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I go out for mega long bike rides in areas with very spotty cell coverage (Silicon Valley). This app is great because when my spouse wants to know where I am she can initiate the request, and I can keep my hands on the handlebars and keep rolling. I only wish they had thought to allow choices other than 'phone ring, wait 5 minutes'. I'd have prefered to set the notification type and delay. I hope the GPS battery drain for this feature is low (as compared with Garmin Connect, Strava or Glympse). 10 minute intervals sounds great.

Wow, thank you Jetbrains. Adobe could learn a thing or two here.

Or it could be that what causes CFS also affects brain chemistry in a way that can result in depression. That's where my money is.

In a nutshell, non-fat (or very low fat) vegan. A good resource for this is drmcdougall.com. Though I find McDougall a bit off-putting with his style, IMHO he's on the money, and the diet is what my doctor recommends.

See, this is what makes diet suggestions so difficult. I think this is practically the opposite of what you did.

Yes, I am curious too. The reason for my curiosity is I have been successful via diet as well, so it's to see if we're doing the same thing.

I can imagine these devices are beautiful, and I'd love if I could run a good MAC OSX-like OS on them that also runs common productivity apps. I combined too many unrelated points the in above quote and made what I wrote confusing.

I have two very competent friends that, in the past couple of months, have quit Apple because they were working in groups with toxic cultures. One was IS&T, the other was hardware (I don't want to name the exact group). They had very detailed accounts of the issues they encountered. They didn't have great things to say about other groups they were familiar with, or had previously worked in, either.

My last company worked extensively with browsers from various companies, at a deep level. Safari was, by far, the one that crashed the most and had the most general implementation problems. My experience with their other software is not much better, and I avoid what I can. And then there is the ghastly iWorks rewrite. The only software I've ever thought highly of from Apple is Mac OS X.

I would guess there are deep cultural problems at Apple that are being allowed to fester, and perhaps this extends to some OS X groups. Yet Apple continues to produce beautiful devices that people buy for their dopamine hits (okay, I admit, maybe iPhones are pretty nice). I wish Microsoft would seize the opportunity and make an OSX-like OS* that runs common productivity and creative apps so we could not be beholden to Apple, as I am for Mac.

* Apparently they did this once but the project was canned

What archive format would you back up to, and what application would you use? I looked at this a few years ago and, if I recall, the choices weren't obvious.

This seems expensive for what you get. I made a $25 table from Ikea parts to put on top of my work desk. I cut the pipes to the right length. It works just fine and I get storage under the table.

I too will use a recliner at home sometimes, to rest the back. I use a Corbusier knockoff (something like this: http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0278/9057/products/black_le...), slid under a work desk, with the laptop and mouse on a board on my lap, and a monitor on the desk.

Easier, or at least easy, fun, less compatibility issues when you live in a pure js and json world on the front and backends, productive, good libraries, good built-in libraries, easy to deploy, productive.

I'd agree with that. I'm of the pretty firm belief that CFS and a bunch of other autoimmune disorders are of a parasitic origin. This pretty much sums up my knowledge on the subject: http://www.iadvocatehealth.org/protozoal_infection0.aspx#.as...

And isn't mmmdG0tKtN#mmmmmmmmmmmmm more secure than dG0tKtN#mm?

And the "9-Volt Nirvana" Radiolab podcast on "trans-cranial direct current stimulation", or tDCS, which is also mentioned in the article. http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirvana/

Exactly, the US regulations are absurd. And not just for US citizens living abroad. I'm Canadian living in the US as a resident and have a couple of real estate investment interests in Canada, but also can't create an investment account with my Canadian bank because of the regs. The regulations around overseas investments can be punitive to the max, with penalties to boot. You can run into PFIC rules, etc. It costs me over $1500/year to get an accountant to do my US taxes, and I've had specialty crossborder accountants refuse to do my return because it's too complex even for them and they are afraid of the liabilities. Not to mention that you actually can get double taxed when the US doesn't recognize a particular type of income from across the border.

Unfortunately, for off road, even though the classification of whether bikes are allowed on a trail can be input, I haven't seen any viewers that show this information. I find it difficult to determine the trail type (single/double track), condition (dirt, pavement), and whether bikes are allowed.

I wish there existed a popular config format that was somewhere between YAML and JSON. In my current nodejs project I sometimes use js files for config because js supports comments and is more lenient on syntax then JSON. I prefer using { } to group objects, rather then YAML indenting, but otherwise am okay with YAML and only don't use it because the parser is not part of Javascript or nodejs.

And so have I (put it to real world use). I'm getting 2-3 days of battery life (not much actual talking on the phone), love the display, love the OS and all the interconnected s/w features, and love the responsiveness, and find the data performance is adequate for my needs. I wish it had a better camera.

Does anyone know how the sandboxing works to allow a camera, gallery and dropbox app to access the same locally stored image files? Or for local contacts to be shared?

I'm most alarmed with this restriction:

iCloud document storage and Notification Center. Both of these are slated only for third-party apps from the Mac App Store. Many developers, though, have been maintaining non-Mac App Store versions of their apps. If this continues, such apps are going to lose feature parity between the App Store and non-App Store versions.

This will affect software from companies such as Adobe where custom installers are necessary and/or the economics of taking a 30% App Store hit is not necessary when they can already reach their customer base. The move strikes me as anti competitive.

I agree. I had to go back from AS3 to AS2 for a project and it felt like a step backwards, and AS2 is more like Javascript. Adobe has also open sourced the AS3 runtime. But of course the practicality is that we have Javascript in browsers, and there's a big get-the-job-done benefit to using a common language.

Correct. I have two 'normal' people in this house, and neither of them could or would get their work done on today's iPad. They are on Macs. For them, and myself as IT support person, the most interesting feature of the iPad might be the app management model and anything that makes maintaining the OS and applications (not just 'apps'), plug-ins and other resources (eg. fonts) easier.

You have to wonder what form of authentication was used at Comodo's Registration Authority server that enabled it be breached. Maybe an RSA SecureID token :-) (see http://steve.grc.com/2011/03/19/reverse-engineering-rsas-sta...). Seriously, I'd have thought the admin account on an RA server would require multiple approvals, on-site access or something. I guess we'll have to wait for the details to come out. Something like this is bound to eventually happen when you have so many trusted root SSL certs in play.

If Sendoid is completely relying on RTMFP then the core security technology would have to be coming from Adobe. Check out Matthew Kaufmann's two year old talk on the subject: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2008-develop/future-of-communi... Or Tom Krcha's blog which contains a number of Flash P2P entries: http://www.flashrealtime.com/ RTMFP is pretty fascinating technology that originates with a couple of very smart guys that Adobe brought on board (Matthew Kaufman and Michael Thornburgh). I'm curious if the Sendoid team has a non-Flash solution for 'restricted' devices.

You can get any content onto an iPod, but you can't take the DRM-protected content bought thru iTunes anywhere else, including streaming with Slimserver, etc. And people now presumably have a large collection of content that is managed the iTunes-way, with a significant subset that is DRM protected. Meaning you're locked to Apple's devices.

Yes ePub is open. But Apple's DRM is not an open standard. I assume they are adding DRM to content sold thru their book store?

In support of unencumbered formats, think about how Apple became dominant. iPod/iTunes initial success + music labels insistence on DRM, lead to lack of content portability, lead to device lock-in, lead to iPod dominance, lead to music labels loosing power.

This is different from Kindle, where they write a player for every platform. But is what you get if you sell through Apple's store for Apple's reader.

O'Reilly wins with their deals. I buy books I wouldn't otherwise.

I bet broadcasters are glad Apple wasn't around when the first TVs were manufactured.

Except that no financial institution will accept a Facebook identity.

This is so cool. Very well done. A feature request would be to add layering for muscles: I can't pick out the hip rotators and Piriformis. Ditto for Transversus abdominis.

I think that Netflix also doesn't want to be in the business of building the full secured/DRM code stack on all these platforms themselves. They'd rather leverage. And for whatever reasons I believe they are/were a Microsoft video encoding shop on the backend, which can limit their choices (e.g. they won't use Adobe Access on Flash, which is not universal either).

This last comment is exactly right. People are quick to blame Flash, but it's what Flash enables and what runs on Flash that is the problem, which is 90% ads. And that can just as easily become annoying in HTML5/javascript, minus the sandboxing of Flash.