Trump should appoint a horse as the new Director (and perhaps change the name of the position to "Incitatus"). That would make the U.S. government even more amusing.
Thanks for the info about Scala.js; I wasn't up-to-speed on that. I tried out Scala around the same time you started (i.e., 2011), and was impressed (Scala provided my introduction to functional programming concepts). Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to use Scala, much, and I lost track of what is going on with it. These days I'm working with a lot more JavaScript. I don't mind it (it's not bad if you use ES2015/Babel and avoid iffy parts of the language), but it can be pain on larger team projects with developers of mixed experience with JavaScript. Anyway, the Scala.js project sounds like it's something I'd like to check out.
I didn't like functional programming at first, but after using it for a while I started seeing the benefits of things like first class functions and immutable state. Even if you don't think functional programming is a silver bullet, it's worth learning and understanding how the functional approach differs in solving programming problems. Adding another way to think about programming problems to your arsenal isn't a bad thing.
Perhaps because Google isn't really interested in provided you with the best service possible: you aren't their customer. They're interested in offering you free services of all sorts in order to collect data about you. That's their real product that their interested in selling.
Using just ALSA, only one application can use an ALSA device at any one time. PulseAudio allows more than one application to access the same ALSA device simultaneously.
Thanks! It's my favorite watch, and I definitely agree about modern watches usually being overly large and (IMO) ugly. I'll have to check out the vintage Indians you mention.
I'm not a fan of mixing D&D and tech. I don't want to play virtually, and I don't want a bunch of phones and tablets and laptops at the gaming table. I want to get out my AD&D books (1e, of course), papers, pencils, and dice and sit around a table with my friends. No checking facebook or getting text messages or browsing the web. No distractions. Maybe some low-volume Sabbath or Yes on the turntable, but that's about it...
I wear a Roamer mechanical watch (Swiss made, 1955, 17 jewel MST movement) and don't see the appeal of a watch with an operating system. Even if I were part of the target market for smart watches, I'd want tight integration with my cell phone and its apps, and I'd expect Apple or Google to be able to implement that better than a third-party OS.
Guess we'll see, but I'm not expecting great things from this.
VS is not my first choice when developing software (it's not terrible, but feels bloated and heavy), but I need to use it for some of my work development tasks (lots of Windows-focused.NET stuff). The things I'm most interested in, at the moment, are the improvements in support for ES2015, JSX, and node.js integration.
I couldn't name a Jay Z song if you offered to pay me a million dollars to name one, and don't know a thing about him, but he's right about radio being a terrible place to listen to music. I don't listen to broadcast radio at all, and haven't in years.
I wear a 1955 Roamer Swiss mechanical watch on a cordovan leather strap. Manual winding, 17 jewels, 35mm case. I wouldn't have it any other way; wearing it makes me happy.
Yeah, I pretty much already jumped ship. Used Macs and iPhones for years, but my current phone is an Android (Cyanogenmod) and my current main computer is a custom-built desktop running Linux (Arch). I still have a Mac laptop, but as things stand, my next laptop purchase won't be another Mac.
For my laptop (Mac OS X): update as soon as updates are available, unless it's a major update (i.e. a new OS version, not just a patch). If it's major, I'll usually wait a bit and see how it goes in the wild with early adopters, first.
For my desktop (Arch Linux): Arch uses a rolling release model, so I do a daily check on what's available and then decide if I want to apply those updates immediately or wait. This depends on what is being updated. If it's the kernel or Xorg I might wait a bit. For minor stuff I usually go ahead and update right away.
For my phone (Android): At the moment I'm running Cyanogenmod. I don't flash new nightlies very often; I tend to stick with one I find stable. I do like to keep fairly current, though. I apply app updates as soon as they're available.
For my tablet (Android): It's a Nexus version and I never bothered rooting it or anything, I just get the updates as they come.
Not much different than putting your money into an account at a bank, then. Those "demand deposits" aren't legally your money, either, they're the bank's (which is essentially why the bank can do things with "your money" -- like loaning it out or investing it -- without being accused of theft or fraud). They've just agreed that they'll pay you back on demand.
A quick look at the android source suggests that one could disable these by changing the default return value of the switch statement in com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.CellBroadcastAlertService.isMessageEnabledByUser() to false rather than true.
There are better approaches (e.g., adding a toggle switch to the settings), but at first glance that looks like a quick and easy way to do it (assuming you're able to build and install your ROM from source code -- but this *is* Slashdot...). I guess that doesn't help if one is an iOS user, though.
Seriously? In a large scale disaster (hurricane, earthquake, etc) you would be irritated by getting a free text telling you...[whatever]
Why should he need to explain his reasons to you (or to anyone)? If he doesn't want to receive such a message on his phone, why shouldn't he be able to block or reject it? You'd rather force the message on him because you think it's a good idea, even if he doesn't?
For work and day-to-day use, I prefer a Unixy OS. My main workstation runs Fedora, and my laptop is a Macbook Pro. I find Windows to be clunky and limited and weird, and its command line is just plain awful.
That said, I do sometimes boot into Windows for two reasons:
1. Dota 2
2. Netflix
I know I could probably solve #2, but I haven't felt it's worth the effort since I still would have Windows around just for #1. If Steam ports Dota 2 over to Linux then I'll probably kiss Windows goodbye, completely. And I won't miss it.
The relatively high price of many e-books drastically reduces the number of e-book purchases I make. I'd be much more inclined to purchase more e-books if they were more reasonable (especially since what you're purchasing is usually more like a license to read it, rather than owning a permanent copy of the work).
One side-effect is that I've purchased more self-published or small-publisher e-books than I would have otherwise.
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I don't see the majority of the U.S. electorate as a collection of victims, but as a collection of willing participants in the victimizing.
People tend to get the government they deserve. George Carlin had it right.
Trump should appoint a horse as the new Director (and perhaps change the name of the position to "Incitatus"). That would make the U.S. government even more amusing.
Bene Tleilax, here we come!
Thanks for the info about Scala.js; I wasn't up-to-speed on that. I tried out Scala around the same time you started (i.e., 2011), and was impressed (Scala provided my introduction to functional programming concepts). Unfortunately, I never had the opportunity to use Scala, much, and I lost track of what is going on with it. These days I'm working with a lot more JavaScript. I don't mind it (it's not bad if you use ES2015/Babel and avoid iffy parts of the language), but it can be pain on larger team projects with developers of mixed experience with JavaScript. Anyway, the Scala.js project sounds like it's something I'd like to check out.
I didn't like functional programming at first, but after using it for a while I started seeing the benefits of things like first class functions and immutable state. Even if you don't think functional programming is a silver bullet, it's worth learning and understanding how the functional approach differs in solving programming problems. Adding another way to think about programming problems to your arsenal isn't a bad thing.
Perhaps because Google isn't really interested in provided you with the best service possible: you aren't their customer. They're interested in offering you free services of all sorts in order to collect data about you. That's their real product that their interested in selling.
I rarely notice this on Desktop (probably due to ad blocking), but man, I sure could use this on Mobile.
That one apparently didn't work.
Using just ALSA, only one application can use an ALSA device at any one time. PulseAudio allows more than one application to access the same ALSA device simultaneously.
Thanks! It's my favorite watch, and I definitely agree about modern watches usually being overly large and (IMO) ugly. I'll have to check out the vintage Indians you mention.
I'm not a fan of mixing D&D and tech. I don't want to play virtually, and I don't want a bunch of phones and tablets and laptops at the gaming table. I want to get out my AD&D books (1e, of course), papers, pencils, and dice and sit around a table with my friends. No checking facebook or getting text messages or browsing the web. No distractions. Maybe some low-volume Sabbath or Yes on the turntable, but that's about it...
I wear a Roamer mechanical watch (Swiss made, 1955, 17 jewel MST movement) and don't see the appeal of a watch with an operating system. Even if I were part of the target market for smart watches, I'd want tight integration with my cell phone and its apps, and I'd expect Apple or Google to be able to implement that better than a third-party OS. Guess we'll see, but I'm not expecting great things from this.
VS is not my first choice when developing software (it's not terrible, but feels bloated and heavy), but I need to use it for some of my work development tasks (lots of Windows-focused .NET stuff). The things I'm most interested in, at the moment, are the improvements in support for ES2015, JSX, and node.js integration.
I couldn't name a Jay Z song if you offered to pay me a million dollars to name one, and don't know a thing about him, but he's right about radio being a terrible place to listen to music. I don't listen to broadcast radio at all, and haven't in years.
I wear a 1955 Roamer Swiss mechanical watch on a cordovan leather strap. Manual winding, 17 jewels, 35mm case. I wouldn't have it any other way; wearing it makes me happy.
Yeah, I pretty much already jumped ship. Used Macs and iPhones for years, but my current phone is an Android (Cyanogenmod) and my current main computer is a custom-built desktop running Linux (Arch). I still have a Mac laptop, but as things stand, my next laptop purchase won't be another Mac.
For my laptop (Mac OS X): update as soon as updates are available, unless it's a major update (i.e. a new OS version, not just a patch). If it's major, I'll usually wait a bit and see how it goes in the wild with early adopters, first. For my desktop (Arch Linux): Arch uses a rolling release model, so I do a daily check on what's available and then decide if I want to apply those updates immediately or wait. This depends on what is being updated. If it's the kernel or Xorg I might wait a bit. For minor stuff I usually go ahead and update right away. For my phone (Android): At the moment I'm running Cyanogenmod. I don't flash new nightlies very often; I tend to stick with one I find stable. I do like to keep fairly current, though. I apply app updates as soon as they're available. For my tablet (Android): It's a Nexus version and I never bothered rooting it or anything, I just get the updates as they come.
Not much different than putting your money into an account at a bank, then. Those "demand deposits" aren't legally your money, either, they're the bank's (which is essentially why the bank can do things with "your money" -- like loaning it out or investing it -- without being accused of theft or fraud). They've just agreed that they'll pay you back on demand.
Police states suck. That is all.
If you don't have your money in your possession, and it isn't a tangible commodity currency, it isn't really your money.
A quick look at the android source suggests that one could disable these by changing the default return value of the switch statement in com.android.cellbroadcastreceiver.CellBroadcastAlertService.isMessageEnabledByUser() to false rather than true. There are better approaches (e.g., adding a toggle switch to the settings), but at first glance that looks like a quick and easy way to do it (assuming you're able to build and install your ROM from source code -- but this *is* Slashdot...). I guess that doesn't help if one is an iOS user, though.
Seriously? In a large scale disaster (hurricane, earthquake, etc) you would be irritated by getting a free text telling you...[whatever]
Why should he need to explain his reasons to you (or to anyone)? If he doesn't want to receive such a message on his phone, why shouldn't he be able to block or reject it? You'd rather force the message on him because you think it's a good idea, even if he doesn't?
For work and day-to-day use, I prefer a Unixy OS. My main workstation runs Fedora, and my laptop is a Macbook Pro. I find Windows to be clunky and limited and weird, and its command line is just plain awful. That said, I do sometimes boot into Windows for two reasons: 1. Dota 2 2. Netflix I know I could probably solve #2, but I haven't felt it's worth the effort since I still would have Windows around just for #1. If Steam ports Dota 2 over to Linux then I'll probably kiss Windows goodbye, completely. And I won't miss it.
The relatively high price of many e-books drastically reduces the number of e-book purchases I make. I'd be much more inclined to purchase more e-books if they were more reasonable (especially since what you're purchasing is usually more like a license to read it, rather than owning a permanent copy of the work). One side-effect is that I've purchased more self-published or small-publisher e-books than I would have otherwise.