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xbryanx

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I work with science and technology in a museum.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/bkennedy; my proof: https://keybase.io/bkennedy/sigs/hB1QbBEeJ234UW-FvdLpTrZh3AR7bo6zpSHc4YZUQ4w ]

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xbryanx··on Richard Prince, the world’s highest-grossing “photographer”
> protected by U.S. law

Not entirely: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cariou_v._Prince

No definitive decision, and the case was settled.

xbryanx··on Yahoo Board to Weigh Potential Sale of Internet Business, Sources Say
If that sounds onerous to you, then don't become a publicly traded company.
xbryanx··on Wind Map
The fantastic thing about this project is that they've open sourced the code [1]. With a little help from NOAA and some work with the GRIB data format [2], I was quickly able to build this into an customized interactive museum exhibit that's in two science centers now.

We could never have afforded to build this from scratch. Open Source to the rescue, once again.

[1] - https://github.com/cambecc/earth

[2] - https://github.com/scimusmn/earth-latest-data

xbryanx··on YouTube Red, a $9.99 Site-Wide Ad-Free Subscription with Play Music
For sure...when I think "video" and "red" I think of these guys:

http://www.red.com/

xbryanx··on LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
Oh wow. Thanks for posting this. It's such an improvement.
xbryanx··on LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
Is Dashlane "for Teams" comparable to LastPass Enterprise?
xbryanx··on LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
Paying LastPass (Enterprise) user here too. I hope the extension gets a complete overhaul. I've experienced dataloss multiple times due to inconsistent interface issues. Support just shrugs and points me to 3rd party backup solutions. I see the UX problems as critical, but yes...just below security.
xbryanx··on LogMeIn acquires Lastpass
Do LogMeIn users have a feeling as to whether this is a good thing? Will they bring any visual polish, or UX consistency to the jumble that is Last Pass?
xbryanx··on Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications
Derp...I do. Typing to fast. Thanks.
xbryanx··on Meteor Galaxy, a cloud platform for Meteor applications
It looks like they are purposefully ceding the small-fry market to Modulus[1] and maybe even Digital Ocean[2]. Part of what you're buying here is access to the Meteor team and best practices at scale. From what I've heard that's something it's harder to get from Modulus.

[1] - https://modulus.io/

[2] - https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-depl...

edit: spelling

xbryanx··on Give Google Contributor a try: Pay to remove ads
For the ~price of Netflix subscription, I only get 25-50% fewer ads? Nah...too expensive.
xbryanx··on 14-Year-Old Boy Arrested for Bringing Homemade Clock to School
Irving, Texas is not typical of what most consider the deep south. It's part of the DFW metroplex which is in the nation's fourth largest population center[1], and it's in a county that went 57% for Obama in the 2012 election[2]. So let's just be careful about painting wide swaths of the country with an singular view.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Metropolitan_Statistic...

[2] - http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/results/president

xbryanx··on Language Trends on GitHub
I wonder if they're doing any sort of de-duplication. Surely 1000s of instances of the same jquery, bootstrap, etc shouldn't count towards JavaScript's language total.
xbryanx··on Amazon details its plan for how drones can fly safely over U.S. skies
Yes, this has a very real likelihood to impact the roll out of the technology.

Obviously supersonic booms are a different animal, but they had a roll in keeping the tech from going mainstream here in the US:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_sonic_boom_tests

xbryanx··on First Java Zero-Day Attack in Two Years Targets NATO and US Defense Organizations
One of those crufty little shops is ADP, one of the biggest payroll processors around. I hate that I have to use their applet crapstack, but it's not so simple to just turn it off.
xbryanx··on What's coming in Meteor 1.2, and beyond
Yes, you totally can, but I found running one command:

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

so much quicker (in the short term and long term) than reading a myriad of tutorials and then bashing my head against this configuration of several products for multiple weeks to get what Meteor provides as part of a single maintained and updated system.

xbryanx··on Atom 1.0
It does run in a browser of sorts (http://electron.atom.io/), just not the browser, you're using to read this.
xbryanx··on Atom 1.0
It's possibly more fair to compare it with an IDE, not simply a text editor. WebStorm as a download is 131 MB. Not as big, but in a similar class.

edit: And the full WebStorm app is 293.5 MB

xbryanx··on Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
Yep, which is why this hypothetical comment would also be an appropriate retort to someone referring to the Sept 11th attacks as "somebody felt bad." As I'd hoped I made clear, I wasn't suggesting Apple's reaction was appropriate or inappropriate, just that isn't simply about feelings.
xbryanx··on Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
Not sure how you got that from my comment.
xbryanx··on Apple Removes American Civil War Games from the App Store
Regardless of what you think about the current reactions, they are not solely the result of someone feeling bad. They are the reactions to the murder of 9 innocent people by a white supremacist professing a genocidal desire. Now, whether this justifies this action or not is a different matter.
xbryanx··on LastPass Security Notice
I use 1Password for personal/family stuff. It's a much better interface and has many fewer bugs.

I manage a Last Pass Enterprise instance at work. I love/hate it. The interface is terrible and buggy. However, it's the only tool I've found to manage passwords across many users (some medium to non-technical) who need access to shared accounts within an organization. 1Password doesn't really do this, and sharing vaults over Dropbox doesn't really cut it. Despite all the bug pain, it's so much better than what we were doing before, sharing passwords via email and other embarrassing methods.

How can there really only be one company doing what LastPass Enterprise does? There must be other systems that I just can't find in my research. Any recommendations for other managed password stores for organizations?

xbryanx··on Show HN: Retroospect – How was your work week?
The variation between the middle "meh" feeling and the next level up is way too large of a emotional jump. There's a bunch of room between "no arguments" and "we had a blast." It might still be fine to have 5 or 6 detents in the slider, but those descriptions really threw me off.
xbryanx··on Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers
No Chicago, Houston, Minneapolis, and Kansas City. Upper Midwest is conspicuously absent.
xbryanx··on Amazon launches same day delivery for Prime customers
Does anyone have insights/guesses into the reasons behind the cities where this has been rolled out? It doesn't seem to correlate with market size. Is it:

- regulation

- supply lines

- weather

- internal politics

??

xbryanx··on Fish shell
Hyperpolyglot has a nice breakdown of the differences between bash, zsh, and fish.

http://hyperpolyglot.org/unix-shells

xbryanx··on B. B. King, Defining Bluesman for Generations, Dies at 89
FYI that second pic is a Photoshoped composition for a live bootleg where Jimi and King jammed together in 1968.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnA8cOahBlQ

Here is the original B.B. King photo.

http://bootlegpedia.com/imagesCache.php?site=bootlegpedia&im...

xbryanx··on Santa Monica council votes 7-0 to crack down on Airbnb
I assume this is a story about their strict JS style guide?

https://github.com/airbnb/javascript

xbryanx··on The View from the Front Seat of the Google Self-Driving Car
There's a scene in The Mote in God's Eye, just like this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%27s_Eye

xbryanx··on Some American Airlines planes are grounded because the pilots’ iPads crashed
Those flight plans sure look like XKCD comics from a distance.
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