daychilde

If you have nothing to lose, you probably can't afford lawyers in the first place.

Not quite your point, I know, but it seems to apply here.

mikey_p said, "I have personally seen security at the Rock and Roll hall of fame threaten a photographer with a SLR and tripod that was standing on public property near the building."

I've heard of lots of times where photographers were threatened by security, even police. I've also heard of many cases where they were able to show that the photography WAS legal, and were left alone. Just because police/security says something is illegal, it doesn't make it wrong. That's why we have courts, although unfortunately going to court can be risky and expensive, even when you're right.

I nearly stopped - but it's the opinion of the blog writer. The video is not from the blog itself, and is definitely worth the watch.

But I agree - stupid things like 'Micro$oft' are a pet peeve of mine. I think people should use what they like and what works better for them. I personally use Windows and Linux, just for different things. And I've have a Mac box to play with if I wasn't broke.

So I suggest to anyone else who didn't watch the video - ignore the irritating blog author and check the video out. It's completely unrelated to the idiotic comment.

Sounds good, but what happens when you reinstall your OS, or change your OS or browser?

Not saying it's not possible - not trying to shoot this down at all - just I think it's a major issue.

You (and others) may be interested in this reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SomebodyMakeThis

Go to options and change "difficulty" from "peaceful" to something else.

Very close guess on the scale - each block is a cubic meter.

Why not make "Go to my profile" the clickable link?

I'm tempted to suggest the next logical extension would be "Go to my profile: click here <-- HEY! That was the link!" :-S

How to kick software: Three finger salute.

He missed an apostrophe that you didn't catch: "important person's cat", i.e. a cat owned by someone who would be vocally unhappy their pet was killed.

This assumes that the dosage of aspirin is fatal to cats, which is not something I'm sure of (or care about enough to research).

> You have to hit space to advance to the next slide.

BRILLIANT design.

/sarcasm

I suspect this will enhance the speed of the uptake of CSS3...

I think a little more security is needed for this to be any sort of "viable"... So I suppose I'd argue that this definitely is not MVP.

OTOH, they themselves seemed to have said it's not MVP either, so I think that's okay.

I'm still concerned about the longer-term viability using the reasoning of "This many basic mistakes doesn't bode well", but time will tell.

I wish them the best of luck.

I'm an intern with near zero experience... Anyone hiring? ;-)

(Well, I have more than zero experience... maybe I'm overqualified)

I feel agreely with you.

>Nothing about speaking to the specific small business owners that got it wrong by using groupon and what groupon has done to prevent other small business owners from failing in the same manner. How groupon has extended or enhanced their offering to protect against a bad experience for all parties involved?

Well, here's some things you apparently missed:

>Of course, we have heard from merchants who felt Groupon sent them too many customers. We responded to those concerns by creating merchant preparation materials, including this video featuring a Groupon merchant who sold 10,000 bagel Groupons in a day:

and

>Also, to clarify one important point: it has always been Groupon policy to allow merchants to cap deals. If a merchant sells too many Groupons, they’ll have a bad experience, the customer will have a bad experience, and therefore, Groupon loses. We’re longer-term thinkers than that. In fact, we have the opposite problem more often – where merchants protest a cap we recommend, convinced they can handle more customers than we think they can.

and

>Now that we know Posie’s had a problem, we have reached out to them so we can help.

So they didn't specifically mention talking to the 3% that didn't want to do it again, but they most certainly did address the other concerns you raised.

If it's true that 97% of businesses want to do it again - it seems that Groupon really isn't in much danger.

As of two minutes after reading this article, I am now. ;-)

I'm Isaac Eiland-Hall - don't mind my name out there because I'm easily findable...

As I said over on WHT - received an email with a link to download a CSV - and sure enough, I find my information in there, along with more than 5000 others.

ARGH.

Perhaps coins aren't used much on Craigslist, but:

1. Vending machines

2. Giving change to folks on the street

Also, plenty of people, for whatever reason, pay cash at stores; coins are needed there, of course.

And finally: for better or worse, cash is anonymous. Until a dependable replacement that is also anonymous comes along, people won't switch from cash.

I very much agree that's the practical pool of possible coin values.

Seems to me if one wanted to simplify the system, a good solution would be (1, 5, 10, 50). This would really make the math simple.

But I don't think people would give up quarters happily; nor do I think fifty cent pieces would go over well; and I think it's high time to lose pennies. So if I was the evil overlord in charge, I think I'd just drop to (5, 25). Cash transactions would round to the nearest nickel instead of penny. Getting back four nickels instead of two dimes would be gotten used to quickly, I think.

I didn't take it as a personal attack on me. And I'm sure it wasn't intended as an attack - just as those that call things "gay" don't mean that as an attack, and those that call things "retarded" don't mean that either.

Doesn't mean it's not unhelpful and nonharmful.

> Web pages haven't looked any different in 15 years!

Uhhh...

First of all, may $Deity protect us from AOL having any say in the Internet ever again. Ever.

Second of all... wow. That article would be stunningly scary if I thought it had any credible chance of coming to fruition. :-S

I feel pretty much the same way. My big issue was having things open up in new tabs - from the address bar, bookmarks, history, and from searching. And I didn't want to have to worry about ALT-ENTER...

Finally, I found ChromePlus - which has a few quirks, but works nearly perfectly - and has this capability.

I miss Firefox, but Chrome is SO much faster, and it makes a difference on this several-year-old-refurb-box that I have.

I do wish we had noscript for Chrome, though. The only close extension I found was "notscript", which was... inferior. Didn't work all the time.

That is a spiffy trick, thank you. I'll pay that forward when I see someone else gripe about WSj. :)

A quick search found this: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=52...

As far as "giving him a break" - why doesn't he give me a break and not perpetuate inaccurate and hurtful stereotypes?

I'm the guy that did the Glenn Beck meme website in 2009 - during that, I used Twitter by request; but I've never really gotten into it... just doesn't click for me.

So I chose "Less than a few times a month", but really it should be "Used a few times, then quit". :)

I always love it when someone links to WSJ, because it seem that just when the article....

(please note that this is not sarcasm directed at submitter, just about WSJ in general)

> with the attention span of an ADHD kid hopped up on meth and Jolly Ranchers

Well, I'm very disappointed to find this.

1. One of the more common (and certainly well-known) medications for ADHD is Ritalin, which is methylphenidate. It's mildly related to meth. The long story short is that giving meth to someone with ADHD would not cause them to be able to focus less; rather, to be able to focus more.

2. Studies have shown that sugar does NOT cause hyperactivity in children, whether or not they have ADHD.

I'm saddened to see these incorrect stereotypes about ADHD. As an adult with ADHD, it's part of what makes my life harder than it has to be.