This is hardly a good deal. Blu-ray prices dropped under $20 this year, and iTunes HD is very, very far from blu-ray in terms of picture quality.
- andrei_c
Replacements for halogens that is. Until now those were the only low efficiency bulbs in our house. Once these puppies are installed, all of our lighting will be low wattage.
- Matt Mastracci
from iPhone
An early birthday present: The Gmail Javascript compiler was just open-sourced! http://code.google.com/closure... (it compiles JS into smaller, faster JS)
Unfortunately it looks like the internationalization features may be missing. I wonder why those were removed? (or if I'm just not seeing it)
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul the Closure project has three components: compiler, library, and template language. Looks like the Closure/library might be competing with jQuery.
- Shakeel Mahate
I think jQuery does a lot of stuff that might confuse the compiler, e.g. iterating over an array of string function names and creating new function wrappers (look at the way the parent/child/next/prev/etc functions get installed) The Closure library is also full of type annotations that help the compiler make better optimization choices, so you're likely to get a better compiled outcome using Closure than jQuery + fixes + compiler
- Ray Cromwell
@paul -- I know you've been wanting this opensourced for a long time. sorry it took such a long time. Nick Santos and the jscompiler team has finally done it! Cheers!
- Jing Lim
Congratulations to the team (and @Paul & Jing) -- I know everyone's been waiting a long time for this. For anyone considering whether to use jQuery vs Closure, consider that they're meant for largely different purposes. jQuery's good for enhancing static web pages; Closure's much better at building large apps. And as Ray points out above, Closure the library is going to get much better results from Closure the compiler than an arbitrary js library would, because of all the type annotations.
- Joel Webber
Paul Buchheit has been at the top of my best of pages all month. Rock on, Paul.
- Donald C. Lindsay
Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL !!! Cool present!! <insert CAKE> :D
- Susan Beebe
We are getting some super intense sheet lightning and thunder here. I thought we lost some transformers until the rumbles came 12 seconds later.
- joey
Transformers were blowing on West Queen Anne/Magnolia earlier in the evening. The sky was flashing all sorts of weird turquoise blues
- veo
Oh, I wonder if it was a transformer or two then. The sky lit up and I assumed that's what it was because we don't really get sheet lightning and it wasn't very green but maybe it was.
- joey
So we are supposed to get more storms this afternoon and evening. YIPPY!
- veo
"Introducing the new Philips Wake-up Light, a more pleasant and natural way to wake-up in the morning. Light gradually increases for 30 minutes before your wake up time to gently prepare your body to wake up and feel more energetic at the start of your day. With optional FM radio and nature sounds, waking up will be a pleasant experience. Its innovative design includes a light that can be adjusted to 20 different brightness settings, making the product suitable to use as a lamp in any bedroom. At the end of your day, set the dusk simulator to drift you off to sleep by gradually dimming the light and sound."
- Alex Kapranoff
from Bookmarklet
"We asked our editors three questions: what are your favorite pairs of earphones - not headphones? Why? And if you had to choose just one, which would it be? Our answers are below, and most interesting in that different users with different listening preferences have gravitated to many similar earphones. Of the group, only one editor noted a preference for full-sized headphones, and no one recommended clip-on earphones, lanyard earphones, convertibles, wireless, or hybrid earbud-canalphones. Feel free to add your picks to the comments section at the bottom of the page."
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
I've been using the Shure E2c's for >4 years now, and absolutely love them. They're leaps and bounds better than anything else I've tried (that didn't cost $$$). They were about $100 when I bought them, but are probably a bit cheaper now. It's slightly irritating to pay $15 for a few pieces of cheap foam, but I've only had to do that once in >4 years, so that's not too bad.
- Joel Webber
I'm not very well-versed on headphones -- all of mine in the past have been whatever cheapo set came with whatever portable music device I happened to be using at the time, though I've stayed away from the stock Apple headphones like the plague -- but I use Bose In-Ear headphones at work and love them.
- Brian Chang
Etymotic ER-6i. They make flying economy a bit more bearable :)
- Tudor Bosman
I am using Etymotic ER-4P since 2007 and happy with them.
- ashish
Srsly what's up with their site? It flashed and jumped around for a few seconds and completely froze up. Twice. Is it the ads?
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Has anyone listened to the difference between a pair of the ER-4P and ER-6i? Similar technology must drive both, but there is a $100 price gap. I'd be willing to pay the price if the sound was really that much better.
- Bill Strathearn
That's the MTV Real World Seattle house where that gay guy beat up that unhinged chick and the dude with the brooklyn accent got all emo over a producer.
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, the Real World Seattle house was on the piers, down on the waterfront. This house is on Lake Union.
- Rochelle
I thought I could see water behind it there.
- Matthew DeVries
I see that house on my way to work every day. I'm surprised it is on the market as it seems like they just finished it and it was lived in. In any case -- add to my cart!
- Joe Beda
from iPhone
PRETTY. :D (ps - Real World Seattle was filmed at Pier 70...got drunk and tried to molest the building from the sidewalk once...DON'T ASK)
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
That looks like the perfect house for someone who has two wives to live.
- joey
Maybe we could all pitch in and have a FriendFeed house! PS Matthew, I haven't seen *tacklehugs* for years! Taking me back, man. Taking me back.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
from iPhone
Hayes & Joe, maybe you guys live near each other given that you both pass this house on the way to work.
- Gary Burd
Capitol Hill. Gary please come over for lunch or whatever in Fremont one day. Bring Scott!
- Hayes Haugen
Heh... I have something just as messy for running arbitrary shell commands over ssh / as a bash command line. Every layer has its own fun escaping rules.
- Matt Mastracci
You must read this if you're writing any kind of systems or performance-critical code. Consider reading it if you're writing any kind of C/C++ code, or even Java (if only to understand why Java wreaks havoc on memory hierarchies).
- Tudor Bosman
This is a really interesting article describing how the author uses several iPhone apps, each with its own strengths, in series to create high-quality images from iPhone photos.
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
The Colour Mill app he describes (free!) seems really neat.
- Stephen Mack