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I think there are several principles and ideas behind this 'Slow Web' and the other things you've mentioned.

For example, take information, specifically, knowing things about other people. When I meet someone I can find out so much about them through Facebook, Twitter, etc. that there seems to be several drawbacks; one is lack of mystery and this goes against the modern 'Know everything' idea. Another is there is the reduced [or modified] learning/getting to know other people—the experience of it. There'so much more like inherent impatience in the design and behaviours of apps, people, expectations, etc. now. Someone will quote Thoreau soon, I imagine. ;)

I had a look at Strangers for Dinner, neat idea! During uni holidays I might give it a look. It's nice to see an Australian-based startup too! I'm personally interested in your idea with slowweb.org so to be sure to update us, perhaps even involve Cheng and whomever is interested.
Who says "the press" missed it? I saw it mentioned on Slashdot, Techdirt and a few Australian sites (they seem particularly interested). Plus the few links I saw here.
My bet is that it's a financial decision. It's easy to see how hotlinked image files (or even entire web sites run out of /Public) could account for a major portion of Dropbox's outgoing bandwidth charges.

However, if that were it, you'd think they would consider keeping the feature for paid subscribers.
I've already sent Jack and Walter an email wrt A Slow Web. We'll see what will manifest I guess.
The author of this article clearly has not actually spoken to a diabetic. All current meters are almost as small and mobile and are all perfectly safe and accurate. The only benefit of this is the added visualisation aspect from having the readings on a larger high resolution screen. I've read about the iBGStar a few times, but I really can't understand why they use the 30 pin connector instead of bluetooth. It seems unnecessarily limiting
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Apple's one redirects to http://www.apple.com/ios/ios6/maps/, a landing page for the new maps app for ios6. Is this the link you were talking about?
it's not just that comment that is copied. All of the css has been copied, with very minor modifications.

He just highlights that comment as it is sufficient proof that the code is copied.

So all of the stuff that is non-trivial was copied as well.
What is in those 30-40 tabs? I am genuinely curious!
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it's not an emulation -- it has hasn't been re-implemented. When you compare the CSS you see it is a complete copy.
And if it was Bluetooth you wouldn't be limited to use an iPhone.
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What is the point?

EDIT: You edited your comment above, but it still makes no sense to me. Your phone can't know if you want an app to access your personal info or not, you have to tell it. The only difference between what you want and what I propose is that you have to spend an extra two seconds installing an app. This doesn't sound so onerous, and doesn't mean you have to be an expert.
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Both of them have applied for .search.

> The .search gTLD provides Google with the opportunity to differentiate its Google Search products and services by linking them to a unique gTLD. Google will be able to quickly distinguish new products and services it develops and⁄or acquires by offering them in the proposed gTLD.

> The mission of the .SEARCH registry is to provide a unique and dedicated platform for Amazon while simultaneously protecting the integrity of its brand and reputation.

> A .SEARCH registry will:

> •	Provide Amazon with additional controls over its technical architecture, offering a stable and secure foundation for online communication and interaction.

> •	Provide Amazon a further platform for innovation.

> •	Enable Amazon to protect its intellectual property rights.

Basically, only for their own commercial gains. The other two applicants want .search to be a place for consolidation of search related domains, which seems like an absolute pipe dream.
Is this really a position you're in right now? I'm mostly Common Lisp focused and just by being part of the community I see enough successful examples come by.

I'm on mobile right now but if you want I can post some examples later.
this article seems to me as a hint that we need to redefine depression - the term has become ubiquous (synchronous with the rising term of burnout) and looking thru the test on http://cesd-r.com/ it seems to me at a large part of the correlation could come from the loss of focus amongst the test persons. this would also be in line with the higher usage of various web applications (which obviously dosen't contribute to your concentration). calling this as a form of depression just doesn't seem like the appropriate term.
I have 2 Dell 24 inchers side by side with blazing fast Ivy Bridge rig that most gamers would envy (I'm not a gamer though, I just like a V12 under the hood). I think this is the most optimal set up for a programmer. With 2 x 27 inch there would be a little bit too much head turning, same goes for 3 any size displays. In my opinion 2 displays is a must for a web developer, since there's always a browser on one display and a code editor on the other.
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Its not about Open 'source' but simply 'open'.
Weak proof of this is the Facebook Phone rumors a while ago.
What if FB could at this stage own Android? FB wants/needs hardware presence for longer term.
Too bad Google is too focussed on "Social" as defined by FB.
The only people who are in favor of this are those who stand to benefit: ICANN (who likes elaborate meetings in exotic places), registries, back-end providers, advisors (lawyers), and registrars (hello larrys). Did I miss anyone?

Any end users who think this will benefit them are clueless. As this blog post says most people have not a clue what the above parties are up to.

There are basically two main camps among the applicants: domainers looking to capitalize on type-in navigation and overpriced sales of key terms, and companies looking to protect their trademarks. They are not necessarily mutually exclusive.

ICANN is a non-profit organization. They are tax-free. But they treat themselves to perks many for-profit companies only dream about; they live a lavish lifestyle (they just raised 300 million for essentially nothing!) for an organization that is supposed to be acting in the public interest.

It is one heck of a racket.

There will be non-ICANN DNS with some new features emerging out of this fiasco. You can bet on that. ICANN has gotten far too greedy. The conflicts of interest are blatent and insulting.
There is something seriously wrong with your computer if you feel that 16GB is required to run Chrome and a webapp.
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Nicotine, sugar, chocolate are altering rewarding system of "food" subsystem, while heavy drugs are altering rewarding system of "reproduction" subsystem. (Sorry for my English, but you will got idea).
I'd say Dell Ultrasharp U2412M 24 inch IPS Widescreen LED Monitor 1920x1200 is the best for the money at the moment. Goes for $315 on amazon at the moment. Of course there are more expensive alternatives out there, not knowing your budget it's difficult to advise. I would definitely go for a higher rez though if the pocket allows.
That is just hilarious; you think the drug cartel can be stopped by invading Mexico??
Did you see what happened in iraq; what happens in Mexico will be many times worse, a full on insurgency, funded by drug money, paid by US citizens...

Our best example of a good way to go about reducing the drug trade is to go the way of Portugal.
Absolutely. Facebook's success with a wider demographic is clearly due the fact that allows pseudonyms.

Wat?
Reading the comments, it seems hard to find test strips for the meter.

When living in Europe, you get the strips for free from the government. I have to consult my doctor on Monday if it's possible to get the strips here in Germany.
What's the equivalent of this in the real world? Forgeries? Fraud? Owning something without a license? Or is it not comparible?
> I've read about the iBGStar a few times, but I really can't understand why they use the 30 pin connector instead of bluetooth. It seems unnecessarily limiting

Not to mention the fact that many diabetics need to check their blood sugar several times a day, which could introduce a lot of wear and tear on both the glucometer and the iPhone.

I remember when these machines cost several hundred dollars, were difficult to calibrate, and about the size of a netbook, but most glucometers these days are small and can be purchased for as little as $10.

The ability to record and track blood glucose levers over time is a "nice to have" feature, but this data could also easily be stored on the device and transferred to a computer later via a bluetooth or mini-USB connection.
How do they extort money, if you can stop other from registering a TLD with your trademark by just filling a Legal Right Objection[1], which if valid costs you essentially nothing ($2000)?

[1]: http://www.wipo.int/amc/en/domains/lro/
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I don't know which VPN service you run, but I looked at tunnelr and the showstopper for me is that it only supports OpenVPN.

In order to use VPNs on my Mac and on my mobile devices, I have to pay for two separate VPN services, which is a deal breaker.

I would much rather use a service that supports both OpenVPN and PPTP, with a bunch of disclaimers. I understand the tradeoff and I am willing to make it.
> But "calories in - calories out" is a simple statement of conservation of energy.

At the physical thermodynamical level, yes. But estimating "calories in" from food intake and estimating "calories out" from exercise apparently have +/-50% error if you take the numbers from the food packaging and from an exercise book respectively, if you actually measure them for a specific person (which is exceedingly hard, almost never done properly, and always takes for granted assumptions that are not proven -- see my answer to DanBC down this thread)

I should have been more precise: "calories in - calories out = calories stored" is a tautology given conservation of energy, as you alluded. But it turns out to be a very inaccurate prediction if weight gain if you assume "calories in"="what's written on the food label", "calories out=what's written in an exercise book about your exercise", and "calories stored=9kcal/g per body weight gained". All 3 are bad measurements, that somehow work out for the majority (60%-90% of the population, depending on how you set your error bars), but break for a minority.

If conservation of energy did not work for 10% of particles, physicists would look for a better description. Somehow, nutrition "experts" are allowed to hand wave the inaccuracies and are given a free pass as scientists. They aren't.
I think they do for exact matches (e.g. searching for "Y Combinator" which matches ycombinator.com), but I'm not sure.
That is an awesome hack! Kudos to you. It's one of those things that initially sound too hard to believe, but then you think about it and go oh yeah.... why not?

Brilliant! Very well done.
Wordpress should take on Buyypress' profile information management system [xprofile], that would make Buddypress much more attractive imo. The fact that a user sees completely different information in the wp-admin dashboard from the data they entered into the Buddypress front end is very confusing and messy from a UX stand point.
Do you really think these people are just going to go away?

Ironically, I'd imagine the cartels would be for keeping it illegal - it's their market!
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Now if only you could do away with test strips. They're so expensive, if insurance doesn't cover it.
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& did not start a character reference. (& probably should have been escaped as &amp;.), 764,450 times.

Two errors that make me want to kill everyone in the W3C
Probably someone used the "Blork.ly" service to share a link to this story, I don't know.

I just did a dig -t AAAA google.com to find out their IPv6.
I've had a lot of recent discussions about this. My Dad always says one of the worst decisions he made when he was running his first company was not to sell it. The price was right, but he could see was the turnover and the potential to earn more later. Little did he know the 90's recession was just around the corner.

I often wonder what I'd do now if faced with a similar situation.
Well, they've ostensibly put tens of man-years into their architecture. I don't think any amount of critical thinking can change it significantly...
Maybe it's the way they surf that makes them depressed :-)? I don't know, I always have a ton of stuff running at the same time, including Web tabs, software, email accounts, etc. And I'm not depressed, that's for sure - when I'm depressed, I install Skyrim, Crysis or another open world game and completely immerse myself into the virtual world, not giving a crap about anything around me. Thank God I don't like WoW :-)...
> copying ideas

oh no! call the thought police!
The Wire is excellent fiction, not a simulation.

Something similar ("Needle Park") was attempted in Zurich in the eighties: a place where drug sale and use was officially tolerated. It was closed after a few years. Opinions are mixed.
So why worry about revenues when we need to worry about human lives? Legalization of drugs will kills millions but will save thousands. Nice deal?
They won't break your local URLs. Locally defined domains take priority over remote ones, you don't rely on them return NXDOMAIN for yours to work. It's a complete non-issue.
Many people start companies to make money. Other people start companies to build dreams.
Bluetooth devices have been around for a good long while and Android has had this exact same capability since last year. An example is at http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004FG89GC?ie=UTF8&tag=... (apparently no longer in stock :( ).

Disclaimer: I wrote the Android app that would speak to that meter last year. It did blood glucose AND blood pressure and would transmit the data (via a companion app) to Google Health (until they killed Google Health. Sigh.)
Nope, just fired both browsers to test since I mainly use Safari those times.
The same you do know when two companies in the same country have the same name/trademark?
Especially since a a term already exists - plagiarism - which is sufficient and forceful enough.
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Indeed, the Ultrasharps are pretty much unbeatable for the money. The 2312 and 2412 are especially attractive for the price and quality...
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Because now you have to deal with registering yourcompany.blog, yourcompany.cloud, etc
See 'flat adverbs':

http://books.google.com/books?id=2yJusP0vrdgC&lpg=PA451&...
Same here. I've been using two 24" monitors for ages and it's always a bit annoying to do something with my laptop.
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Two 22-24" are actually more flexible than a single 27", and the price is about the same...
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This general idea - that refurbs are more thoroughly tested and therefore more reliable - has been confirmed to me by Apple staff.

My guess is that it's primarily the likelihood of failure soon after purchase which is greatly decreased.
I think the article describes the behavior of escapists. The constant need to be distracted in order to avoid facing one's own reality.
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Is coca that different from tomatoes? I mean, is it, all things considered, harder to produce cocaine than ketchup? If fully legalized, shouldn't the price of cocaine be similar to ketchup?

The reason that cocaine is as expensive as it is, stems from its illegality.

And subsequently, the only reason that the cartels were able to grow to such monstrous proportions is the amount of money that can be made with the production and distribution of illegal drugs. Remove the money and you'll remove their power.
Was it really? Many frameworks don't offer much beyond HTTP basic.
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There's nothing wrong with the idea of Diaspora, just the execution.
Some companies are started to make money. Some to build dreams.

But it's much easier to build dreams on top of a multimillion euro cash-out.
As someone with one eye, severe retinopathy, glaucoma, and an artificial lens, news like this excites me to no end - not for me, of course. It's probably too late to do anything about my damaged vision.

My eyesight has been fairly stable for most of my life, but I've had 8 eye surgeries over the years, there was a 6mo period back in 2008 that was pretty frightening, and I spent all of last year slowly going (more) blind and seriously thinking I would permanently lose my vision.

I've dealt with my poor vision quite well, I think, but watching it deteriorate to the point where I couldn't do things like cook dinner or walk down the street without a cane, and the thought of losing what's left was so downright awful that I think I've actually suffered some PTSD from last year's ordeal. Some nights, despite the fact that my vision is much better than it was (as good as it has ever been, though I am still legally blind), I sleep with a light on, because waking up in total darkness is terrifying.

I'll be glad when these worries are a thing of the past.
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> "Not everyone thinks about their company this way. I have a good friend who is running a very successful startup with a fantastic future ahead. He told me – and I quite believe him – that he would sell the company for a billion dollars over his dead body."

I don't think this friend is really different from Eric. Both companies are for sale, just at different price points. A startup that isn't for sale is one where you'd have to physically threaten the founder to acquire it.

Of course, the number of founders that have breathlessly pitched me their company that will be "a multi-billion dollar business in 5 years" are uncountable. So I'd argue Eric has a more pragmatic and realistic view of his possible outcomes.
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... and 6GB is worth it over 4GB I can tell you.
I'm guessing that every piece of their kit and manufacturing capacity is custom made to order. The difference between making their custom screws use one shape of head vs. another is probably negligible in terms of cost to them.
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Should have called it reel-to-real.
How can they extort money?

You could argue ICANN extorts money here by putting pressure on companies to apply for gtld's in order to protect their marks. Many companies do not want to apply. For example, the world's most valuable trademark is missing from this applicant pool: Coke. There's no reason ICANN has to create gtld's that match trademarks by putting them in the ICANN root zone. It is domainers that want new gtld's the most. (For the simple reason why, see below.) How hard is it to do 2000 trademark searches? Essentially ICANN is profiting (they get a small fee for every domain name registration that is later sold) by selling the rights to use someone else's trademark.

Then there is the extortion that is carried out by the registries and registrars and domainers. Companies are forced to purchase and renew registrations for direct matches and typos of their trademarks in many different gtlds. More tld's equals more money. Also companies register and renew names in the form [companyname]sucks.tld. That is why you see some applications for a .sucks gtld. These defensive registrations are the bread and butter of the domain name "business". Again, they have no right to sell use of these trademarks. But they do. And they make a handsome profit from the "protection money" that must be spent by companies as a result.

That said, you do have a point: If you are a large company, $2000 and the fees to register domain names in lots of tld's, or to file UDRP's, are essentially nothing. It's easier for companies to just pay the fees rather than try to figure out how DNS actually works and how ICANN and their followers manage to pull off this scam.
We do support multiple containers, and it is reasonably abstracted (but it is slightly leaky right now).

The support for multiple streams isn't there yet, it is something I would love to do, but it is reasonably complex and I have been researching about how to best support it, but I am not really sure what models works best in a browser.

If you want to add some input about it, I would love to hear it. (#ofmlabs on freenode, or send me an email)

Ps. We managed to get Typed Arrays to work with JSMad, so that stuff is in now.
I was quite surprised to see there's uucp(1) and friends right there on OSX. It actually never crossed my mind to check until now.
Yeah I solved that issue by doing real weight training, then it doesn't feel so heavy!
Bitcoin mining coffee warmer is a great idea. But why we don't have bitcoin mining water heater for entire house? :)
Sneaking SD-Cards might also be a nice alternative of communication in times of increasing online surveillance.
buddy-fund.com - A way for users to sell their Facebook wall to advertisers. We should have done a little more research into the idea, it's against the ToS surprise, surprise.

clanbo.com - (The name is awful, I didn't come up with it) It was a free game server hosting service which also provided premium accounts. It got quite a bit of traffic and made me a little money back when I was 16 but the effort to return ratio is pretty low and in such a competitive area it would be hard to make it into anything worthwhile.

These two domains and sites are available for sell if anyone is interested.
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