mcb3k

I'm not sure what you're talking about. When I start typing into the "to" field in Gmail, it drops down with people matching the name or email address that I'm typing in. I can then choose from that list auto-complete that address.

This is just going to add in the ability to do this with your G+ contacts as well.

Now that I've thought about it more, that actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the response!

Are you sending and receiving on the same computer? I feel like that might cause issues. Are you able to use two separate computers to test?

Some employers offer relocation assistance. So, if you find a position that you think you'd be a better fit for or would enjoy more, but it's far away from where you live now, you may want to ask about that.

How does that really work? Like, the company I work for gives 10 paid days off, plus 10 national holidays, plus a couple of days of sick leave, which gives 20 days off a year (honestly, it's a more than that, but that's what it says in the handbook). Is that similar to the EU, or is it 20 paid days off plus holidays, plus some sick leave, or is it just 20 paid days a year plus some sick leave?

I wrote a BASH script[1] that would swap a file with similar restrictions. I'm not sure I ever got the kinks all sorted, but it was definitely a thing that I did.

[1] https://gist.github.com/mcb3k/1326729

No problem! I'm excited to see how this is all going to play out.

The beta for Home-streaming appears to be separate from the SteamBox beta[1]. If you're interested in that, you should keep an eye out at the homestream group on Steam[2].

[1] http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream#announcements/de...

[2] http://steamcommunity.com/groups/homestream#

According to Wikipedia[1], "300 kB is the current recommended size used by networks due to some limitations on the WAP gateway side". While that is listed as "Citation Needed", other links from the the same search query lists sizes varying from 600KB to 1.2MB. A quick look at the files sizes at the images I've taken shows that most of my images are over 1000KB. So, there is some kind of re-sizing that needs to occur over SMS. Instagram and other similar services don't necessarily require such re-sizing, or possibly get around it by having you crop the image yourself, so the relative quality of the remaining portion remains higher quality as opposed to shrinking the entire image to fit the size restrictions.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multimedia_Messaging_Service#Ch...

I had a similar thing happen to me back in high school, where my personal blog I was keeping had repercussions with some of the student populace. Pretty quickly after, I set the whole thing to private and stopped updating. I've run several blogs after that, but none of them where public and containing personal information.

It's not the last 30 days, it shows 30 days worth of data on the map at once. So, you can do 30 days, and then go on the calendar and select September 1st. It will then show 30 days worth of location history on the map, starting on September 1st. I think showing any more than a 30 day period would probably just end up being a tangled mess, honestly, which is probably why they did it that way.

If you want, you should also be able to download the entirety of your location history from Google Takeout. It comes in a JSON file, and has locations in Latitude, longitude, the accuracy, and what activities it thinks you are doing (e.g. still, in a car, walking, on a bike), and the confidences for that.

I'd like to tack on that it's pretty cool that you can also delete individual points and entire days of data.

I like this much better than what data my wireless service provider probably has on me. At least with this I know what Google has on me, and I have some control over it.

Yeah, you should be able to do that as well. There are a lot of different ways you could make a project like this work, I was just wanting to throw out an example to show that we're empowered to do these kinds of things now. We don't have to wait for some company to come out with a portable, bluetooth chording keyboard anymore, we can do these kinds of things ourselves. I think that is really exciting!

If you don't mind getting your hands dirty, you could probably make a prototype pretty easily. A battery, some buttons, and a bluefruit[1] should be enough to make one. You would likely need to also write some kind of input translator (Custom android keyboard or so?) to wrap/ convert the value from straight key presses to your combinations (since you want a combination of key presses to give you just one character). 3D print a case, and you're probably all set to go.

I mean, it's likely easier said than done, and would take some time and effort, but it's probably also pretty do-able.

[1]http://www.adafruit.com/blog/2013/09/27/new-product-bluefrui...

This rut actually begins much earlier in some areas of the United States. Many high school students face early school start times and late nights of homework and studying. Add in sports, music lessons, extra curricular activities, or any combination thereof, and you get a recipe for sleep deprivation. Do that for 4 years of high school, and then 4-8 years of undergraduate/post-graduate/doctoral schooling, and you end up with some seriously sleepy people who have a hard time maintaining a healthy sleep schedule.

I think you're over-estimating how much money it takes to get a relatively good gaming computer. You could probably build an entry-level gaming machine for around 700 to 800 dollars. Add in a keyboard, mouse, and a nice monitor and you'll probably end up closer to 1,000 USD. That's still 200 to 300 dollars cheaper than a Macbook Pro or an iMac, and 100 dollars cheaper than building the equivalent system running Windows (OEM Windows Home Premium is 100 dollars).

That would be equivalent to, say, buying a desktop from Dell (300~500 USD) and an XBox One (500 USD), which is a reasonable cost if someone wants to play the more graphically intense games.

I agree that it is a pity. When/if I get around to developing Android apps, I will be definitely distributing packages that way.

However, I would like to point out that the Humble Bundle packs, while available via download links, also is available for download using a Humble Bundle app that acts like a package manager. I don't know how much that would change things, success-wise, but I thought it was worth noting.

I don't know about anyone else, but I think that could be a pretty interesting subject for a book. Why haven't you actually pursued writing it?

A contractual obligation that requires something is a requirement, regardless of the technical possibilities. DRM has never been required to do anything from a technical standpoint, so far as I'm aware.

Not to say that your other points aren't valid. I'd rather not see anything resembling DRM ever. I just want to point out that a legal obligation such as a contract does make this a valid requirement for Netflix and other digital streaming services.