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drrotmos··on 1Password Travel Mode: Protect your data when crossing borders
Travel mode, especially on a Team plan though, is essentially asking one of your co-workers to scan and e-mail the notebook to you after having crossed the border.
drrotmos··on Kodak resurrects Super 8
Or better yet, The Hateful Eight, in which he takes film to a new level, shooting on Ultra Panavision 70 (which perhaps counter-intuitively is 65 mm film).

Other people are going digital, but Quentin Tarantino seems to be busy taking film to the next level instead :)

drrotmos··on Kala: A Modern Job Scheduler (written in Go)
And in Swedish, it's the plural positive of kal, which means bald.
drrotmos··on Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
If enough people reason like this, then yes, there is a possibility that Nintendo will release quality games for phones. I doubt that will prove to be the case though.
drrotmos··on Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
When talking about controls though, how different it is to develop is not a factor. These games are controlled as 2d games.
drrotmos··on Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]
Perhaps. Would you be willing to pay ~$40 for it though? I don't believe the profit margins are high enough on mobile games to be interesting for productions like Pokémon or Mario. More likely, the mobile games will be free-to-play crapware utilizing existing Nintendo trademarks.
drrotmos··on Introducing Windows 10 Editions
I'm fairly sure many consumers will know about Windows 10 Pro though.
drrotmos··on OS X Reviewed
No. I don't get it either. As long as you don't insist on having every window maximized, I don't see any benefit to tiling window managers at all. Simply clicking the window you want to use, along with Exposé is more than enough for me.
drrotmos··on Markdownify
Not at all. WYSIWYG never has worked well, and it's working even worse when your product is multi-channel or responsive, or mobile-first.

Sure, if you stick to simple things like paragraphs or italicizing text, it kinda sorta works, but people tend to go crazy with WYSIWYG editors trying to design an article layout of a text with them. Not a great idea.

drrotmos··on Don't Be a Jerk: The Open Source Software License
This reminds me of the JSON license, which includes a clause stating that "The software shall be used for good, not evil."

That particular clause has caused quite a bit of headache for PHP package maintainers, because technically it makes the license a non-open source license, even though the rest of the license is just your bog standard MIT/BSD-like license.

Long story short, don't write your own licenses.

drrotmos··on Why I Don't Hate Git: Hidden Consistency
Couldn't you just have (by hand) created a tree/commit/branch referencing the object, pushed it to the server and then fetched it (possibly to a new clone)?
drrotmos··on Show HN: Adopted a dog, had no clue what meds she needed, did some research
Education is of course always good. Just make sure that you're getting an education based on amassed scientific evidence, and not anecdotes, sampling bias, or low-quality studies in general.

The best combination is still a properly educated patient (or in this case, pet owner) and a good doctor/veterinarian.

drrotmos··on Help the Gnome Foundation Defend the Gnome Trademark Against Groupon
Yes, because if there's something that every developer does, it's answer their recruiter spam :)
drrotmos··on Combatting illegal abuses of ngrok
Plus, adding HTTP auth would totally fudge every tunneled app using HTTP auth for itself.
drrotmos··on The Face Behind Bitcoin?
Um... I don't know about the U.S., but I've done some work involving classified information in Sweden, and it's not like you get access to a special hotline or anything. If you are in immediate danger you still call the regular emergency number like everyone else.

Besides, not everyone works with Top Secret information, that's the entire purpose of having different classifications. Even Restricted information is still classified.

drrotmos··on How to intentionally get denied entry into the United States?
Or, rather than lying to the border agent (which I believe is a crime in the US, isn't it?), she could simply tell the truth: that she's visiting her husband and that she'll most likely be coerced to overstay her visa.

That should get her entry denied too.

drrotmos··on How to intentionally get denied entry into the United States?
Being denied entry isn't illegal, and isn't necessarily going to adversely affect future entry attempts. Overstaying your visa, or illegally entering a country on the other hand is a crime. If you have committed crimes in a country, you will have a harder time getting in next time.
drrotmos··on [dead]
The logos for Gimp and GNUstep aren't too bad. Hurd's logo would be okay too, if they changed the font.
drrotmos··on Github Reliability
Um... The last month, Github has had 99.939% uptime, Bitbucket has had 99.854%.

In Github's case that corresponds to approximately 30 minutes of downtime, and in Bitbucket's case it's about 60 minutes.

I think that given the cost, a 99.9% uptime is perfectly acceptable.

drrotmos··on Build Git – Learn Git
A nice concept, but it doesn't really have much to do with Git. It's just another SCM system, and the concepts are just as applicable to e.g. Mercurial as Git. There are enough differences from Git to make it quite incompatible (named repository, incremented commit IDs, single parents et c.).
drrotmos··on $4 toast: Why the tech industry is ruining San Francisco
It's also the same in Stockholm.
drrotmos··on Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
Yeah, Pilot Induced Oscillation. It was actually the same pilot too. Not to blame him though, of course.

Looking at the statistics though, the Gripen has been in very few accidents compared to other fighter jets.

drrotmos··on Saab wins Brazil jets deal after NSA spying sours Boeing bid
The question isn't whether one F22 can beat one Gripen. The question is whether one F22 beats three Gripen (seeing as how the F22 is three times as expensive).
drrotmos··on Stolen cobalt-60 found in Mexico; curious thieves likely doomed
One could argue that it's safer to transport the materials without the added attention from armored escorts, but they're probably just avoiding the added costs.

They may actually be right to, though. The costs of an armored transport is higher than a regular truck transport by an order of magnitude. The costs of calling in the cavalry that one in a million time that the truck is hijacked is probably far lower than securing each transport.

That doesn't mean they shouldn't be using lojacks and panic buttons for the drivers though.

drrotmos··on PHP 5.5.5 Released
I'd say 5
drrotmos··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
Agreed, but it's in the statutes, so the board has to abide by them (or risk liability). It's also non-trivial to change the statutes of a foundation ("stiftelse") in Sweden.
drrotmos··on Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to Englert and Higgs
The statutes of the Nobel Foundation, § 4 reads (in part and translated): "If a work that is being rewarded has been produced by two or three persons, the prize shall be awarded to them jointly. In no case may a prize amount be divided between more than three persons."

Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_organizations/nobelfoundatio...

drrotmos··on ARM64 and You
Well, for one, Apple has never marketed the amount of RAM in iOS devices. It's not even listed on the tech spec (neither is CPU frequency).

Apple's marketing tends to stick to what users will understand. Saying "Your apps will run twice as fast" people get, "Your phone will have twice as much memory", people don't.

Now, granted, saying 64-bit is somewhat idiosyncratic for Apple, but if you look closely they're saying that it's the first phone with a 64-bit processor. While people probably don't know why they want a 64-bit processor, they do know why they want a phone with cutting edge technology. As for why it's good, they keep referring to speed, which people can relate to. Still slightly unusual though.

drrotmos··on Dulwich, pure Python Git implementation
There's also https://github.com/e-butik/Gittern (made by your's truly) which is a pure-PHP Git implementation (though not as complete as Dulwich).
drrotmos··on Kickstarter Should Do More to Protect Backers
Skype may be American now, but it's origins are clearly European.

"Skype was founded in 2003 by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden. The Skype software was developed by the Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, together with Friis and Zennström were also behind the peer-to-peer file sharing software Kazaa. In August 2003, the first public beta version was released."

Until it was acquired by eBay, it was a Luxembourgish company. I don't know how a company could be more European in origin.

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