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How to get new bike lanes into Google’s bicycle maps.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. The more people do it the faster it goes.

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iPhone 32GB 6s sold out in Canada too.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

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Real reason Apple won’t publish i7 sales numbers — 6s is now hottest selling phone on market.

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DeLong on Productivity: Finance & Healthcare administration are economic parasites.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Lecture graphs. Educational.

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2016: screensaver showing father camera photos of a boy you like.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

iCloud Photo Library unexpected side-effect. My daughter unamused. 

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Jobs: “if they sell a lot of something, you want to tell everybody.”

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Apple expects iPhone 7 to do bleh.

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Manufacturing hiring: there is no skills gap and no demand.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Lots of unserious job listings.

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If you bought dSLR in past 8 years you are set for a long time.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Video focusing has improved. Otherwise, yeah.

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5,300 Wells Fargo employees participated in massive fraud?

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. 5,300 is not possible. There is something wrong with this reporting…

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Wolfram essay on using Mathematica+ in education.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Textbook for education innovation as blog post.

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Trump to defeat ISIS with really big cyber.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. He is bizarro-Obama. Right out of a 1974 comic book.

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STNG: ‘The Inner Light’.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Best TV show I have watched. They were right to reject a sequel.

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US economy has glut of managers.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Demand deficit may contribute.

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iPhone: either pay full price or do Apple lease.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I pay full and hand off to kids.

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Airbnb turns to its racism problem.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. How about ageism? Sexism (against males)?

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Charles Blow attacks NYT Trump coverage.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Like K. Neither say “NYT”, but we know.

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Obama and CO2: “immersed himself in the scientific literature”

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Zorgonian AI sent to save humanity from itself.

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Mori joins smart person consensus: Air Buds dumb, Apple jackectomy rationale dumber.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I like water redistance.

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Apple starts i7 invisibility project.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Next year will be great.

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iPod touch: now with headphone jack!

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. Wonder if spec-bump pending …

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Marshall take on Clinton/Trump Nat Sec Forum.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Link. I remember Carter did better than Reagan in 1st debate. America disagreed. Not that I’m scared.

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Net video ads pass my annoyance threshold.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

I’m low vid use, so notice that ads abruptly much worse. Esp. YouTube.

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Pediatricians firing anti-vaxxers from practice.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

Parents practicing child abuse. Social stigma growing.

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Post i7 the 32GB 6s sells out.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

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Vote of confidence.

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Cafe wifi isn’t a hobby any more …

Posted on September 8, 2016 by jgordon

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Post i7: 6s $550, 5SE $400.

Posted on September 7, 2016 by jgordon

Sadly 16GB 5SE still $400. 32GB 6s only $100 less than 32GB i7.

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Daughter trusted school work to iCloud. 

Posted on September 7, 2016 by jgordon

I have failed as a father.

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“Informative mid-sized middle-aged multifaceted flesh-toned carbon-based Canadian grammaticing crossfitter”

Posted on September 7, 2016 by jgordon

Friend responds to post on adjective sequencing I shared.

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Theology of Daesh defeat.

Posted on September 7, 2016 by jgordon

When IS no longer has a state what theological story will they tell?

Typical framing is Daesh insufficiently virtuous, so must reclaim virtue to win.

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Google web forms can fail mysteriously.

Posted on September 6, 2016 by jgordon

They are not super reliable. We get this when try to capture to Google Sheet …

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Is iOS WordPress.app randomly changing my post format to “Status”?

Posted on September 6, 2016 by jgordon

I’ve assumed it’s an errant touch of mine, but now I wonder about a bug.

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Siri needs better language model and Reminders need an alarm option. 

Posted on September 6, 2016 by jgordon

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Mail.app is killing my iPhone 

Posted on September 6, 2016 by jgordon

Power use scales poorly with multiple Gmail accounts.

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Is Google + bigger than Orkut now?

Posted on September 5, 2016 by jgordon

Google killed Orkut and Google Reader Social pre-G+ launch. At the very least they should rename the damned thing.

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Weird things: no way to track Apple purchases on iOS

Posted on September 5, 2016 by jgordon

Odd omission, probably not deliberate.

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MSFT XBOX store broken past 24h

Posted on September 1, 2016 by jgordon

For us anyway. Can’t be reached.

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The eBike era: there will be blood.

Posted on September 1, 2016 by jgordon

1st eBike on local trail – large man on large bike doing 25mph on 10mph trail.

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ICD-10-CM encourages physician fraud and damages research.

Posted on September 1, 2016 by jgordon

Loss of ICD-9-CM “unspecified” billable code means physicians either code beyond knowledge or choose symptom coding.

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Realized my “smartphone for special needs” book has nothing on phoning.

Posted on September 1, 2016 by jgordon

Weird.

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The Mac Keychain never forgets ….

Posted on September 1, 2016 by jgordon

Certs from .Mac (2010), passwords from 2006 … curious bit of history.

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iOS/OS X annoyance – always joining the wrong WiFi network

Posted on September 1, 2016 by jgordon

It tries to be too clever, especially if OS X Keychain share is enabled. Artificial Incompetence.

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Quicken for Mac: We are still quite happy with it.

Posted on August 30, 2016 by jgordon

Deeply unfashionable, but works very well for my wife and I.

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Another family iPhone needs a wipe/restore. Again.

Posted on August 29, 2016 by jgordon

Corrupted media storage metadata/files again. Bugs Apple has.

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Remember when (sea) piracy was big?

Posted on August 29, 2016 by jgordon

A success story retrospective would be nice.

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Google Maps.app iOS: multipoint routes don’t work. 

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This renders in desktop, but not iOS maps.app: https://goo.gl/maps/i5tRPn4osbz

Posted on August 28, 2016 by jgordon

Facebook: please stop screwing with share function. 

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This AM UI again omits share to group or page. Tomorrow?

Posted on August 28, 2016 by jgordon

Joined Zapier: kateva.org/sh RSS to app.net

Posted on August 27, 2016 by jgordon

IFTTT and PourOver were better, but both gone. Last days of ADN.

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Whatever happened to 90s publisher’s clearinghouse scams?

Posted on August 26, 2016 by jgordon

Ancestor of 2016 phone phishing.

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Still enjoy sending my father PhotoCard.app postcard every 2w. 

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His long term care facility room has stacks of them. Show up as a postcard. 

Posted on August 26, 2016 by jgordon

Whenever I paste from Word/Mac to Mail.app I see the original sin of computing.

Posted on August 26, 2016 by jgordon

The CRLF, CR, LF sin that is. Not the only place.

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What disease has the highest prevalence/understanding ratio?

Posted on August 26, 2016 by jgordon

I nominate osteoarthritis. The research literature is awful, we have no treatments, we don’t even have good disease descriptions.

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