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Personally I do not believe this is a solved problem. Technically maybe, in practice not at all.

It is quite a job juggling the controls of the different companies. Microsoft even has two, one for Xbox one for windows.

And then your child turns 13 and your only option is to take away the devices entirely.

Another thing already discussed is school provided hardware. I know the schools try, but it is usually one person against 300+ students trying to figure out how to game/hack the system. Eg there's no reasonable way where you can expect one person to maintain a YouTube channel whitelist.

I do agree that we might be solving this issue the wrong way, but there is a definitely a problem here.

I think this will be full of similar experiences: Some time ago my wife's cards suddenly got all kinds of charges, clearly not ours. So we call the bank and while they put the blame on us, among other things they said the bank never ever would contact us by SMS and we may have clicked on dodgy links in one of those messages.

Eventually they decide we should replace all our cards. 5 minutes later we get an SMS asking us to call an unknown number to set our PIN code for the new card. It contained at least 5 warning signs as in the author's article.

We call them back asking them what that SMS is about and the only explanation is "That is the good kind of SMS, you can trust it"

(Eventually we did get all stolen money back, but it took a while. We never got a plausible explanation of what may have happened and what we could do to prevent it in the future)

You might also like this one: http://808.pixll.de/index.php

In Europe sleeper trains have become somewhat extinct. High speed rail is just so fast and Ryanair so cheap, they became unprofitable.

However, there seems to be a revival going on. Especially the Australian railway operator (OBB) is investing a lot in their Nightjet trains. Some of the trains allow you to take your car with you.

I'm not sure if they are profitable, but they seem to be fully booked during the summer months (we had to book 2+ months in advance last year)

To understand article 11, I think you should look at the reason it was created: Journalists (and newspapers) are looking for a way to get paid for their articles beyond luring people to their sites with clickbait titles and tons of ads.

They want their own "article version" of Spotify, where they get a set amount for every article read. Obviously that's difficult to implement given the current way of the Internet (= Facebook sharing) and this is their attempt at getting their dream.

Is this a good idea? You could say it may improve news reporting if it was well implemented. Or it could be completely abused. Anyway, looking at it like this, explains some of the legalese in article 11.

If you want some of that back, look into a combination of Boomerang for Gmail (needs a browser extension) and Multiple Inboxes (in advanced tab of gmail settings)

I use Boomerang for all kinds of reminders. For me it works better than Inbox did and it was the reason why I went back to Gmail after trying Inbox for about a month.

I use a multiple inbox pane "is:starred" for pinning emails.

I never really "got" bundles. It was more of an annoyance to me and I prefer manual labeling.

The UI: yeah, it's still Gmail...

I've had success with bass[1]. Typically, I use it when some kind of tool requires sourcing bash scripts.

[1] https://github.com/edc/bass

You Python developers have it easy :) Developing in Java on AppEngine adds an additional herd of yaks to the meadow.

Looks good and it's something I could use.

I would like to see a more compact dashboard though. One screen that shows me how successful I am on all my questions (I only entered yes/no ones and probably won't use anything else, except maybe the quantity)

Exactly, as a single consultant, I don't have the time to sell to every one, so I use this tactic to pre-qualify potential clients. It's also a great way to learn more about the customer and try to judge your potential value to them, thus giving you both a better insight in whether or not it is actually worth going into the details of price.

Exactly how it works in Belgium too.

Whenever I ask my accountant if I can expense something to the firm, the answer is "We can try"

I don't think it's a limitation of OO per se, it's just the way you use it. The "use composition over inheritance" advice comes to mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_over_inheritance

I think Elance (and others) are a great proving ground. In a very controlled environment, you can experiment with what works and what doesn't.

Over the last year I've been part-time freelancing on Elance. I've religiously documented everything I did. From the way I do my sales process to time tracking in 10 minute increments. I now earn about $1000-1500/month with small $400 projects

You do need to give it a little time. It's a very competitive world out there. But in the past 3 months I've done virtually no sales. All of my projects have been previous clients or invitations.

I use Evernote to track everything, including this.

I dump everything looks cool into a "maybe" notebook. Before I add anything I search to see if there's a related note. This lets me aggregate and if I sort on "last updated date" I tend to get a good idea of what's important to me.

From time to time I go over the list and see if stuff can and should be purged.

It's the Google Charts API (http://code.google.com/apis/chart/)

I've been using that a lot lately because it's just so easy and convenient.

I made this as part of the "Launch an app month".

I did launch the app, and I'm pretty happy with the minimal viable product that is there. I'm much less happy with the marketing. I wanted to go for the 2000 words front page, but haven't gotten around to it. And I won't even begin about the linkbuilding I had planned.

I guess December will be "Market an app month" for me :)

(I am the creator of that graph) It sort of assumes that you already know C. Back when I started studying software development, C was the starter language, the one language that every one in engineering knew, even if you continued your studies in, for instance, chemistry. I suppose that is no longer the case, though.

There are many hidden assumptions in that graph, which is probably the reason why it stirred up so much discussion.

I know, but it was the quickest way to create it. Do you have a good suggestion for an open source Visio-like program? I've tried numerous, but all their interfaces are terrible and their standard shapes and icons aren't very attractive.

If you prefer not to move, there are many remote opportunities to be found on the net. It depends on what type of work you are looking for.

I've had great success freelancing on elance. It's usually not the most glamorous work, but in spite of what people say, you can get good clients there that pay a correct salary. iPhone development is in hot demand. Just don't start underbidding every one, you can't compete on price with Asian providers. It's a great way to add a little to your bottom line while doing the things that matter.

If you're looking for longer term work, I would go search for job boards in whatever technology you want to work. I don't have much experience there though.

I will be launching http://www.expensesspreadsheet.net (not live yet)

It's an expense tracking application. Entirely focused on the way I personally track my expenses (but couldn't find anywhere else). And now I'd like to see if other people like it too.

The web app itself is a node.js application on Heroku. It's 80% finished. I have done a little market research, but still need to do a lot more (currently I'm thinking about focusing on the "early retirement extreme crowd"). I'm also not sure yet how and if I'll monetize it.