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nutate··on Why I use a 20-year-old IBM Model M keyboard
You too can have the keyboard that inspired the ergonomic revolution after the first RSI lawsuit loss. Woohoo! http://articles.latimes.com/1995-02-28/business/fi-36989_1_l...
nutate··on Quake Live goes native and drops OS X, Linux
I got really addicted to Warsow for a hot minute. Great action in that game and I like the cel-shaded graphics option.
nutate··on New dutch political party wants € 1,000 basic income for everyone
I thought communism (theoretically) was more similar to a universal shared maximum income.
nutate··on We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404
Most cutting edge computer science folks like to make money selling ads not selling cheap insurance.
nutate··on We paid $634 million for the Obamacare sites and all we got was this lousy 404
To play devils advocate, have you tried logging into Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, etc recently?

Just as fucked in terms of passwords being screwed, lockouts, other such nonsense.

nutate··on Health Exchange Tech Problems Point To A Thornier Issue
Nearly all of the GOP states refused to play ball and are just defaulting to the federally made site.

I have a feeling one state's site will be the best and will perhaps be mirrored to other states within the coming decade. This is clearly not an overnight problem, but in the end, once each user gets their insurance they should never need to visit again unless they want to switch.

nutate··on Tom Clancy has died
New 'Tom Clancy' brand books will be released for the next 100 years.
nutate··on Surface Blades – true innovation from Microsoft
Do people understand that iPads and iPhones are MIDI compatible through the lightning to USB kit? (CCK before that)

The number of peripherals, corded and Bluetooth that work with the iPad are staggering because of this. Look at the Queneo, the new novation series, the Qunexus, the new Numark controller... And most importantly the software is there to utilize these control surfaces. Akai made a case like this for the ipad two years ago...

So good for Microsoft for launching this, but show me the software and the specs.

nutate··on Urbit: A clean-slate functional OS
Oh wow.

After watching the video I'm legitimately interested in more than the language. You've got some cool ideas going on there. I'll be emailing for a 32-bit destroyer in a second.

nutate··on Urbit: A clean-slate functional OS
To build your startup? No.

To have fun? Why not.

nutate··on Urbit: A clean-slate functional OS
I really like this. I hope some younger people with more time on their hands push this farther.
nutate··on Apple Updates iMac
Basically the time it would take to add a hard drive to a moderately fancy looking single unit machine like the iMac is equal to the dollar amount of a USB 3 or possibly even thunderbolt external drive enclosure.
nutate··on Crysis-inspired Menu / Navigation
They've been around (documented) since 1969... not just since crysis... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_menu
nutate··on Why I Hacked Apple’s TouchID and Still Think it is Awesome
The word misused wasn't even used in your comment.
nutate··on How to Make a Complete Map of Every Thought you Think (2003)
When I see a management blog, lifehacking, quantified self post, I usually see nothing more than a post like this hiding behind a veneer of fancier web design, nice photos and better writing technique.

[edit] PS this was not a comment on the validity of the ideas presented, just a comment on the general craziness of individual bloggers.

nutate··on Why two spaces after a period isn’t wrong – lies typographers tell about history
I'm 34 and I do it. I wouldn't have it any other way. Why even have periods if you aren't going to separate sentences with proper distance.
nutate··on Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
I've been thinking about getting a withings pulse or a misfit shine... now I'll wait to see what the 5S itself can do.
nutate··on Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
The new PayPal Beacon works with bluetooth LE... NFC seems like a step back from that.
nutate··on Web Based Haskell IDE/App Server from FP Complete
The IDE being $75 a month seems to add an entirely new wall to Haskell adoption, at least via this method.

To me the syntax has always stopped me.

nutate··on The NSA Is Breaking Most Encryption on the Internet
That's why he only runs a machine built in the free as in freedom PRC? Not to get jingoistic, but when do you expect to see an exposé on Chinese hardware and firmware manufacturer's backdoor analysis by the Ministry of State Security (MSS) – 国家安全部 in the People's Daily. Sometime after they have freedom of press I suppose.

Or what about any of these groups?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_intelligence_agencies

Which one(s) do you want to be the very best at this? Do you think the US is? And why?

nutate··on Bitcoin is a Startup
My comment was just acquired by Yahoo! So yeah, sorry about that.
nutate··on What Manning Revealed
Wow and so far the death toll from the Arab Spring is only ~127,000... there's a long way to go until it matches Afghanistan + Iraq.

Perhaps before he's out he'll make that grim milestone.

Not to say that he is responsible, only that the chaos introduced by his massive classified data expose contributed to uncorking that unrest. And to think, he was hoping to stop war.

nutate··on Linux may have been causing USB disconnects
Also with sound devices it is more than a tad annoying to unplug a USB external audio interface (powering down your monitors, etc) because it magically disappeared for some reason.

This is an amazing fix if it is the root of the sorts of problems I've seen on Linux (which've kept me crawling back to Mac for hardware support)

nutate··on Bitcoin is a Startup
This comment is a startup.
nutate··on Helpouts by Google
Like all of those Amazon products shut down when they still had a sizable userbase?
nutate··on I cannot afford to go back to engineering school
My parents had just gotten divorced. My dad had zero net worth, my mom very little. Full federal financial aid and need-blind admission at Columbia U. Super cheap, but only later did I realize how lucky I was (in a way) compared to a kid from a moderately wealthy family with two siblings in college. Let alone my friend who came to CU from a rich family but with no parental support who had to get an official parental divorce to make it work!
nutate··on A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor
Do you trust the government with nuclear weapons?
nutate··on Declan McCullagh on Pressure-CookerGate
I have a feeling most people who are up in arms about this haven't been visited by the police because they live in a bad neighborhood and "there were reports of X" happening in their apartment. When their neighbor was wrong, or the dispatcher had the wrong number, or whatever.
nutate··on Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted of multiple other counts
And at the same time Snowden left the US, leaving him to answer to a whole other set of allegations.
nutate··on The Haskell School of Music (2012) [pdf]
I really like overtone and what people could do with it. I had it installed, but I gave up after I realized my emacs muscle memories had atrophied a bit too much. That said the constant development of supercollider has made it the preeminent music programming environment.

This book looks more like the start of the CSound manual. That said, awesome, but not where I would run to to get started making sounds.

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