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Re: Emma review: Young stars and parasols lead a tart Jane Austen update | EW.com | EW.com

Scott McMillin — Sun, 23 Feb 2020 08:20:46 -0000

“If there’s a metaphor for Victorian rigidity here...”
Emma is a Regency (Georgian) novel and was written 22 years before Victoria became queen.

Re: The Best Trackballs

Scott McMillin — Wed, 09 May 2018 15:29:47 -0000

I've been using Kensington trackballs (Turbo Mouse, Expert Mouse) for almost 30 years now. I'm not sure I could work without one. Especially good for those who need pinpoint precision but also have wrist issues (carpal tunnel, etc). I can do so much with just a small gesture of one finger.

Re: TableTap is going to set fire to Twitch tomorrow with the stream of one of this year's biggest digital board game releases | Feature

Scott McMillin — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 10:37:05 -0000

Ha, yeah I realized a bit later you probably meant Steampunk!

Re: TableTap is going to set fire to Twitch tomorrow with the stream of one of this year's biggest digital board game releases | Feature

Scott McMillin — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 15:26:47 -0000

Not cyberpunk at all.

Re: The Best Gaming Headset (for Most People)

Scott McMillin — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 16:37:55 -0000

Would have like to have seen the best on-ear pick as well. I just can't do over-ear headphones -- I get way too hot.

Re: iOS: How To Make AutoLayout Work On A ScrollView

Scott McMillin — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:09:44 -0000

After a couple of frustrating hours, this is the solution that finally worked and made complete sense. Well done and thanks!

Re: Meet the Shoost team: Editor-in-Chief Shawn Schuster

Scott McMillin — Tue, 13 May 2014 17:48:00 -0000

I love that screenshot!

Re: Advisor / The story of Toontastic as told by co-creator Andy Russell - appoLearning

Scott McMillin — Tue, 21 May 2013 11:32:56 -0000

"we simply give the kids the toys and tools to imagine it themselves."

I love this approach.

Re: Canv.as Opens Up

Scott McMillin — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 14:05:02 -0000

Account registration requires Facebook. *sigh*

Re: Cartoon: They Retired His Number

Scott McMillin — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:21:14 -0000

The only thing Jobs' turtleneck said was how little he cared (self-admitted, by the way) about his appearance.

Re: This is WHY Free 2 Play works, quote from Pirates of the Burning Seas team

Scott McMillin — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 17:23:38 -0000

I think it's hard to argue that the idea of not limiting your player base to those willing to pay $15/mo is a good thing. It lowers the initial friction in trying the game and allows casual/time-constrained players an opportunity to play as well.

As far as the F2P model "working," it's just a matter of execution. As we've seen recently retro-fitting subscription-based games has provided developers with challenges both large and small, with varying degrees of success. Given the long development time in the MMO space we may not see an MMO that really nails the F2P model and successfully caters to a wide range of player types for a couple of years.

The advantage of the current trend of retro-fitting is that not only is it breathing new life into some of these 2-4 year-old MMOs, but developers are able to try things out, gather feedback, tweak systems, and learn from the process so that down the line they can successfully put the best ideas into practice.

Re: Talker acquired by Teambox

Scott McMillin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:10:16 -0000

Thanks for the clarification, Marc.

Re: Talker acquired by Teambox

Scott McMillin — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:39:01 -0000

I'm a bit confused. You've got the codebase and the subscription-based service. It's not clear from your post what exactly is happening to the service. Is ownership of that being transferred to Teambox or is it ending? When will will the transition take place?

Re: DailyJS: JavaScript Unit Testing

Scott McMillin — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:41:49 -0000

Have a look at Resig's Yahoo talk here for some more on JS testing:

http://developer.yahoo.com/...

You also might want to add YUI Test which John speaks highly of:

http://developer.yahoo.com/...

Re: DailyJS: JavaScript Template Library Benchmarks

Scott McMillin — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 20:47:19 -0000

It's curious that both EJS and PURE are missing. Would love to see those added.

Re: Open Letter to Joe Hewitt: Become a Gardener

Scott McMillin — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:52:05 -0000

"I find it ironic that perhaps becoming an Open Gardener may be just what the Net needs, and you could help do that."

It is perhaps more ironic that Joe works for the current 500lb Walled Garden of the Web.

Re: Streaming WAR

Scott McMillin — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:16:14 -0000

LOTRO and DDO also stream if I recall correctly.

Re: Inching Towards Augmented Real Estate: Recovery Video, Layering With Friends

Scott McMillin — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:53:39 -0000

Just let me know when I can build my little virtual 3d model and place it on my inches which then can be seen with AR. How cool will that be!

Re: SINTAXI

Scott McMillin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 03:52:09 -0000

We use jQuery exclusively in our project and it works great with Rails. *shrug*

Re: Dear Gruber: You've been pwned

Scott McMillin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 01:20:50 -0000

It just doesn't work as well when we know who FSJ is.

Re: Taps for Easy Database Transfers

Scott McMillin — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:21:52 -0000

Here's what I've successfully used in the past for MySQL -> MySQL.

mysqldump --opt --compress --user=USERHERE --password=PWHERE
--host=SOURCE.HOST.HERE SOURCE_DB_NAME | mysql --user=USERHERE
--password=PWHERE --host=TARGET.HOST.HERE -D TARGET_DB_NAME -C
TARGET_DB_NAME

Re: What's New in Edge Rails: Mailer Layouts

Scott McMillin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:34:00 -0000

In other news, ActionMailer still sucks ;-)