That's kind of awesome - my current GPS persona is called Karen (by me, I can't remember what TomTom named her), but she hasn't got even a smidgen of his personality. Might be time for an upgrade...
Some people juggle geese!
Wash ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."
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EpicTangent - May 06, 2014 1:18:45 pm PDT #23827 of 25496
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Theodosia - May 07, 2014 6:57:22 am PDT #23828 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Does anybody know -- if you have a paper subscription to the New Yorker, does it include the electronic version?
Tom Scola - May 07, 2014 7:10:20 am PDT #23829 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Yes.
tommyrot - May 07, 2014 7:47:10 am PDT #23830 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I may have found my One True OS X Text Editor: Atom
A hackable text editor for the 21st Century
At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
Atom is a desktop application based on web technologies. Like other desktop apps, it has its own icon in the dock, native menus and dialogs, and full access to the file system.
Open the dev tools, however, and Atom's web-based core shines through. Whether you're tweaking the look of Atom's interface with CSS or adding major features with HTML and JavaScript, it's never been easier to take control of your editor.
OS X only for now. They're gonna have versions for Windows (and Linux?) eventually.
Rob - May 07, 2014 10:20:09 am PDT #23831 of 25496
I do need to give Atom another try.
So far nothing has wooed me away from TextMate. And surprisingly, TextMate 2 seems to be a real thing now.
Liese S. - May 08, 2014 8:30:00 am PDT #23832 of 25496
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Oooh, good to know, thanks.
amych - May 08, 2014 9:20:41 am PDT #23833 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I may check out Atom again -- I looked at it during the invite-only period, and it looked slick but not like anything I was going to get any actual work done with. (But it was also very obviously early stages, so that wasn't much of a surprise.)
§ ita § - May 08, 2014 10:09:09 am PDT #23834 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Why do they trump Sublime Text 2? Apart from the inability to count words, I'm really happy with it (and its licensing model).
I should check how much an upgrade to 3 costs. That has a word count plugin.
Rob - May 08, 2014 2:28:18 pm PDT #23835 of 25496
For me it's TextMate's language-agnostic plugin system. For some reason I really hate writing in Python and that's required for Sublime.
§ ita § - May 18, 2014 6:57:06 am PDT #23836 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I just discovered Swype does handwriting recognition, and it's AWFUL. I'm not sure how they think letter-by-letter is compatible with at least the other two keyboards I've seen out there. Their suggestions are top notch, which is the only reason I'm still experimenting with settings, but SHIT.
They unlocked the phone I deliberately bought unlocked (Germany, if memory serves) and now my sister is on Android. She pays through the nose for data minutes--do you guys have any recommendations about firewall apps, or other ways to keep it under control.