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Right? Except it's not a $500 paperweight. It's a $4,500 paperweight with an additional $500 a year overhead.

Depending on how effective Project Tango is, this technology might be short lived. Maybe there's some manual labor that has to happen on their end before your files are ready? Otherwise I just don't understand the cost. Storage and bandwidth couldn't possibly cost $50/mo.

Sometimes I really do lament the fact that everyone decided that an ongoing subscription model is the way to go for everything.

I am a little taken aback by their pricing strategy, or maybe I'm misunderstanding it.

If you purchase this, you have to pay (at least) $500 a year, for hosting, and $20 per scan, if you scan more than (say) 6 times in a month?

I don't mean this to be glib, but there were already plenty of phones that could serve the internet, and various mobile tools. (in much the same way there were already plenty of computers.)

Apple doesn't innovate by being first, they innovate by being best.

Yes. I do this from time to time. Recent example, wasn't sure what the event was called in JavaScript when the window changed. Couldn't remember if it was resize or windowResize or whatever.

SE had a sample dummy event listener add function, complete with // do stuff here. I cut and paste the whole thing and added what I needed.

I suppose I could've retyped the addEventListener function from scratch but...I dunno, that seemed inefficient. I just needed the name.

1. I try to find out something that the person already understands, so I can frame my metaphors around that.

2. Maybe I'm projecting, but I was tinkering with computers for a long time before I started learning to program. To that end, there's a lot of just intuitive understanding of software that you absorb, basic relationships like configuration files, rebooting, memory, what a browser does, what a URL variable is etc etc.

There's a lot to be said for helping a person round out this knowledge, before you start teaching them how to program.

I don't know that a person needs to know a lot about America before learning American English, but I wouldn't be surprised to find out that it helps. "You see, they're kind of a casual low key people, so their language has a lot of slang and elisions..."

Question:

The split for existing shareholders is June 2nd. The stock starts trading with split values June 9th.

What happens to trading from June 2nd-June 9th, during WWDC+ and after they announce their TV?

As stated elsewhere, it allows small investors to buy in -- and the stock advance of their AppleTV release it could mean that they are expecting a ton of attention from the lay investor.

The dates are significant: The split happens the evening of WWDC launch.

I hope someone writes a book about this one day -- the transition from being the underdog to the dominant player in the field. It seems like a very difficult transition, both for the contestant and the fan.

While I understand where you're coming from, it does feel a little bit about being conflicted over the possibility of a company doing something bad in the future.

This whole thread is great, it's what happens when programmers interpret English.

"Well, was the "Move your repositories..." within the implied closing '}" for the initial if statement or not?"

:)

First Guess: Doesn't show up on your credit (or require great credit)

Second Guess: There are different tax ramifications for renting something than there are for purchasing/financing.

When you purchase a computer I think you can only write of a certain amount (maybe depreciation?) as a business expense, whereas this entire $60/mo is a business expense.

I -guess- each $300 backer could've received $150,000 of stock/cash...

...if this kickstarter happened 6 months from now, as an equity kickstarter.

The 6 month number is sort of arbitrary, but the SEC is currently evaluating Regulation Crowdfunding. Title III of the JOBS act.

(for more info, here https://blogs.law.harvard.edu/corpgov/2013/12/06/jobs-act-ti...)

Regulation Crowdfunding will allow "funding portals" (kickstarter/indiegogo/etc) to facilitate equity based crowdfunding, with a limit of up to $1,000,000.

We'll pretend that Oculus at $1mm KS has the same destiny as Oculus as a $2.4mm KS. [I think in an equity world, people would be less inclined to invest after that wall is hit.]

We'll ALSO pretend (here's the bigger stretch) that the subsequent rounds of financing at $16mm and $75mm somehow magically didn't affect the equity of the seed round. [Hahaha, hilarious.]

If the KS had stated that the $1mm was to own 25% of the company (I bet he'd've done more, but we'll go low) that means that each $300 backing is equivalent to %0.0003 of $1mm.

%0.0003 of 25% equity is %.000075 of Oculus.

%.000075 of 2 billion dollars is $150,000.

[I think. %50 chance I mucked this math up at some point.]

This is a clever solution to this problem, and there are instances where this could be helpful.

However, if you happen to be attached to FCP, and have basic rhythm, you can perform a more controlled version of this process in either FCP7 or FCPX using MultiClip/Multicam Editing.

http://youtu.be/kmFmyXWaQHM?t=3m27s

Using keyboard commands, in real time you can cut between up to 16 different video clips. I basically play my keyboard like a drumset, and the result is video that is synced to the audio, and allows more artistic choice over the content selection.

I think it's a question of the tone with which he "didn't love."

There's a difference between:

"Another flat CSS theme for bootstrap? How many minutes did that take you?"

and

"There have been a number of flat CSS themes presented on this site, so I find it hard for any one of them to really distinguish themselves. Have you considered [the idea that OP thinks is better or more original or more useful]?

---

The reason it's less than ideal to weigh in with such disdain is that it discourages other people for whom creating something like that would be a MASSIVE undertaking.

Imagine a beginning designer who doesn't know anything about CSS or graphic design, so, for their initial project, they want to create a flat CSS theme. It's ambitious for them, and they're anxious to start and they log into HN and...oh. Wow. That person just made something better than I could ever make and got BLASTED.

What's the point of trying?

Comment #2 encourages them and points them towards a better suggestion. Comment #1 adds nothing.

in rapid succession. like a flip book.

I'm pretty sure this is just a big middle finger to Spritz. In the most hilarious way possible. Or am I misinterpreting the acknowledgments? ;)

I have a question though. Why is this manual?

I don't know much about CV, but even from the a link I saw the other day about SimpleCV, it seems like there should be a way to at least filter out all of the quadrants that are simply ocean, and prioritize the quadrants that are -almost entirely- ocean.

I'm sure I'm oversimplifying this so I look forward to the education -- thanks.

Sunbiz.Org, Florida is $125.00 for an LLC.

My advice: on the "would you pay $5 for a desktop version", after the yes, offer to save their email for when it's ready. I probably (adverb) would've given it to you.

I'm not sure that I'll remember to come back and look for it.

I decided I wanted to get into independent software development. I found a company ($1mm revenue) I'd done a little bit of business with (unrelated)

I sent them a mockup of what I thought their web-page should be (4 hours of work?), one meeting later I'd locked down a nice 5 figure contract to develop an internal app (they decided they didn't want a web page) and it looks to become an ongoing relationship.

The web page, I later found out, is what really hooked them, despite them not wanting it ultimately.

Ditto. Tried the same thing, and a United flight went from $400 to $356 on Kayak.

Edit. I read the article. It's white. I've seen a burgundy one before, so there are at least two.

minor pivot:

One of the major pieces of advice for up and coming writers is to transcribe the books of an author you love/admire. Teaches you to learn their cadence, and, on some level, think about why they choose certain words.

Now, the speed here would SORTA kill some of that but... I could see wanting to transcribe a great novel while playing a game, and I would be forced to consciously think about each word. So, let people upload RTFs or text files to download. Or choose from open source books.

I agree with Orlando. Half-agree with Gainesville. G'ville is fantastic if you have kids or are a kid. From 20-35 it's sort of a "Why am I here?" wasteland.

Unless you REALLY love the Gators.

I understand your point, although I wonder if there are many more characters that are "top of the shelf" reference points for highly-principled artists... curious who you would've preferred?

[disclaimer: I have an undergraduate degree in English Literature, which doesn't mean ALL that much, tbh, but I've read a book or two.]

My does that kind of "stuff", we automatically convert audio and embed inaudible watermarks to prevent piracy,leaking, etc.

AWS makes a lot of the concurrency issues easy (and scaling). Basically you can use their SQS ("Simple Queue Service"), add tasks to it, and when the individual drones check out a song from the queue, it's no longer available for a set amount of time.

If the drone finishes the process completely, it removes it from the queue permanently, but if the drone fails, dies, whatever, after that time-out it gets bumped back into Queue for the next worker drone.

We use FFMPeg for conversion.

--- note: tracktrack.it, if you're curious about watermarking.

Minor Advice: On your interactive chart, I'd arrange it so s3forme was first or last, and that it was a steadily increasing (or decreasing) value.

Also I'd consider changing the font/color on s3forme so that it 'pops' a bit more compared to your competitors. As is my guess is the user's eye is drawn to Rackspace.

Notification Center > Growl?

Someone who has made more than $200,000 in the last two years, ($300k if married) OR net worth > $1mm.

(or so sayeth the article.)

You don't actually have a problem with movies using formulas, you have a problem with them feeling formulaic. (Chances are.)

Formulas exist because, when followed properly, they work. For the casual movie viewer, I'm sure that 90% of your favorite movies adhere to this structure, more or less. That, alone, won't cause your movie to feel bad.

There are countless other variables that affect whether or not a movie feels formulaic but, very roughly, I'd suggest that it's when a writer/production team feels like the formula -alone- is enough, that it should work. The beats are just there, but there's still no pulse.

IMHO, this summer, Fast Six nailed the beats perfectly, and people walked away mostly satisfied. Man Of Steel didn't, people were unhappy. Most Pixar movies are lockstep with this structure. Few people gripe about the formulaic pixar movies.

You could probably convince me that movies, as an artform, are more or less built for this structure in the same way that sonnets have a particular rhyme scheme. Sure you can make other kinds of poems, but if the audience really likes sonnets, what's the point? I think the average movie-goer really likes Sonnets, so to speak. And there's nothing wrong with that. Not everyone has seen enough movies to develop an appetite for The Tree of Life.

Note: I've read Save the Cat, have studied screenwriting at a graduate level, and have a (very humble) IMDB listing. So consider this my 2.1 cents worth.

Depends. At the bottom of the page did it have a "Like" icon, and the words "432 of your friends like this page, you should too?"

If it did, you're already on that list.