Aqua_Geek

Yes, it's intents: https://developer.apple.com/sirikit/

I was having connectivity issues last night at home (Comcast). Haven't dug into it yet, though.

Yep, ultimately it boils down to "have automatic backups."

FDE further complicates things, though, as if the volume master key is corrupted everything is lost. If my hard drive dies, there's a decent chance that a data recovery shop can recover at least some of the data.

It does provide you with a recovery key, but that recovery key is useless if the file containing the volume master key is lost or corrupted (as happened here). In FileVault the recovery key is to protect you from losing your password, not from the system nuking the master key.

If the encrypted plist containing the volume master key is lost or corrupted the recovery key is as useless as your password.

More details here: https://eprint.iacr.org/2012/374.pdf

> no ability to create custom lists

What do you mean by this?

> no ability to filter based on more than their two or three meaningless filters, etc

What kinds of things would you want to filter on? (Not disagreeing, just honestly curious.)

If your company is in SF, BART will get you pretty far in an hour.

This isn't just a problem with Ruby. Our ObjC test suite for a project I work on takes about 10 min to run, too.

Re-reading the ticket:

> Chromium builds from r335874 (version 45) onwards will have hotwording disabled by default and will not download the module. There is no way to enable this feature at runtime.

So as long as you compile from source or trust your package maintainer to not enable the compile-time flag you should be good.

Sorry to raise undue alarm.

> An extension that is enabled is not the same as an extension that is actually running. To see the list of Chrome processes that are actually running, use Chrome's task manager. Hotword Triggering, as well as many other extensions will run briefly at startup. Those that are not actually being used will quit in about 10-15 seconds.

I'm sorry, what?! So I still have to trust that it's not doing anything malicious for 10-15 seconds?

I've been using the Kinesis Advantage for a little over a year now. The first few weeks are indeed amusing. It hasn't alleviated my pain entirely, but it definitely has minimized it.

I agree on the horribleness of Apple mousing devices. I still haven't made the jump to a trackball but need to. Anybody have any recommendations?

Nope. Or at least it wasn't when I applied: fill out the form, get an email with username/pwd.

There's nothing stopping anybody from doing this. Apple offers a DB dump of the store's content (including music). You could build a curation platform on top of that. They do, indeed, offer a referral fee for iTunes purchases.

I'm actually currently working on such a setup.

Somebody mentioned that trying to perform actions on the apps would error out, so it seems more like an information leakage issue.

That being said, when it come back online I'm definitely going to go through all my apps.

Agreed. I lived in Germany for about 9 months last year. I had cell service for about 15€/month. It really sucked to come back to the US and pay $100/month for worse service.

And when the pins hit the plastic part to pop it off, they often leave small, circular marks on it.

> A few seconds warning seems like it might be kind of useless for humans [...]

One of the things mentioned on the USGS site is doctors in surgery. Knowing even a couple of seconds in advance that you should pause the procedure could save lives.

It actually is integrated, but it might not support your area (the configuration file used to tell the system where it's supported might be out of date).

Characters/references from Arrested Development: Gob, Buster, StairCar…

Several garages nearby (downtown SF) are $300+/mo. That's $3600/year. Add in $1000/year for insurance and you're pretty close.

For Rails apps I use Peek: https://github.com/peek/peek

The problem with the labs is that the slots fill fast and you end up waiting in line for hours behind developers asking the most basic of questions. I really wish they'd do two conferences — one for those new to the platform and another that would be a deep dive for the experienced devs.

Maybe my math is off, but I calculated $35/mo for medium utilization m3.medium vs $32/mo for heavy utilization. In that case, I don't think a heavy utilization reservation makes sense but a medium utilization reservation still might (as you're saving ~$20/mo over on-demand).

I thought it was weird until he mentioned the blackmail. DDoS-ing for the lulz is one thing, doing it and then blackmailing the victim to get it to stop is a whole other level.

Somehow I don't really see Apple integrating TestFlight into the iTunes Connect mess of an ecosystem.

California isn't exactly a shining beacon of problem solving.

Janky way around it: bundle your assets separately and put them on S3. It's a crappy user experience, to be sure, but it at least doesn't waste disk space. Granted, you can't do that with all your assets (default.png and icons).

I'm not saying that Apple doesn't need to fix this, but there are some other approaches.

iOS has support for something called XPC. IIRC, it's how the mail composer, etc is invoked by apps (behind the scenes). I'd be very surprised if the API isn't made public in the next version of iOS, which would help facilitate some of these things - it would at least allow easier app-to-app integration.

More info: http://oleb.net/blog/2012/10/remote-view-controllers-in-ios-...

Not detracting from the feeling that it looks really hard to do, but I think some people are just wired to think about this kind of stuff naturally — for them, it's more of a sense of how things should be framed than a second-by-second analytical breakdown.

Isn't the interchange fee higher on some rewards cards?