Dear Terrestrial Internet Providers,
If I ever have service with you, and reach a monthly bandwidth cap, I will immediately cancel my service and not pay my bill.
Bandwidth caps are not acceptable for terrestrial infrastructure. Especially under current marketing practices.
If a bandwidth cap is implemented, the following should also be implemented: + A way to check usage in real time + A warning that doesn’t use the service (aka not email) to warn about nearing the cap + Limited bandwidth after the cap, not just termination of service
The current behavior adopted by most providers is equivalent to the post office ceasing delivery of mail (including bills) and then sending a letter to you about it (which won’t get delivered).
The Internet is much more than an entertainment engine, it’s vital to the operation of a household. People use the Internet to pay bills, look up phone numbers for service providers, and run household business. A complete shutdown with no warning could cause serious stress and monetary damage. It’s also a horrible way to treat your customers.
With Respect, Owen Johnson
Equal Parts of:
+ Extra Dry Bruit Champagne
+ Apple Juice
Makes for a refreshing low alcohol drink that tastes like a dessert wine.
Next time you are splitting a bill at the movie theater, grocery store, or fast food, try stacking all of your party’s rfid enabled credit cards together vertically and passing the stack over the scanner. It’s totally fair!
Here are some things I found that I thought were very interesting.
Somewhat realtime map
Similar map with different prediction model
Campaign funding data
Good blog coverage
Interactive predictions
Official twitter hashtag
Are you better off than 4 years ago?
Monte Carlo Sim using pollster data that I found on github
enjoy!
Anybody see any others?
I’m not usually a fan of Microsoft Magic, but the code first features of entity framework are super easy to use and understand.
If you write any object oriented programs that talk to a database, you know that talking to the database can be a lot of tedious and uninteresting code to write, especially if your database is simple.
First, download the entityFramework nuget package with the nuget package manager.
Let’s say you had a class like this:
public class UserPref
{
public string UserName { get; set; }
public string Key { get; set; }
public string Payload { get; set; }
}
Just add a primary key
public class UserPref
{
[Key]
public int Id { get; set; }
public string UserName { get; set; }
public string Key { get; set; }
public string Payload { get; set; }
}
And make a class that inherits DbContext and add a property of type DbSet<UserPref> to it to make it a table. The next time the application starts, it will connect to the database with the default connection string in the app.config file and just create a database.
Don’t like making migrations? Type enable-migrations -enableautomaticmigrations in the package manager command prompt. That’s really it. Way to go microsoft magic.
Thanks to Erin and Old Greg for this one…
Enjoy the entire carton!
I originally wrote this library to make it easier for php coders to collaborate with designers. I wrote a function to look for a couple of html5 data- attributes and load in the appropriate chunk of content from the server. It worked pretty well. To go along with the loader, I needed a saver very quickly to go along with it, to update content.
After that, I learned about Microsoft’s EntifyFramework CodeFirst. For those of you who are not familiar with code first, you write a bunch of plain classes, tell EntityFramework which classes are a part of your model, and then the database is automagically created and managed, with migrations and everything.
Now, I’m thinking I can do the same thing with html5 markup, generating the database strait from the forms. It just needs a little server side infrastructure and some security, and wha-la! I think we might have a good tool for some rapid app development.
We’ll see how it goes.
I’m working on a project to try and distill the differences between canidate policy and reduce it to non-jargon, non-technical language and present it as a quiz driven by dilemmas. The users would respond to each dillemma by moving a slider. The slider captures not only alignment with a candidate, but allows for showing importance or strength of opinion. After making all the choices, the user reveals to themselves how aligned he or she is with both candidates.
For sources, I’m using almost exclusively the literature from straight from the campaigns.
I’ve run in to a couple of problems.
- How do I design questions for issues that are on one candidates agenda, but not the other’s?
- How do I account for other parties, such as the green party?
