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I think OKCupid is a great service and I've heard of several people (like you) who've found success with it. My idea is meant to be another alternative - for people who haven't. Also, there is nothing wrong with being on multiple types of platforms if you're serious about finding someone - most people are.

In response to a few of your points:
1) It is very hard to fake a Facebook account. It's hard to get those 1000 friends and tacky drunk pictures from college.
2) OKCupid already does qualitative filtering ad nauseum - the efficacy is debatable but for someone who wants more objective filtering that they can understand and doesn't take a long time to implement, Circl.es could be better.
3) Rejection is part of the game, but it can be reduced by making sure that you're only considering people with whom you have a shot - allowing people to say "no" before you even see them, filtering both ways, and forcing people to make simple choices early on can reduce the pain.

To be honest, my biggest beef with OkCupid is the complexity. A new user coming the site can barely understand how it works - it takes time and a lot of work to use the system. The other day I had a friend join and I just typed okcupid.com/profile/his_name into my browser and pulled up his profile (I'm not a member of the site). He was horrified! I know they have privacy settings, but it takes time for new users to "get" this. Furthermore, I have personal doubts about whether personality matching really works - I think the depths of the human psyche might be a bit beyond computing.... but that's just my opinion.

Ultimately, OKCupid is a very cool site - many people love it. My site is different and, if it is successful, will have a different set of strengths in terms of matching people. If you weren't married I'd encourage you to at least Circl.es a trial run to see how different it is!
I watch plenty of videos and I've never had a problem with the big streaming sites delivering h264 versions. The only flash videos I still encounter are on older, lightly, maintained sites or sites that just download flv files.

And if iPad sales are any indication I don't think it's as big a deal as you make it out to be.
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I think the issues with Stack Overflow are:

1. People don't search properly before posting

2. There are a lot of "low quality" questions that could be answered by reading documentation (also see 1)

3. Most of the questions that apply to 1 & 2 have already been answered on StackOverflow.

4. It's overwhelmingly (US) English, so people who are not fluent pendants are down-voted.

5. The people who need the most help are those who are least suited to post, as they rarely give enough detail ([example][1] - where to start?), ask very generic questions ([how to build a website][2]), or ask questions that have been answered before

When StackOverflow started, I spent a great deal of time on it as it felt like a good way to help and share knowledge (or just show off). Nowadays, I'll vote when I find an answer (usually via Duck Duck Go), but [the last question I asked][3] is still unanswered (allowing Facebook to use this as a support forum is a joke).

I feel that it's become a victim of its own success, and is getting to the point where it's as bad as the sites it tried to replace.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9395670/dataset-getting-m...

[2] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/87305/how-to-build-a-webs...

[3] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8077747/what-are-facebook...
This article completely misses two important points. The first is this: Google is not just in the webmap and geocoding business, but is pursuing the goal of being the go-to warehouse of world wide geo data, with Terms of Services [1] that completely tie the user to Google's tools. The second is that the OpenStreetMap eco system can and is competing against Google's tool chain, declaring defeat citing sea containers flies in the face of people who are working hard every day to make "open" the prevalent way we do maps.

For a little background on Google Map Maker look at how Google is starting to run a more aggressive mapping campaign by announcing a partnership for sourcing geo data [2] with the World Bank, a community site [3] that looks a lot hotter than osm.org and Mapping parties all over the world [4].

[1] http://www.google.com/mapmaker/mapfiles/s/terms_mapmaker.htm...

[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/14/opinion/empowering-citizen...

[3] https://sites.google.com/site/mapyourworldcommunity/

[4] https://sites.google.com/site/gtanzania2012/mappingparty
Not really. I prefer written words as the content is easier to scan through. Video is almost laborious watching.
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One addendum to this benchmark (somewhere else in that thread) shows OpenSolaris mostly outperforming Linux.
Friendly suggestion: try submitting the link to the original article instead of the Google redirect. :)
Indeed. I've run FlashBlock for years, and minus Hulu and a couple other sites, I find I almost never have a need to click on the blocked Flash objects.

And it seems like the days of sites implemented entirely in Flash have pretty much come to an end.

Given the nature of Flash I could never understand why it was so much trouble to implement on Linux, or to create a 64-bit version. I can't imagine what a colossal mass of spaghetti code that app must be. I've been waiting impatiently for it to die since at least 2001.
> Content protection should be as simple as refusing the stream content to unauthenticated and unauthorised clients.

This is about copy protection. You can argue that that is practically impossible to do, but this isn't about about client authorization.
This sort of thing has to happen, as great as the idea of media embedding in HTML5 is there needs to be copy protection.
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Hm, the best I can think of is slightly better than one by one: In the finder, command click to select as many different file types as you can, right click, hold down option and "Get Info" turns into "Show Inspector" which pops up a dialog for the aggregate of all the files. In that dialog, I think you can assign Sublime Text to be the default program for all instances of each of those file types.
I probably stay with Udacity too. They doesn't force you to buy a book (I mean like SaaS) and SaaS covers only first five chapters from book. As I understand it is not full course.
You can try this bookmarklet to download the full history: http://geeklad.com/updated-script-to-download-google-history
Apple and Mozilla have already stated that Pepper is entirely redundant with ongoing standardization efforts and even counterproductive to them. So why is Google pushing it? Answer for yourself.
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I take issue with some of the thoughts I see echoed by this and other comments - that the real goal of encrypting video content is to prevent third parties from watching it off the wire, or that the reason we should have DRM is so that video files may be cached.

The goal here is to break the end-user's ability to access the material at will.
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I started writing an ebook (free) on mobile web development with javascript and html5. In particular I want to focus the ebook on how to use frameworks (like jQuery Mobile, Sencha, Titanium Mobile, ApplicationCraft) to build a cross-browser user interface, call native API, and some useful techniques and design patterns of mobile web development. Since there are many topics to be addressed, which would be useful to cover and what not, and most importantly, it would be interesting to have an ebook with these topics?

Thanks
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I considered that but I figured if you already know someone and like them, you should just ask them out in person.
I don't find Flash crashing my browser on Linux too often, but it crashes itself pretty regularly.

Plus the older hardware I run Linux on can barely show a 288p Hulu video, with lots of stuttering, even though the machine can play videos twice that resolution flawlessly in any of the native video players.
> 1) It is completely unnecessary to waste paper and natural resources on a book that will only be read by one person.

Why do you consider that a book produced via this process would "only be read by one person" (implying that mass printed books are more likely to be "read by more than one person" than books produced via this process).

This book will be just as physical an entity as the mass printed book, and have all the DRM free attributes of a mass printed paper book. It could be loaned to another, it could be donated to a local library after having been read, it could be donated to a book drive at a school.

The only way it would differ from a mass printed book is simply by not having been mass printed. Otherwise I would think its chance of being read by one, or more than one, person is identical to a mass printed book.
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It may be possible under the proposal but is distant from the intended or anticipated uses.

This proposed extension appears to provide a means for distributing keys between DRM chips/implementations (BD+/AACS/etc) and a remote license server. The reason this is a HTML specification extension is that Netflix and Google want to use <video> within HTML -- thus the browser environment must become responsible for interfacing between the DRM implementation and license providers.

Knowing the "keys" being transmitted is not useful because they'll be encrypted using public key cryptography. A heavily protected/tamperproof[1] DRM chip will have access to the actual keys required to decrypt the content. This could take the form of a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) as part of the widely criticised "Trusted Computing" initiative (is this one of the reasons why Microsoft is involved with the proposal?).

Some of the motivations of pushing towards this heavily restricted and inaccessible method of delivering content could include:

1) Ability to lock content to particular devices (iPhone users can access a TV show 2 weeks before anyone else).

2) Taking control over the purchasing cycle of consumers by forcing constant hardware upgrades.

3) Renting content for short durations of time under very specific conditions and limitations.

4) Pricing content on a per-user basis (some users pay more than others for the same content)

[1] Security Engineering, Edition 1, Chapter 14 by Ross Anderson - https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/Papers/SE-14.pdf
Google makes money from your ignorance. They could put a "Disable all Tracking" button in the black bar at the top of all Google properties, but their business model relies on the majority of people not knowing they're being tracked, or not caring enough to go looking into how to disable it.
I was also a little hesitant to switch from Vim to Sublime Text 2, but I finally decided to do it. I run ST2 in Vim mode, which is easily configurable, and honestly, it's much more easier, does so many things right,and after adding just a few plugins (the package control being one of them), it has become my default text editor.

And lets hope Jon doesn't get hit by a bus. :)
Wow, very useful, thanks. There's a useful comment to the gist I had no idea about: Ctrl/Cmd X,C, and V all operate on the whole line if nothing is selected. That's a clever way for it to work.
I posted on the OP's blog asking for a link to the offending SO posts and he deleted my comment!
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I agree. For what it's worth, my experience has been completely the opposite (disclaimer: I'm a SO addict with rep approaching 20k).

1. I've never got downvoted for asking something that could be found by googling and don't downvote anyone else for it (unless it's the blatant "give me the codez" type of question). In fact, usually such questions are considered a low-hanging fruit for those answering the question (and who know where to look).

2. My spelling/grammar errors get corrected by users with editorial powers (and I try to do the same).

3. I consider this the advantage of the site: incorrect answers get downvoted, correct answers get upvoted.
I agree that this should be changed. I will look into it!
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Adobe has always been this hostile to Linux users. It hasn't seemed to had much of a dent in their success.

Meanwhile, Flash is dead, it just hasn't stopped kicking yet. It's been a long decade, but many people will be cheering it and kicking the corpse when it finally shuffles off to the great /dev/null in the sky.
Except people are unlikely to give someone a one or two star rating, and are likely to give four or five star ratings.
I expected this to be a fluff piece about exercise and learning, but it was in fact rather interesting.

It should be noted that while increased "glycogen supercompensation" in the brain correlates with the much-hyped exercise-induced-cognition-enhancement (aka running makes you smarter/healthier/happier) the author's don't provide any behavioral or cognitive tests. They acknowledge this, and since it wasn't part of their study they just offer the correlation as an interesting hypothesis.

I imagine they'll be testing cognition/behavior in their next paper.

The articles they are referencing is:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21521757

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22063629
No DRM?
Deep down inside he's probably scared that Stackoverflow users also roam Hacker News & the Internet at large and doesn't want his blog post to become a honeypot for scorn. Honestly, I understand completely where he's coming from. I've posted answers to SO and received lots of "well that's obviously wrong" kind of comments - it took me months to realize what was so wrong about those answers (why couldn't they just tell me). The SO crowd can be extremely purist & hostile. But I suppose that's what drives quality in their answers.
Although I dont disagree with your point I took the phrase to refer to e.g. political dissidents and the like.
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The iPad includes H264 support, as does Chrome. Firefox doesn't (and neither does Chromium, does it?). So this does screw anyone over who wants to watch H264, which really is the majority of video on the web.
Not accepting it as part of HTML5. Things continue as they - the real cost of these DRM layers isn't the bit of browser glue that issues an http request for a key.
On the whole I don't think this is evil. More of a lateral move, morally.

I can't imagine what Google hopes to accomplish with this since Flash is currently circling the drain, relevancy-wise, but if it does anything to hasten the move away from using Flash at all, then it's a plus.
I would argue that the problem space reduces to the same thing. Once you hand someone encrypted content along with a way to decode it, you've essentially given them the content and have to trust that they won't copy it. You have no way to protect the content from being copied if you have given out the secret to decoding it.
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I used to play a lot of QuakeWorld, does that count?
No, there's no need for copy "protection".
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This is a joke right
Simfy (another Spotify competitor) also uses it.
I'm betting the distro packagers like Canonical will solve the problem for end users.

Meanwhile, Flash continues to circle the drain, and this might hasten its inevitable, but slow demise.
I've been living flash-free for about 6 months, now that youtube autoloads html5 video the only thing pissing me off on a regular basis are the charts on Google Finance and Yahoo Finance.
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This is unrelated to the content, more about TechCrunch:

Why make thumbnail images expand in modal windows if you are not going to show them in full? The modal window is worthless to me...because the image is still scaled and unreadable.
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when i go to that page with my spam account, which i'm logged in by mistake when i do most of my searches anyway, i get one screen asking to enable web history, with a button saying "no thanks". and i never get to the calendar screen.

with my de facto account, it shows the calendar. and there's no way i can find a way to that "no thanks" button
That was already an alternative. One of the editors on this proposal is a Netflix employee; that should tell you something about the viability of that option.
Sooo many vim plugins...

I have 19 installed (and I think that's too many). Out of those 19, I regularly use 5 or less (not including passive ones like Vundle). My goal is to reduce the amount of crap I have to load, not add as much crap as possible just in case.
Some of these resume templates are really sexy, good work. :)
It's awesome, yes - but it's worth keeping in mind that this trick works because he has an intensely write-heavy application (he probably does orders of magnitude more writes than reads). Very few applications have such a data access pattern.
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You still be able to use flash 11.2 and receive security updates for another 5 years. Unless there is going to be massive progress for flash (which we already know there isn't) this isn't really news. They are basically saying if there ever is a flash 12 it will not be supported on linux.
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I think it is only disabled on certain interior pages.

I just logged in and in GMail, clicking on the Google Icon didn't do anything. Worked the same on a few other pages I tried.

Perhaps they haven't rolled out the changes to all pages yet, but seems inconsistent to only disable it on certain interior pages...
Wow. I remember waiting for flash to come to 64 bit Linux systems...

Perhaps Adobe has to continue supporting Chrome to support Googles Chromebooks.

In a perfect world, we would have open standards and would never need to rely on a company. Hopefully flash will die quickly (I wish I had a dollar for everytime I have heard this).
The problem is that any "Q & A" site is great when is new because it's empty so all Questions get answered, as soon as you are not asking anymore, just looking for previews answers its not a Q&A experience anymore.

One solution for this sites would be to purge old answers or encourage repeated questions, I can support that because there are always new users eager to answers those repeated questions.
This has puzzled me for quite a while as well. The AWS Console isn't just awkward, it's lacking some of the features the API exposes if I recall.
Where does Adobe declare Flash on the desktop dead?
Of course Netflix wants to control video steaming. They are free to accomplish their business goals by any other means: making their users download some software, shipping locked hardware to users, or sending employees to people's homes to make sure they don't copy anything. They are not free, however, to break the Web.
Just looking at Gmail now, there actually isn't a Gmail logo anymore. There is a Google logo that I can't click on and there's a Gmail link underneath it, but clicking the Gmail link opens a popup menu. I have to then click "Gmail" on the popup menu to get to my Inbox. (Or I could just click "Inbox" of course, but that sometimes gets hidden when i have a lot of labels open, and it's a smaller, fiddly link). I'd bet more people will have noticed this change in behavior than those who've noticed the change from a Gmail logo to a Google logo.

My point is, all this requires me to think. But before I could just swing my mouse into the top left corner, click "Gmail" and always end up at my inbox, no matter where I was in the application. This consistency has gone.

I should have phrased my question: "What possible advantage does this offer, to the user?"
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"I've posted answers to SO and received lots of "well that's obviously wrong" kind of comments - it took me months to realize what was so wrong about those answers (why couldn't they just tell me)."

So in retrospect doesn't it show you weren't qualified to answer, and that the downvoting, by lowering the visibility of your answer, is doing its job? I.e. that the system is working as intended?

As for not being told why you were wrong, surely you could have asked in comments and gotten an answer.
Isn't Chromebook essentially a Linux-based appliance?
Adobe is dropping linux support after 11.2. With the except of Chrome due to a new API that "aims to provide a layer between the plugin and browser that abstracts away differences between browser and operating system implementations."

Given that linux really hasn't been a priority for them and they are dropping flash all together; this isn't really news.

The press release says Adobe worked with Google on Pepper. So for them to have a bias towards it isn't groundbreaking.
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At least for women rating men on OkCupid in 2009, that's wrong. http://alvanista.wordpress.com/2009/11/27/another-okcupid-st... "Women on OkCupid have rated 80% of the men as unattractive." "The median man averaged 1.5 stars out of 5"

Also, all 1, 2, and 3 ratings are seen only by the person who made the rating so there is no penalty for rating someone low.

But it doesn't matter if the ratings are distributed evenly; there will still be some variance. Users who pay to have "A-List memberships" can use those ratings to search for matches of at least {3, 4, 5} stars to restrict their matches to the more heavily sought.
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There are a bunch of 3rd party icons that are all better than the new icon. I aggregated them last month:

http://blog.jerodsanto.net/2012/01/sublime-text-2-icon-repla...
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My 'assumption' whether good or not is:

1) Books that are not in high enough demand to be mass printed are going to find it hard to be distributed after the first read. Niche books will sometimes transfer between people in similar groups, but other than those rare instances it will be hard to find a second home.

2) I'm assuming the quality will not be as good as a mass printed book and will deteriorate more quickly.
They are basically saying due to Pepper there is no or little work in getting flash to work in Chrome on Linux... so there will be continued support.

The real question is if this is true, why are they dropping flash for android?