Thank you for having "developer at artsy.net" in your bio as I would have found this continued questioning odd otherwise. The gallery cancelled the order claiming both pieces are out of stock. A direct email to the…
Nothing that's Amazon's fault. Amazon purchase history shows order complete, paid via Amazon credit card. Gallery currently refuses to ship either piece. Verdict: yes, Amazon has successfully brought the magical…
I've never had a bad experience with Amazon or any of their third parties across hundreds (!) of transactions. Long time collector, I purchased two pieces of art yesterday via the beta. Known gallery, brick-and-mortar.…
Thank you for this. Onc clarification: the "Bieber YouTuBe upload" takedown scenario remained a DMCA issue. The non-commercial = non-felony language was actually made even more explicit under SOPA.
For starters, it's ntoskrnl.exe. Dig out the original Windows NT stuff from the early 90s and you can infer Dave Cutler and team's original vision. The fact that Microsoft made hundreds of billions of dollars off it,…
Sigh. Claude Shannon is rolling in his grave.
Click the Xamarin Dev Center link. You'll see Android and iOS but no Linux. They're focusing on mobile client tools. They never got the full stack running on the server and they punted most of the Windows-specific…
And here's where I flash pocket aces: I sat in a room with no windows and no computers, across from men with strong chins and short haircuts, reviewing Windows NT source code line by line. On friggin' paper. Never heard…
I hadn't heard this story before, but time isn't kind to this particular conspiracy. The moment of clarity: Mr. Curry wanted to sue Microsoft but "couldn't find a lawyer willing to take on the case" -- in 1998.…
Um, you know how Rails binds, right? Also: MVC2 runs under NET 3.5 which doesn't even have the dynamic keyword. (I don't use dynamic in MVC3 or MVC4 either...) The "stringly typed" (magic string) stuff was always…
The poor color rendering is what the comment above you is talking about. If a bulb makes your wood walls look funny and the picture of your girlfriend on the desk look like an alien, it's not going to go mainstream.…
The home automation market has been an utter disaster for decades. I hoped the "green" movement would nudge it mainstream. Not yet, and Google even killed off their home electricity monitoring projects. Here's a similar…
Requested it as part of the application. Perhaps I could have avoided the disclosure, but since a merchant account is effectively offering you credit (think about it) leveraging my personal rating yet incurring no…
I can echo the same treatment with two different merchant account providers across three companies. Didn't matter if it was a $10k month or a $1MM month or if the company was new or old--it was a constant battle. In one…
I did some work here. There's a lot of problems with legibility research. It's very, very hard to test for "legibility" or "readability" -- as, not surprisingly, the typeface is only a small part of what's going on when…
Exactly. Sass/Less have functions to adjust brightness and saturation for just this reason. I routinely tweak saturation so link and hover colors "read" the same on a white background versus even a light grey header.
"what you imagine it will be like greatly exceeeds what it actually will be like." According to Dan Gilbert, this is fallacy behind most life decisions. In both directions: we overestimate the future pain of negative…
Historically Microsoft has flown by the seat of its pants with a lot of this stuff. You wouldn't believe how horrible the Windows 95 or Windows XP interfaces were right up to the last possible minute. As might be…
I see you've never listed a million dollar house for sale. :)
Your post confused me because it said a lot of things about App Engine's datastore that conflicted with my direct experience. Khan Academy is one of the few sites that I'm excited about at the moment, so I'm concerned.…
It broke down for me on AppEngine. I had to move data out of the store to blobs, then use AppEngine queues to reduce the data into the store for reporting access. Basically they promised me what they promised you and,…
It seems like AppEngine is saving your ass at the moment but aren't you worried about scale? This is sort of a classic "storage not data" problem where you mapreduce raw data to a structured store for reporting. Are you…
I particularly disagree with the conclusion that Twitter would have become some sort of magical panacea as opposed to the screenshot he provides: https://twitter.com/#!/daltonc/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitt... The…
- SSL via SNI for $9/month (no Windows XP support, heck--limited Android support) - ...or a virtual (not static) IP address for $99/month (!!) - CDN via "PageSpeed" at .39/GB outgoing (plus .12/GB) - new!!! datacenter…
... have you tried PowerShell? It's actually more like a scripting language. But if they called it PowerScript we'd just make fun of it for being bad Python. And the command window itself still sucks. I use…
Thank you for having "developer at artsy.net" in your bio as I would have found this continued questioning odd otherwise. The gallery cancelled the order claiming both pieces are out of stock. A direct email to the…
Nothing that's Amazon's fault. Amazon purchase history shows order complete, paid via Amazon credit card. Gallery currently refuses to ship either piece. Verdict: yes, Amazon has successfully brought the magical…
I've never had a bad experience with Amazon or any of their third parties across hundreds (!) of transactions. Long time collector, I purchased two pieces of art yesterday via the beta. Known gallery, brick-and-mortar.…
Thank you for this. Onc clarification: the "Bieber YouTuBe upload" takedown scenario remained a DMCA issue. The non-commercial = non-felony language was actually made even more explicit under SOPA.
For starters, it's ntoskrnl.exe. Dig out the original Windows NT stuff from the early 90s and you can infer Dave Cutler and team's original vision. The fact that Microsoft made hundreds of billions of dollars off it,…
Sigh. Claude Shannon is rolling in his grave.
Click the Xamarin Dev Center link. You'll see Android and iOS but no Linux. They're focusing on mobile client tools. They never got the full stack running on the server and they punted most of the Windows-specific…
And here's where I flash pocket aces: I sat in a room with no windows and no computers, across from men with strong chins and short haircuts, reviewing Windows NT source code line by line. On friggin' paper. Never heard…
I hadn't heard this story before, but time isn't kind to this particular conspiracy. The moment of clarity: Mr. Curry wanted to sue Microsoft but "couldn't find a lawyer willing to take on the case" -- in 1998.…
Um, you know how Rails binds, right? Also: MVC2 runs under NET 3.5 which doesn't even have the dynamic keyword. (I don't use dynamic in MVC3 or MVC4 either...) The "stringly typed" (magic string) stuff was always…
The poor color rendering is what the comment above you is talking about. If a bulb makes your wood walls look funny and the picture of your girlfriend on the desk look like an alien, it's not going to go mainstream.…
The home automation market has been an utter disaster for decades. I hoped the "green" movement would nudge it mainstream. Not yet, and Google even killed off their home electricity monitoring projects. Here's a similar…
Requested it as part of the application. Perhaps I could have avoided the disclosure, but since a merchant account is effectively offering you credit (think about it) leveraging my personal rating yet incurring no…
I can echo the same treatment with two different merchant account providers across three companies. Didn't matter if it was a $10k month or a $1MM month or if the company was new or old--it was a constant battle. In one…
I did some work here. There's a lot of problems with legibility research. It's very, very hard to test for "legibility" or "readability" -- as, not surprisingly, the typeface is only a small part of what's going on when…
Exactly. Sass/Less have functions to adjust brightness and saturation for just this reason. I routinely tweak saturation so link and hover colors "read" the same on a white background versus even a light grey header.
"what you imagine it will be like greatly exceeeds what it actually will be like." According to Dan Gilbert, this is fallacy behind most life decisions. In both directions: we overestimate the future pain of negative…
Historically Microsoft has flown by the seat of its pants with a lot of this stuff. You wouldn't believe how horrible the Windows 95 or Windows XP interfaces were right up to the last possible minute. As might be…
I see you've never listed a million dollar house for sale. :)
Your post confused me because it said a lot of things about App Engine's datastore that conflicted with my direct experience. Khan Academy is one of the few sites that I'm excited about at the moment, so I'm concerned.…
It broke down for me on AppEngine. I had to move data out of the store to blobs, then use AppEngine queues to reduce the data into the store for reporting access. Basically they promised me what they promised you and,…
It seems like AppEngine is saving your ass at the moment but aren't you worried about scale? This is sort of a classic "storage not data" problem where you mapreduce raw data to a structured store for reporting. Are you…
I particularly disagree with the conclusion that Twitter would have become some sort of magical panacea as opposed to the screenshot he provides: https://twitter.com/#!/daltonc/media/slideshow?url=pic.twitt... The…
- SSL via SNI for $9/month (no Windows XP support, heck--limited Android support) - ...or a virtual (not static) IP address for $99/month (!!) - CDN via "PageSpeed" at .39/GB outgoing (plus .12/GB) - new!!! datacenter…
... have you tried PowerShell? It's actually more like a scripting language. But if they called it PowerScript we'd just make fun of it for being bad Python. And the command window itself still sucks. I use…