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This. While it's true many people buy Apple gear because of branding and image, well, that's marketing for you. That's how retail works. As a well seasoned computer guy, I've chosen every single mac I've purchased over the last number of years. There was a time when I wouldn't touch one with a 10 foot pole, and I'm sure a time will come when I won't want a new one.

I've used enough different operating systems in all kinds of configurations over the last 20+ years to decide like a grown-up what I'm going to spend a considerable amount of time using.. not because other people think it's cool, but because it fits my budget and works for me. My recommendation to others is: Try stuff and use what works for you.

Given I'm sure many people here have anecdotes about little snippets they wrote in a short amount of time that ended up in use for a decades, even though the code was crappy (someone tell me I'm not alone here...) - I'd be willing to bet something, somewhere will still be around a long time from now.. though a thousand years is a bit hard to comprehend in terms of technological change.

If banks still exist they'll still be emulating zOS on their quantum dimension-folded computers...

Have to agree...

Further - it's been said before - when it comes to time -vs- money - you can always find a way to make more money if you need it - but what you can't do is make more time - time goes by whether you use it or not. If I have a choice between playing with my kids and turning down some overtime, which pays very well, I'll take spending the day with my kids. That time can't be replaced later. Odds are I can always work more. You get one life of unknown length - choose how you spend your time wisely, not by some simple formula.

Further, if I do want to do consulting work after work, it's certainly about how much I'm going to get paid, but it's also about what hte work is, how interesting it is, who it is for, and what the other network benefits might be. I won't generally work for free, some people I've charged an arm and a leg simply because I know they need it, I know I'm in a unique position to help them, and I have no vested interest in whether or not they take my offer - my personal time is valuable to me. If I had enough offers for work at high enough pay to make me really think about eating it all up, I'd quit my day job and just do that.

It's always okay to politey and professionaly not waste people's time. Don't come across as judgemental, angry, or anything similar or you risk burning bridges you may not even realize you have.

From the brief description, it sounds like the guy was showing a bit too much emotion in leaving. Also - just because an interview process seems harsh doesn't mean the company is harsh - the interview is one thing, the job is often quite another - results tend to speak for themselves regardless of culture (and as long as you aren't a snob or jerk to your co-workers) If a seasoned, experienced professional doesn't get that, maybe they aren't a good fit...

unless I'm mistaken, that's a misinterpretation - private parties can conduct business in any way they mutually agree upon, including straight up barter.

31 U.S.C Sec 5103 only states what is legal tender - and that only comes into force if you end up owing money and the courts order you to pay - you must pay in legal tender.

Us 115wpm qwerty guys aren't "reasonably fast" - we're way up there - and to be sure, the only reason I have to improve my speed is because it's a sort of hobby.... it won't help me code better. Being able to type with my left hand faster than my friends can type with both is always fun - as is constructing passwords and other shortcuts that can be done with a single hand in the blink of an eye... but that's all just fun and games.

As much as Im' a fan of studio monitors - they're built for the sound engineer to do his work, not blow his hearing, and hear the details he needs to hear. He's not producing music to be listened on those speakers, though - he's producing music to be listened to on a wide variety of playback situations, none of which match what he's working with, and he knows it. If he made stuff only to sound perfect on his gear, it would suck everywhere else. Instead, he makes things to sound good on whatever it needs to (whatever that is in a given situation, I don't know).

That said - I'm the first to stand up and prefer a pair of nice towers and a decent amp, even if it's 20 years old -vs- some tiny "sound good" speakers. Those are fine for the family-room surround setup, with the big subwoofer that rumbles the house, but the secret bat-cave has only a nice little amp, a couple of nice towers (and a few good headphones for various types of music when it's quiet-time). mp3's, or any compressed music, are just fine if they've been recorded well, I think arguments based on those formats are ill-conceived; like anything, if you don't use the format properly it's not going to work well. I've found that a 192kbps mp3 can occasionally sound different than the source CD, but in a blind test I could only tell you that they were different - not which one was the CD - both sound good... and that difference could probably be engineered out in the majority of cases. Which isn't to say I don't have some humungous high-bitrate stuff hanging around - but I like to enjoy my music, not obsess over it or blow rediculous money on audiophile gear. (okay - one pair of really good headphones - so sue me)

But is it not true that the tools necesary for decent recording are only getting cheaper and more accessible?

I'm not suggesting a crappy mic and no brains is all it takes to produce a record, but your home PC these days can handle the mixing that it used to take hundreds of thousands of dollars in gear to do, and good recording gear can still cost a pretty penny, but it must be getting better and cheaper like everything else. We've seen more well-produced stuff by "amateurs" these days than any time in the past...

Yup - and to be fair, there were, especially earlier on, some CDs that were mastered beautifully, and sound just fantastic on a half decent setup (no crazy stuff... just decent speakes and a plain old amp). I recall hearing some Pink Floyd at a friends place and saying "Holy crap! What are you listening to? That's an amazing recording" and he pops out a CD, from a regular old CD player and his homebuilt heathkit amp, and a pair of speakers that looked like he picked them up back in the 70s.... point being, the dynamic range was there.

You can generally tell it's there when you put the CD in your car and say "Hey that's too quiet"... that's a good candidate for some more serious listening.

On the upside - now I know where to find an actual record store, even if it's across town...

It's not like banks get a choice - more like lawmakers have yet to force paypal into regulation.

EasyMotion is really only good for getting to something you are staring right at on the screen.... I want to go THERE.. not meant as a general search or anything like that... and doesn't help get off the screen, for sure.

It really depends on the type of tick and the area you live in.. in some places they are harmless, others they are known to carry things that absolutely need treatment...

in principle, yes. In fact, that's not how things really work...

IF you are the author you are free to license your work under as many licenses as you want, and not bound by the GPL at all - you inherently have that right.

The rest - agreed.

A good fact to keep in mind is that ZFS is meant to run on adequate hardware. ECC Ram (ZFS is more prone to corruption from random memory errors than most other filesystems, it assumes your ram is reliable), drives that don't lie about writes, adequate CPU overhead. it was designed to go BIG - and when you go big, these things are a given. If you skimp on any of these, it doesn't look as good - but small-scale wasn't it's target market. (And I'm not saying nobody should use ZFS on a small scale... but it was designed with some specific assumptions that are perfectly fair given it's target market)

If you are runninga a system at a scale where ZFS makes sense and not making backups of critical data, your operations process is fundamentally broken anyway. ZFS doesn't change the need for backups one bit (and it brings to the table some novel ways of doing offsite snapshots and whatnot, to boot)

As a tourist, NYC was pretty awesome, far better than I expected. Then again, it's awfully hard to generalize about a city that has the population of my country.

It shouldn't - but it being NYC, and being a veteran reporter for the NYT, with your classic credentials just drives the point home even harder as there's no room to debate whether it was journalism or not....

the same tools that would trivialize creating such a virus would also trivialize a cure.

Dig around - the 16 gig aftermarket upgrade may have been confined to some early 2011 mbp's - the 13" for sure (mine's on the way)

Odd - I've been using an 8 gig mbp with swap disabled and I've yet to crash due to running out of ram. That's running a few browsers, editors, VM instances, possibly photoshop for some tweaking. Beachballs are very rare and would be due to software errors, not out of memory conditions - those would just crash.

you sure it's the page file? page file or hibernation (safe sleep) file? Memory swaps to /var/vm/pagefile0 etc....

unless you disabled it deliberately through a 3rd party tool or command line, your macbook will dump all of RAM to disk as soon as it sleeps - this is your "safe sleep" recovery if power drops too low. It doesn't wait around for low power to dump it out, it does it as soon as you close the lid.

It's sad that we have to assume the worst, isn't it? I expect honesty in business dealings, large or small. That doesn't preclude me from having some mean lawyers on my side to ensure I'm covered, but the up-front negotiations aren't driven by them. I'd walk out too.

Doesn't come near unfair practices though - nobody is being muscled out. They aren't using their market position to force anyone out - unless you want to pretend that deciding who can and can't use their services for whatever purpose is something they shouldn't be allowed to do, ethically or legally.

Does it need ot be copyrightable in order for you to agree to contractual terms about something?

Seems to me that would only apply to the specific instance of content you posted on CL. If you create another post somewhere else, just make it different - it's not a work derived from that content.. it's derived from facts that you already know.

You could post different content on another site all you like.. but nobody can take CL's content and use it.

You have no voting rights, but if someone wants to buy the company, you do own a piece of it. it's not much different than, say, a 2 person company where one person has the majority vote. The second person's vote is worthless anyhow - but if hte company is sold, they are entitled to their share of the sale.

This situation is far more common than most people may realize, and has been for a long time. Lots of us have been potential future millionaires only to watch stock prices fall before we could, or did, exercise stock options.

Does this not set things up for a hash collision? They do exist, after all... if this scales to global proportions using SHA256 without verification for deduplication (if I read this correctly) is a risk.

Companies that rely on a third-party API that they isn't contracted and paid for aren't sustainable.... if it's free, it can be taken away. Unless I'm missing something and he was paying twitter for this.....