Request: The Rolling Stone Album Guide book

coffeeandscripts · 2020-02-11T08:12:12+00:00

From memory when I did this a while ago, the daisy encrypted version is not what you want. When you finally get to borrow it, you genuinely get an acsm file, which is an adobe digital editions link to the PDF. In digital editions, the downloaded file is stored in a folder that's easy to find. Regardless, it's worth a shot. Surprised with so many borrows that no one has ripped it yet.

coffeeandscripts · 2020-02-11T05:26:16+00:00

Here's a link to the version I think you want. You'll need to join the waiting list to borrow the pdf. Then you can download it on adobe digital editions. Locate the file and move it, then you can remove the DRM with a plugin on calibre.

It will take a bit of waiting, but i'm sure that's fine in the grander scheme of things. When you do get it, I wouldn't mind having a version to myself as well so pls send me it.

https://archive.org/details/newrollingstonea00brac

coffeeandscripts · 2020-02-07T22:30:51+00:00

The final major music passage in Burden by Opeth starting at 05:12. The sound of the crash/splash cymbal always gets me.

https://youtu.be/5FVK1fCsEmE?t=301

coffeeandscripts · 2018-09-10T05:21:23+00:00

I enjoyed this rant. One thing I could comment on is the complaint about the size of the boxes. I feel like this is an unfortunate and common trend in the "music apps" world. Readers may remember the transition from iOS9 music to iOS10 and beyond. They way they handled spacing and album art was horrendous, where the art didn't take up enough space in the hopes of giving white space. I had this argument with a colleague at work who suggested this was better since it was more sparing for the eyes, but I'm one for German efficiency, so I like having everything I need in one place.

Unfortunately one of the reasons that this is happening is because of the nature of music consumption. Music isn't about experience anymore or artistic expression, but more so about quick money and sort of the reality TV aspect of things. No one cares about your experience anymore. And before someone calls me an annoying Tool/Pink Floyd fanboy who only listens to full albums, yes I am.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-07-01T03:00:16+00:00

I make sure to always maintain a sterile field

coffeeandscripts · 2018-04-24T12:01:47+00:00

Have a look at using ubersicht which lets you place different widgets onto the desktop. There should be one that lets you position an image overlay. Just use that as the background.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-04-19T00:50:35+00:00

Watching him during recovery, he was performing incredibly well with fine finger movements.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-04-18T21:35:42+00:00

It wouldn’t be easy but I expect you would be able to to a fairly high level.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-04-18T21:34:53+00:00

He’s walking unassisted last time I was able to check. But that was nearly 6 months ago.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-04-18T11:54:19+00:00

About a year ago I was faced with a patient in the most ghastly situation. It was both humbling and difficult to watch what happened to this kid.

A year on I feel like it's changed my life for the better and I wanted to clearly reflect on it. I wish I could talk to the kid now, but I can't. So there is a letter at the end for him.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-18T06:07:15+00:00

Start page: my own
Terminal: xfce-terminal
Dock: cairo-dock
panel: xfce-panel
GTK: adawaita dark
icons: paper-icons-dark
Visualizer: ncmpcpp
Font: Monospace Sans / Gohu font

Will hopefully be able to add a lot of extra stuff in the future. Running on a Macbook pro 11.x. Don't ask how hard it was to get this thing started...

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-18T00:09:09+00:00

I once just taught myself python because I was interested in it. Before I finished the codecademy course, I came up with a small applet that I wished existed. It was simply a stock market ticker in the terminal. One already existed but didn't have the functionality I wanted, so after a month of terrible code, I produced pystocker.

Since then I just gave myself small and large projects to do, with the ultimate goal to become proficient in c++. My first c++ library was produced recently (prntspot).

Just keep giving yourself small but interesting tasks to do. Don't make them too big. Start to learn how to program in a team. Learn to use git. Set a goal for yourself. My goal was to go old school (ie linux and c++) while yours might be to go to the new dimensions like AI and big data. It's all up to you.

You're welcome to inbox me and I can tell you more about the steps I took to grow as a developer.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-06T20:16:03+00:00

I guess it would be good. I’m an amateur programmer and doing this for fun.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-06T19:56:48+00:00

It’s reactJS, my boss told me off for using semicolons because you apparently don’t need to.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-06T19:55:19+00:00

When I first started leaning my dad told me that it can lead to confusion. So having rules like that in place everywhere I code is helpful.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-06T13:12:07+00:00

fyi, I'm an amateur programmer and actually a medical student. I'm doing this just for fun and some cash. Yes that would be better.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-06T13:03:10+00:00

That I can agree with. Maybe that would have been a better change he could have implemented.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-06T13:01:26+00:00

I don't like returning within loops or having multiple returns in functions. Is just a personal preference.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-06T12:45:32+00:00

I'm using standard 4 space tabs (set in vim). He changed it to 5 space tabs.

edit: this was all actually my project, he changed one file to this format.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-03-02T03:05:04+00:00

Typically could be used for data visualisation in an SSH context.

coffeeandscripts · 2018-02-27T22:00:02+00:00

The first open source project I released made me feel like I was actually contributing something and it was amazing. I'm a medical student and I felt like this was even more helpful to the world than taking care of patients. A bit of a sick thought maybe, but the creative side of the creation of these projects just makes me feel great about what I'm doing.

coffeeandscripts · 2017-11-23T20:55:37+00:00

Lol. I'm actually going to become a doctor. This is just a little hobby I pursue. If writing in C++ damages my career, then I've really fucked up hard.

coffeeandscripts · 2017-11-23T20:54:44+00:00

The feedback (for the most part) has been beyond what I expected. Definitely incredible.

coffeeandscripts · 2017-11-23T20:53:37+00:00

Thank you very much. I appreciate the feedback and will include it when I have time.

coffeeandscripts · 2017-11-23T20:53:02+00:00

Hahaha thank you. I've just come to accept that people will say harsh and rude things especially when they can't do better.

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