Chris Adams

"WMATA can use plenty of help, to be sure. That said, it's still better than any city I've lived and beats the crap out of driving and finding parking unless you are rich and have time to sit in gridlock. Transit options in DC are really a great argument for bike commuting since you have the speed of rail with the convenience of walking. The other thing to remember: far more people die on the roads than in train accidents. This isn't to excuse the criminal negligence of the people who killed those engineering recommendations but … drivers aren't exactly perfectly safety conscious either." - Chris Adams

"We had good results on Craigslist so I would check there but keep your BS detector active. You mentioned Georgetown but I'd consider also looking at the Columbia Heights area, which has plenty of housing and is fairly quick for commuting downtown since it's a straight shot downhill. You have a solid metro line, two very prompt bus routes (in the morning, the 16st bus is every 2-3 minutes) and its an easy Bikeshare trip. I particularly recommend considering cycling as DC is a great bike city and it's frequently your fastest option by a good margin, opening up a lot of options which aren't as expensive but are still a 5-10 minute bike ride from where you want to be." - Chris Adams

"One caveat: you should probably post this using multiple source images of varying sizes and formats. In particular, this will expose underlying implementation inefficiencies if one of the libraries scales poorly to larger size images. Fundamentally most implementations come down to the same shared C libraries (libjpeg, libpng, libtiff, etc). In my work on https://github.com/acdha/Nativ... (a Python interface to various imaging libraries, including GraphicsMagick) I've found this to be an area where the compiler flags used for those libraries can make a significant difference, particularly when using Homebrew - in my testing compiling the various dependencies and GraphicsMagick with "-mtune=native -O4" was good for something like a 40% overall improvement on a modern Intel processor, scaling up with the size of the source image. This isn't something I'd lose sleep over not doing but with my Python code it made a difference even with HTTP overhead, which is pretty negligible these days." - Chris Adams

"FWIW, I've compared stats on some sites at work and it's close but supports the original “Chrome is leading” conclusion: slightly ahead on page views but slightly below on visits. The best news is that IE9 has significantly more users than IE8 and IE7 dropped down to ~3%" - Chris Adams