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That's true but those are scalable components within the app specifically designed to be scalable. You're not scaling the entire app window.

If you have an area you want to be scalable, you'll have to implement it in JavaScript or use a pre-made component.

I couldn't help but wonder if this would ultimately produce the same result as the "No No" shaver which, from what I read, is just a hot wire that burns the hair at the root.

The reviews make it sound like its a rather slow and smelly affair shaving this way.

I like how un-mac-like the space looks. It's kinda messy with raw cables and industrial machines laying about. It looks like a place where you get real work done - ironically designing stuff for the mac.

You're talking about a lifestyle company where a small group of people become successful and make a great living doing what they love. Absolute blasphemy around these parts! If you're not growing into a multi-billion dollar corporation then you might as well not exist!

It's mind-boggling to me the effort it must have taken to get to Mars and send back photographs with the technology available in the 1970's. We're walking around with more computing power in our pocket than was probably available to all of NASA back then!

One man's bloat is another man's immersive experience I suppose.

I do sympathize with you - your connection speed must be abysmal. But I'm glad the web is not being held back by that - instead I hope that articles like this might help to bring about better connectivity to your location.

I don't think it'd be a particularly popular decision to use tax dollars to pay for a murderer to have a funeral celebration and burial. Maybe that's callous but I'd guess that's the way it is in the US.

As far as I know it's up to relatives or loved ones to bury their deceased and its up to them to arrange a funeral, plot of land, headstone, etc which runs in the thousands of dollars. If there is no one willing or able to pay then I'd assume the state essentially disposes of the body by cremation.

In some cases like my great grandfather, I suspect he actually enjoyed the conversation because he was bored. Even though we went to his house nearly every day, there's still a lot of hours in the day.

He didn't get scammed over the phone but he probably had his driveway re-sealed 4-5 times a year. We would chase them away but they knew they could get him when there was nobody else around. Sickening people who do this.

It seemed possible that he knew his driveway didn't need sealed, but he would sit outside and chat with them for the 3-4 hours it took to do the job.

I live in a small condo building with 35 units. We have two separate yellow pages companies leave nearly a pallet full of books at our place. I'm talking like 200+ pounds of paper.

Nobody in our building wants them, they go straight in our recycle bin. We have tried many times to get off of their list. I would love to know how to report them for littering or something. I hate these companies!

That particular style of thin fabric is fashionable with, for lack of a better word, hipsters. The t-shirts don't feel as substantial as a nice, thick cotton T, but they wear and look like old vintage shirts. The ones that feel kinda cheap are interestingly more expensive.

Google's kerning appears to be perfectly logical, mathematically speaking, according to the rules pointed out in the article. Rounded letters have a larger perceived space and so they need less kerning space.

The difference seems to come down to whether half-round letters like the G are treated the same as the fully rounded letters like the two o's.

To my eyes they look a bit different, but I can't say that one is any better than the other.

Perhaps in the house, but in the senate they're often used as a political tool rather than to address legitimate concerns with a bill. It's a shady way of making laws.

Whether the ability to add amendments prolongs or delays the passing of laws, that's a tough one.

From what I read, they are building this app with the intention of it being like LinkedIn where the hope is for positive referrals. But of course we know there will be negative reviews. You can't leave anonymous reviews, which could be some incentive for most people to be decent. Of course there's a million things that could go wrong. And, if nobody pays attention to the site then it won't work anyway.

This isn't even a new idea. There's apps to rate ex-boyfriends and such that are obviously focused on being negative. Just for example http://www.ratedexes.com/add-person/john-carreiro-251332-vic...

It would be wonderful if Congress was not allowed to amend any bills. It seems to me that a major problem with our political system is adding pork to bills to either kill them or sneak in some unrelated legislation.

I suppose none of us in the peanut gallery know for sure. Knowing that they battle for 1 mile per gallon on their fuel economy ratings, my guess is that it's a minor effect for a car owner, but a major effect on VW's marketing.

I read elsewhere that their technique for cleaning the exhaust can gunk up the filter more quickly too, so it might also change the maintenance schedule. Which, again, may not really be a huge issue for a car owner, but could impact VW.

It'll be some firmware upgrade, the emissions will be fine but fuel economy will suffer by some minor amount. Then everyone will move on to the next tragedy.

I don't really see a massive run on people trying to sell or return their car. I'm sure a few will to try to make a point, or perhaps to try to get a new car out of the deal.

That's my prediction for the record!

“It sounds selfish,” Helms said of the deception, “but the way it works is, I’m working poor, and the people making the drugs are filthy rich, and I need a job.”

This guy disgusts me. He acts as though it's just some me-vs-them thing. Drugs are being tested for people that really need them. Using deceit, purposely throwing up the drugs to avoid side effects, etc, this is all shit that some real, ill person is going to have to go through one day and he's skewing the results.

I sincerely hope someone here can "disrupt" the clinical testing industry and put this guy out of business.

If everything the author says is true, then there should be 50-per-year valid startups that can spin off from Quirky.

He mentions an air conditioner, for example, that could have been excellent after a few iterations.

They give the path to the app in the article so you could check for that.

It's easy enough to run unsigned apps, you just have to ctrl+click and select "open" then you'll get a different prompt that allows you to install the app anyway.

I suppose you can argue that, if that's the case, what's the point? Well, if you think that a piece of software should be signed but it is in fact not signed properly, then that's a clue that it's been tampered with. If the software isn't signed at all, then at least I can decide whether I trust the source enough to install it.

Since the recent innovation of middle-out compression there's been a lot of activity in this space.

The geographical timing is there based on the timing of the theatrical release to get the greatest profit from the film. The movie ideally has a cinema run, then when ticket sales slow they release for purchase on physical media (or premium services), then after those sales slow they release for digital renting. They don't want the movie available on Netflix in a country where the theatrical release has not yet happened, or it's still in it's first run.

Some of it is left-over from when films were in physical form and loaned out to theaters. There are only so many copies made. Now that modern theaters receive the movies as a download, that's not really a justification however there's still the publicity tours that accompany the release. They want a proper premier with the cast in each country. There's also language translations and such which would normally be done after the movie was already released. Basically there's various things they want to do which are difficult or impossible to do on a global scale, so they focus on one part of the world at a time. When your country is low on the list, it means the movie doesn't make it to your country for 6-12 months.

I've been at it in this industry for over 20 years now and I don't get the kind of clinical burn-out that the author is talking about. I get tired and take a day off, go on vacation or whatever. I also have never had the luxury of being able to go traveling for 6 months (or perhaps I have never just prioritized my life to make that possible).

Perhaps it could be if you have supported yourself with a draining, minimum wage job, and a 2nd one in the evenings, struggling to pay rent, then your tolerance for computer work may be much higher? Whenever I get tired, I just have to remember back to my days of slinging cheeseburgers and I feel content with my current situation.

Thanks, I'll check that out!

Facebook links used to be so bad with this until they changed something in the built-in browser to catch them. Now every time I get a "this page is trying to leave the app" confirmation box I feel extremely satisfied that the redirect was squashed.

Cool! Do you have a public server that's running the bot, or do you just run it on your local machine?

I feel that as you are plugging away on what many might consider "boring" programming tasks, you become inspired to write your code more cleanly, efficiently, faster as well as automate things and improve your process. If you are focused on one little mundane thing, you have time to really think it over and explore all of the possibilities. I find that creative people will find a way to be creative no matter the task, so nothing is ever really boring.

As you do this with more and more little, boring things, before you know it you will have developed a mastery of your craft.

Totally depends on the particular software and the market it serves. Mass market stuff I think lends well to simplified designs.

Vertical market software tends to have very specific requirements which are unfortunately not agreed upon by all of the big players in the industry. So you can simplify it, but if your software doesn't support X, Y and Z then you can't sign Corporation Foo. And you start getting feature requests (er, orders some might say) from your bigger clients who are paying for thousands of subscriptions/licenses. But Corporation Bar doesn't like that - so it has to go in as an option/preference. Repeat this process for about 5 years and you have what appears to be a bloated piece of software.

Alter ego attempting to change the world by signing me up for adult websites... interesting premise!

I definitely understand that this bag can be reused. I thought the point of banning bags was so people would bring their own bag, perhaps have to pay a bag tax or whatever.

I don't see how these bags made it better at all - in fact it's much worse. The bags will be used (or discarded) exactly the same as the cheaper ones - it's just wasting 3x the amount of plastic.

It just seems like a policy designed to reduce trash was twisted in it's interpretation and will actually generate way more trash. It's absurd!