Category: Technology
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Mr. T demands cryptocurrency
(Spotted at 1st and Howard) According to a sticker on a pole, Mr. T would like you to send him some Bitcoin. Why? Well, it turns out, you’re a pitiful fool if you don’t. So there’s that. At press time, however, the identity if the Bitcoin wallet could not be verified. Donate at your own…
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Real estate sound effect
These days it’s hard to look at real estate listings in San Francisco without having that old timey car horn sound effect play in your head. As of today, your imagination is no long required! With my new Real Estate FX userscript, local Redfin listings get a little YouTube video embedded in the page that…
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Agile lunch breaks
The Product Owner added a new user story to the sprint backlog: “In addition,” the Product Owner added, “we’ll need to do a spike to investigate which food trucks are available today.”
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Song lyrics in C++
The other day while hacking away on some C++ code and listening to music, something occurred to me: if I’m programming in C++, shouldn’t the music I’m listening to be in the same language? So I took a few verses from various random songs and coded up C++ translations of the lyrics. Here’s what I…
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Roomba confused by office chair
Watch as a Roomba is helplessly “trapped” by the legs of an office chair. No, nothing was stopping this Roomba from turning around and zipping off in the other direction aside from its own stupidity. The fact that a Roomba can’t escape such a devious non-trap is evidence against robots enslaving humanity anytime soon. Or…
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Facebook’s targeted advertising isn’t
ZOMG with all these new privacy violations Facebook advertisers know EVERYTHING about you and stalk your every movement and… …wait, they think I want Mission burritos delivered to the Marina? Never mind. I mean, they’re right about me being lazy enough to get a burrito delivered instead of walking three blocks, but the Marina? Come…
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A better way to fix our gadgets
Until now, the process for solving technical problems involved Googling around for advice on forum posts and help pages. The advice is always the same, isn’t it? Of course the tech geeks could be messing with you. By following the advice your TV won’t turn off and your wedding photos are permanently deleted. Who knows.…
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Ubuntu as an OS X TimeMachine server
One of the best features of Mac OS X is TimeMachine, a ridiculously easy to use backup system. The downside to TimeMachine is you either have to use an external hard drive or buy Apple’s TimeCapsule backup hardware. Turns out there’s a third option — use a Linux PC as your backup server. With Ubuntu…
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Omni Consumer Products launches sandwich-purchasing app
16th and Mission’s The Sandwich Place is littered with signs for a new app for your phone that lets you order (and pay) online. The app is apparently from Omni Consumer Products, best known for Delta City and their robot police force. Before you can say “I’ll buy that for a dollar!” let me point…
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Using an Evoluent VerticalMouse 4 on Linux
Evoluent’s VerticalMouse 4 is one of the better ergonomic computer mice I’ve used. It’s comfortable, it doesn’t take much getting used to, and the price isn’t unreasonable. While it works great on Windows and Mac, the same can’t be said for Linux. The button mappings cause some truly odd behavior, particularly with the scroll wheel.…
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