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Re: The Best Universal Remote Control

Luke Andrews — Sat, 03 Feb 2024 18:06:06 -0000

You can reassign buttons within one device to use another device’s commands, or to use macros. This solves the volume problem for me, just takes a bit more setup.

Re: New Logo and Identity for Scotiabank

Luke Andrews — Fri, 03 May 2019 20:46:12 -0000

The original execution of this design from the 1970s, when they started using the name “Scotiabank”, is still the best. It just keeps getting blander.

https://www.scotiabank.com/...

Re: What Camera Should I Buy?

Luke Andrews — Thu, 26 Dec 2013 00:34:41 -0000

I'm really impressed with the new mirrorless systems, but I think you're undervaluing DSLRs and I don't get the obsession with "image quality". My previous Canon DSLR from 2008 took perfectly good images, and anything more recent will be outstanding. Can you seriously look at photos from any of these cameras and say. "Not good enough"? Good lenses and controls that don't get in the way will far outweigh any difference from the body. With that in mind, I would say DSLRs have a couple things going for them:

1. Optical viewfinders are still sooooooo much nicer than EVFs

2. There are so many more lenses available, often costing much less, for the major DSLR lines than any mirrorless system. There's no "thrifty fifty" prime for a mirrorless, let alone an inexpensive macro or telephoto.

And you get both these things on a $500-600 entry level camera.

Re: Toronto's Gorgeous Old Street Signs Might Soon Be for Sale

Luke Andrews — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:35:52 -0000

The street signs that are replacing these are not like the Queen St one pictured in this post (which is an overhead sign only used at major intersections). The new regular street signs look like this: http://www.flickr.com/photo... They are white on blue, but stylized with a white bottom and top, and the top is rounded. (Either way, a lot uglier. :( )

Re: A Good Wi-Fi Router

Luke Andrews — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 02:40:17 -0000

It should be noted that although the RT-N56U lets you plug in a USB hard drive and share it across the network, it doesn't support HFS+ format (OS X), so it won't work for Time Machine or Mac file system sharing in general. (It does support FAT32, EXT2/3, etc. — see here: http://event.asus.com/2009/... )

Re: Prevent less.js @import caching madness

Luke Andrews — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:32:57 -0000

Sounds great! I don't have easy access to run jobs on the staging server I use, but this would be pretty slick for local use.

Re: This Is a Great Computer Monitor

Luke Andrews — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 19:23:42 -0000

I see the other thing the U2412M is missing from its older brother U2410 is the worst power button ever designed on a computing device. The U2410 power button is located on the bottom right corner of the front — exactly where most people instinctively reach when trying to tilt the monitor.

I'd also be curious to know if the software on the U2412M is any better: the U2410 interface is an infernal nightmare and the buttons make a horrible beep by default.Finally, count me among those who does indeed find the anti-glare coating unpleasant.

Re: Beautify your JavaScript in BBEdit

Luke Andrews — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:40:41 -0000

Awesome stuff, Davander!

I should update this post, but I was able to get the PHP working by changing the second-last line of the script and moving it into ~/Library/Application Support/BBEdit/Scripts/.

Change this line:

$BBEditInput = file_get_contents($argv[1]) or die($php_errormsg);

To this instead:

$BBEditInput = file_get_contents($_ENV['BB_DOC_PATH']) or die($php_errormsg);

Re: Git Pro Tip: Let grb Handle Remote Branches for You

Luke Andrews — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 20:19:00 -0000

If you're using any recent version of git, there are much simpler ways of creating remote branches:

git checkout -b mynewbranch # creates and checks out a new branch locally
git push origin mynewbranch # pushes the new branch to your remote

To remove the branch from remote:
git push origin :mynewbranch

I highly recommend http://cheat.errtheblog.com... as a git resource.

Re: Git Pro Tip: Let grb Handle Remote Branches for You

Luke Andrews — Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:19:08 -0000

If you're using any recent version of git, there are much simpler ways of creating remote branches:

git checkout -b mynewbranch # creates and checks out a new branch locally
git push origin mynewbranch # pushes the new branch to your remote

To remove the branch from remote:
git push origin :mynewbranch

I highly recommend http://cheat.errtheblog.com... as a git resource.

Re: http://brettgaylor.tumblr.com/post/1318462731

Luke Andrews — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 13:59:38 -0000

Awesome. Welcome back to the rest of the world.

Re: WestJet's big plans to conquer Air Canada and then the world

Luke Andrews — Thu, 27 May 2010 16:20:20 -0000

According to Wikipedia, the Boeing 737-700ER has a range of up to 10,205 km, which puts in range the most common routes from Eastern Canada to Europe, or even Vancouver to Tokyo or Vancouver to London.

Re: Walk this Way

Luke Andrews — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:49:51 -0000

Another thumbs up from me. Given the subject matter, it might have been a neat play to use a typeface that is regularly used for signage, but maybe that's too clever. I agree that Bryant is nice enough, but there are probably better treatments. If you used really tight tracking but kept the leading loose, you might be able to achieve a painted-line-on-a-road effect.

Michael McWatters: the top of the type is aligned precisely with the top of the T in the mark. I think it works, personally.

Re: http://attaboy.tumblr.com/post/517059134

Luke Andrews — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:56:03 -0000

I don't really expect every book to sing and dance, but it's nice to see something more ambitious than the current generation of e-books that have no design at all really. Which is fine for a run of the mill paperback, but a lot of physical books benefit greatly from good typography, layout and illustration.

Re: http://attaboy.tumblr.com/post/358062484

Luke Andrews — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:04:04 -0000

No, I certainly can't give up now. At the end of the day, Lost is still
better TV than 90% of what else is on. :)

Re: The long tail, curtailed?

Luke Andrews — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:30:57 -0000

Andrew didn't really quote enough of the linked article to support its argument. The gist of it is: "The point is the Long Tail doesn’t work as far as revenue generation is considered," and they quote a study that shows that even Netflix, Anderson's "poster-child," is selling an increasing proportion of the head rather than the tail.

I agree however: none of this proves that there is no market for the long tail. All it proves is that there's *more* money to be made (so far) from the head if you're Hollywood or the mainstream media. The article also skirts gingerly around the music industry, which is the real poster child for the long tail:

"In the 80’s, an artist had to sell 15 million albums to be N°1 in the US market. In 2005, that number fell to 4.5m and in 2008, the N°1 on the US charts sold only 2.7m albums. Does it mean unknown artists emerged in the meantime, thanks no newly accessible catalogs? Perhaps. But over the last ten years, the music industry lost 40% to 50% of its revenue."

Even if the "industry" has lost half of its revenue (and I dispute that number -- perhaps the major labels have lost that, but indie labels are doing just fine), 2.7 is a lot less than half of 15.

Re: Attaboy Media

Luke Andrews — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:56:38 -0000

This is my personal blog... if you're having trouble with Dabble DB, please send an email to support@dabbledb.com.

Re: Attaboy Media

Luke Andrews — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:38:14 -0000

Hmm... a slight modification of Bitstream Vera Mono. Definitely not an
improvement on Consolas, but Vera Mono is certainly decent enough. Were
you a Monaco slave before?

Re: And the Logo Played On

Luke Andrews — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:23:25 -0000

The purple gradient really feels like a bad dream from the 1980s, but the rest of the concept just works. The old logo looked generic and corporate. The new logo is immediately memorable and specific. Big improvement. If only they didn't make fading purple the main treatment...

Re: 好き

Luke Andrews — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:17:41 -0000

Yes, they went a little crazy with the shears at the groomers.

Re: Attaboy Media

Luke Andrews — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:01:53 -0000

Follow-up thoughts at the Aunt Farm

Re: Tweet from Tumblr We’re testing Twitter... | Tumblr Staff

Luke Andrews — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 15:09:10 -0000

I'm liking this, but when I post a capital-L Link to Tumblr, I really wish the tweet would include this link instead of, or in addition to, a link to the post. Seems annoying to have people click on my tweet and then have to click on my post to see the link.

Re: Which Brush is Mightier?

Luke Andrews — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:25:17 -0000

Mistral not dated? Really?

Re: Attaboy Media

Luke Andrews — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:49:17 -0000

It was outside Landsdowne subway station in Toronto.

Re: Attaboy Media

Luke Andrews — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 13:22:42 -0000

I'd be happy to share the love if I had TextMate. The file is plain text though, so it should be pretty easy to adapt.