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Of course, being as above board as possible would still not be good enough for the anti-Marco brigade stomping around this pale imitation of what HN once was. I certainly wasn't here right from the beginning, so no hipster douchbaggery intended by any stretch, but I swear to those who have arrived more recently: You have no idea how good HN used to be compared to this. Sad, truly sad.

In the Ruby version I wouldn't use that selector with any parens. The resulting line would be one character longer than the ObjC version but use the Shift key one less time and would avoid two pinky trips out to the square brackets. (unless I am miscounting)

All other things being equal between the two options, and of course they aren't but let's just keep splitting hairs for a moment, it sounds like a typing win for the Ruby option. Readability is of course in the eye of the beholder.

Lack of builds is something about which you and your CI server need to have a chat, and refactoring is something about which you and your people need to have numerous chats before, during, and afterwards.

Mono directly benefits Oracle?

If, as everyone seems to agree, movies are becoming more 'safe', more 'lowest common denominator' on average, reviews should be becoming _less_ polarized in response, not more.

That the opposite is happening suggests that reviews are progressively carrying less and less 'truth' than they once did, and this is likely the case even when they may be in general agreement on a given film.

All of my Windows work during 2010 used Git and it was perfectly fine. The only thing that even comes to mind is that there was a tiny bit more effort with initial setup of SSH than on other platforms.

Please, please, please see your doctor about the cause of your sleep apnea before treating its obvious symptoms with a device like the WakeMate.

Also, can your service scale workers all the way down to zero and then spark up the first worker upon the next job submission? Or can it only scale workers as low as one?

That aside for the moment, and based on your S3-related comments nested below, I thought I might pop by to mention that I (using Rails on Heroku) have been handling uploads by using direct pre-authorized posting to S3 and it has been very nice to work with.

I find myself driving to Seattle for concerts more often than I would like. Lots of acts come to Vancouver but lots of acts skip Vancouver, usually (from what my music biz contacts tell me) because of two main reasons.

1. It doesn't make sense to add a border crossing to their schedule if it would mean doing just one show in Vancouver before returning back to the states or elsewhere.

2. Some acts have also quit coming to Vancouver because the audience attitude has made shows less enjoyable to perform here. It is sad but doesn't surprise me. I have watched audience enthusiasm progressively fade here, during the last decade especially.

For your examples and how they apply in my city, at least:

day care - Fingers crossed you never get stuck at work late, or caught in a nasty rush hour, because your day care has very specific pick-up hours, will charge you big-time if you are late, and good ones may very well fire you as a client if you are late too often.

preschool - Pre-school schedules are not even remotely aligned with 'regular' job hours.

sports - As but one example, do you have any idea the hours hockey moms and dads (not to mention the kids) keep so they can take part in their sport? It's no wonder there are hockey parent fight breakouts from time to time. The parents are exhausted! :)

music lessons - This one isn't so bad, especially as kids get older, but can be much like daycare in that if you're late from work your kids either miss their lesson or are stranded afterwards.

I, for one, would much rather restructure my life so as to work from home during hours that I more directly control than work a 'regular' job. It'll be easier to take advantage of much of the infrastructure, and would eliminate my need to even utilize some of it at all.

I may be showing 48^ errors in my per-minute checks but those errors occurred in at least^ nine separate blocks across an eleven hour window.

In other words, we are probably looking at around ten hours of issues, even if not outright outage.

^ I disabled the checks at times because it was just a waste, so the true stats are likely worse.

UK: Netcraft confirm Microsoft are dying.

At least you were able to work the system there for a good six months. The vast majority of people finding themselves in that kind of work situation don't tend to fare nearly as well as you did.

The first meeting was because you dared to utilize their promise and get some time in return.

The second meeting was because their usual course of action in such first meetings backfired on them and you were in the room to get brought back into line (specifically, back onto salary.)

You didn't mention quitting in response or forcing them to give you a raise in acknowledgment of your efforts. Did you?

I sincerely hope that the entire Internet is being trolled by The Gap on this one, given that the alternative is entirely depressing.

Either that or this logo is legit, meant to last, will work on consumers, and in turn will reduce designer's hourly rates around the world. :)

The American taxpayer does something different than you state. In actuality, they fund the projection of force everywhere that the US has interests. To relate back to the example of Japan, this means that the American taxpayer funds the defense of the things the US wants from Japan, not truly the defense of Japan itself though the defense of the former can often aid the defense of the latter. This holds true essentially everywhere else the US chooses to project force and the distinction is absolutely critical but too easily forgotten.

EDIT: in case the above sounds a bit too much like some kind of anti-American rant, the point I should have made more explicit in response to the parent is this: parent makes it sound like Japan is restricted from defending itself against the listed neighbour countries and therefore requires outsiders to do so. This is not true, and since it is not true, one should periodically ask themselves why the US has forces there (and everywhere else.)

This area certainly isn't the least expensive in which to live, but it isn't the most either. I can only speak for myself but I find that the view that it is too expensive has been largely blown out of proportion, especially given the benefits the area provides.

For someone bootstrapping it does depend largely on your budget and support system, so if you have any ballpark budget numbers it would be relatively easy to give you an idea of what the Vancouver area would be like on that budget.

Agreed. However...

"Probably their QA got fired after this event."

I doubt it. I have seen many QA staff at a variety of companies get so used to IE's various oddities that over time they will simply stop opening some kinds of bugs against the site on IE, even perfectly legitimate bugs like that in the article. All it takes is for product management to punt mixed content warning bugs during a few releases before QA also stops reporting them. If someone does later bring one up, over time it evolves into "Oh, that's an IE thing we can't fix." These are smart people doing generally diligent work, but they do tend to get worn down around IE.

I can't say for sure why this happens but I've seen it most with IE mixed content warnings.

It has very nearly replaced my computer for casual computer use, leaving my computer for work, occasions where I need to do especially tab-heavy surfing, and the odd bit of Flash usage. My hours of daily casual computing have moved from the office to the living room, kitchen, and deck, something that hasn't happened before even with both a 15 inch and an 11 inch laptop in the home. My girlfriend loves it too, and will grab it from me to pull up a recipe, do a quick search, etc.

It has also proven to be a more-than-capable gaming device running everything from casual match 3 games through light strategy (Strategery is a must) on to board games we can play together (Small World and Carcassone are also musts.)

On the work side, I use it often for background reading (the Apple HIG from front to back, for example, and that isn't a short document), quick bits of research, etc. whether at the desk or as a chance to get away from it for a little while.

One of the best things about it has to be its ability to disappear during use, leaving you sitting or standing with the application in your hands, not a device. Or at least it seems that way, and that is certainly not something that laptops or desktops (or even handheld or living-room-bound game consoles) do particularly well if at all. That you can then set that application down on a table for a moment or hand it to someone else so naturally is something that you will have heard about the iPad but really must experience for yourself a few times to truly understand it. It seems like a small thing but it fundamentally changes one's relationship with computing and the computer.

The iPad can't and won't replace traditional computers for everyone, but from what I have seen and have heard from other purchasers it is certainly proving itself as a device that can replace most 'casual'/'personal' usage of traditional computers for most people most of the time.

Something is definitely wrong with your iPad, and you should take it into an Apple Store to have it checked out.

Pros and cons abound in that setup, of course, but setting aside the lack of integrity checking ala ZFS for a moment, I have personally taken advantage of the file-level software RAID 1 portion when my first WHS server encountered an internal hardware issue and I had to pull its drives (normal NTFS drives full of the files) and bring them online in a replacement WHS server. Each drive was brought online out of the storage pool, its files copied into the pool volumes, and finally the drive was added to the storage pool. It requires an extra drive already in the pool to pull this off, but given that it worked very well, far better than some of the horror stories I've heard about people trying to transplant RAID 5 and 6 setups when other NAS solutions have failed at the server level. A part of me of course wishes for a ZFS-style WHS, and perhaps MSFT will get there some day, but in the meantime I can certainly see how WHS's design decisions were reached.