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I have a G3 like the GP... Unlocked, with latest nightly (Marshmallow) builds of Cyanogenmod. Pretty painless.

You can argue that Google and the OEMs should be making these upgrades easier and more widely available... And they should... But at least 3rd-parties filling in is an option in many cases. You can shop around to find the combination of hardware and software support that you want.

The problem with getting locked into a walled garden - no matter how nice it is - is that you're still locked in when winter comes.

Well, it'd be foolish to assume that someone doesn't have multiple reasons for making a dramatic change in their life.

It'd also be foolish to assume that most of those reasons are any of our business.

Robert is an amazing guy, and we're all lucky to have benefited from his work over the years. Now, he's set off on a new adventure, for reasons of his own... And has hinted that he'll continue sharing some of the fruits of his labor.

That's more than enough ;)

Yeah, and who needs USB on a MacBook?

Seriously though, why would you assume this? The article doesn't state it - it gives examples of both devices being damaged in different ways, but cites only Dell as actually designing their hardware to tolerate bad cabling.

Perhaps Apple has built in some mechanism to protect the rest of the circuitry from a USB failure, but without further information it's more reasonable to assume that the MacBook owner just got (comparatively) lucky here.

Years ago, I shorted out a USB port on a desktop PC, with the same results - system booted and worked just fine, except the USB port was dead. Upon opening the box, I found a popped cap and some scorching on the motherboard; I'd be... reluctant to call this a well-designed failure mode.

What are you afraid will happen? That a JavaScript developer will get lazy and store function definitions in some globally-writable place, allowing untrusted logic to be injected into systems via some embarrassingly accessible route?

Because, yeah, that would be an awful thing to happen to shell utils.

I agree, this is annoying:

> On a side note, pot is the #1 thing that people want to talk about when I tell them where I'm from. In their eyes, CO == pot.

OTOH, it beats talking about that guy shooting up the abortion clinic and seems to have mostly supplanted memories of Columbine or New Life Church... So it could be worse (and for a while was).

At least for a little bit we can all talk about Peyton and whether bud light is really any better than coors.

If you have breathing problems, getting out of Denver would probably be a good start. Air quality is pretty good for a city, but you're still surrounded by motor vehicle pollution pretty much all the time.

The wildfires are probably the biggest issue with living in Colorado period though - as with many of the western states. Getting just beyond the state boundaries won't help there - you'll want to move somewhere less arid.

Let's go with Mormons.

What an odd statement.

Have you ever lived in a place where children routinely travel on the ground, barefoot? This would be a useful scenario to bring to the table here.

Kids trapped in an attic... not so much.

Well, the other problem here is that you can't know for sure how you come off to others; again, they can't know whether your actions reflect ACTUAL offense any more than you can know the motivation for theirs; we can take you at your word, or decide that your actions are what matters and react accordingly.

Going back to the article, we have no way of knowing if Fry was ACTUALLY offended by the response he got on twitter. Perhaps he is as dispassionate as his post alleges. But he's walking a path well-worn by the offended.

If I had a nickel for every person who ranted about some perceived slight, words dripping with the common indications of hurt and ire, while repeatedly assuring readers that they were perfectly calm...

How would you ever know?

You can judge actions, moderate actions, reward actions... But feelings are harder to identify.

Which was sorta the point of this article, I guess. There's a good chance that everyone is offended... So, what are we gonna do about that? If everyone is offended - and if we stop trying to sort out who has a "right" to be and who doesn't - then these notions that some bad behavior is justified kinda start looking silly: if we're gonna welcome everyone into the proverbial pool, then we can't let anyone get away with abuse, including the system itself.

So, this - the pile-on voting - is something folks get really frustrated about. Every system I've ever used that allows down-ranking has these regular screeds from one side or another about how the system is being ruined by gangs of like-minded voters blindly censoring dissent.

And for sure, it happens. And sometimes discourse suffers for it: good arguments get buried instead of being heard.

Then again, there are much worse things than getting your argument buried on the Internet. And Twitter has some of best examples of this... People being harassed, doxed, threatened, driven out of their jobs, their homes, their communities... All over <= 140 characters that some brigade didn't like and couldn't just downvote.

In a system mostly optimized for pithy one-liners, I'd argue it's a pretty serious defect that a bad joke can so easily escape the bounds of its intended audience and any semblance of context and cost you your reputation. But it appears that's what we've ended up with...

Twitter's userbase has a fine tradition of building social conventions to paper over the deficiencies of the system. In this case, they've reinvented the pillory to replace the hated censor.

Re: your shorter version... Answering questions tends to be a pretty solid way to learn about a topic. I've talked to quite a few people whose experience on Stack Overflow was that they learned more about the topic they were working in by trying to answer others' questions than by asking questions themselves.

Over the past few years, we've put together a couple of (reasonably short) guides to asking questions on Stack Overflow; if you're a beginner (or simply struggling to learn the Stack Overflow way of doing things), it wouldn't hurt to read them:

- http://stackoverflow.com/help/how-to-ask

- http://stackoverflow.com/help/mcve

Disclaimer: I work for Stack Overflow, but these were mostly written by folks who don't and who just wanted to see new users have an easier time - I just edited them.

I work for Stack Overflow: it might help to know that the prompt isn't permanent; it will go away in between 4-14 days (as the votes or flags that triggered it age away).

We added that prompt because a huge number of people were asking questions that were either duplicates or were so poorly presented that the nugget of information that made them unique was obscured; either way, the asker wasn't getting an answer. It's been live for just under a year now, and the response has been incredible: more duplicate questions are confirmed by the askers themselves than are closed by voters; meanwhile, the number of people editing their questions has also gone up.

Sorry you had a bad experience with it, but this is part of the work we've been doing to reduce the amount of conflict and frustration on the part of both askers and answerers.

You can when they block the construction of low-pollution utilities in their neighborhood at the expense of high-pollution utilities in poor communities.

You can understand why they do it, but you can also (and should also) still blame them for being short-sighted and selfish.

Heh... Folks use software like f.lux to purposefully distort their displays in order to reduce fatigue.

The ability to adjust the output to one's liking should not be confused with an inability to faithfully reproduce input.

I'm reminded of folks who ignore evacuation orders during a hurricane, latching on to any small lull as evidence that the storms will lift before it's too late.

Of course, one tends to hear these stories after it is too late. No doubt plenty of people ignore the warnings and get by just fine, right up until they don't. And then it's someone else's fault.

The discussion linked here is linked to on every single question page, question list, and homepage of Stack Overflow. And the same for every other site on Stack Exchange.

I guess the hiding is the lack of a <blink> tag?

1) broken links are kind of a big problem. http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/300916/i-estimate-10...

2) plagiarism (regardless of copyright) is strongly discouraged. http://stackoverflow.com/help/referencing

Apparently this gets weird pretty fast as you try to navigate various legal systems; CC0 is taking a stab at simplifying this, but even that would be potentially problematic on SO.

Tim just posted an answer that touches on this: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/273015/cc0-public-do...

Which brings it back to being a process issue: if folks are diligent about verifying (whether that's a phone call or clicking on a name), then this is harder to pull off.

Because hauling cargo requires more physical endurance...

The term implies mimicking behaviors in vain hope of achieving the same results as those being mimicked. In this case, that'd be less sleep more multitasking more conspicuous effort.

Not recent. May have gotten worse, but last I tried it was heavier than hangouts; yeah, text chat chewing up more cpu than streaming video. Pretty rough.

Folks on Macs had no idea what I was complaining about though. Go fig.

Because it's reinstalling all the apps that actually takes time.

Yes, hopefully you put all the Really Important Stuff in your home or somewhere else where it can be trivially copied (and backed up...) - including your favorite editor, all your configuration files, and any other tools you can't live without.

But then you remember that you recently added a new tool to your workflow, a really shiny package, but one which also required installing approximately 1300 dependencies and for some reason a kernel driver. It took you a solid week to get running properly, and you've long forgotten all the hoops you had to jump through to do it.

Not for gas, not in the US right now, unless maybe you plan to travel in an old truck or some horribly inefficient sportscar. If you're factoring in wear and tear on your car, maybe... But highway driving isn't particularly hard on most vehicles either.

The time invested is probably the most expensive part of driving, and that's where flying has been losing its lead for years.

To be fair, they don't make Sen-Sen anymore - he may never have had the opportunity to taste a truly vile American candy.

I've had bland cooked beef served in Wisconsin...

Also had relish trays served with uncooked ground beef, dark rye bread, horseradish, braunschweiger, onions, mustard...

Potent chilis may not be a traditional Wisconsin favorite, but there are other strong flavors welcome there.

"Interstate truckstop palate" is what you're aiming for, I think.

Black humor, I think. The author is ruefully noting that, while this usage has existed for hundreds of years, it manages to keep dropping out of fashion only to be reinvented in a new generation.

A co-worker explained it thusly: if you want to attract folks who have (or plan to have) children, you have to offer them a way to do so while working for you... Or they'll go with a different employer who does. Of course, in the past it's been common for NO ONE to offer such benefits, which also works. If you simply don't care about attracting parents, you can not offer these benefits (though nowdays you'll be limited in how much you can cut them by various employment laws).

If you want a job that gives you a few months off every year or so to go on a spiritual journey, then your best bet is to negotiate that up-front, keeping in mind that - like parents - you'll be reducing the number of places willing to hire you by doing so.

Don't like it? I don't blame you. But I can tell you about plenty of folks who lost their jobs when they had kids and didn't like it either.