orillian's comments

I'm going to nth this! I really enjoy Vue's way of managing these separate but together.

I think the disjoint between the audio and the visual is amplified due to the fact that the read head(s) are a couple inches to the left under the cover. So there is always a perceived delay to the audio from where you are looking. This magnifies if you for example look to the right edge of the view while it's playing a couple inches past the left, less so if you can project the last "bar" past the left edge in your mind.

This device would be better I think if the read head could be moved directly to the left edge or even perhaps placed in the center of the view. But I have a feeling it needs to be in darkness to read best.

Interesting idea none the less.

I'm not sure, to be honest, they all seem a bit meh, but if the Pebbles is close or better than the Forerunner it'll be worth it on price alone I feel.

I'm sure he understands the difference, but with two successful campaigns for the pebble, and this new one already at 2.5m, one can understand his faux pas.

I'm also sure he doesn't need us to tell him the differences between kickstarter order and a true pre-order.

I didn't pay anything extra for duty? I bought my wife a "Round" back in January, and while the Canadian dollar was crappy, I only payed 25% in CDN dollars over the websites listed price. So, not sure if I got lucky or you just didn't. :(

On a side note Canadian shoppers can find the watches at their local Best Buy... at least the current ones anyway. You might not get the style you want though, as they seem to be a bit limited that way. Pricing is usually close to the US price. I paid the extra to get the style I wanted for the wife.

One of the biggest issues for me with the Forerunner is the fact that it seems to have a rather laggy heart rate monitor. Looking at my friend heart rate tracking with the watch, shows rather abrupt increases and decreases in the heart rate, most notable at the beginning and end of a run.

Based on the cost of the Forerunner, if the new Pebble Time 2 is as accurate or better, the cost alone might have me buying it. That said I'm on Android so I would get all the benefits unlike the iOS crowd.

A funny thing about interactive maps while driving. If I'm on my phone and I bring up a road map of the area I'm traveling and I am constantly zooming in and panning the app so that I can see locations around me then the map has failed me.

Landmarks are key to any map, but landmarks that fade in and out of focus are not all that useful. I used to be excited by the prospect of being able to bring up a map of my route and being able to see where I was going on my phone mounted to my dash. But as of late, I've been struggling to find the right zoom level that shows enough detail of the area I'm traveling while showing enough of my route.

On a number of occasions over the last year I've has to pull over and reorient myself on my map due to a failed pan/zoom attempt.

It's funny that this article came out at this time as I've been evaluating ways to mount a larger device (tablet) on my dash as maps on my phone has gotten to be rather cumbersome.

I feel that for the most part the details in this article are accurate, that the attempt by google to make the maps load quicker on mobile have compromised critical details available on the maps.

One of the key areas where this could be addressed is by loading details based on need. For example if I select a travel route between two locations, load more of the details related to that route and reduce the extras that fall outside my concern. Show me roadways that leave my target route, as well as the cities and towns along my route. Making an attempt to provide me the details I need without my need to interact with them as much as possible would be great.

I just have one smallish question. Is the need to bench then add an actor the only way you "allow" transfer of children between parent actors?

In similar systems that I have constructed in the past, I have used a number of methods for passing actors in different states.

Pass a fully instantiated actor via a transfer process. Nothing changes for the actor, beyond reassigning parentage.

Pass a cleaned actor via a similar process to the bench and add process. This was used to allow an actor to be reduced to a resting state as it were. In most cases you could think of it as a resurrection method that allowed discarded actors to be reinstated with only specified base properties in place.

Anyway, I don't use Lua at all, but I like these type of actor messaging models. I look forward to reading through the rest of your documentation once it's done.

O.

"Because you only pay for the compute resources used during the migration process, a terabyte-sized database can be migrated for as little as $3."

The above is quoted from an email I received from them regarding the service this afternoon.

Note: using continuous replication and adding logging Dashboards to your links will also increase the cost. I seem to recall seeing the dashboards are $3 a piece after the first 3 or something silly like that and then data costs on top of that. My cost so far don't match that though.

I'm guess-estimating my DMS cost are going to be about $30 if the $6.48 I've spent in the last 7 days during setup and configuration time averages out.

Yes we are running a mySQL 5.6 Database on RDS.

If the Database you want to migrate/replicate from is running on Amazon you should be able to make it a replication source.

I saw nothing that stated the database HAD to be on RDS. You use the servers address to setup the endpoints. And provide a database username and password to connect with so it should be doable.

Funny this showed up on here. I just spent the last 4-5 days playing with DMS.

My company has been using AWS for a while, but management wanted a "backup" backup off Amazon "JUST IN CASE". Due to amazon blocking replication credentials for MYSQL servers we had to basically dump over scp to our off amazon server and run the update on that machine via a script. We tried a number of different options but none were reliable. All nasty stuff.

Anyway after setting up a dms.t2.medium replication instance, I was able to create a number of tasks pulling from our amazon server to our off amazon server.(You have the option to just pull a full dump, pull a full dump and continue replication or simply replicate data.) It's been running for a little under 24 hours now and has been, solid so far with the replication. I know not even a day yet, but it's looking promising. Fingers crossed!

A small bonus to doing the setup for this. I found out the hard way that there was bad schema in our database, which I spent the last couple days fixing. DMS is rather sensitive, and will fail and not restart if it encounters to many errors trying to replicate data.

Overall cost is looking like it's going to cost me about $150 a month for the replication instance, which is only marginally more than the bandwidth costs I was incurring doing full dumps to our off amazon server.

Benefits are almost instant replication and an interface that will give me almost instant feedback on failed replication tasks, all within AWS which is where we are hosting everything else at this time. I was also able to create individualized tasks for separate schema so I can watch and manage errors on a schema by schema basis which is nice.

Overall I'm happy with it, but only time will tell if it can continue to be a reliable replication option.

O.

I backed the kickstarter for this tool back when it came out and I'm glad I did. I don't do a lot of this type of thing, but overall it's the quickest and easiest one I've used! It's been a boon for making small animations for many of the quick projects I've worked on. Keep meaning to do something real and proper with it, but I've yet to take the time.

Every time I go to use it, it's getting an update and new runtimes. No complaints at all!

Just an aside: I'm running Windows 10 Pro and Bitlocker is off for all 4 of the drives in my machine. This machine was setup from a fresh install of windows 10 shortly after it went live in July. Only a single data point, but apparently there are cases when Microsoft does NOT encrypt the drives.

I agree, it is cheaper but there are some of us that simply have no way to force, convince or otherwise cajole our employers to adopt a service license model. I have designers on staff using old Adobe products due to this same problem. JetBrains isn't going to magically convince management to open their wallets for monthly fee's. If this goes through, I'm boned. Stuck trying to make shitty IDE's work like jetBrains products. Not a happy day.

Sony Smartwatch 3 uses a transflective LCD display which is fairly old tech. But one that for a long time had little to no color option. It was rather expensive to make TFT type displays transflective, and other things won out. Like OLED and just brighter LCD's. Sony is the first to bring it back in any significant way for new tech.

I do hope more device manufacturers take a look at this tech again, as it has some very useful applications. If Sony's Smartwatch 3 is any indication, the pricing is finally becoming more affordable to do this type of thing with full color.

I just really don't like the look of the Sony Watch so I'm waiting for something else.

As cool as this is. Even with the fact that in the US it's decided you'd hook it up to a gas line. There is still the issue of "leasing it" to the homeowner.

Seriously, why would anyone lease a home generator. Maybe I'm old school, but I can't see the benefits to the homeowner if you're undercutting your savings from installing one of these devices by paying "RENT" on the generator?

While it is pretty interesting for quick reading of small snippets of text it begins to fail when trying to build up a comprehension map of a large body of information. Especially if that information is of a highly technical nature. The lack of comprehension is compounded; the more unfamiliar you are with the concepts at hand.

One of the things that we do without thinking about it is make associations between things we know and things we don't know when reading. This allows us to provide a framework for the words and phrases we don't understand using the ones that we do, thus pulling the meaning out of the context. Spritz and by extension Squirt does not allow you to create these links because you don't retain the full breadth of the context for each word as you are reading them, and with no built in method for jumping back or forth through the information being presented it fails to allow these bridges to be built, and this lowers comprehension.

Now take something like this and implement an interface that tracks the users eye movement via a webcam to allow the flow of words to jump backwards and forwards through the surrounding information might work. But you would have to do some pretty impressive eye tracking and do it all with as little delay as possible to make the flow smooth, no matter what direction it goes. That said jumping back in the information would probably be jarring if the text just starts to flow in reverse. So one would probably have to jump back with some kind of visual cue to a pointer further back in the text and then continue reading forward again.

Also I'd love to see this implemented where it shows a sentence at a time. I'd be interested in the overall improvements to retention and understanding that would be gained with a reduction in potential top speed per word read. How drastically does speed fall off when you do this?

So true! I still have the game box sitting on the shelf for this! It's been ages since I played it through, but it is still the game I look back at the most fondly!

Never realized there was a push to mod the game so extensively. Gonna have to give these mods a try and replay this one!

You all know this article is from a year ago right? Relevance?

Nope it's not a viral loop it's a bucket of spam. Rather warm spam, one that's been sitting in the sun far to long. But spam none the less.

Oh, and as a person no longer on LinkedIn I know this because I had to permanently place linkedin addresses in my spam filter so all my "friends" would stop sleep inviting me to linkedin. Including the ones that didn't even realize they had given linkedin my address. Oh, and a few well meaning individuals even asked linkedin to stop spamming me and others on their behalf and even though they said they would....linkedin failed to actually comply with their "clients" wishes.

And lets not get started on the crock trying to recruit on it has become. As an employer, all I wanted to do was post a position, that was all. Sigh, one can look back wistfully on the good ol' days when you could post your add in a few regional or provincial papers and expect a decent response.