josephcooney

The type of people that make expensive purchases (and therefore probably have more money) might be a more attractive target to criminals.

Wow. IOCCC spins my head yet again.

Yep. My subconscious often gives me very interesting "left field" type problem solving/troubleshooting advice during my programming dreams.

I bought it from O'Reilly....it came with mobi and epub versions. http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920041528.do

I initially parsed the name as 'scaphoid', one of the carpal bones. I thought they were making a joke about reducing typing...turns out I just can't read properly.

While you're technically correct, ROTOR hadn't received any updates for a long time, and the source was licensed in such a was as to make sure anyone who could benefit from it running on *NIX platforms was heavily incentivized not to do so.

Not really. If dropbox is compromised and they get your .kdbx file they've still got to be able to break that (unless you use the same password for dropbox and your kdbx file....which is not a good idea).

Everyone's public transport system looks shabby compared to Tokyo.

The horrible syntax of Powershell isn't something I can look past.

Gympie Gympie plant is also not nice. http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/topics/science-enviro...

Never was the cultural differences between the windows and OSX platforms more striking than when looking at the PowerPro page http://powerpro.cresadu.com/xfeatures.htm and the HammerSpoon page http://www.hammerspoon.org/

> [I] have never been 'prey' to another creature while playing in the bus

Survivor bias, mate.

> They have not won anything for a while

Back to back FA Cups in 2013-14 and 2014-15? I think the rest of your analysis is pretty valid however.

Peter Thiel doesn't think so. See "competition is for losers" et. al. http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...

Like https://github.com/canvg/canvg (which AFAIK doesn't do hit testing like 'real' SVG, but is a promising start).

All the author did was say it wasn't a concern for them. Nowhere did they say it didn't matter.

What happens after I send my Note 7 back, and get a new one with the problem corrected? Will I still be banned on Australian airlines?

The gender-neutral honorific, apparently.

You say "some speakers" and "a number of speakers". I read the article by Mx Kas Perch. Is there anyone else?

I guess regarding the search for facts/reasons/examples - I guess we're interested in trying to form a view as to whether that is an understandable position on the part of these 'other speakers'. No doubt there is a spectrum here. If it is just "person X doesn't like person Y because they hurt X's feelings once" that is quite a different thing to "persons X, Y and Z have been physically threatened by person A and fear for their lives".

Yep. That's the one. Thanks.

I seem to recall someone used Microsoft's AutoSummarize feature to reduce and reduce classical works of literature to a few lines. The results were pretty hilarious, but I can't find it now.

From a version number point of view maybe, but to say 'it works' is pretty charitable. CLR versions vs framework version confusion - "oh, you've got a .NET 3.5 app, you need CLR version 2.0". ASP.NET version vs framework versions. ASP.NET 5 vs ASP.NET 4.6 (ASP.NET 5 was re-named to ASP.NET Core 1.0). I guess CLR versioning "works" but in the broader .net ecosystem it is still a problem.

Ooops, I see you beat me to it.

clientsfromhell is filled with stories like this http://clientsfromhell.net/

The flip-side: Specialization is for insects.

Agree re: scrolling - it would have been difficult/impossible to get across the behaviour of the app in the is regard without hijacking.

Except that the U.S. is considered to have a well-enough developed system of on-shore tax havens to not require going to Panama.

If they guy who invented them calls them a mistake then maybe they are, or were at least to him.

Well played, sir/ma'am. You make an excellent point.

Task Manager or Resource Monitor (which you can launch from Task Manager)? I see lots of per-process stuff in the latter but not the former.