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Stupid headline. If it's doing the commuting for me, then either I'm working from home (in which case, why am I sending my car to the office), or it's also doing my job for me (which is extremely impressive).
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Nice post; it'd be even better if the content displayed (a db seed?) was the same, making comparisons easier.
The article gives a reason for that: it's not clear at the moment how to enforce it, they are waiting for the new regulation to be drafted. I think it's absolutely correct on the part of the police department not to invent its own rules.
I see banding in gradients quite often; more often in dynamic scenes in games than in more tightly designed static content online.

Of course much of the media we consume has quantized colour, streamed videos especially don't really stand up to any kind of close examination using today's displays, never mind futuristic ones. Banding from limited gamut is not the big problem here, there are much bigger elephants.
In the same way HN is a site for people too busy building their startups, or Dribbble is a site for designers too busy designing...
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I don't see any difference between those two bars, and my eyes are generally pretty good.

24bit is fine. It's <200dpi that has to die.
I'm also an early adopter: I have 8 users for free. I also always thought of the free plan of Google Apps as a deal too good to be true.
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It's exactly the same thing with "retina displays" that only "need" 300 PPI (a rule Apple themselves often break, and yet still call them like that). The human eye can discern up to 600 PPI, and even up to 1200 PPI.
Of course they can! Just force people to add an additional password to their account on the next app update.
+1
I have 3 domains on Google Apps and 2 other on live domains.
And Google Apps is a smooth service.
And Google Apps free plan for less number of users was amazing deal.
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You only know a few devs, I think your sample is highly skewed.

Absolutely. That's why I mentioned it.

But at least now you know what you need to call yourself if you want to make market rates in London. Those two things you mention both translate back to "computer programmer" in terms of what you actually do. They just pay four times as much.

That's a pretty good direction to have things skewed if you ask me. If I were living in London, I'd definitely be skewing my sample of jobs that way.
Its $50/user/year.
The number of bytes of memory available on GPUs is hardly the biggest issue when considering rendering at more than 8 bits per channel of color precision. Even producing a 30-bit framebuffer (as has been supported for a while on many desktop GPUs) comes at a performance penalty and is incompatible with many pieces of software and hardware. Modern GPUs actually allow 16 bits per channel of precision when rendering, but it comes at a significant cost - various features no longer function, memory bandwidth is devoured, etc. You can't simply say 'we can spare the bits' and wave away all the technological challenges here, especially when the advantage gained from all those costs is comparatively miniscule.

To be fair, this sort of applies to retina displays as well: The hardware put into some of the Retina macs can barely handle the bandwidth demands of realtime rendering at such high resolutions. Until that problem is addressed, you certainly shouldn't be running around demanding >8bpc color precision.

Dithering for gradients could certainly make a minor difference in rendered quality, but I don't think most browser vendors are interested in making rendering performance slower right now - they're quite busy trying to make it faster. As evidenced by the fact that the OP's site runs like complete garbage in even modern browsers. Even if you spend the cycles and the power to dither, you're basically approximating something like another bit of precision. Is it really worth the cost just for another bit? You could support the argument for dithering by showing a side by side comparison, at least.
It made the point about being able to distinguish fine colour gradients virtually impossible to verify - the background kept changing.

Also, it slowed site scrolling to a crawl on this reasonably beefy desktop machine.
Several = basically all non-IPS panels I believe.

But a lot of them apply temporal dithering to kinda make up the lost 2 bits.
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I never thought about using Google Apps like this. It actually sounds pretty cool to be honest. If my whole family was using it, then I'd probably consider paying $50/year for the service.
Yes, but we're talking about single-user accounts.
Thanks for the incredibly helpful advice! I definitely want to participate in a hackathon within the next couple of years. The experience seems grueling but extremely rewarding (for most people).

1. It seems like a good idea is to keep functionality more or less the same, but maybe amp up the design aspect of the view.

2. BNR's book has an entire chapter dedicated to Core Data, but I will definitely check out the lectures on that subject (I may even go through the entire course if I feel the need).

3. This is a subject that I have witnessed many developers struggle with. The idea of creating something that people will WANT to use is something that excites me more than anything. I realize that I should focus on building concrete features before I attempt to make a plethora of them. I want to plan out my future apps before actually coding any of them. I want to teach myself to develop professionally, right from the beginning.

I really appreciate these tips, as I know I will be checking this thread again when I really start my own projects.

Thank you! I cannot wait work on amazing projects someday!
I can't see the gradient step on my 13" MBA as hard as I try. Those extra bits would definitely be wasted on me.
I don't see anything wrong with your image. The gradient looks perfect on my monitor.

Edit: it looks perfect because my sw/hw config (driver Xorg fbdev 0.4.2, AMD Fusion E-350, Lenovo X120e laptop) does automatic dithering. I can see a tiny bit of dithering on the white end of the other gradient posted by nhw: http://file.st/KWb7XS7x Other that that, no banding on either images. Dithering invisible on yours. Dithering 24-bit colors really helps.
In general I'm the last person to argue that Japan is anything but risk-averse, but this article just seemed to be poorly put together :(
Console vendors will probably never allow this kind of live-patching. Updates have to go through certification.

For most games I know of that do live updates, they just do it by booting up a new version of the server and 'switching' people over when they cross boundaries (most MMOs still have loading screens and server transitions, so it's not that hard). Client updates are certainly more difficult, but I'm not sure you'd ever do it - there's no way you're going to get NVIDIA or AMD to apply this technique to their video drivers, etc.
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I doubt that many people say with a straight face "I rebuilt it because I didn't write the original", even if that's the real reason: there is always an excuse.
This hardly does the commuting for you. This only lets you follow a car in front of you. If your hands get off the steering wheel, the system reverts to manual. I'll wait until Google's cars get commercialized.

Night vision and automated parallel parking, while useful, will hardly save anyone any time (assuming you get better at parking with practice).
I find myself strongly disagreeing with the "world view" behind this post - though the common sensical statement "don't go with defaults all the time" is great, the post exudes an ego-centrical way of viewing life - make choices based on what you think will make YOU happy.

The "killer quote" that pushed me over the edge to post this was: "It could be a major change, like getting rid of your spouse" .... seriously? "Til death do us part...or I feel like you're not making me happy"?

I do not believe true joy is found in selectively surrounding myself with people that make me happy and "eliminating" all others. In fact, to act as if true joy is "just around the corner" if we would simply make the right changes like learning how to surf is a dangerous illusion to give.
I'm missing the part about what awesome thing would be possible to do with higher-bit displays. The answer for higher-DPI displays is obvious: everything looks sharper, all the time. While it may be true that 30-bit color would allow the gradient between those two grays to be gradual instead of a single step, when does someone actually want to draw a gradient between such similar shades of gray?
You only have to worry about them anyway if you have crappy passwords or stupid users.
People will get confused, forget their passwords, and swap to a new insecure system.
for anyone who assumes that and does something (otherwise legal) to piss off the federal government, they can lock you up at will

First, it's you who puts yourself in that position. Second, I'm suddenly reminded of the whole "brought in Al Capone on tax evasion" deal.
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That does seem strange. Any idea what is happening to them? Are they going through leadership change inside the party or policy change, since that last scandal with one of their female leaders?
Neat idea.

Chrome on an iPhone 4:

The modal is positioned and sized awkwardly, too narrow and low. Also when hitting the close X, it seems like the color and font styling including backdrop disappear before the animation starts, which is a little jarring.
"With high-DPI displays, the aliasing problem caused by insufficient pixels has been extinguished." that's not true. Aliasing is an omnipresent problem in discretized data every rasterized display is based on. Even though a retina display samples at a much higher rate, it needs anti aliasing for optimal results.

I'd like 64bit displays too. The problem is that there's quasi no content and also no content pipeline. Someone has to take the first step here.
Smoking tobacco is banned by law in most public places in Seattle including parks. Then it was decided not to be enforced. They have a history of doing this, passing laws and deciding they have no effect.

Legislative cowardice to actually make the law reflect reality, I suppose. Funny how I can't just decide to relax my vigilance with regards to paying taxes.
Ah, ok. Thanks.

(I ask because I'm still trying to get an idea of just how vulnerable your garden-variety server is, user stupidity aside)
There's some impressive technology described in this article (and the Google car too, for example). Every time I read about this stuff I can't help but wonder how much time and effort they've spent on QA though. It's never mentioned unfortunately, though understandable.

I know what a pathetic job car companies do with computer security so I'm not optimistic they give QA enough attention either... and therefore not as eager as I should be to trade up from my aging-but-predictable current model.
> Brake Assist Plus with Cross-Traffic Assist alerts the driver if he's about to get broadsided with visual and audible warnings. If he doesn't take action – or applies too little brake pressure – the S will stop itself.

This thing would be totally useless in an action movie. Clearly it's not targeting the Jason Bourne demographic.
Actually dithering makes a huge difference. I see zero banding whatsoever in the examples posted in this thread, because my sw/hw config does automatic dithering (Xorg fbdev 0.4.2, AMD Fusion E-350 GPU, Lenovo X120e laptop).

Contrast this with other posters who I presume don't have dithering, and write comments like "this gradient looks ugly"...
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While we're at it, let's also add 3D to displays.
The "robots.txt" argument misses the point because the publishers never gave permission to use their content

What, they put it on a public directory with semi permanent URLs for no particular reason? That's a pretty flawed argument!
I don't think it wouldn't have been so bad if it was slower, like clouds on a not very breezy day. As it is, it felt like it was trying to hypnotize me.
The price of Google autonomous car's tech : radar, lidars & the litany of sensors & computing power needed to process their data still has a long way to come down to a price that would be palatable to car buyers, say, a 5000 $ option
A gmail user advertises gmail every time they send a mail. Your own domain does not. Its a mass market product. Having your own domain is not.
What are these new services? I seriously can't find anything that's even comparable.
The posts were different. The June blog post said "nearly a billion". The July facebook post said "exceeded 1 billion". It shows they crossed over an objective threshold.
And Data Protection issues in some places.
+1 for this.

I've run my own mail server for 15 years, since I got my first permanent connection. I host on the end of it as I have a large distrust of "the cloud".

It is cost effective for me as it has increased my merchantable skill portfolio. I've ended up designing some mail systems (50k+ users) for some large ISPs in the past thanks to my accumulated knowledge.

Debian is probably the easiest to get off the ground - it's pretty much "sudo aptitude install postfix dovecot" and follow the instructions. I was a FreeBSD user but primarily due to apathy, I tend to use Debian.

This is about to change however, when FreeBSD supports the raspberry pi as it's a much lower memory and power footprint device so some of FreeBSD's simplifications and optimisations will assist there.

For me, a Raspberry Pi with a 32 gig SD card plugged into my 12Mbit connection will suffice for the 18 users and 5 domains via IMAP that are currently being hosted on a much larger machine. Cost to me: $40-50. No brainer.
Personally, I think Google should just "declare victory" and move to other more important things. They certainly do have have the people for that (the important things), but I feel they're wasting a huge amount of resources on this without much gain (if any).
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To expand: Imagine if the CEO of the company didn't use Facebook publically, but only had friends, family etc. on there, maybe 200 people. And then posted there first. That might count as an insider trading / private.
also known as the Ribbon in Microsoft land.
Btw, I just found this, not the creator. Yeah, there are some issues, e.g. clicking to open a new modal inside a current one just scrolls to the top, but I always like to see how people can hack around these things, and checkboxes can be pretty powerful.
It's not about gradients between gray shades. It's about more shades, which is useful in DTP, video and film, digital painting and so on. If you ever have a chance, take a look at a high quality picture or video on a display like Eizo CG275W (or newer like 276) connected to 30-bit output capable card (Quadros have it, GeForce don't). It's a whole level above what you see on regular monitors, even calibrated. OTOH, they are really expensive - I get by with calibrator and regular monitors.
As far as I know, most modern PC GPUs actually use a 32-bit framebuffer with 8 bits of padding for their 24-bit colour mode and do all shader computations in floating point already, so 30-bit colour isn't going to use any more memory bandwidth or shader time.
I don't think that being recognized for success is a basic human (psychological) need. It certainly isn't mine. Sure, I like to be successful in what I do, but I only need internal recognition for that, i.e. people using something I built and being happy using it, not external (people actually thanking ME for having built it).

I think longing for external recognition is a sign of a deeply wounded soul, of a person lacking the most fundamental self-love and self-esteem.
If just single-user account then well its better to use the workaround and get it till it works for free.
Thanks a lot :-) I'm really thinking about redoing the video since more and more people say it's not informative at all.
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Same, on my similar E-350 Lenovo E325. Using the proprietary driver.
Using a mail address different from your default Gmail (or Google Apps for Business Mail) address unfortunately does not work for some recipients. It seems that at least some versions of Microsoft Exchange/Outlook always show your default address and not the different mail address you actually used.
Agreed. There's a control in the bottom right corner to control the speed of/stop it, but the animation shouldn't be there to start with.
The password algorithm changed in the lasts versions of Whatsapp, at least in iPhone. You can get a Base64 of the md5 from the application directory, but it doesn't match the imei or mac md5. I am trying to break mine with hashcat to see what kind of pattern it follows.
Mine already has it. Doesn't yours?
Shame on everybody for resposting this ad nauseam and giving a damn.
> Those are people who really meant to go to plus.google.com

I actually did that at least a couple of times last month by mistake, the G+ link is very close to the Inbox/Home link in GMail's web app. I cursed and hit the back button in a matter of seconds each and every time.
I've done this and I'd recommend getting rDNS set up if you can, on top of your SPF and DKIM, though it sounds like maybe it's not entirely necessary.

I ran a linksys NSLU2 as my mail server for a few years, with a USB stick as its storage. With Debian linux with Dovecot, Postfix, spamassassin, and the Spamhaus DNSBLs set up I managed to keep the signal to noise ratio pretty damn high too.

It was fun, and remarkably not hard.
Night vision might save your life - that's a lot of time right there!
All good here in Sangenjyaya. Pretty long one (or two?) though
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>> the publishers never gave permission to use their content
> Yes they did, yes they did. The publisher explicitly granted access

I'm failing to see how "read access" and "license to redistribute for profit" are the same thing
This post looks weird when opened with Pulse on iPad: http://i.imgur.com/XyCst.jpg?1
You'll most likely be ok. The main attack vector is a chunk of regularly used usernames and a small selection of passwords. These are quite successful against shared hosting where password quality is hard to control properly.

If you've got a "garden variety" server with a strong password, I wouldn't worry.

I've got a laptop slung on the end of my ADSL line that has had literally millions of attempts.

If you are worried, you can install fail2ban which will block repeated attacks at the firewall level.
You missed my point. The owner of the company is adding a value-add of his own and that is where the profit comes from. Any halfway competent executive or manager will get more out of his employees than those employees would have done on their own.
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How can I get the MAC address for iPhone? I found one, but it is separated with `-` and not with `:`.
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This is a rather open-ended question and I'm hoping some folks with a good deal of experience will be able to help me out here.

On paper I quite like the idea of NodeJS. However I'm new to Node and want to learn from your hard-earned experience. What kind of pitfalls, downsides, or gotchas have you come across when working with NodeJS?
Those are not market rates, they're outliers in a small market segment.

And thanks, but I've known for years and I don't want to make those rates in London because I don't (and don't want to) live there...
It would seem that Google could quickly kill this law by de-indexing all the relevant newspapers, right now. Why are they waiting?
How would we determine if our screen is doing that?
I'm very disappointed with Europe. There is a trend of idiotic legislation drafted, & voted on by people who don't really understand the implications. They just don't understand the internet & technology enough and/or aren't smart enough. It' embarrassing.

The other recent example was/is the brain-dead UK/EU cookie law. Is our privacy any more protected? No. All we got was some dumb generic "cookie policy" popups that we have to "agree" to and further balkanization of the web. Additional costs to having a website (are there any scaremongering companies offering auditing to make sure your website does not expose you to legal risk?). Disempowering people by raising the barrier to running a site.

All downside. No upside from any perspective. We can't even blame lobbies or interested parties because literally nobody got anything positive from this. Just pure stupidity.

They should have know better than this.
At least he can fix it.
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I was thinking of it as a tool for shortening dev cycle time, more than for patching: a more general, cross-platform version of Edit and Continue. My mistake; I shouldn't have started with the MUD example, I was just writing out my thoughts in real time.
Grr.. I can't figure if you can deploy cloudant in an on ec2 avail zone that you have your app in. Can you you even deploy it on ec2?

I don't see anything stating answers to these questions clearly on their site. And they want my email to let me see tech docs! Are they run by former IBM staff?

Finally, if they are 'hosted and managed all day everyday' some place far from me. I dunno if I want to use it.
> if you really want something but social inertia is against you, you have to be a trendmaker/leader and force your friends to follow you against their will.

Honest question, why would anyone "want" to move from FB into G+ so much so as to be a "leader" and having to convince his/her friends into following? This pretty much sounds like a cult.
I'm in favour of banning smoking in all enclosed workplaces and I can see why people are against public drinking. Cigarette smoke smells vile and triggers asthma attacks. From the Irish experience people go “outside” to the patio/courtyard. This means you can drink and smoke but people aren't forced to endure your pollution.

As far as public drinking goes, yes it is lovely but not all countries have as healthy a drinking culture as Germany. I loved going to the Neckarwiese with friends when I lived in Heidelberg and having some beers and a barbecue. But most countries have more Assis than Germany per head, more assholes who would start fights, be loud and obnoxious etc. Or just more binge drinkers. I'm pretty sure legal street drinking just wouldn't work in Ireland or Britain. Too many drunks.

I smoke in bars maybe twice a week and drink on the street or in a park pretty regularly.
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