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empika | 13 years ago | on: Tell Your Boss Anything

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?

empika | 13 years ago | on: Tell Your Boss Anything

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.

empika | 13 years ago | on: Tell Your Boss Anything

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-...

empika | 14 years ago | on: Oops Now You Can Track the Tweets Politicians Tried to Delete

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.

empika | 14 years ago | on: Incredibox - Background music for programming.

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

empika | 14 years ago | on: Amen: the world's most famous sample and the rise of the musical copyright

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...

empika | 14 years ago | on: Twitter eats its Babies

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.

empika | 15 years ago | on: Build an HTML5 game in 30 minutes

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 :(

empika | 15 years ago | on: JSONloops, open-source real-time multiuser audio sequencer

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).

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