Encosia

There's Shapeways. I've ordered a couple pieces from them and both turned out well.

Make sure you have the required ~16GB of free disk space that it requires temporarily for the download.

I've seen that before, but it's essentially the opposite of disavowing isn't it? He's doing quite a bit of rationalizing and misdirecting in that post, IMO.

At the time, I remember being incredibly disappointed to see him hide behind the EULA and "This one seems a matter of opinion." That's why it came to mind immediately and I was curious if YC ever took a more respectable position in the interim.

Did YC ever disavow InstallMonetizer? (honest question)

Are there many CDNs that serve static content without good caching headers? I haven't seen that myself, except in the case of the automatic latest version feature that some have/had.

Assuming you serve the CDN content with good caching headers, there's no connection required in the case of a cache hit.

I think the $23k was a pound to dollar conversion of the amount less than advertised.

Don't get me wrong. I don't in any way condone people flying drones in restricted airspace. There are so many other (safe) places to fly that it makes no sense to endanger people and/or property by flying in dangerous areas.

I don't even question that these encounters are happening occasionally, because there are always reckless morons out there to ruin things like this for everyone, but I do question the credibility of this recent hysteria around drones.

Speaking of the laser pointers, I got zapped in the eye with a green laser pointer at night once while sitting in the passenger seat. I happened to be leaning over and looking down at the ground right when they were targeting us. The intensity was much greater than I would have expected a few thousand feet up. It wasn't quite blinding, but super disorienting for a few seconds. Hard to believe that anyone would think it's okay to do that.

With all due respect to your experience, digging into the details of the FAA's data on these supposed drone encounters is telling: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/drones-are-the-new-ufos

For example, this is a report from this year that the FAA categorized as a drone encounter here in my hometown of Atlanta:

A VFR aircraft receiving ATC service reported passing an object approx 500ft below him at 095. The pilot described the object as round circular, red in color, and reported it could have been a drone or a balloon. A80 ATC did not observe any targets on radar in the vicinity of N7745.

A drone or a balloon? Might as well just chalk it up to swamp gas at that point.

Having been in aircraft looking out and having watched from the ground as my own quadcopter disappeared into the sky significantly closer than 500ft away, I find it extremely challenging to see most reports like that as credible. Yet, the FAA has no qualms with aggregating this junk data into a scary story to sway public opinion. Disappointing.

I'm curious. Have you personally, definitively witnessed a consumer drone in restricted airspace during approach?

Drones are the new UFO.

If a pilot or passenger sees a bird, balloon, or odd reflection these days, it's a "drone". Be skeptical about the recent uptick in fear mongering about the number of drone sightings in the vicinity of airports and airplanes.

As someone who has spent a fair amount of time in small, four-seater airplanes and also owns a popular quadcopter model, I always feel compelled to add some color to these threads about drones.

When I'm flying my quadcopter, it's extremely difficult to spot once I've lost continuous sight of it. Look away for a second, and you're staring at an empty sky. Even when it's just a couple hundred feet away and you know exactly where to look, the thing is nearly invisible in the air.

Sitting in the passenger seat of a Cirrus or Cessna, I've always been surprised by how difficult it is to spot nearby aircraft. Whole planes, orders of magnitude larger than a consumer drone, are much harder to spot than you'd expect. Even when ATC alerts us where the traffic is, you rarely pick it up visually until much later than you'd anticipate.

Maybe more importantly, many modern drones have geofencing that prevents them from flying into the restricted airspace around airports.

Combining my experience in both situations with the geofencing around restricted airspace, I find it incredibly hard to believe that folks are honestly spotting consumer quadcopters from airplanes in this quantity. It's just not credible at all if you've spent much time around either or both hobbies.

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The y-axis is labeled "Unique Visitors".

Can you describe what you mean by getting the run around? Are they giving you feedback that they're unhappy with the result and don't want to pay you? Are they saying/implying that they don't have enough money and can't pay you? Is this your only client? How many months behind are they? Do you have other prospects so that you could walk away from this client today and be okay financially?

With all due respect to the advice posted so far, it's difficult to offer useful advice without a bit more information about your situation.

Out of the box, a Surface Pro 3 definitely does not spin up the fan just checking email, unless you're checking email with Chrome. Gmail on Chrome ended up being more resource intensive than Office or Visual Studio on my SP3.

Be sure to click the "Turn bullshit on?" link at the top-right for a chuckle.

His layout seems fine to me. Out of curiosity, I shrunk the sidebar down to 20%, but found that the main difference was that it made the content's line length uncomfortably long to read.

The messy ones? Sure. Most of them haven't needed any work at all though.

If you're looking at overall traffic, combining mobile, tablet, and desktop/laptop, that's probably in the ballpark of correct, but that simplistic measure isn't something I would allow to drive too many decisions.

If your site depends at all on user generated content (even comments), one active desktop/laptop user is probably worth hundreds or thousands of screenboard users. On my non-corporate-facing sites, IE is still 30+% of desktop usage, even though it's only 5-10% of overall usage.

Also, if you provide an untested experience to your IE users, you're probably bouncing many more users than you realize. Very few people return to a site that doesn't work in their default browser.

nb: I'm typing this in Chrome on a MBP.

What trouble are you running into with APN? I just went through that exercise with a cordova app a few weeks ago, and might be able to help if you need it. My email is in my profile.

You do run into messy ones that you basically have to repair before you use, but those themes are often very high quality under the hood.

Definitely. Austin was just the first example that came to mind, but I think you're right that spreading out to several regional hubs is also likely (and preferable, IMO).

That's interesting, but we (as far as I know) weren't talking about game development, but about TV/movie production.

Most people don't realize it, but many recent high-budget movies were filmed in Georgia, e.g. Fast Five, Vacation, Ant-Man, all three Hunger Games movies, one of the recent X-Men movies, Flight, etc. After 2008, there was an abundance of empty warehouse space here available at deep discounts, not far from the highest volume airport in the world.

As the economy rebounded, momentum in that industry seems to have remained even though there aren't many empty/cheap warehouses here anymore. A few developers are even working on purpose-built movie studios around town now.

It has been interesting to watch, and certainly could parallel what could happen in the bay area if an exodus to somewhere like Austin began in earnest.

There's no "Second Hollywood" in the United States.

Look into what's been going on in Georgia for the past few years. Not a replacement for Hollywood yet, but it's a good example of how quickly alternatives can take off due almost entirely to geographic differences in the cost of doing business.

I doubt you'd say that if you owned one of the affected VWs.

I have seen weirdness from time to time, but mostly no. I just asked someone to send me a test message while the Gmail window was focused, and it came to both locations. Oddly, when I send a reply from Trillian, the chat window closes in Gmail.

I've been using Trillian Pro for this for many years, and it's worth every penny. My history is always in sync between my Windows, OSX, and iOS devices, and Trillian's desktop interface is so much better than Gmail's chat interface.

Avoid cultures that hail 20 year olds dreaming up the next big thing. Outside of a few (toxic) pockets, those cultures are in the minority in my experience.

Am I the only one seeing the irony in a speculative post about privacy on a site that uses Google Analytics and Disqus?

Maybe I misunderstood, but I was replying to your overall message about:

I wonder how much the Edge's performance will affect the average person's decision to use it or not.

About half of people using Windows continue using IE right now. So, "everyone" and "average" definitely refer to a lot of people who have absolutely no idea what any of us are talking about in this entire page of comments. It's so easy to underestimate how little truly "average" folks understand or care about these nuances in the real world outside of a few tech bubble areas.

Everyone

In my experience, you're dramatically overestimating how many people really understand what a browser is, what IE is, or can disambiguate between Chrome and Google.