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I really liked the chocolate sea salt ones. The rest are kinda meh.

Yeah, I never have been big on podcasts but ever since they added it to Spotify I've actually discovered a bunch of great stuff. Makes those long drives when you can't agree on music easier.

Not sure, it's an iPhone 6s. Sure a lot of the places were a little bit out there (Eastern Washington, Badlands, Southern Utah, Yellowstone) but my friend was nearly at full service the entire time (aside from mountains). We ended up just installing Spotify on her iPad and logging in with my account :)

I'm normally happy with T-Mobile in the cities, but after a cross-country road trip I'm pretty disappointed with their service in the Great Plains and PNW. My traveling companion consistently had service with LTE with AT&T while I was on edge or 3G. On the East Coast and Midwest my T-Mobile service is stellar. I probably won't switch anything because 99% of my time I'm in the Chicago city limits, but it was a bit disappointing to have to drive without streaming services or podcasts.

A lot of Chicago's population loss is on the South Side where violence is high. Also the elimination of the projects has moved a lot of Section 8 housing to the suburbs, as it gives low income families a chance at a better life in a less dire situation. Investment in new infrastructure is at an all time high in the Loop / North / West sides. Young people are moving out the suburbs and into the core. Chicago's population isn't increasing at the rate of places like Houston because of the lack of annexation, the suburbs in Cook County generally don't want to join the city.

Why would you think that this has anything to do with IBM's consulting arm and not the fact that IBM maintains their own JVM and employ a ton of JVM experts to develop and maintain it. Jigsaw was a great idea but poor in execution. I feel for the people who put their effort into it and hope that some of the work can be salvaged for the future, but this is one of the cases where it's not worth it to rush through an incomplete solution.

Ginni started at IBM as an engineer so I'm pretty sure she has some level of technical competence.

I don't see the trolling? How is Star Citizen the most successful crowdfunded game? It's still not released.

I had Webpass fiber in Chicago for over a year. It was nice 1Gbps symmetric too. Back on Comcast now though :(

I use an older iPad and it does great for comics, but there are lots of monochromatic comics out there, just not necessarily the popular cape stuff.

It seems like a hit piece from Bloomberg - someone must want AmEx's stock to drop this week.

Higher fees.

FWIW I live in Chicago and rarely find a place that doesn't accept AmEx.

It can be. If internet history is subpoenaed during the discovery process of a patent case it could be used against you.

I also am slightly annoyed that it was a direct link to a patent since there's really nothing good that can come from browsing patent applications on the legal side.

There are a lot of buildings within the Chicago Loop that use cold water from the river for cooling. Here's an article I found about it: http://www.sustainable-chicago.com/2010/03/11/cold-as-ice-ho...

I wonder how many other PL members are on HN.

Hello from Snigg.

Systems Performance by Brendan Gregg

http://www.brendangregg.com/sysperfbook.html

I've had great luck with the Asus Zenbook Prime series.

Everyone has proper attire.

I think that's probably a big component of the policy, I regularly see kids on the train or out walking to school without proper attire to be outside in the bitter cold.

In some places in the world, including where the author is from, it was dangerously cold this week. Here in Chicago the temperature was around -5F (-20C) all week, which is dangerously cold for anyone outside in prolonged periods without proper attire.

I prefer the Russian smiley ))

There are lots of lawyers in Chicago that would take your case.

Luckily, I have a nice enough computer to alt-tab and play some Dota 2.

That's not exactly true.

As a titan pilot, there is more to do than just clicking broadcasts / sorting your overview / aligning. That's the kind of stuff that happens when everything is going well or you are shooting an inanimate object. As a titan pilot on the losing side last night, there was a lot of refitting, repositioning, and co-ordination. Fleet and sub-channel commanders are constantly relaying information over Skype or mumble channels. I personally spent a lot of time trying to get out of bubbles once the call was made to try to extract if possible. This was after two hours of staring at a black screen, praying that my ship wasn't dying without a chance of me fighting back.

There is also an incredible amount of micro that one can do in small gang or solo PvP, but that kind of stuff doesn't make for fancy headlines.

Leaving out a lot of the North side there. I was going to sign up and give it a shot (currently use Peapod) but they don't deliver to me.

Older elevators operate in a similar way - all logic handled by racks of relays. It's really interesting stuff.

I use ancient Egyptian deities (Anubis, Ra, Osiris, Horus, Isis...)

Me too! I compared general purpose GPU libraries versus performance on a Beowulf cluster and OpenMP / UPC. Was a lot of fun and an interesting experience.

That's not true anymore, the average 2BR cost has gone up to $1800-1900, even higher in places like Lincoln Park.

I don't know if this is some sort of joke or not, but apparently there is some sort of cult / fan club for Gadget in Russia. http://www.odditycentral.com/news/russian-cult-worships-fema...

It doesn't appear to be HTCPCP/1.0 compliant. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324