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myared··on Apple Engineers Its Own Downfall with the Macbook Pro Keyboard
As an XPS 15 9560 owner who used to dual boot, I would highly recommend disabling Windows update as certain updates will ruin your Linux partition.

https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2364091

myared··on IBM is not doing "cognitive computing" with Watson (2016)
Who is being deceived? Non-Tesla owners?

Or are you suggesting that there are Tesla owners who are (a) sitting in their driveway wondering why their car isn't driving them to work or (b) returning their cars upon finding out many of the features on the Autopilot page require regulatory approval?

myared··on ECMAScript 2016+ in Firefox
Your customers are lucky to have you. I imagine they will rely on XP and IE8 as long as you are around.
myared··on Yahoo discloses hack of 1B accounts
One day, this will be Google announcing they've had a breach of this size. Not looking forward to that day.
myared··on The average size of Web pages is now the average size of a Doom install
GTA 5 is ~65GB in size. One day, web pages will be bigger than that.
myared··on JavaScript libraries should be written in TypeScript
Couldn't agree with this more. Specifically, the lost hours due to CoffeeScript.
myared··on A $99.99 Surfboard Upends the Industry
Almost anywhere in San Diego.
myared··on Postgres Guide
It appears that the Querying content is in the Joins section.
myared··on In 1900, Los Angeles had a bike highway
Happy that my hometown of Louisville, KY is partially finished with building out a ~110 mile bike (and walking) loop that circles the city by connecting existing parks and creating new ones. I can't think of anywhere else in the US where a cyclist could a century ride without having to deal with automobiles.

It's called the Louisville Loop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Parks

myared··on Airbnb Raises $1.5B in One of Largest Private Placements
Correct me if I wrong, but wouldn't this force Airbnb to have to start filing financial reports once they exceed a certain number of shareholders? I imagine they rather these limited shareholder spots go to bigger investors.
myared··on NGINX Open Source: Reflecting Back and Looking Ahead
I've been digging the last few months of blog posts that nginx has been putting out, especially the articles around microservices. They're very well written and have inspired our company to think differently about a few of our applications. When we were offered the opportunity to talk with nginx directly for a private webinar, we were left with a very underwhelming feeling. It may have been the specific sales person, but they couldn't explain how nginx's paid services could help our company.
myared··on Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Extend the Age of Oil
I don't think the article is saying that we should. In fact, it's talking about Saudi Arabia's efforts to move on themselves. They apparently even created a University with guards so that students and professors can exist w/o the typical religious expectations of their society.
myared··on Hidden backdoor API to root privileges in Apple OS X
What better way to encourage people to upgrade.
myared··on Ember's Glimmer Engine
They showed that side by side. Imagine the page reloading every 2 seconds instead of at the rate it is now. The improvement is incredible to see.
myared··on How GitHub Uses GitHub to Document GitHub
If you like this, also see the talk titled "How Github uses Github to build Github".

http://zachholman.com/talk/how-github-uses-github-to-build-g...

myared··on After raising $50M, Reddit forces all remote workers to relocate to SF
I think the larger issue is that investors (specifically ones with board meetings to attend) want to invest in companies in clusters so that they don't have to travel four times a year to a city with only one portfolio company.

It's crazy that we're actually talking about reddit having a problem with remote workers when even state and federal government agencies are open to it.

myared··on A Better Way of Incorporating JavaScript Ecosystem into Rails
Agreed, love the detail. And they even dropped the source code at the end to let me play around with it. Going to have to give this a try to see if the setup is worth the time versus just plugging in an existing javascript framework. ES6 has no bounds.
myared··on Sprint and T-Mobile Agree on Terms of $32B Deal
I hope this is true as a T-mobile subscriber. T-mobile is great in cities, but it's terrible when you leave. You can make a phone call, but there will no Internet. I just finished a cross country road trip, and if I were ever to do one again, I would get a Verizon phone for a month.
myared··on Coinbase user emails and full names leaked
Perhaps some of these individuals are using coinbase as a way to purchase bitcoins before they move them to their private wallets.
myared··on Inside DuckDuckGo, Google's Tiniest, Fiercest Competitor
DDG gives me freedom to better craft my queries, and it's won my browser's default search engine for years because of the bang syntax. I can !anything and it almost always gets me what I need. I still !g and !b quite a bit, but I do so deliberately based on what I'm looking for (and I do think about whether I want the search affecting my Google Now results).
myared··on Zen room for Vim: Focsuing only on the essential
Try tmux. You'll likely be happier with panes and without tabs. Plus you can focus on a single pane when you want some zen.
myared··on My tmux setup
Couldn't agree more. Switching and committing to tmux (and wemux for pairing) has helped immensely.
myared··on Why we're building Loom
That was my first thought as well. Glad I'm not the only one.
myared··on Show HN: Save Memory in Google Chrome
You can make the same argument. OneTab is a partial solution whereas using another browser which consumes less memory per open tab isn't a solution at all if you want to use Chrome's features.
myared··on Slate: a Mac OS X window manager for power users
Since it seems that everyone is posting their favorite flavor, here's mine: http://spectacleapp.com/. Open source and gets you hooked in minutes. I can't imagine using OS X without it.
myared··on Checklist for Creating a Landing Page
The product is the thing, and the product can be viewed differently to different people in different regions with different motivations. A landing page shouldn't dramatize anything. Businesses need landing pages to allow for segmentation and to continually refine your message based on the audience. I have yet to come across a marketing agency that recommends against the use of landing pages.
myared··on Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It
Agreed, not having a choice is frustrating, and as you point out, having a capable mobile browser alleviates many of those issues.
myared··on Why Responsive Design Is Not Worth It
His arguments are poor. These are the two most egregious.

(1) It Costs More and Takes Longer. Yes, designing something additional takes longer; however, if he compared the time required to add responsive code to the time it would take to setup mobile detect and an alternate theme, than this point may have some more sense even though I'd still side with responsive code.

(2) Non-Responsive Designs Usually Work. No. That's why we're having the discussion. If regular designs worked, there would not be a need.

This is a problem that a lot of companies struggle with. It's fine to criticize responsive design, but bring something to the table.

myared··on Apple Rejects App That Tracks U.S. Drone Strikes
The irony is that this news aggregator is being denied, yet someone could make a game called "Drone Wars" where you operate a drone on missions and Apple would have no problem with it.
myared··on Have you ever chatted with a hacker within a virus?
Not the same, but similar story... 6-8 years ago, I chatted directly with the person responsible for breaking into a web server on the server itself. It's a strange feeling to ssh in and watch someone browsing through files. I did a 'echo "hello?" | wall', showed the guy how to answer me back, and we eventually moved the conversation to IRC. I was using some website to convert English to Portuguese.

Turns out it was a (young) teenager from Brazil. His compromise was that he wouldn't touch our files or deface our websites so long as he could remain in control of the server. I carelessly tried to kick him off, uninstall the rootkit and restart the server only to find out that he could continue to use the same exploit to get access. Then we just called our host and asked them to take down the box. Lost a whole day to it, but I walked away understanding a little bit more about motivation, and learned about an exploit that I hadn't known about previously.

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