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Slippery_John··on How Social Isolation Is Killing Us
Depends on the subreddit. The smaller ones still have strong community. I know lots of people from /r/mechanicalkeyboards for instance, many of whom are local. I think it helps a lot that users organize a TON of meetups all over the world so people have faces to put to usernames.
Slippery_John··on AWS London Region (eu-west-2) now available
New regions seem to be announced well ahead of time [0] though I'm not sure how far in advance. I think I recall seeing the London region months ago.

[0]: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/global-infrastructure/

Slippery_John··on Jq – Work with JSON on the command line
Azure also uses this in their new CLI [0]. The biggest advantage of JMESPath over jq is that JMESPath is a spec, and thus can be implemented in several languages [1].

[0]: https://github.com/Azure/azure-cli [1]: http://jmespath.org/libraries.html

Slippery_John··on Microsoft Surface Studio
I've been in need of a new monitor for a while, this would be perfect! I really don't want to pay for the computer bits that I won't need though.
Slippery_John··on Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
I understand that, which is why I don't worry about the future of GCP. However, the negative perception gained from some of those free b2c endeavors will still damage the reputation of unrelated Google products and services like GCP.
Slippery_John··on Announcing Azure Command-Line Interface 2.0 Preview
Google doesn't have a good track record supporting its products. I have no doubt that GCloud will stick around, but the fact remains that Google has trust problems.
Slippery_John··on ShiftJS – Swift to JavaScript transpiler
That's an unfortunate name. Way too close to Shift JIS, an encoding for Japanese characters. IANAL, but it seems close enough to warrant copyright issue.
Slippery_John··on Restoring Y Combinator's Xerox Alto, day 4: What's running on the system
For those interested in this computer, there is a working Alto at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle that attendees are free to use.
Slippery_John··on We need to call American breakfast what it often is: dessert
It is. Most people I know have that, cereal, or nothing. These days I do a piece of fruit or nothing. I do miss those fresh bakery sandwiches I'd get in Germany though...
Slippery_John··on Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
Seems that way, until Lambda adds support for Python 3
Slippery_John··on Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
It just means you don't have to worry at all about managing the servers, using thing like AWS Lambda which handle it for you. Generally these services will scale up and down for you as well.
Slippery_John··on The Nit Programming Language
This is in desperate need of a natural language processing library called 'wit'
Slippery_John··on New Common Lisp website
I find it amusing that their picture for stability is a mountain right next to a supervolcano.
Slippery_John··on Introducing Kindle Oasis
Disappointing. I can see some very small demographics being interested in this, but I don't see the average consumer benefiting purchasing it.
Slippery_John··on Reddit for iOS and Android
I thought the whole point of not doing mobile apps themselves was because it's a waste of engineering time since there's a massive community that will do the work for them. I would much rather see them focus on making the site better.
Slippery_John··on WhatsApp Just Switched on Encryption for a Billion People
https://blog.whatsapp.com/10000618/End-to-end-encryption
Slippery_John··on Tokamak: A Rust IDE for Atom
I want so bad to love it, but when a 200 line markdown file causes significant delay, there's just no way I can commit to it.
Slippery_John··on Ubuntu on Windows
I work on a platform agnostic python tool. It's just so much easier developing python on a nix system, but I'm restricted to either an old version of enterprise linux or OSX. I love linux, but I don't love having to customize everything to get a workable environment. I tolerate OSX, but if it wasn't nix I would never touch it.

Now Windows has some pretty major issues (utf-8 in CMD is agonizing), but it comes out of the box more usable (to me) than either OSX or the vast majority of linux distros. If I can have my nice window management and also the ubuntu user space, I'll be a very happy camper.

Slippery_John··on Amazon Provides DIY Echo Plans for Raspberry Pi
That's against the Alexa Voice Service ToS though
Slippery_John··on Renting a Friend in Tokyo
What an amazingly awful website. A solid 60% of the page is taken up with crap. Then you have a massive leading image, and tons of unnecessary images. Then a horizontal bar displaying an ad across the whole screen. "That's the end of the article" you might think. This would be supported by the paragraph above said being deceptively conclusive. But no, it goes on even farther.
Slippery_John··on Pyship: Static Python for desktop apps
> Currently only supports OSX

Not sure how this is particularly useful then, since OSX ships with python 2.7. Something like this could be useful on Windows / Linux since they don't necessarily have a python installed, or if it was bundling 3.5.

Slippery_John··on North Korea Sentences U.S. Student to 15 Years Hard Labor
Seriously, it's like some of the commenters are completely devoid of empathy.
Slippery_John··on Amazon Echo Dot
You could put a Dot in your car. It's USB powered and you can plug it into your stereo with an AUX cable or some such. You would just need to tether your phone's wifi or have some other in-car wifi solution.
Slippery_John··on Why expat Americans are giving up their passports
The distinction is the focus on old vs new. The term 'expatriate' is much closer to emigrant than immigrant, where the emphasis is more on the fact that they left their home country rather than the fact that they came to another. It also lacks the emphasis on permanency that emigrant/immigrant have.

Additionally, the term 'immigrant' is much more ambiguous than 'expat'. An American expat is clearly an American citizen living abroad. An American immigrant could either be an American citizen who moved permanently abroad, or a non-American who permanently moved to the United States.

Slippery_John··on Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
Well, since GameLift is engine agnostic you could use it in any engine, it would just not be so tightly integrated.
Slippery_John··on Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
Doesn't look like it at the moment, though I imagine the .Net SDK will have support sooner rather than later. Hopefully they'll wrap GameLift into the unity sdk shortly thereafter, but to be honest I don't know where the difficulty lies in just using the regular .Net SDK.
Slippery_John··on Amazon Lumberyard: free AAA game engine with Oculus and AWS integration
Well, the meaty bits that make Amazon money are all separated out into a service called GameLift and the C++ SDK.
Slippery_John··on Apple fans are coming to hate Apple software
I don't know how the iTunes matching works, but Play Music does swap out your version of a song with theirs if they see they're the same thing. I think this has only been within the last year or so that they started doing this though. I don't have any personal files anymore, so I can't comment on how accurate it is.
Slippery_John··on GitHub Outage
Good thing we've got mirrors, and don't depend on GitHub for releases. Still, we interact with our customers through GitHub and use it heavily in our workflow. Productivity is impacted if not stopped.
Slippery_John··on Google achieves AI 'breakthrough' by beating Go champion
Please tell me this was written in Go
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