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McAfees uses
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Today I opened one of many blog's I will skim with a unique design. I first looked for the date, it took me a good 20 seconds to find because it was in tiny greyed out text hidden at the bottom of the page. Then I saw this was a blog about inconsistent user interfaces, and I'd say it was partly the pot calling the kettle black.
McAfee uses
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Wait, it's only OSX? Wow, I can't believe this! After all this hype, they didn't even release a *nix edition. They could have atleast mentioned it on their website.
Yeah, now that I think about it, the turn signals are (usually) well designed. In some vans/trucks they suck though (you have to twist a knob rather than a down/up motion).

Windows are again usually pretty good. However, in my mini cooper, the window switches are located in the center console, unbelievably bad design in an otherwise pretty well designed car.

I mentioned steering, gas and brakes primarily because they are the same for almost all cars.
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Interesting - we non-Prime people assumed that the recent retardation of dispatch was in order to give preference to Prime!

Recently I've had to consistently wait five days for "in-stock" items to move through the "Dispatching Soon" stage. Once Royal Mail have the parcel it's with me in a day or two.

The result is that Amazon has become my seller of last resort if I can't find the item elsewhere, or if they have a stunningly deep discount ( rare these days ).
Does russian propaganda ever change?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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You implied you're in Texas - you may wish to look into natural burial - I don't know where in Texas you are - but I was considering it for myself.

http://www.eloisewoods.com/index.html is one option - but there are many others - it comes with the advantage of being much cheaper - you could even dig.. well you know.

I hope you beat it dude, I really do, I'm 31 - 4 years ain't that much.
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Here's another one, pretty well done: http://www.naqeshny.com/?locale=en
I got a tour of the Burnside Bridge in Portland twice when I was in probably middle school, a couple years apart. The first time, the operator had a big panel of giant switches and buttons with a relay interlock system to make sure things proceeded in the right order. The second time, the control system had been replaced by a single color LCD touchscreen with what I can only describe as the bridge opening wizard... complete with a "Next >" button.
Not to deny that Greenlight is important but that seems to be overstating it. There was lots of buzz about Papers, Please back when it was still just a free-download beta on Lucas Pope's website; now it's on not only Steam but also GOG and the Humble Store. Of the notable "indie" hits from the past 3-4 years, most were probably (or certainly) in development before Greenlight was even announced, several got on Steam without going through Greenlight at all, several were successful on other platforms before going onto Steam (Amnesia, SpaceChem (initially rejected for Steam) ...) and some have kissed off Steam completely (famously Minecraft). If anything Greenlight looks a bit like Valve's late entry to the Humble Bundle/XBLA party.
How is it even related? It's a tragedy that Showden got stuck in country with illegal dictatorship after exposing constitutional violations in his own country. And it's a tragedy that political dissidents nowadays have to run as far as Equador.
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misanthrope?

I would rather say realist. We live in a society based upon democracy and free will right? I'm not ashamed for my statements.
Android (AOSP) these days is not a functionally complete mobile OS with Google pushing lots of functionality into their closed apps. Mobile really needs a complete OS which devs can use as an off-the-shelf product, and mod according to their needs. FirefoxOS and Ubuntu Mobile are probably the only real contenders now. Both have their pros and cons, but I sincerely hope that either of them (if not both) would succeed.

One very important thing Google added to the ecosystem was drivers. Android using Linux essentially made nearly all mobile hardware work on Linux, even though some drivers are closed. I remember the days when getting a projector to work with Linux was a pain, and I am not even 25!

EDIT:

My comment on AOSP is in this context:

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/02/neithe...

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/10/googles-iron-grip-on-...

I do accept that Google has added great value to the ecosystem with AOSP. It's just that AOSP is pretty much unusable for people without the resources of Amazon, Nokia, Mozilla, etc. I want something like Debian/Ubuntu. It's pretty much possible for a single person to build a customized OS for computers. We need that for mobile.
Try watching an experienced multi-button mouse user. They don't have to reposition their hand three times to cross the screen, or wait 300ms between every action for the gesture recognition algorithms to time out. Watching my coworkers pause all the time with their magic touchpads was very jarring for someone used to a more seamless flow of thought into action with a mouse. They probably don't even realize they are pausing, rather just subconsciously trained to avoid gestural misdetection by working more slowly.
Thanks for pointing out Web of trust!
Facebook can ask me all they want for my data, and I won't give it to them. The feds literally don't give me a choice.
Either way, it would be a shame if Google sank Dropbox and I would resent it. Dropbox is a GREAT service for free, then charges if you like more space. They offer the best use cases around for developers who do a lot of cross device work. You can keep all your information on all testing environments, and even share folders with others (or other accounts) and not really face limitations (i.e. no linux support). And with Google already getting strict about storage on Android, you can only suspect a Chess move to gain control with a dollar 99 on the hook.
Are you implying I even use that pile of turd?
Wow, I had no idea US schools started at 7.20am. That would mean teachers arriving at 6.20am. Are their unions OK with that? In my country office hours start at 9. Is that not the same in US? If so, why are kids expected to need 2 hours less sleep than an office worker?
> Pot, kettle, black[0]

While I am not trying to be an apologist for Facebook, I would like to point out that the majority of issues with Facebook are because people are members. It is easy to opt out of Facebook.

I would like to see you opt out of NSA monitoring. A lot of the actions which the NSA took and take are not made public, you data is collected from means which could be described as subterfuge, if not bordering on illegal.

The NSA isn't upset with Snowden for exposing their tactics, their upset because they got exposed altogether. They will continue to go down the path of monitoring citizens, and collecting data with or without your permission.

And you will never see them [NSA] offer a Terms and Conditions policy or a Privacy Policy.
Yeah I have witnessed that in Sao Paulo and Vilnius, it's an extremely satisfying transportation system (though illegal indeed). I wonder if the high-tech-ness brings such an advantage here.
So what does it take to be a genius then? If Einstein had been born in the middle ages would he still be remembered as a genius?
Reporting from the trenches. Here in Moscow all 4 sites from the list [1] are being banned as of this morning.

* ej.ru (assortment of articles by opposition writers)

* kasparov.ru (chess grandmaster and one of the opposition leaders)

* navalny.livejournal.com (possibly most prominent opposition leader as of
late; mayor of Moscow candidate in 2013 mayoral election)

* grani.ru (opposition newspaper)

I'd have to agree with said elsewhere in the comments that an average Russian will likely not notice those sites virtual demise. They're not much known or popular outside of a tight opposition camp.

Echo of Moscow is, however, a very popular radio station. Banning their site is likely to cause a little shit storm. It is not banned though and working just fine. What happened is they hosted their own Navalny's blog [2] and this particular URL was banned. However, the banning system is IP based, so along with it all the site would have been blocked. The site admins quickly took down the blog and the ban was lifted.

[1] http://rkn.gov.ru/news/rsoc/news24447.htm

[2] http://www.echo.msk.ru/blog/navalny/
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Also F-Secure offers Younited[0]

[0] http://www.younited.com
stopped reading at "don't hold status meetings, get people to write it down". This is such monumentally bad advice it immediately made me discount the rest.

Down this road lies write-only status updates that have been the bane of dev teams since forever.

If your priorities lie elsewhere than with keeping up with what your team(s) are doing then you don't need status updates; you need to delegate the management function.

If you're not meeting one-on-one with your immediate reports each week then delegate the management function.

If you're really so busy doing "important stuff" that what your actual employees are working on is not worth the time it takes for them to tell you about it, then you're doing it wrong.
The Intellimouse Trackball V1.0 is fantastic too - only trackball I've ever seen that lets you use your index and middle fingers for the ball, your thumb for the buttons, and your ring finger for the wheel. I wish someone would make a usb, optical version of that.
I did not even know that Google drive had a storage facility like dropbox. Until today I was under impression Google Drive was another name for Google Docs. Never used it anyways.
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I remember using one of those mid nineties - I think is was a Sun workstation. It had a metallic mouse pad with a grid pattern etched into it.
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For myself? I don't want to do a migration whenever we add a new widget to our promotion or email builder, I certainly don't want to think about doing a data migration on every existing document. In this particular case we do not care about the contents of this field. There is already a lot of related information stored in the same row.
Wow. Very interesting analysis.
"Willingly hand it to them" is not an appropriate description of the relationship people have with Facebook. It's more appropriate to say that people willingly share with their friends, and Facebook abuses its position of power as carrier of those friends' communications.
SuperShuttle is an interesting service. I used it a fair bit in the DC metro area, since Dulles Airport is not very accessible by public transport.

My main observation was that your circuity factor (the time deviation from direct travel time) was always larger the earlier you booked. So if you booked your trip online a week in advance, it appears they would assign your request to a van, and then as other new 'relevant' requests came in, they would get added on.

Essentially, your trip became the 'anchor' that drove the overall schedule. So depending on your trip characteristics, the best strategy appears to book on the day!
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It's actually the most widely accepted mechanism for "disruptive" innovation. See:

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator's_Dilemma

- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disruptive_innovation
> There's a lot of other stuff going on in this example, but in general yes - if I discover that someone named Ralph won the lottery, it is slightly more likely that the lottery is somehow biased toward people named Ralph ...

No, that is false. It would be like flipping a coin and seeing heads, then claiming that this outcome increases the probability that heads will be the preferred outcome in future tosses, or tosses in general. Think about what you're saying.

> Take the other extreme - you look at the 1000 most recent lottery winners, and discover that they're all named Ralph. You look at the names of people buying lottery tickets, and Ralph only shows up 1% of the time. You're not going to consider it any more likely that the next winner will be named Ralph as well?

Not without an explanation that can be tested and potentially falsified -- the gold standard of science. Without an explanation, it's a coincidence.

Try to remember that science is not simply drawing conclusions on the basis of observations -- there's more to it than that. It's not science until an explanation (a theory) is proposed, is tested, and has resisted falsification.

What if I told you that someone correctly predicted the direction of the stock market for 20 months straight, all in advance? Does that prove he's a stock market genius? Here's a better explanation, one that a scientist would want to test first -- if 1,048,576 (i.e. 2^20) people try to predict the stock market's direction for 20 months straight by flipping coins, there is a better than even chance that one of them will succeed by chance alone.

Next question -- what's the chance that the one random winner will assume that his success resulted from chance, or will he start selling a worthless book called "Secrets of the Winners" on late-night TV?
Why not visualize a graph and be done with it?

Are there really geometric properties that are useful here?
> since UK population seems almost as complacent and docile as the American one

That is really quite offensive. We have a culture of protest and resistance. What we have at the moment is a paradise of easy living. Despite the depressing lie of what the media will give you with "food banks and poverty" the standard of living for most Britons is really quite good, much better than the 1980s which saw major public political unrest.

People won't take to the streets for internet privacy or other such soft battles you can think of. The political classes will chatter about whatever games they play with each other but people really don't care about such issues.
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I really don't understand why, if I sign in with Facebook, you need to access my friends list. So I tried to sign up without Facebook, and I don't understand why you requested I choose one of two genders, or that I need to choose any gender at all. Maybe those things are important for participation in a fair and balanced debate, but it was enough to discourage me from signing up at this time.
Language barrier. Nobody would even bother.
The examples for the app are milk, bagels and cheese. All of these have expiration dates on the package or carton. Why do I need to waste time inputting this information online, and then look it up or check emails? Wouldn't it make more sense to just check the package when I have the fridge open?

Things without expiration dates, like fruit and veggies don't follow a particular timeline. They might be bad in 2 days, or 2 weeks. That means they can't be used with this application either, since they go bad when they look bad.

But, what about frozen dinners or something that I prepare, and freeze for the future? Well, I'll just write the date on them, when I stick them in the freezer.

Congrats on the experiment, but I'm going to be a little harsh on the concept and say it should be renamed to wastetime.io. This looks like a huge time sink by inputting everything I buy, and then removing everything I use. Apps are suppose to achieve the opposite, they should save me time.
Facebooks data collection is sleazy at best. You may claim that users give them the data "willingly", but the fact is that facebook collects users data even before their users have an account there. Management of the settings around privacy are also practically impossible. Facebook also ran into privacy snafus countless times.
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Bureaucracy by Douglas Adams deserves to be mentioned in this context:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)
>It is also true that social mobility is less, compared to many other rich countries.

Source?
100 days is crazy. Someone is gonna get a good deal on your remote labor. Seriously, you could probably earn $2k in 20-40 hours of good dev work. At most 100 hours, certainly not 100 days.
> they hold data that you may not have permission to give away.

Well that would be on you not Facebook.
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Nonsense. If AOSP isn't functionally complete now, it was never functionally complete. Nothing has been removed from AOSP.
>You know when you play a first-person shooter that claims to be about “how far you’re willing to go to protect the ones you love,” or “the true cost of a life,” or “moral ambiguity,” but the gameplay actually consists of shooting hundreds of dudes in the face? And you know how in the back of your mind, you wonder, “I wonder what it’d be like if a game actually designed its gameplay around those concepts rather than just duct-taping them on through noninteractive story?”

>Papers, Please is that game. It manages to ask (and importantly, not answer) questions of duty, safety, privacy, family, self-interest, and morality through an incredibly simple, focused set of mechanics based around checking transit papers and stamping passports.

http://www.heyash.com/why-i-like-papers-please/
That is true, but moral standpoints are not black/white and Facebooks moral standpoint in the whole privacy debate isn't quite the strongest. Facebook will basically take any interaction with them as a "yes".

Also, Facebook didn't ask me when my friends gave my phone number and address to them.

Zuckerberg has repeatedly shown a lot of moral flexibility on those issues - so the irony is definitely there.
Pretend for a moment the paywall isn't super leaky. You think it's reasonable to submit an article to HN that only 1% of people can read?
No, that would be on the person giving them the data _and_ on Facebooks side to check. Facebook never got permission, because the agent giving them the data is not allowed to give permission.

They also cannot make a reasonable assumption that the agent giving away the data _has_ permission and is lying to them.
I wouldn't buy Time Warner Cable for $45 billion solely on the fact that they're in a declining business (traditional cable tv) that is likely to lose millions of subscribers over the next decade (so I'm paying 23 times earnings for the NY Times in 2003 basically). I also wouldn't buy them for $45 billion because they're carrying a massively borked balance sheet, at $23b in long term debt and -$22.3b in net tangibles. The true cost of buying them is a lot higher than $45 billion.
Nice one.

Also on github: https://github.com/bwghughes/gerbil
Can regular Americans call Obama too or is it just rich people?
There's an unofficial site that lists exact urls and ip addresses that are blocked. Since most providers don't bother with deep packet inspections, they ban resources wholesale.

http://antizapret.info/ --- list
Nope. It's kinda sad, really, how the crudest opinion-forming tools still work in 2014.
Aren't Balanced's fees 3%? How can Neighborly lower their fees to 3% and still make money?
So prime launched in 2005. Adjusted for inflation the original price is $94.62, which makes this closer to a $5 increase in real cost.
Did you really think this through before posting it? If you didn't delete the post.

100 days of development work you should be looking at around $8000 $10000 at least.
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Oh, they would be. In Russia, a state agency is tasked with finding and deleting swearing in user comments[1]

Also, as a russian I'd like to make it clear that RomanPushkin does not represent me.

1. http://rkn.gov.ru/press/p696/news24031.htm
I envy your ability to write clearly and combine different threads together.
“How dare the NSA spy on Facebook users. Their informations are property of Facebook."
There is no concept of "permission" here as freedom of speech is more important. If you don't want people to have your info, don't give it to people. You are perfectly entitled to "unfriend" someone (in real life) if they give away your data without your permission.

Yahoo, hotmail etc, they all used to scoop up contacts when users (willingly, just like they do with facebook) agreed to give them access in exchange for services rendered.

This is totally different from the government (a third party to either transaction) forcing Facebook to give them data (or stealing face book's data).
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>back off datamining IM conversations and enable OTR by default.

Do you have more info on Facebook "datamining IM conversations?" We learned last year that Microsoft does this:
http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-M...

But I don't recall any evidence that Facebook does. Of course I may be misremembering, and I did write a piece for CNET (before leaving to found http://recent.io) titled "Facebook's outmoded Web crypto opens door to NSA spying":
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57591560-38/facebooks-outm...
And yet, secret agents double-checking the work of lowly border patrol agents without their knowledge fits right into the atmosphere of the game.
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Probably just a growth play. Balanced starts at 2.9% and hits 2.7% with only $100k/month processing. It goes to 1.9% with $5 mil/mo.
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<blockquote>
"When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we're protecting you against criminals, not our own government," Zuckerberg wrote
</blockquote>

Small correction: The US government ARE the criminals you need to protect against.
I thought "disruptive innovation" was things like car vs horse, e-mail vs postal mail etc - things that are fundamentally different, not an evolution of the existing market.

AWS vs DO seems more like Ford vs Toyota than cars vs horses.
Pretty much this. The brunt of gameplay is basically a 'spot the differences' game, where said differences are between the people passing through and the rules.

Day one, only people from Arstotzka are allowed in. Easy enough. Picture on passport has to match the person coming up though. Expiration date has to be after the current date, too.

As the game progresses, laws are added, removed, valid papers are added, combined, etc etc etc. Eventually you end up having to check people and their papers for 15-20 points; miss one, you get fined.

Also, there's 20 different endings, depending on your decisions and performance in the game (go broke, help the rebels, etc).

I haven't looked at passport control the same way since then. Also pretty sure passport control I've been to is much less stringent than that in Papers, Please.

GLORY TO ARSTOTZKA