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Apple chargers, USB-C... When will Amazon offer a hardware fault bounty?

"There's never been a reason to evolve them."

Err. As a Mac user from when system 7 was fancy looking, and who learned some basic bash in order to do useful stuff like use curl, grep, cat, ls > .txt, rm's based on partial name matches, etc. my only response is "How about we talk about it over breakfast, lunch, and dinner?"

Bash is simultaneously graceful and nimble, yet clumsy. While it's certainly appropriate to worry that any reduction of the clumsy side would have a net negative effect, to not see, or not ack the many issues just continues to deny its utility to non-expert users.

The article fails to put the timeline of meth-centric US laws into perspective. i.e. restrictions on meth ingredient purchasing, the move from large US production facilities to imports to small homebrew operations. This isn't a particular area of interest to me, but to discuss law/supply/demand issues of marijuana, and then to casually toss in increases in meth and heroin without the same analysis of contributing factors is not truly informative.

Question which I can't get out of my head: It would stand to reason that the ruling on this case would affect other commercial phone and/or OS manufacturers, but how would it reflect on some OSS projects, where the coders are not necessarily employees of the project?

Honestly, I think further development on prose.io UX and functionality is maybe a shorter path past the git barrier. If default branches could be set, new files were based on templates, and YAML presented as form fields, etc. Combined with drag-drop file or image addition, that sounds promising. Yes, detail/devils.

Seems funny that this discussion is going on without seeing comparisons of data from comparable projects hosted elsewhere.

"Too many captains not enough soldiers, and far too few librarians." Always be sure to offer recognition to those who are naturally drawn towards organizing, cleaning, and making your project resources handy.

Development in my area is poorly constructed, ugly, still expensive, and created by people who have no interest in the neighborhood. They make it hard to love.

As an individual, not much. Though I sometimes wonder what the rent landscape would look like if people with moderate amounts of money were more flexible in their neighborhood choice. A lot of these crazy high prices are driven by people wanting to be in specific neighborhoods. Sometimes driven by cultural niche, sometimes convenience, and sometimes mostly just race.

This decade, TL;DR: As Apple becomes the first computer maker to transition into a luxury goods company, they realize that the smoke and mirrors sufficient for keeping the pseudo-proles happy in other sectors aren't sufficient. Corinthian leather doesn't break your wi-fi.

YMMV, but I had to manually delete Chrome cache files. Clearing from prefs took a long time, but the files remained over machine restarts.

This is exactly my point. Apple has been making these choices for a while, but they're being swept into a convo about bugs, and thus capacity/engineering. I think atp.fm dip into this for a second in their most recent (yesterday) podcast episode.

Seems like many people are not making enough of the distinction between choices and bugs. Sure there are bugs in lots of stuff, and that's an entirely valid conversation, but there's also a layer of confounding choices. Some make sense from an "corporate" perspective, some...

-iTunes bloat is a choice, and bugs.

-Mail.app is mostly bugs. (non-standard .mbox was a choice)

-Final Cut X was a choice.

-Eschewing strong AppleScript support in native applications is a choice.

-The app store(s) are a choice.

-Allowing core utilities like Contacts and iCal to stagnate and be outshone by 3rd parties (BusyMac) was a choice.

-Aperture+iPhoto=Photos was a choice. (So was selling Aperture after it was EOLed)

-FFF

Eaglefiler might be an interesting alternative. Closed source, OS X only, but actively developed, and from a one-person shop. http://c-command.com/eaglefiler/

For those clutching their pearls, I'm fairly confident that you can find an order of magnitude more sugar and/or exploitation based relationships in any large field that depends on a stratum of youth and/or beauty, and involves tiered access to attention. (Music, modeling, acting)

Partially because sites like this are nebulous black-boxes, and partially because power corrupts.

Have fun stigmatizing.

It would seem that modeling the patient jaw development over time would be appropriate. But of course this would cost $$$ as well.

Then again, if docs were to charge smaller repeating sums for the modeling, and remove the problematic cases for free, they might end up making the same amount, with less liability and work.

My mind turns towards a Pinboard archival account with tag searches in browser bookmarks.

As a blog consumer, rather than producer, I also have reservations about Medium-esque sites, but from the opposite perspective.

There's already an infinite quantity of interesting content to read, and it seems reasonable to expect rising quantities of worthwhile, as I find writing and creations that I was unaware of when they were being made. With all this stuff, I want to be able to control where and when I read, and how I filter, manage, follow, and store all this stuff. At some point, platform operations reflect a business plan, and that plan may or may not allow for one or more of my preferences, for reasons of $. I guess I just prefer a relationship where a standard or pseudo-standard allows the user control, to select differing vendor options at the very least.

Then again, as I'm barely capable of managing a basic server install, I'm fully aware of why people throw in with hosted systems. I'm hoping for great things from stuff like Sandstorm.

All political ballyhoo aside, I see this as just a 1/2 baked plan. They had a goal, they apparently didn't look for the big picture or consult with appropriate sources for advise, and they failed. Regardless of any moral or political judgements, it doesn't reflect well on them.

I find it frustrating and confusing that Patreon conjures this image, and that there's good reason for that.

The platform itself is sorely underutilized by large groups of people for who it's very suitable: Animal Rescue (Rescue (many species), Trap Neuter Release), homeless outreach and care, harm-reduction, etc. All of these groups require ongoing funding, and are positioned to provide monthly backers with evidence of the funds good-use. Obviously, if they're large enough to have 501c3 status and an active fundraising branch, it's less useful, but it would be gratifying to see Patreon attempt to enable grassroots work.

My first thought was: "Get a bunch of folks with affinity for x.org to variously try and pick it up when released, and then gift it to them."

Isn't this old news? I can't find the specific article I recall reading w/Google talking about renewing efforts to integrate with industrial and medical uses, but there are tons of recent links out there:

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/02/medical-stude...

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/health/uae-doctors-use-google-...

and the developer page shows at least 3 medical-oriented partner cos: https://developers.google.com/glass/distribute/glass-at-work...

Here's a craigslist job ad for a co using Glass: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/tch/5353555299.html

And this article says that the "Glass at Work" program was started in April 2014: http://www.eweek.com/mobile/next-google-glass-version-could-...

Sooo.. clickbait and old-news.

This was lovely writing, and successfully enlightened me on a few points, but my mind immediately saw the marble deform the sheet. I'd suggest a ping-pong ball and a frictionless sheet for a less perplexing thought experiment.

My experience has been reminiscent of the old SE days, when different engines would often fare better/worse for varying queries, vs there being an all-out winner. I think of DDG as avoiding a fair amount of overtly "consumer" content. Google is great at getting to "interaction points," DDG is great for information. I quite like the DDG ability to play embedded videos from the search results page, and their accompanying privacy warning.

There's a lot to be said for trying.

A smattering of other variations on the link work as well:

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/hotsites/2002-0...

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/hotsites/2002-0...

There's something strangely gratifying about browsing through old pages in situ, vs. on archive.org As it happens, some of these managed to evade the wayback machine.

Home of the best bug tracker ticket titles evar:

"Lye in wood barrels can't be used for making soap"

"Dwarves upset from not seeing family not in fort"

"Zombies start conversation with necromancer adventurer who tries to sleep in their house"

Here in NYC we have a permanent "e-waste" collection center. Some items are patched up, tested, and sold: http://www.lesecologycenter.org/programs/ewaste/reuse-store/

"The methodology was flawed, the analysis was rife with biases, and the results were interpreted in a way that stacked the deck against poorer neighborhoods."

A little bit of A, a little bit of B.

I think there's at least as much progress to be made via platforms developing solution systems, ala CAPTCHA, password reset emails, the verification system used on swappa.com, "salutes" (verification selfie), verification files... Could udemy only accept videos that have a visual/verbal confirmation "leader" attached with the submission? Yes, confirmation via voice is absurd - but it's a relatively minor obstacle in creation/submission, and quickly triaged for missing or egregiously obvious fakes. This is not some incredible idea, but my point is that when it matters to the web, the web can sometimes create accurate widely adaptable solutions, instead of intractable legalese. The question is, when will piracy (capital M) matter on a cultural level, vs. primarily being a concern of groups that are sometimes not even acting in the best interest of the people they represent.

Totally baffled at any/all articles and discussion of this by anyone who's familiar with their modus operandi. It's CaH. Either they're going to donate it, or do something awwbsurdacomical, and all they need is your name and email to keep you in the loop as the black frijinx ensue. Yadda yadda.