thomnottom

Being confronted by a conga line of people whom you regularly speak out against is considered being attacked?

Does he really believe these vicious conga lines of diversity will stop just because he quit?

Wow, I've never heard of avocado-flower honey. What kind of flavor does it have?

You forgot to add "under mysterious circumstances".

A company still has to have money in order to operate. I would assume that even without money being the primary focus, they have to be careful about paying out too much or they will be out of business.

It seems to me that these things happen somewhat regularly in the open source community, because it was built upon that concept.

> I guess the question I raise is, given my experience "can you prove to me that I can absolutely trust you with all my data"?

But the answer to that is "no". All of the time. No matter who you are asking it about. There is always the possibility of someone - no matter how much you trust them or pay them - screwing up your data. Including yourself.

Ahh, gotcha. That makes more sense. The Lego comparison was confusing because of the existing marketplace.

Minecraft licensed to Lego a few years ago. Lego even just revealed another big set from Minecraft just this month.[0]

[0] http://shop.lego.com/en-US/The-Village-21128?icmp=SHM_21128

I read that as "searched FOR Croatia" and thought, "Man, they really do sell everything these days..."

Thinking the same thing regarding privacy.

I'm all for getting rid of passwords, but the idea of Google (and other service providers) keeping that much information on me would definitely push me to getting rid of smartphone. Yes, I know that Google, Facebook, etc. already know a lot about me. But I still have some control over it. And a lot of it are things that I can and do change over time (what they knew about me 5 years ago doesn't necessarily reflect who I am now).

Main reason I have Chrome on my boxes. I am not installing whatever zombie build of Flash still exists in the repos.

Thank you. I was sure I heard this story before and it was bugging the crap out of me trying to figure out where.

Will Microsoft be sending people over to my office free of charge to handle technical issues with regard to their store? Can I send over any questions from auditors and federal regulators concerning user access to their store?

The 2K football games were superior at the time. Then they dropped their price significantly ($20 for 2k5 after 2k4 was a success) and EA decided they couldn't compete. So that deal was signed so that they wouldn't have to. And thus I stopped buying NFL games.

Interesting that ESPN doesn't seem to mention this in the article considering their name and properties were used for the 2K games.

The main knock against KeePass for teams is that it's all or nothing. We've had to create multiple databases for different job functions, which becomes a pain to maintain. Not to mention that anyone with access to the database could make edits and you wouldn't know who.

EDIT: Just want to point out that it appears that this software allows you to define access for different members of a team, but I haven't had a chance to try it.

I assume this is not the X Window replacement from Canonical.

Thankfully I think I read this article back in '94. I seem to recall a picture of a guy holding a shotgun and the satellite dish behind him. I don't remember any of the ads...

Understood. I guess my point is that almost every data story can end with "should have had better backups" as the lesson.

Ugh, that reminded me of the story of ReiserFS and Hans Reiser [1].

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser#Murder_investigati...

And yes, I said that as someone who absolutely loves Miles Davis the musician.

To be fair, Miles Davis regularly beat his wives...

I don't see how that can be the biggest lesson. Someone at the service provider bypassed their own protocols in order to hand control of the system over to an unauthorized user. Even with local backups he would have needed to restore the servers because Namecheap royally screwed up.

Yes, you should always have more backups than you need. But wouldn't you be moving to a different provider after something like this anyway?

One of the reasons I finally gave up on Windows was the horrible way they dealt with multiple monitors - especially with Windows 8. Oddly enough I've switched to a single monitor setup anyway.

You bring up a very good point. Towns with more long term residents are going to have a lot more people who feel the need/desire/interest to get involved. I live in New Jersey, and a lot of towns are filled with more transient folk. Partly because everything is on top of each other - if I move 5 miles away I might be 2 towns over.

The result is that I never planned on living in my current town for more than a few years and we just passed our 10th anniversary. Maybe it's time to get involved!

I thought it was about ostriches. So I should probably finish my coffee...

Wait, he was using a work account on a company-owned device? I don't see how that can be called a "private message" at all.

If people are so stressed by a cellphone, maybe they should look at how they prioritize their lives. I'm not saying people HAVE to have cellphones, just that it's very easy to have something like that and not make it the center of your world. I tend to check my phone a lot - when I'm not busy. When busy, it often gets left at my desk or in my bedroom while other things are accomplished.

I'm all for getting rid of unnecessary things that clutter up your life, but it kind of sounds like he actually does need one. And he'd be better off learning that he can use it better.

It's cliche to say someone like Bowie was timeless, but it is really true in his case. He was not only ahead of his time, but he was behind his time. The man was able to find new trends but also take old and existing ones and turn them into his own.

I remember listening to Earthling for the first time and feeling those hyperkinetic d'n'b beats and thinking "How does this 50 year-old man continue to make himself so relevant?"

I tend to have momentary sadness when a celebrity I appreciate passes away, but it feels like this one will last for a bit longer.

Interesting, because I find dealing with high DPI significantly better on Ubuntu than Windows.

And Unity works well for me, my wife, and daughter.

About 30-60 minutes per day. Every couple of weeks I'll hit a point in one of the books where I'll just read the rest of it in a couple hours. Of course these numbers all depend on the books - this year did not include anything longer than 500 pages.

Also, don't get too hung up on the numbers. The past couple months were hectic and my pace has really slowed down, and that's totally fine.