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Ah, interesting idea. My initial reaction is that once people had the request fulfilled, they wouldn't usually be willing to pull out their credit card to find out how it was done (no matter how cheap it is), but I'd love to be wrong. You think there'd be some interest in that feature?

Also, what are your thoughts on keeping it simple and just charging $1 (or some other very small amount) per favor, and I take some percentage of that (20% or so), and the person who fulfills it gets the rest? Seems like that might be a good way to get a steady stream of people fulfilling favors since it's a way to make easy money, but again I worry that the "requesters" won't be willing to pay for such small things.

Thanks again.
The problem with CSS is that it's not too difficult, but that its too simple. With your typical usage patterns, you'll create lots of repetition which you have to do manually. And that's true even without the need to support separate browsers.

Whether that really justifies that many preprocessors is a good question, though (Instead of m4 or sth. like that). I'm not too fond of the plethora of cutesy DSLs we've got nowadays. Reminds me of Lisp macro overuse. (Never mind the general problem that all this need for HTML/JS/CSS hackery and abstraction layers probably showas that we need a better solution altogether. As Cato the Elder said: I miss PostScript.)
There is nothing stopping user from posting the file on megaupload (oops) another file sharing service as well.

Any protection, including DRM, link obfuscation or IP filtering, makes user's life harder. If they want to post it, they will post it. But once you started the war with a customer by putting those little obstacles in their way, you can't stop it.

Imagine a different scenario, where it's easy not to pay but you only have to deal with your conscience.

Imagine _why posting a new chapter of the Poignant Guide. Randall Munroe releasing a charity comic. Stephey Fry kickstarting a funny ebook (http://unbound.co.uk/books/how-to-have-an-almost-perfect-mar...). Radiohead releasing a new album.

There are million cases when you can pirate easily but it's more fun to pay. Because you respect the artist or want to support the cause. I guess this is exactly the use case for Gumroad that I see.
excuse my ignorance.. but it is interesting to me that we see blog posts about how to find different uses for git. what makes git so great that we (or people writing such articles) try to retrofit it into tools that already have more mature alternatives dedicated solely to doing that one thing really well. it's some form of marketing i don't fully understand.
Thanks, Your suggestion is updated in the post.
There's also git-annex

http://git-annex.branchable.com/
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> he was being considered for a Presidential Appointment

to the President's Export Council.
The Head First Series is "Learn the Hard Way" backed by modern educational theory - hands on, engaging multiple learning pathways, and offering problems at various levels of difficulty even on relatively advanced topics.

They are structured based on ideas about how people learn rather than ideas about how they should learn.

That's not say that "Learn the Hard Way" is not useful or that I don't admire what Zed Shaw is doing. I think it is really good work.
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Glad to see the FOIA worked in this case.

AP did a report last year showing how ineffective FOIA and similar laws are: http://hosted.ap.org/interactives/2011/foia-global/
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Any reason why it is limited to textareas?
Images can't really be compressed while emails easily can. That Even if you reached 8GB of text that isn't how much storage you're taking up on their servers.
I use this script: https://bitbucket.org/wooptoo/bin/src/tip/lc

SimpLESS is better though.
>Either this is a strawman or you should go back and trace the thread of argument again.

What I understood was "we don't want civilian deaths". You said you didn't see how military action wouldn't result in civilian death. I made the argument that military action means shooting and explosions, which would almost certainly result in civilian deaths (because it always has).

>I don't know what this means.

You can't use the military without using the military. Using the military means death.

>dropping bunker-busting bombs on their nuclear facilities

Which of course, Iran would just sit by and accept and not fight back. If we attack Iran, they will attack back. I think you're missing the bigger picture. If we attack Iran (who has a strong, central army like us), we will enter into direct nation vs nation warfare (unlike any war the US has fought since WWII).
This is precisely the argument I had with a musician friend of mine: he was arguing that he wanted to leave an income to his kids in the form of his catalogue. My argument was that it was his responsibility to convert the catalogue into cash during his lifetime, so that he didn't have to rely on the current copyright scheme being enforced in perpetuity. He could then leave that cash to them as part of his estate in the usual fashion.

He was slightly more swayed by the moral argument: his children had done no work for this income, so why should they be preferred over the rest of society in benefiting from his creative output?
From the second paragraph: "The preloading will occur in cases when the top match generated by the omnibox's autocompletion functionality is a site that the user visits frequently"

Since you probably don't "frequently" visit malware-filled websites, this shouldn't be an issue - although I wonder if Chrome would load it anyway or not.. It seems to do a better job than most browsers of pre-emptively warning you when you try to visit a dangerous website, at least in my experience.
I see your point, and its not a marketing imho.

In some cases i agree that there are mature alternatives, but what if you dont want or cannot use them. For e.g. Dropbox is a great file storage/sync service. But you may not be able to use it inside an enterprise and store office/confidential documents.

I think its essential to know and understand various ways in which a tool can be used. So that you can apply it to solve/simplify a problem. Its not a marketing.
That's exactly what I use it for most of the time. Byzantine calculations using random units and it usually gets it right. Awesome.
KHTML is as old as Gecko, and Webkit and Gecko are both LGPL.

the killer feature back in the early 2000's was the ability to render most of the pages on the Internet as IE did, so saying that the engines were the product of standards is categorically wrong.

the lack of adoption of Gecko outside of Mozilla is more to do with the fact the source code is a mess, whereas Webkit is very clean and tidy, and as a result very easy to hack on (years ago I wanted to embed Gecko in a project, and ended up using Webkit as it was actually possible to modify...).
So a little more information from this document about the Presidential Appointment that was being considered:

The president was George Bush senior, and the appointment was "President's Export Council" (not Senate-confirmable) - and this was happening while he was President of NeXT.

Jobs was aware of the possibility and indeed had filled in his details on the "Questionnaire For Sensitive Positions" for it.

He stated that he had not used or dealt illegal drugs in the past five years (of interest due to his speaking in favour of LSD).
In order to have no repercussions from Iran, we'd have to know every detail of their armaments and organize to take them out roughly at the same time. If we fail, they hit back. Even if we succeed, that may garner sympathy from nations friendly to them, who may supply arms, that's really hard to forsee.

And even if we did that, how many civilians do they have working in or surrounding the facilities we'd need to target?
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>> All frameworks (ish) play nicely with Plack, which is a straight rip-off of Rack

When developing PSGI/Plack, Miyagawa not only looked at Rack but also WSGI (Python) and also the proposed improvements to WSGI.

ref: http://bulknews.typepad.com/blog/2009/09/psgi-perl-wsgi.html | http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/aug/10/wsgi/ | http://jacobian.org/writing/snakes-on-the-web/
I, like many others in this thread, think this is a fairly gross over-reaction. As engineers, we're trained to dig up problems and create solutions -- and a big part of this process is understanding what data can be made available to you and how you can use it to make your product better. I sincerely believe that they saw the immense potential of having this information available to them and ran with it under the excitement-induced delusion to the effect of, "who could be unhappy with this when it brings so much value to the table?"

I think their flaw was either in not polling their user base before hand or making it opt in to begin with, but I also think that this oversight happened because they truly believed in the usefulness of what they were doing.

Then again, I still believe that Google isn't trying to be evil (nor do I really think they ARE particularly evil for the time being), so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
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That was precisely the US's stance a while back. Funny how things change.
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I find it odd that the did not redact his social security number.
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Isn't this what 'hacking' is (at least partially) about?

Despite the existence of 'solutions', there are lots of interesting things people can do with git and it's probably fun to explore them.

edit: I'm not sure why you consider it 'marketing' either.
So where are all these sites with only -webkit- prefixed CSS? I don't know any.
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Ditto with Denmark. Although we have to register our opt-out with the postal service, and then we receive a special sticker to put on the mailbox. There are have even been talk about changing junkmail to opt-in instead.
Well, in his case, it was not deep at all. It was one of the most salient features of his personality.
They are flattened: The FBI prints out files, redacts them, and then scans them back in. A number of federal agencies do this, really making it a pain to search through documents.
While I appreciate the effort and persistence, having {silent: true, mute: true} be part of the model API is definitely not the direction that the Backbone API should be going.

That said, what you do with your copy of backbone.js in your own project is your business. I'd highly encourage you to extend your version with your preferred behavior for "silent" -- in fact, the source is annotated to make this sort of thing easier for folks that find the need.
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"On February 25, 1991, <redacted> Security Clerk, Status and Inquiry Branch, DISCO, Columbus, Ohio, was personally contacted and she advised she located the following security clearance in their files identifiable with the appointee, STEVEN PAUL JOBS, SSAN: 549-94-3295:

Top Secret clearance dated November 3, 1988, based on a Background Investigation by the Defense Investigative Service dated August 30, 1988. This clearance terminated July 31, 1990, and the employing agency is:

PIXAR
San Rafael, California"
Nice way to grab the photos from everyone that attended your event - Plan.nr
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You're too kind, missing the drive to provide for the next generation is more than a minor nit.

A tempting response is "So something like min(20years, authors remaining lifespan)" but that could leave early work (often less commercially successful) with an expectation of a longer copyright duration than later work.

A fixed period risks letting copyright lapse in an authors lifetime, which is certainly offputting to anyone who, for example, dislikes fan-fiction. So we move towards "authors remaining lifespan + rough average lifespan" as a compromise.

Seems reasonable, although I find one way to increase my understanding of any issue is exactly this kind of discussion.
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Interestingly the last few pages are about a bomb threat against Steve Jobs made in 1985 at the Hilton at sf international!
I am aware of this case, and have asked my VPN-service explicitly. Their (translated) reply was:

"We do not store any logs, and we are not planning to do so. Since we do not store anything, we have nothing to hand out to those who are asking."
I have a hard time seeing the advantages of backbone.js over something simpler like knockout.js. Is it that good? Is it a question of having a complicated enough webapp?
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My total guess is Python Essential Reference.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=new+riders+python
What's wrong with putting attention to detail and polish on a project, even if free?
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But the focus is rarely on the inventors themselves. This is the hardest job of all! Consumers tend to get what they want, and eat what they're given. If we're not supporting "starving artists" what's the point in having a more open copyright regime?
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click: http://whatispolymath.com

I'm a bit too busy to do this right now, but I like what I see in the video. I look forward to seeing the site when you are out of beta.
Sorry but I don't see that as them not showing interest in working with others at all. There is a NaCL plugin for firefox written by Google, in both case the specs a open and the code in WebKit is open source. They can't force others into using their stuff. They've been proactive in taking in Firefox's new tech like WebGL and they killed their own effort (O3D) in the process(I depended on O3D for one of my work projects but they did make the transition pretty painless by rewritting O3D's api on top of WebGL). There are many more examples.
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If I'm reading this right, it says he was being considered for Presidential appointment in 1991? Would that be by the Bush Administration? Clinton didn't take office until the beginning of 1993, but I suppose its possible he was making potential appointments aware in 1991, still seems early though.
I think the doom and gloom is a bit over-hyped, and the other browser authors probably have no choice but to implement the webkit prefixes.

I understood the outcry from W3C being caused by Opera and Mozilla declaring that this is exactly what they will be doing. The situation is particularly bleak in mobile devices due to Android + iPhone + iPad WebKit monopolies.
I fail to understand your point. Yes, lots of people share names. But it should be enough to store _one_ handle to get to (=> resolve) your _current_ number.

That might be your domain or email address. Or something totally different.

The major part for me here is not 'do we need digits without meaning', it is 'bind some name to a way of contacting the person'.

DNS as a comparison makes sense for me. I store john@smith.com as a contact. When I want to call that guy my phone figures out how to reach him _and he can update that information_.

Just like you can move your domain name to point to a different number. If the name server is under your control (or your hoster loves you) and ignoring certain limitations of the protocol and buggy caching behavior, you could even change the result of a lookup every minute. That, for phone numbers, would be awesome.
Human rights? If I'm correctly understanding the issue, their software monitored your contact list so they could notify you when one of your contacts joined the service. You seem ready to throw him before the International Court.

That they've wiped their user data and are giving people the opportunity to use their product in a setting with opt-in sharing seems to demonstrate to me, at least, that they still believe that hosting your contact information would add value to their product, but they now realize that concerns regarding privacy are significant enough to warrant using the product without this feature. To reference a parallel thread, I don't think this is a reflection of morality/amorality/immorality, but rather that this never registered in their engineering oriented brains.
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Very similar to the My-Cast Weather app in horizontal orientation.
"Extreme financial risk might or might not kill people.

Space shuttles exploding will definitely kill people."

Don't make such a big jump from the first to the second. You could have also said, "Extreme space exploration risk might or might not kill people." Fact is, in both finances and space exploration, in rare cases it has led to the death of those involved (directly or indirectly). But those cases are rare and the rewards are so great, and so we press on.
Calling it spyware is a bit harsh. The reason a lot of things are going SaaS is really simple: it's better for business. There are a ton of benefits to companies:

-Recurring revenue

-Instant upgrade

-Easier support / no wrangling with different platform differences

-Most people like accessing their services from anywhere via the web

-Easier to track user engagement, improve user experience

The list goes on and on. It has nothing to do with wanting all your personal data. It's a pretty simple business objective.

And, not to be offensive, but who really cares what jobs you are looking at? I honestly doubt the Impressario guy really cares if you are looking at Megacorp A or Megacorp B or Social-Startup C.

There are some things to be concerned about privacy - I have my doubts that this is one of them.
SSNs of the deceased are no longer considered private.
"Screw the producers" With all respect to you as a person, fuck that. I'm an independent artist and I don't want to be screwed. Consumers tend to get what they want and eat what they're told to. It's small, independent businesses and artists who shape, have shaped, and will always shape the world that you live. you're welcome.
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This is the wrong forum friend!!
The only point of the patent system "is to encourage inventors to publicly document how their invention works so other people can use it (with licensing), instead of keeping it secret and possibly having the knowledge lost over time."
Well, good luck stealing his identity now.
And why would you ever ever release information on vetting ok Steve is dead but all the people who where interviewed are not and neither are Steves family.

Would you like to read a recently deceased loved ones warts and all developed vetting report - what public interest is served by this.

It is also open to abuse by muck raking hacks I sure Guido Fawlks would love to see the files on Polly Toynbees (Guardian journalist) dad (who was best mates with Burgess - one of the cambridge spy ring)
"Government should never protect the producer."

At least we agree on something...

What is this madness??? I'm no Supply sider, but government does should and always will support producers. The question to me is only whether or not they'll just support monopolistic ones, or small ones and startups as well...
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In the interview with the FBI Jobs also stated that "during the period of approximately 1970-1974 he experimented with marijuana, hashish and lsd. This was during high school and college and he mostly used the substances by himself." p.48
The simplest way to do that is to reward that person with money, which the person may latter exchange for whatever is "valuable" to him.
I think I presented a trade-off rather than undermining my own argument although I didn't really clarify that I guess.

Essentially you either focus 100% to design and implementing the design via any available technologies (cross-compatible or not) or settle for 80% (20% loss of design and vision from effort in ensuring compatibility).

Ultimately it depends how passionate you are about your design. Personally I would rather have 5 people absolutely fall in love with and be moved by my design/interface/experience rather than 100 people being able to simply 'view' it.
Yeah, as an independent, 'starving' artist myself, I take exception to all this happy talk about making information free. It's already hard enough to make a living off of music, or any art, and I'm no fan of the monopolies, but it's incredibly obnoxious when I hear all this stuff about just give all of your work away for free with no path to eventual prosperity, and how "It's the producers problem, why don't they make a new business model". As for the monopolies, that's what they've done with litigation and IP protection measures, albeit more and more draconian ones...
Most significant line: "Unlike Dropbox, ...Google Docs' storage offerings are a bit more complex."

The beauty of Dropbox is its simplicity and seamless integration. Sounds like GDrive is more iCloud than Dropbox, so I'm not sure how accurate the term "Dropbox-rival" really is.
Cool, now I can apply for his social security benefits!
It's great. I wonder if it would be possible to switch colors? You would start with green for example, then change to red and the fluids start to mix the colors?
Let me guess: Android fan tries Nexus, doesn't like it switches to iPhone, etc. etc.? Somehow I don't think "Android fan tries new Android phone and likes it" would be as newsworthy.
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It's a shame you guys couldn't go down the path of writing your own scheduling system, based on what you said (market fragmentation, outdated systems) it sounds like that's definitely a problem that needs a solution! Of course I understand that you decided not to do it for personal reasons. Either way, good luck with whatever you guys are going to do in the future, whether you'll do something together or walk separate paths.
The purpose is to enable government transparency, and since the taxpayers paid for that information to be gathered, they deserve to see what their government servants did in their name.

The Freedom of Information Act does not release any and all documents, there are plenty of privacy restrictions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_Information_Act_(Uni...
I agree to an extent. But, the webkit prefix situation is not the same as the IE problem. During IE's heyday, sites were tailored specifically to that browser, but due to IP and technical lock-in, other browsers were unable to implement the IE-specific features. (See ActiveX).

Here, the problem isn't one of capability. The other browsers can (and have indicated that they will) implement the webkit syntax and feature set.

The W3C is simply clinging to a failed spec "because its the spec". As was made clear in the OP's plea, the W3C needs browsers to observe their specs to remain relevant and avoid circumvention.

If the webkit extensions aren't technically or legally barred from implementation, there's no reason that other browsers shouldn't simply adapt. Aside from the W3C's own self-interest, the only "problem" here is that the market is dictating the solution, instead of a panel of self-professed governors.