with a trivial script to setup bindmounts and such, you can easily run a full linux distro on android's kernel, concurrent with the main Android OS. Debian Kit for Android is just one example. gcc, emacs, ghc, whatever you need is an apt-get install away, w/ the Hacker's Keyboard and JackPal's term emulator, you are in as good or better shape than you would be on Maemo or Meego or Tizen..
a blank page even after enabling javascript on every host - google, googleapis, blogger, blogblog, streak - suspect cookies are required on some of the hosts too
NBC aired a race from Newport a month ago, and a similar round of articles circulated. does anybody remember all the 3D racecourses and SGI logos everywhere in 1992 america's cup? or all the wild Quokka webcoverage of the 95-98 stuff?
up until OSX DP1 the x86 builds were regularly shipped to ADC members with a familiar Mac UI. it seemed like "Classic" aka OS7/8/9 binaries running with minimal emulation was the main reason x86 builds temporarily disappeared from the public eye (to a very strange shock & awe in journalistic circles upon its return)
i had that happen in SF, sent an email, got a phone call about 7 mins later, they said they were downtown, i said i was at Van Ness, 10 mins later i found their subletted unlabeled space. we chatted a bit, then they said "hey a RedHat upgrade messed our custom perl install, wanna try fixing it? so about an hour of deciding i wanted a job i was getting paid doing something i'm decent at.
aliexpress,taobao,ebay,amazon-stores,paypal button,bitcoin,square in a busy location. lots of competition on the ad-hoc sale tip. tightly coupling this with a particular kind of item is not my cup of tea either
stop-script dialogs on GMaps + Twitter also (2x2ghz Atom, 850MHz ARM, webkit/firefox). its easier to ctrl-W than bother manually rewriting www to m on twitter and hoping it still works (with hashbang craziness often not).
ive just given up on even bothering reading anything on most of the internet, not worth fighting with unoptimized gobs of clientside code that ultimately just display a short bit of text and maybe an image in the end. even ipad V1 can barely handle twittter
mozplugger has long played every media format ever by hooking into system ffmpeg/mplayer tooling, on firefox/iceweasel. likewise most minimalist webkit wrapers (midori, surf) just seem to use gstreamer/ffmpeg too, which has clean-roomed free support of even nasty old codecs like realvideo. arguing over what is officialy 'shipped' when the browser supports plugins, Xembed and so on is kind of a pointless tempest in a teapot
ive had mechanical issues with every headphone ever. V6 has a flimsy folding hinge mechanism with tiny plastic tabs that break off, Beyer 770's cable has split in half and frayed open several times, and earbuds 3.5mm connectors with crap strain relief that lose connectivity after a few dozen pocketing cycles of your phone/musicplayer.
i just use cheap throwaway earbuds in girly colors on commute and FM radio for music into solid Advent loudspeakers that have been going strong since the 70s
ive been unable to get Craigslist's phone-token thing to call my VOIP DID without throwig errors. title there and here is misleading, i need a username/pasword to login to both VOIP and EMail accounts to fiddle with all of CL's post-approval stuff. it feels positively mid-90s
i didnt want to write new code each time my data-model changed: migrations, model code, new controllers/views. this meant a Resource class, a uniform controller request/response cycle following web-arch/linked-data standards. at this point, would have had to significantly monkeypatch both rails and its attempts at providing a generic Resource class to override its magic (and/or incur the CPU usage for the magic to do what i didnt want). it was a lot simpler to just start with a Rack handler from scratch.
ive been using my web framework for 5+ years for personal and professional projects, and as far as i know there are no other users. Ry Dahl was churning out all sorts of 'concurrent' web-frameworks and servers in Ruby building on EventMachine and so on for years, and im pretty sure i was one of the only people using his code. eventually he scored a hit as node.js when finally rewriting one of the concepts in Javascript
when i moved to SF i walked around the TL and rang building managers of nicer buildings and asked to see what was available. in Boston the most up-to-date info was not online but in a steno book of a guy in a subbasement in the Fenway that connects to various buildings via utility tunnels, even getting to him required 2 elevator-trips and some stairs, but it really illuminated how things work. in between padmapper, hotpads, trulia, zillow and the exclusive broker-listings and MLS-shared rentals therein, as well as alumni-mailinglists/forums containing for-owner listings and carefully-crafted CL search-bookmarks and working with a couple human brokers it was possible to get a good sense of roughly everything in the market
Vaio X has a standard DC barrel pot, ive powered it on anything from junk-heap printer wall-warts to 20-cent car-adaptors to lab bench-supplies without hassles.
other things it has over the air are half the weight owing to carbon fiber vs aluminum and a smaller battery owing to an Atom CPU (a feature - can tell which code is slow), and a full array of hardware ports and slots, a matte-screen with almost 0 reflected light readable in direct sun, a fan that is off most of the time, and GPS/3G. gma500 is main problem, but Alan Cox's driver is getting OK enough to use
can't' see it either - in Chrome or Firefox. i think it is a <noscript> and CSS interplay of some sort. if i switch to a really old browser with neither scripting or CSS like Lynx i can read the content
why should each city have the same skillset and specializations? that sounds pretty boring. is SF leading the way in bio and health-care innovations? what about open-source data-y stuff like Cornell's DuraSpace, MIT's SIMILE, Encyclopedia of Life, Brown's Racket (our own little INRIA this side the atlantic?!)..
i moved back to boston from TL after 3 years because all i could find for work in SF was the least-common-denominator/proprietary/centralized/consumer webapp startups that this article is apparently hoisting up as the end-all of aspirations. maybe i wasn't looking hard enough but it's a lot easier to find things i'm into in boston
SONY is fantastic. a Vaio X and Vim, Chromium and Xmonad is a perfect dev box. their shortwave recievers are a cut above the competition in selectivity and build quality. im still using some video monitor of theirs from the late 70s to catch up on youtubes.
why should indexer/searcher be coupled to email files in particular, instead of dispatching on MIME types? why should the datamodel be something ad-hoc instead of RDF?
HP should take on android head-on by uploading WebOS to GitHub and promoting it to handset manufacturers. HP has a sizable chunk of the PC space without an OS of their own
in boston, an annual influx of so many students, an amount staying due to bio and healthcare jobs or with no reason to leave their circle of friends from college and move back to Peoria, coupled with this group renting rather than buying at such an age, has priced me out of the market. the entire planet wants to send their kids to school in boston still, and whether a studio apt costs 500 or 1500 a month is almost inconsequential compared to tuition.
i'm looking at astoria queens which looks to be about 40% less, or providence
NFS and Git are exactly why i don't need dropbox. agglomerating large chunks of free space on all devices into universally-accessible paths without wasting any bytes on duplication or synch daemons, and a proper VCS for stuff that i want surgical branching/merging/history and redundancy
actually one time du -s was surprising - i'd committed a 700 mb iso without realizing it since no unusual delays occured.
the 'append only' nature of git makes it unsuitable for this application imo. a sliding expiration/history window size depending on avilable resources is ideal