zyrthofar

That's good to know, thank you!

Thank you, I'll check that!

If your password manager gets compromised, sure, but if someone gets access to a website's database with password hashes, the 2fa is a pretty big part that they're missing.

Twilio indeed! I also have Digital Ocean and SendGrid on my own list, which are written by developers for developers.

I was about to switch in a couple of weeks, until I read your comment.

How would encrypted emails work in a client like Thunderbird? Would it normally be handled correctly if POP/IMAP was available?

I use Ruby on Rails professionally and personally, and it addresses most of your features very easily (with Devise being a popular auth system that can be added).

Ruby follows duck-typing, so variables are not typed. If that was a strong point for you, Ruby might not be what you need.

I'm not quite sure about the admin UI (I usually use the rails console when I have things to change), though, but there's probably a gem that does exactly that (?).

Ruby on Rails is very powerful and intuitive, and I'll miss it if/when I change jobs and have to use some other language.

Edit:

> [...] so variables are not typed.

I might have used the wrong words... Ruby is dynamic, strongly typed. Variables are not limited to a certain type after they are created, and can change anytime.

But wouldn't that mean that you and your SO would inherit these debts when she dies, and there's nothing you can do about this? That's truly awful :(.

There are so many apps that I can't uninstall on my Galaxy S3... That alone makes me want to have something else.

Also, I use google's keyboard, but once in a while, samsung puts back theirs (after an update or whatever), and it infuriates me.

Samsung _does_ get in my way, but it's possible it's because I have an old phone and the newer ones are better at this.

I've heard some good and bad reviews about system76 and zareason. I'm currently considering the Librem 13 on https://puri.sm/ for when they come out in october.

I love "The Five Love Languages". It helped me understand why my past relationships had failed, that neither them nor me were at fault. We just didn't speak the other's language.

I have a Galaxy S3, and it was rebooting randomly more and more often. At the time, I lived in an apartment. I bought a house earlier this year, and to my knowledge (and memory) this hasn't happened again since.

What you said reminded me of this, because I had forgotten this infuriating rebooting. I wonder if this was related to the building or something else? This is weird.

Honest question: why wouldn't they just get up earlier, instead of implementing a system that affects everyone?

The fuss is about the data sent to Facebook's servers for "identification". You can make the decision to post it or not, but Facebook knows it in either case.

Exactly the same here. I feel (and hope) that this is how most of couples work, but we only hear about the loud and paranoid ones.

You can go even further.

142 + 857 = 999; 9 + 9 + 9 = 27; 2 + 7 = 9

14 + 28 + 57 = 99; 9 + 9 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9

1 + 4 + 2 + 8 + 5 + 7 = 27; 2 + 7 = 9

Also,

1428 + 57 = 1485; 1 + 4 + 8 + 5 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9

14 + 2857 = 2871; 2 + 8 + 7 + 1 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9

1 + 42857 = 42858; 4 + 2 + 8 + 5 + 8 = 27; 2 + 7 = 9

1 + 42857 = 42858; 42 + 858 = 900; 9 + 0 + 0 = 9

This is kinda creepy. I wasn't really expecting the "also" additions to work.

I like to think that we evolved sleep because it's better, in the wild, to be still and silent in the dark, than move around and make noise.

Since we can barely see in the dark and can't do anything anyway, wouldn't it be preferable to minimize the time spent defenseless against predators with better night vision? Staying still seems like a good strategy a lot of times, when most animal visions, night vision or not, is based on movement.

It doesn't answer, though, why the top of the food chain need to sleep too.

> Only available in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland

Is there a reason for this, or is this simply to slow down the demand until they make it available in other countries?

It seems to me the "official" Ubuntu phones (from Meizu and BQ) are reluctant to come to the North American market.

Sounds nice!

But... Maybe it's just a pet peeve of mine, but seeing, twice, images/videos of gears that wouldn't work, is irritating. Such a mistake doesn't look professional to me.

Recording financial transactions has everything to do with centralization, when only a handful of companies control world-wide purchases.

These new electronic currencies are inherently untied from anything. What happens when the same handful of companies control them also?

Wasn't it Russia who was denied its own credit card by the same US companies? That's way too much power to have over the world. If we finally have a chance to decentralize some of these transactions, to remove some of that power they currently have, we certainly should take that chance.

Isn't that exactly what we shouldn't want, that the credit card companies also record our financial transactions made via a currency created to be decentralized?

This basically ends as a bit of convenience for us, at the cost of them keeping the near monopoly on world-wide transactions...

What's the point of bitcoins if VISA, MasterCard, etc. still know everything we buy world-wide, conveniently accessible in their databases?

Oh ok, rows 3 and 6 are identical. I feel stupid now.

I didn't have any three-in-a-rows, nor identical rows. What rule are you referring to?

I got a similar thing - a different valid permutation than the "official" one.

http://i.imgur.com/yzD9qFL.png

I always found this video of Bill Nye http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97Ob0xR0Ut8 disturbing, in the sense that even our own star is incredibly tiny compared to the distances to its planets.

Bringing the solar system to a 1920px screen, I would assume that not even the sun would be visible...

Way back, I found out that there are an infinity of such patterns. I was really awed by that!

http://blog.zyrthofar.com/2012/07/multiplying-recurring-deci...

If you have a startup that you care about, at the end of the day it isn't all about money.

Thanks for the healthy dose of optimism and realism :). I'll keep that in mind.

Good point.

It's no indication, but it would generate fear and doubt when I code. What if the code I'm writing right now is patented by some company taking advantage of a system, with resources searching everywhere just to sue? I probably wouldn't, but I could become paranoiac because of this, looking on the internet to find if I am infringing patents, instead of being productive.

It's true 1.36% seems like nothing, but for a small company, it could mean a lot. Plus, it would be heart-breaking (or even outraging) to know that a program I made on my own, with no knowledge about some software patent, nor ill intention, gives money to someone that has nothing to do with it.

And, as you mention, legal costs, time wasted and stress could easily be real threats to a startup.

As a programmer, this is exactly what I fear.

It is also why I will not create a startup company, and have my dream crash because of a failed and corrupt system.