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Shazam keeping the microphone on at all times on the Mac shouldn't be a surprise considering that it is already well known that Shazam has been keeping the microphone on at all times on the iOS platform.

(sorry for the forbes link: http://www.forbes.com/sites/katherynthayer/2013/12/19/the-al... )

Developers have their preferences, but I've had to do dev work on a Pentium II over frickin' telnet over a modem connection. We can make do, because we know how to. Apple knows this, so they have no reason to care.

In a cafe right now, everyone here is on a Macbook Pro except the two government workers on identical Dells.

Long time tmux user.

Thanks for posting the .tmux.conf link. Modified the window decorator line as sometimes you can't always tell which pane you are in:

set-option -g set-titles-string '#(whoami)@#H session: #S window: #I-#W pane: #P'

Also noticed that the status right only updates the time if you perform a tmux op.

Telemetry and crash report still enabled by default. Unsure of what will happen upon update if the global settings file is altered.

Yeah, I've been on that page before. Old instructions were per project. Wasn't motivated to keep checking for changes.

Thanks for letting me know. LMGTFYAAA...

I liked VS Code when I tried it. But...

It irked me when I found out you had to disable telemetry per project/file. That really should be a global setting. Obtaining telemetry data through attrition is not something that will spur my adoption.

I'd rather stay with Atom, vim, or even Eclipse.

I've been happily using the nitrous.io service for 2 months to play around with Meteor. It is a great service. I quickly defaulted to the shell with tmux rather than using the IDE. Hosting was only $19/month which hit the sweet spot between shared hosting and a VPS.

Shared hosting for Meteor is not an option as a 'meteor update' always runs out of memory and gets killed for using too many resources. You can upload a config, but this is unwieldy and is antithetical to the whole point of Meteor.

This year I retired a Pentium III co-located 1U server. RedHat -> Ubuntu 6.0 Dapper Drake -> 8.04 Hardy Heron -> 12.04 Precise Pangolin. Upgraded the memory to 512MB from 128MB and replaced the two 6GB hard drives with 80GB drives. All this thing did was rsync and do SOCKS5 over SSH on port 53 (which was very useful until ~2012).

Co-location was free for this thing, which kept it in service far longer than it should have been. It was nice to keep the same hardware functional for that long.

Given that displays favor landscape over portrait, there's a lot of free space above the numbers. My bet is that the next iteration will have the function keys and the touch bar after the alienation of developers becomes apparent to Apple.

I remember seeing it on Thinkgeek.com - $1500.

I think the oil and mixed media paintings are a great value from the samples.

However, I wasn't to pleased with your monochrome samples however. Some of the samples look like they were made with an EZ-Tracer.

That's not what I said. I said that if you don't pay for the news, then you being manipulated is the product. That's not the same thing as simply forking over money magically removing bias. The latter is a ridiculous notion and that equates to your straw-man argument.

Do you really think a trusted news source with corporate overlords is able operate with unlimited autonomy? I would have no issue if there was a large diversity of ownership with conflicting issues. But I don't really see sufficient conflict in corporate America.

Perhaps you should find some news sites that don't have ads then? Something that only exists on readership support? Some stories only eventually break into 'mainstream media' (ugh, I used that phrase, I'm sorry) through these sites.

Spurting out 'false dichotomy' and stating that I haven't provided the necessary treatise of evidence is kind of ridiculous. I hope you can see how pretentious that sounds.

If a news organization only exists because the Koch brothers own it and it operates at a loss, its primary purpose isn't to serve unbiased news, but propaganda.

Contrast that to a news agency or journalist whose existence is funded only through subscriptions, with zero advertising. These type of agencies are not subservient to a Murdoch, a pharma company, or anybody. They only have to interest their readership sufficiently.

Of course there is still bias. But now you have multiple viewpoints. If the only news you're getting is from papers owned by billionaires or heavily moderated forums owned by billionaires, then good luck.

I would agree with you that sending money to Fox News isn't going to help with the bias much.

I think your comment is very apt. If you don't pay for the news, you being manipulated is the product. You have to support people who inform for our actual benefit.

I subscribe to a couple digital periodicals. My last paper subscription lapsed about four months ago.

There is an argument wherein you could say that those who merely sit on their wealth are causing economic stagnation. Taxing wealth becomes an incentive for the wealthy to have their money make more wealth, instead of just sitting on a mountain of gold coins and interests rates could again rise.

I took a combinatorics class that was hellish. Over half the class dropped out, including all of the graduate students after two weeks and almost all of the honour students almost immediately.

I ended up looking at our library catalog to look for a book that might help with the class. I noticed our professor had a book out that was a collection of Erdos papers. I signed out the second copy. After that I was getting high 90s while the rest of the class was getting barely 50s. The marks had to be scaled, it was the teacher's intention not to fail us but to see how far he could push it.

It was brutal.

I had a bunch of floppies in a box fail in a peculiar manner according to the Fibonacci sequence. Luckily the important stuff was clustered in the back.

I had three different TRS-80s. There seemed to be a new computer every two weeks or so in the house. My fondest memories of the TRS-80 were on the Model III and I remember being discouraged by the lack of documentation, multiple operating systems, the quality of instruction I could get, and of course access time. I remember feeling lucky not having to use a tape cassette. Apparently, I also learned to swear and type simultaneously.

It was such a strange time because of all of the different form factors and sizes. I had a DOS computer that looked like a metal waste bin with a monitor embedded. The keyboard would clip onto the monitor: "Portable" The Apple II, Atari 1200XL, and Commie were all short lived, as they are not 'business computers'. There were also countless 'bubble pop' keyboard computers that I only remember because of the feeling of pressing on the keys. The standard IBM Personal Computer XT was my sole computer until the 486 era. The lack of EGA/VGA in that time meant that I increasingly wandered onto BBS systems until I found several that actually had Internet access by syncing with the University. I had two email address in 1986. It took me about a year to discover the difference between electronic mail on the bulletin board that I was used to and e-mail. As for modems, the jump from the TRS-80 Direct-Connect Modem on page 12 of the catalog that connected at 300bps to a 2400bps internal modem on the XT was mind blowing.

I also remember being disgusted by GW-BASIC and being on a programming bulletin board called McAffee's. It was so frustrating because I did not have access to a C compiler and was crushed to find out from the SysOp how much it cost back then. When I finally managed to get a pirated version of Borland Turbo C, I was ecstatic.

For those that have purchased it on Steam, I'd archive your current version. Have a feeling the quality is going to go downhill from here.

Wow, just wow. The company must be run by absolute sociopaths.

Wow. Check the title. This was a discussion about public shaming cars in bike lanes. You've turned it around into, "everybody should just stop whining and obey the law" and publicly shaming cyclists. The people endangered in this situation do not normally have the same considerations given to the more powerful group. You call them narcissists for trying to make their lives safer. You've adopted the very same tactics as #alllivesmatter. Take a good hard look.

Are cops killing black people morally equivalent to motorist road rage and lack of consideration? Of course not.

The analogy is apt. #alllivesmatter belittles the concerns of black people and the disproportionate danger they face interacting with police. Likewise, cyclists are disproportionately at risk of serious harm while on the road. Not that complicated. Black people are 'whining' because they have legitimate concerns for their safety. Cyclists do as well. And the laws are written in such a way that blacks/cyclists deaths can be easily swept under the rug.

Stop whining is not helpful advice. It means shut up.

Wow. Late night rant, perhaps I should have run as the Republican candidate for POTUS.

You managed to get my point.

A pellet could injure someone and damage an eye. What if a bullet hit the same spot? Those are very different outcomes. Conceivably a pellet could kill someone if was a David vs Goliath one in a million shot. Reckless endangerment takes into account the threat level created by the offender. Why not traffic laws? The threat level sort of tops out when you're a squishy human getting hit by a vehicle. Compact vs SUV don't matter much unless you want to get all Rorschach about the splatter pattern. Dead is dead.

> Is an SUV running a stop sign twice as bad as a compact car running a stop sign?

That's such a willfully stupid response. Compare these:

Bike:Compact:SUV to pelletgun:handgun:rifle

Morever, did you read the first thing that I said? "Before I get all the hate I have to say of course cyclists should obey the laws." Thank you for adding NOTHING to the conversation except for demonstrating the whacked out stupidity that is the core problem here.

Your kind argues that we have to obey the same laws as motorists while forcing us into the gutter. "Separate but equal?"

Before I get all the hate I have to say of course cyclists should obey the laws. As a cyclist I can tell you it doesn't matter either way to many certifiably deranged motorists.

Caveat aside, I'm constantly amazed that this argument gets brought up over and over again.

Traffic laws exist to ensure public safety. So let's cut the bike/car bullshit about the laws being equal for both.

Let's take a simple offense like running a stop sign at 15 km/hr and suppose that a pedestrian gets hit. What's the difference between a car doing this and a bicycle? Both the bike and the car are going 4 m/s. But there's a huge difference between getting hit by a car that's 1500 kg plus passengers versus an 80 kg person plus a 9 kg bike. Simple thought experiment, you've just been hit by something. What outcome would be more favorable? Would you rather have a Honda Civic on your spleen or some asshat bike courier named Jack? Two tonnes versus nine kilograms?

The crime may be the same, but the outcome is far different. I've seen a van run a red light and the cyclist traveling orthogonally ride right into the side of it going 45 km/hour. Not pretty.

Circa 2009, playing 80486-era Master of Orion II on the Nokia N800 using a DOS emulator. 400MHz ARM tablet, actually playable.

My advice is don't mancave or cubicle if you have an option. Fight for that window seat at work. I'd rather have a window cubicle than a windowless office. Enjoy the view every couple minutes.

Now everybody can be Spider Jerusalem...

Just like Google Glass users being called Glassholes, SnapChat glasses will probably be called something like SnapChads, because only white rich guys in pastel shorts and rugby shirts named Chad will use them. The aesthetic just isn't there for wide adoption.

I really enjoyed Be back in the day and made an attempt to use it as my primary operating system. Two months later, my internet provider stopped giving me leases for it. I put it behind a router that would give the BeOS computer a lease. When I cloned the MAC of the computer it refused to give me an address. I got so curious I put another NIC in and tried without the router. Soon thereafter it was also banned. The ISP was banning my NIC if I was running Be. To this day I have no idea what happened. It was also interesting to note that the router's MAC was not banned when a computer running Be was behind it.

Ditto. But I think we have fallen on hard times when Dell becomes the go-to.