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I go out for mega long bike rides in areas with very spotty cell coverage (Silicon Valley). This app is great because when my spouse wants to know where I am she can initiate the r…

Wow, thank you Jetbrains. Adobe could learn a thing or two here.

Or it could be that what causes CFS also affects brain chemistry in a way that can result in depression. That's where my money is.

In a nutshell, non-fat (or very low fat) vegan. A good resource for this is drmcdougall.com. Though I find McDougall a bit off-putting with his style, IMHO he's on the money, and t…

Yes, I am curious too. The reason for my curiosity is I have been successful via diet as well, so it's to see if we're doing the same thing.

I can imagine these devices are beautiful, and I'd love if I could run a good MAC OSX-like OS on them that also runs common productivity apps. I combined too many unrelated points …

I have two very competent friends that, in the past couple of months, have quit Apple because they were working in groups with toxic cultures. One was IS&T, the other was hardware …

What archive format would you back up to, and what application would you use? I looked at this a few years ago and, if I recall, the choices weren't obvious.

This seems expensive for what you get. I made a $25 table from Ikea parts to put on top of my work desk. I cut the pipes to the right length. It works just fine and I get storage u…

Easier, or at least easy, fun, less compatibility issues when you live in a pure js and json world on the front and backends, productive, good libraries, good built-in libraries, e…

I'd agree with that. I'm of the pretty firm belief that CFS and a bunch of other autoimmune disorders are of a parasitic origin. This pretty much sums up my knowledge on the subjec…

And isn't mmmdG0tKtN#mmmmmmmmmmmmm more secure than dG0tKtN#mm?

And the "9-Volt Nirvana" Radiolab podcast on "trans-cranial direct current stimulation", or tDCS, which is also mentioned in the article. http://www.radiolab.org/story/9-volt-nirva…

Exactly, the US regulations are absurd. And not just for US citizens living abroad. I'm Canadian living in the US as a resident and have a couple of real estate investment interest…

Unfortunately, for off road, even though the classification of whether bikes are allowed on a trail can be input, I haven't seen any viewers that show this information. I find it d…

I wish there existed a popular config format that was somewhere between YAML and JSON. In my current nodejs project I sometimes use js files for config because js supports comments…

And so have I (put it to real world use). I'm getting 2-3 days of battery life (not much actual talking on the phone), love the display, love the OS and all the interconnected s/w …

Does anyone know how the sandboxing works to allow a camera, gallery and dropbox app to access the same locally stored image files? Or for local contacts to be shared?

I'm most alarmed with this restriction: iCloud document storage and Notification Center. Both of these are slated only for third-party apps from the Mac App Store. Many developers,…

I agree. I had to go back from AS3 to AS2 for a project and it felt like a step backwards, and AS2 is more like Javascript. Adobe has also open sourced the AS3 runtime. But of cour…

Correct. I have two 'normal' people in this house, and neither of them could or would get their work done on today's iPad. They are on Macs. For them, and myself as IT support pers…