RossDM

I see what you're saying, but how far do we take this? If I upgrade to Mountain Lion in July, am I no longer covered? Dual-boot to Windows? Seems ripe for abusing.

This makes me sad for the future of their chat client. The toolbar may suck, but their IOS client rocks. It synchronizes with their web chat interface, so that you may switch between conversations on mobile/desktop.

Valid points about bug fixes and outstanding issues. I think the Play 2 announcement was met with a mixture of trepidation and excitement from the community. If support for 1.2.x was to decrease further then I'd be concerned.

For what it's worth, I've been developing a Play (now 1.2.4) app for a year now and it's been a blast. Sometimes you can see the framework's immaturity, but I haven't run into any showstoppers like the author.

Looks promising! Definitely going to keep an eye on this one.

I'm a Dreamhost customer and haven't received any emails regarding this yet.

It appears that this was an authentic correspondence that was not meant to be seen by the public.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3291980

Well maybe something like 1) upload pic, 2) show full-size pic with crop preview in browser, 3) user confirms dimensions and saves to server.

I wonder how well this would work for automatically cropping user profile pictures. Anyone else try something like this?

Lolz. They implemented a simple autocomplete plugin and call it a redesign? It's not necessarily faster for a mouse user because it requires keyboard entry.

If you click on Soledad O'Brien's name in the second paragraph, you get this link: http://uncrunched.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/soledadobrien....

But only if someone goes back in time after you to make sure that the discovery does take place so that you can go back in time to prevent it.

Not sure why this was voted down.

You make a good point about the possibility of mining all this data, but I'm not sure I want to give it away. We (well, some of us), go to lengths to maintain separate online personas. Why do I care if Facebook knows what my most-played songs are? I can get that info from iTunes, etc.

They're going to need a strong pull (killer app, privacy controls, whatever) to get my data.

Problem is that 'rewrite later' never happens because you're always busy. Setting up safeguards to protect against common attacks is quick enough that it can be done upfront. Efficiency and scaling can usually wait, though figure it out ahead of time if possible.

Seems to be a lot of immaturity in the Github thread, as interesting as the implications are.

No one is required to live in <country of residence>. If you don't agree with their policies, then vote with your feet. </sarcasm>

I think you're spot-on regarding bandwagons. With each new story there have been armchair critics speaking outside their areas of expertise. Not to diminish the value of well-deserved outrage, but it's a potent weapon.

Sure, maybe it will appeal to folks who aren't plugged in to those sorts of communities. I wonder if you would get a better conversion rate with an example of feedback data?

Interesting idea - I wonder why I should use something like this over another free service/community, such as Forrst. Okay, so you claim to have "average users" give feedback, but I wonder if that's of significant benefit, because it can take experienced designers to spot potential UX problems.

Very true - though look at some large companies and you see them make the same mistakes. It all trickles down.

Those look nice, but I still prefer Google News' two-column layout. I can't stand when news organizations try to force everything into a single Twitter-like stream (Google News included).

+1 for Richard Mlynarik reference and 'wastebars'.

GitHub UI is significantly better. It just works.

Visiting SourceForge feels like going to RapidShare, with all sorts of ads vying for your attention. Each project has numerous sections which may or may not have been filled out by the owner. Heaven forbid that they used the mailing list feature.

The Internet Explorer team sent Mozilla a whole cake for previous Firefox releases.

http://www.openbuddha.com/2011/03/22/another-version-of-fire...

What does this mean?! Perhaps Firefox 5's release is not as significant as earlier versions? ;-P

I hate labeling people as "easily offended", but to complain about something like this seems excessive. If your father died would you presume to insist that your mother take down all his photos?

Yes - but you could have just repeated the Fourth mistake four times. Facebook is the last organization that should be pointing out privacy issues at other companies.

Ah hah! Nice catch, didn't think of that.

I don't know if the poster was criticizing the owner's response; I read it as just an observation about the state of things. Also, you're right - the thief got off easy.

Speaking of Internet thieves - check this out:

GearSpoke.com Derekfrye.com Badrobots.org

Why would anyone copy a website consisting of a single picture? Automated bot scraper?

When I was working in the financial sector, I came across an email thread involving a certain software vendor who had been notified of a SQL injection vulnerability. To fix it, they created an IF statement that did a string comparison to check for the exact SQL attack that had been used.

Nice! Also, you should tweet your progress ;)