cportela's comments

Any favorites or good ones to watch? There a quite a few and I'm fairly certain many of us are busy. I've learned from the 1-2 conferences I've gone to that titles are deceiving as well.

Yea my university IT job was like that too. Except automating things was part of my job description and I still wasn't given much lee-way to automate things much.

Nope, I love it too. I made my personal website the same way. Long live meaningful and well written text being the focus.

Still don't get it, but I recommend looking at the link someone posted to get the view of the author from when this was posted.

Thanks, this was very helpful getting more of an idea of what he was talking about. More I read the more I realized I didn't actually understand what it was he meant. I should have known, it happens with my own writing all the time.

Thank you for posting this as the print link. Literally a simple task, but again thanks.

<unrelated> Al, could you made the fonts on your site bigger, make styling via css not on each element and introduce some nicer Google fonts? Also, if you could use `<code>` and `<pre>` tags that'd be a solution where you could ignore the rest of what I said.

Reason being that I save these articles for later to show people who I try to teach programming and my attempts to save this page were unsuccessful.

I am not a lover of angular, but the reason angular is so popular is because it gets the prototype out there.

So many things and places are just doing things "lean" and "iterating" so angular makes that easy.

I'm not sure anyone could tell me Angular isn't very productive and that it wouldn't be tempting to use it so you can get some fairly magical experiences for users and in demos.

I knew someone who consulted a large bank not to use Angular for financial apps. They were insistent to use Angular until he finally showed them a fairly typical requirement of an app like that in angular: 5 tables with 100 rows and columns. It literally crawled when running on a Dell Workstation laptop.

It is kind of nuts that angular is big.

Clearly you like react, but react also doesn't do as much for you as Angular. It's "only the V in MVC."

The thing I disliked about my surface (owned a surface pro 1) was the lack of touch integration and Windows.

Touch integration - someone mentioned for VS/SQL server that the touch is horrible to even view text. The reality is that almost every application is broken by default. Only recently have Chrome and Firefox been useful with touch. The beautiful experience in IE and Explorer were the only places where that happened. It really sucked to be held back from doing something because the system started to fight me.

Windows - The above complain is more specific, but this is more my disdain for the Windows Platform. There aren't good touch OS alternatives to Windows for the surface, so Windows stays, and it's not very good at open source things. I prefer Linux, or even OS X like I am using now, over Windows and the surface.

~That said, I do like the surface if these things can be fixed Pros of the surface: - The pen really was amazing, OneNote used it perfectly - Gaming wasn't perfect, but it was pretty powerful for the size as well ... There's more but I need to do things. I've listed my complaints.

(screw reading through what I wrote. Post!)

I'm not a huge fan, but I do like the content they email me sometimes.

I'm not sure what I'm missing, but I've seen tons of anti-quora stuff on Hacker News in the past month or so. There was this, another article about VCs who think quora is dumb, and some other posts that basically think the same thing as linked.

Are they arrogant or assholes in person? There are tons of companies who do nothing and have no value and are loved, while they have built something of value to users, or at least I've found great answers to things that I had questions on.

HealthKit apps are restricted from using iCloud and apple uses it's separate HealthKit service to back the data up I believe.

The repo with the code in it. Link to the original post already posted, but here it is anyways.

https://github.com/feliam/CVE-2014-4377

http://blog.binamuse.com/2014/09/coregraphics-memory-corrupt...

I'm fairly certain I can't pass this test even though I've tried. Just haven't had the skills yet for what I want to make and the stuff I've made doesn't impress the people I want to be with.

"we all believe 'we’ll stay in touch' but the horrible irony is how we still believe that lie..."

It's broken because people want to be secure in sending messages however it's design is contrary to that. The metadata prevents it from being truly secure for one.

Encrypting emails is also another very complicated thing for users.

It needs a make over of sorts so we can get something that all users can reasonably use securely.