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If I subscribe, will it remove the preroll ads while watching YouTube on Apple TV? Because I like to occasionally set up playlists of educational content for my kids to watch for a bit, but far too often an inappropriate ad has played in the middle of the playlist, driving me nuts.

Or does it mean that if you don't subscribe that you'll see less content?

Looks like a pretty good emulation so far. I feel it would be even more interesting, however, if it were using actual native elements instead of recreating look-and-feel through CSS.

With the separation of react and react-dom, this is more of a possibility than in the past. I know it would be a Herculean effort, but it would certainly be an incredibly interesting option for me and I'm sure many others! Still, definitely starring this repo.

And as a side note, for my family I actually love high deductible plans when I can get the deductible around the same dollar figure as my max HSA contribution. Once I can hit the deductible for an individual, free healthcare!

I never hit it, because I have very few health needs. But add a pregnancy and delivery into the mix and you're set. It's the opposite effect of what the theory in the article supposed, but just one data point.

Health insurance in America is actually about managing cash flow rather than managing an insurance policy. After extensive research and data investigations, you'll discover that the actuaries at insurance companies are fantastic at what they do: you'll usually end up spending the same amount out-of-pocket in a year no matter the plan--the question is just would you rather spend more at the beginning of the year on lower premium plans, or spread out costs evenly throughout the year on higher premium plans.

A few associates and I are working on a (very very alpha) tool for plotting out actual expenditures for all plans for which you qualify, giving you a report of where you'll spend the least based on your expected health events. The tool saved me over $4,000 this year by guiding me towards a better health plan than what I had originally picked out when I switched to self employment.

If interested, check out http://lucentary.com/ (but please keep in mind we're still fleshing out an MVP!).

And Scott Hanselman did a good interview with Rachel Reese from Jet about it just a couple of shows ago as well: http://hanselminutes.com/494/jetcom-scales-with-azure-f-and-...

Do you find anything missing in particular, or non-functioning?

Nice, it feel similar to how Yii does database migrations but with a lot more packed in.

What I'd really like to see is a open source or free tool accomplishing similar things to what RedGate SQL Compare does. Now that's a powerful tool and certainly worth its cost, but in some situations a limited option due to its support for only SQL Server or where funds are lacking.

I'm curious to know what the metric is actually measuring. Is it one billion people that hit Facebook.com or used the mobile app? Or is it also counting people that might have triggered a hit just by browsing around sites with Like buttons on them while logged in, but didn't actually use Facebook?

To some extent it doesn't matter because it's just such a massive and impressive number, but I'd be curious to know.

I use OpenDNS, primarily for it's content filtering capabilities (but also because I've benchmarked it to be faster than my ISP's DNS responses).

Looks good on my end.

Same here. I could run just about everything I needed (notably, 1Password and µBlock) and be very happy with Safari if it weren't for the inexplicable lack of favicons on tabs. There are some SIMBL hacks and such, but I just want that simple feature built in.

In a word: pornography.

Occasionally, even with Safe Search turned on, images that I don't want my children seeing will pop up under oddly innocuous searches. And it's easy to accidentally stumble upon it, especially to untrained searchers.

Now I know people will have varying opinions about the subject, but I for one (and I know I'm not alone) don't want to view pornography, and certainly don't want my children viewing it, so a filtering service like OpenDNS is awesome. Beyond pornography, there's a lot of other good stuff that you can restrict as well, like hate/discrimination sites, dating sites, etc.--stuff that I don't need and don't need my kids getting involved with an online dating site right now.

I sincerely hope that Cisco keeps the OpenDNS Home free offering around, as it's by far the best filtering service for families I've used. Sign up, block inappropriate categories through the service, and point your router to the DNS IPs and you're done. (Oh, and grab the IP autoupdater.) Keeping the kids (and adults) safe is my favorite aspect of OpenDNS.

From the "we just got acquired" FAQ:

> The free service will continue to operate. It’s part of who we are, and Cisco loves who we are. We wouldn’t have entered into this agreement if we believed our free service would be in jeopardy. On contrary, Cisco’s commitment back to you is to maintain OpenDNS’s DNS services exactly as it is today. In their words: “This level of service for all users is a priority.”

Thank you for this post: I've been feeling especially down on myself today since I've a lot of learning to do when it comes to marketing and managing side projects, but the ideas in the post were gold. Kudos!

No it wasn't like that, it was just a chill thing we all did one day, and I don't think anyone was trying to short anyone else. I can excuse forgetting here and there, and most people don't carry cash around the office. It was fine, and a great place to work.

Precisely, I'm in the same boat. And while I've seen workarounds (like http://include.aorcsik.com/2014/12/04/add-favicons-to-safari...) I really don't want to have to add SIMBL extensions just to get something every other browser already does. :(

If it is there for pinned sites, why not add it for all of them?

(Late to the reply, sorry.) COLA is addressed on a per office basis. Our headquarters is in a relatively inexpensive large city, and so other offices in pricier places like SF or DC get a blanket COLA adjustment, with the percentage bump based on some particular survey's index or something.

At the firm that I work at everything is in the open, even between groups, and it works very well. It is a formula-based compensation given your department (basically consultants and back-office) and stated level. With that, I know or can calculate exactly how much my manager makes, how much an entry level HR employee makes, and how much the CEO makes.

I love it because it removes any problem with politics or shadowy discussions, and I know what I can expect when a promotion comes. The only downside is that it leaves the firm with little leverage when it comes to compensation: I can't simply get a bump without a promotion, nor are there extra bonuses that can be given out either for hiring or retaining. (This has its benefits as well however.)

So is that more or less than 1.21 gigawatts? ;)

Great list that made me smile. My two favorites from it include:

- Falling in love with a product (rather than the problem) is really dangerous

- It's really hard to build a product if you don't have a big personal investment in the problem it solves

Looking much better! Small suggestion on the video: the zooming out is probably causing a large increase in size and consequently load time (took about 35 seconds to load to completion and start playing well on my regular connection). Maybe rerecord without the zoom and keep it more straightforward?

I loved and used Opera as my main browser back in the day, flicking back and forth between pages with right-mouse-button gestures and reading my email in-browser before Gmail. What a fantastic browser it was! I am excited to see the Vivaldi project mature and hope to be able to evaluate it once it is more complete.

Kind of OT, but does anyone know of decent resources for learning more about and eventually correcting RAW images?

I have a collection of RAW photos that have, due to bad transfers or old disks, become corrupted in ways where you can still see the original image, but color casts are off for half the image (strong purple or orange casts) or the image will suddenly jump and skip a few hundred pixels at random places. It seems like I am just missing a portion in the middle or something is misaligned, and I'd love to get these photos back. (I know that a JPG preview is hidden inside the file, which I could extract, but it would be nice to have the full image back as well.)

I'd imagine (without knowing anything about it) that it would also have applications in fiber optics as well?

I'll second this. Half of my conflicts when working on .NET projects are related to changes in .csproj, DBML, or EDMX files. I understand the function these files perform, but it certainly doesn't make it any easier. Just because I and a colleague happened to both add completely independent files to a project doesn't mean I should have to deal with a conflict.

Thanks for the clarification all!

Slightly related, but can someone clear up for me (a person who occasionally administers a headless Fedora box but doesn't venture into desktop Linux land) how different WMs and distros work when I want to install a particular piece of software? Does a desktop application have to be specifically written to run in KDE or Gnome or Unity? Or does it just look funny if I try to run a K* application in Gnome?

Misread the title and thought it was about ASP.NET's WebForms, to which I thought, "Wow, something to make it easier? I'll take anything!" ;] (Current client is a major WebForms project, but luckily v4.5.)

Couldn't be much further from that...

Would be great to have an API. Been passively looking for good poster printers that I could automatically send jobs to, as well as do the fulfillment. Looks slick.