Margh

...and all I can think is: "It's a lot easier to accidentally click an ad on mobile."

Not just in the sense that they are cleverly disguised, a clumsy scroll attempt often ended up triggering an ad click for me.

> people who ran into you work on this open platform and liked it so much that they appropriated it for their own gains

ftfy

Australia has more or less exactly the same point system except (I think) points are nation wide. I would say that the cooldown periods are statistically forgiving though. You recover 4 points every year and most fines are 2-4 points.

It's generally only pretty extreme cases (as the GP points out) that cause a license to be completely suspended (and even then it sometimes doesn't stop people driving anyway). Hence the GP (and me, personally) agreeing with income based fines as an actual deterrent.

Ryan Dahl (ry) the creator of node.js started working for Joyent during its early development.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/lWo0MbHZ6Tc

Edit: just noticed a delicious bit of prescience from isaacs in the thread:

  Right.  And if Joyent is a douche, they're going to find
  themselves empty-handed, as the node community will find a 
  new champion.

Agreed. Sibling comment is talking about devoting "hours" to closing tabs, I'm not even sure if it's a joke.

I've presently got 2 tabs open: HN and this comment form.

Even when neck deep into documentation or github issues I don't think I've ever gone above 20 tabs, it definitely doesn't seem like it could be productive.

Are you sure that's not a bird repellant? Several bars (eg. Pig and Whistle on Eagle St.) around the city have these, very effective at driving away attractive young people with good hearing; birds not so much.

In Osaka / Tokyo / other large Japanese cities people ride bikes on the footpath instead of the road. They also ride comparatively slowly and the terrain is largely flat so in the cooler months sweating is a non-issue. Additionally folding bicycles are very popular because, as you say, the apartments are often very small. Finally, because the cities are so compact you rarely have to travel a large distance to get to where you're going.

So all and all, I agree with you, it's common in these places because the combination of these things makes riding very practical and they're noteworthy because of it.

-edit- I forgot to mention that most apartment buildings will have stacked locking bike racks. This combined with the generally low rate of theft, easily available recycled (read: cheap) bicycles makes them very affordable and low risk.

You forgot the part where every time somebody drops a catch / pitches a ball / gets a strike the other team gets stronger and faster and if one player were to get struck out / get a walk the game often becomes a forgone conclusion.

except the hardware wasn't malfunctioning, the article says he flashed the gpu firmware and all issues were resolved.

> revisions to the graphics drivers ... caused the bad behavior to worsen

not exactly the intended behaviour of driver updates

Is it really unreasonable to expect a patch for a reported software issue?

Taking a 27" for repairs is a little bit different to taking a laptop.

Also: cool that they fixed your laptop for free, but keep in mind that was 5 years ago. 5 years ago Apple gave me a new iPod (for free) because the battery died. Now I have to pay $80 or something to have my current one sent away for a few weeks for a battery.

edit: spellung

Do you actually think that taking it into an Apple store would have ended in the tech reflashing the GPU?

Besides the fact that transporting it could damage it further, he would probably would have just been told it was end of life or needed a new GPU altogether and the chances of them having said GPU in stock would be next to nothing.

Maybe it's just my area but Apple stores here do not actually repair products, they just tell you to buy a new one.

And when the median salary of your employees is $0/month (prototyping or a family domain or something) and your options are: a. Nothing b. $50/(employee/family member)

What then? Of course no company paying $300,000/month is going to care about $50/user/year.

Edit: Clarification

Certainly puts me off. $5/10 per user per year, wouldn't think twice about it (even though the money would be paid grudgingly). With the number of users we have that would end up being around $50/year; but $500/year to host some email and store spreadsheets? No thanks.

Yerp, we signed up about a month ago and had pretty much just settled in over the past week. Hooray.

Without giving a second thought to whether or not the events described are commonplace I thought the article gave some great insights into the psychology involved if/when you get shaken down, both for you and the officers.

Wait, what? This isn't a joke?

If it was limited to adjectives or nouns in Japanese it would still be incredibly useful (personally that's all I really wanted out of the extension). As you say, lots of sentences don't even require a verb, a well placed piece of vocabulary is everything (from my experience living here anyway).

Am I the only one who thinks that "Steam loses user database" isn't quite the same as "Steam database of salted data compromised"?

For a moment there I thought all my Steam purchases were, you know, lost.