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Collab on my shared Spotify playlist, Electro-fi
So, I’m trying to pull together some electronic music fans! I need a little help here. If you are into electronic music and have a Spotify account. Please check out my collab playlist, Electro-fi. I’d like to get one really large, really awesome playlist put together that everyone can enjoy.
For me, I like to listen to electronic music while I am coding. It’s excellent for keeping the pace, subtle and not distracting as music with words can be many times.
Dreams make for awesome ideas. I want to see a room where the painting is done by multiple colors of foot prints all across the ceiling and possibly down the walls as if someone was walking. Feet of all sizes too. I think this has epic potential.
Maybe you have this really crazy multicolored chandelier in the middle of a room, fairly high ceilings, and all of these multicolored foot paths steps away from the chandelier and slowly fade out as they would naturally from the paint running out. Some would come down the walls just a bit, others only a few steps away from the chandelier, etc.
phpStorm 3 - Theme “Heat of the Night”
Verified with phpStorm 3
OK, so, I didn’t really like any of the themes out there for phpStorm and, being design oriented, nothing bothers me more than having to strain my eyes looking at crap I can’t stand. This is version one of the color scheme, it’s decent, I am sure some improvements could be made, particularly with the relevance in terms of color and some of the saturation aspects of the colors. But, overall, I think it turned out pretty well.
I updated a lot, but primarily, css, html, php, and javascript. There are some others mixed in though, but just minor improvements.
Here are the HSB values I used for the color scheme. Feel free to update some of the other templates and share! I’ll update this post with any improvements ;)
Orange = 30 76 89
Red = 0 59 68
Lt Yellow = 48 47 78
Loud Sea Green = 180 100 80
blue green = 190 43 60
Pink = 315 41 100
Green = 75 59 69
White = 0 0 78
Blue = 213 50 82
Purple = 276 50 58
Here are some screenshots of some code templates so you can get an idea of how it looks…
HTML
CSS
JavaScript
PHP
You can download heat of the night here.
Charter Communication - WORST cable co ever!
I’ve lived in many different cities, different countries and used all sorts of ISPs. Charter is by far, hands down, one of the worst cable companies I have had to experience. I’ve made countless calls complaining about the intermittent issues experienced and I keep getting the same story, time after time… “we have to be able to spot the issue when it’s happening”. I can understand that, but you can also investigate the issue. After all, the cable modem was put on the watch list.
Here is the latest saga in the hell that is Charter Communications…
trooper:~ jacob$ ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.159.147): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=0 ttl=52 time=14.235 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=1 ttl=52 time=615.180 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=2 ttl=52 time=760.084 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=3 ttl=52 time=1730.940 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=4 ttl=52 time=1136.144 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=5 ttl=52 time=1902.091 ms
Request timeout for icmp_seq 7
Request timeout for icmp_seq 8
Request timeout for icmp_seq 9
Request timeout for icmp_seq 10
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=6 ttl=52 time=5443.491 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=7 ttl=52 time=5195.108 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=8 ttl=52 time=4945.529 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=9 ttl=52 time=4463.646 ms
64 bytes from 74.125.159.147: icmp_seq=10 ttl=52 time=3958.829 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
14 packets transmitted, 11 packets received, 21.4% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 14.235/2742.298/5443.491/1972.875 ms
"One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an asshole. This was the latter case,"
The Social Network
PROTECT IP Act?! Grrr…
I’m so fucking sick and tired of the dumbass morons this country continues to put into Washington and their complete lack of foresight! It enrages me to no end!
**Will the PROTECT IP Act provide benefits to Americans and people worldwide? **
To many the answer will be “Yes”, but only in the fashion that you might not be able to visit some site that spreads a virus to your computer, websites that are selling illegal software, stolen music, or something a long these lines. Maybe terrorist network sites will be block, etc. But, this is NOT the position of govt! Their job isn’t to decide what I see or not see! This is censorship, plain and simple!! What if the govt doesn’t want you to see the website of a radical new movement anywhere in the world, maybe like the many thousands that have helped to shape the world in which we live today! Don’t forget that the intentions of laws like this are most always done without mal-intent. But when you are in charge of a country and have goals to accomplish, you will use all tools available at your disposal to accomplish said task. Who knows what the future will hold, but if the govt doesn’t like something, they can squash it! Imagine if this was in place a year or two ago before wikileaks broke out huge. You better believe there would have been a huge movement to sensor it and honestly, people would have just gone about their lives with it censored. And, while I am not a huge proponent of everything that Asange and Co pump out, I fully support freedom of speech and press, regardless of what the fuck is being said!
Will the PROTECT IP Act be global censorship?
Yes, it absolutely will, especially since the new provisions require that search engines filter out content, and guess what laws the major search engines will be required to comply with?
I also feel the need to mention the lack of foresight here in terms of court costs! For a gov’t that has over 13 TRILLION dollars in fucking debt, the last thing we need are more court costs! You better believe that the tax payer will be paying the dumbasses (indirectly) to run a program of this nature, offering court hearings for many cases and then slamming the gavel on all the other companies that must comply, costing them administrative and technical overhead in the process. It’s laws like this that fuck an economy, slowly, one after the other, gov’t gets larger and larger to the point where it takes massive money to support a network of operations that do nothing more than create massive inefficiencies!
For a good overview of the good, the bad, and the ugly as well as the original copy of the act see here…
What can you do?
Sign the petition here… http://www.dontcensorthenet.com/ Take your opinions to the web Contact your US state representative to tell them how terrible this is for freedom of speech and press. Be proactive! The future of the world depends on it!
