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I had a different experience with the Economist. I forgot to cancel and was billed. I emailed saying I forgot to cancel, could I unsubscribe now? And got a quick reply saying they'd cancelled and also refunded me despite me not asking.

I recently cancelled again after getting the 1-month renewal warning, and immediately got a 50% off offer, so I'll probably subscribe again.

I had a similarly easy experience with the Guardian a few years ago, based in Europe.

What would you expect a tool like this to suggest for people who don't cook?

_So many_ people are running red lights in Paris, there's been a huge increase in the past year or so. I think it's mainly food delivery service scooters.

I use it quite a lot, especially with `git add -p` to stage only parts of a file for an atomic commit.

Not saying it's not odd, but have you seen this video of Wright?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZNtbAFnr-0

If he is Satoshi, and what he's saying about being forced to reveal his identity now is true, it would make sense to provide the minimum that the threateners would accept, knowing that the community wouldn't buy it. That video is really odd. (FWIW I don't believe this claim is or isn't true, I'm waiting for more info.)

And yet the images he used in his letter came from Shutterstock, rather than directly contacting a photographer and checking they're okay with their image being used to illustrate the point he's making.

Not saying this isn't a problem, just that he doesn't like it when it brings him less money, yet he uses it in other industries because it's convenient.

Having some way to filter out the big agglomerators would be nice - obviously you can use 'buy used car -autotrader', but the majority of users don't realise they can do that, even if they would like to.

Actually, my mum uses it all the time. She's a primary school teacher, and it works great for children's worksheets, seeing as the 'a' is formed the way we learn to write it at school. Yes there's other fonts with 'a's like that, but not ones that are available on all computers by default.

Get working on it then.

I too learn effectively when I've got outstanding lecturers lecturing at me. However that's rarely the case - some lecturers don't really care for the students; some care but aren't that great at lecturing... So in practice, lectures don't even always work for students who learn effectively from lectures.

Quick note: on the homepage, bottom left:

"But isn't this like any other start chart?"

I assume it's meant to be 'star chart'...

FYI jkurnia, when I load the site, it loads in French, as I'm currently in a French-speaking country. When I click to change to English in the footer, it reloads the page, still in French. Chrome 33.

lutusp is right - your comment comes across as aggressive and personally attacking, as if you did have something to hide. If you 'could write a long post explaining the many inaccuracies in this article', please do so! That way Modern Microcredit can edit their article if necessary to take it into account, and also, your lenders, who will undoubtably be reading the article, will see a polite and informative founder intent on setting the record straight rather than a quick-to-anger, quick-to-attack founder who doesn't bother to defend the company.

But it said in the article that they decided to keep penetration under 1% of the population so as not to arouse suspicion.

Plus, they had a lot more limitations than your average Silicon Valley startup. (edit: second point)

I know what you mean, and mostly agree with you. What they did was actually a good thing, but for the wrong reasons. I doubt that on a high-up level, this was done for the good of the everyday Cuban person.

This is the first I've seen of this project, it looks inspirational. But how did you choose the projects? I've often wanted to do a small project just for the sake of making something nice and pretty, and improving my skills at the same time, but I can never come up with anything. All your ideas are great - but I can't imagine being able to come up with one a day for 6 months!

Also, how did the project work out time-wise? Were you working at the same time? Roughly how long did you spend on each site?

Keep up the good work!

She might not have done the most complicated things in the world - I'm no expert "coder" but I've done more complex things than her.

BUT I'd bet she's a better "coder" than me. She will be rock solid on all the basics, so she has a great base to do more complicated things. For the more complicated things I've done, I was relying heavily on stackoverflow searched and the like, and although I made complicated things that worked, they were probably fairly basic mistakes and things that could cause future problems that Jen wouldn't have made/done.

Too many people these days (me among them) jump in without knowing how to swim and then struggle to stay afloat. Jen taught herself to swim first.

*sober

What about bald men? Will they be punished for not being physically able to replicate the hairstyle? It's just mental. Thank god they're not doing the same thing with David Cameron...

> PRISM: Auth'd under §702, allows NSA to request data from tech companies about anyone who might be "reasonably believed" to be outside the US.

What exactly does that mean? Is it literally just anybody they "believe" to be physically outside the US? Or non-US citizens?

Incredibly interesting. Anyone want to speculate on what a video 1000 years from now would look like?

My history of Europe isn't too shoddy, but it's not until you see it visualised that you realise just how much everything moved, even very recently.

I wonder if Crimea will be the next to change?

Strange, their 'Download it, Sire!' button isn't clickable, despite it being a link. They also have 4 h1s on the page.

It doesn't have to be "antiseptic" at all - there are plenty of thriving, wildly-successful, mostly-males companies with great cultures where women feel comfortable too.

Also, it wouldn't be changing it "for feminists" - it's changing it to welcome any people, of either sex, who aren't comfortable in that environment. Just because feminists might be the most vocal about it doesn't mean it doesn't affect others too.

They don't even have to change their culture at all; all they need to do is to tone down the more aggressive parts of that culture towards certain people. Which shouldn't be difficult - I'm sure all of them have friends with whom they're more calm and less aggressive, or family members. They just need to transfer a bit of this thoughtfulness to the office.

It's not about changing because feminism, it's just the human decency of being reasonable and respectable to everyone, as far as is possible.

Why don't you envision the victims' families reading this sort of thread? If I were the relative of somebody on that plane, I'd be reading every single article and thread I could, trying to keep the hope of finding them alive, alive. Surely I'm not the only one?

Generally interesting, but I take issue with the sentence:

> I could show you more, but the list would never end because no one has ever won without first experiencing many failures and rejections

Though most people will have to fail many times before they make it anywhere, there will be some people who have always had great success on their first attempt. It would be interesting to hear some of those stories.

Already underway.

See http://time.com/10115/google-project-ara-modular-smartphone/ and similar projects.

No JS.. at all?

What made you ask the question? I've never heard of Digital Ocean before, what's different about them?

Taking everything literally, tits on a boar could actually provide fairly good close ground support

Does the question only apply to apps that aggregate news like those mentioned in the post? Personally, I use the BBC News app a lot. Very good interface, clearly delineated sections, stories automatically downloaded for offline reading (something that's annoyed me about other news apps). It gives me an overview of the important things going on, so I know what I want to read about in more detail.

I know those companies are big exceptions, but for comparison, interns in France are (as far as I'm aware, fairly uniformly) paid 436.05EU/month, or just under 600USD/month. That's 30% of France's national minimum wage.

It seems a shame that those big companies can skim off all the brightest talent by paying such lucrative wages, but at the same time, they've obviously worked hard to be in a position to be able to do so. A tricky one.