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evadne··on Apple limits daisychaining of non-Apple displays in OS X
http://multimonitorcomputer.com/solved/dell-u2414h-displaypo... ?
evadne··on My Y Combinator experience
UIKit for Mac has been done more than a few times.

https://github.com/BigZaphod/Chameleon https://github.com/twitter/twui …

evadne··on Tired of Safari
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=423444
evadne··on How to set up stress-free SSL on an OS X development machine
I usually just use https://github.com/jugyo/tunnels.
evadne··on Show HN: A Dockerized proxy to watch Netflix outside the US
There’s another way:

$ ssh me@host -D 4096

…then connect using the SOCKS proxy at localhost:4096.

evadne··on Online Learning: A Bachelor's Level Computer Science Program Curriculum
My own opinion regarding on-line academic programs: Accreditation or GTFO.
evadne··on Google’s fiber effect: Fuel for a broadband explosion
Not frequently. Competitive players loathe new maps ;)
evadne··on Google’s fiber effect: Fuel for a broadband explosion
It’s all assets. For example, an average Team Fortress 2 map is 50MB, and servers can push new maps to clients when they connect.

Lag compensation [1] does not compensate for lost kills, unfortunately, and I bet people still uniformly complain about bad net code nowadays.

[1] https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Lag_compensation

evadne··on Windows 8.1 forces the user to interact in a way that doesn’t work
Indeed :(

http://blogs.windows.com/windows/b/bloggingwindows/archive/2...

evadne··on Windows 8.1 forces the user to interact in a way that doesn’t work
There. Disable the help tips with Group Policy Editor.

http://superuser.com/questions/666247/hide-win-8-1-tip-about...

evadne··on [dead]
http://trollemipsum.appspot.com/?type=gruber&length=screed
evadne··on Don’t Use Try/Catch (2010)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Error_Reporting#Third-p...
evadne··on How to set priorities, create budgets and do PM in a no-manager company
I think they may very well become (the digital equivalent) tragedies of the comments. I am under the belief that team leads should handle all the dirty work nobody else wants to do.
evadne··on Why are there so few woman developers?
5-hour-old Google mirror: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:m91Zysh...
evadne··on How to set priorities, create budgets and do PM in a no-manager company
I will not be surprised if this implies a transition from leadership by authority to leadership by democracy. I will also not be surprised if natural leaders emerge and small factions start to form around them.
evadne··on Why Isn't Open Source A Gateway For Coders Of Color?
Relying on open source development to gain recognition and fame is like depending on unpaid internship to get your feet in the door.
evadne··on Stupid Things Finance People Say
I must present:

Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Banker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROlDmux7Tk4

Also a book from Leveraged Sellout with the same title: http://www.amazon.com/Damn-It-Feels-Good-Banker/dp/140130968...

evadne··on American Airlines earned an enemy
If I remember correctly, one of the many stores in Changi Airport’s transit area carries diapers.
evadne··on The problem with Peak: Activity ≠ productivity
Congratulations, a new way to fire people quantitatively. I imagine this to actually be useful for call center owners, staffing managers and whomever that sells fixed units of activity for money.
evadne··on Iowa police kill son whose father only wanted to ‘teach him a lesson’
The police are trained so when a truck starts ramming against a police vehicle without stopping, they make it stop. When the police officer’s life could pretty much be in danger, they’ll kill you. Duh.

BTW: http://www.amazon.com/Arrest-Proof-Yourself-Ex-Cop-Reveals-A...

evadne··on Hey developers, stop forcing me to login to unsubscribe
Oh, easy, I just mark all emails as spam.
evadne··on American Energy Data Challenge
> and (b) private entities, such as corporations or other organizations, that are incorporated in and maintain a primary place of business in the United States.

That’s not hard.

evadne··on Calgary man becomes world's most travelled
In Taiwan, “I need to get visas from multiple countries at once” is a valid excuse to get a second passport valid for 5 years.

:)

evadne··on Engineers: How much would you pay me to be your talent agent?
If I really would like to work on something, I will start a company and hire people.

Talent agents exist because there is no good way to vet a large amount of people within months; there is no common standard. Or that they are required to poach heavy duty supercharged engineers who are already swamped by other recruiters. In both cases they may get paid 10% of their candidate’s first year’s salary as commission for a successful hire, so they may optimize for fast instead of good.

The services outlined here are standard. Unfortunately some recruiters punch below their weight…

There is an oversupply of people who can code, but seemingly still an under supply of great ones in my opinion. Therefore, an agent needs to profit on the paranoid and the desperate because they also work month to month.

I will possibly not pay more than a few hundred bucks for such a service as a candidate for a “permanent” job as I am not desperate enough yet (because I like to negotiate my own contracts without intermediaries), but hiring managers seem to like to chase folks with checkbook in hand. ;)

evadne··on How not to validate email addresses
I find it hilarious that Australia has just 4 digits in its post code. The US has 5 digits with 4 optional digits. Taiwan (a much smaller place) has 3 digits with 2 optional specifiers.

Singapore has 6.

evadne··on Click this link to opt out of Google's shared endorsements program
I use Google Apps and the box is unchecked by default:

“Based on your domain's current settings, your name and profile picture will not appear in shared endorsements paired with ads. If your domain administrator changes this in the future, your choice here will be honored.”

evadne··on Meltdowns Hobble NSA Data Center
Reverse Stuxnet?
evadne··on NSA critics Ilija Trojanov: German writer must not enter the U.S.
If you’re refused by the pre-clearance facility you’re still screwed but you might get to pass thru immigration in the host country again. The CBP will just call the CBSA who will dispatch somebody to come and take you and re-scrutinize documents provided by the US officer.

TL;DR: don’t get screwed.

evadne··on OS X 10.8.5 update breaks Skype, G+ Hangout on mid-2013 Macbook Airs
Uh, I tried upgrading to 10.8.5 in the middle of nowhere with bad Internet and it broke my OS X install. Fortunately I have the installer mirrored in a different volume and installing OS X over the hosed volume fixed it.

Ran into the same problem with 10.8.4. Apparently it does not happen with 10.9…

evadne··on Newell's history of porting Doom to Windows to show it can be a gaming platform
A bunch of titles are available for OS X thru Aspyr [1] with porting latency measured in months.

[1] http://www.aspyr.com/

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