Yet another blow to Net-Neutrality...
I don't see a problem. You can switch ISP if your current one isn't net-neutral. Why should you force businesses to operate in certain way? They're not breaking any laws.
Readit Newsberrypicker commented on FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet washingtonpost.com/blogs/... · Posted by u/jkupferman
This is hardly "inadvertently" revealing your location: (1) they've told you where they are (extra from the actual Tweets, not the photos) and (2) these places are all near well-known landscapes.
I mean good job on taking the time to actually do it but I doubt this could be done for the vast majority of photos like this.
berrypicker commented on Challenge HN: Keep lame April Fools' gags off the front page · Posted by u/dang
>April Fools' gags in tech have grown stale
Or you have gotten older.
What's the average age here? I feel like I'm in a no fun allowed zone.
berrypicker commented on Teen to government: Change your typeface, save millions cnn.com/2014/03/27/living... · Posted by u/matttah
The problem with this kind of initiative is that it uses humans difficulty with recognizing the scale of large numbers.
We see a savings of $400 million and think "we should do this!" But it's a drop in the bucket even if it were that much of a savings.
If each government employee needs to change their font, or needs to set it as the default font, or needs technical support to configure the defaults in their word processor. If IT needs to modify images to use this font as a default. Just these actions are going to cost a significant portion of that $400 million when you consider it across the millions of federal staff.
This also assumes things like the government is actually paying for ink or toner in quantity, instead of, for instance, holding a contract with Xerox who charges per impression rather than based on how much ink you use.
It also assumes that there is no difference in legibility between the fonts. That people with vision impairments will not have difficulty with reading the document.
An easy way to think about whether an initiative like this is reasonable is to think about whether it makes a lot of sense for any individual to do. Do you think you, individually, could realize any significant savings by changing your fonts? If it only makes sense when millions of people do it at once, and even then only when certain assumptions are met, and then only saves a few dollars per person per year, then it actually is more likely to cost a lot more in overhead to make sure it happens than it will ever save.
An example of something similar that actually happened: tax in the UK was temporarily lowered from 17.5% to 15% or something and it cost more to reprogram cash registers and computers than the 2.5% savings.
berrypicker commented on I am a successful software dev but I have a serious drinking problem · Posted by u/user249
Gabor Mate heals heroin addicts with two powerful psychedelic plants: Ayahuasca (DMT) and Iboga. I have been to a couple of Ayahuasca ceremonies in the past year, and I can report that - among its many awesome effects - it effectively resets your inner emotional "firmware", helping you cope with stressful situations and addictions much better (I had instantly quit smoking after the first ceremony.)
Vipassana meditation take a slower route, but some say more thorough - it transforms your self into being more reflective, more appreciative and less judging. I've yet to try it out on a 10-day retreat, but even people who practice half-hour daily buddhist meditation praise its beneficial effects on mental and physical well being.
Both Ayahuasca and Vipassana are great routes you can take to battle your addictions, not only to alcohol or tobacco but also many kinds of pain.
I think during the 70s LSD was being used to rehab alcoholics, it's a shame such practices and psychedelics in general are all illegal now.. but ignoring the law, from what I've read and personal experience, LSD works well too.
berrypicker commented on Why don’t designers take Android seriously? medium.com/p/a649db399f42... · Posted by u/amitkumar01
Android Studio is way better in every conceivable way the old Eclipse-based ADT and I haven't had speed problems with the Android emulator since they released the x86 images. Have you actually developed for Android in the last year?
I never used Android Studio, only Eclipse, since it was what everybody else was using. This was my experience from around 2012/13 sorry for sharing it but it put me off Android.
berrypicker commented on Why don’t designers take Android seriously? medium.com/p/a649db399f42... · Posted by u/amitkumar01
Eclipse (or Android Studio) is good for when you are getting your feet wet with Android. If you don't like using it there are alternatives.
I usually use Emacs or vi. The only thing I miss when not using Eclipse with the ADT plugin is after typing say "LinearLayout ll;" with Eclipse I can type Control-Shift-O and the LinearLayout class is automatically imported in the code. I miss this, but I kind of have this in Emacs with JDE - a Control-C-V-Z has similar behavior. I could probably do some more tool work on Emacs and make it even more automatic.
I do everything with emacs, vi, ant, astyle, adb, and the Android commands "android" and "monitor". Some people do Android in IntelliJ, some in Netbeans. Some use Sublime Text.
If you think Eclipse with ADT is bad for Android development now, you should have seen Eclipse/ADT at the end of 2009. Just getting the ADT plugin to work with Eclipse was a nightmare. Having seen the improvement since then, I guess it all seems less bad to me. Although I don't use Eclipse when I do Android programming, generally.
Perhaps you're already aware of Eclim, if not, check it out. Really useful for doing Android/Java in Vim.
berrypicker commented on Why don’t designers take Android seriously? medium.com/p/a649db399f42... · Posted by u/amitkumar01
Part of why Android development is so frustrating for me is the tools we have to use. If I'm not bashing my head trying to understand fragments and layouts, I'm battling with Eclipse -- constantly closing/refreshing project -- and that incredibly slow emulator.
FWIW, I got way more value out of the Matasano challenges than studying classic ciphers.
Do you think it'd be a not-terrible idea for newcomers to focus entirely on studying this? http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2009-06-11-cryptographic-rig...
I've emailed for the Matasano challenges three times from two different email address and never received anything.
Is it okay if I ask somebody here to send me a copy?
I'm really starting to think mesh networks are going to be the only solution.