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Also, what if you get a phone call when your phone is downstairs and you are upstairs?

Limited utility.

The pebble demands your attention. That is all. It does nothing that something else doesn't do already, costs a chunk of money, needs constant feeding and attention. At least a smartphone was a consolidation of communication and entertainment devices. This is a portable distraction. A poor one at that.

Do you think it's healthy to constantly stare at your heat rate, glucose level and blood pressure and micromanage every parameter of your life?

Also in a decade, you will pay a subscription fee for that data from the central provider that your watch talks to. That model is established already plus it will probably be linked to your health insurance profile as well by then. You'll wear one to keep your premium down...

There is literally nothing that has an advantage over it for me. Status and cost mean nothing.

I think the smart watch is purely an example of conspicuous consumption, nothing more.

(I did a spot writing some workflow software for an engineering team a few years back).

Then there's the wireless stack and peripheral space which is even more complicated.

Edit: this was my intention when I went to university in the early 90's but I found sitting in front of a Sun workstation drawing squares (gates) very tedious.

However the objection people, including myself, have with PHP is that the legacy stuff is inconsistent junk.

I still use it on occasion but it pains me.

In app purchases are usually pretty optional as is content.

As long as you hit middle C1 on every chord regardless of whether or not it's a duff chord or not...

At least with vi, you can play one fingered and make an acceptable tune ;)

Sure Douglas Hofstadter could write a book about that...

Rather surprised it was dumping down TLS 1.0!

That's how I figure it works in my head.

Look at the specific examples section.

I agree with the assertion that this is to secure a better deal.

(I wrote software to manage assembly and versioning of components on space and military equipment).

Always use multiple sources. Also always make sure that at least 50% of those sources aren't Associated Press who feed into a lot of different papers.

* No verification required for me. Perhaps this is a step when paying by paypal? I've been asked many times for more info when using that. If they pulled this on me, my backup MX will handle email until I get to sort it.

* AMS1 was unfortunate. I signed up when it wasn't available and I'm in Europe. I moved my machine to AMS2 when that came up (after their first day of scary high load). I had my host in NYC2 to start with and it was perfectly usable from London, UK over SSH. I couldn't tell the difference between it and my server in the house.

* Custom kernels. This is one of two gripes for me. I really want FreeBSD but failing that I want the latest Debian kernel. Keeping an eye on this one. I've got ufw/iptables up front which I have my fingers crossed will protect from any network level issues, logwatch, fail2ban etc to monitor casual attempts and patches are tracked.

* SSH key generation: I always regen my SSH keys anyway if I didn't see it happen so this would have been a non issue for me. This is crypto paranoia on my part (and well justified).

* Wiping data: when I saw the "securely destroy my data" checkbox I ticked it. Why would you not tick it?

To be fair, for $5/month it's not bad. Having played with shared hosting for 17 years, managed massive colo custom deployments and paid through the nose for other hosting, it's the best compromise so far.

I looked at Linode but the bottom end was slightly too expensive and I'd rather have SSDs behind it as IO contention on VPSs is usually rather high so that got ruled out.

I tried an Amazon EC2 micro instance and it was horribly slow so they didn't get my cash.

I usually write a test exerciser for the library/command and a "known good output" file then diff the output and the known good.

will take a look at this for certain.

Nothing has shown itself as significantly better yet.