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Yes. This. Having had FiOS before is the worst part, knowing first-hand just how subpar my TWC service is (there's no going back after getting 35mbps upload speeds). It seems completely ridiculous to me that in 2014 Brooklyn we're still choosing block-by-block where to live based on the internet service.

JAI was real bad.. JMF (Java Media Framework) was another one, which for a while had the unfortunate distinction of being the only reliable way of playing video on top of being poorly documented and turning into abandonware.

OS X has had OpenCOLLADA built into QuickLook (as well as Preview) for a few years now.

That said, it can still be fussy with many scenes.

This is great, thanks for releasing it!

Besides the UX issue of not being able to return from an empty grammar, a few small things I've noticed: * Is there a reason for leaving empty padding around the bounds of the generated PNG's * Vector export doesn't seem to work (I tried by having it set as the only selection as well as having it in addition to the PNG option)

Or perhaps they've seen the relative age of fans while on tour and decided that introducing their music to a newer generation could allow them to keep performing and making a living.

I agree generally that there can always be more. The big difference to me is that in putting the product first, Apple is ensuring that they'll remain in a position to continue doing this. The trend is in the right direction though, their revenue for 2013 increased less than 10%[1] but their R&D expenditures have (based on a pretty coarse chart) gone up around 20%.

[1] http://www.wikinvest.com/stock/Apple_(AAPL)/Data/Total_Reven...

Its a bit less of an impulse purchase buying it at an electronics store than a place you'd be motivated to want to use it.

While I understand how you arrive at the conclusion that the iPhone made the game all about app counts, I can't see how that stands up to Android coming along and ending up with a way larger selection. Even though it started as the biggest, Apple has kept a threshold in place that keeps out a lot of the crap. Not all, for sure, but you'd never get away with releasing something with the Facebook logo (or a poor approximation).

The fact that Microsoft took the bait of buying into the size of the store rather than going for a curatorial approach is their own doing. Laying blame on anyone but their own decision makers for the quality of their app store doesn't make any sense.

Dashing is gorgeous and surprisingly easy to write widgets for.. Hardest part was getting the layouts right.

From reading the thread it looks like it was a linode database running their forums.. Self hosting wouldn't solve this particular problem unfortunately

It sounds like they go to court on your behalf.. If that's the case, then it makes financial sense for most to stay at work for the 1-2 hours and have someone else fight it. I'm not sure this would ever make sense if you're in a less populated jurisdiction where the courthouse is 5 minutes away and never has more than a few people inside, but for cities this seems like a legitimate convenience.

Mind blown. Thanks!

I just did some comparisons, it is indeed cheaper than a MBA in similar configuration. In terms of price, the 13" retina MBP is a way better deal than both the Dell and the Air.

It was just a bit slow for me, but not down

> However, if your saying you need to create your work off anthers work which is copyrighted and they want to enforce the same, then I would say IP is not what is stifling creativity, rather an unoriginal artist with no creativity to begin with.

Creativity != originality. Its been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, but plenty of Disney's works are not original. That doesn't detract from the quality of the work or the creativity involved in adapting the story.

What you argue for with indefinite control is building on someone else's work and then being allowed to say "OK, I have the final say. No more is to be done on this line."

Maybe this is naive of me, but I don't really look forward to a future where I walk around making sure people in my vicinity are glowing red (or green, for when I do something heroic).. I realize that having some indicator is a huge plus over having nothing but it just feels so sterile. Perhaps this is as much a reaction to always-on everything, but there's something especially off-putting about taking the concept of eye contact and making it a consumable, recordable activity. Technology thus far hasn't really encroached on or been able to imitate this face to face interaction..

> Alternatively, some kind of wifi/3g blocker or jammer, could be the answer.

I know that in much of the US these devices are illegal, wouldn't be surprised about other places.

Exactly what I was thinking, and may even hold some truth

I'm curious if SUNY gets what it wants and is allowed to close LICH whether they'd hang on to some of the space and try to get research into the area.. That's a huge tract of land (and I'd like to see it not sit completely vacant for a few years)

NYU-Poly has another incubator spot further up Jay St in DUMBO as well, looks like a nice space from the 15 minutes I've spent inside.

We were lucky enough to have Sha and Rachel come to ultravisual for lunch yesterday, first time I got to see some of the lenticulars in person and they look awesome. I think they're taking this in a really fun direction, can't wait to see what people make with the service :)

Ultravisual, NYC

-- What are we doing? --

We're making a beautiful visual publishing platform enabling people to always have their content look its best. In the month since release we've been featured twice by Apple (Best New Apps and Apps for Friday Night) and have gotten an extremely positive reception.

http://uv.to/tcS

-- Where do I fit in? --

We're looking for someone sharp to become the second member of our backend team, primarily in a DevOps role. Having a working knowledge of AWS, Chef, and Postgres is a must. Experience with Cassandra and Java on top of that is even better.

We're also looking for web developers fluent in Backbone (or similar) who is up to the task of spearheading our web efforts as well as UI/UX designers who can help to fill out ideas (Objective-C experience a definite plus here)

Beyond the technical specifics, if you're the type who is always learning something new and takes pride in their work, we want to talk to you.

-- What else should I know? --

We're based in DUMBO and would love to meet you! We're a diverse bunch. Members of the team have worked done everything from award-winning video game music to live visuals to open source game engines to being a professional chef.

We'd prefer local to NYC but would by no means discount someone remote with the right stuff. If this sounds interesting, please drop us a line. We'd love to meet and buy you a cup of coffee.

Contact us at jobs@ultravisual.com

Yup, as long as you can get the sending device to trust the invalid certificate. This is how I keep an eye on my iPhone traffic.

Unless they offer a way to accept certificates and use a proxy server. Neither are particularly uncommon, and something like Charles[1] makes this laughably easy.

[1] http://www.charlesproxy.com

Ah sure, amending commits doesn't work once you've pushed it to a remote branch though (IIRC).

Though this distinction is one of the things brought up in that email, that hg treats it all as one history. That is kind of nice.

Looks fun, definitely gonna give this a try.

But where are you going to find a $300 pool table? That seems absurdly cheap :)

Genuine Curiosity: How else can you destroy/rewrite history in git besides a force push and gc?

Yeah I was disappointed to see this.. Can you configure pgpool externally to talk to the replicas or are those multi-az instances a black box? I've never used RDS before so I'm curious as to how much flexibility is afforded.

Cool, I'll have to check it out.. thanks!

I was thinking the same thing about wanting to go PostGIS. Though they could probably do just as well for their needs (presuming the case is in a single building) by using vanilla postgres' geometric functions.

Kind of a moot point since they were using MariaDB anyway, but the MySQL geospatial functionality hasn't gotten much attention in a long time. I remember quite distinctly hearing at the MySQL BoF at OSCON 2011 that the original author of the MySQL geospatial stuff was gone from Oracle. I find it hard to believe that they haven't picked up anyone to continue development on that but when you compare features with PostGIS, there's almost no point in even trying to compete.

/geo-rant

As much as I cringe to say this, you can get into a pretty decent groove with Word as far as footnotes/endnotes go. I remember in College hating the knowledge that I was using Word but being able to fly through citations pretty quickly without losing my train of thought as I wrote.

Shouldn't this mostly be handled by Mono? I was similarly surprised by the amount of work it took to get some requests going in a Unity/C# project about 2 years ago.