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rMBP··on Yellowstone Bears Eat 40K Moths a Day in August
> While fat in the diet is not the best thing for humans

Why does the article say this?

rMBP··on PgAdmin 4 v1.0 released
Seconded. Postico is very nice, atleast for my simple needs.
rMBP··on Humble Book Bundle: The Joy of Coding
(No, but) You should start by downloading "Automate the boring stuff with Python".
rMBP··on The sugar conspiracy: sugar—not fat—is the greatest danger to our health
Regarding "real fruit", how much sweeter is a tomato, an orange, or an apple today compared to past centuries?

Haven't most if not all of the commonly available (popular) fruits today been refined through selective breeding to be more appealing to us? What was lost vs. gained in this process?

(I have no idea, I'm not trying to be rhetorical. My guess is lots of more sweetness and perhaps less fiber, in a much larger fruit.)

rMBP··on Is this prime?
"Inspect Element"
rMBP··on Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
Yeah I know, it is the lowest effort. But I'm not running it on my main system. Worst case I'll have to reinstall (unless it messes with the hardware, firmware changes for example).
rMBP··on Transmission BitTorrent app contained malware
I'm on 2.90 and can't find any weird processes running. I'll hold off on 2.91 until they've explained what happened.
rMBP··on A list of PostgreSQL libraries, tools and resources
I found this talk by Christophe Pettus [1] very informative. The title is somewhat misleading as most of the talk has little to do with Python, but it's a good introduction to more advanced Postgres concepts. Also available in PDF form [2].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uCxLCmzaG4

[2] http://thebuild.com/presentations/pycon-2014-pppp.pdf

rMBP··on Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Apple's power adapter
It could also be the Apple charger's design that makes it able to handle shorting of components without posing a hazard to anything other than itself.
rMBP··on WebXray
I don't get why people complain about that. Keep the code but add a disclaimer if it's so much of an issue for some..?
rMBP··on Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
Websites are one thing. It really gets annoying when different applications in an operating system "can't agree" on what to use. I've seen both in Debian/Gnome apps, but that's kind of to be expected from (F)OSS software as rules for UI are less strict/not very well defined.
rMBP··on Show HN: Visa Explorer – Salaries, lawyers, companies of all H-1B in the USA
The asc/desc triangles bugs me too. Arrows would indicate order (⬆︎ = rising, lowest to highest). Triangles aren't arrows and should IMO be the reversed, like a pyramid (▲ = ascending, smallest on top). I just noticed HN uses triangles as arrows for upvotes, whereas Reddit has the arrows.
rMBP··on The Ghost in the MP3
Safari checking in.
rMBP··on Amethyst – A tiling window manager for OS X
Google led me to BetterSnapTool: https://itunes.apple.com/en/app/bettersnaptool/id417375580?m...
rMBP··on Show HN: Front-end framework optimized for internal apps
License? Scanned both the github and docs for any mention of it.
rMBP··on Gmail trick: multiplying your address
I'm running my own email server and use the dash/minus - instead. Works great.
rMBP··on Keep Bananas Fresh Longer
Holy moley, the initial scrolling on that site is horrible.
rMBP··on Harry Eng – Master Bottle Filler
> Our venerable curator has gone nearly blind with a magnifying glass but has failed to find any sign of breaks or glue in this plank.

So the bottom was cut open and sealed by heat then.

rMBP··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
Wasn't aware of it using DB2, not that I care much what it is as long as it works. As you probably know having worked on it it's an application platform too, which is mostly what we use it for. Sadly, none of my colleagues has the time to develop any apps for it and I only dabble around in high level languages, so everyone just uses the blank office template and creates documents with tables and stuff. But the search is great, and the save conflict management keeps some of the IT-related headaches away. I wish there was a self-hosted web app equivalent though as the UI for editing is similar to Ms Office, thus easy for Average Joe to grasp. The drag-drop storage of files inside documents is nifty.
rMBP··on Poll: What database does your company/you use?
IBM Domino... :-(
rMBP··on 2048 in 3D
Just add an option to undo moves. :)
rMBP··on Show HN: Phaser – Trello for software development, with Vim built in
I second that request. It looks really nice, but SaaS - free or not - is a no go for projects that involves sensitive or classified data.
rMBP··on What Hard Drive Should I Buy?
Do those quotation marks mean "enterprise labelled", such as the WD RE4-series? Are there good data on how they perform vs the consumer series? By good I mean like the data your company provided, samples of thousands of drives.
rMBP··on The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder
> Heck there are structural brain differences in people with ADHD that can be detected!

Though not on an individual level, as far as I know. But studies on larger groups have shown differences from non-AD(H)D scans (source: I once saw a Youtube video with a semi-bald psychiatrist (?) with ADD.)

rMBP··on Show HN: nvlope.com, your mailbox with an API
Enterprise option to keep it on our own servers and I'm sold. (Policy forbids SaaS and the like)
rMBP··on Web Latency Benchmark: A new kind of browser benchmark
Enabling WebGL works. My three tests scored 8.7, 6.7 and 6.3 respectively. I guess Safari, like me, hates repetitive tasks. :)
rMBP··on Web Latency Benchmark: A new kind of browser benchmark
Does not work in Safari on Mavericks using a rMBP @1680x1050 retina resolution. It suggests browser zooming be set to 100% which it is.
rMBP··on My experience going from 17" MBP to 15" rMBP for programming
Stop talking to your computer and get back to work!
rMBP··on My experience going from 17" MBP to 15" rMBP for programming
I think you're confusing the two.

gfxCardStatus only shows which graphics card is active.

Pupil only allows you to change screen resolutions.

They complement each other, but have no overlapping features.

rMBP··on Django plugins you shouldn't start without
Wow, sekizai looks great. Removes many of my headaches with django's limited block system.
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