[edit] actually in hindsight I've spent a lot more time with my 9yr old daughter than I have since the birth of our son. Pokemon Go turned out to be a pretty big player in us spending time together.
When I signed for prime 3-4 years ago there was also a lot online retailers jerking around on shipping prices. "Oh that CD is $0.01 but it is $11.99 shipping, so if you don't like it then you'll be refunded the purchase price." Shipping prices in general seemed to be where quite a bit of profit was being made.
I don't know if that is still the case but it was a major reason for me to move to prime back then.
I have a newspaper clipping from when a car hit me when I was 5 years old... the dark truth of the matter was I hit the car by bolting across the road and smacking my head into the passenger side door as it was trying to drive through an intersection. This little page 6c clipping is all that exists of that moment. No cameras, videos, blog or twitter posts.
If that happened today the driver's name might be permanently searchable and could even cause problems when looking for a job "They hit a 5 year old, that doesn't sound like the type of person we'd want to hire as a delivery driver."
Maybe we can't fix this problem, or maybe it isn't a problem at all but just something we should accept. One thing is certain, we've never been in a situation where everything was recorded so thoroughly before. Can we adapt?
I wish we would kill flash by providing a stronger solution. Does any application exist today that can replicate the functionality of even Flash MX (now 11 years old) in HTML5? An actual application that could be given to non-developers and not a series of javascript libraries.
Writing games in AS3 is actually pretty nice. It will run on any OS/Browser that has the Flash plugin installed, without compatibility issues, and can export to all the major mobile devices as apps.
Flash for desktop browsers, apps for mobile devices, even Adobe agrees on that. And if you just have a simple website, make it in HTML5 (Adobe also agrees on that)
People confuse website content (which should be built on HTML5, I agree) with rich 'clients' such as games. If you want to build games for the web, good luck with HTML5.
First, you can only do so much with flash without writing code. And ActionScript 3 looked pretty similar to javascript anyway.
But more importantly, we should decouple the idea of Flash the authoring tool and Flash the runtime. I believe Flash the authoring tool already allows you to output to HTML 5 rather than an SWF file. So you can have all the benefits of flash authoring, without the drawbacks (killing your customer's batteries).
Then there's Shumway (Mozilla's JS based flash runtime).
There are already lots of alternatives to the nasty Flash runtime.
So you can have all the benefits of flash authoring, without the drawbacks (killing your customer's batteries).
How true is the battery thing today, really?
Objectively, on my relatively powerful workstation PC, watching Flash videos using Flash widgets on web sites doesn't tend to bump either CPU or GPU frequencies up noticeably.
In contrast, watching HTML5 video can cause either or both to go way up, with consequent extra power consumption, temperature rises, fan noise, etc. And all these trendy modern animations and canvas/SVG effects in browsers that are replacing some of what Flash used to be used for apparently require more effort from that workstation-class hardware than literally doing full-screen real-time 3D rendering in a graphics application.
Of course it's possible that this is just dodgy graphics drivers -- I do have an extremely low opinion of AMD's supposedly premium products since I've actually used some of them -- but those same dodgy drivers are there when using Flash too, and it can still play videos without raising the ambient room temperate by multiple degrees.
Well hardware decoding of flash video has improved over the years, but I can tell you that while I can play 1080p hi def videos without seeing much bump in my CPU (on the laptop), when my aluminum macbook pro is freezing cold to put on my lap in the winter, nothing warms it up as fast as playing a random youtube video with Flash.
Shameless plug: we've been building Tumult Hype over the past 4 years because we knew there'd need to be an HTML5 toolchain to let designers accomplish what they once did with Flash:
As with Java, the problem is not Flash per se but the browser plugin implementing SWF runtime. Flash can and probably will live long and prosper as the Flash "creator" app will switch to generating JavaScript+HTML5 istead of SWF.
"Ideally, the broker will make sure everything goes according to plan," the Prince of Peanut Oil told me. "But I once knew a guy who was trading for himself. He bought six egg contracts, with each contract worth 18,000 cartons of one dozen eggs. That's 1,296,000 total. The guy somehow made the mistake of taking delivery."
If it had enough torque (which seems to be a problem given the plastic nature) I could see it breaking loose rusted or stubborn bolts. Maybe? In a scenario like that you wouldn't really care about precision or sound. Though 11 million turns still seems like a lot of cranking... maybe if it had a 9v attachment it could be a portable bolt breaker. Feels like a stretch though, would be fun to play with.
Though now that I think about it the holder of the bolt breaker would probably start slowly turning before the bolt does... weeeee
The problem with rusted or stubborn bolts I've encountered is the mechanical friction on the threads usually greatly exceeds the shear force (??) that the bolt can tolerate. I've snapped a head off more than once. That's a real bummer.
> Adobe’s stock price has increased from about $30 to over $80 since Check In began.
I don't want to be overly negative but COME ON. Changing their goals program didn't nearly triple their stock price. I'm surprised Fortune included that at the end. If it truly had that much of an impact that should be the title of the article.
Getting the admin-interface correct is one of those holy grails. The problem I typically run into is adding complex wizards or features outside of the standard crud stack.
When I'm investigating an out of the box admin interface I'm _less concerned_ about how they handle CRUD; that's the easy part. Really I need to know how they handle things that go well beyond their stack.
For example, in one application we need to create events for people (like google calendar). You need to be able to search for people, show the system what they already have assigned at that time and allow you to choose times that are best for everyone in the list. This has been designed as a multi-step wizard and it works great but it was a ton of custom code. Looking at the online documentation of flask I'm not sure how I would go about integrating something like this.
There is a large number of fairly clean well-documented extension points in the Django admin. You can override forms, templates, widgets, entire pages, querysets, search logic etc etc.
In the same way that the answer to questions about Django are often answered by "You're over-thinking it. It's just Python" - many questions about the Django admin can be answered by "You're over-thinking it. It's just Django"
[edit] actually in hindsight I've spent a lot more time with my 9yr old daughter than I have since the birth of our son. Pokemon Go turned out to be a pretty big player in us spending time together.