steadicat

If anyone is interested in a Node.js alternative, it’s pretty straightforward to use Gulp (http://gulpjs.com/) for this. Take a look at the deploy task for my personal web site for an example: https://github.com/steadicat/attardi.org/blob/master/gulpfil...

Thanks for the promo code! App works great so far.

Here's some feedback:

1. Would be nice if I could swipe left/right or up/down anywhere on the screen to adjust the speed. Hitting the tiny buttons in the corner is hard when I'm trying to focus on that one spot in the center of the screen.

2. Swiping to scrub forward/back could be nice too, in case I missed something important or want to skim a section. (One swipe direction could adjust speed, the other could adjust position.)

3. I would appreciate a setting to adjust the number of words (or characters) displayed on screen at once. I imagine the optimal amount varies per person (and I seem to recall reading somewhere that the ideal might be more than a single word).

4. The progress indicator still looks draggable while reading. I actually thought it was a speed adjustment slider at first, and I tried to drag it a few times unsuccessfully. I'd suggest either removing the nub while reading, or allowing it to be dragged even while reading.

5. I don't find the name to be very memorable or even searchable. I actually lost this post, the app was buried inside my desktop iTunes and I had a pretty hard time finding the app again.

They did that as well: https://www.facebook.com/lookback/edit/

You can see the home where I grew up in your site’s photo. I freaked out for a second, thinking it might be some kind of message from above. Or some crazy breach of my privacy. I guess it’s just a freaky coincidence! Wow.

As an Ally customer, I am thoroughly underwhelmed.

The transactions UI is cool, but you have to use your debit card to take advantage of it, which means you're leaving 2-5% of money on the table with every purchase.

The only feature that could have convinced me to switch from Ally (budgeting) is not there yet.

There are tons of basic banking features missing, like checks, joint accounts, ACH transfers.

But the top thing I miss from Ally is the awesome bill pay. I've come to rely on my bank to alert me of bills when they come, and automatically pay them for me at the right time. For credit card bills I can even specify if I want to pay the minimum, full, or custom amount.

For something that's been years in the making, I was expecting more.

Not very convincing. We all know the value that Padmapper brings to apartment seekers. What's harder to explain is what (if any) value Padmapper brings to Craigslist. That's really the case you'd have to make to get Craigslist to reconsider.

Also, as much as I hate to say this, the “they didn’t do anything wrong” argument is very weak. Scraping the site explicitly goes against Craigslist’s TOS:

Any copying, aggregation, display, distribution, performance or derivative use of craigslist or any content posted on craigslist whether done directly or through intermediaries (including but not limited to by means of spiders, robots, crawlers, scrapers, framing, iframes or RSS feeds) is prohibited.

That binary includes the static assets. They're the origin for the CDN.

I actually find the discussion on Slashdot of much higher quality than this one.

I typed 'ita' and the first option was 'United Kingdom'.

Ally is rolling out the eCheck deposit feature: http://community.ally.com/straight-talk/2011/04/ally-bank-in...

In the meantime, you can simply mail them your checks, using their free pre-stamped envelopes. It only takes a couple of days for your money to show up. Faster and easier than going through a brick and mortar bank.

You no longer need any relation to the military to join USAA. That said, I recently switched from USAA to Ally. Same features, better rates, and better support. Both banks have decent web sites, and let you withdraw for free at any ATM, so for me they beat even BoA for convenience.

The following sequence of commands worked for me:

    openssl rsa -in ec2.pem > ec2.rsa
    chmod 700 ec2.rsa
    ssh-keygen -y -f ec2.rsa > ec2.rsa.pub

Then I added both ec2.rsa and ec2.rsa.pub to the app.

It's not just any carbohydrate, it's fructose, if you believe Dr. Robert M. Lustig: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM

That explains why mediterranean and asian diets, which are high on carbs but low on sugar (or artificial fructose), don't cause nearly as much obesity.

Care to show some numbers to support your argument?

Here:

    Nation          Total Fertility Rate 
  ------------------------------------
    Iceland         2.14
  * Ireland         2.10
  * New Zealand     2.10
    USA             2.01
    Norway          1.98
  * Australia       1.97
    France          1.97
    UK              1.96
    Turkey          1.92
  * Finland         1.85
    Denmark         1.74
    Luxembourg      1.70
    Sweden          1.67
  * Netherlands     1.66
    Belgium         1.65
    Estonia         1.63 
  * Canada          1.58
    Greece          1.50
  * Czech Republic  1.49 
    Portugal        1.49
    Spain           1.47
  * Switzerland     1.46
    Germany         1.42
  * Austria         1.41
    Italy           1.41
    Hungary         1.33

The list is sorted. Those marked "*" are in the original list.

Where is the correlation?

Don't forget that the content that JavaScript displays comes from somewhere, typically an HTTP API, which you can access with any HTTP library the same way JavaScript does.

If a JS web site also provides you with a clean API to the actual raw content in a format that is even easier to consume than HTML (e.g. JSON), would that make you happy?

Why use canvas for this when plain divs could do the job more easily and more efficiently, with wider browser compatibility? Simply for buzzword compliance?

When we developed swarmation.com we started with canvas and later switched to plain divs. Not only did we manage to throw out most of the code in the switch, things also ran much more smoothly and worked in IE as well.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for cool new tech, and canvas definitely has its uses. But we should be helping people recognize when plain HTML or SVG are more appropriate, rather than being buzzword-driven.

Why does he conclude that we need 4 primary colors? He knows that our eyes have three kinds of 'sensors', which roughly correspond to [R, G, B]. How the brain processes the initial perceptions, allegedly [R-G, (R+G)-B, R+G+B], doesn't change the fact that you can approximate all colors by mixing quantities of R, G and B.

What I'd find more interesting is a proposal (or a mention) of a color space that's based on what are, according to him, the 'computed' values. Something like NTL (tiNt/Temperature/Luminance), where N is R-G, T is (R+G)-B, and L is R+G+B. (The names 'tint' and 'temperature' are taken from photo editing software, as they are the only tools I can think of that come close to this system.)

Is nobody else afraid that instead of IPv6 we're now going to get more and more layers of NAT?

Sure, for us geeks that's totally unthinkable... no servers, no P2P?!? But most users, who are content with just web & email, will probably never notice the difference.

ISPs will surely find it easier to turn NAT on than to switch to IPv6, and the backlash might be close to nonexistent.

This is probably also a really clever use of captcha as a way to train their face-recognition algorithm.

Point taken. I switched my recommendation from UCO to DBO. (I kept the original text there so as not to invalidate your comment.)

Actually the portfolio is bonds, an index fund, and only a small fraction in a commodity and one stock. You could argue that I should keep the individual stock out of it. But the rest of your argument is just straw man.

Burton Malkiel (author of "A Random Walk Down Wall Street"), the guy who popularized index investing, doesn't condemn individual stock picking. He is fine with it, and he does it himself, provided you have a pool of safer investments in index funds to back you up in case you fail. Which is basically what I'm recommending.

Reference: watch the video at http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/535789/Burton-M...

Funny you should mention "The Random Walk Guide to Investing". Towards the end of that book the author mentions Scott Adams himself, and ends up basically saying "what he said". I think the book adds very little to what you can get from Scott's article (or mine), besides perhaps some tax advice and common sense stuff (pay off your credit card bills).

Right. One of the talking points in my "discuss" section was "is BND safe enough"? I'm still looking for something better. Suggestions welcome.

Spot on. I do mention in the article that the price of ARMH probably takes everything I mention into account already. I fully realize that buying ARMH right now is a gamble. It's one I'm willing to take though (even if just for the fun of it). Someone else more rational might want to stick to index funds. :)

Good point about bonds. I was thinking of splitting that 55%-60% between bonds and something even safer (money market?). I haven't found anything easy to invest in that currently gives returns above inflation. Any suggestions?

I do understand the risk to the monetary system. That's why I'm advocating diversifying into precious metals and commodities as well. That's something that seems rarely mentioned in investment advice, but ETFs make it relatively easy now.

This is an old article. Looks like the date is wrong, or he republished it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1293119

It's satire. In some ways, the reasoning that led Google to drop support for H.264, if taken to extremes, could be used to support the logic of dropping IPv4. I was merely pointing out, in a funny way, the parallel between the two situations, and the absurdity of the original H.264 decision.

For another example of related satire, see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2095993, which got 59 upvotes and made the front page.

Google: “Though IPv4 plays an important role in the Internet, as our goal is to enable open innovation, support for the protocol will be removed and our resources directed towards completely new technologies, such as IPv6.”

You forget HTTPS. The SSL handshake adds a significant delay to the connection time.