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The same benefits could probably be achieved by maintaing your current habits and then increasing sharply your caffeine intake at times when you need a boost. It's all relative, right?
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That's called Troxler's fading, caused by the gradual adaptation of photoreceptors in the retina to the recent average light level. But in the OP, the yellow dots are high in contrast, disappear in less than 5 seconds, and then seem to blink on and off at random. So I think this might not be the same effect.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troxler%27s_fading
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Author here.

If you're interested in hacking on this project it's available on github to look at.

https://github.com/ryanseddon/font-dragr
Excel is 99% of the reason I run virtualized windows.
Eventually we'll want more from our standard, flat websites. WebGL is part of that. Not every site of course, but with the inevitable increases in processing power that come in the future so will our desire to be inventive with it.

Keep in mind we're entering a post-PC era. Our mobile and tablets already include (a bit) of GPU acceleration for certain CSS transitions. This is where WebGL will shine, in my opinion.
To me, the page looks more like a graphic artist's portfolio view than for a company providing SaaS, cloud and web development services. So from the get-go it is thematically confusing.

The larger question is, what are you trying to communicate with your "coming soon" page? I hope you are trying to communicate something. Web design has become an incredibly generic business format.

You need to actually say something about who you serve, what you do for your clientele, and what makes your services irreplaceable.

Forgive me if that is for the "next version", but there is a culture in some web-dev circles of letting metaphoric images "communicate" ... and they really don't do that very well at all.
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The biggest reason was Digg v4, which was buggy, didn't have features present in the previous version and basically sold the readership to tech news outlets. By the time they fixed it, everyone went to Reddit.
> I think there'd have to be a serious health negative

Not a health negative but you build a tolerance to it. So then when you actually "need" a caffeine boost you'll need more of it. So...you'll have to buy a bigger mug and deal with more sever headaches if you somehow go without it.

I am actually doing what the article suggests. I normally don't drink coffee (I drink tea) except when I need a boost, then wean myself off of it. Then I do get the headaches and I manage them buy drinking more tea than usual and taking aspirin.
Keeping something as big as Amazon reasonably usable is hard. But they have a pretty significant focus on improving the user experience. The culture is also less problematic than Microsoft and they're much easier to connect with than Google (e.g.).

They have their flaws, but they often do an admirable job for such a large entity.
Anti-caffeine bloggers are so annoying. There is nothing wrong with caffeine, it pretty much drives the modern world. Caffeine is a highly successful and safe nootropic and I'm convinced that people who tell you to stop it are the same people who would tell you to stop masturbating, or to take cold showers, or to sleep without a mattress.

There is no good reason to stop caffeine. If you want an extra boost, just drink more! Duh!
A good practice in general is to rotate your receptors. In this case would mean alternating between coffee, tea, and maté, because each has different analogs in different proportions.
The last line stood out to me.

> ... passing by along the way the idle fiber infrastructure that the FCC set aside nearly a decade ago.

Can anyone elaborate on what exactly they mean? Is this dark fiber sitting around somewhere? Did the FCC sanction the deployment and private companies built it out (and then ignored it) or was government money spent to lay the wires?
What do you really want to do? School? A good job? A cool project? Partner up with someone to keep you accountable to at least one goal at a time!
Sean Ellis recently did a good presentation on this, highlighting whats different for network effect businesses:

http://startup-marketing.com/bringing-a-network-effect-busin...
Having a pretty high IQ seems to be necessary but not sufficient for actual intelligence. Einstein, Feynman and a few others ( I wonder what E.O. Wilson's is? )have IQ's of between 120 and 140; good but not superlative. Perhaps the problem with IQ tests is that the problems are primarily deductive in nature, because it's easier to construct a test like that.

Actual intelligence though, requires a balance of deduction and synthesis. The ability to synthesize new ideas and hypothesis from known facts is much harder to measure; it's the creative side of intelligence and it's mostly left out of IQ tests.
F.lux is indispensable on Mac and PC (when I still had a PC.) Absolutely required if you code at all during evening/nighttime.

Unfortunately I couldn't get it to work* on my Ubuntu box and found another app, Redshift, that seems to jive better with Linux: http://jonls.dk/redshift/

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* Ran without errors, but didn't tint my screen. I chalked it up to oddities of video card drivers on Linux.
I'm not sure. If I have too many coffees I become paranoid and shaky. I don't remember that happening early on when I was developing my addiction.
I must admit each and every chapter description wooshed way over my head. Hopefully this means that this stuff is not pitched at the intelligent layman, the alternative explanation being that I am unintelligent.

I am pretty sure that waterfalls don't play chess though. And I know the author doesn't. A middlegame position with white's king on e3, supplemented with a knight on f1, a rook on e2 a queen on g3 and in particular a black king sitting between squares, but maybe on e5, while not illegal is so unlikely as to hurt a chess player's eyes. This is a common meme actually; People who use chess graphics in advertisements, TV, films, photo shoots etc. never seem to ask a chess player to set up something that makes sense. I suppose I could just be grateful that at least the board's orientation is correct. I get the strong impression that this happens less than 50% of the time in such situations, although that of course defies common sense.
I just wanted to know the initial reaction.., I will definitely change the background images and add responsive css but the layout will remain same.

About the SaaS part, well i just want the users to know which and all services i provide, and whether they want to be notified when we are done re-designing, they can leave their email address if they want to. Nothing else.
I tried for years to give up an 8+ cup a day habit.
The first few times after a few days of no coffee I would be literally falling asleep at my desk at work.

Recently I went on a long vacation, and though I was drinking coffee, it was no where near as much as usual, and even that trickled off completely during the last week. At that point I thought I may as well try stopping completely - it was hard, but it's been about a month now, and I definitely feel the better for it.

The main benefit is just being able to wake up easily in the morning - previously I would wake up and feel groggy for 30 minutes or so. I'd feel normal after 30 minutes whether I had a coffee or not, but it still made waking up unpleasant. Now, as soon as my alarm goes off (and usually 10 minutes before) I'm wide awake and feeling alert. It's seriously life changing - no more hitting snooze 17 times in a row...

The downside is, I miss the taste of coffee. There's some cereal drinks that make a passable drink, but they're like a watered down, bad tasting substitute for the real thing =/
I might even strike the "recently" from that question. (I'm not being facetious)
I love the comments here. Screw the fact that it's a stimulant drug, it's "just caffeine". How many among the caffiene abusing crowd also go out of their way to demonize other, possibly less legal, drugs with similar or safer effects? Even ones with considerably lower lethal doses.

"How to Break Your Daily Meth Habit And Use Meth Strategically". (edit, I'm not saying meth is an example of a drug "safer" than caffeine), but seriously, meth is used like coffee in many other parts of the world, especially those in migrant jobs or need to maximize their hours when a job is available. (I'm not, for the record, advocating that anyone even so much as try meth).
thanks for sharing the numbers!! always interesting
Really? See, I drink mostly decaf espresso, and I'm pretty picky about my coffee, grind my own beans, etc. I can't tell a difference. If it's good coffee, it's good. If not, it's not, no matter decaf or regular. Am I the only one?
How about this?

http://sip.clarku.edu/3e/tableofcontents.html

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/0805377581/condition=...
Is it true that Python has dynamic scoping? I would have thought that it was lexical...
Really? Meth is similar or safer in it's effects?
You can actually stop the motion in that page. I tried it, and although the dots seem to fade to a light gray, they did not go away completely for me.
Even if you are dealing with someone willing to lie about the situation, not talking helps you a lot because it gives them less material to work with. If they have to make something up whole-cloth, there's a higher chance that they'll make something up that couldn't possibly have happened. If they have your description of what really happened, they only have to alter a few details.
Same goes for cable companies here in the states. For example Comcast you can buy your own modem then pay $42 a month for Internet when u subscribe to local cable channels for additional $15. You can also just subscribe to Internet for $60 sans local cable.

Further if you live in apartment complex an open wifi access point is the cheapest!
But I do like the taste of the thing.
"Paths" seem like the ideal organizing principle for lean web services. I think if my company made this part of our vocabulary, it would indeed make our processes more lean for improving UX, managing marketing and feature prioritization.
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Why should someone leave their email address if you don't give them a good reason to do so? That's the main thing your page lacks - some statement of who you help and what you sell. You seem to be saying you covered that already but that material only appears in your title. There's 10 zillion web devs out there and all you're showing is a graphic.
I guess I am saying the downside of not having regular coffee (just that) outweighs the upside, which is the occasional use for an energy boost.

You switch out the first benefit for tea, I switch out the second for usually either sugar or exercise.
A lot of IT people I have known over the years have had Meth habits of one sort or another. A few have had it turn into a full blown problem while others just stopped without it becoming an issue. All of them have talked to me about what a slippery slope it is. I don't think any of them would never suggest caffeine is anywhere near as dangerous.
Are you sure you don't mean some other kind of amphetamine? Methamphetamine is really addictive and toxic.
I was of course talking specifically about WebGL for games...

But it seems like you'd run into many of the same hindrances. For example, how will you get around the 5MB local storage limit? It would be unwieldly to re-download the whole visualization dataset each time, no?

P.S. I have nothing but respect for the medical visualization community. A lot of game graphics techniques were derived directly from work done in medical research (for example, BSP rendering and voxel rendering).
> You’ve probably worked at companies were people who’ve been there for 2 decades ...

11. You know how to proofread.
I hate to be that guy but "Comic Sans MS"? Comic Sans is often ridiculed for being "kiddy" and doesn't go well when trying to convey "professional web design". At the very least, it seems out of place with the cityscape theme you have going there.

Edit:
So in answer to the font question, anything but Comic Sans. Helvetica/Arial are "safe bets" but if you browse around the Google free web fonts, you might find something nice. Maybe its cliché, but cityscapes make me think of thin/narrow sans-serif fonts, e.g. http://www.google.com/webfonts#QuickUsePlace:quickUse/Family...

In the long run, you shouldn't be worrying too much about a page that will be going away (hopefully!) soon, except that it is legible and gets people signing up for more info.
This introduction to trademarks from a course by the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society includes many legal references:

http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/metaschool/fisher/domain/tm.htm

In the legal terminology, a trademark like either 'craigslist' or "Craig's List" would be considered a descriptive mark that has acquired secondary meaning via use, such that the consuming public identifies a mark with a particular producer. It now doesn't matter if your name is Craig and you have a List. If you name a business that and people are confused because the field of use is similar to those for which Craiglist is known, Craigslist has a valid case against you.

The Wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trademark) also highlights that "The test is always whether a consumer of the goods or services will be confused as to the identity of the source or origin."

Another example of the primacy of the liklihood-of-confusion standard is the following guide page at the USPTO:

http://tess2.uspto.gov/webaka/html/Likelihood/Likelihood_of_...

Small changes in appearance/spelling/punctuation (like adding a space in the middle) are not enough to resolve a conflict.
Really, that's interesting. Maybe I need to give it another try.
I went with Moneydance (http://www.moneydance.com/) when I got fed up with the Quicken for Mac situation a few years back, and I've been mostly happy with the switch. It's a Java app, and as a result looks out of place amongst my mostly native apps, but it's pretty reliable and gets the job done.
A bit full of yourself perhaps? Do you have anything substantiated to back up that sort of preening? (I ask seriously)
Good quality decaf is a nice beverage, similar in aroma and flavor to regular coffee, but there's definitely something missing in the flavor. The decaffination process is pretty harsh on the beans, as I understand it.
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FWIW if you come home after midnight again some day, just change your time zone to Hawaii (and then back).
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I know, thats one of the reasons i used it...
In far west Houston AT&T is an abomination. I quite literally drop 1-4 calls daily, especially around 3-8pm. In my house I'm usually at 1 bar or "searching" most of the time. I have complained and their excuse is that the large masterplanned community that dominates the area won't let them put up more towers. I am skeptical of this. Its a big neighborhood but they aren't that big.

I try to use mark the spot religiously but dunno if it loses it's impact when I'm marking it daily
Number one deterrent to me using Word: no support for emacs navigation keystrokes, which are near-universal on the Mac. I don't use actual emacs, but I've come to rely heavily on those keystrokes.
"There are only two kinds of quotes: Those that are ascribed to famous people, and those that aren't good enough to make their authors famous."

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[Note that this doesn't rule out the existence of the many unfortunate authors whose sentences are so good that they get mis-ascribed to even more famous authors, rather than making the original authors themselves famous.]

[Zen practitioners will note the existence of a third type of quote: If a sentence is uttered in the woods but nobody is listening, it will never be attributed to anyone famous.]
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Well..., To say the truth i just kept email field as most of the coming soon pages has that.., Otherwise i don't provide a web service (yet) and i don't expect anybody to leave their email..
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Caffeine's main effect (though not the only one) is as an adenosine reuptake antagonist. That means that it makes it harder for your body to re-absorb adenosine in your bloodstream. Wikipedia has more detail, but effectively, your body will adapt to regular caffeine intake by increasing the number of adenosine receptor sites. So in the morning, when there is very little adenosine in your blood to begin with, more or less caffeine will not have much effect. But after you've been awake for a long time and there's more adenosine in your blood, increasing the amount of caffeine will not have as much effect because your body already has a lot more receptor sites, it's got some resistance to the effects. But decreasing the amount of caffeine will cause a "crash" where your body starts taking up lots of adenosine all at once.

So, keeping a baseline level of caffeine in your system causes your body to become resistant.
Mesa was originally a pure-software implementation of OpenGL (with the trademarks filed off), but since it was the only complete, open-source GL stack, a lot of open-source hardware drivers re-use parts of it, including the official Intel graphics drivers.

To the grandparent poster: Like any system component, the best way to upgrade Mesa is to upgrade your OS. Sadly, the latest version of Ubuntu is 11.04, which comes with Mesa 7.10.2, and Firefox blacklists every version of Mesa before 7.10.3, so you'll probably have to wait for 11.10 (or just force-enable webgl).
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I think Eric's point for a business like that would be given a choice between burning time and money scaling (ie. big launch and marketing on customer acquisition) spend it on a few more iterations of refining the product, AND seeing how a small number real customers react to it.
I'm sorry, but only two of those points are true. When iTunes came out, there was nothing like it in the market. A great way to manage and buy new music all at one place? Plenty of room for invention.

The proof that is was such a unique experience? The labels spent the next 2 years fighting tooth and nail for 'control' of their music catalogs back from iTunes.
you were being ironic, right?
Do any MBA programs encourage you to play the game differently?
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I think it's partly because the counter examples are many. It's a common activity to quickly judge someone with extraordinary insight as "genius", when the case could be that they slaved for more hours than one would ever believe before the insight came.

Even Alfred Binet was against creating any sort of correlation between intelligence and IQ. His main objective was to create a test that would evaluate where students needed the most help, rather than draw any correlation on intelligence which so many love to do.

What has become clear from the studies I've read recently is that most IQ tests test fluid intelligence (which isn't fixed, but can definitely be improved) and doesn't even attempt to test for overall potential (a factor that I would consider MUCH more valuable). Nonetheless, many believe there is a factor (called 'g') that does speak for one's overall "intelligence", however most IQ tests aren't built to test it.
"write it again using new java 5 concurrent classes"

Java 5 was EOL'd in 2009. While it's good to understand some of the fundamentals (wait(long) is actually pretty tricky to use in practice), it'd be ridiculous not to allow anything introduced in the "new" java 5.
Back in the 90s, Neal Stephenson wrote a great short story about the implications of such technology: http://www.vanemden.com/books/neals/jipi.html
I'm surprised he mentions Word 5.x as the "best" version of Word, because back in the day Word Perfect was where it was at. Nobody used Word because WP was so much better. Then something happened, WP went away or Word got better or both, and I made the switch to Word.
Seriously? Move to China, then we'll talk about slow broadband...
I mean, I have no doubt in your statement, I don't know many people who can't tell the difference, I just never have been able to.
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Hell, I'd probably let him work on my car even if he were terrible at it. (Then again, maybe not - what a waste of talent that would be!)
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I'm genuinely considering business school because I feel like the "jack of all trades" type and generally the type who encourages others to do their best work, builds bridges, helps facilitate collaboration etc.

I do wonder if the B-school route is just the cop-out for me because it plays to my existing strengths, and let's me boost the resume without being on the corporate treadmill for a few years.

Would love to hear from others who've got MBAs on here. The coding community is generally negative about MBAs, but does anyone on here have any advise?

Are technology-management-focused MBA programs ever any different?
But it's entirely true that the FCC was under the watch of Republicans when the telecom act was defanged and shared access to customer copper was rolled back. Maybe you don't remember, but ten years ago you could get various providers on the copper you had -- I had DSL from a local company over my Verizon-provisioned phone line. My dad had earthlink service over his time-Warner cable line. There was a price difference and most definitely a difference in service. Nowadays the best you can do is speakeasy, and they have to pay covad to roll a truck and use a second pair of copper. This change was courtesy of the FCC, who agreed with an industry assessment that competition was really driving them nuts. And like it or not, the FCC was run by Republicans (Kevin Martin, remember him?) when this anti-consumer change was made. Your comment that "people become content" more accurately describes today's marketplace, where people are faced with a dearth of options for home and mobile broadband and just suck it up, pay the outrageous amount, and get on with life.
Ah, you are correct, Python scoping is lexical. The point I wanted to make was more about no pre-declaration and I mixed up what I was trying to say.

Thanks for pointing that out, it's now corrected :)
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I think the more important tools in this case though are language, grammar, and punctuation.
I like the author's writing style very much. It's the best explanation on prototype I've ever read. His another article on this is great too.
Thanks for the extra info. I wasn't aware that hardware drivers used it, I just remember back in the day Mesa meant no Soldier of Fortune demo and Beryl :)
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Or in too human terms
Let me be a data point. I have a BSc in Comp Sci, run my own company(ies), and did my MBA at a "good" school (Schulich School of Business). Here's, in my opinion, THE best takeaway a technically minded person gets from an MBA: there are people in this world who don't think like you, don't solve problems like you, and don't have the same interests, but you're often working shoulder to shoulder with them so best you learn how to deal with them.

MBA projects are more often than not group work and in your group you'll have a marketing person, a financial expert, an electrical engineer, and maybe a teacher who wants to change careers. It's like herding cats sometimes to get people on the same page, not because they're dumber or slower than you, the Python wiz, but because they're used to solving problems differently.

For me, this was the best part of my MBA. I really improved my sensitivity to others' understanding of issues and became more "personable".