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I'm still on OSX 10.9.5 (Mavericks). Don't really like the iOS-style UI stuff they added after and don't need any of the features. The next time I have an iOS project that'll probably force me to upgrade though...

Love these, but patio11 needs a better microphone setup, its so echo-y and robotic! Please take this as helpful feedback rather than hurtful criticism.

Sweet look forward to trying out the new trigger and escape sequence features

Is this like an early April 1st joke?

debian here too for most of these reasons

Dang! I just bought WD Green 2TB WD20EZRX drives (x4) for my NAS.

Which RAM are you using? I've only been able to find 4GB sticks and that are unbuffered ECC. All of the 8GB I've found are registered ECC.

Just today I ran DiskUtil and verify disk told me my disk needed to be repaired, but I needed to do that by rebooting into recovery mode and running DiskUtil there. So I do that and it tells me my disk can't be repaired, back up what data I can, and restore my disk. Awesome right. Ran verify disk again and it says the disk is fine... Fine!? You just told me it needed to be repaired and you couldn't repair it. And now its ok. Who knows if I just lost a bunch of data or what. Fortunately I have a backup.

Please Apple give us ZFS so we can all sleep at night.

When I lived there I relied mainly on 3G. You can get a prepaid SIM for ~$6, and you pay around $0.50 per day for unlimited data. It is fairly slow at 1 Mbps up/down, but its enough to make Skype calls and the like.

If you have been playing for a while and are still having difficulty check out DarkTwinge's video tutorial for some good tips: http://www.twitch.tv/darktwinge/c/2609597

Brilliant game. Super excited for this.

If you haven't played FTL before, don't heed the complaints about the randomness, it's not as difficult or random as it may at first seem. And frankly failing in this game while you are learning the ropes is half the fun.

If I remember this correctly if it wasn't for the tax breaks Twitter would have relocated outside of SF. So saying SF is losing money on Twitter is pretty misleading. I'd say Twitter is helping the city by building their office in the Tenderlion. Hopefully that will improve the neighborhood some.

Pretty cool. Anyone try to get this running on openwrt? Seems like the most logical place to have it.

This is the most interesting part for me:

"Android has a much bigger fragmentation problem than Internet Explorer. Supporting only the latest 2 Android releases (4.3 and 4.4) would mean targeting less than 3% of the Android devices."

Must be accurate coming from Google.

Not everyone has a broadband internet connection you know

I am actually looking forward to this release. No real features but hints of new behind-the-scenes improvements make me think this will bring some needed Snow Leopard-like refinement to Mountain Lion. Here's hoping they can fix fullscreen with multiple monitors especially!

mutt

Good move Apple!

I think Airbnb is a good service. However it is not a hotel service, and I think they try to market it a little too similarly to one. For instance, making a booking is usually a much slower back and forth process between you and the host. It can be frustrating if you are expecting it to be immediate like it is with a hotel. Generally for a short stay I find its easier just to go with a hotel. It is nicer for finding longer term rentals, when the extra effort is justified by the cost savings and better accommodations.

Can anyone recommend a linux VPS host outside the US as an alternative to Linode or Digitalocean?

Retina MacBook Pro 15" 16GB/512GB SSD. Which I like mainly for the screen, use it at the simulated 1920x1200 res. It sucks that it can barely play flash or do other cpu intensive things without it getting fucking hot and loud. Its a shame because the GPU is pretty fast. Wish Apple could make a fucking decent thermal design.

Thinkpad X220 16GB/256GB SSD, Win7 Pro. I love it for its small size, long battery life, and ruggedness. Although I should warn you the plastic doesn't get on well with mosquito repellant, I learned that in Costa Rica last year. Also the trackpoint, 3 mouse buttons, and keyboard. It actually has a bigger keyboard than the rMBP despite being classified as a 12" laptop. Oh and a 3-year warranty where a guy comes to your house to fix whatever is wrong that only cost $100 or so. The screen is painfully tiny at 1366x768 though.

I guess I couldn't decide on one laptop, there are both good for different things. At home I sometimes plug into a 24" Dell 1920x1200 LCD and use a Kinesys Freestyle Pro keyboard and Logitech Anywhere MX mouse. That is nice for extended computer work.

My phone is a HTC First. Yeah the Facebook phone. Its a reasonable size, looks nice, you can uninstall all the facebook junk, and the battery lasts me 3 days. And I only paid $170 for it because no one wants them. Oh and the GPS and 3G work unlike my previous Galaxy Nexus.

Software-wise, I mainly use Debian under VMWare for work. And Firefox for browsing natively. The builtin sync feature is good. mutt and notmuch for email. I run irssi and bitlbee for jabber on a server, which I connect to with mosh.

I've had mine for about two weeks. The extra screen real space is nice if you run at the 'looks like' 1920x1200 resolution. The downside is the integrated graphics can seem borderline for driving the display at times. Some apps have issues. Fullscreen flash video is choppy in Chrome though works fine from both FF and Safari. The fans are dead quiet at low RPM, so if you run on integrated graphics with low cpu use (editing text, web browsing w/o flash heavy sites) you will hear nothing. On dedicated graphics and moderate cpu (flash video), it gets warm/hot and you'll hear the fans, but it is not bad. At high cpu use system can be really loud. I think I'm going to return it and wait for the next rev.

PS. I also have a 2008 MacBook Pro. It was running hot and loud until I blew it out good with a can of compressed air. Now nice and quiet.

Nice website design.

Things like this are why you should avoid phone contracts. I'm been happy with StraightTalk. I have the AT&T variant and it has been quite good. Only downside is no service outside of the US.

Google Now has been pretty useless for me. Its mostly an annoyance, I'm always having to dismiss its place suggestions and "Time to home/work" notifications.

I think iOS 4.x was the best iOS. I'd probably stay there too if apps didn't start requiring iOS5+. About the only thing I like in iOS5 is the weather app.

"I started rebuilding my life overseas, and I find a quantum of solace in the thought that my residence abroad makes it a little more difficult to be served."

Does this mean things are better outside the US these days?

Favorite quote: "It saddens me that America’s so-called government for the people, by the people, and of the people has less compassion and enlightenment toward their fellow man than a corporation."

Proof that a Lawyer can suck the life out of anything?

When I used Arch last year, they also regularly break things in ways that require manual fixes every month or so. So don't dare update without first reading the news, lest you end up with a broken system and no way to find out why it broke. Stick with Debian or Ubuntu if its your main laptop OS.