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“Listen. You don’t live there. You live here. With your people. Go to work. Get your money. And come on home.”

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/06/05/the-work-you-do...

Why do you think data-handling is unrelated to the level of freedom in a country?

Please don't be so naive as to equate the UK and USA with Putin's Russia.

You are wrong to be ambivalent. Russia is a vastly less free country than the United States.

For example, please see https://freedomhouse.org

I agree that you should use the same Emacs version. On the Mac I recommend http://emacsformacosx.com/.

I have my .emacs.d symlinked to a folder in Dropbox. So to set up on a new machine I just have to install Dropbox and make a new symlink.

This also worked for me in Ubuntu.

I was concerned when package management came in as a lot more stuff seems to get downloaded, but it just seems to look after itself.

I disagree. I have been using the same init.el across Windows and Mac for several years. Hardly anything needs to be tailored but you can inspect the system-type variable if it is really necessary.

Without going too far off-topic, does anyone know anything about a SQL Server driver for Node.js? There was this, but it hasn't been updated in a while. https://github.com/Azure/node-sqlserver

I prefer Emacs, but sometimes think Vim works better on laptops as everything is right under your fingers. Emacs is much more comfortable on a full-size keyboard. So I wonder whether there's any correlation between Emacs/desktop and Vim/laptop.

BBC Programme pages with embedded iPlayer change the title of the page to contain a ▶ (play symbol) when the content is playing.

E.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01qrn4y

Perhaps this is common but I hadn't seen it until recently.

EDIT: wanted to add that this means you can see that the page is 'playing', but it doesn't work if you pin the tab in Chrome.

I have a possible correction. Might dbl-all not be better named sqr-all? Thanks for the article by the way.

In Chrome I'm used to being able to right-click on part of the page and go straight into Inspect Element. IE 10 still doesn't have that. As far as I can see, there's no autocomplete in the console.

I would also really miss one or two extensions, and bookmark sync across machines. So I don't think IE 10 is a contender for my main browser. Very taken with the text rendering though.

On one aspect, font rendering, they have overtaken Firefox and Chrome. HN for example is way more readable on IE10.

After using it for a few minutes on W7, it feels at least as snappy as my normal browser, Chrome. More surprising for me is that the font rendering looks better than Chrome. Hmmm.

Not only does Chrome on iOS sync bookmarks, but it allows you to see what tabs are open on Chrome on all your other devices and what tabs were last open on devices which are currently switched off.

I would miss caps lock. As soon as I see >2 upper-case letters in a row, I use it. I don't know how people bother to type long acronyms and other words in caps without it.

Since my dad had built a ZX81 from kit, we were on the Sinclair mailing list. I remember reading the promotional leaflet announcing the Spectrum. I could hardly believe what it could do. This leaflet would have been classic Uncle Clive hyperbole. Yet, the reality of this little machine was even more magical.

Posterous took investment not only from venture capital, but also from users who believed and trusted that the service would find a way to make money and stick around. It hasn't repaid that investment. This feels like a turning point to me as I have no incentive to start investing as a user with the next hot startup that comes along.

I was more annoyed by the little head to the left of the tabs in Chrome which indicates the current profile. I don't use profiles. But I've just discovered that the head goes away if you delete the sample profiles that they created when they added the feature. Duh.

The story is on the front page of this morning's Financial Times (UK edition): http://www.politicshome.com/timthumb.php?w=450&src=%2Fim...

Story here: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/9aac5f80-b924-11e0-bd87-00144feabd...

"I HAVE observed few obvious subjects to have been so seldom, or, at least, so slightly handled as this; and, indeed, I know few so difficult to be treated as it ought, nor yet upon which there seemeth so much to be said." - Jonathan Swift, Hints Towards an Essay on Conversation.

http://www.bartleby.com/27/8.html

The Excito Bubba Two looks promising. Has anyone here used one?

Currently either a reviewer has 2 choices: 1. put a review on Amazon, but hand over ownership of the review. 2. put a review up on a personal blog, and maintain ownership but get no readers. Micro-formats offered a way to publish reviews and have them more easily aggregated, but haven't delivered. It is clearly a non-trivial problem.

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