ElongatedTowel

It is my understanding (never smoked myself nor owned any ficus that lived for more than a week) that growing quality plants is actually a very complicated process which takes up a lot of space, requires adequate lighting which in itself is hard to conceil, spacy, as well consuming a lot of power. I doubt suburban kids could be that deep into it.

I mean, just look at what some people are doing in terms of selfbrewed beers and stuff. That is hightech meticulously planned do it yourself machinery and botany.

I find the way I use software to be very different from the way most people I know do. And then there is the Apple crowd which seems to be huge especially in the world of webdesign and development, but is absolutely foreign to me.

I have one idea for a tool which I use maybe once a month. What drives me nuts is that I need to install something do to this one thing just once a month and I usually end up with something that doesn't work quite right. Or it's a different tool than I used the last time because I usually throw it away after using it. But then I ask myself, if even 10k people have the same problem, are the 300 views a day even enough to pay for hosting?

I'm a builder, not a seller. And I think a lot of people have that problem. With no real insight on the monetary and marketing part of the equation it is hard to jump from "I use it sometimes" to "Other people need it too and often enough".

How do you choose a name for anything anyway? From company names to personal blogs, naming them is a fruitless exercise. In the end you're trying to be clever but instead you end up with something that means wang in vietnamese or is inspired by a straight quote from a line in a book you think fits your character but is really something that speaks to a hundred million people, which is the exact same number of people who read the book in the first place. Then it sounds either obscure or cheesy.

0. I have everything in a text file because I still haven't found a solution that is easy to use, fast to use, allows tagging and a navigation that makes sense.

I don't care much about synchronisation, but most bookmarking service providers seem to care little about anything else with a few exceptions like thumbnails or backups.

I've had a few ideas of how to change that but there are some edge cases that are probably hard to solve (massive usage of tagging combined with ajaxified access would probably require quite the infrastructure, thumbnail support for a lot of websites is both extensive and requires worker queues/communication, latency ruins benefit of search-as-you-type).

I hope some day I will be able to tag all open pages into a temporary holding place, lasso all I want to keep and drag & drop the whole bundle into preconfigured places (like development, python, javascript) which then automatically tags them accordingly. And if there are some pictures in there I want to be able to zoom in seemlessly to take a better look at what I'm tagging. Then I open the sidebar, take the cat box from the shelve and I have a workdesk of hundreds of cat pictures which I can shuffle, sort by name, color or date, zoom into or stuff in another new box called favorites. Then I remember I need to do some work and type "de py b" and it recognizes that I want to take a look at all bookmarks tagged development, python, blog because there was something I wanted to read but I forgot the name of the page. Another click on sort-by-date and I'm sure I will find it.

Do many people need such features? I don't know. But it sounds amazing in my head and also fast enough to be of use, because if I have to navigate trough menus, type out the tags, or do the same thing a hundred times to tag a hundred pictures I might as well google for it and stuff the pictures into some session or even download them instead.

I'd say that syntax/completion scripts are an exception as they are pretty much mandatory if you're writing code in a language that hasn't made it's way into the official release (and to be frank, there are a lot of gaps).

Far too many. Some I'm using maybe every twentieth time I start vim, but whenever I throw them out I suddenly need them...

vim-easymotion - Jump to positions easily (I still use the mouse too often)

vim-powerline - Prettier and more customizable display of useful data and the mode we're in

vim-supertab - Still fails me too often but I'm having it set to omnicomplete most of the time

minibufexpl - Old but I don't like the way the tabs works

ctrlp - Good fuzzy finder. Not sure if it's the best, but it doesn't require compiling Ruby extensions and weird crap

Gundo - Tames the undo tree

ack.vim - Integrates ack to search in files more easily

vim-css-color - Love this one. Underlays color values with the actual color

And other stuff like syntax for YAML, Jinja2 and HTML5.

Thanks. That's an acceptable price for a mailbox.

I'd like to get away from Google. And since they don't offer any more free accounts they offer nothing special, except the large amount of apps like calendars and stuff, which I don't need at all.

My home IP isn't static which would make that a bit more complicated and add the cost of a dyndns account or something similar.

Moment.js is pretty useful if you do it client side.

I know this happens with every animal bred for food production, but I was taken aback when I've read that those roaches can live up to two years. If I had a choice I would want the animals I keep to live at least a greater part of their lifespan before killing them.

[edit] Nevermind, found it. Seems to have been removed and brought back a few versions ago. Neither as useful nor as visually impressive as the Windows version though.

No I meant Xfce. I can't find that function. Are you refering to sorting by rules? I mean ordering windows by drag and drop. As far as I know no window manager or desktop environment allows that except the Windows desktop. It even does it in an very elegant way.

If I have VirtualBox open and a machine running I can drag both windows in the taskbar together and say, position them behind my browser.

I'ts weird to say this, but I actually quite like the interface of Windows Vista and up. Xfce and the likes always were enough for me. But there is one tiny little feature I miss. Sortable windows on the taskbar.

I guess one day I have to write my own window manager and taskbar adding to the huge amount of stuff that's already out there.

If only there wasn't a minimum of five mailboxes.

The amount of weight one gains due to medical problems seems to be overestimated. I mean, there are medications out there that will hammer your metabolism. But then again, your average guy with Hypothyroidism, high blood pressure and below average testosterone levels won't take such medications.

A friend of mine has Hypothyroidism and he attributes gaining nearly 100 lbs to that because his doctor told him that might be the effect of it beeing not treated for so long.

I find that pretty silly. It may add some water weight and another 10 lbs due to that and skew the balance between lean body mass and fat. But the body has to follow the laws of physics and adding 100 lbs of mass in fat requires massive amounts of calories above your daily expenditure for extended periods of time.

What do you suggest one should keep an eye on to stay relevant in the future?

Wouldn't that be an interesting business opportunity? While both Github and Bitbucket offer privat repositories both free and paid, non of them can be shared or viewed without additional accounts and management.

If one could host or upload repositories which are private but can be viewed read-only by the means of a password, or a passphrase shared via mail, that would be great.

Although I wonder if a recruiter would even go trough the hassle of entering a password you provided on your resume.

Agreed, I misread. I usually play games where the giveaway is both the name and the character, which I guess most people try to match.

Surely there where a few people who thought I was female and surely they were behaving differently. But I think that's true for a lot of people playing those games regardless of what gender they think they're playing against. It can be nonsense and obscenities through and through.

Oh, I misread. Well, my point still stands in other games were the sex is only given away by the character.

Nonsense, a lot of male players play with female characters. No one who played such games for longer than a week would even assume you're female based on your character.

No, apart from alcohol I've never taken anything.

As far as I know they do. See here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon

But I see it everywhere and probably far more pronounced than what is described in the article.

I've became aware of it about 15 years ago, so it would probably have already killed me if it was anything like that.

I wonder how that is connected to phenomena like visual snow. Many people including me see similar effects not only in dark environments but troughout the day. Some resembling swarms of color, some seeing snow or something that resembles television static. For me there is no evenly colored surface anymore because a very faint swarm of colors washes over them.

It affects my vision rather negatively and the darkness magnifies the effect immensely making it hard for me to be aware of the countours of objects.

There are forums on the net were people experiment with various drugs with bizarre effects, spontaneous healing or no improvement at all were others see immediate effects.

My doctor send me to the optometrist, his assistant wondered why he didn't send me to a neurologist, the optometrist dismissed it because there wasn't anything wrong with my eyes.

I'm still a rails newbie so I might be mistaken, but it seems there is no template inheritance in rails.

I absolutely love the way of thinking template inheritance is driving me to. Rails seems to take a similar approach as JavaScript frameworks and follows a more widget like approach (layouts) or a simple inclusion of template parts (partials).

I know that is true for erb, maybe rails adds something on top of that I'm not aware of.

Honestly I'm rather annoyed by the lack of template inheritance in a lot of templating engines. Partials just don't cut it.

> where there exists a mixed system in which you are not allowed to have no health insurance

True. If you don't have one you have to pay a fine. Which is troubling if you couldn't pay for it in the first place. I have that problem at the moment. I guess it's mostly my fault for not taking every help I could get. So far I haven't gotten any troubling mail, but I'm sure I'll be in trouble once I have to get back into it.

Everyone around me feels uneasy about this. I didn't have the need to go to the doctor in a very long time, but I can relate.

But health care is linked to employment in most parts of Europe as well. Unemployment benefits allow you to pay for it but if you those run out or you don't take benefit of them for some reason (say you live on the street) you're out of luck.

Hell, even if you have a job you might have to pay for health care yourself due to certain circumstances and if you're in monetary trouble you might not be able to do so.

Not to forget that freelancing or self-employment might bring you to the point were beeing unemployed is more beneficial to you because you have to pay for everything yourself with much higher rates.

The themes selling well are constantly updated though.

Didn't know he switched. That's disheartening. The Firefox developer tools sadly aren't anywhere close to what I like to use. Although it's been quite some time since I checked. I always miss the ability to do xpath queries directly in the browser (which is a rather hidden feature in both Firebug and Chrome though).

Impressive. Sad to know that many promising projects fly under the radar. The Changelog featured Stringer and that probably helped putting it over 1000 Favorites, but this project easily comes out on top, yet isn't well known.