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The MKZ as well? That's impressive, would've never guessed.

I don't see anyone saying people in uniform shouldn't be making better wages.

Yeah, I gawked when I saw the Mazda comment too. A bunch of Mazda's in those years, especially the 90's were rebadged Fords. Compare the Mazda Navajo to Ford Explorer Sport's of the same vintage [1]

[1] http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_Navajo

Huge impact? Most Definitely. Huge positive impact? Unless you feel the need to keep tabs on everyone you've ever met, probably not.

Hockey fan here. Good luck getting a bar to turn on the game when football is still on or baseball season is underway.

Beyond that, some people just really don't like bar environments. (Or show me a sports bar where people are hanging out and watching a game + doing hackathons during the intermissions.. that would be unbelievably cool)

Being free from the tyranny of Eclipse workspaces is, on its own, damn nice.

If you're the type that likes your version control integrated in your IDE, SVN and git feel much more natural in NetBeans than the Team Provider implementations in Eclipse. Eclipse requires navigating to the source control perspective, adding the repository, checking out, and then selecting the option to look for projects which you can open in your workspace.. its not exactly a smooth process. NB is more akin to what you'd do if your terminal was open.

In terms of stability, NB definitely wins there. Never crashes and none of the typing slow downs that used to bug me [what seemed like] all the time in Eclipse.

The one incredibly irritating thing about it is the way it forks processes when running via maven. Start an http server with netty and hit stop, the process is still running. I've taken to doing most of my testing from a terminal, which is a somewhat janky process I've forced myself to get used to.

Since they released Notes with 10.8, its pretty much replaced Notational Velocity for me. Search isn't quite as fast but syncing via iCloud is awesome. Now with AirDrop its super nice, being able to quickly send a note to someone else and have it show up in the 'normal' notes format (trying to read it in a text message is goofy).

I know its just outside of the scope of notes, but if there was some level of collaboration, Apple could seriously cut down on the number of couples arguing in supermarkets (and Ikea)

And, at this point at least, it isn't getting hijacked. You just end up on a page that says there's nothing to see.

For a PA system? I'm pretty sure all of that is using transistors now.

For a guitar amp, I hear you (though I also think the quality of things like guitar rig in the last few years have started to sound pretty believable)

Well, the vacuum tubes have already been replaced. (I do agree with you though)

Same exact situation for me, definitely don't want to be reading anyone else's chats or for there to be any concern that someone might be listening in.

GitHub uses campfire, but HipChat does not give any way for a account owners/admins to read personal 1-1 chat logs.

For anyone reading: please just use HTTPS!

I wish they'd make something like this that captured time lapse imagery... The construction going on in Brooklyn Bridge Park looks roughly like where they were at last summer. Would love to see the summer turn into this winter we've been experiencing.

Really awesome stuff :)

Or the process of releasing those in need of treatment during the 80's. Its amazing how we're capable of so much as a society but can't get it together to help those most in need.

(Interesting piece from the time on how it came about that the mental hospitals started being emptied: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...)

Don't know about public opinion on life imprisonment for minors, but the death penalty still has support from a majority of polled Americans [1]. I'd say it might be 'old' just because the UN passed this almost 25 years ago but the public policy is [supposed to be] derived from where the people are at. Seems like its still a relevant statement.

[1] http://www.gallup.com/poll/1606/death-penalty.aspx

It's kind of interesting how that G5 ad on the front page has a testimonial about freeing you from the chains of Intel and MS. Apple was was probably right in the middle of getting 10.4 ready to run on Intel at this point

Yes. This. The fact that Cheney went out and lobbied congress for this should say something about the dire nature of the situation

sublime and notepad++, sure. I doubt, though, that they think they're going to move many away from using a full-blown IDE like NetBeans, Eclipse, Intellij, etc.

This was actually the last thing I was looking at before throwing in the towel and moving back to the app server in the interest of getting things done. I'll have to give it another go some time, thanks!

Just this week I had my own go at plpgsql again a few years after my last attempts. I have come away with the same conclusions I did last time "oh wow, this is really cool and fast and great; oh bummer, this is taking way too many of my own cycles to get something working".

The pg docs unfortunately weren't much beyond selecting some data. Trying to write any logic is something that left me struggling (in my case, I needed a hash table that could store a key value pair of numbers).

From my own experience a few years ago, however, go look at the stored procedures in PostGIS. There are many, many of them methodically written and you could probably learn most of what there is to know from detailed inspection.

This should be the companion reader to the HTML Horror page[1]

Speaking of SHTML... has anyone else always read it as "shitmail" in their head?

[1] http://www.goer.org/htmlhorror/htmlhorror1.html

Thank you for the sanity check, seriously.

When did "having a product available" become "winning the battle"?

Do you use any open source libraries at work? Are they flawed? Write good bug reports and get involved in the community. It's not building up a patch portfolio (I should trademark that) but it shows that you're paying attention and care about quality.

My exception was to the idea of this being a premature optimization (sorry, I probably should've replied directly to your comment with the CSS example)

Except using indexes is a major part of developing for a database. In many simple schemas, performance will completely break down without proper indexing. That's a bit different than spending time investigating if for-each is faster than a traditional loop.

And yet in both cases of being denied by Twitter and Facebook he aired the negative news and kept a positive outlook.

That's the sign of a smart person in my book.

Its a shame, regulated pipes is starting to look like the most reasonable solution when providers are doing exactly what you said, eyeing up higher margin models and drooling.

Regardless of opinions on free market, political leanings, etc, the fact that this is standing in the way of progress is bad news for everyone.

Yeah I've heard/seen this as well, they've done it in favor of expanding LTE coverage [0]

I'm astounded at how anyone at VZ thinks this could be a good idea.

[0] http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Verizon-Again-Confirms-Fi...