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It is apparently a limitation in the GitHub access levels:

https://gitter.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/200176672-Authe...

Which is unfortunate, because I'd like to try gitter but I'm not willing to mess around with my github account like that.

tvonon The Egg (2009)

"The other hand" is a far better scenario. Odds are you'll see it at some point if this sort of thing interests you, far better that than to find it this way.

tvonon Gitter, chat for GitHub, is now public beta

That's one hell of an authorization request. I see the reasoning in the sidebar, but I'm not really willing to take that kind of chance to try out a new chat service.

tvonon Microsoft Board Names Satya Nadella as CEO

Every link discussion site needs the ability to merge multiple links under one heading. This has been bugging me for years.

tvonon Samsung and Google Sign Global Patent License Agreement

I don't see what's particularly good about this, it's just an alliance in a series of legal battles.

tvonon Mac Pro (late 2013) replica inside a real trashcan

FWIW, I haven't had any update issues for years. If you have hardware setup that was easy to install on, then you'll have a hardware setup that is easy to update. If you had to do anything special after the basic install, you'll probably have to do the same thing after each update.

tvonon Uber rival accuses car service of dirty tactics

Uber is based in San Francisco, which may be why they asked a San Francisco-based attorney.

tvonon Xpra: Screen for X

FWIW, if that's all you want you can do it with plain old X11.

tvonon Quick tip for developers who use OS X

http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/readline.html

These work in most GUI inputs as well.

tvonon Ruby 2.1 Released

Yes, on three machines (10.9 and 10.8).

tvonon A Year’s Worth of Opinions about Objective-C

A UIVieController has a view associated with it (typically self.view) which is why XCode offers to create a xib file for you.

tvonon Ask HN: Best current model routers for OpenWRT, DD-WRT, Tomato, etc.?

The Asus N66u is highly regarded:

http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-wi-fi-router-asus-rt-n...

I have one myself but have not loaded Tomato on it yet.

tvonon Snapchat's Evan Spiegel: Saying no to $3B, and feeling lucky

Apple changed an Apple app to use Apple data instead of Google Data, there was no removal of a Google app because there was no Google app to remove.

tvonon As Oracle axes support for GlassFish, MySQL users might want to pay attention

> For some reason your post doesn't have a reply link

I think that for a comment at some level of nesting N, the ability to replay is delayed by Y seconds. IIRC this is to prevent stupid back-and-forth arguments.

tvonon Google Play Music on the App Store

I could, but I have a complex password so I copy/paste it from another app.

I should honestly memorize that password anyway.

tvonon Google Play Music on the App Store

Yup, I authenticated in the Drive app and it picked up that account. Thanks for the tip.

tvonon Google Play Music on the App Store

I'm experiencing a horribly broken login process.

* Open login screen

* Switch to password app, copy password

* Switch back to Google Music, login screen loads again

* Enter credentials, 2-step verification screen loads

* Switch to Google Authenticator, get 2-step number

* Switch back to Google Music, user/password login screen loads again.

In short, I cannot authenticate using a single device, I'll have to use a second device to pull up the 2-auth number.

tvonon As Oracle axes support for GlassFish, MySQL users might want to pay attention

Compatibility document for the curious:

https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb-versus-mysql-compatibility...

tvonon As Oracle axes support for GlassFish, MySQL users might want to pay attention

Agreed, every MySQL project I'm on is actually a MariaDB project. While I prefer Postgres and have arguments to present to clients who rely on MySQL, a fear of Oracle is not one of those arguments because I just don't think it matters what happens to MySQL proper.

tvonon Newsmap

The fast moving spinners give the impression that the page is loading quickly.

tvonon Xcode Cheat Sheet

Don't forget that just about everything in OSX and Linux supports readline navigation:

  C-n - next line
  C-p - previous line
  C-f - next char
  C-b - previous char
  C-a - beginning of line
  C-e - end of line

I assume there are others as well, but that's pretty much what I use.

tvonon [dead]

AFAIK the title-casing of submissions is automatic so anything that starts with "iOS" will show up as "IOS".

tvonon Devops Horror Stories

There are still some good NNTP clients out there, but I think Google Groups is the primary interface these days:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.sysadmin.recover...

tvonon OS X 10.9 Mavericks: The Ars Technica Review

While I like their opposition to Flash[1], IMO you will eventually just end up more advanced HTML ads that are harder to detect.

[1] primarily because there are no viable competing implementations to what Adobe puts out

tvonon Apple Says New OS X ‘Mavericks’ Will Be Offered for Free

You can't download an ISO, you'll need a working OSX install to download it from the App Store. From there I believe you can burn an install DVD and AFAIK you've always been able to do a non-networked install.

edit: Un-tested by me, but I've heard this is how you do it:

http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=18081307&postcoun...

tvonon Apple Special Event October 2013 Live Stream

I don't remember the specific setup (or what it's called), but you can have that in Linux. The problem is that then you can't drag windows from one monitor to the other, though that may also be something that can be configured. Because of that I never liked independent desktops in Linux, but I like how they implemented it in Mavericks.

tvonon Apple Special Event October 2013 Live Stream

You can either have independent spaces (switch screen 1 to a different space while screen 2 remains unchanged) or you can have them linked (when switching screen 1, screen 2 also changes).

tvonon RVM 2.0: Convert 20,000 lines of shell script into Ruby [Fundraiser]

I suspect there is a lot of actively developed software out there that you do not use.