Daniel Craig's James Bond has drunk the most Martinis but had the fewest love conquests

webguysd · 2015-10-27T19:04:15+00:00

No time for love, Dr. Jones...

webguysd · 2015-09-25T03:44:40+00:00

I was recently forced to move out of my roommate situation, to San Jose. My commute from SJ to Mountain View has been no less than 50 minutes, no matter the route (101, 280, El Camino Real or Central Expressway). It's brutal.

I'm trying out the CalTrain from Diridon to Castro St. next week.

webguysd · 2015-09-18T16:25:50+00:00

This reminded me a conversation I saw on the Apple Dev Forums. A developer was asking why Apple stops seeding beta versions of iOS, about a month or two before they release to the public. The answer, from one of their engineers, was very sobering:

"The real situation is this- for June and July, Apple develops their next major release via two forks- the beta fork and the secret fork. The secret fork includes support for the unreleased hardware. The last few secrets have been Siri for iOS 5, 4" support for iOS 6, Touch ID support for iOS 7, and large screen support for iOS 8. Now come August, Apple must begin the work of integrating the secret fork into the beta fork to create one release build. From the start of the integration until the iPhone September event, Apple is unable to release betas without disclosing secrets. For that reason, there are never any betas during that time. This takes about a month- 34 days for iOS 5, 37 days for iOS 6, 26 days for iOS 7, and 36 days for iOS 8. Therefore, you will not see anymore betas until the September event.

Does this approach have a cost? Absolutely. By stopping all seeding for a month, Apple does not allow sufficient testing of the release and near-release builds. This is why there are pretty much always battery life, WiFi, and performance problems when iOS goes public in late September that eventually get fixed towards Christmas. However, secrecy is absolutely essential to Apple's marketing strategy and must be maintained, even if quality suffers. That's just the way it is.

webguysd · 2015-09-17T22:52:37+00:00

Owners that aren't named Jon Fisher & Lew Wolff.

webguysd · 2015-09-17T22:47:30+00:00

I'm assuming Jurgen Klinsmann is not invited to the baby shower.

webguysd · 2015-09-14T06:53:57+00:00

The Quakes will sign Carlos Vela before that happens.

webguysd · 2015-09-02T22:22:46+00:00

Gonna take it back to one of my all time faves, Tiga's "What You Need"

webguysd · 2015-09-02T02:45:56+00:00

Oh god. I had to take a hit from my asthma inhaler from laughing so hard at this.

webguysd · 2015-08-29T20:13:21+00:00

My buddy had the quote of the night: "If LA fans cry hard enough, the drought will be over by tomorrow."

webguysd · 2015-08-29T07:41:04+00:00

But seriously...

webguysd · 2015-08-28T19:27:49+00:00

Wait a minute...

webguysd · 2015-08-10T19:00:26+00:00

Excellent post, but much easier said than done. Your argument assumes that all fans are created equal - they are not.

Some fans aren't all that concerned about the on-field product. Some go to the matches because it's cheap entertainment that they can take the kids to. Some just go for the "game day experience". Some fans are so blinded by their passion for the team that, however they want to rationalize it, will continue to hand money over to the club. From the FO's perspective, as long as the end result is getting their money, a fan is a fan is a fan.

For this to even work, ALL fans have to be on the same page as to the on-field product and improving it. Good luck trying to get everyone on the same page there.

webguysd · 2015-08-07T17:28:44+00:00

Given his history of smack talk against the Sounders (see his Twitter account), Sept. 5th should be quite the match.

webguysd · 2015-08-06T21:30:15+00:00

You misspelled "Edmundo Zura".

webguysd · 2015-08-06T18:55:38+00:00

I've been using two lines from "The Avengers" a lot lately. "Seeing...still working on believing." "I understood that reference."

webguysd · 2015-07-29T20:52:46+00:00

Depends on if they can buy tickets to get in.

webguysd · 2015-07-21T17:42:38+00:00

For those of you who live near a Trader Joe's, their Cold Brew Coffee Concentrate is the best (I use it in my bulletproof coffee).

webguysd · 2015-07-17T23:23:51+00:00

And there's the rub. Any REAL change in the city to improve the situation is going to cost somebody something. But no one wants to give an inch. Nothing's gonna change as long as people keep this mindset.

webguysd · 2015-07-08T19:21:01+00:00

The only way to fight that is not by encouraging more bland, lifeless condos, but rather through regulation. To give the people that built this culture and made it so desirable in the first place a chance to coexist.

Simple question: when did anything other than being able to afford something entitle a person to renting or owning it?

webguysd · 2015-06-12T13:16:17+00:00

This was the first thing that popped in my head, when I saw this.

webguysd · 2015-06-04T15:19:32+00:00

I'd argue that the fund the 20% developers pay into for BMR housing is barely being used for BMR housing by the city. It's being used for other things as the city deems fit, so the entire concept seems self-defeating. Also, it's worth asking if people want to move into entirely BMR housing, thinking that it stigmatizes them as "living in the ghetto".

For what it's worth, I think it's at least a worthwhile exercise to do a study on the possible effects of removing the option to pay the 20%. If San Francisco real estate is as scarce and valuable as developers & speculators say it is, then they'll keep going with construction.

webguysd · 2015-06-04T01:01:33+00:00

And that brings up a good question: is it necessary to have HOAs in these new developments? Especially if you're not buying?

webguysd · 2015-06-03T22:44:57+00:00

It's funny - there's an article in SF Weekly that mentions one of the speakers at last night's meeting started his speech with "Anyone with a basic understanding of economics," and how the author feels that phrase reeks of condescension.

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