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The article fails to mention by how much the distance to the moon varies.

Max=407.000 km

Min=363.000 km

I did expect the Activity Stream to show the history in some sort of tree view, where if you go back while browsing, and then hit another link on a previous page, this will be shown as a branch.

Or did I miss something?

Thanks for the more sane perspective on this.

I was like "wtf" when I read this article. As a Swedish citizen, the article got me a bit worried.

Quora's "real name policy" is just moronic.

The thing is that Quora doesn't care at all if the name is real or not. What is important for them is that the name looks real.

They think this policy (where people are making up fake but plausible names) makes the site seem more credible...

And this is what they now have accomplished, a site populated by millions of subscribers with plausible but fake names.

It also means that you are less likely to tell if a poster is using a pseudonym or their real name.

I think it is perfectly ok to use pseudonyms in this type of communities. And allowing pseudonyms does NOT result in more spam or trolling since a fake name is as easy to create.

When I use a pseudonym I very much would like to be able to signal to other users the fact that it is a pseudonym, easiest done by purposely using an id that is obviously NOT a real name. That is just sensible courtesy to other users, and what you would expect from other users.

But Quora have chosen to force people to instead use fake names.

Maybe the point is that you do not need to store the database securely, that you can store it openly, as long as the certificate used to generate the passwords is kept secret.

But you probably want to keep the meta info of what sites you have access to secret to.

So I don't know why this is better than simply use the certificate to encrypt the database.

But maybe I did not understand how it works.

What do you mean?

This solution does not store passwords at all, if I understand it correctly.

So whining about storing them on "someone else disk" is a bit odd, don't you think?

Seems like a really cool idea, as long as the password generator can be proved to be hard enough to break.

How long does the retrieval of a password take? Sub-second? 10 seconds?

Ok, cool that you can access it anywhere.

How does this compare to the KeePass family of pw-managers? (Besides that Forgiva is closed source and KeePass is open source.)

Fixes poor passwords, accessibility and storage problems with highly secure way.

What does that even mean?

So what he is saying is that we don't know what the damages are, and that we know that the revelations did a lot of good, and then says that the damages are huge.

Ok then.

Sweden here:

We always have the election on a Sunday to maximize number of voters.

Also, voting can of course be posted ahead, and voting can be delegated to an ombudsman if you are unable to attend physically at a voting station.

We don't allow voting through any electronic devices, nor voting over the internet.

All votes are placed using anonymous envelopes. This way no one can trace who you vote for, while still securing that only one vote are placed per person (by authentication at entry at voting station, and manually checked of in a list). All vote counting is manual.

And we don't have a requirement for registration for voters. Voters are registered automatically, based on if you are allowed to vote (citizenship etc) or not.

I would not call a country a democracy if they don't make it easy for everyone to participate in the election. Having the voting take place when most people are working, or require them to register ahead for voting is not how a democracy works.

Feedback: After clicking the link, editing the url to find the real site, clicking everything, I still don't know what this is besides something that has to do with music and collaboration.

Suggestion: let a friend (or a professional tester) try out your site and listen carefully to their comments, before you go boosting, and frustrate a lot of people that probably will not bother again.

A serious tester would probably have told you that you are missing info on the site.

Odd there were no mention of Java.

Both high speed and simple to develop :

http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/spring-framework-r...

https://spring.io/guides/gs/messaging-stomp-websocket/

na, no problem. 'tomp2' is still available

Why is the auto-convert 'features' in Excel not opt-in?

When Excel encounters the first cell in a new sheet that it thinks should be auto-converted, why does it not ask if that is desirable for that sheet?

Like: "Do you want Excel to interpret and auto-convert all strings with format <X> into the type <Y> in this sheet?"

At least for conversions where the original data is lost.

I wonder what the thermal conductivity of this stuff is.

And what happens with it below 0 and above 100 degree Celsius?

Thanks, really useful.

Any plans on including this in Apache Commons?

How does it compare to StringUtils in Apache Commons?

"used pirated software"

So they did not pay for the crack tools they used? Bastards!

Password managers clears the clipboard after a specified timeout (if the clipboard still contains the password at that point).

For KeePass I think the default timeout is 30 seconds.

Adobe flash update notification always have the McAfee Antivirus trial installer pre-selected by default.

Pisses me off every time.

Sort of a Lorem Ipsum in music.

Listening to good music (as a non-musician) is for me mostly about experience emotions.

Listening to this music leads immediately to be about identifying what rules the generator was programmed to follow. The stricter the rules (less random), the more music-like it may sound, but without any emotion. Except maybe comedy.

Exactly.

Also, the logo links to the product page, not to some blog aggregation page as many other announcement do.

What about open source projects where people mostly collaborate remotely?

Are they harder to manage, or less efficient?

I agree that 1) is a problem, although technical solutions are possible I find them awkward.

I think 2) has to do with people not feeling they are part of the team.

Our solution to 3) is a separate work machine (laptop) set up so that you can not access the internet in any other way than through the VPN to the office. So, to work remotly you need to bring your work computer with you. You can not connect using your private computer.

I find remote collaboration with shared screens and headsets much more productive than sitting next to each other. You can quickly jump back and forth between the shared screen and other activities while collaborating.

We also do this even when being in the same room, just because the screen sharing is so powerful compared to physically sharing a display and a keyboard.

Also, you can quickly and easily call in any number of people and everyone can easily read everything on the screen.

I find this perfect for mentoring, pair programming, demonstrations, meetings, etc.

You don't have to go fetch your coworkers and drag them to your desk to show them something.

Also, you can quickly see if the coworker is busy in another session, or set your own status to busy if you need to work uninterrupted for a while. This is not possible when physically in the same location (unless you have a door you can close). People will still come up to you and interrupt you with a "quick" question, derailing your thoughts. A virtual call can simply be ignored.

Cool.

This is a "Lorem Ipsum" for avatars, article bylines, etc.

Maybe it also could be useful if the images could have a random name or username.

So, in the same manner as with the avatars, using the same id, the same name/username would be returned each time.

Wow.

Trump’s efforts — which included a plan to house homeless people in the building in order to harass the tenants — ...

If this is true, then he is no more than a sociopath and a mafia boss.

So it is about how the user perceives the application?! If so, why is it called "an architecture"?

Or do you mean that the user don't have to care on how to configure the application? Then "Zero-configuration" is a better name.

Or do you mean that the application hides that it use services on the net? Then it is even worse.

What a ridiculous and strange definition this is.

Its an architecture that relies on multiple, supposedly distributed services, all of which are hosted on servers...

Why not just call it "Multiserver" instead.

If they mean "containerless servers" or "microservices", then why don't they say so?

If they mean "distributed servers" why not call it that.

If they mean that the client relies on multiple services (each hosted on different servers) why not just call it a thick/fat/stateful client?

Even a database is a remote service (if not embedded), that is run on some sort of server.

Calling anything serverless is just ridiculous as long as it depends on services on the network.

This smells really bad of just another attempt at marketing a pointless definition just to get more business.

Agree, I miss some way to organize, group or tag the grains/docs.

If a folder structure will be implemented, sharing options should also be available for folders, I think.