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If you have any feedback (+/-) please let me know. I've been working on this site for the last couple of months in my spare time and am interested to hear other opinions as I'm way too close to it to be subjective at this point.

I thought the lounge in Tokyo was outstanding. All the drinks, food, shower, internet, etc... you want included in the admission fee. The lounge at DFW is a joke compared. They had apples and packaged cookies + water. Everything else had to be purchased separately.

I'm glad you self promoted... looks like a cool program. I signed up and am about to start lesson one (I've already seen the movie, but really enjoyed it so I'm glad to see it again).

I was going to send it to my wife - I think she could understand this better than how I've been explaining it. I don't know anything about kids.

It varies. I wakeup around 9am each morning without an alarm no matter what time I go to bed. I try to be in bed by 1am, but if I stay up until 4am I still wakeup naturally around 9. Sometimes I can go back to sleep for another hour and a half or so though if I stayed up really late.

I feel the same with 6-9 hours of sleep. Any less and I notice it though.

I was very thin at 20 and completely bald by 22 (29 now and nothing has changed). I'd prefer to have hair, but it has never been an issue in my personal or business life. I was never turned down by a girl I seriously pursued. My wife thinks I look fine bald and she knew me before. She actually was interested in me originally because she said I had "cool" hair when she first saw me.

As my hair got thinner I began cutting it shorter and now buzz it as low as possible a couple times a week. I also grew a curly mustache a couple years ago so I had a little something to work with. I get compliments nearly everyday on it now.

Being bald young might have actually worked in my favor professionally as it made me look older than I was. I was young (early 20's) meeting with manufacturers in Europe to get contracts to import their products to the US. I think they would have been a bit worried if they knew they were dealing with a 21 year old. I looked like I was young 30's and I seemed like I knew what I was talking about so they didn't question it.

Okay, last update. I made it to LAX, picked up my rental car then received an email from American notifying me that my flight was on time - the same flight I just got off of that landed over 4 hours after it should have. I had to laugh at that one.

Another update. I'm still here. We are parked at the gate waiting for additional fuel before we can leave. Not sure why they boarded us just to have us sit here for another hour (or more - no clue how long this will end up taking). The good news is the plane has AC power in my row so I was able to build the navigation for a site I'm working on.

I don't have anything scheduled until the morning luckily so no big deal for me. I was more inconvenienced by the fact that they don't have enough power outlets to charge devices here (DFW).

I'm at DFW right now heading to LAX on AA. Computers just came up and they are going to begin boarding shortly. Lots of unhappy travelers here as you can imagine I'm sure.

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To follow up. It's been about an hour since the computers came back up in the terminal and I'm finally in my seat on the plane. About 3 hours after it was supposed to depart.

There were several canceled flights in my terminal and no other flights going out so people had to stay overnight. Most were very mad as American was not supplying food or hotel vouchers - all those people are coming out of pocket I guess.

I heard quite a few saying things like, "No wonder they are going out of business" and "I will never fly American again no matter what".

The link in the article has BTC at $65 right now and http://realtimebitcoin.info has it at $124.90. How is that possible?

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It looks like http://realtimebitcoin.info is using mtgox for their data, which explains the discrepancy.

Nothing wrong with focusing on profits, but if they charge for a service it had better be authorized and the service had better be delivered. It appears they did neither in this case based off the info supplied in the article.

Or start with PayPal and dispute the transaction. In the resolution center open a dispute and select, " I want to report a transaction that I didn't authorize". Paypal will contact FB and then decide the outcome. If they continue to not respond it will automatically go to you.

*Edited to correct grammer.

Just a heads up. I'm having trouble with the docs page navigation on my 13" macbook in Safari. The navigation is taller than the screen, which shouldn't be a problem, but when I try to scroll while hovered over the navigation it is scrolling the page instead of the navigation most of the time. I'm having to find certain spots that will allow me to scroll the navigation instead so I can reach the bottom options.

I would certainly look at it with much interest. Being able to add an address to the list would be fantastic as well since small retailers like us can't combat fraud alone very efficiently.

I run an ecommerce site and we sell about 50% in the US and 50% overseas and have a lot of fraud attempts pretty much daily (more outside of the US, but plenty in the US). A couple months ago I built some simple checks that dramatically reduced our handling time of fraud cases. The checks include:

1. Has the credit card been used by any other account holder? 2. Has the shipping address been used by any other account holder? 3. Has the phone number been used by any other account holder? 4. Has the billing address been used by any other account holder?

If any of those are true a warning or info notice is shown depending on the situation. For example, if the shipping address is used by multiple accounts an info notice is shown as there are plenty of times the same address would be used by multiple accounts (freight forwarder, sending parts to a repair shop, etc...). It reminds the order processor to check it out and verify the order is legit.

If the billing, credit card or phone number match it throws a warning as that is far less likely to happen legitimately - which is what you experienced. We don't automatically decline like Newegg did to you, but we do investigate the order thoroughly and if we aren't comfortable with it we will decline or require funds be sent via a verified papal account or wire transfer.

We use a lot of other methods for checking fraud; IP, AVS, etc... but these really simple checks have been really helpful because we get hit by the same people over and over again. They try the same card with multiple accounts or use the same shipping address on multiple accounts, etc...

If an order has been marked as fraud and any of those checks above hit then the new order is automatically marked as fraud too.

There was a link to his profile in the flippa listing: http://blaster.fm/joshsharp/posts/

The only online tool I've used is Smart Coach [1] so I can't compare it to others, but it has worked well for me thus far. I'm still building to a full marathon with half marathons, but they have programs for half or full. Goal for the next one is to break 1:30. After that I'm going to start training for a full marathon.

[1] http://smartcoach.runnersworld.com

I believe I read once that the threshold increases as membership does.

Same here. I only use FB to keep up with brands and bands that I like. I don't use it to connect with friends so it is incredibly annoying that I have to click to see the top stories every time I visit. I also can't stand that they remove posts... I don't "like" things to see just some of what they post.

A good example is that I went to a show that was canceled the other day because that post wasn't in my feed like it should have been. I have to go to individual pages to make sure I'm not missing anything, which defeats the purpose of a feed.

I've been seeing a lot of sites lately that I like more on mobile than desktop - this is one of them. I consider that to be a good thing BTW.

For me, Bootstrap feels like overkill for a simple site. I use skeleton, but will give this a try.

Curious what everyone is interested in at the moment, design wise.

First point from the link:

"If you want to apply, please submit your application online by 8 pm PT on October 30, 2012. Groups that submit early have a significant advantage because we have more time to read their applications."

Agreed. I hope the policy and attitude can change. I do a lot of business with PayPal because my customers prefer it. Certainly not because they have provided much value other than being the most commonly used service.

Can you expand on why you feel double entry is a bad solution? I agree having to re-enter data isn't preferable, but it seems that a solution like this isn't perfect either; the user can still enter their address incorrectly quite easily without it being caught. It seems like double entry would catch more mistakes than this (not to dismiss this in any way as I really like it).

I have a Google account I use for analytics, webmaster tools, etc... and Google is always prompting me to turn Google+ on as well. It wasn't automatic with my account. I had the account before Google+ existed though so maybe it is just automatic with new signups?

Agreed. I left Facebook a year ago after I realized I don't care about 99% of the stuff I read from my "friends". I'm much happier with Google+ thus far and very interested to see where it goes in the future. To me it has far more relevance and prospects than Facebook since it integrates with other google products like search.

That's available at McDonalds.

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