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As someone who commutes via bike to work, this terrifies me.

I use Quiver (http://happenapps.com)

Latex, markdown, code cells with full syntax highlighting for dozens of languages. File format is JSON based so an entire work notebook can be thrown in version control and shared between a team.

Let's not forget that it isn't just one policy agency wanting to buy these.

It's every single department, in every single city, in every single state.

That's thousands, if not tens of thousands, of departments buying these when they'll all be useless as soon as Apple patches the exploit.

Seems like a whole lot of wasted money. But who knows, they might just catch enough "big bad Marijuana dealers" to offset the cost.

That's what the LEO really means by cold cases. Nothing important. Just more drug busts.

$36 yearly $3 monthly $.75 weekly $.10 daily

So, um....

I can literally walk around SF for 5 minutes and find a dime on the ground and then pay for 1Password.

How in the world is that too expensive?

Sigh.

Yet another Rent-A-Car service that people won't use. I'm tired of these countless companies taking up reserved spots in parking lots.

Edit: I ride my bike to BART and use it to get into the city 90% of the time. However, it's been raining a lot in SF recently so I've been forced to drive a couple days. Literally half the available spots at my parking lot of choice are reserved for these services. Most of the time they are empty.

I would still be using Facebook if it was the case where they only have what we give it.

But that isn't reality. What Facebook actually does is purchase data from hundreds, maybe thousands, of other sources and tie that to your account.

They follow you around the web with their tracking cookies and save every website that happens to have a Facebook widget.

They alter your timeline to conduct psychology experiments.

They use other people's data to build a shadow profile of you, even if you don't have a FB Aaccount. For example, building your graph of friends based on the contacts that other people upload.

I could go on if I thought harder, but those are just the ones that come to mind first.

I feel the lawsuit has merit because Facebook acted in bad-faith with the permissions that they were given.

For example, if I say yes to the "Allow Facebook to access your pictures" prompt when I want to send a single picture to a group chat, then I expect Facebook to simply use the permission to accomplish the task I wanted to do and send the single picture.

Instead Facebook takes that permission, scans every single picture on my phone and sends back data so Facebook can do facial recognition or any other type of image analysis.

We give Facebook an inch and they are taking miles.

Structural engineers are liable if the building they design collapses. I don't see why software engineers in safety-critical fields should be any different.

"The engineers employed by Jack D. Gillum and Associates who had "approved" the final drawings were found culpable of gross negligence, misconduct and unprofessional conduct in the practice of engineering by the Missouri Board of Architects, Professional Engineers, and Land Surveyors. Even though they were acquitted of all crimes that they were initially charged with, they all lost their respective engineering licenses in the states of Missouri, Kansas and Texas and their membership with ASCE.[22] Although the company of Jack D. Gillum and Associates was discharged of criminal negligence, it lost its license to be an engineering firm." - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyatt_Regency_walkway_collap...

Look, we understand.

"If the company is paying for a service they have every right to view everything the employees are doing with the service"

But it's still a huge fucking breach of privacy and I my opinion of my company would be shattered if I found out they actually were reading through people's DMs. I simply wouldn't want to work for that place.

Microsoft Outlook for Mac has yet another DST related bug.

This time, all calendar events will start an hour late on the week of the 11th if you a) have the week to start on Sunday and b) use the 7 day a week calendar

It's been fun having to communicate this with all my clients.

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/office/en-US/a43...

Why comment at all if you're simply going to ignore the article and advertise something else?

Then don't get an Android phone?

UC Merced's chancellor's pay doubled over a 2-3 year span from 200k per year to 400k.

They don't have a problem getting the money to retain talent, they just don't think paying faculty well is worth it

I think what the comment was trying to say is that there is only one way to get an Apple experience and that's to buy Apple products.

For example, I can use Office on my Mac while I can't use Pages/Numbers/Keynote on my Windows desktop.

That's because the Central Valley is basically as conservative as any Southern state.

It's the main reason why I left there to move to the bay. I just couldn't handle their politics anymore.

You sound like a reasonable person

I'd argue anything from that domain isn't really trustworthy. Especially since the first thing it asked me to do was subscribe to their newsletter and participate in their contests.

The quality of TV is atonishingly terrible these days.

Back when I was a kid I would watch countless documentaries on Animal Planet, Discovery, History, Science, and TLC. Now literally all they show are reality shows.

This is huge! I work for an IT consulting firm and we have accounts for each client which I store in their unique chrome profiles. Keeps things organized but switching between windows can get tedious at times so having them per-tab is making me switch back to Firefox

The system Apple is using is leaps and bounds better than whatever 2d sensor was in that old Android phone

I want to switch to Firefox because, lately, I've been trying to lessen my dependence on Google and Google services. All I need is a method to easily switch browser profiles!

Until Firefox has a method to easily switch between profiles, I'll stick with Chrome.

I have a few different clients that I have seperate logins for and I like to keep all that completely separate while still only using a single browser.

I don't know why people are trusting the checking service since it was built by the same company that leaked the damn info in the first place.

This isn't even taking into account that it's a bare metal WordPress installation with a shitty (aka, free) ssl certificate

That's not them having trouble with the UI/UX, that's them flat out now knowing any sort of fundamental computer usage patterns.

I just got a cat and magsafe has saved my 2015 MBP more times than I can count

Amazon's last laugh will be when the average consumer gets used to their innovative "checkout-less shopping experience" and forces the smaller B+M retailers to license the technology or risk going out of business.

You lost me at "provide safe places" because it's apparent what kind of bias you have

No it's just the only meaningful way to get a raise is to switch jobs

Twitter could just ban Trump but Twitter needs Trump more than Trump needs Twitter so it'll never happen

This may be an unpopular opinion but I really want there to be leagues with no rules on performance enhancing substances just to see what the human body is ultimately capable of.

Michele Ferrari is pretty despised in the cycling scene but the research he was doing really highlighted what's possible with sports science