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Nice! Some kids at the Young Rewired State hack week built their own Marauders Map a few weeks ago, which was pretty cool http://hacks.rewiredstate.org/events/yrs2012/marauder-me

Excellent, glad to here it, thanks.

As I mentioned in my previous comment, it would be great to give some advice on how best to give feedback and have conversations in person. Any plans for that sort of thing?

Yup, respect, empathy and congruence.

Be respectful, understand that it might be hard to hear your feedback and try and word it in the most direct way possible.

I think i might be missing another thing, but I forget. Those three things will get you far though.

Not sure that I agree with them being in a position 'above' you though. You are both adults. They might have more responsibility than you, but that does not mean that they are 'above' you. I treat every single person in the company I work for as an equal, from the junior consultants to the MD and chairman of the board. I also expect them to treat me the same.

It is a shame that so many people are unable to have conversations with their boss as adults, no matter how good/bad the feedback is.

Email is never a good way to have difficult conversations. Too many wires get crossed and meaning is extracted where there was no intent.

It would be nice if there were some guides on the page about how to have these conversations in person. 'Crucial Conversations' is a great starting place http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-...

Nice!

Oh, I though it was going to be like 'a case for owning a raspberry pi'... most people I know have no idea what to do with theirs (although this probably say more about them).

Thanks, I should have indeed just copy and pasted the terms. Here is 1.D

Respect the privacy and sharing settings of Twitter Content. Do not share, or encourage or facilitate the sharing of protected Twitter Content. Promptly change your treatment of Twitter Content (for example, deletions, modifications, and sharing options) as changes are reported through the Twitter API.

This looks like it breaches Twitters rules of the road. Specifically items 1.D and 2.4.B.

https://dev.twitter.com/terms/api-terms

Great thing. Although I don't think it is the best music to code by, especially as it just loops and loops! I made a similar 'remixer' in about 2003 for my university dissertation, although mine was networked so you could mix with a friend ;) Love the art style though

True, but i'm not a designer and bootstrap makes it easier for me to get stuff done quickly by myself. Thanks for the feedback though

Louis is the comedians comedian. He might not be the most popular, but he is the best at what he does right now. Ask any other comedian!

I'm sure Carmack says alot more about the patent issues and open sourcing the engine in the keynote. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zgYG-_ha28

Also there are newer artist still wrecking shop with the amen such as Dub One and Nebula. Much more soulfull and heartfelt music than most drum and bass.

BBC radio one recently had a pretty good programme on the Amen: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011nyd1

It is a shame that the true pioneers of the break were only briefly mentioned. They would be Equinox, Bizzy B, Breakage, Fracture and Neptune, Chris Inperspective et al.

Around 2006 there was a boom in what has become the "choppage" subgenre of drum and bass, revolving around the Scientific Wax, Inperspective, Bassbin and Mu record labels and the Technicality and Bassbin nights run at Herbal in London. It is a shame the R1 programme did not focus on any of this at all as alot of what came out of that pushed the break to it's listenable limits (Breakcore just baffles and confuses me).

If you want a regular dose of Amen, catch Equinox and the Scientific Wax show playing on jungletrain.com every other Sunday. He will draw some of the ruffest badman tunes you'll ever hear. He is one of the worlds most highly regarded connoisseurs of the Amen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTeToyyYwQ&feature=relat...

As a semi-regular attendee at devnest since near it's inception I'm frankly quite shocked and appalled that Twitter would do this. It's great and very much welcomed that they participate, in fact it's one of the best reasons. But to want to take over the devnest seems very hostile. I'm scared that the devnest will turn corporate and dry, one of the reasons I dont like the Facebook developer garages.

Wow, I bet Dominic has seen some good sales figures from that article! I bought the Impact library a couple of months ago and it's great :) ..yet to build anything worthwhile in it though :(

Interesting project. I built something like this using Flash and Colin Moock's Unity socket server for my university dissertation back in 2002. Although it used loops rather than individual hits, that would have been the next step.

Amazing to think that this could now be done in the browser, but surprising that there isn't already a robust Flash based platform for it anywhere yet (well, maybe there is, im noot lazy to find out).

Only thing that could have made this better would have been: "I'm as mad as hell..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_qgVn-Op7Q

Great book by Ricardo Semler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maverick_%28book%29

All companies should be based on this.

We have open books at the agency I work for. Its pretty darn good to be honest. No one is over paid and no one is underpaid. We are paid what we and the rest of the company think we are worth. Simple.

Well, kinda simple. When having an annual review you must present your personal development plan of what you have achieved in the past year, what you hope to achieve in the next year (and possibly beyond) along with how much of a raise you want. You then have a meeting with a review committee consisting of two normal staff and two directors where you discuss how fair and equitable it is to you and your colleagues, whether it is affordable for the company and whether it would be attractive to a potential new hire hypothetically replacing you. Proposing your own salary makes you really think about what you are worth, and if you want a higher salary can really motivate you into proving that worth and not just being a bum on a chair.

Its a lengthy process but everyone is pretty happy with it (there are few things that getted tweaked everytime soneone has a review but its an ongoing process of improvement). There is no way you can be paid to much or too little as someone on the committee will complain and your proposal wont get signed off. For example, a member of the board had to go back to the committee 4 times until they accepted his proposal, each time honing their salary level and what they will be doing for the company in return.

I'm not sure that opening your books like the article says is the best way to go. Salaries in most places are unbalanced and letting everyone know that would lead to proven disaster. It would be best to try and get them inline before opening them up for the employees to see, although i'm not sure how you would do this. Its just a shame the article make no mention of how great open salaries are.

ps, look up Ricardo Semler and Semco for en example of open salaries on a LARGE scale. Its not just little agencies that this can work for!

am i being an idiot? I can't see a way to change slides :s

Its obvious that we need shorteners, the original purpose being email but Twitter bucked that trend. So now, what we dont need is more URL shorteners. What we do need is more sites to implement their own shortening like YouTube and Flickr (eg, http://youtu.be/3jDfSqtG2E4 and http://flic.kr/p/MGuRJ). Its all about the rev canonical. This way, a shortened URL will stay about as long as that site is about and the internets doesn't break.

People seem to want click stats though, although i dont see why you cant get these out of google analytics etc.

Check out http://revcanonical.appspot.com/ for more.

I have to use the Facebook api for work. I have asked that I no longer have anything to do with Facebook development due the the immense stress it causes, seriously, just thinking about it can put me in a bad mood. unfortunately this isnt really an option so im stuck with it sadface

Ah man, I really could have done with this in May. Oh well, was still super fun discovering it all myself (i think i went in pretty much every shop in akihabara over the course of about a week!)

Will have to visit the hacker space next time i get the funds together to visit :)

I recall hearing that its due to scaling/db limit. Something like they cant actually go back further due to memory limits. Ive no idea if this is true or not. If the Twitter team skype in at the next uk #devnest I shall try and remember to ask.

Like the console access, will download and give it a go :)

yeah, i figured that. but a 1280x800 display is hardly uncommon, seems a bit of a fail that it doesn't fit.

nice design, kinda breaks on my 13" macbook + FF though :( cant see the entirety of each slide, the top and the bottoms get chopped off.

I dont see what the fuss is about. the sound of football matches is still annoying, horns or not.