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Couldn't agree more. They often don't answer the phone, when you do get through to some Danny DeVito at the other end, you then have to explain where you are exactly (vs. GPS). ETAs for the drivers are normally wrong, they don't txt you are.

I lived in Marin, and a cabbie required me to tip him 100% of the ride cost coming from SFO otherwise he wouldn't take me. Frequently getting back to Marin, from SF is a pain with cabs, they often won't take you.

Yeah, so screw'em... they can work for uber/lyft, I tip them generously with cash in addition to the fare, much better that way.

Slow for me too, it looks like the downloads are linked to another site not served through CloudFront. If they were uploaded to the wiki the downloads should be faster.

So you could actually walk down the street like SV? In 2002? Wow.

IE is also very useful for installing Chrome.

Spent nearly 5hrs on the phone with Comcast last week to get them to un-screwup my account and provide the service they agreed to provide. It's working now, but now they're billing me for someone else's account as well. Comcast has fully accomplished being the worst company in america.

Hardly Airbnb related either, here's a response I got back from a craiglist ad for a temporary sub-lease (that I declined):

> My place is available for the whole month of June, and is located at xxxx. Subletting isn't technically allowed at the building, so you would need to be careful around the staff.

If you're coming from SF and are used to the quality of the restaurants in a foodie city, Seattle is mostly just presentation.

It depends on your deployment model to a degree. In the case where you build a new image for your web server on every deployment, then this isn't an issue. For longer running systems, like databases, it would still be an annoyance.

I think that Ansible is still a transitional glue tech though, and projects like flynn.io may move things forward by making the CM part of the infrastructure a developer task vs. a devops one.

Right, if you need more complex logic, then you write a module in a normal programming language. The YAML is intended to keep the intention and orchestration logic simple and readable.

I had an SSD fail on a mac and the symptoms were that blocks would become intermittently unreadable the longer the drive was running. So when I took it to the genius bar, their tests passed initially. The logs of course showed the read failures, which is what I had to use to convince them the SSD was failing.

Rather it was the one he taught him self calculus with as a pre-teen.

My condolences, we had a very similar if not identical issue with some NICs, and also ended up switching vendors. The smoke coming from our team's ears was enough to harvest a small beehive for honey.

Does this mean more people are taking Taxis?

Same here, I disabled it, but they turned it back on apparently.

It's amusing since it's sort of like a .9 release of city planning that had some scaling issues, where as everyone else started at 1.0 to 2.0 and named their streets, and laid them out on grids. ;-)

I've yet to see a mobile SSH client that's as usable as Terminal Monkey.

Japan doesn't have street names (normally), they number the blocks and houses. Which is a bit confusing, since the numbers of the houses are not necessarily in order either, other than generally assigned clockwise as they're built. So finding an address with out a map or asking someone can be tricky.

The screen shots of the app on Google Play do show streets and names on a map though.

Right, the french pedestrian network will have failed to communicate the correct specifications to the platform operators.

For OS level auth, you'd want to use sssd, which will handle most failure conditions:

https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Enterprise/Authentication/sssd

One thing I didn't see on any of the lists is ethics. Truly world class managers and team builders are also very careful about ethics, and see it as more important than their project, job and career.

I didn't realize Snowden had studied what happened to Drake and Bennie et al, and determined that if he took a massive amount of documents it would actually protect him and not just be his word against theirs. And of course, he could have only done that as an admin. That was some pretty impressive high stakes chess there. Wow.

80 cols, which is correct. Less seems to be fine when not in a tmux session.

https://asciinema.org/a/9601

When I use less in a tmux or screen session to view /var/log/syslog et al, when I type -S to chop long lines it continues to wrap the line instead of chop it.

No the screen is cleared after quitting.

I have TERM set to xterm-256colors FWIW.

Works like a charm! Thanks!

One annoyance is that both tmux and screen have problems with truncating long lines in less.

Vice has a show called Far Out, which documents people who have lived on their own for many decades. http://www.vice.com/far-out

I can't help but wonder why we come to such broad conclusions of fact about the mind, when there are plenty of data points that show there's quite a lot more to the story than "isolation is bad". If I were a serious scientist of the mind for example, I would need to include data points from India and Tibet masters in to my research, who are well known for having studied the mind and have data points showing the opposite. It strikes me as a cultural basis at best to not include those data points, how do we even considered this science really?

It's interesting that the west would write off eastern philosophy, as though the eastern philosophers were unaware of the seeming contradictions and that there may be a deeper reason for that.

Often when a company want's to "help" it means make a sale regardless of how poor the technical implementation is, waste your time with SE level support, and power point presentations. When instead they should be focusing on the product first. If your user is reporting a scaling issue and your product is all about scale, that should be your first priority.

Vendors also need to remember, your users change companies, a user could be at some small unknown company on day, and the next be in control of a large budget at a high profile company. Your reputation follows that user, and what they want to see is you're making a good product. If the smallest company is reporting an issue that would affect your customers, I'd want to see that you're addressing the issue with that company so I don't have to at my large/interesting company.