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These aren't mopeds to me. They don't have pedals.

Raised in LA and so was my mother, but she would say "back east". I always took it in a historical sense.

I made a Chrome extension that opens a player on specifically selected gifs but not wholesale (would need too much memory)

https://github.com/0ui/gif-scrubber

The author is wrong about gifs encoding full frames. Properly encoded gifs only store the pixels that change in each frame. His own example with the dog shows this http://i.imgur.com/wISu3An.png

The character's name was actually Cypher. Not sure if the Matrix reference was a mistake or if I'm not catching onto something else.

I switched to Nil w/ the Big Duo color scheme about a year ago and since then no other theme/scheme looks right. To me, it's the perfect use of contrast while still pleasing to the eye.

I think the idea is that in a capitalist competition we should assume all actors are trying to monopolize the industry and really only follow laws to avoid harming their bottom line. The same way you'd design any system by assuming any user might be malicious. The way to manage this is to eliminate corruption and strictly scrutinize the relationships between businesses and gov't entities.

Well viewport units are completely flexible/dynamic [1]. That's their purpose. But I can see how this library might be a quicker solution in many cases.

[1] http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-values/#viewport-relative-length...

This is very nicely done, however css viewport units have what appears to be the same browser support and are built-in. I think what this delivers that css doesn't is explicit bounds for min and max size, whereas you'd have to do a media query or something to set those in a pure css solution.

The browser version has shortcuts for next track (n/j/b), prev track (p/k/z), play/pause (x/c/space), stop (v), and heart (l/h/f). I use Plug regularly but does it add anything in that regard?

I think the point is that your hands may get greasy or have food bits on them and you can still browse without getting your keyboard dirty.

I think tools like React actually make debugging situations like this easier. Instead of trying to figure out what actions a user took that manipulated the DOM with jQuery n times, I can take an exact snapshot of the state of the application and walk through how it is being rendered.

Wow. I've read anti-sports rants before, but never one so lengthy and pointless. It reminds me a lot of the hate I see for pop stars on the internet. The vitriol over the Biebers and One Directions simply because they're popular in the mainstream. My immediate reaction is "Lots of people like something you don't like. Get over it." But ultimately, it's a completely elitist attitude that in this case ignores the cultural basis for sports fandom. He looks at all the ape-like sports fans and wonders why they can't behave like civilized men. Like him.

In summary:

- He doesn't like watching sports.

- He once heard about a guy who abused his girlfriend and was also a sports fan. He concludes that jerks will be jerks despite the existence of sports and the anecdote was essentially unrelated.

- He's felt the same shared joy and admiration except about things other than sports and gets why that was exciting but doesn't feel the same way about sports.

Great. Particularly ill-conceived is this notion that we are being "tricked" into rooting for our regional teams despite their being full of non-local players. What he doesn't get is the team is the fans, not the players. We are the constant throughout the team's history. As the customer base, we are the reason for the existence of the team. In a sense, we pay to fund the thing. Players may come and go, but without us there would be no team. That's why we might simultaneously cheer for a hockey team full Canadians and a baseball team full of Dominicans. No one is "duping" us. I also fail to see the point of the wrestling analogy but I suppose it all goes back to the idea that we're all rubes.

Of course he has a friend who is an Eagles fan, so it couldn't be that he doesn't understand the cultural basis. And he likes to watch soccer sometimes so it couldn't possibly be that he "just doesn't get it". And he's not judging sports fans because they don't choose what is enjoyable to them-- But why sports?!

I've had so many positive sports-related experiences, memories celebrating with family and friends, countless strangers befriended simply because we were both fans, it's no wonder for me. Why does it have to be sports? Because we like them. Why do you struggle to change society instead of accepting that this aspect of the mainstream isn't for you?

It's really great along a few narrowly defined routes, i.e. if you want to get from Universal to Staples Center or Downtown to Culver City. But so many shorter routes that are still extremely common (like going from Sherman Oaks to the west side) are still inexplicably difficult...

EDIT: Ok maybe it can be explained. I just don't like it.

EDIT: Sent.

Just got an invite (thanks @speg !)

Sent one to headcanon so I have 1 left.

The word "forge" seems to me an odd choice for a company that deals in finance. Three of us here independently saw negative connotations when it comes to money, security, trust, etc. but nobody else has brought it up yet so perhaps it's just us. Best of luck to them.

Not generally, because few would define a market in terms of a single day since it's not very useful. Usually a period of one year is assumed but can commonly be a quarter or a month.

But technically, if you defined it that way, sure it had the biggest market share for that day.

You say this as if the press is using the term in a misleading or special way, but in business the term "market share" has always meant percentage of volume for a given time period, not including product still being used. People might use a term like "usage share" for that, being something completely different.

Because I personally don't value seeing a flesh-and-blood person very much. In my experience, Amazon has them beat in price, convenience, and customer service (they replace items and take my returns without an attitude, always). They also carry items my local stores wouldn't dream of carrying.

The only time I buy from local stores is when I absolutely must have it that day. And it looks like Amazon might even be doing that soon.

I can't find any actual citations of the word regulate used to mean "to make regular". The only references I found are in articles trying to explain the Commerce Clause.

The word regulate comes from the Latin regulare "to control by rule, direct". I don't see any evidence that the meaning has changed much over time.

This article seems to assume that in order for resolution to have an effect on perceived picture quality, you need to be able to discern individual pixels in the image and I haven't been convinced this is the case. Couldn't the image just "look sharper" without the viewer being able to pinpoint the extra pixels? Anecdotally, I can instantly tell the difference between broadcast 720p and a 1080p Bluray on my 50" from 13 feet away, but that might also be due to compression/encoding/etc.

Also, I'm not convinced that in the future we won't commonly have 60"+ screens in our homes. If you could afford it, why not have a true home theater? The bigger issue with 4K for the moment is getting actual 4K content.

> One of the biggest improvements, not offered by the Lockitron, is the lack of needing to fumble in your pockets for anything

Did you watch the full video? This version of Lockitron has proximity-based keyless entry like some cars do. No need to reach into your pockets or punch in a code.

One difference I notice is that RottenTomatoes uses color more effectively. Looking at their homepage I see the red and green tomato icons and instantly see which movies are highly/poorly rated. The blue and gray clouds here don't contrast as much and it took me a second to even realize what was supposed to indicate good or bad. Great idea, though and a good start. Best of luck.

Is there a way to release an HTML5 game that isn't open source (viewable code)? Other than obfuscating the code isn't it necessarily available to the user?

Incredible, I literally started making a client-side gif animator like this on Wednesday. I'm kinda glad I didn't try to finish the whole thing yet, as this is very well done. I didn't know about that cool GifEncoder.

Also, as I understand it, pure CSS transitions and effects are often much faster than using javascript.

The impression I got from the article is that you'd just open it up with whatever HTML editor you want. Particularly where it says "authors can further customize their books with HTML5 or JavaScript". That's pretty well spec'd.

It sounds like it is open. HTML-based with a couple vendor-specific properties that anyone can interpret if they like. Anything I'm missing?

I would say their user interface was designed to be a maze which is extremely difficult for the average user to figure out. Nothing was technically impossible once I found out the convoluted way to do it, but the design is no accident and many laymen just give up trying to leave or cancel.