Spongeroberto

I've been seeing this subject (bad size perceptions when using Mercator projection) come up a lot as a topic the past year or two. What gives?

Didn't anyone ever see a globe when they were a kid?

Why post stories behind a paywall?

Linux mint

Used to dual boot but I recently got rid of my Windows 7 on account of never really using it anymore

If you must have a maxlength, please be sensible. I've seen plenty of sites use 12 as max length - which is really not that much.

Also, requirements to what characters must be used (at least one number, at least one upper case letter) doesn't do much to increase security I think. Just let me enter whatever I want.

The two way binding can be so useful though. The best example I've seen was an array of coordinates bound to a directive that used D3.js to visualise it. There were some special function you could call that would affect and expand your data and immediately update the graph, and you could manipulate the individual points on the graph and it would propagate to the data seamlessly.

I guess to me two way binding is one of those things that you don't think of often, but when you don't have it you suddenly find yourself writing tons of boilerplate code to get the same effects.

The only cases when I didn't want the two way binding were when I was creating or editing an item. And then it's trivial to bind the form to a separate object while you work on it, then push your changes to the collection/original when you're done.

First thought of April fools. Now I think this might actually be useful as a data mining application.

Considering the situation, doesn't it always seem more like trying to suck up than genuine?

In my (limited) experience, any company that is so obsessed with social tends to be filled with idiots.

Only reason I clicked this link is because the title was so ridiculous I expected satire. I don't even bother clicking links like "X ways to..." or "Y reasons to" or "Z people who". These are pretty much always useless articles that have next to no content, but still find a way to spread that little content over multiple pages to maximize the number of intrusive ads they can give you.

I wish people would stop trying to be sneaky and start using sensible titles to articles. But traffic is everything, so they won't. Even good articles hide the main topic in their titles now. It's sad.

I keep imagining a newspaper in 1914 stating "The nation that violated Belgium's neutrality - find out who inside"

What a lousy article.

It fails to produce any proof or specifics (funnily enough exactly what he accuses the video of). It doesn't go beyond saying "it's wrong because I say so". Then it throws in some buzzwords which all link to other articles on the same blog. Sounds like another clueless blogger desperate for clicks.

Sorry if this seems harsh, I just tire of seeing stuff like this all the time.