I'm at the point where I keep both Chrome and FF open. Chrome for work and FF for browsing, where I find Treestyle Tabs too valuable to lose. I've pretty much given up on there being a true Chrome equivalent at this point, but I would probably switch if there was one.
It took me awhile to find it, because in FF 10 on Windows, the X|Y button is showing up as an FL (it looks like it might be a sprite issue? the buttons on the bottom have the same problem) but once I found it, I liked it a lot.
I wonder if this is going to bring us back to the days where you need to run a server version of the OS if you want an environment suitable for doing technical work. I can't imagine running this on my dual 30'' setup.
I wonder if that isn't a hint at some flaw with the SDK or hardware. Usually MS is very gung ho about having early adopters through all of their various betas and early access plans and previews and etc.
I can't wait to see what sorts of apps come out of this. I have a dual 30'' display set up, and I'd love to be able to have some sort of "cursor follows my eyes" type of feature so that I can quickly move around all of that screen real estate.
I've used nHibernate for ~7 years at this point and I push it whenever I can. One of the big issues it faces is that there's no documentation equivalent to MSDN. Even if the MSDN documentation is useless (which it frequently is, with things like "The IsClosed property indicates if the object is closed.") it still "looks professional."
I think you can do amazing things with the .NET platform, but it mostly requires a certain amount of, for lack of a better term, fearlessness when it comes to what you build your system on. Using anything that isn't blessed is often an uphill battle where you are met with suspicion and derision.
Yes, it reminds me of Sim City 2000's arcologies, which, as I'm sure anyone who loved that game as much as I did would agree, is the sort of thing dreams are made of (I'll pass on the rocket boosters though). It's really unfortunate for me that this iteration is in Vegas.
Hah, they must use the same vendor. Strangely enough I haven't had that problem myself the few times I've called, but one of the nice things about FiOS is that you don't need to call them for many common tasks.
It's not really clear that this is actually a new startup, but regardless of that, investing in Las Vegas real estate strikes me as an extremely bold move.
I've been fortunate enough to be a FiOS customer for awhile, so I haven't had the pleasure of dealing with Comcast lately, but until I moved into this building I'd used them all over the east coast. They had a particularly galling bug in their customer service system where you would be routed to a regional call center based on your phone's area code. This meant that every single time I called to talk about anything, I would first have to wait on hold at the call center I knew to be wrong before they would finally answer me and transfer me to the correct call center, where I got to wait on hold again. Several times I was given "direct" lines but they had the same problem.
You could be right. It's been a long time since I read it but I recall thinking, when I finished it, that I was glad for the twist ending because it gave much needed weight to the rest of the story. This might just be due to the fact that I've read many other hawk-turns-dove stories in other contexts, so my bar for them is high (e.g. If I Die in a Combat Zone).
This might be a minority opinion, but even as a huge sci-fi fan, I'm not sure the story holds up once you know the ending. I'm sure I'll end up seeing it anyway though.
This is true to some extent or another for almost all of the major news sites. Even if they just have comments, they're aren't offering them out of the goodness of their hearts, it's because it's a cheap way to boost impressions, sometimes dramatically. (At least, this is why they existed when I worked for one of them.)
No problem. I believe mine is a late 2010 model. It has the 1.4 GHz Core 2 Duo with 4 GB of RAM. It's 11'' rather than 13''. Performance is generally excellent and it's probably the best computer I've ever owned in terms of outright utility simply because it's approximately the size of a Kindle DX and I can take it anywhere without a thought. The fact that it's usable and responsive essentially instantly after opening the lid is also huge.
The only real problem comes with pushing pixels around, as the other reply mentioned. I can watch QT video fine, but if I go to Vimeo or YouTube, I can't really get a good playback out of Flash. Generally Flash is bad on this machine. I'm a long time Mac user so I'm not too unused to this, but it seems a little worse than on an iMac or something like that.
I think if you use an IDE for dev work you should check it out at an Apple Store or something to make sure the resolution works for you. That's really the only thing I'd consider. My 11'' is really just too small to me, having been spoiled by dual 30''s on my desktop. If you use a text editor or vim/emacs it'll probably be fine, but IntelliJ or Eclipse or whatever just have too many windows to manage in the space, in my opinion.
The X-37 (or whatever it ends up being called in the future) likely could snatch them right out of orbit without harming anything. I have no idea if it would be worth the expense, but that sort of capability is almost certainly a goal of the design. I have no doubt that at least the USAF and maybe their foreign counterparts are very invested in just this problem.
Are you joking about the matching contributions to a retirement account part? If not I would be really curious to see how that works in that context. Not that I'm expecting a textbook on the subject or anything.
This is something I've been wondering about as I've noticed increasingly high stakes items being reviewed on sites like Yelp.
For example, I'm trying to figure out where I want to move next and it's commonplace for high rise apartment buildings to be on Yelp, but now that we're talking about a $25,000 lease rather than a $40 meal, the incentives to play around with the sentiment of the reviews are significant, as well as the potential financial reward for doing so. How can we trust the neutrality of the venue in these circumstances?
I am not sure that I'm 100% against this idea, but the situation in California makes me really hesitant about direct democracy of that form. I'd like to think we could implement something like it that incorporates lessons learned, but I'm not too optimistic. If the CA situation went nationwide I'm afraid we'd basically be stuck in this do-nothing gridlock indefinitely.
Obviously since you posted this 21 minutes ago I haven't exactly had the time to get into it seriously, but reading that inspired me to check out Learned Optimism and just reading the first chapter it speaks to my personal struggle. Thanks.
It really doesn't matter if it's a myth if you feel like that. The pressures that you can feel when depressed and surrounded by family create bad situations that might result in an attempt later, once everyone is gone, or simply a really sad holiday. Frankly, neither of these is an acceptable outcome. This is the 21st century and a human being shouldn't need to feel scared and alone anymore.
This question is kind of apropos of nothing, but I noticed that one of the example documents [1] has a weird markup structure, lacking tags like HEAD, BODY, etc. Is this just one of those weird accidental things or is this an intentional technique? It kind of reminds me of the dark old days of IE6 workarounds.
Probably a dumb question but I don't keep up on client-side technology as much as I should so I was curious.
I didn't anticipate how much I would come to prefer my DX to everything else. I do wish that screensaver (that isn't quite the right term) was at least somewhat customizable though.