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chris-at··on Inside the lab: Why Apple still sweats the details on iMac
Yep. I had to "shuffle" to get it to move all the way.
chris-at··on Inside the lab: Why Apple still sweats the details on iMac
I bought a Magic Mouse a few years ago. I couldn't use it because getting the cursor from one side to the other required me to move the mouse so far that it caused shoulder pain. I had to replace it with a 1000 dpi Logitec.

Do the new mice have higher dpi as well?

chris-at··on The paranoid person's guide to a complete Mac backup
If you are paranoid don't forget to check for bitrot!

https://www.npmjs.com/package/chkbit

chris-at··on Evernote cuts 47 employees and shuts down 3 offices
I was a big fan & paying customer of Evernote until they lost my data and then blamed me for syncing from two devices.
chris-at··on Crystal – iOS 9 ad blocker
Does it actually work? (yes I enabled it in settings)

I tried arstechnica.com and it's still showing ads. With Mercury (which always had its own ad blocker) there are no ads.

chris-at··on Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
IMO Stack Exchange was more useful before it had moderators.

You could even ask questions like 'Do you know a useful library for this problem' without having it closed.

chris-at··on Stack Exchange Is Now Stack Overflow
Meta is for celebrating Stackoverflow, not for criticism.

Mention something that could be improved and you'll see what I mean.

chris-at··on Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Containers
It's a container image (output from docker images).

see https://msdn.microsoft.com/virtualization/windowscontainers/...

chris-at··on Preparing Windows Server Technical Preview for Windows Containers
docker images

  REPOSITORY         TAG          IMAGE ID      CREATED       VIRTUAL SIZE
  windowsservercore  latest       9eca9231f4d4  30 hours ago  9.613 GB
  windowsservercore  10.0.10254.0 9eca9231f4d4  30 hours ago  9.613 GB
vs

  REPOSITORY         TAG          IMAGE ID      CREATED       VIRTUAL SIZE
  alpine             latest       31f630c65071  9 weeks ago   5.254 MB

Aren't containers supposed to be small(er)?
chris-at··on Ask HN: Why did literate programming not catch on?
Not every developer speaks English. Especially on OS projects.

While reading English might be OK, writing is a different story.

chris-at··on Joining a Different YC
Science needs to happen for the sake of science.

If you do science for the money you will soon run out of fish.

chris-at··on EU goes after Mickey Mouse in latest antitrust charge
> European consumers want to watch the pay-TV channels of their choice regardless of where they live or travel in the EU > Our investigation shows that they cannot do this today [because of licensing agreements]. We believe that this may be in breach of EU competition rules.

Been waiting a long time for this. Too bad I no longer watch TV.

chris-at··on Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default
Pocket had an add-on that was working just fine. The old one even needed less space than the new button and didn't require a cookie.

I'd reinstall the old one but "This add-on has been removed by its author".

chris-at··on MacOS is the new Windows
> And also please give us back an iPhone that could fit in a pocket because the certain Asian markets are not the only things out there.

+1

I'd get a 5S if someone could put the camera of the 6 in there :)

chris-at··on Atom 1.0
Coffeescript is a very polarizing language. Most people appear to either love it or hate it vigorously.

https://discuss.atom.io/t/why-coffeescript/131

chris-at··on [dead]
The first version was actually named "bitchk"...
chris-at··on Placebo Button
So is there a placebo button that supports "force touch" yet? ;)
chris-at··on GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned
https://plus.google.com/+gimp/posts/cxhB1PScFpe

> It appears that +SourceForge took over the control of the 'GIMP for Windows' account and is now distributing an ads-enabled installer of GIMP. They also locked out original owner of the account, Jernej Simončič, who has been building the Windows versions of GIMP for our project for years.

chris-at··on GIMP-Win project wasn’t hijacked, just abandoned
> Based on our prior outreach to the GIMP-Win author, we understand that they had concerns about the presence of misleading third-party ads on SourceForge. They were not alone in those concerns — we were also concerned — leading us to establish a program to enable users and developers to help us remove misleading and confusing ads.

right.

chris-at··on JSON vs. YAML – try it yourself
No, the whole implementation is actually very simple. It's based on the 'standard' parsers for JS/C#/Python and only differs for handling quoteless stings and the optional syntax.

No problems with dwimmy typing ;) - not saying that it couldn't happen but I think that would be the exception. Not having to use quotes/escape characters helps a lot more.

chris-at··on JSON vs. YAML – try it yourself
Shameless plug: Human JSON, http://hjson.org

A different approach to using JSON for configuration files. It sits between JSON and YAML.

chris-at··on Sublime Text 3 Build 3080
I'm kind of glad that Atom is written in a language I seriously dislike, otherwise I might have spent a lot of time trying to help them improve it.
chris-at··on What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
That works for search but do you have one for maps and their other sites (like blogger)?
chris-at··on What happens when you type Google.com into your browser's address box
This is why I never type google.com into my browser. So annoying.

My current workaround is a search provider with

    https://www.google.com/search?num=50&tbs=li:1&fg=1&gws_rd=cr&q=
http://ready.to/search/en/?sna=goo-v&prf=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.g...
chris-at··on Nativescript: Build truly native apps with JavaScript
> NativeScript is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

but then it says (see Roadmap):

> Go-Live license. Developers will be able to use NativeScript framework in production applications.

What does that mean?

chris-at··on If you are storing important info in Evernote, think twice
I only lost my data once but that was enough. My note got stuck in a sync conflict.

Support was unwilling to help me get the data out of the transmit queue... they actually told me to make sure to save my note before moving to another device. I guess I was the first user to forget that. They never apologized for their bug and I was a paid user back then.

chris-at··on RegExpBuilder – Create regular expressions using chained methods
Thanks, this is a lot better than writing this (even if the formatting worked here):

``` (?xi) \b ( # Capture 1: entire matched URL (?: [a-z][\w-]+: # URL protocol and colon (?: /{1,3} # 1-3 slashes | # or [a-z0-9%] # Single letter or digit or '%' # (Trying not to match e.g. "URI::Escape") ) | # or www\d{0,3}[.] # "www.", "www1.", "www2." … "www999." | # or [a-z0-9.\-]+[.][a-z]{2,4}/ # looks like domain name followed by a slash ) (?: # One or more: [^\s()<>]+ # Run of non-space, non-()<> | # or \(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))\) # balanced parens, up to 2 levels )+ (?: # End with: \(([^\s()<>]+|(\([^\s()<>]+\)))\) # balanced parens, up to 2 levels | # or [^\s`!()\[\]{};:'".,<>?«»“”‘’] # not a space or one of these punct chars ) ) ```

chris-at··on Paperwork: An open source Evernote alternative
I only lost my data once but that was enough. My note got stuck in a sync conflict (even visible in the logs).

Support told me to save my note before moving to another device ... I guess I was the first user to forget that. They never apologized for their bug and I was a paid user back then.

chris-at··on 2015 Gates Annual Letter
Great work!

But the presentation is awful. Why do sites feel the need to hijack my scroll wheel?

chris-at··on Psyop Mistakes?
"However, the operation failed when the rubber stamp on those cards intended for the city of Hamburg misspelled Hansastadt as Hanfastadt. Apparently, German is difficult language."

Funnily enough, it's actually "Hansestadt".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg

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