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> Will governments around the world begin to make their currency deflationary in order to make it attractive?

rofl

If you want people to use currency more, you make it inflate faster. This guy does not understand macroeconomics.

Marketplace with Kai Ryssdal? Cringeworthy?

Edit: Or Planet Money?

> Static Site Generators are a new, hybrid approach to web development

It's like Movable Type never existed.

> Basic web server log analysis stopped being mainstream in the early 2000s, and I see no reason to bring it back.

I still use it, and I find many discrepancies between the server logs and what appears in Google Analytics.

And having the raw NCSA logs allows me to run specialized queries on the data.

> and no competition is allowed in that space.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ios/

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/chrome-web-browser-by-google...

http://www.opera.com/mobile/mini/iphone

I cannot agree with "no competition is allowed in that space."

Edit: I just saw the remark for "mobile browser rendering engine" -- that is true.

> There is no Constitutional right for gays to marry.

There is no Constitutional right for anyone to marry. Full stop.

There is a Constitutional right for equal protection under the law.

They aren't like a doorknob.

I had to replace an interior door handle on a '99 Miata (interior is far easier than an exterior; exterior means pulling the door skin off for access and having to deal with paint matching), and a Miata is real straightforward repair job. But I still took a photo of each and every little piece I pulled off not knowing when one would break or be deformed before or after this process. (And having to locate a dealership to order the part shipped while showing him a handful of broken parts and a complete photo of "this doohickey".)

$1000 would be steep price to pay for a Corrolla but not outlandish. I would bet the cost of replacing one on a BMW 3 series would be more.

The fact that RSS appears to be dying is the best proof I have ever seen that demonstrates a secret cabal of lizard-people who control the world. How did it go from being so pervasive and useful to dying in so short a time? It can't all be laid at the feet of Google Reader and Facebook news.

> Solid is modular and extensible and it relies as much as possible on existing W3C standards and protocols.

That's great! A good place to start would be here -- https://validator.w3.org/nu/?doc=https%3A%2F%2Fsolid.mit.edu....

It's a nitpick, I know. I view source. I always view source. There a lot of things that made the web a success (the REST principles underlying the architecture, the "a" tag, the non-draconian "error" handling, right-place-at-right-time), and one of them was "view source." And I always view source. And then I pick at nits.

This one advertises "[relying on] existing W3C standards", so I brought it up. I usually keep my mouth shout.

Ballmer in a 2007 interview with USA Today:

"There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant market share. No chance. It's a $500 subsidized item. They may make a lot of money. But if you actually take a look at the 1.3 billion phones that get sold, I'd prefer to have our software in 60% or 70% or 80% of them, than I would to have 2% or 3%, which is what Apple might get."

Palm CEO Ed Colligan in 2006:

"We’ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone," he said. "[Apple is] not going to just figure this out. They’re not going to just walk in."

> Display nicknames of gym pokemon

That's rife for abuse. It would require a "reporting" function; a moderation team; resolution practices; human intervention; a "scoring" system to judge repeat offenders... on and on and on.

Please don't ask for that. I don't need to see that the gym located at a church being championed by the Pokeman nicknamed "Gaylord."

Could you expand on this?

> LDAP management on non-Windows systems is like stepping back 30 years.

How so? And managing which components -- the directory server or the clients?

> there wasn't even a supported UI for directory operations

What directory operations? add/mod/del? There are quite a few packages that handle that. Or are you talking about operations on the server side?

> typing DN's by hand is for the birds!

I concur. Though, it's pretty rare to type in a DN anywhere. I can't think of many places where a simple RDN or search filter on a unique value (uid, mail, etc.) doesn't suffice.

If the author got hit by a bus, there's no one else around to maintain it.

Generally refers to "how many people can continue to develop/support this software if original maintainer (and close co-developers) get hit by a bus."

Another problem in "dog intelligence" is that a lot of it is misconstrued with obedience. Sure, dog A and dog B both understood the command you issued; and the one that gets labelled as "intelligent" is the dog that chose to follow that direction versus the other dog who made up his own mind as to what to do.

Most scent hounds are perfect examples of this. They never have high representations at obedience competitions, but put an obstacle between them and what they are tracking, and you will see amazing problem solving skills.

> in reality can be very fragile and needs to be rolled out all or nothing.

What makes you say that? That certainly isn't my experience with Shibboleth.

We deployed our IDP in 2006-07 (I think) and slowly migrated services to it.

What is wrong with spaces in URLs?

Why?

Re: The point of G+.

Because one day, you're going to type into Google's Search engine "what's for dinner?" And it is going to tell you.

How? Because it knows who your wife is, and it knows your wife's phone number, so it texts her saying "what's for dinner."

Example is crude, I know. But I can't think of a better way to explain what I see Google's end game is with G+.

If you're using a SAML Identity Provider to login to your Google Apps environment, then, yes, it should work with your current IdP.

If you don't have a news feed, how would a reader know to check for new posts?

If you expect readers to check your site daily, that doesn't scale very well. I follow 200+ blogs; I would never be able to remember/bookmark all of them to visit regularly.

Yes, RSS 2.0 has a bunch of problems. That is why this -- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4287 -- was developed.

IETF standards have a history of longevity, and I suspect this format will be around a very long time.

The /.well-known/ stuff always throws me for a loop. Why not use DNS for service discovery? Has worked well for SMTP for a very long time.

I know 3d charts are nifty, but a 2d chart would have been more legible -- http://graphjam.com/2008/11/13/song-chart-memes-perception-o....