Apple made a lot of visual changes in release 10.10 ("Yosemite") of Mac OS/X. One of the most obvious was to change the system font, as used throughout the desktop, from Lucida to Helvetica. A lot of people love Helvetica, so presumably they were happy. Others were less satisfied, leading to a little rush of… Continue reading How to change your friend’s OS/X Yosemite system font to Arial
Author: Chris Cannam
More on the 2015 EU VAT changes
A couple of updates since my previous post: HMRC held a Q&A session on Twitter about the 2015 VAT changes. Here's a transcript. It clarifies a lot. (I like the terse style enforced by Twitter for these answers, but some are also usefully expanded on at the end of the transcript.) The digital delivery company… Continue reading More on the 2015 EU VAT changes
Small software businesses and the 2015 VAT regulations
From the start of 2015, whenever you sell software, licences, or other digital stuff online direct to a customer in the EU, you have to make a reliable record of where they live and then pay VAT at their country's rate. There is no threshold for minimum value or sale quantity, and it doesn't matter… Continue reading Small software businesses and the 2015 VAT regulations
MIREX 2014 submissions
Last year, Luís Figueira and I experimentally submitted a batch of audio analysis methods, implemented in Vamp plugins developed over the past few years at the C4DM, to the Music Information Retrieval Evaluation Exchange (MIREX). I found the process interesting and wrote an article about the results. I wasn't sure whether to do a repeat… Continue reading MIREX 2014 submissions
Alte Schönhauser Straße
In 1992, while I was an undergraduate at Bath university, I went to Berlin for an industrial placement year. I had started out registered for a 3-year maths degree without a placement, but there was a scheme you could apply to if you changed your mind and fancied going abroad in the middle of it.… Continue reading Alte Schönhauser Straße
Comparative advantage
One of my favourite ideas from economics (a subject I know very little about) is that of comparative advantage, a theory that shows how two countries can trade to mutual advantage even if one of them is better at everything than the other is. A fairly clear example is described here.What I like about this… Continue reading Comparative advantage
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