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Any chance you're willing to share your scripts? I'm interested in trying out NAT traversal, too, and was starting to research ways to simulate all the different types.

If you're on Windows and need a VM, why not use Hyper-V? I haven't touched anything from VMWare in decades, so I'm genuinely curious.

I find it interesting that the e-book costs over 4x the paperback from Amazon, which I just ordered.

need to pull out a wireless keyboard & mouse to watch netflix

I run Kodi on a Raspberry Pi for this exact reason. The Pi's HDMI has CEC support built-in, which means the TV's remote works seamlessly with Kodi's UI. This works great for my Netflix needs.

Unfortunately, most (all?) PC graphics don't do CEC out of the box. I've seen USB adapters that can add this functionality to PCs but I've never tried any of them.

I'm so glad I've been playing around with OpenWRT lately. I bought a second router a while back just to experiment with it and now I have automatic fail-over between two ISPs (with mwan3) and WPA2 Enterprise (with FreeRadius).

Needless to say, my Netgear R7000P will soon be decommissioned. I wish it were officially supported on OpenWRT because it's got a good amount of RAM and flash that could have been put to better use.

I thought it was possible to host your own sync server for Firefox. Is this no longer true?

This happens to me, too. At some level, I think it's a function of my mind deciding to only retain what's novel and filter out the day-to-day noise. Perhaps my dinner from two days ago was simply not remarkable enough to remember. But the 8 year old me probably found every day to be a new and wondrous experience.

Almost every major passenger airline is retiring their 747s. The only ones still in the air are the 747-8, which are relatively new, and cargo planes.

No idea about Australia, but where I live I get ice creams with an ingredient list that looks like this:

Milk, Figs & Sugar

Of course I can also get ice creams with all of the stuff you've listed, too, but the option exists.

I'd imagine that one of the perks of sovereignty is that no one, other than your own army, is obliged to protect you.

Every 2 to 3 days? My Windows 10 machines need an update maybe once a month.

I've never used a protector before and I had my first screen breakage just a few days ago. It's repairable, but I decided I wanted a new phone (it's been a while).

I just cannot believe the utterly idiotic designs on the newest phones. Who thought it was a smart idea to put glass on the back? This phone doesn't even do wireless charging. It has no physical requirement to have glass on the back, and yet here we are. My new phone has fallen off the couch twice now -- all by itself. I'm now conscious about how I hold it in my hands because I feel like it might just slither out.

It feels like phones today are designed to be broken easily. So, yes, now I have a protector that makes my brand new phone look like a piece of crap.

That's a good point. I suppose the goal is that your right to a judicial process must become inalienable, much like your rights to life and freedom that cannot be waived contractually.

I really hope they don't, because then their releases would be intertwined. Instead of getting the latest and greatest sysinternals tools all the time, I'd probably have to wait until the next Windows release.

Why would non-proprietary preclude paying for storage?

If Adobe freed the source code of Photoshop, how long do you think it would take for missing features to make it into Gimp?

If that were to happen, it stands to reason that Gimp would never get any new features, ever again.

Disclosure: I work at Shippable.

I think the latest features we launched at Shippable meets all of your requirements. You can mix and match on-demand and dedicated nodes, allocate them to specific projects if you'd like, all of this is available in our SaaS edition, and pricing is (in my opinion) quite reasonable.

Genuine question... What happened with the microwave oven?

I feel immensely grateful for being alive at a time when something like this could have been diagnosed (if I may be allowed a pun) in a heartbeat, but at the same time I cannot help but wonder about the ailments that our machines cannot see and our knowledge cannot diagnose yet.

So, the moral of the story is that your code should do one thing and do it well.

I totally see your point. I think what's tripping me up is that I'm new to node/JavaScript and coming from a strongly typed world, I'm still writing my apps with that framework in mind. Working with dynamically typed code requires you to think about your application differently and I'm just starting to understand the patterns.

Dynamic typing was very cool when I started out with Node, too. It lets you get things wired up very quickly and come up with a very functional app with almost no friction. But in my experience, once the app reaches a point where I no longer remember every single line of code that was written in it, I start to miss what a type system could tell you.

Hmm, do I pass a string in the first parameter, or was it the second? What does that funciton return? Am I really getting a number in this parameter? Of course, you can get around that confusion by adding more unit tests and parameter validation but with strong typing I'd get all that for free.

I used to feel the same way, but recently IE has become an absolute necessity for me. You see, I own a Windows Phone :)

I agree. My recent forays in to javascript have left me wanting to rewrite big chunks of my new app in TypeScript instead. :)

That's a fair point, but now you can develop in VS on Windows and target pretty much every platform out there. They've also announced official support for Cordova, and they have the whole Xamarin thing going on. VS already has Python support, and Node.js tools are also being added.

This is starting to look like a pretty decent environment to work in.

As someone who recently moved from C# to working with Node, Angular and Python full time, the recent announcements definitely make me want to go back to using .Net again. I love where all of the new stuff is headed.

Actually, 60 is the edge of bradycardia, unless you're really, really fit. Anywhere from 60 to 100 is considered normal in adults.

Yes, I'd love to, but what's the right place to start? I'm thinking Windows would need kernel modifications to make something like docker even possible on the platform.

Yes, you can create a docker image of your product and publish it to a docker registry. Your customers can then pull the image from there and fire up containers. Docker.io doesn't offer private images yet, so you may want to run your own registry [1] if you need to restrict access.

Docker doesn't let you push updates to containers. I think the best you can do is to push a new image to your registry and ask your customers to pull and fire up new containers.

[1] https://github.com/dotcloud/docker-registry

You should switch to using ConEmu[0] as a terminal. Completely fixes the rectangular copy blocks. Just set it up to launch PowerShell as your default shell.

[0] http://code.google.com/p/conemu-maximus5/