stevecat

You have to pass a loop of wire up your nose.

We call them indicators in the UK now.

I switch between Ruby and C++ frequently. My trick, which I admit is complete unplanned fluke, is different IDEs. Sublime for Ruby and XCode for C++. They look so different that my brain just disregards the other language. I briefly tried Ruby in XCode and nothing made any sense.

Assuming you don't want to install multiple editors, perhaps different colour schemes might produce something similar in your brain.

I feel like the words "3dfx Voodoo Banshee" just unlocked a part of my brain, full of IRQ conflicts and blue screens, that I had been keeping firmly closed.

I think the people I'd put in "Group D" would be the ones that respond immediately and expect an ongoing conversation. I can't imagine reaching out once a year to confirm we're both still alive!

Delphi was my first introduction to programming with Borland Delphi 3 on a magazine coverdisc before we had the internet. At 12 years old and just getting into computers, I considered .exe applications with their lovely grey components to be so professional and unattainable that the ability to build my own was mind-blowing. A few years later, I had some of my freeware that I'd built in Delphi featured on that same magazine's coverdisc!

I eventually went down the web development route but I've recently, via Arduino, learnt C/C++, and am enjoying desktop development again. Compiling is exciting!

I love my 12" Macbook, I'm using it to write this reply, but goodness is the keyboard awful. I have a can of compressed air at hand at all times to blast the keys when they get stuck.

I'm about to (if the shipping notification is anything to go by) upgrade to a 14" MBP but I really hope Apple release something in this size again. It's such a pleasant laptop to use; I even work on my (2D) C++ video game on it.

Yep! E71, E72, and E6 were some of my most loved phones. My love of that form factor meant that my first foray into Android was the HTC ChaCha - that was a mistake.

The privacy controls in-app are pretty good with regards to who you share your posts with, etc. but I don't think that's the same type of privacy that causes people to leave.

Something seems to remain on their servers though.

I own a very short gmail.com address which I'm (far too) proud of but it does receive a lot of other people's mail; there are apparently a lot of people called Steve who don't understand how email addresses work.

Someone created and then permanently deleted a Facebook account with my address. Which has permanently locked me out of ever using my email address with Facebook (they block +alias addresses and gmail/googlemail.com too). I use Facebook casually to keep in touch with family/friends and have had to keep an old email account alive just for it. Facebook support are no help.

/rant

I drove a friend's (new) Mini recently and it was somehow larger than my Polo but also had less room on the inside.

More likely on Apollo 10 https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/5...

I'm probably underselling it but for me, markdown support and note organisation simply reflecting the directory structure is what sold me. I can then sync it whichever way I want; I've taken to having a "notes" folder in each project and including it in the Git repository. The notes are then browsable on GitHub too.

I've spent a lot of time trying to find my "perfect" note taking app, and have attempted to build my own a few times, and I'm very happy with Obsidian.

I think it was around 2013 that I paid a busker with Bitcoin (their suggestion, not mine, I'm not that weird). That briefly felt like the future.

I hope he hung onto it!

I'm a mammal.

All Is Lost[1] follows Robert Redford after a floating shipping container crashes into his yacht. It's very good but a rather harrowing film!

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2017038/

I still use Notepad and TextEdit throughout my day. Sometimes I just need to quickly note something down.

Do you mean Google Safe Browsing? If so, it looks like the URLs are hashed which preserves some privacy. So if you hit an unsafe URL, you can assume that the folks maintaining the list would know which URL you actually hit, but otherwise you're just sending a hash.

More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Safe_Browsing#Privacy

The Nokia E72 was my favourite phone form-factor. I really wanted to try Android but was so resistive to keyboardless-phones that I bought a HTC ChaCha, regretted it immediately, and finally relented. I still miss a keyboard.

They were pushing in-app for customers to invest. I hope no inexperienced investors got burnt by this. It wasn't a really a surprise as others have mentioned.

If you work with branches, can you merge with the --squash option? This makes one neat commit on your default branch. You could even then commit without the -m option, and type a more descriptive multi-line commit message detailing the changes you've made.

I only work on little solo projects and this is what I'm doing. It makes a very readable history, and helps me answer "why on earth did I do that?", but it's harder to revert small changes later.

If I'm working with others, I try to match my committing style to the project.

I've used these apps before in the UK, and it is great being able to generate a ticket offline, but it appears they've achieved that by including the private keys in the app. Oh dear.

Would there be any fool proof alternative to allow for offline ticket creation in a mobile app when that app can be reverse engineered?

I did not expect tripod.com to still exist.