ChrisCooper

Very true. On that topic, "...these communications consist of whistles, not words." Not to suggest that they're actually speaking a language, but a language consisting of whistles could still easily contain words. It would just have a different set of sounds.

I think you meant "Top Gear". ;)

I think the double-PIN makes sense in the ATM case (because you don't want to alert the robber to your scheme), but in the phone case I think multiple PINs is far too complex.

Why not just have e.g. "swipe left to unlock to guest mode" or something similar? Then you can still have it be locked, but with the same old PIN; it will be far more attractive to users.

It could also be referring to some of the comments that the tools are addictive.

It's completely free to take, and no one will hassle you if you don't do anything at all.

In addition, at least for the ones that happened this fall, if you are taking the advanced stream, you can drop down to the beginner one at any time.

Just playing the devil's advocate here, but would you not say Google's search homepage has a lot of "wasted space"? I don't think one can always make such a quick judgment about whether space is a bad thing or not.

I agree especially with #4. The cursing ripped me from my quiet place.

Youngen here: Might I ask what an Advent is? It's a hard thing to Google.

Perhaps something like this: http://company.mappedin.com/ Except down to a product level?

I think his point is that you'll still have fun playing the main story, but it'll take far less time away from you, and still leave you with the satisfaction of completion.

If you go for finishing side-quests, you may not feel satisfied until you've finished them all. That can take considerably longer and be considerably less worth-while than the main game. (e.g. saving princess and defeating nemesis vs. collect all 500 random blue hidden items. Both fun, one takes far less time, and is more "worthwhile".)

If you're interested (or others are), this shader toy was posted a while ago: http://www.iquilezles.org/apps/shadertoy/

It is a very cool demo and allows you to mess around and build you own shaders online. This was very impressive as the first demo of its kind I ever saw.

I thought this table was going to be an actual table of HTML5 elements, but organized into new patterns of periods, by, say, what context they are usually used in, or what purpose they are used for. And then maybe sorted by frequency or something. That would be cool!

Personally, I like the explanation they gave in the article: "It is the shape the oceans would adopt if there were no winds, no currents and no tides ... magnified nearly 10,000 times".

I agree. I think this viewpoint is a little skewed. Web-based applications have definitely not killed the desktop differences.

However, I think there is a much better chance of them killing the mobile differences to a greater extent, since

1) we don't do as many processing-intense things on mobile platforms, like CAD, designing, etc., and

2) those processing-intense applications we actually do use on phones are also becoming available on the web for the large part.

There has been a recent democratization of web- and mobile-applications, has there not? It's super easy for me now to make an site with Rails to do x. Same goes for creating and publishing mobile applications. Anyone can now easily make and sell an iPhone app. When has this ever been possible? This is the current democratization, and I don't think it would be unrealistic to suggest it could lead to a bubble.

He said "boot camp", not active service. My best wishes to your dad.

I think he's not suggesting it's bad to sell your company, but rather that going into a new one with the idea that you're only there to make money is a bad idea.

I got a Django exception... maybe this will help you out: http://i.imgur.com/RiSZU.png