348 karma · joined November 17, 2010
Here goes nothing...
YOU KNOW I CAN'T GRAB YOUR GHOST CHIPS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsFlVWqWHlA
For a year now, I've been internalizing this really complicated situation in my head.
Wondering why this phrase has stuck with me so very much. Why? What does it all mean?
It all makes perfect sense now.
Pack it up folks. The Internet is over.
Take me now, God. It is done.
People genuinely need saving from themselves.
Huxley was right: http://youtube.com/watch?v=1ygIqLJnBJI
It's not like we were never warned.
OP, "Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter." - http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That pesky browser thing never could do anything of value. Umm...Dah... What a joke! It's all "boondoggle"!
It unquestionably couldn't ever be used to build "apps" [1].
Certainly could never ever be fast enough [2].
Obviously cannot ever possibly utilise multiple cores [3].
Most definitely never ever could do 3D [4].
So, you're right, I doubt it will ever do crypto [5].
Those fools might even consider "Online Banking" or something crazy like that!
When will those stupid browser idiots learn?
[1] http://facebook.com, http://gmail.com, http://twitter.com, etc.
[2] http://arewefastyet.com - http://madebyevan.com/webgl-path-tracing/
[3] http://w3.org/TR/workers - http://chromium.org/developers/design-documents
[4] http://khronos.org/webgl - http://chromeexperiments.com/webgl - http://ro.me
Imagine some kind of worldwide system, without a central server and dedicated administrator, distributed among a large, constantly changing conglomeration of servers that store and forward messages to one another.
In your dreams!
Now they can enforce more totalitarian DRM¹, with less latency!
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
[1] "Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle" http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18ama...
(Don't mind the down-voters, they're just Ministry of Love slaves)
You could try OpenDNS or "8.8.8.8" or something.
If you choose to change, please be aware of the implications.
Assange is still chill-banging. Sipping Aguardiente. Schmoozing Ecuadorian diplomats. Yelling shit about the commander-in-chief out from the balcony to the glassy-eyed press [1].
As for Mr. DotCom, don't hold your breath. NZ is still busy kissing his arse [2].
[1] http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/julian-assange-labels...
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For instance, what if Microsoft chooses not to report spam accounts whilst Apple does?
It would be very much related to the rate of retweets as this is primarily how information traverses Twitter.
I think the formula is something like trendiness - honesty.
http://twitter.com/adobe - 10,420 - 139,670 - 13.40
http://twitter.com/apple - 0 - 12,207 - ∞
http://twitter.com/facebook - 997 - 5,673,552 - 5,690.62
http://twitter.com/google - 3,820 - 5,382,253 - 1,408.97
http://twitter.com/hp - 17,318 - 162,246 - 9.37
http://twitter.com/microsoft - 3,504 - 346,880 - 99.00
http://twitter.com/mozilla - 2,044 - 9,943 - 4.86
http://twitter.com/nokia - 15,533 - 351,303 - 22.62
http://twitter.com/opera - 3,529 - 104,859 - 29.71
http://twitter.com/samsung - 8,863 - 332,269 - 37.49
http://twitter.com/twitter - 1,470 - 14,420,774 - 9,810.05
Excluding Apple, I'm not entirely sure what this measures.
Twitter-ness?
Thank you so very much for sharing your story. This degree of honesty is far too rare and is absolutely commendable. More appropriately, your story resonates in strong sympathy with mine.
"I owe my life to technology."
Those who've never uttered this are simply unable to grasp the extensive implications of such a notion. Even in those who don't openly admit it, it eventually manifests itself; often in bizarre ways. A friend of mine has the "transistor" symbol tattooed across his forearm; another wears small electrical components as jewellery. Neither are able to readily admit just how much technology has effected their lives; particularly to their partners. This failure of honesty was the downfall of my most cherished relationship, and many since. And I fear, many hereafter.
"I tried to imagine what my life would be like in the wake of all this if I had been living two hundred years ago. Most likely, I would be trapped. I would be living in the scraps of the life that had unraveled around me. I could not seek the support of friends from around the world at any time of day or night. I could not book passage to wherever I felt I needed to escape to. I couldn’t work from wherever I happen to end up. Trapped."
The truth is: our fixation on all things technological is merely a symptom of what's otherwise a distinct disease. We yearn for a life less ordain, less automated and yet it's these very concepts we attempt to employ in our escape. We've been sold a lie. In the past, escaping to seek counsel was much easier. There were entire unchartered continents boasting unique foreigners with novel, enlightening perspectives. Sure, technology has made these endeavours vastly more efficient, in terms of both time and work. But at what cost? It is my observation that in our advancements, we dilute our power to transmute our problems into solutions. Meanwhile, technology has not universally transformed the degree to which all members of our species cooperate. The shifting all of our burdens onto what we believe will save us, in this case technology, has been incredibly disempowering for us all. The problem has never been in our technology, or lack thereof; it was, and always will be, in us.
"It is now nearing mid-November and, despite a hurricane and a freak snowstorm and the general insanity that is this place, I’m still here."
That you are. If ever your answer to the question "Am I alive?" is "Yes", then your purpose here on this planet has most certainly not yet been realised.
You are going to make it.
Eyes open. No fear.
Consider taking your own advice.
Just think, now our apps can fail even faster!
Nature abhors them so much that they do not exist in accordance with nature.
This is why we can't have nice things.
http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html
https://github.com/sublimehq/Vintage
If you're fortunate enough to be using Sublime on OSX, finding a shortcut is easy as:
1. Opening the help menu - "Command-?" (Command-Shift-/) 2. Entering search terms
Here's a screengrab of the process for your particular query (moving lines up): http://i.imgur.com/j226q.png
And here's a screengrab of CheatSheet (http://cheatsheetapp.com), a utility for quickly reviewing shortcuts in any OSX app, being applied to Sublime: http://i.imgur.com/HPUB4.png
Alternatives for these are available for other platforms, should you not be using OSX. Seek and you shall find :)
You passed.
To the rest of you PaaS mob: so where the bloody hell are you?