jon_dahl

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by jon_dahl 17y ago
put my future outside of my own hands Unless you're going on for further schooling, grades don't matter at all. Employers certainly don't look at them. Study what you love and work hard, no matter the grades.
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I resonate with most of your list, especially Bach and late Beethoven quartets. But I don't listen to much Chopin. Any recommendations?
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Depends if both codecs need to be implemented by every site. If Flash or HTML 5 supported both, content owners would be able to choose one or the other.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
This is probably the best analysis of the VP8 situation I've read. One takeaway: if Google wants to make VP8 ubiquitous on the web, it probably could (by leveraging YouTube), but that wouldn't kill H.264. It would more likely set up two com
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
The good news for video pirates is: -- Every time a video is encoded, it hashes differently. So a studio could find a torrented file and find people downloaded that exact copy, but they couldn't just ask for every copy of a show. -- If this
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
No hands-on experience, but VP6 was a pretty good codec - at least XviD/DivX/MPEG-4 level, and quite a bit better than Theora. If VP8 > VP6, and it was free, then it would definitely be worth using.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
I don't disagree, and I'd love a free open-source video codec that compared favorably with H.264. I wouldn't be surprised if we have one soon. But we don't yet.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
(For the PDF-adverse): MPEG LA’s AVC License Will Continue Not to Charge Royalties for Internet Video that is Free to End Users (DENVER, CO, US – 2 February 2010) – MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will contin
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H.264 will remain royalty-free until 2016 for free Internet content [pdf](mpegla.com)
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
H.264 is a far superior codec to Theora. For a large site, distributing video in Theora would significantly increase bandwidth costs, and would hurt user experience. I've seen the articles that claim that the two are basically the same, but
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
You can license H.264, for the purpose of encoding video, for free or cheap, if your volume is modest. [1] Whoever handles the video distribution (you or your customers) also needs to license the codec. This too is free or cheap. It could a
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
This seems like a false dilemma - either corporations are legally protected as individuals by the Bill of Rights, or they are totally unprotected. Wouldn't it make sense to treat them as something other than people, since they are not, in f
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
For businesses, this is a good question. H.264 licensing can be relatively inexpensive (free for moderate use, cheaper than MP3 or AAC for high-volume use). So most businesses are probably better off using H.264 than Theora. Firefox is anot
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Within limits, shareholders can elect the board of directors, right?
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Public universities are government agencies I'm pretty sure this is not true in the US. "State schools" (eg University of [state]) are private organizations that are chartered by the state, and partially funded by the government. So there
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
This guy is actually a friend of my co-founder. Amazing story. For general amusement, read through the comments on the Wired article. The guy is accused of lying because "a DSLR flash can't light a pitch black room" and "his iPhone battery
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Calm down, man. The previous poster expressed a reasonable opinion. Disagree if you want, but don't resort to ad hominem.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
The poster's point isn't really about Ruby. Ruby works just fine with HTTPS, thank you very much. It's not like Ruby handles the HTTPS encryption. I think his point is more "I hear the excuse 'it uses too much CPU time', but this is often f
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Not bad, but personally, I prefer four words: "Build something people want."
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
When I was younger (college), I really wanted to sleep less. I thought that if I could get by on 6 hours, 4 hours, or 3 hours of sleep, I'd live a better life, and would have more time to get things done. No more. First, there is a lot of r
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Technically, a joint venture (indeed, any partnership) can be based on a purely verbal arrangement This makes sense, but it scares me a little. Entrepreneurial types frequently do what Fusion Garage and Arrington did, though usually on a
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
IMHO, giving a Management or Marketing class to a 20 year old is like learning a foreign language from a textbook, without ever speaking with a native. You're better off spending 1 year actually doing it than 4 years studying. Studying hist
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
This is true for many people. But if you have a choice - and large portions of the world do - you're better off being underpaid and enjoying your work, than being paid well and hating it.
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
You're basically saying that a humanities education doesn't have professional value. I disagree completely. A lot of employers (myself included) would rather hire someone with a philosophy or history major than a business major. For many ca
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
You're coming on a little strong, man. I appreciate your basic point, but you're calling people sheep because they weigh the pros and cons of cloud hosting differently than you.
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This is a formal language spec (e.g. Here is what happens when you call the "foo" method), not a developer certification. Previously, there was no spec, so official Ruby behavior was "whatever the interpreter did". This would have been real
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
This is a strange argument. He isn't dodging taxes - the same tax code that pays for roads and tanks also specifically encourages people to give money to charities, by providing legal deductions. That's all he's doing. The government has a
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Four techniques for saying "No" without your client knowing it: 1. Tell them how much something will cost. "Great idea! A live chat widget will cost another $20,000. What do you think?" 2. Make them prioritize. Pick things that you know are
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Obligatory Henry Ford quote: "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
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by jon_dahl 17y ago
Good point. This is why in Extreme Programming (and Cucumber), user stories are supposed to include a "Why?". "As a user, I should be able to mark my favorite posts, so that I can find them again. " It may turn out that users don't need to

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