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Nice application, thanks.

There really needs to be a way to change the order of to-do's.

What happens to deleted to-do's? Gone forever?

Also CodeOwl combined with graphviz (as shown here- https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/12/18/project-management-as-co...) would be very cool- to-do list -> dependency diagram with colours updating as items are checked off...

I find it easy to express myself in the language and I think it is a good fit for the problem domain at least in terms of what Perl was traditionally good for, "glue" and data processing.

On the one hand this would definitely result in learning me some Python... on the other hand I am somewhat sorry it is not Perl.

Quite possibly the best thing that I have read in 2017.

I currently manually copy highlights and notes to Evernote (one note per book). It's way painful. I'd be willing to pay a reasonable fee for that functionality. Will sign up when I get to a real computer.

I have a remix mini attached to our TV. It's been a fine device for what we use it for- watching movies and TV shows from Google Play and the occasional ABC iView show. Sorry to see them exiting this space.

Yep, happened on both my Android phone and the Remix Mini attached to the TV. No issues on any of the PC's I use though.

Would it even be possible (assuming say full ownership of the device) to fake the 2FA and still log you in to your account?

I am in my late forties and on my third career pivot. My progression was from electronics technician to unix system administrator to project manager with some short stints in other occupations between "real jobs" - I worked as a high school cleaner for a while and as a grave digger. Last pivot (to PM) was just over 5 years ago. I wouldn't rule a fourth (or more!) pivot out, though it is more likely to involve going from employee to self employed/business owner rather than a different type of salaried position. You can succeed and do well at anything at any age if you are willing to work at it. And by work at it I mean in company time and in your own.

I recommend: only do stuff you are interested in any-way and only work with people/companies who are fun and worthwhile.

Good luck!

Exclusively

I moved all mine from Delicious to Evernote around the time of the Yahoo purchase and haven't regretted it once. Bookmarks (and I now generally bookmark whole pages) which are searchable along side all my other notes.

My wishlist in no specific order. You should consider crowdfunding some of the research- I would be interested in options to support these kind of issues and I'd have no issue with the results being commercialised provided there was some form of "open sourcing" the technology.

  * Green energy
  * Battery technology
  * Water cleansing (ie pollutants from rivers & oceans
  * Water purification
  * Air purification
  * Food production
  * Medical technology

I couldn't see from a scan through the docs- does any-one know if it does attachments?

For the mind: Mindfulness in Plain English - Bhante Henepola Gunaratana

For the body: Born To Run - Chris McDougall

For fun: REAMDE - Neal Stephenson

For business: What The CEO Wants You To Know - Ram Charan

Bookmarks (migrated there after Yahoo sold Delicio.us and never have regretted it, all my are now full clips so I don't have to worry if the URL goes stale) Research & notes. Tips tricks and other miscellania eg how to do conditional formatting in excel Recipes Lessons learnt Scans of business cards that I might need but don't want cluttering my contacts Scans of 1 page manuals eg the instructions that came with the combo lock on the side gate

All of that and other stuff :) I use most of the features, the only thing I wish it did have is a Delicious style tag cloud to make navigating those tags quicker, and a native Linux client.

Agreed. I've had reasonable success with NixNote/Nevernote http://nevernote.sourceforge.net/

Tangentially related to the parent topic- I have grown to appreciate "tasks" in Outlook mostly because of three features 1. the ability to flag an email as a task 2. ease of right click and adjust follow up date "today, tomorrow, this week, this month etc". 3. attach/link emails and other docs within tasks, so I can group related material together (OK mostly needed because Outlook search isn't as good as gmail :)

I only use Outlook at work and while I'd much rather use gmail for mail management I do want those features for task management- without mail integration any task list is not quite there. (I process my inbox to empty as I find email makes a very poor task manager despite the vast numbers of folk who use it as such...)

Edit: just found you can do 1. above in gmail, open the email and hit "shift+t" it includes a link to the email.

Same here except the feature I am waiting for is a full featured Android client ie sync all files to the local Android device filesystem (with the option to only sync when connected to Wifi).

This is good but what I really want is SMS integrated with email. Think about it SMS is a text based conversation just like email- how much better would it be to have all the other functions of email (especially gmail) tagging, archiving, threads, filters, ability to mark as SPAM.

SMS as a separate product made sense when it was first introduced- email on phones didn't exist. But in 2012 it's time they were integrated.

As an aside I also wish that carriers would stop doing voicemail and the various (broken) text->voice services and just record the message as an MP3 (low quality is good) and message it to me- again having it turn up in my mailbox would be even better.

Nice to see that Penultimate is going to come to "other devices", I'm assuming that will include Android.

I moved all my bookmarks to Evernote after the new owners broke^wenhanced delicio.us and haven't regretted it once.

All I need now is a native Linux client for Evernote...

> Right-Click on Excel Taskbar Icon > "Microsoft Excel" > A new window opens.

Is that a windows 7 feature? It doesn't appear to work for XP. (Yeah yeah this desktop is in a govt dept that will get updated one day...)

Like the samstave this (mis)feature of Excel has been frustrating me forever.

Death Sentence (http://www.amazon.com/Death-Sentences-Management-Speak-Stran...) by Don Watson is the seminal work on the topic.

It does (or should) go to fallback mode however Big Kernel Lock (BKL) was removed on kernels >= 2.6.37 and VMWare Tools won't install so your joy would have been short lived. I Googled around and tried a couple of patches but none of them gave me any joy. Apparently you can downrev your kernel and get it to work but that seems counter productive. So for the time being I am stuck with Fedora 14 (which is end of lifed in December).

The issue has existed for some time and was one of the reasons my trial of Fedora 15 was short lived (Gnome 3 and no Dropbox being the others) but I thought VMWare would have fixed it by now...

The video "The Britten Bike Story" is well worth seeing if you enjoy mechanical hackery and motorcycles- http://www.brittendvd.co.nz/

My prediction FWIW: more lawsuits. This diagram is about to get some more lines- http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/whos_suing_whom.png

I'm behind a corporate firewall where Chrome isn't allowed, any-one know of an equivalent which will run on Firefox?

As an aside the Chrome Web Store tantalizingly says "Sorry, we don't support your browser just yet. You'll need Google Chrome to install apps, extensions and themes."- are they planning to go cross-browser at some point or just teasing me?

I'd love a web based editor that uses Dropbox (or your cloud based storage) for storage. I use Elements editor on the iPhone but for when I just have a browser...

(Similarly I'd feel a lot more comfortable with Google Applications if I could tell it to store my documents on my storage, or at least seamlessly mirror to my storage)

> With this move, Google is declaring war on a host of web companies that are heretofore thriving and collaborating and making tons of money.

Actually I think Google is just escalating their war with FB, the other companies you refer to could end up being collateral damage though.

Yes. The author of the article does not appear to be aware you can add your keys to ssh-agent (with ssh-add) and that way just type your password once.

Re Anathem first 150 pages- if the story had stayed in the Concents then the level of detail may have been justified, but in the end I was annoyed that he spent so long creating the Concents just to throw them away. Editor fail.

Interesting/Recommended: The Snowball, Alice Schroeder

Shantaram, Gregory David Roberts

The Art of Happiness, HH Dalai Lama

Getting Things Done (I know I'm late to the party...)

Shop Class as Soulcraft, Matthew Crawford (I heard about that one here, thank-you HN)

On Writing, Stephen King