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It looks like this is an alternative to homebrew, with pkgsrc providing all binaries and brew doing compilations for many packages (I know homebrew can do binaries using "Cask").

Is one obviously better than the other for a typical dev? Pkgsrc certainly has a long history, but I haven't worked with a *BSD in about 15 years.

The web site makes it sound pretty good[1].

Edit: pkgsrc, no surprise, also let's you build from source.

[1] https://pkgsrc.joyent.com/install-on-osx/

> What I'm wondering is, was the object a Magnetar, prior to the Supernova?

From what I gathered, a Magnetar is a type of neutron star, and a neutron star is formed from the gravitational collapse after a supernova. About 10% of supernovas become magnetars (src: wikipedia, so... ;)

I remember many years ago the iTunes player had to include an option for "humanizing" the randomness of their shuffle play (or whatever they called it).

Turns out that good randomness didn't seem random to people. They might hear three songs in a row from the same album and think "that's not right, it should be random!" Of course, humans often have a different idea of what "random" is.

I can second neocities.org. I only have one site hosted there but it's fast, free, easy, and supports having your own domain name.

Pretty cool, nice work. I've done traditional regex for so long that reading the regex version of the url example was faster for me than reading the Xeger code. But, I know regex gives a lot of people trouble, and this provides a great alternative.

Even though I'm comfortable with regex, I actually like this method. Seems like it would be less prone to errors when creating a complex regex.

Even if ads could cover the costs+, they might not want to have a lot of people to get the mindset of Slack==Ads. For many of those users, the ad-laden version of Slack might be their first impression of Slack.

According to the Redis support page, Pivotal sponsors Redis and they provide commercial support services for it.

Although, to be honest, the page linked from the Redis site (http://www.pivotal.io/big-data/redis) doesn't seem to have much to say on the matter. Looks like an ad for their cloud platform, and I wouldn't have guessed they offer support for Redis itself.

I know, I'm a little late to this party, but just in case anyone is still around... :)

For me, mounting my local app files as a volume is useful during development since it keeps the workflow fast. I don't have to rebuild the image every time I want to try the app out, I get to use the new code without delay.

If I were deploying as a container, I presume my build process would check the app out of git and build the image based on that fresh checkout. I'm just using Docker as a convenient way of simulating my production environment (dev'ing on Ubuntu 15.04, but deploying to Debian 7), and still be able to iterate rapidly.

True. They do have a classification of Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS). Not the same thing as "perfectly safe", but I'm guessing that's what they probably meant.

If that were the case, wouldn't that mean that the moment a black hole is formed, it would never become any larger? How have super-massive black holes formed in less than 14 billion years?

In my case, I was just trying to get a simple copy of the map image. Since the map is made up of a grid of smaller images (and besides, google intercepts the right click), I can't just right click and save as. So, I would just go to the print version to get access to the map as a single image I can right click on.

I just visited another google map page and even after this discussion, I still don't see where I can get to the printer-friendly page. Does it even exist anymore?

I"m glad I'm not the only one. I couldn't find where the print option went a couple of days ago and was feeling kind of embarrassed. After less than a minute of looking around without finding it, I just headed over to Bing maps and got it done.

I got the feeling that he was pointing out "a lot" as quite an understatement :)

The topic is also covered pretty well in the book "Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy" by David D. Burns. I think it helps to recognize or understand some of these behaviors when there's someone in your life that has these kind of thoughts.

Just because you're price sensitive, that doesn't mean that you'll buy something you don't want, just because it's cheaper than what you do want.

There's been plenty of research that shows most people are more interested in lower prices than making some sort of social statement.

Let's not forget Assault on Precinct 13 (www.imdb.com/title/tt0074156/) and Christine (www.imdb.com/title/tt0085333/) :)

Long "a" or short "a"? ;)

I don't remember who authored the following, but I thought it was amusing enough years ago to toss it into my interesting-quotes.txt:

I recall reading a science fiction story that involved the first human spaceship to reach the edge of the universe. When they tried to go through they bounced off, it was impenatrable.

Then we cut to 2 higher dimensional beings, and one says, "On that run it took life only 14.7 gigayears to reach the edge."

The other one says, "Great! Let's do another run. Sterilize the medium."

Interesting site, but it took a little effort to view. When visiting the site via Firefox and Adblock Plus, the site renders as just an empty page.

That's kind of how a lot of new products are named, in and out of tech. It can be difficult to create a new word that's agreeable in the way it sounds, and preferably carries a little meaning tied to the product.

The search engine issue is a very real problem, I agree. Like in the early days of the Go programming language. Eventually the indexes got better, especially if you gave a little more context to the search (ie. "http client libraries for go"). And, of course, learning early on that it was going to be a known problem so I started using golang in my searches.

I'm using Ghostery, too, but mine is only showing 8 blocked. Are you still seeing 104?