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wonderyak

359 karma · joined January 19, 2011

front-end developer, wet blanket.
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wonderyak··on WooThemes joins Automattic
The thousands of developers making a living mostly off of WordPress development would probably disagree with you.

It's low hanging fruit, not a lot of effort for decent return.

wonderyak··on WooThemes joins Automattic
With the coming REST API and possibly some new ways of obviating the dashboard and the TinyMCE editor WordPress is headed in a great direction.
wonderyak··on WooThemes joins Automattic
I wonder if this will somehow improve the quality of WooThemes' themes?
wonderyak··on Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event
Sounds like a typical first generation new device from Apple.

Generally, 1st generation new devices have low benefit to cost ratios, are trying to enter a market with the absolute minimum requirements, and the successive generations will include some kind of hardware bit that makes the device much more useful.

wonderyak··on Apple: March 9th 'Spring Forward' Event
Patterns, transperency and lots and lots of time.
wonderyak··on How Madden Ratings Are Made
The biggest problem always seems to be human intervention and the expectation of how much and where a human might intervene in any play.

In addition, there are global sliders which have some kind of effect on performance. Whether these are just offsetting player attributes or introducing some other factor I'm not sure.

My personal gripe with the latest offering is that recievers most of the time will make no serious effort to catch a ball. They are on-rails to a catch point and do little else.

wonderyak··on Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple
I'm happily working towards that now.
wonderyak··on Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple
Oh I'm sure it would, but it would be far better than my current situation.
wonderyak··on Want Elon Musk to Hire You at Tesla? Work for Apple
I'd be happy enough just working at Apple.
wonderyak··on I’m an Anti-Braker
I (American) was born in 1980 and I clearly remember being told that the Soviets and their Evil Empire were going to kill us all some day. It was a time where calling someone a 'communist' was not just a rhetorical device, but an actual insult.

This was a common thread from school, to the news to my family. People were worried about the communists still and the rapidly degenerating situation in the USSR only increased the worry.

wonderyak··on The Party Is Over for Amazon
http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/amzn/institutional-holdings

http://www.nasdaq.com/quotes/insiders/bezos-jeffrey-p-48340

wonderyak··on I Hope Twitter Goes Away
Maybe he just wants to engage with #Brands.
wonderyak··on Drupal Core – Highly Critical Public Service announcement
Stacey is like Kirby without a web interface. You manage content by dropping text files into directories. It's not inelegant. Admin interfaces can be just as poor for representing content as anything else (see: TinyMCE/WordPress) so once you get a client used to the workflow it isn't much of a hassle.

It's not like you're forcing them to build jekyll.

wonderyak··on Poll: Do you use an ad-blocker?
Yes, though I will occasionally unblock certain sites.

Primarily I use ad/script blockers as an extra layer of security.

wonderyak··on Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
The current battery tech is holding the entire world back. The next market revolution will come with new power generation (battery) tech that allows us to not worry about charging things every 5 hours.

I have the same thought as you, what Tesla may accomplish as a company may not be affordable electric vehicles but leaps in battery and power storage.

wonderyak··on Playboy Interview: Steve Jobs (1985)
'I only read it for the interviews/articles' used to be a legitimate reason and not a joke for covering up buying a magazine with boobs in it.
wonderyak··on Show HN: Website themes designed by machine
> “The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.” - Frank Zappa

The interplay between elements is just as important as the individual elements themselves. Basically, context is super important.

wonderyak··on Crytek USA Collapses, Sells Game IP to Other Developers
They did the same thing with Far Cry. Whenever they need money they sell off an IP.
wonderyak··on Steam In-Home Streaming
FWIW - on my meager Atom/ION setup I had to turn HW Decoding off in order for it to work properly.
wonderyak··on Steam In-Home Streaming
I just got up and running with a temporary HTPC that is attached to my second TV. Its a crappy Nettop with an Atom and 1x PCI-e ION2.

I'm getting 30FPS @ 720p on the TV streaming a number of games (Civ V, Stick of Truth); I also tried a number of non-Steam games which worked great as well.

Requirements seem very, very modest.

wonderyak··on Sorry, Steve: Here's Why Apple Stores Won't Work (2001)
Sure its fun to laugh at things people said that turned out very, very wrong. I think one of the basic premises isn't all that far off though:

>The way Jobs sees it, the stores look to be a sure thing. But even if they attain a measure of success, few outsiders think new stores, no matter how well-conceived, will get Apple back on the hot-growth path.

Sure, that's short sighted but its not quite wrong. The stores worked out because new and exciting products drove people there. Apple finally had a way to sell their vision the way they wanted to.

wonderyak··on Chat Wars: Microsoft vs. AOL
There seems to be a tipping point at a lot of really successful companies where they get a little too top-heavy. Too many executives, too much management (often as rank and file are being laid off or shown the door) and not enough people doing things.
wonderyak··on HN: I was fired today, is this even legal?
1. That is not what right-to-work laws are for, nor is what you described any definition of right-to-work.

2. CA is an at-will employment state. You can be terminated for cause, no cause or just cause.

wonderyak··on Show HN: My Isometric Voxel Engine 6 Months Later
This looks wonderful.

The map generation looks particularly great.

wonderyak··on Facebook acquires Oculus VR
There is much more money to be made in 'dystopian' tech than there would be with 'utopian' tech.
wonderyak··on Poll: How much money do you have in your bank account?
Keeping money in a bank is 'ok' until you hit the insured limit.

'Safe' stocks (utilities, etc), precious metals and real estate are all nominally safe investments as well.

wonderyak··on Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over
Being able to assist you in any small way is really a treat considering all I've learned from your site over the years.

Thank you.

wonderyak··on Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over
Probably Workspaces: http://aws.amazon.com/workspaces/
wonderyak··on Confessions of an ex-TSA agent
What amount of security screening is going to stop a truck full of explosives from going off?
wonderyak··on PSD to HTML is Dead
The best PSD I ever recieved had a layer exclusively reserved for annotating margins and spacing. I didn't have to dig into the PSD and check the toolbar, all of the figures I needed were right there.

It even came with a PDF style guide outlining line spacing, font size, colors in hex and margins/padding.

I've never been so elated to get a PSD.

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