Button overlay on top of Video [iPad]:
- if the default controls of video tag is set to true, there’s no way to override the click events
- libraries like MediaElement disabled the default controls, thereby recapturing events
Unjust, and Wealth
I came across Paul’s take on this quite a while ago. I simply wish more people could have read this:
When I was five I thought electricity was created by electric sockets. I didn’t realize there were power plants out there generating it. Likewise, it doesn’t occur to most kids that wealth is something that has to be generated. It seems to be something that flows from parents.
Because of the circumstances in which they encounter it, children tend to misunderstand wealth. They confuse it with money. They think that there is a fixed amount of it. And they think of it as something that’s distributed by authorities (and so should be distributed equally), rather than something that has to be created (and might be created unequally).
Ctags for JavaScript and Less
This is how to achieve “JumpToDefinition” in Vim, for JS and Less files.
IE9 Cache Problem While Refreshing With .swf Files
Problem (see details here):
When we test a Flash movie in a web page, the SWF may be cached by the browser software, so that when we make modifications to the SWF, the browser may continue to display the cached version of the SWF and ignore any new version.
Do You Buy Food in Large Packages?
We like to buy products that come with larger packages, because, we think we’re saving money doing so:
Wal-Mart sold $284 billion worth of goods in 2005. Groceries accounted for about one-quarter of that amount, but that meant $64 billion, and rising. Many food companies do a third of their business with this one retailer. Wal-Mart does not have to demand slotting fees. If a food company wants its products to be in Wal-Mart, it has to offer rock-bottom prices. Low prices sound good for people without much money, but nutritionally, there’s a catch. Low prices encourage everyone to buy more food in bigger packages. If you buy more, you are quite likely to eat more. And if you eat more, you are more likely to gain weight and become less healthy.
When we buy larger portions, do we actually consume more?
Unfortunately, yes.
Hard is Fun
I saw the film Inside Job this morning and it gave me a few notes to take. It’s about the 2008 economic crisis.
I’ve always believed that there must be something wrong if more than half of the society consider it perfectly normal to get something out of nothing. No system works in the long run following this line, be it weight loss, gambling, physics or our financial system. People who “earned” millions a year by transferring money, did not create direct, solid wealth, e.g. food or clothes or cars. Their action, put plainly, was to take money from group A who wanted to “earn” something out of nothing, and give it to group B who gladly took that money and spent it. Apart from the rare occasions where group B were actually people who did create wealth, and the bank did create indirect value by making that action possible, the dealers’ work is, most of the time, worthless. But of course, surely that is their job, right? To tell good investments from feeble ones, not to pump as much cash into the system as possible, so as to give their wallet a nice boost.
No it isn’t.