3×22 hellyeah! show: your retention specialists

In this snowpiercing episode of the hellyeah! show, we discuss The Last of Us multiplayer, OS X Yosemite, bitcoin, the iPad retina mini, the Met, Comcast cancellation fun times, Snowpiercer, more Snowpiercer, The International Dota 2 Championships, Hearthstone, fingerprinting, iOS backdoors, and vim vim vim.

Emory’s stuff

• TLOU is still good!
  • New stuff is a little confusing
• OS X Yosemite 10.10 released as Beta
• Emory’s Really Dumb Bitcoin Problems
• iPad retina mini

• I love this guy
  • great size for reading
  • not great for computing
  • socialite device good for writing without a keyboard, easy to hold

• Bad news, Alan
  • The Metropolitan Opera warns it may lock out its orchestra, chorus and other employees next week. nyti.ms/1lwnJjr
• Comcast Cancelation Conversation is hilariously bad
  • Comcast memo on viral cancelation call: It was “painful to listen to” | Ars Technica

Alan’s stuff

• Snowpiercer
• The International Dota 2 Championships
  • Dota 2 is amazing
• Naxxramas is open in Hearthstone!
• Divinity: Original Sin

PSAs

• Canvas Fingerprinting is real
  • “First documented in a forthcoming paper by researchers at Princeton University and KU Leuven University in Belgium, this type of tracking, called canvas fingerprinting, works by instructing the visitor’s Web browser to draw a hidden image. Because each computer draws the image slightly differently, the images can be used to assign each user’s device a number that uniquely identifies it.”
  • https://securehomes.esat.kuleuven.be/~gacar/persistent/index.html
• Apple is probably not using backdoors in iOS to spy on you
  • Tinfoil Slidedeck
    • https://pentest.com/ios_backdoors_attack_points_surveillance_mechanisms.pdf
  • http://www.electronista.com/articles/14/07/23/tools.intended.strictly.for.diagnostics.file.capture.company.says/

Vim

• Can’t help myself, mostly using vim
  • I’m actually not a power user of vim
  • I have zero problems hopping around, search/replace, block visual selections
  • I like tmux a lot and vim plays nicely
  • vim is prehistoric with plugins and extensions though
• Alan is wrong about Textmate 2 and undo
  • not really wrong I just want to say he’s wrong
  • Textmate 2 progressing nicely
  • not clear what Atom means for Textmate 2 and Sublime 3
• Evervim
• jrnl and minion
• edit in new macvim buffer service
• Alan’s recommended color scheme: desert.vim
  • http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=105