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I can't seem to find a demo anywhere?

I ran into some bugs when testing, such as: http://imgur.com/B0VVnmn

The test will pass but I can't submit it, because the test doesn't pass. Meh.

Right, so make 5 the minimum then and reserve certain words. I guess I can always use usernames such as "administration", "dashboard" or "profile", right? I believe setting a minimum of 6 letters is a questionnable approach to this problem.

What is it with requiring at least 6 character usernames? Why does it matter to an automated system if I use less? I get that a username with only one letter isn't optimal, but I don't see why it can't be > 3.

Relevant xkcd: http://xkcd.com/538/

Thank you.

What does this mean for me? I have all my interal + external hard drives encrypted as well as my system drive.

While there are comments that mention getting drinks to go, I think 1.80 pounds are extremely cheap for spending time at a place, drinks and snacks included. I'd go.

The website's font looks bad for me on the latest Chrome, Windows x64: http://i.imgur.com/cN6tXNl.png

Gets better with zooming though, at 120 % it looks nicer: http://i.imgur.com/d0GkKcq.png

What does this do? Does it map Dropbox and Google Drive to network drives on Windows (the image indicates so)? Is it a webapp? I'd love to see a more detailed explanation somewhere before signing up.

Now it seems to work for me as well. Thanks for the update!

The "products" page, however, does not work: http://www.rsync.net/products/index.html

Nice idea, but I hated the workflow of setting up an account - first I have to type in a phone number manually twice, which is easily readable from Android. I also missed an explanation why I needed to set up an encryption token rightaway (I get what the point is, I'd just much rather try using the app first without having to set up all kinds of passwords and credentials first).

Take Hetzner (large German provider) as an example - while they do offer managed servers and root servers, those are much more expensive. I'm not advocating the use of such products, but merely pointing out that they're still around a lot.

The issue here is that there is still numerous web hosts who don't grant you SSH access, so you're not able to set up any git repository there anyway and are still stuck with FTP. Hopefully this will go away soon, or at least more in the direction of Heroku and the likes.

Very nice website.

I've never had to fill out 14 fields for payment. Ever. While I agree this might be too many fields, I very much doubt it's the standard practice.

You should really consider using SSL for at least the sign-up and login pages. People are transferring personal data, after all.

Terrible article. The issue at hand is the Browser plugin, and not the programming language itself.

The font for contacts' names looks terrible on Chrome+Win 7: http://i.imgur.com/OxR9JdX.png

What this calculation fails to take into account is that when you transfer data over the wire it usually lands in the place where it's needed to be. This wouldn't be the case if you still have to read data from fedex'd drives and copy it to their appropriate locations, which should take additional time.

Same here.

The website's author even thanked HN specifically: http://alias.sh/thank-you-hacker-news-community

HBO is running some of the greatest shows these days, wouldn't you agree?

I kind of hoped not to find this kind of crap on HN.

I love the process, but I've been having trouble with uploading. A lot of songs simply weren't uploaded successfully, and there is no way for me to manually upload anything in order to fix that. I have no idea if the uploader application does this automatically or if I'm just stuck with a bunch of broken songs.

Also I noticed some mistakes with generic album titles, such as "Unknown Album" - selecting an artist, then their album titled "Unknown" would usually play all the titles that don't have an album title, even the ones by entirely different artists.

That being said, it beats iTunes by miles.

If you pull down with two fingers (a bit counterintuitive, I'll admit), it'll open the settings app directly. You can also toggle the default notification drawer and the settings app by tapping the icon in the top right corner.

I chose to install Widgetsoid - it places a couple of toggles directly into the notification drawer. I never got Airplane Mode to work, though.

Seems to be easier to just give your neighbour the cash instead of sending it through a website.

Are you talking about in-app purchases? Those are password protected. What's the point of password-restricting free apps?

Great point. Easiest solution would be to just separate the Apple ID password and the Device password.