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jay-saint | 9 years ago | on: Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon

I assume they will also be changing their hosting over to AWS soon, so they can remove this bit from their features page. > VMs hosted on Google Cloud > We know that latency is important and Google knows how to deal with global availability. This is why you will get all the benefits of Googles infrastructure for free.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: Letter of Recommendation: Sleep, ‘Dopesmoker’

Agreed, I put on my noise isolation headphones and started listing to it near the end of the day. When I stopped coding and the album was almost over, I realized I was last one in the office by probably 30 minutes.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: TLDR pages

I feel like the examples tldr entries should be required to be written by a third party other than the creator of the software. In my experience the creator of a piece of software or machine always thinks it is simple and writes the man page accordingly.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: The World Against ISIS Project

The effectiveness of this strategy is not so much mocking Daesh. The strategy can be effective by adding noise to their signal. This works in live protests as well, this is the electronic equivalent of a protest I saw in college. A white supremacist was giving a speech at a public library in central Illinois. Protesters out numbered actual audience members 2 to 1. They proceed to sing children's songs and play instruments. This blocked the message of hate helping to prevent further recruitment and coordination.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: PHP 7 Released

Unfortunately several of the most popular PHP based platforms will be stuck using PHP 5.9 or older for some time. Magento just recently in version 1.9 added support for PHP 5.6. There are still an allarming number of Drupal 6 based sites out there in large scale production that have trouble supporting PHP > 5.4

The recent releases of Magento 2.0 and Drupal 8.0 should help move more sites to modern versions of PHP, but there is a lot of work still to be done on contrib modules to get full functionality out of M2 and D8

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: Drupal 8.0.0 released

I would like to make a point that a very nice thing about the Drupal community is a lack of paid modules. There is a conscious effort to either open source or custom develop. There are not very many "paid extensions." The community seems a lot more focused on creating low level tools that you can use to build a finished product.

This is in part due to the relative complexity of setup. You do not get your grandma performing a one click install of Drupal and then spending $40 on a theme and buying an extension or two from a marketplace.

The focus on earning money with Drupal really seems to be in being a good developer and knowing how to use the thousands of opensource tools that are available to Drupal. You do not see people cranking out apps or modules for drupal and selling them in a marketplace. This really sets it apart from it's php cousins Magento and Wordpress.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: Tesla autopilot stops a collision [video]

When will insurance companies realize the risk reductions of self driving cars and begin lowering their rates and raising the rates of manually driven cars. I think that this will be the biggest market driver for this technology. Eventually insurance rates will push people into self driving smart cars.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: How Do the Yellow Pages Still Make Money?

After a new controller came into our company we conducted an audit of all existing expenses. Turns out we were paying $277 a month for multiple full color Yellow page listings. The owners set these up well before we had a marketing department and just kept paying for years. We did not even have a copy of the Yellow pages in our building to see what our ad looked like. We have since cut this ad to the most basic listing, but are stuck paying the high rate until the new book is published in February 2016.

My point is that this is how they are still making money, thousands of business customers that are just used to paying them forever.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: 16 lenses on one camera

This camera is not only doing bracketing, it is simultaneously capturing multiple images at multiple focal lengths and exposures. It is then stitching this data in software to make composite images that can be re-focused, re-zoomed and change depth of field after an image is composed.

They are calling it the first multi-aperture computational camera.

edit: Just discussed this some around the coffee pot, that the real value of this tech will be in new cell phones 2-3 generations down the road. I then saw this press release about light.co and Foxconn. they have already licensed this tech. http://spot.light.co/light-partners-with-foxconn/

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: Punkt MP01 Mobile Phone

I kind of like the design for design sake, but definitely think it could use a diet. I would excuse the thickness and weight if this was a cheap phone. I would by this in a heartbeat for $100 USD but at almost $300 forget it.

jay-saint | 10 years ago | on: Glowforge launches consumer-grade laser cutter

A 100 unit break even point is incredible low. Have you read many of the write ups on product based Kickstarter campaigns. From what I have read most break even point are into the 1,000 plus units if you have to account for fabricating molds or dies. Then these mold and dies can only be used fro one project. That is the beauty of 3D printing, laser etc. You have one tool that can be used to fab hundreds of designs or product with no tooling costs.
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