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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 01:51 PM »

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Living Room / Re: Why George Orwell wrote 1984

« Last post by wraith808 on January 10, 2014, 12:15 PM »

When you choose evil without coercion, even if it is a lesser evil, there's something seriously WRONG there.

-Renegade (January 10, 2014, 08:02 AM)

Not.. necessarily.  Take a US election, with two candidates, and other marginalized ones.  You can vote for the one that would do the least harm.  Or you can vote for someone else.  Or you can not vote at all.

Not voting at all is not making a choice.  Similarly, if pragmatically your candidate won't win... that's not really a choice either.  Those kinds of choices for the non-mainstream candidate are made before an election and during the campaign.  Not at the ballots.  Once it becomes obvious that the marginalized candidate won't win, all you do by voting for them is reduce the pool of effective votes.

Voting for the lesser evil in that case, is the pragmatic choice.  You're not actually choosing the lesser evil- you're choosing against the greater one.

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Living Room / Re: Why George Orwell wrote 1984

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 10:22 PM »

Well, for all of my middle of the road stance, I'm nothing if not practical.  A practical man has to have a sense of humor, because being practical is hard.

I think from his writings, Orwell was a practical man.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 09:43 PM »

^ Right!  That's the point that I was making, i.e. "the idea of writing software to capture one particular style of working (as opposed to trying to make one organizational tool for everyone)".  It seems that Justice is going for the latter part- at least it seems so with the OP and soliciting feedback on whether his list is a good list.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 09:59 AM »

Yes, I'm using Trello right now... great app!  Yet another mini-review I need to do... 

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Living Room / Re: Best note-taking setup with tablet and keyboard?

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 08:19 AM »

I don't know if you've looked into rolling your investment into your new platform, but that's what I've done and its kept the cost of the iPad manageable.  My first one, I purchased new- a 16GB for $500.  My second one, I skipped the iPad 2 and have the 3 right now, I purchased at best buy (64GB) as a return.  That one was a little over $400, but I sold my iPad at the same time to someone at work for $150.

I'm thinking about shortening the time-table of the buy sell, because they maintain their value pretty well as long as you don't sell to a store.

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General Software Discussion / Re: [concept feedback] Workload management software

« Last post by wraith808 on January 09, 2014, 08:14 AM »

None on your actual process... mine is different.  But I think that brings me to the point- I don't think that *anyone's* process is exactly the same, unless they're following someone else's.  That's the reason for the prevalence of GTD, Pomodoro, etc.  It's probably better to refine a process for you (especially since this is a personal need) and get people to help refine that in the software.  At least personally, I tend to do better with software when I can test it from a personal perspective.

Just my 

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Living Room / Re: Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 06:03 PM »

I was wondering... since there's no cow in that thread, just dinosaurs.  But then I go back to the official site and see one: http://www.admuncher.com/

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 04:26 PM »

One of the best threats ever

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 02:38 PM »

I don't care for Evernote, I use it but very sparsely. But boy did I lose data using Simplenote (using both Resophnotes and Cintanotes) or what. Apparently you don't have to be the size of an elephant to be bug ridden.

-paulobrabo (January 08, 2014, 02:13 PM)

And that was my point.  Thankfully, I use Dropbox with the combination, and so have been able to recover from those kinds of errors.  But they are/were definitely more serious than anything I've seen from Evernote.

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 08, 2014, 11:55 AM »

Well, whether or not Evernote users think there are bugs in Evernote, it looks as though the Evernote CEO thinks there are, and he's going to fix things. There's his very well-written response post to Kincaid's complaints on the Evernote blog.
Judging by a lot of the comments from self-confessed Internet users across the Internet on this, and by the CEO's post, this must all have been quietly festering for some time before Kincaid championed the cause.
It also seems - from @wraith808's comments above - that some users hadn't noticed or heard/read of anything to be concerned about.
As I wrote above:

Caveat emptor, it seems:

-IainB (January 04, 2014, 01:20 AM)

-IainB (January 08, 2014, 10:54 AM)

Of course there are bugs.  No one said there weren't- find me a piece of software that has no bugs and i'll show you software that has no users.

My point was that it is not a bug ridden elephant, and is not unusable.  And that the article is promoting FUD, and switching to other platforms that are just as buggy, if not more so.  I clearly state that. 

As far as the CEO's response, it is a PR spin put into place because of the pile on.  That should be clearly obvious.

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Community Giveaways / Scrivener at 50% off

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 06:43 PM »

For completing my renegade NaNoWriMo project, one of the items I received was a Scrivener coupon.  I already have it (used it during NaNoWriMo actually), so if you're a writer (and an active member of DC at my discretion) PM me, and the first one gets the coupon.  The coupon expires on the 30th.

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DC Member Programs and Projects / Re: Clipjump - Clipboard Manager

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 10:26 AM »

What would be really great would be if (say) @aviaryan and/or @mwb1100, or someone, were able to come up with a constructive approach to figuring a way around the apparent problem that something is inhibiting/blocking the downloading of the Clipjump program install for this user.

-IainB (January 06, 2014, 04:33 AM)

What would be helpful, it seems, would be if this user would perhaps delineate exactly what happened?  He gave you an alternative... but your snarky original post didn't seem to delineate your exact problem other than 'repeated hangs'.  Snark sometimes gets in the way of help.

Just an observation for future use.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BrowserID - Mozilla's solution to the password problem

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 10:22 AM »

I like OpenID but I don’t get many chances to use it.

-J-Mac (January 07, 2014, 01:03 AM)

Large tech sites mostly allow a sign-in by OpenID, some board systems added that... well.

-Tuxman (January 07, 2014, 10:16 AM)

I don't know if you meant most, or that their implementation is shoddy.  If you meant the latter, well, on that I'd agree.

I ran my own bare openID provider endpoint on my own domain for years... and as time went on, more and more of them deviated from the bare specs to shoehorn the larger openID providers' requirements in.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 09:21 AM »

I was talking about the Low F# he hit (and sustained) more than anything else.  You can just barely hear it on substandard speakers being in the 44Hz range.  But, that's not even my favorite track of the competition from them... but that in and of itself is very impressive.

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 08:25 AM »

^ Not exactly.

But that one is hopefully not restricted.

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General Software Discussion / Re: BrowserID - Mozilla's solution to the password problem

« Last post by wraith808 on January 07, 2014, 08:19 AM »

And to be honest, OpenID isn't much better currently with regard to the number of sites using it, unfortunately. I like OpenID but I don’t get many chances to use it.

Jim

-J-Mac (January 07, 2014, 01:03 AM)

Bare openid seems to be going away.  I've had to change mine on every site that I formerly used it on.  Finally gave up and started using Google as my provider. *sigh*

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on January 06, 2014, 09:30 PM »

Kung Fury!

-Deozaan (December 31, 2013, 06:07 PM)

There's actually a Kickstarter for that.  I kid you not.

5 Things I Learned as a Cop (That Movies Won't Show You)

Too much there to even find an appropriate quote...

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Living Room / Re: Recommend some music videos to me!

« Last post by wraith808 on January 06, 2014, 09:03 PM »

A Capella Group Home Free in the Finals...

1:13 is for our own 40hz... (never actually heard someone get to his note vocally before, even though he's about 44 hz (Low F#))  

But watch the whole thing

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N.A.N.Y. 2014 / Re: NANY 2014 Roundup Prep

« Last post by wraith808 on January 06, 2014, 08:21 PM »

Both are done and linked in their entries.

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Living Room / Re: Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users

« Last post by wraith808 on January 05, 2014, 07:04 PM »

Well, not really reporting, as that's a search query string.  And yes to the flounder

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Living Room / Re: Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users

« Last post by wraith808 on January 05, 2014, 04:38 PM »

^ well, *they* say it's fine.  But I wouldn't click it.  And agree with you on the humour.

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Living Room / Re: Evernote, the bug-ridden elephant.

« Last post by wraith808 on January 05, 2014, 10:37 AM »

Yes, one could presume so. I guess you could check the several Evernote user forums/discussion boards for an answer.

-IainB (January 05, 2014, 02:05 AM)

I already follow and talk to a lot of people that use evernote- writers for the most part on writing boards and such- and that was the reason that I was surprised.  With the number of people using it for novels, blog posts, role-playing games, etc, if it was as bad as he made it seem, I'd have heard about it was my point.  If it was *that* endemic, I'd have probably run across it by now with the sheer amount of information I have in there.

Doing a bit more research, I came across a couple of other articles from someone that had a couple of other things to say in relating such things (and someone I trust a bit more from experience)

http://www.gottabemo...sues-in-mobile-tech/

http://www.gottabemo...plaints-but-not-all/

I can see where they'd be a bit perturbed - I don't use audio recording in Evernote, and that's apparently what the complaint was about.  But that open letter missive didn't make it seem as though it was just that feature that was pissing him off.  It seemed that it didn't do what it should at base - sync notes.  And the "cloud is falling mentality" by someone who is followed has people looking at abandoning ship to a service that I *know* has problems (even though I still use it; I just mitigate the problems by another method), SimpleNote.

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General Software Discussion / Re: It's about ... Vagrant (VM Web server)

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 09:22 PM »

Looks pretty cool... but no, I haven't heard of it before this.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cloned software and licensing issues

« Last post by wraith808 on January 04, 2014, 07:56 PM »

I'm with app there.  A note if you believe their claims might give more visiblility to the possibility of the infringement.  But its not your place to do so.  Of course, whether I'd do it would depend on the wording of the request (any legalese at all, and I'd tell them to pound sand), and their communications.