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I used to skip the lounge access also, but its a nice perk. It has decent internet, some snacks until I eat on the plane, and foremost comfortable seating. I don't like a lot of noise around me as well, so its a break from the rest of the airport bustle. I fly business when available because many of my flights are 13hrs-ish. I'm oversized, so I literally have to fold myself up to fit within my space in coach. That's fine for 2hrs, but not more. I can't sleep sitting up. That's a long 13hrs staring at the seatback display of the plane going around the world.

I scored a mid-level membership once. I didn't go out of my way to do it. Nothing super good about it.

Oh, your luggage gets a priority tag and comes out first. In certain airports that can save an hour of your life.

But mostly its about accumulating miles on trips I'd be taking anyway. Essentially free upgrades, or entirely free flights. Just for joining their silly program. Why not?

I do the same with hotels.

PayPal isn't so bad--doing millions through them a year has caused no problems that couldn't be worked out.

I looked at Braintree before the acquisition and they seemed really cool. I was able to hang out in their IRC chat room and watch them work.

Yeah, its not in your terminal at all. Fails to mention dependencies.

I think this is mostly a solution without a problem. Just to hit a few points--S3 might (and I'm not sure I agree) be expensive. However, it gives you HA and multiple copies of your files on the backend for safety. If you're serving a lot of images, owning that hardware can be very costly. Also, when cloudfront was tested the results were pretty good. Easy to implement, not much more expensive than S3 alone. Our EC2 costs dwarf S3, and our site is very image heavy.

In the past years I've gone from a 15" MBP to an 11" MBA and most recently the 12" MB.

I hate the MB. The key travel is way too short and have seen no signs of adjusting. The lack of expansion ports is criminal. Just one more. It's the little things--like no led to indicate charging/charged. I use it for testing for work, but that's about it.

My MBA plugs/docks into my cinema display. Keyboard and mouse are plugged into the display USB hub. Ethernet on the other USB port. When I travel it's super light.. no complaints.

Just for reference, the MBP was just too heavy and hot. Lugging around the 15" in a backpack around airports all day was not comfortable.

I wasn't happy with the Lenovo laptops, so I went Apple. Now? Not sure where to go.

I work remote, and worked even more remotely for a year. Yeah, this was just a 2mo bit of fun. Great. But longer stays in Thailand quickly run into immigration law.

If you're having power outages or brownouts, you want voltage regulators and UPS'. Bad power will wreck your electronics. It's good to have a backup internet connection as well. I've had outages lasting up to 3 weeks, and what are you really going to do about it to motivate a telephone company to work faster?

The 37signals people created a short book about working remotely. At about the same time as I was having problems with someone not overlapping their hours with the rest of the team, their book pointed out the same issue. If you don't overlap, people will become isolated in a very bad way. If you hire someone you just have to clarify the expected hours upfront.

S3 is going to be a lot cheaper. It isn't perfect, but it's pretty reliable. Then you can look at cloudfront. And they did recently release cross-region S3 replication. Then you can be really safe and keep a backup copy at a whole other location.

This would be big for us. When we initially looked at the problem of sharing or keeping a large number of files in sync, the prospects were dim. DRBD? etc. So we ended up using Gluster. Gluster has been temperamental at best. We've been able to move some data out and into elasticsearch, but not all. So, I've nudged my AWS rep and signed up already. Reliable NFS is good for me.

I recently switched back to Firefox exactly for this reason. Firefox has tab overflow so that I can actually tell what an open tab is. Additionally, Firefox can be set to ONLY load the current tab on startup. Have you ever been to a hotel and opened your browser only to be presented with a captive portal? With Chrome all of your other tabs are now going to that page also. It caused me lots of sadness once.

I maintain a work and personal instance of firefox. When things seem a little sluggish I move open tabs related to projects into a wiki. Or, if its just something I wanted to 'read later'... I read it.

Any time I move, I try to divest myself of at least half of everything I own. I've moved with only what I could fit into luggage. The take on it that I'm more comfortable with now is--if I want it, I want something really nice. I work for a site that specializes in antiques and collectibles and such. If I want something, I go searching for a special example of that thing. It sheds at least part of the disposable nature of things.

So, you're an expert with Google's tools and want to set up a workshop... so of course your first choice is to go use Facebook...

I like spy.co. If you were planning to let that one lapse or had an interest in letting it go.

I've been using cyphertite after giving up on SpiderOak. It's been nice so far.

I use https://code.google.com/p/motp/ for 2FA. Google Authenticator used to be open source, but is not anymore. That frustrates me.

Plaxo!

So because they studied CS they're qualified to design drugs? I didn't see any testing/trials in their plans. I also think the drug they're fighting is probably Modafinil--not Adderall. And I don't care how the jar feels in my hand... fancy packaging is money wasted.

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If you want to code in TCL for the web, we'd love to hear from you.

It reminded me of Print Shop from the 80s. I felt an urge to print it out on colored paper to read. The web devs over at bloomberg must have plenty of cocaine.

I ended up using a Nexus 10 for reading technical stuff. The kindle is too small and you lose the page formatting. I really wish they'd bring back the Kindle DX format.

I'm not exactly on topic, but I hope you can forgive me touting my own project. I'm trying to raise money to fund the work necessary to get OpenBSD running on Apple hardware. One can buy an Apple laptop with cash in any mid-sized mall around the world. Add in what I think is the most privacy oriented operating system, and you have a great match. Apple only updates hardware a couple of times a year, and its pretty well built. https://www.reddit.com/r/LighthouseProjects/comments/2ukg1u/...

I like the popup that I get that asks me for an email so that I can be notified when this is released. It won't accept an email address. Finally went over to the Chrome store and got a lot more info, but I'm not sure I trust it enough to install it.

I think NPR covered this pretty recently. So, first you have a book salesman that comes in and sells the modifications from the previous versions--that its a better educational tool. They don't talk a lot about price, and they make the sale. Then, you have a super limited market. You aren't going to print a lot of these books because there are a limited number of students who need the book. After the first year the sales plummet because used books exist. So, there's a short window to make back all the money on the book and also profit enough for it to be a legitimate business. Then, there are people who hoard books like this playing on seasonal demand--buy low, sell high. There are programs they can buy to help them maximize their profit. There are even people who scour used book stores for good finds with barcode scanners.

And, I'm not sure where common curriculum comes into this, or if it does.

If you're looking for secure backup solutions, you should also consider SpiderOak and CypherTite.

Yeah, this is one of the most frustrating things about Google. They're opaque to reduce gaming of the system, but that same quality makes it easy to accidentally choose something Google doesn't like. I'm going to stop short of calling Matt Cutts a liar, but his word isn't always right. Moz seems to tell the truth as they discover it. The only interactions I've had with Google essentially lead to "why don't you spend more money on Adwords!" Well, I won't go into a full rant... hope your traffic recovers.

At first I thought it was going to be a big deal, but I read a comment somewhere to 'chew' a little.. bite down on it. I was incompatible with Soylent, but 100%FOOD is awesome.

This is o true. We get a lot more sales from organic Google search results than paid advertising. It's no joke when you start spending thousands of dollars a day on adwords and still get nowhere near the organic results.

Beautiful, simpler? It makes noises and I couldn't guess how to get a channel list or what the next step actually was in 3 commands. If I had to guess, this mostly exists because the IRC protocol is easy to recreate. I'll stick to ircII if I want beautiful and simple.

I'd rather use IRC. I couldn't even see what kind of site it was without signing up. Sorry, but that's where I bailed.

I moved my company over to AWS before all the other options popped up. I did have a few back and forth conversations with someone from GCE late last year, but the end of the year is not really a great time to start a move like that. We are forced to use some other Google products and the lack of support, number of new "features" that aren't thought through, and their lack of ability to give answers to BASIC and SIMPLE question drives me crazy. Sometimes it feels like they're out to specifically screw us. We've cut our adwords budget significantly. The only nagging thing that tugs at my brain is that maybe we'd be considered a 'fast' internet site and get better search engine ranking if we were on GCE. That might make it worth it.