fuzzywalrus

Right now, the biggest protection for cable is the insane license agreements with layers of bureaucracy. Having done contract work for three network TV shows, its interesting as cable providers license from the networks which licenses from the TV show. Three's a reason why some Hulu broadcasts are delayed and some shows have full seasons, some the last X, some entire series. There's no real standard for who owns the rights to what.

Big Cable won't go down swinging, sports still sell TV subscriptions and we're seeing the evolution like DishAnywhere. More than likely, we'll see package services from ContentOverIP with more fragmentation: Service A provides TV Shows from Networks A B & C but no live broadcasts. Service B provides live broadcasts from A & C and on demand and so forth. I doubt Al La Carte will happen.

There's a double standard for women in many jobs, even in the most bike friendly city in the US, as a biker I've observed most of my fellow commuters are men. Its easier for me as there's less expectations placed on my appearance. I put on a fresh set of clothes, a hat and I'm good to go. I'm lucky I live where biking is easy, working a non-client facing job, as male and a company with an indoor bike rack and shower.

You can at least switch to another launcher to disable blinkfeed but I'm guessing its out of the frying pan into the oven with many of these:

http://www.cnet.com/how-to/how-to-get-rid-of-blinkfeed-on-yo...

Define spying? Most of Apple's services are opt-in as opposed to opt-out. iTunes and Siri are where most the data collection happens. In OS you also have device location services, map data collection but most points are easily controlled.

MS seems in the mindset "Can't beat 'em, join 'em" as we're only In-App Purchases away from a freemium OS.

While this is a nice view on the experience of an Uber driver, its from the lens of very much of someone is "make-for-great-cultural-learning" and not someone who's forced into the share economy due to lack of opportunity elsewhere.

Anecdotal: Currently managing two code camp interns and I'm impressed with the amount they cover in a meager 3 months but they're junior level developers for sure. Without some previous experience in software, its hard to believe most are worthy of mid-shelf salaries.

There's certainly a huge skill gap between the code campers vs anyone we've hired with previous experience. Just the day to day tacit skills ticket management, git work flows, variance in tech stacks, client feedback, interfacing with designers, interactions with project managers, ux decisions, and so forth just can't be crammed into such a short period.

I'm impressed by code-camps as web development and software development takes a long time but code campers are green. If you're in a position to take on junior devs, it seems a great way to expand a team and delegate jr level tasks to.

TLDR: I'd hire a code camp graduate to fill junior positions - there's just too many soft skill gaps that code schools don't have time to.

This article is base pandering at best. Even as someone such as myself who has quite strong pro gun control views can make the intellectual distinction between a well designed weapon vs the morality of creating one. Viewed from the lens of weaponry, the AK-47 usually is well regarded.

This is no different than how One can appreciate a well engineered computer malware attack in the same regard. Even things that are destructive can be enhanced by the rigors of design.

QR codes and such I imagine will fade as more applications support live OCR. Its only a matter of time before phones will ship with the native app using text detection to make hyperlinks clickable from the camera app. There's already text grabber and the like on iOS/Android. This seems like a stop-gap. It's cool but I just can't see using it.

Indeed, I still use an aging 2008 Mac Pro and the benefits of internal storage are pretty profound. I have two Time Machine HDDs (An Internal + an External), which counts for two of my six HDDs. I'm debating going towards a service like blackblaze as I have a decade of photos on my computer.

Sounds like this will have a perpetual race to the bottom as inevitably there'll be developers asking high prices and not being paired with the work, and those asking less with more pairings.

So I'm wondering if they'll limit local storage accessibility for the Applications devices as a way of enforcing prototypes.

Quite amusing, but do you really want the trolls to feel engaged?

This should phrased about how much you lean on preprocessors. Sass is more more intelligible than regular CSS in many circumstances unless you're trying write everything as programmatically as possible. Its easily to write a For loop that spits out a grid but may make look like greek to a junior dev.

CSS preprocessors are unique, with LESS and Sass, you can write straight CSS and use its wonderful concatenation through imports, or just its nesting or perhaps simple variables for colors. There's so much benefit that I can't imagine not using them.

Agreed and to preface, not a comment on Reddit: Usually the defense of free speech means defending the less worthy of using it for those times when for when its truly worthy, there's just really no middle ground.

Notably, this article fails to mention that this is for only the graphics chart, and the selection of graphics apps fairly limited. Outside of Serif Labs, Bohemian Coding and Pixelmator, most of the apps are fairly one-note like Redacted. I don't think desktop users are of the same mindset for one-off applications outside of small utilities like SnapRuler or Colorsnapper.

Agreed, this is advice that's steeped in Silicon Valley culture. Not everyone has the same resources, nor does everyone need to be some sort of entrepreneur.

Rather than add to the noise by podcasting/blogging, better advice would be to connect with most talented people who do what you do and learn from them. If you find that you have a platform and something to say, then do so.

That and also, what's the UVP here? Why not Flickr if you're going to sell off your photos for storage? Even as a somewhat avid photographer with RAW files dating back to 2004 (25k photos) I'm no where near the 1TB storage that Flickr offers.

That's wonderful but your choice is your choice and shouldn't invalidate how others choose to live their lives.

Recruiters come in waves, I may have zero recruiters for two months then have 4-5 in a week. So sometimes its flattering after the 3rd or 4th of things that barely fit, its just "What do you want?"

The only recruiters I ever reply to are ones that state the company that they are representing. They tend to be local and actually trying.

I can only imagine when teens get ahold of chat to SMS services and decide to troll classmates with keywords. Seems like instant harassment results.

I was ready to throw my money at this until I saw this. As a developer, I know the pains of alpha and beta demonstrations but this now seems more like a kickerstarter project than finished product. Getting this off the ground (pun intended) looks like its quite aways off.

You can visibly see and feel the delay on the Wacom Centiqs and they're 60 Hz.

You adjust but it's not as ideal as there's mild tendency to under/over draw. This is probably less of a problem for a whiteboard but for art, its more problematic.

Funny, I came to the comments to say the same. Segmented sleep is a theory all from writings of a "second sleep". I imagine for some small groups this may have existed but seems extremely unlikely as a normal behavior.

BBC went as far as to write "The Myth of the 8 hour sleep" http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-16964783 without citing any anthropologist or medical insight.

I imagine however, prior to modern society, humans took naps more often, especially in agrarian societies after particularly laborious days.

Also, simply moving doubtfully would improve the current generation's poverty level, as they'd still be under-educated to compete with the affluent labor groups and still relegated to the same to same remedial jobs even if the parent(s) are aware moving would potentially increase their child's chances for success, potentially increasing their relative poverty.

Also, let us not underestimate the value of support networks from friends and family, living in an area may include aid for child care (grandparents/aunts/uncles/etc) and so forth.

Damn impressive - minor glitch, mouths occasionally animate before voices are triggered.

Overall, fantastic and weirdly enthralling. Thanks!

There's some factors aren't numerically quantifiable: Respect for elders? How does one metric that? Time donated to charitable services for the elders?

What this will create is real life level grinding, and a glut of half-assing a lot of socially desirable "traits". This could get very ugly, very fast if this article is accurate, creating a society where corners are cut in the interest of upping their score. It's like profit motive but for every day interactions.

I wonder if that had anything to do with his decision. Regardless of his reasons, I'll miss his reviews, it was the state of the union for computing.

I'd argue that the ideal of not owning car is more tethered to the lack of medium-to-high paying jobs for a huge swath of the population in the United States. I find the idea of millennials not driving simply due to aspiration sets a little nauseating, as depending on how you're slicing the age cut off, I'm part of "this generation".

Owning a car is very expensive and out of reach of fair number of people. Even driving a modest economy car, between parking ($150 monthly downtown in my city) , my car loan ($200 mo.) and good insurance ($200ish mo.) + gas ($60ish) means I'm out $600+ of income. That's $7200 yearly without maintenance. That's as much as many people's rent in many places. I'm privileged enough that I can afford this without seriously impacting my lifestyle, and I have a sinking suspicion that if more millennials could, they'd also be car owners/drivers. With the average income per person, at $26,000, owning car is nearly out of reach.

However, I suppose I shouldn't look the gift horse in the mouth. Giving more mass transit options for work is certainly a good thing.

A rather John Cage-ian anti-music piece although the only thing of interest but the way it was written I wasn't sure if the 4 GB limit "discovered" FAT32's limit or if it was a MP3 format issue that players simply couldn't handle files larger than 4 GB because they were 32 bit.

Other than that, I can't really say that creating a project of 700 days of generated noise is very interesting from an art perspective, but I'll save the art critiques beyond that.