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The one true source for all things blocked in the Suez Canal!

Great minds think alike:

https://isthesuezcanalblocked.com

This is also worth checking out for folks interested in recording technology:

http://www.otrannex.com/papertapes/

So Iran is making their own "AOL"? perhaps they'll call it "IOL". Hopefully, they'll mail CDs to their citizens with FREE 1000 hours of internet time.

From the Atlantic article:

There are the more immediate health benefits of buying organic: you'll avoid the chemicals, preservatives, and hormones that conventional farms often use to treat their foods. In the Stanford study, just 7 percent of organic foods were found to have traces of pesticides, compared to 38 percent of conventionally-farmed produce. Again, that doesn't mean organic foods will supercharge your health -- you'll just be at less risk of exposure to potentially harmful substances, for whatever that's worth to you. Quantifying that benefit is a contentious area and certainly worthy of more research.

Listen to what Bruce Ames (professor emeritus of biochemistry at UC Berkeley and senior scientist at Children's Hospital of Oakland Research Institute) had to say on this mornings Forum: http://www.kqed.org/a/forum/R201209051000

Basically, don't worry about those traces of pesticides. He explains it better than me. Listen.

LinkedIn app. It sucks. Rotation is clunky and slow.

Do you work on an HTML5 cross platform app everyday like FB engineers did? Guess what. That's when shit gets really tricky and hard.

You sir are genius for this line: "product quality for some notion of engineering perfectionism -- whatever it might be -- you're not doing your job as a professional engineer"

thank you this is awesome.

PLEASE GIVE SCRIBD MORE KALE!!! THEY LOVE KALE!!!

"We worked hard to make our mobile apps fast. Try them out and let us know how we did: we have an iPhone app, Android app and an HTML5 mobile version."

Yay they made loading fast apparently. But any user of the app will notice that the linked in app feels slow and clunky. Great shit loaded. But it still feels slow. For example, take an iPad and go to Flipboard. Rotate the device. Notice how fast and smooth it is. Now go to the news feed in the iOS LinkedIn app and Rotate. It's slow. It feels like a web browser. It feels like they spent so much time optimizing the loading of resources and spent ZERO time actually making the client feel nice and native.

You know I bet http://girlloveshaskell.com/ knows all about these places.

What prevents the waiter at the restaurant from doing the same. I'd rather pay with card case or my phone in some way.

Cool. Glad to see Crittercism using PLCrashReporter. Good stuff.

sigh ... when will people learn ... one-liners are not good. Especially when they lead to bugs. For example #4 in the list. If you that didn't jump out to you as a bug. You are a fucking idiot and shouldn't be writing production code.

Scribd has Kramm. You have already lost.

I LOVE YOU MATT RILEY... AND QUIN... GO TEXAS A&M

And that is why... you use node.js. checkout out @whyyouusenodejs on twitter.

It should be on by default.

WebViews are great for content presentation. Especially true when what you are presenting is static content. But beyond that you are just going to struggle a lot to make it interactive.

And were we complaining a few years ago about how the web was a bad application platform? Just seems silly to try and port broken shit... what do I know...

But seriously write-once-run-everywhere is bullshit guys. Just like it was for Java. There is a reason write-once-debug-everywhere was the silly comeback. I just don't trust a technology (trigger.io) that claims "dead simple" when they haven't told me how this is better than the "dead simple" easy cross platform stuff Sun spit out in the 90s. (great for servers terrible for clients)

Also this is a native app in the demo? The navigation bar scrolls off the screen. Are you fucking kidding me. This is one of the most basic stock components in an iOS app. IT DOESN'T SCROLL OFF THE SCREEN.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/126589/sharepicts/Screen%20Shot%2020...

Now I know that "fixed" in a UIWebView is kind of a pain in the ass. Because it doesn't work as you'd expect. But, you kind of have to solve that problem to make the UX native.

By using these tools for multiplatform development you give up the opportunity to get featured. Apple and Google like to show off glitzy apps that look good and show off the power of the platform. Not something that has been reduced to the lowest common denominator: Android 2.2 running on some POS LG Optimus V from Virgin Mobile.

Adit has never seen Return of the Jedi. No credibility.

This is probably one of the coolest projects. The people working on this project are doing and figuring out some amazing things.