hillbillyjack

Though I suspect I'm not as strict as the parent comment this is why I avoid alcohol. Father's side extremely alcoholic including several deaths (both liver failure/pancreatic, and alcohol related deaths).

I've never had more than 1 drink in a day and usually only drink once per month out to eat when someone else is driving.

Alcoholism is scary for most of us that have seen it up close.

I like the way apps work in android better than iOS they seem to have more freedom to work (things like Tasker being able to work with multiple apps, and Google Play Music able to run in the background and sync without me having to open the app every once in a while) .

As for your settings maybe you just aren't thinking about the android way, for changing the wallpaper you should probably be pressing the menu button on the home screen much like you would right click on the desktop in Windows.

There is a little of both in his statements. The one about the computer not turning on is a common occurrence these days where people let their computer sleep and just move/click the mouse for it to turn on but can't cold boot the machine. This is similar to calling a mechanic because your car won't turn off because it isn't in park.

Most people don't need to know how to change proxy settings and such though. It would be nice if people had the ability to google solutions but it hasn't become important enough for them to learn so they take the easy way out and wait to ask someone.

Well the current age for independence is 24 so it may have been the same when you went.

The bicycle is an inverted pendulum (and is unstable when still) but similar to an inverted pendulum when it is stabilized through rocking back and forth the bicycle achieves this stability in motion.

Have you ever had an intrusion on your blog network because you updated to quickly?

Just curious whether or not your fear is from a previous experience.

Will you upgrade to new releases day 1 when WordPress implements auto-updating on the security updates?

Vim's modes are quite powerful and easy to get used to.

To some extent it is probably people not learning their new editor completely and another part is sometimes the vim-way is just easier/quicker.

Being able to escape insert mode and start modifying the text is great to a vim user things like editing inside quotes `ci"` are easy to do without a mouse, as is moving around the file without leaving home row.

It is ridiculous to think that your number is private and even moreso to think that someone can steal money with just your cellphone number.

Of course you could be phished or tricked by SMS but to expect your number to be private is to expect everyone ever who you give the number to go to extreme to keep it private as well.

If you ever gave your number to someone who downloaded an app which has permission to contacts your number is no longer private (Facebook has taken big advantage of this, I'm sure there are less than reliable apps that took bigger advantage).

It was down when they changed to a new datacenter[1]. I think github is just a much bigger target right now is why it goes down more often.

[1] http://blog.bitbucket.org/2013/07/02/scheduled-downtime-bitb...

I'm not the parent commenter but I've used matlab extensively and found Numpy clunky in comparison.

All I ever did in matlab involved matrices (usually differential equations with matrix coefficients and other things of that nature) and matrices are super easy to use in MATLAB:

    A = [1 2 3
        4 5 6];

or

    A = [1 2 3; 4 5 6];

I can input A just like that and it works, try out the python syntax:

    A = array([[1,2,3],[4,5,6]])

And it just goes on from there.

Even if you're doing complicated operations because matrices are the essential building blocks of MATLAB it is easy to use, not so much in python.

I tried building my FEA (finite element analysis) project in python after i finished programming it in matlab it and found it to frustrating to continue.

It doesn't exactly work like gmail does.

You can set many alternative login passwords in fastmail and the google auth is one of those.

So with the google auth you use your google auth fastmail password and append your google auth login so if your password is Password1, when you login you would be typing something like Password1123456 to login.

You can also set other login passwords for applications or imap with or without delete capabilities but a lot of the time they need full permissions to work with email clients, it could be nicer.

One really nice thing about firefox is no more He's Dead Jim pages.

Chrome (even stable) seems to crash tabs all the time, while in the past 6 months firefox nightly hasn't crashed more than a once or twice. Another annoying thing about chrome is I never got a reason for a crash it just was a crash page and if I tried to reload that page it was very likely to crash silently again, with chrome at least I get the stop script dialog once in a while.

Chrome still starts faster (more noticable on windows than linux). There are also a plethora of webkit optimized experiments that don't work for shit on firefox.

I doubt he is, it has been hard to get FreeBSD working on any laptop that isn't specifically supported by someone.

You can see many non-working things here: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/ from no sound to can't boot. Power management is also notoriously bad so you need your laptop to be plugged in.

It is reminiscent of Linux a few years ago when everyone with brand new laptops tried to install it.

FreeBSD is still fine on desktop systems and even works quite well for a desktop in some cases, but Linux is just so big at this point that it supports more things, while FreeBSD has always seemed more server oriented.

Without living in the US it is hard for you to come up with a valid argument against prioritizing automobile infrastructure.

Population density alone makes it an issue outside of large cities like New York, because of that you'll also find most cities have pretty lackluster public transportation.

It is tragic that people are hurt and worse because of automobiles but they are a fact of life in America and cyclists are a very minor subset of the population for which taxes rarely cater.

One of the major problems with bicycling is the lack of respect between the cyclist and the motorist, it goes both ways but there are plenty of motorists who do not understand the laws and despise cyclists. But there are also many cyclists who fail to follow the laws which helps perpetuate the hate from motorists.

If more cities had the budget for dedicated cycling paths and road usage I'm sure they would use it but as it is now only some "greener" cities are able to do anything.

Their (Mint's) modifications are much harder to disable as well. If privacy is a real concern use another distro like debian or arch or ... etc. but don't use Mint which has had questionable browser modifications for a long time.