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Raise your hand if you have worked hard building an honest product that does what it says, only to see another business rise up to claim the same thing but based on smoke and mirrors. Must be an age-old trick, maybe akin to the octopus pretending to be a plant so it can catch prey, or the angler fish's glowing trap in the dark.

I've also seen Source-Nexus, that has plugins for Pro Tools as well as VST/AU, and you can make multiple named drivers. It would work pretty well with Loopback it seems.

https://www.source-elements.com/products/source-nexus/

Currently in the mobile space everyone is behind at least one double-NAT at least, and you can order business level access for your wireless data account and get an IPv4 address allocated to you. AT&T does this for a single $500 fee for example, Sprint as a monthly $3 fee. I imagine this will become common with ISPs - you'll need to upgrade to a gaming/business class in order to make use of port-forwarding etc and for everyone else, some programs will cease to work or not connect as quickly/easily.

The NZ ad mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wwXfAFQoh8 (NZ isn't a large country: those roads probably ran to the same town anyway).

It's about the patents.

"while OpenH264 is not truly open, at least it is the most open widely used video codec"

http://andreasgal.com/2014/10/14/openh264-now-in-firefox/

Yes, thanks to the open source H.264 codec from Cisco. This is about open source options and I think Firefox's decisions are completely valid.

https://gigaom.com/2014/10/14/h-264-support-arrives-in-firef...

Chrome supports its own streaming method, MPEG-DASH with H.264 which is what Youtube runs on where possible. Firefox stated it won't support H.264 on principle (although it does now, for WebRTC). Android supports HLS, as does iOS, out of the box. HLS was designed to supersede RTSP however we also have the equally-ubiquitous RTMP, which Flash supports natively. You can get an HLS stream via Flash with an add-on to some clients so now this will work on IE, Chrome Firefox, and there are also some custom, proprietary clients out there for h.264/HLS. It's not a pleasant ecosystem right now..

>every couple years, go off and do something completely different

You mean, like take a vacation? You are saying exactly the same thing but with the time-scale different. I agree on that: work hard for 10 months, no days off. 2 months completely out of the office. But that assumes excellent health and no family.

Hipchat uses XMPP so you answered the parent's question perfectly. Slack, I believe, created a custom protocol.

Ah yes, Florence Foster Jenkins being the famous example [1] who was wealthy and hired Carnegie hall for a concert, in spite of being tone deaf thought she would sing Mozart's difficult Queen of the Night aria: and record it. [2]

She is famous for saying "people may say I can't sing but no one can ever say I didn't sing".

Warning: anyone who values their ears https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtf2Q4yyuJ0

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins

[2] http://www.carnegiehall.org/BlogPost.aspx?id=4294993274

No Stream API support for example

http://caniuse.com/#feat=stream

Media players: browsers don't have native support for H.264 over HLS or RTMP, and MPEG-Dash seems native to Chrome only. If the browsers could accept these natively, this would certainly speed flash's demise. Until then, what are the alternatives?

Borges short stories - some of my favourites are very accessible: The Garden of Forking Paths and The Aleph. Some of his stories are difficult to read and make more sense as you know the author better. He wrote interesting works such as reviews on fictitious books. If you are looking for 'not shallow', he's your man. I also second 'The Master and Margarita' recommended by iambatman.

I'm not sure what stops EasyTaxi from working in the U.S. I use it in South/Central America and it routes regular taxis, you pay in cash like usual but get the convenience of the Uber experience of knowing a cab is on the way, and who the driver is.

http://www.easytaxi.com/cities/

Working holiday visas are not permitted once you reach 31. You must apply and enter the country before you are 31, I believe (it may be 30).

Finnegan's Wake is packed-full of self-referential meta-data and has a highly coherent structure.

In this sense, it's relevant to the discussion because it may appear to have been created by Markov chains whereas in fact it's intelligently molded and makes (more and more interesting) sense from the many perspectives you start to have as you spend your life with it.

Excellent project here, which even from reading the first page you'll have an a-ha moment: http://www.wakeinprogress.com/2010/10/introduction-to-charac...

That's the correct behaviour. It's supposed to be patched in El Capitan by default.

The patch works. I now have 2 patched systems and I've instructed my team to run the patch immediately on every mac.

Thanks for clarifying: I was able to find the vulnerability on the unpatched system with:

  $ ls -al /
  (etc)
  -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       0 Aug  6 06:46   this_system_is_vulnerable

So I can a) confirm the vulnerability exists and it can write with root privileges.

and b) the patch works: I ran the patch, deleted the test file, rebooted and the file is no longer able to be written.

Is there a test to determine if the patch is successful?

Edit: as noted in Esser's blog [1]: $ EDITOR=/usr/bin/true DYLD_PRINT_TO_FILE=/this_system_is_vulnerable crontab -e

I found this test failed in both a patched (10.10.4) and un-patched system (10.10.1) so not sure what these results mean.

[1] https://www.sektioneins.de/en/blog/15-07-07-dyld_print_to_fi...

YMMV? I have much more business engagement on Twitter than Facebook. FB could disappear tomorrow for all my business cared, but I would certainly notice Twitter not being around.

From my experience, the defining parameter is now the timezone difference (or, working hours kept), rather than distance.

I recently spent a while in the Squamish area and became fascinated by first-nations linguistics and writing processes. Very interesting stuff, coming from a native latin/germanic perspective where pronunciation is not implicit e.g in the word 'Sḵwx̱wú7mesh' the '7' is a glottal stop. Compare this to a word, say, 'gezellig' in Nederlands, where the opening g is glottal but not denoted in writing.

Try "Dev days" or "Developer days"

Volume controls are important! Some examples: you are on a VoIP call but want background music. You have to listen out for some notification and the front music can't be too loud. You work with other audio files e.g video editing but don't need to be listening actively. Any media-multi-tasking situation, really.

>My daughter at least appears weaker (I think she's hiding her skills

Note here (from a girl) remembering my childhood and maths: my interest in all things technical came to life when my father (figure) showed an interest in playing chess with me, and in building things like aerodynamically-interesting paper/card planes, rocket launchers and kites.

Relevant link: The Divine Comedy on Project Gutenberg (in English)

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8800/8800-h/8800-h.htm

I visited 4 years ago as a tourist from México, our mid-level hotel had a PC however we didn't bother to try going online. If you get the chance, do visit soon. It's a special experience, when coming from a very different modern world. Seeing a place for yourself that you have heard so much about gives a healthy perspective. Plus they can use the CUCs, pronounced cuuk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_convertible_peso).

9ms is the industry-recognised time that it takes before the brain notices that sync is out. If you have 2 woodblocks clapping and they are more than 9ms out of sync, you will hear one as an echo instead of 2 blocks at the same time. So if you are a band wanting to play remotely and you have 100ms network latency plus all the other latencies of the software layer, it's not going to be possible. Similarly if you are trying to drum in time with a track: more than 10ms latency from when you tap your finger to when you hear the audio, you'll have a hard time staying in sync.

I've been using the Hario hand grinder and I find it extremely difficult to maintain a grip. Is the Portlex easier to hold? I'm female thus possible not as strong as others who may be using this.