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Firefox has the problem of not supporting corporate management (MSIs and all that jazz). Chrome would be an option for this, though, as it has password sync and Google is adding support for MSIs or whatever the corporate types need.
While I applaud another honest attempt to help people lose weight, I am also skeptical that an app written in a single day managed to get TC'd the next. I feel doubly so when there are far more interesting apps in this space such as Lose It or Lose It (http://loseitorloseit.com).

FTR, I have no affiliation w/ LIOLI other than that I'm a user who finds it valuable and believe it more deserving of PR than this app.
Shouldn't be a limit on how frequently AppSumo can advertise here?
What if the single file is 2.01GB or above? I'm still confused by the language of the copy.
Cool.

Can you link which script you use? When I use or try to share with dropbox it only allows for folders.
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Do you think we still have the source code to all C64 binaries out there? We don't. And in 5 years, we won't have the source to all the stuff we are running now.
I wrote an article about it for RubyLearning a few days ago: http://rubylearning.com/blog/2010/12/20/how-do-i-keep-multip...
A planet by any other name...

would still smell of methane and ammonia.
Could someone sum up for me why integration uses "S"? It doesn't square with me, nor does it add up.
ehhh I think we'll just have to disagree on this. Content that was once in one place is now in multiple places.

I recognize I may be being overly simplistic.
Crate and Dropbox are approaching things from two totally different directions.

Dropbox is meant for collaborating with other people on a group of files. It's a two way street for two people who are relatively tech savvy. Crate is meant for quick file sharing. If you want to send a 50mb file to your officemates, it's simpler to just give them a Crate link and not have to go through the process of making a specific folder public, etc.

I think they are two totally different use cases. I use both and they don't intersect at all.

With regards to the space issue: we are going to upp (sp?) it, and anyone who buys the lifetime premium membership can expect to see their space increase dramatically in the very near future.

Disclaimer: I am a cofounder :)
For what it's worth, reddit.com/r/scholar is a much better resource for exactly the same purpose.
That's what flagging is for.
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On the last OSX version you can share individual files straight from finder with Left click > Dropbox > Get shareable link

If they are on the Public folder just Dropbox > "Copy Public Link"

Faster than using a website.
What do you mean by not seeing the link level anymore? What happens if you connect your vpn through a virtual machine? Will the host still have normal internet?
http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Service for Mac. I imagine their wiki has other options too.

I've also seen scripts that take a screenshot of the current window, copy to dropbox, and put that URL in your clipboard.
"With the increasing popularity of distributed version control systems such as bzr"

That is the first time I've seen anyone use Bazaar as an example of a DVC that is gaining in popularity.
...we Europeans object to in American business culture...

Be thankful for being able to insult us Americans in English, because if it wasn't for us, you'd probably be doing it in German.

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git pull --rebase was added in 1.5.4, released in February 2008 (http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/GIT_1.5.4_An_Unusually_Long_Cycl...).
On the topic of journals, and what gets published, "Wrong" by David H. Freedman should be required reading. Fascinating book, he documents how hard it is for researches to get negative results published (i.e. 10 studies on a new drug, 9 studies show it does nothing, 1 study finds there might be something positive - only the positive study will be accepted.)
What does crate offer me that dropbox + this script doesn't? http://wiki.dropbox.com/DropboxAddons/Dropbox%20Service

I've also never had to set a folder as public myself, even using this script. It came with a Public folder.
I've been leaning more and more towards setting up a track-everything tool myself. Mood, food, pains, sleep, weather, productivity measures, literally anything I can come up with. Combine that with a prevalent keylogger which also tracks applications, and I could build up some huge statistics on myself, and maybe find causes of problems (and I'd just be interested).

Of course, part of the fun of making it myself would be experimenting with ways of representing and extracting meaningful information. I haven't brainstormed on it much; so far I'm at "dump it in SQL" because I can build a query for just about anything really quickly.
I think the thing here is just a perspective issue. If your focus is the tool, then you want platform agnostic. If your focus is the platform, then you want tool agnostic.

For example, if I'm a ruby developer that ends up using different platforms often (osx, debian, centos) then it's justifiable that I want to use a packaging abstraction that's platform agnostic but ruby specific.

If I'm a primarily a debian user that happens to program in ruby and a dozen other languages then I would prefer a packaging abstraction that's tool agnostic but debian specific.
It is pretty clear why Google doesn't like RSS, it stops you from browsing the web and that is how they get paid. As a user though I also don't like it anymore and I'll share why...

This isn't 1970 anymore where I want to read "What's New" from a small list of new sources. I prefer to go each day to a list of curated aggregators like HN or what the people I follow on Twitter or saying. This is vastly superior to RSS and this is why at least one technical user no longer uses it.
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anglais. (What's the point of using "classy" French if you mess up the orthograph? Maybe better to abstain.)
Dropbox does exactly that with "Left click > Get shareable Link", doesn't it?

You don't need to create a special public folder. For example http://db.tt/RjRrEKi is not on my Public folder but you can get it until I delete it from my dropbox.
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Yes, that is a significant compromise. But it is one that the carriers will fight very hard, so Google considered it worthwhile to get agreement on the rest. That's why it was called compromise, rather than being called what Google really wants.

Note that the FTC ruling that they have been lauded for made the exact same compromise, for very similar reasons. What I'm really curious about is the disparity between how they are treated for their respective actions.

Furthermore Google didn't entirely leave wireless unprotected. They lost their 2008 bid for a bunch of wireless spectrum, but got a use restriction applied to Verizon that forces Verizon to respect net neutrality for that bandwidth. So there will be mobile internet services that follow net neutrality.
I organize the Colloquium and so have some visibility into why the video is not going to be made available. Microsoft made it a condition for the talk to be presented that it not be webcast live or archived for on-demand viewing. I believe that Johnny Lee's talk will provide new information about the Kinect, information which Microsoft is willing to reveal in a closed forum, not open one.
See, taking objective criticism as an insult and reacting strongly with a false sense of pride ("if it weren't for us in the WWII!!!"). Dealing with american here, no doubt about that.
But does it smell if there is no living thing there to do the smelling?
Most of the university students have to almost all scientific documents thanks to the library subscriptions of their universities.
It will be really easy to fill the website with thousands of papers but is it worth it? is it right to do so? If you are doing academic work you can easily apply for membership to any of those libraries and get access to any paper you need without violating copyright.
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"It is pretty clear why Google doesn't like RSS, it stops you from browsing the web and that is how they get paid."

But they built and are actively maintaining Google reader. I don't think Google dislikes RSS, rather they are hesitant to build a browser feature for something that should really be a separate application.
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Seriously, there are still some features left to be new in Emacs? :-)
iOS notifications being less than elegant /nearly useless is a well known, well accepted fact. If it works for you that just means you choose to either ignore the issues or have a vastly different usage pattern. Google up to understand what you are missing :)

Sync - I can upload my photos to Picasa, install and configure apps, create contacts right on my phone without going anywhere the computer - but that's not the difference. The difference comes when I need to switch phones or restore after an update - piece of cake in case of Android. All of the above is automagically installed after I sign in to the phone - even the apps and their settings. Can you do anything with iOS if there was no computer/iTunes involved? Can you wirelessly sync music/videos/photos - is there AirSync for iOS available?

I can look around for iPhone users and find many of them running the same version of the iOS the device was shipped with. Not so with Android's OTA mechanism. Android is light years ahead of iOS when it comes to always connected devices that require least use of the computer.

I stopped using iOS devices since I sold my iPod touch which ran iOS 4. I was referring to Autocorrect and predictive text options on the virtual keyboard itself - on Android as I type 'Ha' for example - I get Happy | Hat | Hay as the options to tap on the top to complete the word. If I then misspell it to say 'Haty' I then get autocorrect to 'Bath' in the center. As far as I know the iOS keyboard doesn't work like this and it really felt a backward step when I tried. Plus I got Swype Bud! (pun intended).

Ability to Voice Input everywhere is yet another thing I missed on iOS. Also the way back button works on Android. Also the multitasking is real and full-throttle on Android with no silly limitations. iOS really does feel like a step or two backwards to me in most departments.
The Corduroy Appreciation Club exists and has an annual holiday? Weird.

I can't believe that they were tactless enough to choose November 11. Which in much of the world is a very solemn day, dedicated to remembering various wars. In the US it is a much smaller deal than in other countries, but we still have veterans day. Not exactly a day for celebration.

(The reason for choosing November 11 is that the treaty ending WW I specified that the shooting would stop on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.)
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I didn't realise fixed instance sizes were a false construct of cloud vendors. Nice little blog post.
I don't think aggregators obviate the need for rss. I don't really like the idea of the masses entirely determining what content I have awareness of. Furthermore, aggregators simply don't offer the sheer volume of content pumped by an rss feed with a good couple hundred subscriptions. And if you are into niche content like say arxiv's math.OA you pretty much need rss.
RSS readers may be dying (I admit that I once was a Google Reader fanatic and now only log in time to time), but RSS/ATOM as a format for communicating between websites is still pretty decent. I often setup an ATOM feed for the data on whatever webapp I'm building, and usually end up using that feed to integrate with other webapps. (And as a bonus, I can hand it out to techie users).

I don't know, do you think that RSS readers dying will mean websites will stop producing RSS feeds? The output seems to be built in to many systems these days already.
Neat app. Two suggestions.

1) Allow me to .csv import. I have a ton of data collected already and don't want to spend hours tripping through your UI to put it in there.

2. Allow me to default a day to '0' if I do not enter data for that day. For example, I track how many miles I am running per day. If I run 11 on 12/1, don't run at all until I run another 11 on 12/10, don't make me enter a '0' for all the days in between. Currently, Dayta will just show me a graph suggesting I've been running 11 miles / day for that entire time.

All in all - I think you're off to a good start. So, kudos to you.
RSS is not dying. It's just not based in the browser, and I'm fine with that. I use an RSS aggregation program, and if I really wanted to, there is open source software available to build and host my own RSS portal.
Plus content producers place google ads in rss content so I dont think google cares.
RSS also has other, more technical uses than reading "What's new". Many systems and websites rely on it as an easy way to publish or consume information.
RSS isn't dying, it's become so pervasive that it's now invisible infrastructure.
Does this mean, its end of the road for feed aggregation and feed reader sites?
"It gives less of a shite than a French man smoking a cigarette in public"

Um...what?
The aggregators might need the rss feeds to do their aggregating, though. Although I always felt making it "pull" is a bit crazy. PubSubHubBub to the rescue?
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vfork is probably worse because you have to be very careful if exec fails. Calling a function to log the error is likely to mess up the parent's memory.
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We got this back in August for the Galaxy S in Toronto:

http://mobilesyrup.com/2010/08/06/samsung-galaxy-s-vibrant-a...
RSS is dying because browser vendors do not want to implement or maintain integrated RSS readers? That does not sound very convincing.
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What is he going to do, if several people post lectures of acceptable quality?
raid-1 may or may not get you double read speeds - it depends on how things are set up. ARe you sure the OSX implementation will take advantage of this?
Also if somebody isn't aware, Google Scholar finds all sources of articles and there's usually a PDF available somewhere.
+1

Definitely. I am a really high CPU user but don't need hardly any storage (I'm doing chess calculations). With bundled resources I always notice I am always over-specced on RAM and storage (in particular). Would be nice to have 'liquid' computing resources. As you say, nice post and nice to see someone doing that.
1970... back when RSS was huge!

You just prefer socially aggregated feeds is all. I actually like a mix of both. Setting up intelligent RSS feeds that will come in handy just takes a little upfront work is all. But then you've got an algorithm that you can constantly tweak and refine, which I find very useful, especially as a research tool. Give Yahoo Pipes a whirl and see if it changes your mind. http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/
"I prefer to go each day to a list of curated aggregators like HN or what the people I follow on Twitter or saying. This is vastly superior to RSS"

Vastly superior for looking well educated to others, less superior for actually understanding how the world works.
Actually lots of people lining up on the early morning (or the night before) just to get the latest and greatest gizmo ever impress me a lot. Negatively, that is.
I have -- without giving it much thought -- stopped using RSS. Many friends have done the same. Now browsers seem to be dropping support. Maybe this is proof that RSS/Atom wasn't the panacea we thought it was. Maybe it is actually time for RSS to die?
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It's hard to take the author's concern seriously, when I can't even find the RSS link on his/her page.
Ok, I'll give that a try. But just for one day.

This seems related to the smart/hard work attitude. If you think you solve problems because you are smart, then come across a problem that seems too difficult you are more likely to give up than if you think you solve problems by working through them. You can't just make yourself smarter but you can work harder.

Along the same lines, I think I have some control over procrastinating. Not so much over being lazy.
Thanks for the comments. I've corrected the post.
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Thanks. I'll give it an add.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet)

I see it everyday still to this day.
As far as I can tell, you're ranking fine in Google's search results. You show up for your company's name and other queries, and I don't see any manual spam actions regarding choiceofgames.com.

From the blog post you mention, it sounds like your issue is with AdSense. I'm not on that side of the company, so I'm not sure how much assistance I can help with. I can drop an email to some folks in AdSense, but that doesn't guarantee anything of course, and I suspect they're on vacation this weekend. I'll still try to send an email though.
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I'm glad my browser doesn't support RSS natively when other apps offer a far greater experience. Have you tried the safari rss reader? It's awful.

As a chrome user I'm happy that it does one thing well and that's displaying web pages. Now I'm free to use any online RSS reader I want and be able to access my RSS feeds from anywhere.
There's also the issue of installing Keypass itself. I see it has MSI packages available, which I know sysadmins at big companies like. There might be some other technical requirements for the password-storage software itself.

I've been carrying around KeePass on an USB flashdrive
for about 3 years now and haven't yet encountered a problem running it on random Windows machines. Deploying it is just a matter of copying 4 files to the target machine really.
Most of what I need to read shows up on HN or Reddit or Twitter. I know that sounds incredibly lazy, but I don't have time to mark 233 Lifehacker posts as read every week.
Orbitz/Expedia are travel-agents --- kayak/ITA Software are simply aggregators of flight results. There is a world of difference. For one thing, I am not sure how Kayak would be able to handle an itinerary that has multiple airlines in involved (take AA from SFO->Bangkok, then continue on Bangkok Airlines to somewhere else for instance).

Additionally, with a travel agent (like Orbitz/Expedia) you buy your ticket through them, and you can contact them if your travel plans change. I recently (last week) was unable to board my flight to Thailand because my passport expired in <6 months. Even though my ticket was not refundable, the terms that orbitz had with my airline allowed me to cancel (after I missed my flight) for 200 dollars. That experience alone has made me rethink booking any airline faires directly through the airline website.
I agree that this is probably a bit to complicated for normal users.

My personal problem with lastpass is that by default your passwords are recoverable which means that by default lastpass or someone with access to their system has access to your passwords (you can disable this and read the source to their obfuscated javascript app for chrome to make sure that it is really doing what they say, encrypting locally then sending).[1]

Keepass at least is opensource and it works well when you use dropbox so long as you aren't accessing it on many different computers on a daily/weekly basis, then it just becomes a pain in the ass.

[1] This may have changed but I don't think they would appeal to many users if it has, and they do have an option to disable it but the obfuscated javascript is what stopped me from looking further.
I can't imagine that browser button pursuading anyone who doesn't already understand and appreciate RSS to start using it. Anyone tech-savvy enough to see it, and start googling to find out how to use it properly has certainly already heard of RSS.

And on the other side, anyone who does use RSS, and anyone in the future who learns to use it, won't be put off using it by the loss of that button.

The worse statement in this article (other than the french man smoking) is:

Mozilla’s mistake here is to associate low usage with user dis-interest.

Ummm... they're correct. He claims that, just because only 3-7% use it, it must be kept in because "what regular user wouldn’t want this feature!?" Clearly the answer to that question is "93-97% of regular users". Touché?
Well if you're that worried about Dropbox going away and needing access to your passwords in between the point it shuts down and you noticing and setting up a replacement, use webdav with your own server, or hack up an rsync/cron-based concoction that will do roughly what Dropbox does in this context. There are 100's of ways to synchronize a file across computers, it's just that Dropbox is by far the most conveniet at this point in time.
Maybe you could expound a bit on that?
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Why not use something very simple like SuperGenPass? http://supergenpass.com/
If a person or alarm doesn't wake me up, I often will not wake up naturally. At all. One time I went to bed at midnight on Friday and didn't wake up until Monday morning at 1 am. Waking up for me feels like coming up from being deep under water in a lake. Sometimes the lake is frozen over: when the alarm is going off I get close to enough to waking be aware but get trapped under the "ice" and can't make the transition fully out of sleep.

Conversely I have great difficulty falling asleep before 3 am. My diurnal cycle isn't just late, it is 100% reversed: daylight makes me sleepy and darkness keeps.me awake.

I had a sleep study and they said I do not have narcolepsy because I took 11 minutes to enter REM sleep and the cutoff for diagnosis is 10 minutes. However, they also expect you to "sleep" between 8pm and 4am for the study. Wtf? I'd like to see the doctors who think that constitues a reasonable time for a study try sleeping at mid afternoon, see if they can sleep normally that far outside their cycle times.
But most of the significant "curated aggregators" offer RSS feeds: http://news.ycombinator.com/rss
Reading the article, I was wondering if the story was going to take a turn in that direction. Luckily, it seems that ICIC handled the issue pretty well.
Because we use LastPass instead.
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RSS isn't dying because browsers are deciding not to build native readers into their UIs. It's dying because it's not terribly easy to understand for most users. The article readily points this out.

And even for technical users like me, it isn't solving the main problem I have which is discovering new and interesting content. Sure, once I've found some new source of content it's nice to put its RSS feed into a reader. But really, bookmarking is pretty good too. Yes there are clear benefits to RSS over naked bookmarks, but the discoverability problem is still paramount.

Anyway this is kind of inconsequential to the point of whether native RSS functionality should be included in a browser. Mozilla is right to kill this "feature." RSS is an application-level protocol on top of HTTP, itself an application-level protocol. Browsers are built to perform HTTP requests. In my opinion they shouldn't do much else. A feature that displays and helps you manage RSS content falls into the category of bloat.
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I have been following the posts on remote jobs, US jobs and H1B jobs. Is there some reason why Canada is not the preferred destination? For people like me, Canada seems to be a good choice - similar culture to US, liberal immigration policies and proximity to US market. Let us hear it once for the canadian startups (esp. ones willing to hire ;) )