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> "I need to know when the message is safely out of my hands."
So what do you do with IMAP clients? Those almost always have an async UI. Or clients operating through an intermediary (BES)?

I understand that for some messages, sure, you want an acknowledgement. I just don't see how that process is notably different for an async web client compared to what's already out there on desks and phones and particularly as compared to a blocking web UI.

If you had a blocking UI, any of those 'interruption' events could occur while you're staring at a spinner. And you (rightly) wouldn't know or feel confident that the message was sent until you re-established your connection and verified the item had made it to your sent items.
Which is the same as it would be with an async client: it's an important email, so until you saw it in the Sent Items folder, you wouldn't have the warm-and-fuzzy feeling.
I don't know about the product, but you guys have a good t-shirt taste.
If this law really is bad, why would it be a problem for Wikipedia to not be neutral about it?
The other part of this is throwing out the ORM in places where performance matters and replacing it with a simple utility, Dapper, that maps SQL to objects: http://samsaffron.com/archive/2011/03/30/How+I+learned+to+st...
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You're saying "hopefully" the user won't visit a different site in the same tab or close down the browser entirely after completing an operation. That's quite the hope.

Merely notifying the user, long after, that an error occurred and his work is not saved is hardly sufficient. Even assuming that the user doesn't leave your app, they could easily be off doing something else miles away from that operation.
Perhaps nobody wants to admit it because few are that stupidly paranoid.

For one, schools predate assembly lines. For another, if that is what schools were designed to do then they are remarkably poor at it. The ruling cabal who you seem to think is trying to push us all into servitude would surely have noticed and remedied the situation YEARS ago. Finally, you did read enough of the article to realise it was about the UK? What this Gatto person thinks is irrelevant.
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I meant if coming to Bangalore is optional then Don't come.
I totally disagree with updating the UI BEFORE the request gets back. It's wrong for so many reasons. They all boil down to the fact that server state is independent from the client state.

The speed argument also doesn't hold. If requests take too long to process then you have either problem with your API (doing something synchronously on server side which should be done asynchronously, granularity problems,...) or your server is freaking slow. At worst a request should take under 100ms of pure server time. Add latency and you have 300ms.
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A person without a job is more likely to be depressed, even if they don't need the job to pay their bills i.e. Rich people.
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I was surprised by the following:

The Guild voices some valid concerns, including the fear that publishers might try to prominently position loss leader books in the lending library in order to drive sales of other authors — but this sort of activity is already prohibited by existing clauses and is more an issue between publisher and author than anything that involves Amazon.

Why is such strategy (using a loss leader to sell other stuff) prohibited? What is the rationale?
The second guy actually has some pretty decent flow. notbad.gif.
I'd rather have a better Google Talk app for iOS.
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> The criteria the developer is judged by will have nothing to do with the complexity of the software or the time it takes to create. Instead, their work will be judged and compensated by the value it delivers to the organization.

You say that like it's different, or should be, at a software company.

I disagree. I think that all work for an organization should be judged and compensated by the value said work delivers to said organization, regardless of the organization type, regardless of the work type.

> Even if it's crappy software.

Surely you're not suggesting that crappy software is always wrong/bad.

Good software is often more expensive than crappy software. That added expense doesn't necessarily produce more value.

Good programmers know that they're trying to maximize benefits-costs, not maximize the former, not minimize the latter.

Worse can be better.
I fly through Schiphol all of the time and I have opted-out without any issues before.

They had me walk around it, and they patted me down US style. The person on duty with a clipboard was asking people why they opted out and I explained to them that I do not feel comfortable that the machines are safe and that cancer runs in my family and I would prefer to not have exposure to ionizing radiation.

I am from The Netherlands and being able to speak in the agents native tongue probably helped as well.
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Here's some money saving tips then. Most universities don't charge extra for taking crazy numbers of units as an undergrad, so rather than just drop in why not take 30 units a semester. A lot of undergrad survey courses have multiple choice exams and don't represent significant additional workload, but can be fun, the psych classes are also a place that will have pretty girls you don't find in engineering.

Dorms and school cafeteria food are expensive. But living off campus means commute time and parking expenses. Two options are to secretly rent a couch from someone living on campus, and to find a location on campus to stash a bedroll and just live there. Where I went to school there were carefully camouflaged dugouts in a canyon behind the physics building where there were about a dozen students living incognito for free.
Where is the proof that this software is installed onto phones other than Android? I would like to know what made them say that it's installed on Nokias for instance...

Also, is this something that is US-only?
Your mistake is thinking that school produced those scientists. They produced themselves despite school, not because of it, and they thrived because Germany invested heavily higher education and research. Science in Germany was due to German philosophy, higher education, and lots of funds.

Universities in 1900 are indistinguishable from what we have now. In 1900 they were still targeted at the wealthy and unusually talented. Now they are just extended sunday school. Obedience training for adults.
Most homes have 220v devices that people use safely every day without electrocuting themselves. If your really concerned about how fast they charge just run a second line and wow it's charging twice as fast. On top of that decent charging stations are well over 90% efficient much worse than that and they start dumping a lot of heat which harms the battery. 3 * 220v/50amps * 90% efficiency will fill that 60KW/hr pack right quick.

So sure, it takes a long time to fill the tank using a normal extension cord, but then again most people can't refill their gas powered car at home so it's still a net win.
You're right about that. I hadn't considered it.

I'm curious about what could be a better solution while maintaining that perceived speed.
One reason to use this instead of Mail.app is that Mail.app seems to not be working with Gmail for a lot of people, myself included.
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Zero sales tax where? WA has a 7.6% state sales tax and individual counties have added on top of that.

WA doesn't have an income tax (if that's what you actually meant).
Hey guys, we've seen similar ideas coming out recently so we wanted to get our work out there and try to validate the idea.

What we've created is a way to let people leave messages at any latitude/longitude point for anyone else to read (so not just venues.). There are a lot of potential uses for this: i.e. meeting your neighbors, self-guided walking tours, missed connections, local classifieds, lost dogs etc... We've made it optionally anonymous and pretty open in terms of use. We're not sure if that's a good or bad thing, but want to see how it evolves.

Right now you probably have to pan over to SF to see it in use, but it's open for use anywhere.

We'd love your thoughts.
I was really looking forward to using multiple accounts in this app. Unfortunately this is not supported. Yet?
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Churches predate assembly lines too. It's not about literal assembly lines, it's about obedience and conformity, the tools of social control since time immemorial.

Public school is just the latest version of obedience training.
People at my university used to live in the woods, in tents. Some were known to construct multi-storey treehouses. Says a lot about the institution I attended. (It says it was full of hippies, rather than that it was expensive.)

Can't you just live on campus and cook your own food rather than eating at the cafeteria? Or are you forced to pay for the cafeteria as part of the package? I'm unfamiliar with the american system.

>Where I went to school there were carefully camouflaged dugouts in a canyon behind the physics building where there were about a dozen students living incognito for free.

That sounds awesome. This probably isn't correct, but when you say camoflaged dugouts, I'm thinking of an elaborate system of WWI style trenches, or perhaps that Al Queada cave complex that Dick Cheney saw in a fever dream. In my mind, it's like some kind of survivalist-nerd version of a frat house.

I doubt I would have been able to resist the temptation to forget my classes and concentrate on expanding my invisible canyon-based physics fortress. Who amongst us can honestly say that it has never been their dream to inhabit a secret underground base with a team of renegades?
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This is what I use with django+south to prevent forgetting to commit migrations:

MIGRATIONS_DIRECTORIES="$(find -type d -iname migrations)"
UNTRACKED_MIGRATIONS="$(git ls-files --exclude-standard --others -- $MIGRATIONS_DIRECTORIES | egrep '(.*)[.]py$')"

if test -z "$UNTRACKED_MIGRATIONS"; then
# If there are no untracked .py files in the migrations directory, do nothing, allow commit.
true;
else
# If there are untracked files in the migrations directory print a warning message.
echo "Warning -- Untracked files in the migrations directory"
echo 'The commit may be forced with "git commit --no-verify"'
echo
echo "$UNTRACKED_MIGRATIONS"
exit 1
fi
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We found that evaluating products based on ratings alone often is not helpful, and some products have too many reviews to efficiently read. Also, for many products, we discovered that finding where the well-written and thoughtful reviews fell was more important than the content. So, for Startup Weekend Kansas City last weekend, we created an app (Horsebot3k) which parses Amazon to identify the better written reviews, and what topics people like and dislike. We got the app fully working over the weekend, and won first place!

Check it out at http://horsebot3k.com

We also have a 90 second product presentation for Startup Weekend's Global Startup Battle here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOKICguJxPo

We'd love to get your feedback.
This is a fun but somewhat misleading narrative.

Assuming you have a working Mac which can power the external Superdrive (all MacBook Airs, I believe most of the recent MacBook Pros and MacBooks, and possibly recent iMacs as well) then you can eject media simply by booting the machine and holding down the trackpad or main USB mouse button. This is triggered by the Mac's firmware and thus will work even if you OS is hosed.

Searching for "eject stuck dvd" on support.apple.com has a knowledge base article covering this tip as its first hit.

Even the first google hit (for me)[1] covers this as a part of its how to guide.

Of course, if for some reason none of your Macs will even POST or you happen to be Mac-less, and you're nowhere within driving distance of someone with a working Mac or an Apple Store the, yes, disassembling the drive is probably a reasonable option.

[1] http://www.macyourself.com/2009/05/01/the-ultimate-guide-to-...
I do think this is a better idea than the existing boards.
But I won't use it yet. I would be interested after it has traction --

1) As a hiring manager, I want a broad pool of talent to select from. That pool does need whittling, but how do I know that your selections match my specific needs?

2) As a developer, there is a ton of work out there. It is nice for you to filter out the fluff, but the price to me is that my competition is stiffer. If I'm so great that nobody can compete with me, I don't need this site in the first place.

Again, great idea. But you have to execute on getting broad adoption before it will truly be worth something.
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When you coil up the power cord, make a little loop then wrap it around the poles rather than pulling tight and around the poles.

This helps with strain relief and helps the power adapter stay perfectly in shape longer. I've had my MacBook Pro for 5 years now, same power adapter, haven't had to replace it yet.
"YouTube does have automated copyright detection though"

And it is complete shit. I uploaded a video of my son playing Fur Elise on the piano and got an automated noticed from Google that I had uploaded a video infringing on some company's work. Completely absurd.

When I googled the company's name, I found countless people complaining of the same thing. One guy had a video in which a siren was going off and they claimed that was copyrighted!
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I think this is what the author meant. Any desktop mail app does't block on send, why should a web app?
this is good for overall volume, but if you're the author of the loss leader, you may get significantly less revenue
Why not wear it on the outside?
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Are you trying to link X-Rays to cancer, or plastic?

I'm not a scientist, but as I understand it one of the leading causes of cancer is simply that we live long enough to get it these days.
The closest thing I've seen regarding backlash from TSA workers is this inquiry by TSA union reps at Boston's Logan Airport about a possible cancer cluster: http://healthland.time.com/2011/06/30/did-airport-scanners-g...

The union asked TSA to provide workers with dosimeters, but the request was never fulfilled.

For those of you who don't know, Boston Logan is like ground zero for the xray backscatter machines. The TSA there is a well oiled machine, busy irradiating a very high percentage of airport travelers. It's one of the few airports where I routinely have to request a pat down since they rarely have that one line that is only being sent through a metal detector. I wouldn't be surprised if the entire Boston population starts to glow in a couple of years from all of the radiation being dished out at this airport.
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1. This service is ridiculous and I'm embarrassed that they raised nearly as much funding as we did for it. Who on earth didn't see this coming?

2. Deleting "the original" when it's so easy to have your own other copy somewhere doesn't do anything. How do they even begin to answer this concern?

3. How can the RIAA argue in one breath that you don't own their product, that it's just a license, and argue in court in another breath that they don't owe artists an increased royalty on licenses (vs purchases)? These guys do an awesome job of making sure everyone hates them. It's too bad that their interests are aligned with artists in some cases, because they only make it harder for reasonable people to have a leg to stand on.
They would ask you to remove it before entering the scanner.

This is Hacker News, right? :)
> ... it certainly makes sense to block the UI ...

There's no need to block the UI. It is perfectly sufficient to disable just the affected item.

> ... creating responsive applications should not be at the expense of the user's understanding of what is happening.

In this case you are bound to repeat the Microsoft's Distributed COM fiasco. They tried to blur the line between accessing in-process, in-machine and over-the-network services behind an abstract API. It was nice in theory, but practically it was a disaster. It is really hard to write a meaningful app - even an asynchronous one - when an API call can take between few ms and several seconds to complete.

In case if the parallel is not clear - their idea was the same as yours - "devs need not to know what's happening". This does not work. Devs need to know, as do users in your case. Perception is indeed an important part of the UX, no arguing there, but the UI needs to be designed in a way to preclude them from making false assumptions that would prove frustrating and disastrous should the backend go kaput. Faking snappiness does the opposite, it makes believe.
I just don't understand all the Flash hate going on.

I can't remember the last time Flash killed my browser or OS. It's been at least 5 years, probably more.

Flash was designed to compensate for the deficiencies of the web. That's great. Now that web technologies are finally catching up, Flash is no longer as necessary as it once was. That's great.

So now we find ourselves in a transitionary period where HTML5 and friends are able to replace Flash in almost all situations. That's great. And for those remaining use cases where only Flash will do, well, it's available on all major desktop platforms. That's great. If you want to do something on mobile that HTML5 and friends don't support but Flash does, well, you're SOL thanks mostly to Steve. That's not so great. That's less innovative apps due to functionality denied.

So where does this leave us? Flash is a mature technology that has served its purpose well over the years, and has started to gradually fade into the twilight as open protocols fill the same gaps it was designed to fill. Go ahead and use HTML5 if it works for you; that's what it's designed for. But why all the hating on Flash?
Huh.

I never thought I'd live to see arch Apple loyalist Matt Siegler post something negative about Google.

I honestly can't remember the last time one of these well-known Apple loyalists lashed out at Google...

It's extremely noteworthy.
I can't get any notifications on the lock screen or via the pull-down....
> If you have union dues to be deducted, it is a formula to compute it against the total wage you make (or it is a flat deduction amount).

Except when it isn't. For example, some folks have multiple roles, covered by different unions, with different rules. Those rules are applied to different parts of their "total wage". I suspect that some wages don't count for 401(k). And so on.

None of these things necessarily have simple definitions and they interact in complex ways. Any "general model" is likely to be wrong and seemingly minor changes can have huge consequences.
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Good faith effort. It doesn't have to do it flawlessly.

Same thing applies to physical media. How can you guarantee that I don't have access to the music after I've sold a CD. And while you might argue that their is a difference between CD's and digital music, the RIAA doesn't see it the same way.

FTA: "the RIAA and MPAA have argued that purchasing a physical CD or DVD simply grants one a license to use the product rather than ownership of the content"

Basically, ripping a CD you own, and then selling the CD would mean your music files are technically illegal (according to the RIAA, that is, following on this logic).

So, ReDigi is extending that logic: if the physical medium isn't the key here, but rathe rather the license, and you can sell your license via selling the CD, then shouldn't you be able to do it without the CD?

At least, that's what I gather.
This is the second or third time I've read the problem of postal mail to congresspeople in these comments. I really like what SendWrite is doing here, but what riordan and others have said here rings true to me. Are they going to get my mail weeks after it mattered?
Agree this is a great point.

Sadly, companies that are good at two things have a very difficult time getting funded. My own company, Fohr, has made it to the full partner round at one very highly-respected VC firm, but because we're in two industries (tech and film), and innovating in both, we're in a no-mans land for funding. :(
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All over the place. They have deliberately avoided establishing tax nexus in almost every major metro area. California orders all ship from Nevada, for example.

Seattle is the exception, for obvious reasons.
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Anyone help me out to get this straight? Livedrive provides very similar online backup service to the one provided by backify, is this the main reason why they terminated their reseller service? Or was there something else?
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Not that I've seen. Charging rates usually scale with capacity. Discharge rates vary greatly.
Gmail actually has a wonderful middle-ground solution.

In Google Labs, there's a feature called "background send." I love it. It shows "sending in the background," allowing you to go do other things. If you try to close the tab/browser, it warns you the same way it warns you when sending normally.
If someone asks you what SOPA stands for, you can tell them it's the "Stop Online Privacy Act".

It's only a Hamming distance of 3 from the real name.
2. The same could be said of CDs and DVDs. Especially if you follow up with the license bit. Basically, if you can sell your CD licensed music, why can't you sell your other digitally licence music? If both are dealing with licenses, and you can sell one, the argument is you can sell the other.

I agree, it's ridiculous, but I think it's that way mostly because of the RIAA's way of defining things.
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Google Public DNS isn't some kind of alternative to normal DNS. It's just a set of domain name servers owned by Google that return exactly the same results any other conforming DNS would.

The TOR .onion URL scheme is closer to what you're talking about, I think. It actually does present an alternate domain that isn't available outside of TOR.
I thought anything with more than one clause and sans conjunctions was a run-on; but a beast like that could still be fair or foul =)
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I can't wait for someone to post a link to the Pirate Bay in the comments, thereby providing legal justification for taking down sites that criticize SOPA.
It POSTs to a secure page. Same as many sites including facebook.com

<form action="https://jungledisk.zendesk.com/access/login class="new_user" id="password-form" method="post">
It amazes me that people continuously complain about these things, yet nothing ever changes. People still go through the scanners, and the TSA keeps buying more.
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Honestly, I had not heard that, that's awesome. Keep going that way and I'll ditch the Cali sun for your forests (sorry ukgent :)
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And given the number of test firearms that the TSA manages to get through the carry-on X-ray, it'd hardly be reassuring even if the full-body X-ray turned out to be useful.