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Very, very, rarely do I burst out in complete and utter laughter to the point at which I actually drop my Laptop. This is one of those times.

I'll take these one at a time:

1) "These have all been tacked in and the fact that they are all an afterthought really shows through in how you setup and manage JIRA projects."

Slowly, but surely, Jira is going to a consistent role/schema/custom field mechanism format for managing issues. Jira _did_ start off as a "Software Defect Tracker", and, if you look closely, you can still see the DNA in the product, but, with things like issue-type-screen schemes, and custom workflows - you really can make it look like whatever you want.

2) "Jira is slow" -

I don't know how one makes it slow. I suppose it's possible. But our 8 Gigabyte Hard Disk, 2 Gigabyte Memory virtual machine currently has 45,000 issues that it's tracking, and searches come back pretty much instantly. Perhaps your Issue database is a lot larger than ours. I find it hard to believe your virtual machine is slower.

3) "Bad User Interface"

- simple. Straight forward. Create, Edit, View, close. Dashboard for custom views of your data.

4) "Doesn't quite fit most workflows"

- Uhm, it has a world class workflow _editor_.

5) "Trying to track a trouble Ticket, which is what Jira was originally designed for" -

Now we're going to inaccurate to completely polar opposite of reality - Jira was originally meant to go head-head with Bugzilla - Jira is a take off of GoJira, which is an alias for Godzilla, from which Bugzilla is named courtesy of Mozilla. Yes, it is rather indirect. Anyways, the point is Jira _evolved_ into an issue tracker from a defect tracker, in much the same way quicken evolved into an accounting package from a personal finance tool.

Anyways, as One who just spent four years using (and dearly loving) jira, and is now having to suffer the absolutely and utter agony of "Upgrading" to a Remedy ITIL suite, I can tell you that the Jira interface is a delight compared to this godawful web interface in Remedy. Now _that_ is a bad user interface - I challenge any remedy user out there to argue differently.
That reminds me of the statement from Eric S. Raymond : "Goodbye, "free software"; hello, "open source""

http://catb.org/~esr/open-source.html

There is a philosophical/political aspect to claim that "information wants to be free" regarding the free access to knowledge or the inherent nature of bits to be free. Cory Doctorow explained at the end of the article that people are free but if they don't have access to free knowledge... they aren't free. I will still use "information wants to be free", sorry Cory.

Of course the meaning of free here is "free as in freedom".
We fit into this criteria. Not great about blogging about it...ok, we sort of suck about blogging in general, but feel free to email me if you want to talk.

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Salesforce originated this model: http://www.salesforce.com/crm/editions-pricing.jsp
Would have preferred more info on the search page rather than having to click "About"
The GPL requires that the source code be made available to people to whom you distribute the program. It does not require that it be publicly availble for everyone in the whole world. Therefore, I believe that bundling the source code with the application, such that they are both purchased at once, would suffice.
The purpose of a graph (and any other infographics) is to illustrate data in an adequate and user-friendly manner. If you have to think over and over what the graph represents, it means it's poorly designed.
I like the favicons being included. Makes it really easy to identify familiar sites.

Overall it feels like a really nice design, but I can't pinpoint why exactly. Might be because Google's strayed so far from the original and simple interface.
> Say it with me:

> The iPad is not a computer.

You and I both know that's a lie. And I don't utter lies, especially ones that only exist to serve big companies at the expense of ordinary people.
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...does anyone else have a tough time getting past that?
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> the fact that it seems one person has done all of this.

Uh, where did you get that? The spying software was installed as a matter of school policy; it wasn't the act of a rogue admin deciding to wire up the school laptops to feed their appetites. They had budget meetings where they took notes about how much it would cost to purchase a site license that would cover the installation of this software on all of the school computers; everyone up to the school board participated in and signed off on this. It was not a secret.
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Patent trolling has been a key part of MS's strategy for years now. When someone without an exhaustive counter-portfolio of patents make a lot of money, Microsoft shows up with an offer to license the patents, and if the company refuses and there still seems little possibility of retaliation, they bring suit on the patents.

MS shouldn't really be singled out for it, I guess, because a lot of bigger tech companies do this.
Figures including their title and label should mostly speak for themselves.

The title implicitly promises the viewer a comparison of different countries. This graph is a prime example of how not to present that data. The linked article explains that in every detail and provides feedback on how it should be done.
great video, almost makes one stressed looking to see if that hand will keep up with the talk though...
I don't disagree with your point. I'm simply saying it's impossible to understand what a graph illustrates without reading few, simple sentences. Like its title.
Looks good.

The favicons increase page load times without adding a whole lot. I'd delay their loads via Javascript, if possible.

Edit: Getting a fairly consistent crash in Safari after trying to enable resource tracking in web inspector:

0 com.apple.WebCore	0x00007fff84c975fb WebCore::SecurityOrigin::canAccess(WebCore::SecurityOrigin const*) const + 27
1 com.apple.WebCore	0x00007fff84ce166e WebCore::allowsAccessFromFrame(JSC::ExecState*, WebCore::Frame*) + 174
2 com.apple.WebCore	0x00007fff84d771cb WebCore::checkNodeSecurity(JSC::ExecState*, WebCore::Node*) + 27
3 com.apple.WebCore	0x00007fff84d84302 WebCore::jsDOMWindowFrameElement(JSC::ExecState*, JSC::Identifier const&, JSC::PropertySlot const&) + 306
4 com.apple.WebCore	0x00007fff850528cd WebCore::JSQuarantinedObjectWrapper::getOwnPropertySlot(JSC::ExecState*, JSC::Identifier const&, JSC::PropertySlot&) + 253
5 com.apple.JavaScriptCore	0x00007fff808ffb26 JSC::JSValue::get(JSC::ExecState*, JSC::Identifier const&, JSC::PropertySlot&) const + 486
This is amazing. I think it may be situations like these that let some people dismiss actual sexual harassment. When you include completely innocent activities in sexual harassment, it damages the view of what sexual harassment really is (though he was cleared of any sexual harassment, he was still punished for it).

I have to imagine that this incident will harm the female colleague's reputation, which, if the story is accurate, it should.

You'd think medical scientists would be a bit more mature about sex.
So I wonder how much this is going to cost. The fact that you have to either call AT&T or visit their website is a big indicator it's not going to be free.
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> A palm pre runs linux, and has a keyboard, it's SDK is HTML/JS. Why aren't people complaining about that?

Because they do have a PDK so you can run native code...
http://developer.palm.com/index.php?option=com_content&v...
I can speak to some of those:

noscript: built-in, although configuration isn't that robust

flashblock: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepj...
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gofhjkjmkpinhpoi...

color picker: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/egmjgagjcamhcilh...
There seems to be an avoidable tension between men and women working together, researching bat fellatio, communicating with your colleagues, and strict regulations about sexual harassment.
"In 2008, a class action lawsuit against Blockbuster Inc. was filed over the release of customer rental and sales records to Facebook [..]"

Wow, that makes it even funnier. And kind of strengthens my point I guess.
I'll stick with google for now, at least it finds pg's wire transfer pdf when I look for RM9637.00
The graph looks like a timeline while it isn't. I don't know what's the number in the peak point. What does some point in the middle of the line between f.ex. tv and newspapers represent?

It's silly and confusing.
We must search for Yandex for "In Soviet Russia" jokes in Russian.

http://yandex.com/yandsearch?lang=ru&text=In%20Soviet%20...
Useful, methinks. Go from 99.999999999% reliable storage to 99.99%, and pay 1/3 less (10 cents / GB / Month).

Personally, I'd feel better if they'd tack on another 9, but that's not a bad deal for an enormous amount of uses out there.
It doesn't seem like it was completely innocent.

He was cleared of the "sexual harassment" charge but the investigation also concluded that "showing the paper was a joke with a sexual innuendo" (at least how I read that article). Depending on the relationship of the people involved, and what the innuendo really amounted to, it's hard to say. That at least seems unnecessary.

Using bat reproduction papers to hit on co-workers? a) Weak; b) Yes, one of them needs to be more mature about sex.
Why don't you just implement ID cards like in europe and skip this social security nonsense? And ID card has your face and height on it, making it more difficult for someone to pass as you.
Hmm, interesting. Perhaps it is rooted in the European concept of a nation state, where political legitimacy derives from cultural identity?

Btw, don't Native Americans identify themselves by their ethnic heritage as well? Not to mention South Asia (Hindu, Punjabi) and the Middle East (Arab, Persian, Jew, etc.). From what little I know of African cultures, many seem to also use distinct ethnic identities (Tutsi, Hutu, Zulu, etc.).
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Had a few random consumer blogs review it over the last week and starting to get increasing traffic right now.

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It's possible jason_slack meant the whole thing was revealed due to one student, Blake Robbins: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2010/02/school-under...
> making the world a better place can still be a very selfish act

You sound like such selfness is actually concious. I don't think so. We're not Machiavellian machines, gauging the consequences of each of our deeds. For example, I bet most Wikipedia contributors don't especially want to help building the world's most comprehensive encyclopaedia, but just want to share a bit of their knowledge, or just don't like to see spelling errors.
Holy cow, read the IEEE spectrum site[1] it's hosted on. The info on the page is loaded with info that's not even remotely represented by the graph. And see the "US $240" part? It's for Norway...

In most other categories Norway leads. Partly, that’s due to its high cost of living. But they also seem to love media—especially books, at $240 per year per person. Must be those long winter nights!

WTF? I think I agree, that's absolutely, fascinatingly bad.

[1] : http://spectrum.ieee.org/consumer-electronics/audiovideo/dig...

edit: does anyone else HATE those mouse-over previews? Know a way to get rid of them across as many sites as possible?
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And time will also tell how long until the novelty wears off and your spending revert to your historical norm, perhaps?
Even supposing that it was sexual innuendo, that doesn't mean he was hitting on her. Straight men and women have conversations filled with sexual innuendo all the time.
Isn't it awesome when a person has drank so much of the Kool-Aid that they're spewing Kool-Aid when they talk, and their idea of breaking out of the Kool-Aid mold they were in is to create new Kool-Aid and disparage non-Kool-Aid things because they have features or outlooks that don't resemble Kool-Aid?
Just to add to that: monads and similar constructs (like F#'s workflows) make event driven programming feel even more linear.
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Seems slow. What's with the multiple redirects?
Results seem ok though.

But no privacy policy that I could locate so far, which is a bad sign
So, rendering the graph as a bar set with proper numbering and perhaps a detailed legend would convey the information just as well and avoid confusion as to what points between "Movies" and "Books" mean (although that very question has a very elementary one-word answer followed by a look of ever-so-slight amusement).

Still far from worst graph of the decade. For an example of a worse and far more hilarious case, over the top of my head: http://www.mydailyroast.com/?p=311

Have a nice day.
Yandex has been #1 in Russian speaking segment of the internet for the last 10 years or so. I use it almost every day. It looks like this expansion into English speaking market is just an experiment, and I'm not sure what they are trying to achieve. It doesn't look like they can compete with Google or Bing.

edit: btw, one of the interesting features Yandex provides and Google still doesn't is street view for Russian cities: http://maps.yandex.ru/-/CFfz7mA.
As someone whose content is on The Pirate Bay, I must protest these unneeded downtimes preventing people from downloading my movie (The BBS Documentary).
Irony can be construed pretty broadly, although I agree that she's beyond the pale at times.
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Back button not working on Android is very irritating.
That's ridiculous -- there are plenty of aspects of my life that are in some sense "the norm" that I still find very engaging. Novelty is a component of interestingness, sure, but it's far from the only one.

This presentation is more compelling to me than a traditional lecture in many ways; its novelty really plays a fairly minor role in the difference. (YMMV, of course, but don't put words in my [or the GP's] mouth.)
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A good thesis needs good thesis ideas. As a good topic is an essential part of writing a thesis, you need to select a topic which is enough to cover a detailed paper without leaving any vital information out. The best way to come up with a topic idea which does this task is to do some considerable brainstorming.
The college students are steadily shifting towards facebook. Orkut was popular, but now the latest social networking media is Facebook.
You could try Helpdesk Pilot - http://helpdeskpilot.com - saas model is in the making.
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And syncing with the iPhone app is another big one for me. Can't tell you how many times I've needed a password when I was away from my desktop computer.

As for the Windows version of 1Password, I have not had the chance to use it yet.
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I think you're right ... I don't see how these figures are consistent. Maybe they're factoring in the time it takes to restore a copy, maybe 'normal redundancy' S3 is doing something clever, maybe it's simply another instance of Amazon being economical with the truth.
I've had a good experience with the Canon 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM. It's right in the middle of your price range and has image stabilization and a good zoom range. It's my go-to lens if I'm traveling light.

If you can possibly save up for the 24-105 f/4L, do it.

Everyone else suggests that you get a prime lens - they're fantastic for portraits but so so very annoying in any other situation. On the plus side, the 50mm 1.8 Canon lens is amazingly cheap and light. On the downside, it's noisy, takes forever to focus, and it's just not very versatile. I'd get it after a good zoom lens; it's worth having but not right off the bat.

The right lens for you really depends on your photographic style - if you shoot wildlife, scenery, street photography, or people, your lens choice will be wildly different.

Cheers!

P.S. my go-to site for lens information is http://www.canonlensreview.com - it's quite good and simple.
Inexact at best, but ..

P(3 locations failing) = 1-0.99999999999

P(1 location failing) = P(3 locations failing)^(1/3) = 0.000215443475

P(2 locations failing) = P(1 location failing)^2 = 0.999569159
I wonder how many Googlebot hits per hour HN gets... everything seems to be indexed almost instantly.

http://imgur.com/kAPls.png
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but you have to translate it :)
No, for a simple reason: they already got the money. If this money would be delivered only upon some milestone of the project, I would have agreed.

The fact is, once the funding round is finished, once they actually start to work, they will receive naught. On the contrary, money had been put out of the equation, at least for a time. And their very first motivation wasn't money. It was Eben Moglen's talk[1]. Pure idealism.

Four geeks in their proverbial garage set out do destroy an evil corporation is exactly the right kind of incentive. They have independence, they probably seek mastery, and they have a purpose. Sure, they could become greedy and just want to get rich like an americally dreamt start-up founder, but I think this is unlikely.

Failure will come from another factors, if at all.

[1]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2010/feb/01/freedom-clou...
I can see why it might not work because each item costs something to produce, but that doesn't make it an invalid or uninteresting experiment.

My expectation would be that the experiment will fall with the current model (put some money in a jar) - I would guess they would do better with something less anonymous, with more room for social pressure.

On the other hand, four is shockingly cheap when bought in bulk, and service workers are also not particularly expensive, so it's quite possibly they'll be 'facebook profitable' and if you've got a large corp willing to cover your CapEx, that's good enough.
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OK, but we're probably just arguing about definitions.

My argument remains that whatever benefit of liquidity that is injected into the market by HFT is offset by the margins that they take away.
If someone's words make me "hurt and disgusted", does it mean I can have them "monitored and counseled" for two years and take away their tenure? Or do I have to be a woman to do that?
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Often inadvertently. It seems to be a feature of the human brain.

Anyone have more insight?
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1357390

Lots of comments over there - this adds nothing new.
We weren't able to use the online verification service , which is the reason I wrote the program I described. It didn't validate a "good" SSN, but rather filtered out bad ones.

http://www.ssa.gov/ and http://www.socialsecurity.gov both have a lot of useful information about structure and allocation of SSNs if you are looking to do something similar.
> It doesn't matter that he's wrong.

No, no! It really does. Because we can't support the idea that it is going to be reported wrong - how is that going to help?

> facebook allows sexual predators to stalk your children' story pops up and goes viral.

That doesn't need this privacy thing to make a story. Facebook is already one of the prime ways that predators contact and stalk children (after all it is only one friend acceptance that is required to skip past plenty of privacy controls).

Also, it's a silly story because childrens profiles are pretty solidly restricted (under all sorts of rules and guidelines).

More importantly; there has been a story here in the media for the last few months regarding a "predator alert" button. Organisations in the UK are trying to get chat providers to place it prominently on Childrens profiles. Facebook have declined and the story has been all about that refusal and how bad FB is.

But the public don't seem to care all that much.... I'm not convinced this privacy story will interest them much more...
In Ireland you have to be a woman. Also in Ireland if two underage teens have sex, the male is convicted of statutory rape while the female is the victim.

Another one for Ireland is recent introduction of some new blasphemy laws.

The Irish government is also attempting to censor the net there, lucky for most Irish people they're mostly incompetent.
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Another vote for RT. It is ugly and looks (or at least looked) really hacky and old, but once you actually sit down and use it, it blows everything else out of the water. RT is the only help desk software that I've used that felt like it was written by people who had spent real time in the help desk trenches, studied the problem up close and actually got the whole help desk procedure.