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Hi,

I'm one of the founders of yasoon - unfortunately Microsoft does not offer any kind of API for Outlook on Mac. This makes it quite impossible to implement this.

In the long term we may provide something like this as an standalone app or an extension for Apple Mail - which ironically allows plugins.
Out of interest, here in the UK all washing machines have windows.

Why does North America have top loading machines?
What does your region have?
US only. Great :(
I like top-loading machines because when I take the damp clothes out, it's easier to keep stuff from falling on the floor. With a front-loader, you pretty much have to keep the laundry basket right under the door. Ditto for dryers. I see no advantage to front loaders except that they can be stacked. Unfortunately, we have stacked machines where we currently live, and stuff always falls on the floor :(
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It wasn't even that. Locals were also allowed to buy as long as they had foreign currency. While it was hard to get it was by no means impossible (black market at 3-4 times the official rate). Of course if you bought anything expensive or too often, questions would be asked.
Not sure a political party can be relied on to do the right thing. It's the nature of politics.

20 years ago I could buy a house for a decent price. I started Uni in 1990 and that was the first year student loans were introduced. So you'd have to have graduated in 1989 (25 years ago) to not have been impacted by student loans.

What has changed is that the cost of going to University has now been transferred correctly to the student. I see nothing wrong in somebody choosing to go to University and I know many people of my era that just went to University because that is what you did. Now people try and evaluate if going to University is the correct career choice.

The important thing to remember is that this 'debt' is not an issue. You have to be financially 'successful' to even start to need to pay it off and the interest rate is currently at 1.5% (Commercial rates are around 6-9%) and is written off after 25 years, unlike the US student debt which is at commercial rates and you cannot escape.
Well, on the other hand, the UK doesn't have a 220-year-old Bill of Rights that literally opens with a prohibition on laws pertaining to religion.

And, while it doesn't seem to have caused the UK's culture to crumble (and indeed it doesn't seem to have done much of a favor to Christianity's influence in the UK), you don't think it's a little batshit to have a national law mandating that schools teach the primacy of Christianity among all religions practiced in the UK?
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funny I figured it was so I could see whether I'd forgotten to take the wash out, without having to open the door.
"Further, as groups of characters are typed, the images on the dialog change to distract the would-be onlooker from observing the number of (extraneous) characters typed. "

Actually, the hieroglyphics are just another dubious security feature. The theory is that you know what the hieroglyphics are for the correct password, and if they aren't shown, the login box is being spoofed. In reality, this is dumb, since any regular Notes user just tunes out that part of the login box.
Good point.

The truth is, it's fun for journalists and, well, the rest of us, to point out that Facebook isn't cool. Maybe you don't find it fun, and maybe some others do.

It's the same reason "hipsters" feel pride for finding the latest band cool before anybody else does - it's just some vague social currency. By pointing out that something which was once cool is no longer cool, you are distancing yourself from it and gaining some of that currency, thus making yourself cooler. So, that's why it should be cool. To help it's users be cool.

I'm not saying this is in any way a useful point of view to take, or that it in any way affects how useful Facebook is, but I'm fairly sure that this is what is going on. Plain old-fashioned shallow trend-setting and trend-following. Playground economics.
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It's easy to bemoan the incumbent, but it's not easy to get rid of them.

Remember Myspace, it was huge. A no-frills more personal alternative to it was born in Facebook. They are different products granted. But the early adopters chose to champion Facebook. Just like Google was the new cool Yahoo. Later Facebook grew into the huge monster that it is.

I have political reservations and worries about a silo like Facebook, but I have to respect it being a work of epic proportions.

A new kid on the block might be able to quickly grab the lime-light if they play their cards right, but there's the worry that they'll become the future uncool incumbent.

Some companies amazingly hang in there as the competition just isn't strong enough, good enough or wealthy enough to remove them.

As others have said a good product doesn't have to be cool. My bread board is brilliant, but it's not cool. The worry with I'd have with a well established web app, is that it might become a bloated behemoth.

People are happy to moan about Facebook right now, currently I don't really see a good alternative, but where there's a will there's a way.
> Is having your own website cool again yet? Wake me up when we're there.

Yes, it's cool, but the only way to get people to visit it are to post it to Twitter, Facebook, Hacker News, Reddit, etc.
Well, I'm certainly not inclined to argue with that.
I don't know the US market very well, but in Japan the market is like 70% top loaders as far as I can remember.
Unskinned bootstrap, no wonder they didn't take off. Nothing reaks of amateur hour more than unskinned bootstrap.
Thanks for the quick reply. That's what I was afraid of. I know Excel for Mac's macro functionality is pretty sparse compared to the Windows version. I think this is cool - just not worth running a VM all the time.

Best of luck. Hack the planet!
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Not really, no. There was nothing preventing the NSA from running lots of supernodes, just like they run lots of tor exit nodes.

If it offered anything at all, it was a false sense of security.
I hadn't thought about this before until something came up about a British ad agency using this to target personalized ads for the MAC ids of devices. I think that got shut down.

But it did get me to thinking about why this isn't exploited more often or that more people don't know about it. I thought of the example of having a home break in, and having my router log all the MAC ids of the devices nearby. Couldn't I effectively pinpoint the subject if I had a novel MAC id being logged at the time of the crime? Even better, log the name of the network it's looking for (or better yet a Wifi Pineapple), and maybe I could even track the guy down myself.
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Yeah that looks great - seems more for permie jobs but will give it a try
Yeah, it's because they are easier to manufacture and definitely more robust. Because you put the weight of the load on the bottom part on the same direction as the axis. The front loaders need to be build way more solidly to last. On top of having a larger capacity, I prefer top loaders too because you don't have to break your back to get the laundry out.
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So you know it's not full of water and safe to open the door.

(Yes, the washer will ensure this can not happen, but you the user do not necessarily know that).
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This might or might not be true, but it is also among the oldest arguments in all of propaganda: the will of the people can't be trusted, because it's shaped by malignant elites. Often, it continues on to say that until we can fix that problem, we all need to be governed by this other group of benificent elites.
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So everyone's business has to change to meet the most restrictive country's laws? What next, the internet is ruled by sharia law? I guess thats what happens when global companies become the only choice, no matter what your country allows, we have to do what Elbonia wants.
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Ever try it? You can't. The machine won't let you... Yeah I did try to open it when I lived in Europe and had a front loading machine.

Also do you have a source of this or is it just idle speculation?
The advantage of front loaders is that you get more "wear" inside the washing machine, so in theory the washing should be more efficient, but it does not matter that much with the modern detergents we have. The big problem with front loaders is that they tend to damage your clothes faster, wash after wash (I know because I used to work on detergents and did extensive cycle testing in front and top loaders). That's why it's recommended to have a softener in your load, so that your clothes would slide better on each other and get less damage by friction.
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Apparently spell-check is also a dead technology.
this is exactly what happens with me. though I was expecting a solution too. but how can I. He is on the same road as I am
What projects, where are you located, ..?
Front loaders use far less water.
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I like the idea of asserting "here is what my environment should look like, and how it should behave."

However, What is the advantage of this over a configuration management tool (puppet, salt, chef, ansible, etc)? You can make similar operational state assertions with a CMS, and better, it will fix any problems it encounters when running.
Here's an answer I wrote to a similar question a couple months back:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6650317

Acquisition negotiations are extremely expensive. Assume they're going to fall through, and that you'll lose a lot in the process.
Obviously you can't open it. The three year old me likely would have had a bloody good go at it though, if he wasn't pacified by the spinning clothes through the window.

My source for the first bit is a Hans Rolsing ted talk about washing machines, as well as my own grandmother.
Unstated is any indication of your own desire to continue with the business. Why would you entertain the time and effort for a failed conversation? Get this straight first.

Consider the likely possibility that your potential competitor learns of your financial situation, and operations in detail, and walks away, with the intent to modify their own business based on what they learn, thanks to your tutorial.
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> I still buy top loaders, because they cost 2/3 of what the front-loaders do.

1. How often do you buy washing machines?

> Less, if you buy a dented or scratched one.

2. Scratched and dented top-loading washers cost less than the ones in perfect condition too. Also, it's really unlikely you'll get any energy efficiency discounts on a top-loading washer. I think I got $150 total between my state and power company's reates.

> They do indeed use more water, but I make up for that by not running partial loads.

3. That doesn't make any sense. Front-loading machines have larger capacities by virtue of not having to make room for the agitator. Mine is an LG with a 5.1 cu. ft. capacity. A front-loader can hold more and uses less water.

You'd probably have to do three loads in a front-loading machine to use as much water as one load in a top-loading machine. But you'd still get less laundry done because the front-loader holds so much more.

Top loading washers don't make any sense unless initial cost is your sole deciding factor.
More idle speculation, but presumably the very first models weren't advanced enough to have an auto-locking mechanism. Since the only difference (that I can think of) between top- and front-loading models is the safe/disastrous result when opening mid-cycle, I can only imagine it has seomthing to do with that.
I'm reminded of what JWZ said to someone working on groupware around the time that Facebook was started:

>So I said, narrow the focus. Your "use case" should be, there's a 22 year old college student living in the dorms. How will this software get him laid?

http://www.jwz.org/doc/groupware.html
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Another nice introduction is the Go Playground's Tour (http://tour.golang.org/#1).
Also you can put things on top of them, which means they fit nicely into the kitchen of most apartments.
You can't avoid it "at all costs". You're going to have to delineate your acceptable risks, conversely your threat model. That's a game-like activity played by your business analyst (you) and your security analyst (possibly also you). Here's the security analyst's next move:

Wikipedia "DNS root zone" reminds us that "The US Department of Commerce NTIA exercises the ultimate authority over the DNS root zone of the Internet." And all electronic computer equipment is in the economic sphere that includes as a huge part the U.S.

Your move, business analyst.
I hadn't actually heard of Pelican until now but it looks like Ghost and Pelican aren't really comparable - they're two very different approaches to a blogging platform. Pelican looks more comparable to Jekyll.

Personally I've just moved to Ghost and I have to say that I love it. I wrote a longish post [1] on all the blogging platforms I've tried and how Ghost compares. The post also explains why I didn't go with something like Jekyll. Check it out, it might help.

[1] http://mehdi.me/ghost-io-the-first-blogging-platform-that-ma...
I love being able to click on an actual Record Label name and seeing what they have released lately. That is huge for me.
That strikes me as hybris. Facebook is not some kind of radical new discovery, it's not even a radical new invention. That's like pretending Elvis Presley or The Beatles invented music because they had a huge market share.
Robinson Meyer, I think that may be he talked about Facebook?? But, as you said in your blog-post that you missed out so many things due to noise and you clearly listened only two words "Instagram" and "Snapchat" from the president of USA... So, all are you doing is just guessing that If he doesn't talk or you don't listen about Facebook from his mouth, then Facebook sucks... That's not cool... man
That's my general impression as well. That's why I didn't get a master in CS rather a MBA which is kind of relaxing and fun (my company offered for my master degree, otherwise I'd never go... ). Pretty much all CS master courses not that much in depth in comparison to an engineering master degree. And all these tech degree are quite "generic", which greatly reduce their usefulness in real life.

I feel like graduate school are for people who do not know what they want or interested in at the moment. Once they do, you already locked up in that degree plan, and have no time to go ahead implement the idea.

I much prefer to take classes from edX-like course education sites which I'm not obligated to anything. Once I feel I got a hang of this new field, I can just go and do my stuff.
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I like the building things. I finish building them too. Unfortunately, that isn't the job done. You then have to promote it and get users. That is harder than the building stage.

Christ you are in for a shock if you think the immediate step after reserving social media handles is the hard bit...
Turn it off then wait a couple of minutes until the timer enables the catch on the door.
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Yes, sorry for leaving that untranslated. It's distance learning/teaching and that's the university I was referring to.

There are also a couple of more focused distance learning offers, usually started by some professor and then spun out as a not for profit (usually focused on a MA in a single field) which can be pricey (5-10k Euro for a MA).
It is kind of fun how the failures didn't have to be.

IBM did successfully enter and even define the PC market.

Microsoft saw the threat of the Internet, and reacted swiftly to own it with Windows 95. Internet Explorer demolished Netscape, with illegal methods, but most people at the time also recognized IE as the better browser. Microsoft also got a strong foothold on mobile with WinCE/PocketPC/Windows Mobile.

Google was an early entrance in social with Orkut, dominating some important emerging markets (Brazil, India).

In each case the companies seemed to lose interest and refocus on their moneymaker divisions. It might be intrinsic to large companies: If you want to advance, you should work where the money is made. So the best and most ambitious people would go there, leaving the forward looking parts of the company to die of negligence.
Obama to overhaul NSA's bulk storage of Americans' telephone data
How about people do what they want and leave other people alone? I know it's a strange concept, but I think it might catch on.

If you don't like them, don't hire them. If you do, go ahead.

Oh, and the article has all the experimental rigor of a homeopath's (i.e. magic water con artist's) magic 'proof'. No controls, no adjustment for other variables, only a single data point. I'm also inclined to guess that yes, they could be a negative for a less well known company/brand/product with a small presence, but not so for a bigger one. Finally, it's about the entertainment factor - fewer people will go overall if there's less interesting things there.
In Finland I think they're pretty fifty-fifty. Toploaders can be made much narrower, so they're the obvious choice in small apartments.
> Just using plain JS with Jquery, and perhaps some additional smaller specific plugins/libraires, is enough to do a lot of cool stuff if we're talking "javascript" projects. Then just get a good editor and off you go.

These new tools and frameworks are becoming numerous and popular precisely because for large, complicated front-end applications you can't just get away with using "plain JS with Jquery" without it becoming an unmaintainable mess and writing boilerplate DOM manipulation code all over the place. The only people I meet who have an aversion to these modern JS frameworks are front-end devs who refuse to learn them or server-side devs who hate javascript.
Well, yeah. My point, made somewhat tongue in cheek, was that you can avoid all of the horror stories of Java concurrency by switching to Clojure.
Great that you touched on photo sharing. It's 2014 and it's still difficult to get photos from a camera to your computer to your friends. Publishing a simple web page is still deemed too difficult, discovering and managing contacts, and mass mailing them is hard.

Facebook basically stepped into the niche above. It adds instant messenging, and some automated feed organisation.

To some extent Email, IM and a little web space would suffice as well as some photo resizing tools! OSs, file managers and browsers could really help here, and if these tasks had been far easier to do in the first place Facebook wouldn't have even become what it is. Privacy and authentication for dummies is the other thing that has to be made and integrated into a solution.

With a little work Facebook could be decentralised, and having your Mum as a contact wouldn't make your social network toolset uncool.
The developer hostility in this is astounding.
Not a fine of course, but a "tax". A fine would be unconstitutional. My state rejected expanded medicaid, which leaves anyone in that gap between ~$2k and ~$11k with the option of paying the penalty tax or just stop working. There's a lot of the 18-30 year olds in that income bracket here.
Requiring the NSA to mount an expensive and invasive attack with high risk of exposure counts as pretty decent in my book.

Especially back then, 10 years ago. Even people like Bruce Schneier didn't suspect the NSA would as ruthless as recently revealed.
Yes. I looked at the software dev list; I only skimmed it, but none that I saw were books I read, or books I'd care to read, despite being in the field for 4 years now, and being a fairly passionate learner in terms of new techniques, technologies, languages, and methodologies.

EDIT: Correction; I see Code Complete.
One more future victim of the end of support of Windows XP.
The point is that Facebook has become or is becoming a utility. People don't get excited about email anymore or think it's cool but they use it daily. Facebook is no longer this cool new site with interesting new features - it's an easy way for people to message and share photos.
How are shops not doing this yet?

If you are shop owner, you could pretty accurately know where are your customers living.
What, in a Christian country? No.

When I was in my teens, I resented the fact that I went to religious assemblies at school and couldn't opt out. Now I'm older and look back on these assemblies, they taught moral lessons that could be applicable regardless of your opinion of the supernatural.
Front loading machines are much more energy and water efficient. That's their big advantage. They use gravity. You can add much more clothes into a front loader too, so you don't have to do as many loads. Top loaders can be overfilled easily. Also front loaders are better for your clothes.

http://housewares.about.com/lw/Home-Garden/Home-improvement-...

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-are-the-advantages-of-a-front-l...

http://tlc.howstuffworks.com/home/5-benefits-of-front-load-w...
Where is the cat?

I live in constant fear of that moment.
I like the use of short 2-5 second videos instead of pictures. They did it tastefully and made it useful.

I never thought I'd see a good use case for auto playing videos.
(It kind of reminds me of Harry Potter too)
Now pardon me, but what's the value of any of those measures?

Holy moly! This month I've slept 285 hours. So what?

Heck! You took a hell of a lot of steps lately, you should pace yourself man, you don't wanna wear out those heels, now, do you?

Is that what you had in mind when you decided this was really the best way to spend your precious time?