meanguy

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by meanguy 13y ago
Thank you for having "developer at artsy.net" in your bio as I would have found this continued questioning odd otherwise. The gallery cancelled the order claiming both pieces are out of stock. A direct email to the gallery said th
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by meanguy 13y ago
Nothing that's Amazon's fault. Amazon purchase history shows order complete, paid via Amazon credit card. Gallery currently refuses to ship either piece. Verdict: yes, Amazon has successfully brought the magical experience of deal
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by meanguy 13y ago
I've never had a bad experience with Amazon or any of their third parties across hundreds (!) of transactions. Long time collector, I purchased two pieces of art yesterday via the beta. Known gallery, brick-and-mortar. It's alread
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by meanguy 13y ago
Thank you for this. Onc clarification: the "Bieber YouTuBe upload" takedown scenario remained a DMCA issue. The non-commercial = non-felony language was actually made even more explicit under SOPA.
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by meanguy 13y ago
That was actually one of the key points of SOPA -- it extended DMCA-style service provider protection to payment providers and ad networks. As for the "streaming" provision, that was (inartfully) meant to penalize the day 0 crowd,
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by meanguy 13y ago
For starters, it's ntoskrnl.exe. Dig out the original Windows NT stuff from the early 90s and you can infer Dave Cutler and team's original vision. The fact that Microsoft made hundreds of billions of dollars off it, layering all sorts of l
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by meanguy 14y ago
There's a third issue here, Tim: a perceived downward trend in the quality of the offerings of O'Reilly Media. My first O'Reilly book taught me sed/awk. Now you print magazines with "How to knit a robot" on the front cover. I'm all for thro
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by meanguy 14y ago
Sigh. Claude Shannon is rolling in his grave.
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by meanguy 14y ago
Click the Xamarin Dev Center link. You'll see Android and iOS but no Linux. They're focusing on mobile client tools. They never got the full stack running on the server and they punted most of the Windows-specific client stuff from the star
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by meanguy 14y ago
After losing the support of Novell they refocused (see xamarin.com). They really did an amazing job with what they had, though. That said, Mono benchmarked about 4x slower on my web apps. For me, better to use two Windows instances rather t
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by meanguy 14y ago
And here's where I flash pocket aces: I sat in a room with no windows and no computers, across from men with strong chins and short haircuts, reviewing Windows NT source code line by line. On friggin' paper. Never heard of this guy. Never h
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by meanguy 14y ago
I hadn't heard this story before, but time isn't kind to this particular conspiracy. The moment of clarity: Mr. Curry wanted to sue Microsoft but "couldn't find a lawyer willing to take on the case" -- in 1998. EVERYBODY was suing Microsoft
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by meanguy 14y ago
Um, you know how Rails binds, right? Also: MVC2 runs under NET 3.5 which doesn't even have the dynamic keyword. (I don't use dynamic in MVC3 or MVC4 either...) The "stringly typed" (magic string) stuff was always avoidable. Regardless, see
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by meanguy 14y ago
That's how similar products work. Some contain batteries to remember state. Some are full duplex and request state / update status. Some even work. Another fun scenario: somebody crashes into a utility pole near your house, the power flicke
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by meanguy 14y ago
The poor color rendering is what the comment above you is talking about. If a bulb makes your wood walls look funny and the picture of your girlfriend on the desk look like an alien, it's not going to go mainstream. Especially if it costs $
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by meanguy 14y ago
The home automation market has been an utter disaster for decades. I hoped the "green" movement would nudge it mainstream. Not yet, and Google even killed off their home electricity monitoring projects. Here's a similar product: http://www
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by meanguy 14y ago
Requested it as part of the application. Perhaps I could have avoided the disclosure, but since a merchant account is effectively offering you credit (think about it) leveraging my personal rating yet incurring no liability was a pragmatic
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by meanguy 14y ago
I can echo the same treatment with two different merchant account providers across three companies. Didn't matter if it was a $10k month or a $1MM month or if the company was new or old--it was a constant battle. In one case it was only my
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by meanguy 14y ago
I did some work here. There's a lot of problems with legibility research. It's very, very hard to test for "legibility" or "readability" -- as, not surprisingly, the typeface is only a small part of what's going on when the human brain turn
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by meanguy 14y ago
Exactly. Sass/Less have functions to adjust brightness and saturation for just this reason. I routinely tweak saturation so link and hover colors "read" the same on a white background versus even a light grey header.
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by meanguy 14y ago
"what you imagine it will be like greatly exceeeds what it actually will be like." According to Dan Gilbert, this is fallacy behind most life decisions. In both directions: we overestimate the future pain of negative events, too. http://ww
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by meanguy 14y ago
Dropbox only supports files up to 150MB via their API. I inquired about bumping the limit on a per-app basis; no response.
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by meanguy 14y ago
Historically Microsoft has flown by the seat of its pants with a lot of this stuff. You wouldn't believe how horrible the Windows 95 or Windows XP interfaces were right up to the last possible minute. As might be expected with anything "fla
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by meanguy 14y ago
I see you've never listed a million dollar house for sale. :)
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by meanguy 14y ago
Your post confused me because it said a lot of things about App Engine's datastore that conflicted with my direct experience. Khan Academy is one of the few sites that I'm excited about at the moment, so I'm concerned. I chose AppEngine bec
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by meanguy 14y ago
It broke down for me on AppEngine. I had to move data out of the store to blobs, then use AppEngine queues to reduce the data into the store for reporting access. Basically they promised me what they promised you and, after I got past a few
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by meanguy 14y ago
It seems like AppEngine is saving your ass at the moment but aren't you worried about scale? This is sort of a classic "storage not data" problem where you mapreduce raw data to a structured store for reporting. Are you really still queryin
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by meanguy 14y ago
I particularly disagree with the conclusion that Twitter would have become some sort of magical panacea as opposed to the screenshot he provides: https://twitter.com/#!/daltonc/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitt... The problem there is yet ano
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by meanguy 14y ago
Proof that kitsch can get you pretty far. But it's time for this site to start refining the visuals a bit. I count seven different font sizes on the home page alone.
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by meanguy 14y ago
- SSL via SNI for $9/month (no Windows XP support, heck--limited Android support) - ...or a virtual (not static) IP address for $99/month (!!) - CDN via "PageSpeed" at .39/GB outgoing (plus .12/GB) - new!!! datacenter in Europe!!! I was a

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