's too late. We all have an expectation of our scrobbles being preserved through updates. Since they've mixed listening habits of many different artists together over many years into one page as well as allowed these "hacks" to move throughout the website, trying to bring together like artist pages while also separating scrobbles from Artist A from scrobbles from Artist B, while making sure A and B really don't have two tracks named the same thing, while then doing the same for each song is an exercise in futility. At this point, they'd just have to redo the system, nuke everyone's scrobbles, and start over.

Either that, or direct people to the tool that restores lost scrobbles and modify the tool to do these hashes and then reinsert? That's even more hacky though.

tl;dr - last.fm was designed badly from the ground up

I wish they fixed the way they detected artists/songs - it's blatantly really only geared for popular western music as they only go off the artist name tag - leaving communities like ourselves to resort to "hacks" such as tagging artist names in UTF-8 to give them their own "proper" profile. There's a lot of other things they could be going off of to distinguish artists that may share the same name - song titles, song lengths, album titles, etc. You query all this data together and you have yourself a unique hash in which you can determine the correct artist that should be scrobbled.

Welp, now I have a legit excuse for ignoring album requests via PM on there. Well done, last.fm, well done.

I wish they fixed the way they detected artists/songs - it's blatantly really only geared for popular western music as they only go off the artist name tag - leaving communities like ourselves to resort to "hacks" such as tagging artist names in UTF-8 to give them their own "proper" profile. There's a lot of other things they could be going off of to distinguish artists that may share the same name - song titles, song lengths, album titles, etc. You query all this data together and you have yourself a unique hash in which you can determine the correct artist that should be scrobbled.

I'm sure you've all noticed that DS hasn't been up for the past few months. I want to apologize for this - we ran into server issues with our host that knocked the site down. This happened shortly after I moved the forum to our new host, and by that point I was pretty burnt out.
 
Nothing was lost. I'll be working on moving DS to the new server this week and getting things back online. Once it's back up, I'll jump back into building out some missing features of the site (specifically, artist profiles).

Mmn, manda and I met each other online about 4 years ago. She lived in New York and I lived in Georgia at the time. We were friends for about 2 1/2 years when I confessed to her that I liked her, expecting her to be like "uh o.o okay." and blow me off. Quite the opposite really.
A lot of drama (not between us, but things in our lives) and roughly 2 years later, we now live together in Seattle.
So, I'd say long distance relationships depend on the people involved. Distance really isn't an issue at first, though with time it can get hard and stressful. If the relationship and feelings are true, anything is possible.

Everything has been moved over successfully!
 
I'll begin work on the band artist profiles this week.

My February 2015 desktop screenshots:
 

 
Just finished writing Xmobar configuration. The topbar has been replaced by Xmobar now.
 

My actual Linux laptop with mint 17.1 and random wallpaper through Variety

Everything has been moved over successfully!
 
I'll begin work on the band artist profiles this week.

@Original Saku get a same sized second monitor!
 

 
Fresh install of Ubuntu Gnome, with my custom built blog application on second screen.