In the paper I describe what HTTP Live Streaming is, fairly technically, and why it is a great step forward. I compare the new technology with the industry incumbent RTP/RTSP protocol and Adobe’s proprietary Flash Media Streaming, popularized by YouTube.com.
As a teaser: here’s a graph of the client CPU Load on a MacBook when viewing the same video clip:
But I have to warn you, the paper is quite technical.
If you want to use lists:seq/3 with floats you will notice that the standard implementation only works with integers. So I wrote a quick & dirty way to do it with floats.
You can use it just like you would use lists:seq/3
If anybody has a better implementation I would love to see it.
Take a look at what Dan Pink has to say about traditional management and why in most cases today the “reward and punishment” model for motivating people is outdated. Carrots and sticks don’t help creative thinking, giving people autonomy does. When people are intrinsically motivated they will flourish at doing creative, non linear work.
The Wikipedia entry explains why this “Student Syndrome” is a good thing :
The student syndrome is defended by a layman’s understanding of the functioning of the human memory, most notably the concept that a person’s short-term memory fades over time, and thus studying at the last possible moment leads to better results than studying early because more of the material will be remembered during the exam. Wikipedia
If you are using FlickrAPI and you are storing the photo id’s in a MySQL database, make sure the column is a bigint Flickr reached the integer limit (2147483647) today with this photo.
We’ve been bitten by this. We are using the Flickr API on the What’s Cookin’ website and we were using signed MySQL integers, which overflowed today.
