In short, the author feels that there’s a bubble in freight sites trying to automate all freight.
The idea that all human contact can be removed from the freight side of logistics is one that is going to meet a lot of resistance for a lot of reasons. Load boards and other services have been around for over a decade, yet the personal touch, whether from sales, operations or driver services remain very important.
It will be very interesting to see how this plays out, that’s for sure!
I was flipping through some photos that I took a few days ago, and finally stumbled across a great example of HDR vs. non-HDR pictures. The first one is non-HDR. You can see that our model, Havana, is generally lighter colored, and better lit.
Havana non-HDR
Havana HDR
In the HDR photo, Havana is darker, but now pay attention to the house across the street seen through the window. In the HDR picture it is recognizable and details can be seen. In the non-HDR picture, it’s just a blown out white blob.
In this case, while the HDR picture provides more clarity in the background, using the non-HDR one is more appropriate as our subject looks better.
One of many links I kept in Evernote, putting up on my blog for easy reference.
Here’s an interesting article that I was forwarded. It has some examples of how “correctly” visualizing data can save lives in scenarios ranging from a cholera outbreak to the Challenger explosion. A good read!
Just a quick note – I was struggling with Airplay “suddenly” not working from my desktop iMac 5k to my 4th generation Apple TV. When I would try to extend my desktop to the Apple TV, the TV would blank out and sound would start coming from the TV. No video would show at all – and I couldn’t move the mouse to what was supposed to be the extended display. I confirmed using a Macbook that the problem was with the iMac, not the Apple TV.
I searched quite a bit for a solution, and eventually found a mention that having other screen sharing tools installed might cause the problem. I had recently installed Duet and tested it (it worked!), so I figured that might be the culprit. After an uninstall and reboot, Airplay the Apple TV now works again. Hooray!
Duet looks to be pretty neat, and it does work (although the value of it on something smaller than a 12.9″ iPad Pro is questionable), but sending stuff to the big screen is far more important to me.
Visited a web page, and saw this image most of the way down the page:
While it’s important to keep Flash up to date, I recommend you do what I do and disable it! Nice try Flash, but you get to stay disabled.
I work out of my home, and truly enjoy that. I also spend a lot of my personal time in my home office, and so I have always had a TV and entertainment stuff in here with me.
We recently moved back to our house in Florida, and I started my home office from scratch. I’m having a custom cabinet built for my entertainment / storage / library space, and it should be arriving today, so I thought I’d memorialize what it looks like now…
As you can see, the poor XBOX’s, Apple TV and other random debris are just on a folding table. What you can’t see are all the boxes under this table, and in the spare bedroom, full of stuff waiting for a home.
This shall not stand! At least, not after today, I hope…
Take a look at this video. It’s all good, but starting at about 55 seconds in, you’ll see a perfect shot of two stages separating. Honestly, if you didn’t know it was real, you would have to believe that Hollywood did it with CGI.
As your TFS environment grows, as well as your software stack that’s built within it, it can be easy to overlook some pretty simple things to keep performance where it needs to be.
On occasion we had noticed that builds slowed down dramatically, resulting in cranky developers and dev managers. While space on the build drop location was tight (builds, unless aggressively managed will, like work, fill all the space / time available!), but that was a normal constraint, not something new. It took a while to figure out, but when I did it was obvious. In retrospect!.
Make sure to disable both real time and periodic virus scanning on your build drive (or at least folders). We had real time scanning disabled, but overlooked the periodic scans. At first glance, the periodic scans would seem to not be an issue since they occurred on a Sunday when there was minimal development (and thus builds) happening; however, the massive amount of space, and the huge number of files involved in our build drops meant that scanning continued from Sunday well into the work week! Note that I’m talking about the build server itself, not the drop location, but the same rule really applies there too.
The only way to identify this issue was to watch the Performance Monitor and catch that the MSMPENG process had a ton of open file handles to build files. The CPU and disk overheard was initially lost in the “noise” of many simultaneous builds.
Hope this helps someone!
I recently began running into a problem where my iPhone 6 wouldn’t charge reliably. If I wiggled the cable around it would start charging, then stop again. I tried diagnosing it by using different cables and different orientations for them, but none of the solutions were reliable.
It turns out this would seem to be a fairly common problem among iPhone users who keep it in their jeans pocket. The lint from the pocket migrates its way into the port on the phone and causes this issue!
I cleaned mine out by using a soft toothpick. The amount of lint that came out was very impressive!
My wife’s phone didn’t suffer from this. She points out that jeans for women don’t have pockets deep enough to hold the phone, thus no lint.
A discussion thread on this can be found on Apple support.