epochwolf

I use my Kindle Voayge daily. I have no issues with strain on the buttons. I did need to adjust them to the lowest pressure and highest feedback before I was happy with them.

As for full justification, I don't really mind it. It's not a pain point for me. If I wanted to be picky, I could come up with a list of minor issues.

The problem is the Kindle is the best reader out of a category of really shitty products.

I came here to say this. I absolutely love the device and have never been bothered by fully justified text. (My major complaint along that path is books can still override the font settings. Grrr. )

I also wonder if the author knows there is haptic feedback on the buttons and that the activation pressure can be adjusted. With minimum pressure and maximum feedback there is no strain on my fingers even after 8 hours of continuous reading. I do have strain issues with my fingers so I should have had a problem with it if that was the case.

I don't clear photos off SD Cards until the files are in my offsite backup.

Hey Siri, order more tide.

I already don't question my habits for paper towels or laundry detergent. I buy the same ones every time because it works and it's not worth optimizing the $20 of paper towels or detergent I'll buy every 6 months.

46°F in the midwest is a no? :P

It's so iTunes can unlock the device.

I'm going to have to disagree with you, especially in relation to large frameworks.

I spend a lot of time working with medium to large ruby on rails applications. I know them very well and I am pretty good at doing things quickly and correctly. If I have to work on a php, python, or javascript project, it takes me one or two orders of magnitude longer to get things done than it would in a rails application.

The ability to start working with a new language after reading a blog is useful but it doesn't mean you'll be effective and useful in that language in a week.

Why use a typewriter instead of hand writing then?

> Google seems to have broken email forwarding

Programmer misconfigures SPF record and blames google instead, news at 11.

ApplePay uses one time transactions. Even if it's intercepted, you can't reuse the information.

Per the article: If you have a OF/EFI firmware password set on the target Mac OS X, FireWire DMA is off by default.

This is why we can't have nice things.

It's actually pretty easy to tell the parameters they take if you look at the url for the route.

For:

    story GET   /story/:id(.:format)  story#show

You get

    story_path(id)
    story_path(id, format)
    story_url(id)
    story_url(id, format)

In practice it doesn't cause as many problems as you think, even in large applications.

The routing system and associated view helpers can really get confusing.

For example:

    link_to @story.title, @story

You have to know that rails has some automatic routing based on the class of an object. If @story is a Story class, rails basically does this underneath:

    link_to @story.title, send("#{@story.class.name.downcase}_path".to_sym, @story.to_param)

There's implicit conversion of class names going on under the hood in a few places. It's all documented but it's not easy to find the documentation when you don't know what you are looking for.

The thing that really screws up people starting with rails is not understanding the various layers (html, views, controllers, models, http, etc.) and how rails puts those together. If you don't know how to do web programming with basic html and php, rails will eat you alive with it's seemingly magical behaviors.

The last time was probably 8 years ago, before I had a smart phone. I went winter camping in a relatively remote area with some friends.

Edit: I should probably add, I don't see constant internet access as any more of a problem than books. If anything my kindle (which is always in airplane mode) is a worse impact on my productivity than the internet.

I would have upgraded several of my machines to Windows 8 if it wasn't for the price. I already have a bunch of Windows 7 licenses.

So... how long is this going to last? The article says Holder's leaving his office. When he leaves, what stops the next person from simply reinstating this policy?

One snag, on Macs capslock works differently. It doesn't invert when you press shift. Shift + A with capslock on will still result in an uppercase A.

You call the police and they arrest the person. WiFi is short ranged. Not every problem needs a technical solution.

I've halted production in 14 manufacturing plants before. Ran a query against the wrong server and locked up the entire ERP system for 30 minutes.

Accidents happen.

Nitpick: Crash investigations are done by the NTSB, not the FAA.

The NTSB has no authority to enforce its recommendations. That's up to the FAA. The idea behind that is the NTSB is more likely to be impartial.

I'm pretty sure you can just harvest mouse movement information and train a computer to mimic that.

Are you talking about this: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/05/bagpipes-new-ha... ?

This is only an issue when you disable OOM killer. If your OOM killer replacement dies, then you have a problem, and you shouldn't have disabled it in the first place.

The kernel isn't going to protect you from turning off critical bits.

> Combine them with ST2's ability to do a search and place cursors at every found location, and I can get a lot of weird stuff done quickly.

Combine this with excel (use \t and \n in sublime for row and column respectively) and you get really powerful, really fast when it comes to converting information into a useable formats.

I've also made use of excel's data validations to create drop downs in cells for making hundreds of lines of complex config for a rules engine in a few hours. Enter the configuration in excel, export to csv, use a ruby to import csv into a database table via existing orm. (Why not use the UI? The app is too slow.)

I turned what would have been a week long data entry task into an afternoon of copying and pasting out of a another spreadsheet. (Why didn't I used the other spreadsheet? It was in a non-machine readable format. I had to convert the data to the proper format using my knowledge of the system internals.)

It doesn't help that a large number of Windows apps don't handle high DPI well.

VMWare installs kernel extentions. I'm pretty sure you can blame an app that deliberately messes with the OS internals.

I think a better way to look at it is a pharmaceutical company is full of people that would obey the ignorant orders of a middle manager in a hierarchy with incorrect safety procedures or obey the orders of a small group of evil managers colluding to bypass those procedures without the knowledge of their subordinates.

There's no reason you need more than a handful of people to be deliberately evil. Plenty of people will follow them unknowingly or under the threat of losing their jobs.

More people in real life know me by Epoch Wolf than by my real name. It's the name I've chosen for myself. It's also unique. No one else in the world had that name when I first used it 8 years ago.

It's my primary identity among my friends.

But, I don't want to change my legal name. It's easier to deal with my fellow americans having have a good, strong, and above all normal first name and a properly romanized last name with a european flavor. Being normal, white male with a normal, white male name is a Good Thing™ in most of America.

Also, my family would probably have their own objections.