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To be fair, the portable devices are not yet monitoring all conversations due to battery life constraints. If it were a wall powered device, I would be very wary of it, but until t…

To follow up with this. You could add `conky -c json.conky | while read json; do echo $json > /opt/http/monitor/info.json; done` to your start. Then just static serve the `info.jso…

You could use the conky-cli build (without the X dependency). You could then run it and pipe the output into some file that you serve statically. Hmmm may spend some time investiga…

Great read! Upon finishing, the two sides seem to be opposite solutions of a good problem (that is getting a non singular path to guarantee code quality). It seems that the best so…

I am curious if this has any relation to their recent acquisition of Braintree Payments. If they are instead using Braintree as the payment gateway, it could work out very well for…

I also like using argparse. Nice utility library to "power up" helpful scripts.

My friend that works at Motorola says there were frictions in having Google brand their own company's flagship phone as a Nexus device. Probably a lot of hard feelings still betwee…

Well it came out with the latest one (the CF exploit) that they were gagged on it when the FBI got involved. They eventually came out about it when the gag was removed, but only so…

It is more a combination of the small and vocal user base and the message it sends to them about Google being open to cutting any product that has a usage they don't think is signi…

This is something I view along with the "Ship it" idea. When I work on any project, I try to think of what the minimum is for the project to reach the real alpha stage. Where it is…

Interesting idea, the interaction would get very difficult with more pictures in the stack. Also lacks a way to work in mobile. But you are really onto something here, would be int…

I disagree, jQuery is more of a compatibility layer. Think of it (in a way) like an ORM for various SQL backends. They allow you to change between different SQL implementations wit…

I actually attended the talk this is from, the concept of recipe writers vs abstractioners is not aimed at the actual developers but at the tools and how they are developed. His id…

It isn't the information they can view, it is the things they can do impersonating you. Any application installed on your phone can probably access the two authenticating pieces of…

You may like dwb[1] It uses webkit and handles what you mentioned. Written in C++, so you don't get the Haskell learning part, but it doesn have the javascript extensions thing (al…

While this is (from my experience) incredibly inaccurate of the programming community at large. My fear is that it will encourage a perception of people looking for a career to emb…

Oddly, in the age of the internet, it is easier for someone to do open source at least part of the time for their employer. With the internet, a lot of the money for web based comp…

I use a Macbook Air (Mid 2011) and run Arch Linux on it. Works fine, only thing that doesn't work is the Thunderbolt port. I picked the Air because the model was on its second year…

Classy move, :thumbsup:

I think the biggest thing he emphasized is the fact that you can never be "The Best Programmer" because there is always something to learn and ways to grow. That is probably one of…

From what I have heard, from contacts in the mobile hardware industry, Motorola is not currently working on a Google tablet, at least not one out in the next 3 months. I don't thin…

I don't use Facebook. And whenever I go to a site that requires Facebook credentials to comment, I just don't comment. It does not bother me because that is a choice I made in not …

And the freedom they have is choosing the services they use as well. If a service wants you to use your real name and you don't want to, you don't use the service. That's the beaut…

Well the complaint is somewhat moot. The programming he is discussing is professional, where it is results and business driven. If every time a company wanted to develop a product …