bensheldon

class AppDelegate
  
  def application(application, didFinishLaunchingWithOptions:launchOptions)
    # ...
    navigation_appearance
    #...
  end

  def navigation_appearance
    # Background Color

Daiz

Don't Buy the Snake Oil of Beamr Video

You might have heard of Beamr Video, and their impressive claims about reducing video bitrates by "up to 4x, without losing quality". Sounds too good to be true? Well, as a matter of fact, it is.

The Example Videos

The four example videos that Beamr has on their site use very high bitrates - 40-50 Mbps for 1080p video. These are the kind of bitrates you find on Blu-ray discs, whereas with something like Netflix's "SuperHD" you'd only get around ~5.6 Mbps (5800 kbps) 1080p video, and with 720p Netflix video the bitrate is only around ~3.5 Mbps (3600 kbps). If you have watched online streams like these, you'll probably know that they look quite decent. Now, if you look at the Beamr Video examples, you'll notice that even for their "reduced" clips, the bitrates are still around 9 Mbps minimum, and average as high as ~30 Mbps.

At this point, you can probably see the trick that Beamr is trying to pull

johnbender

// Disable bold. 
term_.prefs_.set('enable-bold', false) 

// Use this for Solarized Dark 
term_.prefs_.set('background-color', "#002b36");
term_.prefs_.set('foreground-color', "#839496");

term_.prefs_.set('color-palette-overrides', [
  '#073642', 
  '#dc322f', 

orta

# Artsy Editorial
#
# Get Page stats from google analytics

GA = require('googleanalytics')
util = require('util')
require('date-utils');        
   
module.exports = (robot) ->
  robot.hear /stats (.*)http:\/\/artsy.net\/(.*)/i, (msg) ->

desandro

I'm having trouble understanding the benefit of require.js. Can you help me out? I imagine other developers have a similar interest.

From Require.js - Why AMD:

The AMD format comes from wanting a module format that was better than today's "write a bunch of script tags with implicit dependencies that you have to manually order"

I don't quite understand why this methodology is so bad. The difficult part is that you have to manually order dependencies. But the benefit is that you don't have an additional layer of abstraction.

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Hupotronic

VP8 vs H.264 - Which One is Better?

So I was reading Hacker News and decided to read the comments in the thread about H.265 being approved. Pretty close to the top was this comment about VP9, Google's future video format. I have some words of my own about it and other future formats at the bottom of this post, but what jumped out from the comment to me was this part:

Many have already implemented VP8 (which is also slightly better than h.264 at this point)

The comparison linked to back up that statement is faulty for several reasons, such as not providing the source material used (hell, he doesn't even name the source material), exact encoding settings used (no, some random profiles are not enough), not providing the resulting encodes, only providing a

murtaugh

<figure class="quote">
	<blockquote>It is the unofficial force—the Baker Street irregulars.</blockquote>
</figure>

ndarville

Business Models

Advertising

Models	Examples
Display ads	Yahoo!
Search ads	Google

buley

#!/usr/bin/env node
var path = require('path')
, fs = require('fs');
file = ''
stream = fs.createReadStream( path.normalize( process.argv[ 2 ] ) );
stream.on( 'data', function(data) {
    file += data.toString();
} );
stream.on( 'end', function() {
    stream = JSON.parse( file );

domenic

This article has been given a more permanent home on my blog. Also, since it was first written, the development of the Promises/A+ specification has made the original emphasis on Promises/A seem somewhat outdated.

You're Missing the Point of Promises

Promises are a software abstraction that makes working with asynchronous operations much more pleasant. In the most basic definition, your code will move from continuation-passing style:

getTweetsFor("domenic", function (err, results) {
 // the rest of your code goes here.