I came here to recommend QuinnyPig's services as well. He's a pro at reducing AWS costs.
Corey Quinn (Quinnypig) at Duckbill Group would be my suggestion as well.
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Who is “David Marcus” and why should anybody care?
He was also one of the lead architects of the Genesis Project.
You can play Zork in Slack with Slork:
https://github.com/devshane/slork
It's a Zork wrapper written in Elixir.
Apple has replaced the MacBook Pro with a faster MacBook Air labeled "Pro". I have no idea how they could think that professionals would use a MacBook Air (no ports, shallow keyboard, no expansion, no innovative features, marginally lighter). A tiny ribbon display is completely useless to me. They removed the escape key. Twenty years of using Macs and I'm not sure what my next laptop is going to be.
I think you are confusing MacBook Air with MacBook.
The Air has the pre-shallow keyboard, and standard port array (USB 3 x2, SD, MagSafe, and TB). Minus the non-retina screen, the 13" Air is a very capable dev machine with great battery life in a light and compact form factor.
dandandans commented on 1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds nytimes.com/2016/09/08/sc... · Posted by u/smb06
> Every sushi restaurant from which samples were collected—100%—served fake fish
I'm confused, what were they serving instead? Bison? Crab? Chicken? Tofu? Sharks? How can you fake fish?
If I'm being honest, this sounds like an exaggeration to me. Maybe rephrase if that's not what you meant?
(Edit: See my comment below [1] referring to Wikipedia -- it appears it's not even clear these are being mislabeled in the first place. Some people just don't think there is a huge distinction between the species; others do. That's another reason why this seems like a gross exaggeration of what is going on.)
When fish is sliced, cut, and prepared, it's difficult to tell exactly what fish you are being served.
According to the book, here are common substitutes:
* Escolar for white tuna
* Asian catfish, ponga, tilapia, hake for grouper
* Tile fish for grouper/halibut/red snapper
* Tilapia for catfish
* Langostino, which is shrimp or crab for lobster
dandandans commented on 1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds nytimes.com/2016/09/08/sc... · Posted by u/smb06
Escolar substitution is a definite cause for concern, due to its laxative effect.
Escolar contains a natural wax ester that can cause digestive distress and diarrhea for days.
It's been banned in Japan for 40 years.
The USDA banned it in the 90s and then unbanned it in 1998.
dandandans commented on 1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds nytimes.com/2016/09/08/sc... · Posted by u/smb06
I don't think it's a coincidence that these fake food articles—truffle oil, olive oil, seafood—are springing up after Larry Olmsted recently published Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It.
Olmsted exposes rampant fraudulent labeling and deceptive practices in the food industry, including Parmesan cheese, olive oil, truffle oil, seafood (salmon, snapper, white tuna, shrimp), Kobe beef, and more.
I'm about halfway through the book, and it's shocking. It's definitely changed how I shop for certain food and what I order in restaurants.
Here are a few notes:
* 91% of seafood consumed in the United States is imported, and half of it is farmed. Yet only one-thousandth of 1 percent of imports are inspected for fraud.
* A study of NYC seafood done by Oceana, a non-profit marine conservation group, found fraud in 58% of retail outlets and 39% of restaurants.
* Every sushi restaurant from which samples were collected—100%—served fake fish
* A supermarket test 2011 found that the five top-selling imported "extra virgin" olive oil brands in the United States failed to meet the basic legal standard 73% of the time.
* In 2001, the USDA banned the importation of Kobe eef due to cases of mad cow disease. The ban was lifted in 2012, but only a handful of restaurants/suppliers are able to obtain real Kobe Beef. Yet, we've all seen Kobe beef plastered everywhere on menus; it's all fake.
* Kobe is a completely unregulated term. Under USDA regulations, the legal requirement for calling something Kobe beef is that it qualifies as beef.
dandandans commented on 1 in 5 Seafood Samples Is Fake, Report Finds nytimes.com/2016/09/08/sc... · Posted by u/smb06
I don't think it's a coincidence that these fake food articles—truffle oil, olive oil, seafood—are springing up after Larry Olmsted recently published Real Food/Fake Food: Why You Don’t Know What You’re Eating and What You Can Do about It.
Olmsted exposes rampant fraudulent labeling and deceptive practices in the food industry, including Parmesan cheese, olive oil, truffle oil, seafood (salmon, snapper, white tuna, shrimp), Kobe beef, and more.
I'm about halfway through the book, and it's shocking. It's definitely changed how I shop for certain food and what I order in restaurants.
dandandans commented on Google Cast is now built-in to Chrome chrome.googleblog.com/201... · Posted by u/jdimov10
Safari has gotten quite good, btw, if you're on a mac. I mentioned this to a guy on the original Chrome team, and he said he wouldn't be surprised if it were faster now.... Chrome used to be all about speed but now it's about features.
Safari dev tools kills adoption for me, specifically the styles inspector and the lack of an individual input/focus state for the property and value.
Try right-clicking on the .gif and select "show controls", if it's there. This works for me most of the time. It doesn't work at all for real .gif files, but it's true that most ".gif" files are actually auto-play looping videos with no sound and hidden controls.
Imgur and Gfycat convert gifs to either WebM or MP4—making them videos.
Imgur also introduced gifv—a faux extension—to easily identify video-enhanced gifs.
Of course, the internet is still full of glorious 256-color, chunky-sized traditional gifs.