chris_mahan

Agreed. Also very often within the dealership itself: Salesman lies to you, finance guy lies to you, other salespeople completely ignore you. The only person relatively nice is the receptionist.

I've been using Voice as my primary number since the GrandCentral days. They better not fuck that up too.

Edit: For those who say "it's free don't complain" I reply: "Then Google should bill me. I'll pay."

I agree completely. I put my phone number and email address on my web site, then I don't enable comments. You want to say something to me, you know how to reach me. You want to write something for the web, pay for your own hosting, and use hyperlinks. If you can't be bothered to host your own words in your own domain, I can't be bothered to read them.

Of course, the irony of me writing this on HN does not escape me, but in this case, I think we write the actual content.

"We’re especially interested in preventative healthcare, as this is probably the highest-leverage way to improve health. "

I think the best preventative healthcare is a population (I almost said cohort (yikes)) that is educated enough (with all that entails) to make better short term and long-term decisions for themselves, including developing the desire to become and stay healthy, to know how to weigh the risks of activities, to know how to find information for themselves and evaluate such information with a critical and logical mind. This would also go a long way in helping our political process.

Is this a tall order? You bet. Beyond horizon, but desperately needed.

The real question is how to "Goodbye Email".

Maybe he should buy Microsoft.

we have a simple setup, and use python3.3.3. (Should be at 3.3.5 soonish) We have a dependency on pyodbc and they don't have a version for python 3.4. Also, we use pywin32. (Yes, on windows. We use it to monitor machines, do graphviz diagrams, xml-rpc, that sort of things. On windows mmsql environemnt. Yes i keep on top of it. We try to do everything we need with the standard library, which is surprisingly good. Also, I do have one service using 2.7 because web.py. (Thank You Aaron!)

Come to think of it I do that too. Ikea Ivar shelves!

Watching the video on the site, they seem to think that all geeks want their stuff digitized. I'm a geek (I even have pasty white skin) and I don't want some of my stuff digitized.

Amen Brother Amen!

"Programming, like writing, painting, and music, is chiefly a creative endeavor not a technical one. "

Yeah, like writers, painters and musicians aren't also crazy...

I use notebooks, notepads, blanks sheets of paper, Japanese A5 and A5 notepads, and Pilot Frixion erasable pens.

I do mostly writing, and also diagramming (I'm a software developer) with the odd doodle and 3-d house.

I'm very picky about pens, very picky about paper.

I also definitely want to keep my notebooks.

I do not want all this stuff digitized. At all.

What I do digitize, I convert carefully, taking care to craft it as well for pixels as I did for paper.

I'm just going to link to Don't rely on "Magic Happens Here" from the O'Reilly book "97 Things Every Programmer Should Know".

http://programmer.97things.oreilly.com/wiki/index.php/Don%27...

Then I'm going to ask the programmer/engineer to flip the model around and ask that they look at Operations in the same way they wish management see them.

Yes, probably. but that means there is still 100+KB being sent over the wire each time...

There is a victim when child support is not provided: the child(ren).

Spine size or cover font size?

There's also no robots.txt... Odd for a static site don't you think?

I went to http://www.canonical.com/index.html and there was a 404.

Surely there should be something there...

ok, so where's the .html file for that page?

And since

http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-respon...

goes 404, I assume there's a handler that built the page on the fly.

No?

The page: http://design.canonical.com/2014/03/making-ubuntu-com-respon... Shows as 112 KB by lori in FF. Really? 1/10 MB for a page of text?

I prefer nano, as it reminds me to keep the files short.

the great text files framework.

Plain prerendered html5 with no JS was not available?

I use python3 in production. Working at large bank.

The company just seems to have immature leadership.

oh, and what are we supposed to do, not listen to the good mudic people put out already, and not buy their CDs on amazon, and not go to their local concerts, and not buy their swag, because there are other, better artist who are not producing work because they haven't received a $250,000 advance on their contract?

Agreed. There is a lot of really good stuff, especially internationally.

But if true then there is hope these people will be well treated, because if you wanted to just kill them, they would be dead already.

I bet you could get $500,000,000 ransom for the safe return of the plane, the crew, and the passengers. The plane alone is worth $100 million.

Half a billion buys a lot of military hardware on the open market.

Odds are they are dead, at the bottom of the ocean. Flying low enough to avoid radar will significantly shorten the range (denser air at low altitude, etc).

But that's how companies go out of business. They kill all the calves that compete for grass with the cash cow, and when the cash cow finally dies, they are left with no cow at all.