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I read this as: You think that this alternative-to-screencasts is great, but you'd pay more money if it also made… screencasts. ;)

There's absolutely nothing wrong with liking screencasts. But if you want a screencast - a thing with video and audio clips that conveys information through voice - you want a different product, right? There are existing products that help you make screencasts.

The problem with bolting screencasting features onto this product is that it muddies the message ("we need an alternative to screencasting, one that also does screencasting!") and really threatens to overcomplicate the software, both the UX and the back-end.
There's an important optimization that Nginx is missing around real-world TTFB, however that would benefit Cloudflare users.

Even though it is streaming compression, zlib normally packs compressed content into larger than 1500-byte blocks. Browsers can start parsing gzipped content as soon as they can decompress a block, but they have to wait for a whole block to arrive, which means for gzipped content they will often have to wait for more than the first packet to arrive. (Due to TCP slow-start, this may be another round-trip.) This means they are also waiting longer to start fetching <head> contents.

There's a simple fix for this, which is to call deflate(..., Z_SYNC_FLUSH) on a chunk that is likely to compress to under 1500 bytes, like maybe all of <head> or the first 4k. The total compressed size will be slightly larger, but the tradeoff is usually worth it. Nginx doesn't currently do this, but would be a nice optimization to make available.

It's possible to work around this in Nginx by using the embedded perl module and SSI. After </head>, I use SSI to call perl's $r->flush, which Nginx correctly translates into Z_SYNC_FLUSH. The improvement is small, but measurable.
Sentencing is a result of the legislative branch and not the judiciary. These sentences are often mandated by law. Judges have no legal leeway to reduce them. I believe the argument is whether the trial system is fair, and not the unfortunate reality that we elect morons because they are "tough on crime."
I think at best your argument proves that there is a problem with legislation. I.e. with the laws that treat white collar criminals not as hard as crack users.

I don't know about unknown rich with connections. But a lot of celebrities got pretty harsh treatment. Michael Vick served more time than his co-defendants.
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The thing is, listening to the early SO podcasts it was clear Jeff gave a lot of credit to the mechanics of the site. Clearly (and I'm pretty sure Joel gathered this) it was the combined critical mass from their blogs and the viral effect which led to a significant portion of the community allowing the site to become a "standard".
> "so I made this app instead"

Is this really the work of a single individual? How long did it take you? It looks like something a team built.

Edit:

http://www.iorad.com/?a=site.about

It was a team. I would have upvoted this in heartbeat if hadn't been for the misleading title.
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I didn't say it's impossible. I said it's not a great size. You could read a novel one word at a time on a digital wristwatch, too, but it'd be a pretty subpar experience.

> Your eyes don't scan more than about 3-5 words simultaneously, so a screen width any wider than that is suboptimal.

The fact that your eyes can't consume 20 words at once does not mean that a line length of 5 is optimal. Your brain gets context from the surrounding words. If 5 words in a line is optimal for giving context to the center word, it's decidedly suboptimal for the other words in the line, which necessarily have less surrounding context. Your eyes also don't really read more than one line at a time. Does that make it optimal to limit the display to one line?

Also, autoscroll sucks. It's not natural to read at a fixed pace. As your level of wakefulness, concentration, interest, etc. changes, so does your reading pace. Beyond that, some lines simply take more or less time to read than others.
Actually research shows that these people that spend years in jail have more children on average than people without criminal record. In addition the more years you spend in jail, the more reproductive you are.
So the "eugenics program" will never work because the human evolution doesn't care about low IQ and impulsiveness .
I call this situation an "empty nest" situation- a company ready to go gangbusters but with an idea that they know won't work, so they're stuck.

The solution's straightforward- there are hundreds of would-be solo founders or founder duos that have a brilliant idea, are pitching their heart out, and not getting any traction.

Network like the dickens for the next 30 days, go to pitch events, etc., and find people where you can say "they're going to go far" and "I could work with this person", then pitch _them_ your empty nest.
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Nothing beats being outdoors and reading my books.

That being said, both the Kindle Fire and iPad 2 we have are inside devices only. When going on trips its the Kindle that is always packed with the question of, are we taking the iPad? Oh, yeah, kids want to play Angry Birds.

e-ink just cannot be beat outdoors, I haven't found one active display that works well in that environment.
It sounds like you are upset that you put a lot of effort into solving the problem, and also that the question got closed. I can understand how that could be frustrating, but your answer is still there and can still be voted on (only new answers aren't allowed). And to be honest, the question is definitely without a doubt, not on topic to SO. I'm sorry you came away with a bad experience, but just because a questions is closed doesn't mean SO is saying something mean to you personally.
Is http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/15/thedatable-launch/ the inspiration behind this ?
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Very surprised to read this nugget. I had no idea Verizon was so culpable in Palm's implosion.

>Just look at the tragic story of Palm, which went from darling of CES 2009 to legendary failure in just 31 short months. The company initially wanted to ship its Pre smartphone on Verizon, but the carrier backed out and Palm was forced to languish on Sprint, where it was unable to compete directly against the iPhone. When Verizon finally picked up the Pre Plus the next year, the carrier ordered millions of devices and then flippantly refused shipment and decided to focus on the Motorola Droid, leaving Palm sitting on millions of unsold units that couldn't be used on any other carrier in the world. The decision cost Palm hundreds of million of dollars and led directly to the company selling itself to HP.
I read an article about it a long time ago. The minimum penalties are draconian. An example from the 80s was a kid who had been making photocopies of $1 bills and feeding them into a change machine for free candy. The minimum penalty at the time was something like $100,000. Today they are higher. You don't want to mess with them.

Governments take money seriously. For example everyone knows that Isaac Newton was a great scientist. Few know that he became Master of the Mint, and was responsible for enforcing the traditional penalty for undermining the currency - execution by drawing and quartering. (By all accounts he was very zealous in this task.)
CIA? What exactly did they do?
I guess I must be the only person on HN who was curious how many of my highschool classmates are married and not single.
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This is very interesting, thanks for the perspective.
title fixed...yes it was a team effort and it took a long long time to make...sorry about the confusion
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They have not declared it to be "Higgs boson" yet.
Please don't be so pedantic. It adds nothing to the conversation.
I can confirm that SE Inc. definitely did not pay for this article (or blog post). They called us for some facts, but that was the extent of our involvement as far as I know. I also agree that it seems about two years late and not filled with any new information.
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Interesting. I wonder about people cohabitate to see they can live with each other, rather than having the patience to wait until they can't live without each other.

I theorize that the latter would make for a stronger relationship. One in which the partners are not looking for the deal breaker, but always searching for the solution to the kind of problems that couples have.
Completely ignoring TTFB would be a BAD idea. There is no single metric that conveys the user experience (or performance).

Certainly optimizing for 1ms because of the overhead for gzip compression isn't where you should be spending your time but I have dozens of cases in the WebPagetest forums where users have had 5+ second TTFB times and needed help figuring out what was going on. I have even seen cases where it was over 20 seconds (search for TTFB in the forums and you'll be shocked). It is usually a combination of shared hosting and excessive database queries by their CMS but it is common enough that completely ignoring it would be a very BAD idea.

Companies like Cloudflare can help the real TTFB (without cheating) by optimizing the conection between the end user and the origin site. Most CDN's call it DSA where they maintain a persistent connection back to the origin and eliminate some of the round trip times. Cloudflare's recently-launched Railgun feature should have a similar benefit.

It's actually a pretty well-known best-practice for web performance to "flush the document early" if you have any expensive back-end processing to do. This isn't cheating and involves sending as much of the HTML content as possible to give the browser a head-start downloading external resources (css, js, etc).

Doing it with just the HTTP headers in order to cheat the metric itself is not in anybody's interest.
Really interesting platform. Where can I read more about pricing?
Used it for less than 3 minutes, got more than 10 "Share with your friends!" pop-ups that if you hit "no" on forgets the action you were trying to perform before it showed the pop-up. Very annoying.
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This is restoring a feature that existed in circa 2005 Thefacebook. You could easily browse your friends in various relationship states. Many more people would actually set their status as "Single" back then too. Nowadays, in my friend circles, most single people just don't broadcast their relationship status.
The problem is there at the moment. But for several hours yesterday it was deleted. It is clear that for people who are senior in the stack overflow community, like Oded, think that deletion is what should have happened.

What was intended is one thing. What resulted is that I got the message that effort put out by me, that I thought was appreciated due to upvotes, is not what is actually desired there. So why bother?
How can anyone take this article seriously when the author calls Scala a real language? Haha
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Very nicely done. I attempted something like this a while ago but it didn't come out quite as nice.

I like that you decided to use some base64-packed images instead of using anything external; good idea.

You may want to include something about what browsers are supported. As it is, the page is completely broken and not usable with IE9 (1).

Nice work, though!

[1] - http://i.imgur.com/d7JFq.png
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I'm pretty sure the entire site is built on the premise of "I don't like screencasts because I think faster than they talk and get frustrated waiting for them to finish".

Given that premise, audio and video would completely defeat the point.
It's actually just one example of my point - we don't really need to speculate on whether there's a market or if not, why not.

It's like if entrapment convinces your performance-oriented daughter who's short on cash (to make this an analogy with the artist in this article) to have sex for money as a kind of performance (same convoluted logic as the artist's in the article).

If afterwards she tries again, there's no proof there's actually a criminal market for her and her criminal soliciting skills learned for the entrapment. But she may or may not know that. One entrapment operation can ruin your daughter's life, who perhaps had literally never given a single thought to prostitution, just as you and I have never thought of armed robbery. It's like a fucked-up internship offered by the government, only instead of setting you up for life with your newfound skills, it fucks you up for life, as in the case we've just read about.
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I think it was just a grammatical slip-up, versus being misleading.
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I've read this entire thread with great enthusiasm, and I am about to make a comment that will probably be scoffed at by the majority of you. However, where does ethics and morality factor into the good/bad of ticket scalping? If it was NEVER the artist's intention to have their tickets resold, and the scalper does it anyway, then regardless of who benefits or who doesn't, is it still ethical? And if not, should it be practiced?
Good for him, I guess, but does those springs not give him an advantage? How would you even go about measuring that?
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> the same problem couldn't occur in a cessna

Frequently true! :D Although my personal mantra is "the same problem couldn't occur in a sailplane" ;)
I like the live drawing, but needs a better script, voice-over and some music. 4x3 in a 16x9 frame also annoys me.
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Depends on how you count it. All those government IT contracts which goes over budget because they keep getting awarded to the same incompetents can't be pure stupidity.

The most important thing though is that people think bribery is wrong which means they won't hesitate to report and prosecute you.
What about a toggle to set the animation speed before publishing?
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This is why nginx gzips the body before writing the headers out.

You can use 'chunked_transfer_encoding' to enable chunking, combined with 'proxy_buffering off', your backend can stream the body and nginx will gzip the chunks. Disabling buffering has other consequences, so be sure to read up and experiment before you go to production.
In my experience, most of the people who are serious about torrenting don't use The Pirate Bay anyway and have long since moved to members only trackers (like Demonoid etc).
Why did your old idea die, if you don't mind me asking?
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The copilot mentions he pulled the stick all along in the cockpit recording about 30 seconds before crashing. EDIT: When the pilot realized the error, he tried to correct, but it was already too late.
Getting ready to try this out on my app!
Nope, we started building before we heard of it.
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The previous comment is probably misremembering; the U.S. Secret Service is responsible for investigating counterfeiting, which seems pretty odd if you're only familiar with them as personal security for presidents.
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The problem is that people who are actually going to ask questions that I find interesting don't know or care how the powers that be have decided to organize things - they just head to the site that is most popular. Which would be stack overflow.

So I'm left with a choice. I can not see those questions. I can answer those questions on a site where I know that is not wanted. I can become one of the people trying to moderate the site into the structure they want despite knowing how frustrating that can be for the people affected. None of those options is palatable to me, so I'll find other ways to amuse myself.

Look through my answers at http://stackoverflow.com/users/585411/btilly?tab=answers and tell me whether the loss of contributers like me is good or bad to the whole stack exchange enterprise. If you think it is neutral to good, then our value systems are so different that there is no real point in continuing the conversation.
This sounds like a path to getting hired by the FBI/CIA after you serve your jail time.

We need to be employing these sorts of lifehackers.
This is probably the best headline for this that I've seen on a news aggregation site.
Having English as a second language I am always reluctant to make a screencast. My spoken English would be distracting, if not for the brokenness then at least for my lack of confidence when speaking it.

This looks like a great alternative! Thanks :)
Agreed. Setting up big expectations and then not meeting them is a dangerous game to play with your brand.
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If you need to include "tl;dr" at any point in a blog post for the sake of readers you think might not care to sit through the entire thing, you probably should take what you've written back to your desk and shorten it.

Occam's razor, brevity is the soul of wit, keep it simple, stupid, et al.
With "right" I meant the explanation which is actually correct. The preference for simple explanations is only a bias for lack of a better criterion to choose; but typically there are lots of more substantive reasons why one explanation is better than the other (e.g., by looking at how it ties in with other theories).

The idea of simplicity is quite arbitrary. In machine learning there is an analogue in Minimum Description Length learning. It turns out that there the kind of representation is crucial; a hypothesis can be minimal under one representation, but not the other; ergo, what is "simple" is not a straightforward question, and therefore the heuristic is somewhat arbitrary. A "goal" to evolution may sound complex to you, but from an information theoretic perspective, the opposite, namely actual, complete randomness, is the most complex thing possible ...

The whole point of this is: we don't really know, the best we can say is "I won't assume things I don't have evidence for." Lastly, your "raise more questions than they answer" is the hallmark of philosophical problems ...
It might not be the biggest reason, but game mechanics in a broad sense helps this site to rank answers - and that's a big part of what makes it stand out.
It could prove very good for that. If you root the device it's possible to run apps (from Google Play) allowing you to modify the reported screen density, which you should be using to alter the layout of your apps.

Given the screen res, price and capability if you're going to have one dev device it looks like the one to get.
There are an infinite number of circumstances where one would want 'first'.

In Lisp terms[1], 'first' is 'car', which, in conjunction with 'cdr'. With that combination recursive logic is regularly implemented.

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Try, "Objective-C is mainly used on iOS". If you look at the before-and-after picture of Obj-C, it is painfully clear that the only reason for its popularity is iOS. One must wonder what would be possible on the iOS platform if other languages were given a fair shot at that pie...
Correct. We've found something that could potentially be the Higgs, but we do not know with certainty that it is the Higgs.

Code_primate explained it succinctly: http://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/w0tty/higgs_boson_c...
I don't think you should let an isolated incident speak for the community as a whole. But your point still stands and it's been repeated often... You felt personally insulted by a moderation action by the community due to the way it was handled. I think most people have been in that situation (I am still upset that the 'programming on a boat' question is gone). My only consolation is that we recognize this is a problem and it is one that almost all online communities face, and we're working on ways to alleviate it. I hope you'll stick around and help us figure out how to do that.
Maybe, but a well run team should have a "this is what you need to do if I get hit by a bus" document that is actually the "this is what you need to do when I get a better job" document.
Not necessarily. With this product, the user controls the pace at which they proceed through the tutorial. That doesn't mean that it needs to eschew audio and video.
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Disregarding the fact that there actually _was_ something grammatically wrong with that sentence, I think that is a misconception of philosophy. It's not supposed to prove or disprove much (except in certain areas dedicated to logic perhaps). I don't see philosophical arguments as meaningless, and to claim so is to make a very philosophical claim ... What is meaning anyway? I don't think anybody really knows the answer to that. But perhaps you meant to say that these arguments won't lead to any concrete results, and there I'd have to agree with you.
Do we still need to point things like this out? Who here thought Linux didn't play a major role at CERN? Linux is the norm in large data center applications. What percentage of US commodities and securities transactions are touched by Linux? My guess is "most".