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Then you'd miss the SwiftKey prediction options, which allow me to tap out common sentences in a breeze, and the multiple active languages, a huge plus in countries with multiple languages. :)

You should know the basics to know why you're ignoring them. When you start writing, you have to use proper grammar, spelling, etc. Once you have that down, you can choose to ignore rules or making them work for another purpose. That is what really pushes the boundary in the arts, but having the basics is useful in and of themselves.

You can probably implement these things yourself once you notice them missing.

A couple of points:

- Backups are your responsibility. Not the hosts, not the government. Not anyone else. You. Period.

- Cannot pay with Paypal? Paypal HQ spontaneously explodes into a huge ball of fiery death? Find another way to pay. It's your responsibility to hold your side of the contract.

Why is that surprising? People complaining about the lack of features obviously need something more capable. For the rest of us, the lightweight, cheap option is good enough. :)

By dangerous animal you mean humans, right? ;)

I'd be happy if only I had the opportunity to buy apps, period. I can only access apps that are free AND not US-only (so no Amazon Kindle for Android app). While I understand that there may be some considerations I'm not aware of, my iphone-owning friends seem perfectly happy and content to buy iphone apps. So if Apple can do it, why can't Google? (I'm in Panama, by the way).

Good point, I had glossed over ebooks. Many thanks!

Yeah. the 40% is great fro ebook and screencast. I hadn't taken ebooks into account.

It's hard to get excited about a promotion that brings down the price to about what Amazon already sells their books. I'm not trying to diss the PragProgs. I like their books as they're very useful to me. I do own a couple. But from the customer's perspective, it's not a big deal.

Now the screencasts is another matter. 40% off is a pretty good deal.

Well.. Depends really. The benefits you receive is not limited to that one company (people you meet, network, advice, etc)... Those transfer with you if you later start another company, and another. It could turn out to be really cheap in the long run.

That Facebook is evil or not is irrelevant, I think. (I happen to think that their interests and the privacy interests of their users are not aligned at all). Google is fighting the good cause, ok, I agree. But the method they used in this instance is not the best. They could've simply said: "Hey look man. Facebook wants us to give them your contact data. These are the possible consequences: 1., 2., 3. Are you sure?" Their current wording implies (to me) that a user's data is all going to be imported and kept inside of FB and nowhere else (which is a key point), which is not true as Google holds the user's data as well. There will be divergence afterwards as the user begins to use Google and FB in different ways. But yeah, I do see that FB is not an easy place to get your data out of, but Google is using users' data as a pressure point to force FB's hand. What would be interesting to find out is if they are defending privacy because it's a noble thing to do, or if they are just defending privacy because it happens to benefit them in some other way.

edit: added "and nowhere else (which is a key point)"

It seems to me that their wording pushes their anti Facebook data locking agenda, intimidating novice users. To me, this goes against their "don't be evil" company motto.

There's a similar free service for online writing: http://timecert.org/

It's by http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=pelle

Why don't you start the story off with your email. If they are interested, they will click through to the rest of your pages.

I'd appreciate an invite.

http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01Py0H-tJw2Mektbkg3TyvzA==...

Thank you!

Who is John Galt?

Consider an XML file consisting of one long line of text. A diff would not be very useful in that case.

Bandwidth at Linode is also pooled for Linodes withing the same datacenter (of which they have 4). You can also bring up any number of Linodes and bring them down whenever you want. You will be charged for the full month but if you bring them down, they will give you credit for the unused portion of the month (rate is per day). Linode also has an API for their DNS service but I haven't really used it so I won't comment much on it. In short, Linode is a pretty good deal.

Panama City, Panama

Not only that, but more importantly, on Twitter you can follow pretty much whoever you like without a required acknowledgment from the followed person/organization. To be friends with someone in FB, both parties have to agree, which pretty much sets them apart niche-wise.

Remember that the secret of creativity is how well you hide your sources. ;) Most creative works now stand on the shoulders of giants.

How so?

It takes some getting used to but once you wrap your brain around it and its quirks it's VERY useful, to me at least. Of course YMMV.