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Timothee··on OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review
> created in OS 10.10.2

Of course, you meant OS 10.2 (a.k.a. Jaguar). Otherwise, it's not that impressive ;-)

Timothee··on OS X 10.11 El Capitan: Review
Life is too short to deal with the alternative.

It's potentially contradictory: the alternative is upgrading your OS and find pretty much everything where you left it, instead of having to reinstall everything. I.e. life is too short to spend time reinstalling everything.

Surely, it's an opportunity to do some cleanup of unused stuff, but otherwise, I haven't had a lot of problems upgrading OS X. (nothing memorable at least)

Timothee··on One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t
I think it's the opposite actually: the twins had similar exercise routines while growing up but diverged in recent years.

The dissimilarities in their exercise routines had mostly begun within the past three years

Timothee··on One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t
I get that, but I feel like we've known for quite a while that people who exercise can run longer and have lower body fat, regardless of genetics. Genetics can affect how long you can run compared to others, but you will run longer if you exercise than if you don't.

If you take anybody in the world and have them exercise, they'll lower their body fat, everything else being equal, no? And that's not only the same genes, it's actually the same person.

Timothee··on One Twin Exercises, the Other Doesn’t
I'll admit I didn't read the study but the results summarized in this post don't seem very interesting:

The sedentary twins had lower endurance capacities, higher body fat percentages, and signs of insulin resistance, signaling the onset of metabolic problems.

The active twins had significantly more grey matter than the sedentary twins, especially in areas of the brain involved in motor control and coordination.

Isn't this expected to anybody not exercising vs. someone who is?

It would have been interesting to see if there were results beyond the obvious effects of exercising.

Timothee··on Elevator Saga – An elevator programming game
This one was on HN a few months ago: https://alexnisnevich.github.io/untrusted/
Timothee··on Google and Apple in $415M 'non-poaching' settlement offer
My understanding is that it's only people who were employees of these companies at the time, though it's easy to argue that anybody in the tech industry was indirectly affected.

I.e. the salary paid to these employees influences the salary expected to be paid to people doing the same at a different company. Especially considering the size and importance of the companies involved. Strangely, I haven't seen this discussed much in articles about this scandal. (of course I say that as someone who did not work at any of the involved companies)

Timothee··on Show HN: Tablight – Spotlight search for Chrome tabs
I didn't know that either and that made me look at all the other options and features that Vimium offers. So many things I didn't know about! :)

Thanks for making me look! (it's like vim, there's always more to learn)

Timothee··on GitHub's “hub” tool rewritten in Golang
I've recently been writing command lines tool (for internal use mostly) and wrote them in bash because running other command line tools and checking their exit codes is simpler in bash than in Python for example. Problems start to come up when I have to deal with APIs that return or expect JSON.

From what you're writing it seems that it might be worth checking Go out for that. Would you happen to have pointers for using Go for that purpose?

Timothee··on Show HN: Convert Chrome-generated cURL Commands to Python Requests
That's a great idea but I don't think that it can be done. I just checked the API doc and came across this post: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/google-chrome-develo...

The post is from 2013 and the documentation doesn't clearly say that it's not possible, so there could be some hope... That being said, one could find some work-arounds to make something work even if not as nice as an item in the contextual menu.

E.g. It looks like an extension can read and write the clipboard. Then you could have an action button that just converts the cURL command in the clipboard into the Requests one. Or, more agressively, poll the clipboard and replace any cURL into Requests...

Right now, I can't think of a UX as good as a context menu in the networks panel: having an action button all the time just for that would seem like a waste of space, a DevTools tab as well, a context menu item only present if the clipboard is a cURL command would be fine because present only when needed however it'd be out of context...

Timothee··on Poll: What is your primary editor?
I found your comment very interesting: I've been using vim for a few years now and wouldn't consider changing (except for Emacs with Evil mode) because I like doing everything without lifting my hands from the keyboard.

But reading your description, I'm left slightly envious and pondering how vim could be integrated better with a browser with web development in mind specifically. I'm not sure what it'd be but it gets me thinking :)

I switch between the two easily enough but I often have to click somewhere to activate the browser part or DevTools. Switching between tabs in devtools is also inconvenient. So that makes me think of a custom app with vim bindings integrating vim, the browser itself and its developer tools... Sadly I'm afraid that would be a huge amount of work in languages I don't know to get that going. Still, thanks for making me think about it!

Timothee··on Hound: Review JavaScript, CoffeeScript, and Ruby code for style guide violations
I like the idea behind this because I am also very sensitive to that type of things. Probably over-sensitive but I just worry that if you let one thing go, it becomes a slippery slope and you then have a mess of a repo.

That being said, if you care about these things, I wonder if these checks are best left to a pre-commit hook. It removes noise from the commit history and the PRs and forces people to think about it right away, rather than being corrected after the fact.

I guess having that done on a server has the benefit of not having to worry about keeping the linters' version up-to-date/homogenous over all the devs' machines.

At work, we have JSCS (https://github.com/jscs-dev/node-jscs) and SCSS-lint (https://github.com/causes/scss-lint) as part of our pre-commit hook (on top of editor plugins) and that has been great honestly. It decreased the PR noise a lot and I feel it has been good for new hires since it avoids having the first PR comments being about style issues.

I wrote a post about how I added JSCS in the pre-commit hook by the way: http://tech.adroll.com/blog/web/2014/03/05/adding-jscs-to-yo... It should be easily extendable to other linters.

Timothee··on Everything you need to know about the Shellshock Bash bug
From the article, it sounds like the issue is not just with Apache but also ssh, DHCP and others. So I'd just assume you're still at risk regardless of your Apache user configuration. (in any case, it's safer to act as if)
Timothee··on Notes on the Celebrity Data Theft
I have 1Password for iPhone and copy the generated password from there every time I need it. Certainly a pain but worth it. In the end, it doesn't take that long: 1Password is on my home screen, the Apple login is favorited and I can type my master password fairly fast. The most annoying part really is switching between apps.

I also have my phone set up for iOS not to ask for the password for 5 or 15 minutes (can't remember the exact option) after I entered it.

Timothee··on Joystick-like Input Method for Smartwatches
Certainly, but I think iPhones are too big to be used on a wrist and existing armbands are usually for workouts and for your arm, rather than forearm or wrist.

More importantly, the UI is not done for that use. For example, you might want to lock down the orientation to have the bottom always be towards your body. Apps would also need to be very different, because you'd use it as some kind of dashboard.

Timothee··on Joystick-like Input Method for Smartwatches
unfortunately, due to the placement on the wrist, they must be small

I don't know if they're small because they're on the wrist or because they're sold as watches.

I don't think I'd be against having a bigger screen on my wrist like control panels that have been seen in SciFi shows for many years :) Something smaller than an iPhone, but maybe like the iPod Nano would work.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them appear soon. Sometimes, I feel that I could use my iPhone on my arm rather than my pocket, when walking for example. But the smart watches tend to have too little screen real estate.

Timothee··on Facebook's git repo is 54GB
That might be a silly question but it's not useful for just an individual in a team, correct? We use GitHub at work, but I wouldn't be able to try Phabricator on my own, right?
Timothee··on The Design Flaw That Almost Wiped Out an NYC Skyscraper
One point that this article doesn't mention but the video does (starting about here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZhgTewKhTQ#t=350) is that the building wasn't built exactly as designed.

In particular, the 8-story-high diagonal parts were done in multiple splices that were supposed to be welded together but ended up being bolted together. It sounds like it made things much worse.

Timothee··on 2048 Numberwang
I'd think of the thought process a bit differently than lclarkmichalek, though of course with the same result.

To get close to 952, you can quickly think of 106x9. 106 is easy to obtain and you have a 3. You can get another 3 from 75/25. You're now at 954 with only a 50 left. If you could divide by 25, that would give you the 2 you're missing but you already used the 25, unless you were to divide later. So instead of doing 106x3x(75/25), you do (106x3x75-50)/25.

He could have certainly thought of it another way but based on how players typically play that game, that would be a somewhat logical progression.

Timothee··on Why We Cancelled Our Kickstarter And Funded It Ourselves
What are the ongoing running costs though? Serving the scanned images? Sure, but if the only way to add more data to that bucket is to keep buying notebooks, that should be fairly safe. The hosting costs should be very low compared to the price of the notebook. And if you continue accessing your files, you're likely to want to buy more notebooks.
Timothee··on Is Twitter down for anyone else?
As far as I know, it doesn't have to (shouldn't?) be updated for the current year if it doesn't change.

From http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap4.html#401:

If a notice appears on the copies, it shall consist of the following three elements:

(1) the symbol © (the letter C in a circle), or the word “Copyright”, or the abbreviation “Copr.”; and

(2) the year of first publication of the work

If they haven't touched this page since 2012 (totally reasonable), I think it should be 2012.

This blog post (http://www.photoattorney.com/qa-what-year-should-i-use-for-m...) also mentions that you can use a range for when it covers multiple years of publication (like a blog).

Timothee··on Engineer's Guide to US Visas
I'll add that the initial registration is extremely easy and certainly does not require the help from an outside company. When I signed up in the past, if I remember correctly, it was very basic information about my identity, a picture and how to contact me. That was done in just a few minutes.

Once you win the lottery, it might or might not be wise to get help, but I don't really know since I didn't win.

Timothee··on Banking Startup Simple Acquired for $117M, Will Continue to Operate Separately
Has Mint improved any features at all since they were acquired?

Not really. I looks pretty much the same to me as when they started and it certainly looks the same as when they were bought, five years ago.

I'd be very interested in knowing how many product and engineering people still work on it. (if any…)

Timothee··on Show HN: I built this game alone – design, code, music, sound, marketing
It's all a matter of style, but I removed the border on the iframe that holds the video player and I liked it better because the video started to blend with the rest of the page. I felt it made it more immersive.

Cool music and the 8bit style gave me flashbacks of some games I played in the 80s.

Good luck, it looks great! (though I, too, didn't really get the gameplay or the type of game it is)

Timothee··on Vim Croquet
I don't know about him but I have 'kj' mapped to <Esc>. I highly recommend it. (or any variation around it)
Timothee··on Open for everyone
Off-topic but:

It makes me sad that it's the top-voted comment

Not necessarily. It's also less than an hour old, so that helps to make it raise.

Timothee··on Show HN: Random Street View
I don't have any objection to someone copying the concept of an existing site / service

To be fair to the OP, nothing says it was copied from your site. They could have had the idea from GeoGuessr http://geoguessr.com/ the game where you have to guess where in the world you are based on StreetView, or they could have had it totally on their own too.

Timothee··on How to cope with “idea overflow”?
This video by ZeFrank is really great. It's a problem I certainly suffer from, with ideas from two or more years ago that I still kind of plan on executing on at some point… later… when I have time… but it will be great, I can tell you that much! Just wait, it will be worth it!

…or not.

Timothee··on Outbox Is Shutting Down
50 cents to send a piece of paper across the continent in just a couple of days is a bargain as far as I'm concerned. A dollar will even get your piece of paper across the world in just a few more days than that.

It's quite unbelievable that it works so well for such a cheap price.

Timothee··on Mother
That's the first thing I thought about and when I saw above that Sense was a French company, I thought it might actually be related. Well, it is: https://sen.se/about/who/
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