"""You could also conceivably have a scale that's connected to the same network, and if you're getting a bit tubby your refrigerator might tell you to eat a salad instead of a burger."""
And you call that progress ? I already have to deal with my car screaming at me when I don't put my safety belt right away, now I cannot even eat what I want.
People are sick. When I see people throwing a paper or anything on the floor it really drives me mad. This is the worst act of disrespect for janitors. There are not too many thing I like about Singapore but giving fines to people who throw garbage on the ground is something I like.
I prefer to keep using Echap so it works in a terminal with vi keybindings. The visual mode is not mentioned and this is super useful to see what you want to copy / delete. Also getting rid of the arrows is the way to go.
I had to cope with floating points errors being different between compilers, which totally screwed up decompressing with binary produced by compiler A files that had been compressed with a binary produced by compiler B. We could/should have made the system more robust from the beginning (I wasn't there), but I'm not sure it would have been worst the hassle. My piece of advice is to use the ieee conforming math compiler flag if you don't want to experience this kind of problem, and if you don't at least profile your program to see how much speed gains you're getting from using the fast routines. If it's negligeable don't bother ...
vimtutor was very bare-bone in my memories, and wasn't going through much details on text objects. This was a rather good article, text objects are awesome.
Did you ever work with Flex Builder (now called Flash Builder), or used the AS debugger that comes with it ? Are you familiar with MXML / AS3 ? Because compared to the painful experience that HTML/CSS/JS is or used to be I think that this is closer to a 'nice development software' than you.
I hope you're having a great time bashing on Adobe. I think I was flagged as a bad boy once because I was telling bad things on Apple, it's funny I don't think this will ever happen if you bash Adobe, you must win karma points or whatever it's called if you do that.
I upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to 11.04 (I think) with a bunch of commands without a problem. Couple of reboot and that was it. God that felt good (all of that on Linode). When I compare that to sysadmin / installing Linux or some Unix ...
I'm gonna be annoying but if they hadn't put this 5 year old music I might have stayed longer on the page and tried to solve those puzzles. Yeah I could have turned off the volume.
I noticed a lot of Vim post recently, you can use the vim binding inside your shell too as discussed in that post, downside is that you'll have to type on Esc a lot.
Yeah it's closer to something like Google App Engine if we want to stick to comparing things. I remember enjoying deployment with GAE so it must be the same kind of service. So maybe if I was doing some serious stuff and wanted to move fast I'd forget about money in the short term (and it doesn't look too expensive), but for my own little website I have a VPS that serve a bunch of tiny stuff (blog, Trac, 2 tiny wsgi apps) and that here if you know how to administer a VPS it's hard to beat price wise. (running the VPS on Linode which is a great service). But to make this scale it's not as easy as another pip deploy like it seems to be with Gondor ...
I hope this never happen. Bush, Blackwater ... are not really what make me like the USA, the contrary actually. And having the NSA give its huge power to non governmental third-party sounds like a recipe for disaster, a patriot act on steroid.
And you call that progress ? I already have to deal with my car screaming at me when I don't put my safety belt right away, now I cannot even eat what I want.