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Must be made in Britain. Their fire extinguishers have a tendency to ignite on use. (According to the IT Crowd tv series)

My IKEA desk was about $300. (Granted, it's an L shaped one.)

I have a monitor arm mounted on the back of my standing desk. As long as your monitor has a VESA mount, this is a viable option.

Before anyone runs off and grabs Pixelmator, see if Preview.app can do what you need. If you just need to highlight something in an image or add a note, it can do that.

If you need more, grab Pixelmator. It's an excellent program for basic image manipulation and drawing. If you need professional level tools, grab Paint Tool SAI, Photoshop, or GIMP as you need. Pixelmator will not be a good replacement for this programs.

The built in picture viewer (Preview.app) can do this:

* Click the pen in a box button next to the search bar. A new toolbar will appear.

* Click the rectangle button between the wand and the oval. Three new buttons will appear. If you mouse over them you can see what they do.

* Draw a rectangle around the area you want to highlight.

* Click the fill color button (it's right next to the border line thickness button)

* Choose "Show Colors..." from the color menu that pops down.

* Select any color and any opacity of that color to fill the rectangle

Here's a of keyboard shortcuts for taking screenshots: http://support.apple.com/kb/ph11229 These shortcuts will put the images on the desktop.

I prefer to use a little tool call SnapNDrag to do screenshots. It's $10 on the app store: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/snapndrag-pro/id430397512?mt... It's a simple app on top of the operating system's existing functionality. It's just a fancier version of the built in Grab.app.

(Also, if you haven't looked into Alfred or Quicksilver for app launching, I recommend it.)

It's government imposed. Start here: http://www.ncua.gov/Resources/CUs/Dev/Pages/Start.aspx

Why is this relevant?

Well, if you live near an IKEA, you can do a nice one for $200 + tax.

Solid wood top ($79.99): http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/50106773/

Four legs ($120.00): http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/60261626/

The emergency brake is not powerful enough to overcome the throttle. Additionally, I'd love to see if your reaction in an emergency like that would be any different.

Humans react very irrationally even with training. It's easy to sit in your chair and say someone did the wrong thing.

What sold me on coderpad.io was the README_IF_YOU_ARE_HACKING_ME file in the working directory. Contents below:

Hello! Hope you are enjoying CoderPad. I've added this file because a lot of people have emailed me voicing security concerns. Usually these concerns are to the tune of "programming language X lets me run Y system call."

They're not wrong, you can run any system call! Security in CoderPad happens at the LXC sandbox layer. You are currently in an ephemeral container that will be destroyed upon your departure. You are welcome to run any privileged operation you can get your hands on. CoderPad is, after all, the highest fidelity programming interview tool there is.

That said, if you do manage to uncover something like privilege escalation or data created by other users, I want to hear about it. You can email me at vincent@coderpad.io, and I look forward to hearing from you.

It's called a circuit breaker. Just about every system, include the flight recorders, autopilot, and transponders can be independently turned off.

If we are going to be ignoring features, let's go with the two options built in to the OS: TextEdit and Notes. Take your pick which one better supports your workflow.

I currently live in Ohio and it really is 1-2 day shipping here. When I lived in Seattle, 2 day shipping was 3 day shipping for anything shipped from east of the Rocky Mountains.

I don't know if there's a lot Amazon can do about that. There's big mountains in the way. You're looking at quite a few extras hours in transit compared to a place closer to the warehouse. (Even with using planes)

Eh.. "The pilots landed the airliner on a narrow grass levee at NASA's Michoud Assembly Facility in the Michoud area of eastern New Orleans, bringing the airplane to a safe stop.[3]" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TACA_Flight_110

And note, after replacing the engines, two test pilots flew the plane off the levee. While not recommended or safe, a 737 can land and take off from a rough field.

Which would cause the oxygen masks to deploy.

I'm pretty sure this isn't intentional. No one at Google is going to be using a crap monitor. I've used similar colors in business software before. It wasn't until I was at a conference and saw our software on a crappy screen that I realized the required field color was white on some monitors.

The number of people harmed by the vaccine is much lower than the number harmed by an infection.

Vaccines are ineffective if even a small percentage opt out.

Werewolf could be a lot of fun with Glass. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)

Yes, I have the previous generation paperwhite. I love it. I just keep the radio off except to download or purchase new books. I periodically use calibre to extract the books I purchase and strip the drm. My calibre library is in ~/Dropbox/Library/. That way everything is automatically synced to one of my macs which has an always attached time machine backup. Said backup is rotated with another drive in my safe deposit box every month or more often if I'm working on stuff I don't want to lose.

Any number of countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, and South America. All you need is to operate from a country that doesn't honor the laws of your target's country.

This kind of fraud happens with outsourced manufacturing in China all the time. Not limited to china but it's just the first thing that came to my mind.

You didn't read far enough...

> I called them up again, reaching for technical support after dialing in my MDN number. I got a representative who this time said the 'promotion' was cancelled January 14th.

They are shipping approximately every 3 years since Vista if they hold to the release schedule for 9.

Matrices and vectors are useful in graphics. But I've never seem them used outside of graphics work.

Please...

Most business software doesn't require more than basic algebra. As long as you know how to read math formulas and implement them in code, you can just look up most of the stuff on wikipedia.

For example, I worked on a monthly payment calculator for loans. All I needed to do was spend an hour reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annuity_(finance_theory)#Proof and playing with the forumla on paper.

Create a function to wrap the algorithm and test the inputs and outputs. Then you spend 2 days writing code and tests for the web interface around the function. In my job most programming is plumbing with infrequent math problems that only need to be solved once in a generic fashion. Heck, if there's complex math, there's an open source library for that. (Or a contractor! Or a web service. Or a contractor writing a custom accounting system that does the heavy lifting.)

Unless you're going to be specializing heavily on a specific problems, you don't need college level math, you just need your basic high school education and access to the internet.\

Note: My high school education included a semester of statistics. I would add my discrete mathematics classes in college have been useful but not strictly necessary.

This is not news. Most campus have filtering software and the university administration will use it to block websites that make them look bad.

Yes. I deactivated an account per their instructions for permanently removing an account over a year ago and haven't logged into it and it's still active. The information on it is still available.

Facebook has also reset all of my account's policy settings to the most public options twice since I've been on facebook. My posts kept their privacy settings but everything else, my friends list, likes, etc become public instead of only visible to myself. I suspect it was a bug related to data migration since both times it happened during site upgrades.

Still, I do not trust facebook with anything I do, ever. I assume it's just as public as the information on my blog. I aggressively censor posts and tags because of that.

Not an option. This is a criminal charge, not a lawsuit.

If google gave the engineer the gun or heavy machinery that was used in the crime, perhaps. If negligence on google's part can be proven. (For example, giving a gun to a convicted felon)

Judging by your history on this site, you've done nothing but trolling.

I think you're thinking of the word "retarded". You might as well be arguing against using the word "crazy". Insane and crazy have identical meaning in most contexts.