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For what it's worth, I haven't been able to get it to download my bookmarks, using either my username/password or API key. And I tried it on both my iPhone and iPad.

This looks promising. I've been looking for a new Pinboard iOS client, since Pushpin started flaking out on me recently. (I have over 17,000 bookmarks, so maybe I'm an edge case, b…

Interesting. I just started reading this (the original version) last week. Since I'm already a pretty experienced programmer, I'm not getting that much out of it, but it's been fun…

I used to buy both print and ebook format books from O'Reilly from time to time. I now have a Safari subscription (via my ACM membership), so I've stopped buying computer books alm…

I use DDG everywhere except at work, where (for some reason) it's blocked. The one silly thing I miss about not having DDG at work: in DDG, I can type "new guid" and it gives me a …

I love f.lux, but it disappeared from my work computer recently, and the f.lux site is blocked on our network now. I'm not sure why we would have flagged the program and/or site as…

>There's a reason why MS Excel has keyboard shortcuts that make no sense - they match to menu entries from old versions, and they've kept them in so people who have been using it f…

I drink Mount Hagen too, whenever the coffee machine at work is broken. It's not bad.

I canceled my WSJ sub years ago, because I could see it going downhill after Murdoch took over.

I've heard of Epsilon, but never used it. Back in the days when I actually paid for text editors, my favorite was Multi-Edit ( http://multieditsoftware.com/ ). I remember UltraEdit…

I migrated my personal blog from Blogger to WordPress a couple of years ago. I'm pretty happy with it. I had originally wanted to migrate it to Drupal, but I couldn't find a good s…

Oh, this must be why the company I work for is finally pushing out IE11. (I upgraded my own machine a long time ago, but many people here are still on IE8.)

I'm curious about the antenna you're using. I'm also approximately equidistant from NYC and Philly, but I tried a digital antenna once, and could only pick up one NJ station, and n…

Sedgewick's course on Algorithms, through Coursera, is pretty good, for anyone who wants to learn more about basic algorithms, or (like me) needs a refresher. https://www.coursera.…

I'd love to be able to shift into this mode temporarily, assuming I could keep my health insurance. Maybe for a few months, just to give myself some breathing room, maybe make prog…

I need one of these in a Twin XL size. (I can't be the only nerd who needs an 80" long bed, but doesn't have enough room for anything wider than a twin.)

I'm an RPI alum also, having graduated well before Jackson became president. The few people I know who are still actively involved with RPI don't like her much, and I think the inf…

Interesting. The guy who used to be my House rep (before some redistricting) has more records in this system than anyone else in my home state (NJ). Not sure if he's more actively …

I'm not sure about this statement: "Of these platforms, Linux is clearly the most important. Today, Microsoft earns much of its (record) profits from enterprise software packages (…

Speaking as a guy who (currently) only uses Visual Studio at home for recreational programming, and not at the office, I'm pretty happy about this. The Express editions are OK, but…

We did a lot of Drupal work at my last job, and I sent my ex-boss a friendly warning about this when it was first announced, but I don't think he patched all of their Drupal sites.…

I don't think it's available yet, but I'm curious about Carl Franklin's project "Music To Code By". He's specifically trying to craft an album that's "designed to induce a state of…

Nice write-up. My experience is quite similar to the author's. I've gone from 230 to 170 over the last year or so. (Oh, and I'm also from NJ!) I wasn't involved in any study or org…

I got fed up with this fairly recently, and remapped it so I can use ctrl-F for find, using AutoHotKey: #IfWinActive, ahk_class rctrl_renwnd32 ^f::Send, {F4}

I've been using Harvest: http://www.getharvest.com/ Works fine for me, though I don't do a lot of freelance work, so I'm not a heavy user.