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Having grown up near Portland, I too was surprised about the historic levels of racism. Though in retrospect it is believable, considering the percentages of minorities is (or at least seems) so much lower than anywhere I've lived since.

My recollection growing up was that seeing a minority was a noteworthy occurrence, because of it's rareness. That changed when I moved into Portland proper, but I never really noticed racism there.


What kind of racism are you thinking about/describing, when you say you never noticed any? Like, guys in hoods? Confederate flags? that kind of thing?

I'm curious, because it seems like, if you're not a minority, you're going to miss out on all of it unless it's the Hollywood-ish in-your-face kind of racism.


I have no numbers to back me, but my impression is the vast majority of OS X users can't be bothered with doing backups even with a built-in Backup solution, much less a 3rd party one.

Time Machine isn't going to stop someone who places value on doing proper backups from doing them, and if it makes it easy enough for my mom do back up her files, then that's a net win — not marketing.

And hey, it only took me reminding her 5 times before she got the external drive and set up Time Machine — no family tech support involved.


This is actively being worked on by core developers. See https://github.com/meteor/meteor/wiki/Preview-of-Meteor-on-W... if you want to try the pre-release.


How did i miss this? Thanks so much!


> Important to note: because JavaScript itself is always backwards-compatible (1JS), any code that runs on Node will run on iojs, but not necessarily vice versa.

Though I'd imagine this will not hold true with addons, seeing as there are vastly different versions of the V8 engine.


ntfs-3g was indeed ported and can be easily installed, but I think the point was is writing to NTFS is not natively supported.


There's a good euphemism


Just a quick q: does it involve a bluebird on your shoulder?


While Meteor does do a lot for you out of the box, it doesn't really prevent you from seeing what's going on. There are some good resources for seeing what Meteor is doing behind the scenes (meteorhacks.com and eventedmind.com) if one does want to dig in.


What's even more frightening is we're getting both.


No, we got Snow Crash instead.


Snow crash had an emphasis on corporation habitats, and scrutiny of employees. I believe that was it, care to elaborate?


I was thinking of the globalization, cyberpunk, collapse of social/governmental authority, widespread poverty, and cyberpunk.


This isn't the 1990's anymore. There are plenty of ways to host non-static sites without CGI.


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