Upvoted this only because I feel that hiphop is a genre that doesn't appeal much to the hacker news crowd, which, from my experience, is more focused on metal, electronic or classic.
Good playlist but ultimately (and predictably) incomplete
MAME nowadays is a general machine emulator, so everything from arcades, calculators, consoles, fruit machines, computers, etc. are within the scope of the project.
This happened when MAME and MESS merged a few years ago.
Ah yes, that was an earlier and much more crude hack. That's remarkably simple: just change the background color of the bottom screen at any time. Since the screen is being drawn at the same time your code is running, the results literally show up in realtime.
A huge downside with this technique is that color changes during H-blank (waiting period between scanlines) and more critically V-blank (rather long waiting period after each full screen draw) cannot be seen. When I was using this technique, I had the engine actually wait until all of V-blank had passed before it started doing the timing colors. This still ended up being pretty hard to read of course, as the colors would change flicker rapidly at 60FPS, couldn't be easily saved to view later, and were complicated significantly by the multi-pass nature of the engine, where each visible frame is actually composed of several hardware frames, all with totally different timings. So I scrapped that method almost immediately and wrote text-based profiling code that used the built in hardware timers.
Heh, need to relax a little then. Anyway, I've heard this complain too many times from inexperienced "programmers" ("Why my program doesn't quit?"), so the truth is not far fetched..
I think that's the real question. In an era where alot of people do not listen to traditional radio, a service like pandora helps artists get heard by people who did not go specifically looking to listen to 'Happy'. if even 10 percent of listeners heard the song first from pandora, that's 4.3 million potential new fans who buy CD's or tracks from iTunes and PlayStore. Unless Pharel is living in a van down by the river, he should be thanking the stars he wrote a hit that got listened to by 43 million times on a single service alone.
Good playlist but ultimately (and predictably) incomplete