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I wouldn't say that. It'd a matter of defining jargon in a legal document. You know, they're not really trainers of pokémon, and pokémon aren't actually real. :P "So-called" signifies that players of the game are considered "trainers" of pokémon. I wouldn't read so much into it.

Heh, me too! Thought I was the only one. I'm 35, even seems like folks our age were in to BBSing. Citadel 86 for life.

I hope I end up being totally wrong, but I'm afraid that this might be the new normal in the brave new world of the Cloud. Nest seems like a particularly crappy example, but I suspect we're going to be seeing a lot of this over the next few years. There are architectural solutions to this, but...

Most utilities don't have meters that give them data with that fine a grain in almost real time and likely won't for quite a while. It's a larger and more expensive project than you might expect. With something like Nest, you're putting the initial costs directly on the consumer and just buying...

As a Minnesota native, I was rolling my eyes pretty damn hard to see 82F and humid (even 100%) trotted out as if it were a great hardship. I'm not sure we'd even bother wasting the money on AC at that point. But yeah, some places have weather with *consequences*.

Space (and shift-space) is my most often used key for navigating a page. If I want space to pause a video, I make sure the video control is in focus. Why would anyone use backspace to go navigate back when there is alt-left, etc?

I don't know the reference, but he's right. This isn't anything new. I have a few pair of Medalist SilverMax underwear, from like 6 years ago. Not sure Hanes or Fruit of the Loom make a lot of technical underwear, but some of the companies that do have been using silver for a while.

I also used to be a big Opera nerd, back in the day. I never used tree view, but I did love how I could have my tabs in a vertical sidebar in those old versions of Opera. Back in those days I could have 100 tabs open at once (really). If I did that in Chrome today, it'd probably be using 10 GB...

Sounds like fun. Don't suppose there's something like cVim or pentadactyl available for it? :D

What am I missing? Are Javascript developers unusually lazy? I mean, not having the package on npm is a pain, but when it's still on Github why not just read the log output, Google the missing deps and install it from git? God help these people if they ever have to find and compile source for a...

Are the TP Link routers at Amazon already locked down? If not, what are the standouts for TP Link routers for running OpenWRT? I've an older TP Link router that needs to be replaced, wondering what might be the best option for $100 or under.

Obviously, that's all low hanging fruit.

Some level of centralization also makes reliability a lot easier to achieve, at least initially. What level of distributed infrastructure are you talking about? On one end, it's complete chaos and redundancy, not the good kind but wasted duplicated effort. On the other end, it's total...

Dang. To each their own and all... But I cannot imagine time being so much of a luxury that I could watch a season of GoT 10 times (!). Good for you!

I remember where I was as info on 9/11 was coming out - on IRC, getting constant updates, theories, etc with a channel full of people from around the world.

These days, there are a lot of other things that will keep IRC from being more widely used. It leaves users vulnerable (visible IP by default), is blocked by a lot of corporate IT depts and flagged by IDS in the rest, and is widely used for various nefarious activities. At some point, in the...

I stopped using IRC when work started blocking it in 2011. These days, IT Security would send the SWAT team to my cube if I started talking on tcp/6667. I'm also way more concerned about security these days, and stopped paying attention about how to protect your IP at some point. Guessing...

You know you're old and have a long history with computers when people talk about MSN Messenger as the first messenger that changed the world... Hell, I didn't even realize it gained a substantial marketshare, I assumed it was one of many Microsoft catch-up clones that was adopted by a few...

There was a lot to like about WinMo/PPC/WinCE, but it's kind of goofy and clumsy in the post-iPhone world. I used various flavors of WinCE for years, and had just about everything I needed, including emacs. :-P I liked a lot about it, mostly that I could use it like I used a computer. Great for...

The simulated shallow DoF is awful, but once cameras start sporting two or more lenses, it's going to get a lot better. Not a fan of working that way, but it does seem to be where we're heading.