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All you need is a bad connecting flight through Dubai and you're in the poop.

For this kind of scenario, I have a 2011ish MB Air that is too small to do anything (4gb RAM) and gets re-puppeted fairly frequently to test the system. When I worked in China, I took my iPad, Bluetooth keyboard, and strongvpn account.

As another old person, I blame the shift from "mea culpa" to "my bad."

One is used when genuinely accepting responsibility and the other is used like a wave after cutting someone off in traffic.

The answer is to reintroduce the classics into the educational system. Cursive, too.

"On a second note I'm also curious as to what exactly you're referring to when you say he has the credibility that should make us know that he isn't sexist. I'm not saying he is sexist, I'm just saying that all of his credibility lies in making good business decisions, not gender relations."

I agree. This willful blindness to bias and prejudice because smart people are not biased or prejudiced prevents us from examining our thoughts and behavior.

Slap that on a Truly Ergonomic keyboard (https://www.trulyergonomic.com) and you're living my life. Do it all at once and type 4 wpm for a month.

(I have the older "international" version with a number of blank keys. I remapped the left space bar to command and the lower left dead key to hyper. Tapping either shift of course generates a paren.)

There's a horrid and eroding legal concept called a "reasonable expectation of privacy."

Unfortunately, it is not referred to in the positive in most cases. On the contrary, it is invoked in the negative based on some legal precedent that eliminates that "reasonable expectation."

Time to extend writegood-mode (https://github.com/bnbeckwith/writegood-mode) to use NSLinguisticTagger (http://nshipster.com/nslinguistictagger/ and of course https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...).

Yes, but the nice thing about iOS 7 is that it reboots much faster.

Maybe your brain doesn't need sleep because of nvidia drivers, but please do not so easily dismiss those who do.

I like the discounts and free shipping as web merchants try to boost their numbers for the year. :-)

I live in a neighborhood where UPS drivers are not permitted to deliver after dusk (see: Google Bus Attack). It's a local policy, so the tracking status will show that my packages (in last year's case, a retina MBP) would arrive by 7pm.

There's that moment when you feel the chill in your bones; a lone mourning dove flaps its wings in a bare-branched tree. You're sitting on the front steps of your house to prevent the dreaded door tag when you realize you've invested far too much into acquisitions and material goods and the international supply chain.

I would recommend that anyone else reading this take note: you need someone on the board who is your ally. You can't let your partner fill it with his own people.

A bigger kern on the 'f' in 'future' would create a ligature. I suspect the web font and, more importantly, the HTML creator would not perform the substitution.

What do you want this site to be?

Is the site you want one that is supportive of new ventures?

Straw men aside, civil and humane responses will encourage more of the great "look what I'm building," posts and culture that many people miss from the old HN.

There's so much thoughtless "no one wants that" type feedback that could be put into more constructive advice or elicitation of marketability.

Living on the street where this took place (albeit over 50 blocks away), this is definitely not the case in Oakland. New housing generally replaces really poorly constructed old housing that has fallen into dilapidation.

"Improving" the houses in a neighborhood almost always increases the value of other houses in the area.

Whether this creates a class disadvantage through displacement or a reduction of affordable housing is another issue, but blaming conservative property owners is not an accurate motivation. The transfer taxes[1] on housing turnover supplied a great portion of Oakland's revenue during the bubble. Given that Oakland has a weak retail (and therefore, sales tax) market, it really needs real estate to pick up.

[1] http://www.acgov.org/auditor/clerk/transfertax.htm

I don't want Christmas presents because I'm Jewish. But donate to http://www.charitywater.org anyway.

> Ironically, I actually terminated my career as a software developer because I was developing RSI and found the work rather unsatisfying (despite really enjoying programming work in general). Working as a tradesman has so far proven to be far more satisfying and far better for my health - plus it leaves me free to work on my own projects after hours rather than forcing me to leave them unfinished since I already spent a full day working inside.

I'm not sure this is really that ironic. Sitting in a chair for 8-14+ hours a day, focusing 25" in front of your face, slouching, pushing your hands into an unnatural position and tweaking your ligaments and tendons, and being stressed about maintaining a level of production is exactly what I would prescribe for physical degeneration.

Throw poor nutrition and little to no exercise in the mix and it's amazing how atrophied the back muscles get. Constant headaches from misusing the trapeziuseseseses and other muscles around c7, lower back pain, pain between the shoulders, this is all the type of back pain that gets "blue collar" workers depending on various analgesics and narcotics.

The fact that it's preventable is especially worrisome, as it's just as hazardous as shorting live voltage down your arm. You're trained to be cognizant of the risks and developers are not.

Indeed. However, you tell a rape joke about women and someone should (and very likely will) tell you that it's not funny.

Comments like,"Don't drop the soap," are so benign in our culture that you would have to be in a hypersensitized environment to be concerned about repercussions of any sort.

How many people feel as if justice is served when a male prisoner is raped to death, à la Jeffrey Dahmer. In fact, many would not call Dahmer's homicide a rape, but switching genders would absolutely qualify it as such.

I'm sounding as if I'm on a soapbox about this, but I'm not defending female rape in any way or the power imbalance of gender in most of the world.

There is a mechanism in place in almost any country to regulate aviation based on location, craft capabilities, and operator certification based on supervised experience.

Male prison rape is a joking matter in many places. "Pound me in the ass prison" is well-known in the hacker community.

Think before you react.

This is bouncing against the perpetual "code as text" problem.

Put the tests and docs in with the code and you end up going into "scanning" mode. The actionable information density per character is lower.

Put the tests and docs outside the code and you (or that obnoxious guy who just changed > to >=) don't update the tests or the docs. In the worst case (cough functional web tests) people tend to disable the tests because it's too much work to get them to conform to the changes and everyone is on fire and babies are dying and this needs to be done in production now.

A more rigorous stack-rank-and-yank may be appropriate in this situation. :-)

A big part of the problem is that current researchers did have to manage their programming, IT, etc. during undergrad, grad, and post-doc periods. They did a lot of hacking with C, Perl, and Maple/MATLAB/etc.

As with many managers who were promoted because they were stellar engineers, those skills fade but they continue to think that they are qualified to judge the difficulty of the work. The fact that they have "done it"[1] before leads to a logically incorrect assumption that it's not that difficult.

After all, they learned those things on their own while thinking about the tough stuff.

[1] Except for, of course, in a predictable, repeatable, safe, auditable, etc. way with fifty other users asking for high priority changes.

Thanks for coming back for that. I was scratching my head trying to figure out if there was some horrid route cruise ships took to get to the Mediterranean from Florida that involved them not going into the Atlantic.

"And then everyone gets out to help carry the ship over the Darien Gap..." or possibly,"Shackleton, the adventure."

It's always difficult, especially for smaller jewelers in the US. We were lucky for several years with sapphire production, allowing us to have sapphire crystals and display backs in watches for very low prices. Pivots have started to move up in price, enough that it's almost worthwhile to do your own bushing (which is fun anyway).

Now you're seeing "mineral glass" back on the upswing in lower priced watches.

Leica started using sapphire for the cover on its displays on the M9p and M8.2 cameras a few years ago, so I'm sure that general industrial consumption has increased among manufacturers producing long-lived products with LCD displays in dusty/sandy/etc. environments.

Genius my ass!

We read the source code, reverse-engineered existing applications and hardware, wrote test harnesses, and implemented things ourselves. :-)

You can generalize that to "many people love making less experienced or knowledgable people feel dumb."

Feel free to add qualifiers such as "experts", "position of authority", "newcomers", and "it's tradition!"

Why is that flag not persistent? It drives me crazy, along with the "store junk on server" flag. I'm tempted to write a user launchagent that just keeps setting the flag every minute.

I've filed radars against both of them but of course never hear back, as it's undoubtedly a dup.

I was trying to remember the rant you refer to as well. I vaguely recall the core being that Mark Crispin's[1] RFCs were internally inconsistent, such that it was impossible to implement a standards-compliant IMAP server.

Of course, UW-IMAP preceded the RFCs, so there was already a "reference implementation" against which other implementations could be compared and found wanting. Mark was especially obnoxious about protecting his view of IMAP.

This was a weird time at the UofW. We had a hypertext system (UWIN) that was a mess and HTTP was banned as a server technology. Run a webserver for any reason, and disusering was a very real threat. They may have allowed gopher, but it's been a while.

PINE, of course, came out of this, which wasn't too bad, as it inspired a number of decent successors.

Best of all, Ada was the pedagogical programming language for the computer science program. Fortunately, you never used it past the second-semester CS course.

[1] I just found out that he passed away late last year.

Rebooting works as well, as does the usual shell updating.

$ sudo defaults write /Library/Mail/Bundles/GPGMail.mailbundle/Contents/Info.plist SupportedPluginCompatibilityUUIDs -array-add "$(grep -A 1 "PluginCompatibilityUUID" /Applications/Mail.app/Contents/Info.plist | grep string | cut -f 2 -d ">" | cut -f 1 -d "<")"

$ sudo chmod 644 /Library/Mail/Bundles/GPGMail.mailbundle/Contents/Info.plist

The issue is that each version of Mail checks the available plugins for an explicit PluginCompatibilityUUID, which changes with each build. GPGTools 2 has updated its list on reboot (and install) since the beta stages, so if you're on a recent version, you should be good.

While some of the procedures may fall under malpractice (multiple enemas, surgical sedation without consent), they're definitely violations of the AMA's professional conduct and ethics oaths.

In re the billing, it's probably an automatic thing from the hospital itself, rather than the physicians.

Attorneys had to be falling over each other trying to get to this client.