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I didn't really think about it before, but I now feel very uncomfortable that Dropbox has copies of my unencrypted files. I would feel much better if the files were encrypted before being synched. Is there a service that does this?

I don't want Dropbox to be able to see the contents of my file system at their end.

I'd be really interested to know how this compares with people who have insomnia, or trouble sleeping in general.

Is the difference just that these people can wake up feeling rested, whereas people with insomnia are always tired?

For me, when I've interviewed older developers, my main concern is that they have too much experience for the role we are interviewing for and may be bored and want to leave.

It probably depends on the job description, but sometimes more experienced candidates get rejected for this exact reason.

I'd love to hear how other people handle this type of situation.

Does anyone know what the plastic lids of coffee cups are made from? I drink out of those things all the time :(

"Your best course of action is not to build a login dialog at all, but instead rely on authentication from an outside source whenever you can."

What do people use as their outside source for authentication?

This visualisation triggers it for me! http://earth.nullschool.net/#2014/12/11/0900Z/wind/surface/l...

I also experience the 'frisson' sensation mentioned in the article. It usually happens when I visualise something slightly strange or funny! I have to physically shake it off.

This kind of nasty reply puts me off writing blog entries, and really turns me off the industry as a whole.

I am so disappointed, it's possible to be constructively critical; the snide remarks like 'I can't stop myself from laughing' are pretty unnecessary.

This makes me want to walk away from this industry. How about a bit of maturity and sensitivity, or in layman's terms - don't be an asshole.

Where is Zed Shaw's follow up article to 'http://zedshaw.com/2014/10/19/the-coming-code-bootcamp-destr... ?

I thought that Woz had moved to Australia in a partnership with UTS (http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/apple-cofou...).

No, and I didn't pass it off as data. It's a personal anecdote, as I have stated.

I guess that given the sense of urgency I felt, I wanted to get the person breathing as soon as possible, and I knew from my personal experience that the HM was very effective.

I've also read that back blows may further lodge the blockage in the throat, especially if you can't get the person to lean over, and this was a concern for me as well. Whether it's true or not is hard to know, but when your family member is choking and close to losing consciousness, you really don't care about breaking ribs! It's kinda the same with CPR - you don't care about breaking ribs, and it's pretty common for that to happen during compressions.

I'd be interested to know what the potential injuries are from the HM - is the main one breaking ribs?

I have been saved by the Heimlich maneuvre after choking on some bread, and recently saved the life of another family member choking on some meat using the same technique. If we had started with back blows, I think the family member would have been unconscious before we had the opportunity to resort to the Heimlich maneuvre, given that my family member didn't raise the alarm until quite a while after the choking started.

Personally, despite the potential for injury that people say the maneuvre has, neither of us were injured, and both were able to breathe after the blockage was removed (it took 2-3 thrusts). I am forever grateful that this technique is so well known. In our life threatening situations, the risk of injury or bruising was well worth it to be able to breathe again.

I thought it was well known that ebola can be spread through any bodily fluids and that this includes droplets from coughing and sneezing. What they don't yet know is whether ebola is 'airborne' - i.e. dried droplets that can float in air as is the case with measles for example.

I was excited - but stopped the sign up process as soon as I saw it was asking to access all my email. Definitely a deal breaker.

I'm actually not sure whether this is a joke or not, some of these practices like #1, #4 and even #5 reek of amateurish programming practices - maybe this is fine for your own pet projects, but if you're working with teams or on open source then have fun!

I'm actually surprised at how many people in the comments want to immediately defend or explain away his comments. It's pretty clear he meant what he said, and is now on the back foot attempting to undo the damage he did.

Why does this kind of behavior need to be excused as 'out of context' or 'trolling'?

As someone who lives outside the US, what did PG mean when he was talking about Facebook starting as a Florida LLC and that "even you guys know not to do that" ?

What is SAM synthesis?

I'd really like an explanation of what's so amazing about this language. I saw the closing keynote today at Strangeloop and I can't understand why people are so excited. The language is proprietary and I don't feel like it's something I would actually use myself.

The impression I got was that this project is an inventor's dream, which he has obviously obsessed over for some time, and it is an impressive feat, it just comes across as self centered and I have trouble understanding who might use the language and why..

Oh, the other co-founder was Dan Walker - he's a bit of a flake so this isn't at all surprising.