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datr··on [dead]
Another source would be much appreciated. I can't take any article that uses the term "banksters" seriously.
datr··on Ask PG/HN : Replacing Email - What problems/solution comes to your mind?
I feel like google wave tried to tackle these problems as well.

Specifically, it was possible for people to join and leave a conversation much in the same way that facebook messaging threads work now.

While Wave did subscribe fairly heavily to the traditional message and reply model it also had support for wiki-style messages, so it was possible for a summary to be maintained in the top message of each thread. (The instant replay tool I always thought was very cool, too.)

And towards the end it did start to introduce some tools to encourage people to summarise information (although admittedly nothing revolutionary). I'm mainly thinking of its widgets for event organisation, date planning and voting which are always horrible to do via email.

I think Wave had a lot of problems and, it may be, that the problems it did solve it didn't solve well but I do think it at least tried and had a few good ideas.

datr··on Ask HN: Web Dev Testing Best Practices
Drupal has its own version of SimpleTest for testing code:

http://drupal.org/simpletest/

Core ships with a lot of tests and most of the larger contributed modules do too. They're pretty helpful to run frequently to make sure you haven't broken anything but they won't test your configuration or any of your front end stuff.

datr··on Amazon EC2 down?
Maybe I'm assuming wrong but I guess in your example zone A and B are the same and that the different zone names users see don't represent different ways of spreading resources. If so, why aren't they named consistently? If not, are there any details on how and why they've set up their zones (or am I overlooking another assumption I've made?)
datr··on Chromium Blog: A Tale Of Two Pwnies (Part 2)
In Part 1 it's mentioned that they held up publishing this issue as it affects many other products:

"While these issues are already fixed in Chrome, some of them impact a much broader array of products from a range of companies. So, we won’t be posting that part until we’re comfortable that all affected products have had an adequate time to push fixes to their users."

Presumably this is referring to other webkit browsers and the wordpad.exe exploit. Does anyone know if these problems have been fixed yet?

datr··on The 892 unique ways to partition a 3 x 4 grid
It would be a cool poster but I'd change the colours. The swastika and very similar shapes appear a few times in it (which is understandable) but you're also using two out of the three colours from the nazi flag. I could see this potentially leading to awkward and hurried explanations.
datr··on Unpaid Internships: Bad for Students, Bad for Workers, Bad for Society
Are internships with The Atlantic paid or unpaid?

Edit: According to this article: http://www.dailyfinance.com/2010/04/06/atlantic-publisher-ta... all atlantic interns are paid.

datr··on Glancee is Joining Facebook
From Bloomberg's writeup:

"Glancee lets users explore profiles of people nearby and receive notifications of people who have common friends or mutual interests."

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-05/facebook-buys-glanc...

datr··on Sixty Years Old - is my future short and messy, or long and glorious?
>No philosophical conundrum this way, right?

I wouldn't be so sure: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus

datr··on How do you take breaks? Try singles Bughouse
I'm not sure which one is Jason but it looks to me like both of them opt to add a captured piece to the board (which is a rule only present in Bughouse and not regular chess).
datr··on SimpLESS compiless .less into beautiful .css
This is really nice and it looks to be written all in js using Accelerator Titanium. I've never heard of Titanium before anyone have any experience using it? What's it like?
datr··on Stanford Free Class: Computer Security
I believe they're ten weeks long.

Whether they will be easy to follow or not will probably depend on how much free time you have now. I work fifty hours a week and socialise often and have found it difficult to keep up with all three courses currently running. I imagine for someone in my position two would be the sweet spot.

datr··on Monroe or Einstein? Instant eyesight check.
I remember reading this a few years back. The effect is actually really easy to recreate in photoshop from two photos. Our college magazine at the time was running an issue on the incoming student union committee so I knocked up a "double-image" for each position and wrote a short piece about the paper. People loved it.
datr··on Light - If you view the Earth from far enough away can you observe its past?
The man in the moon is not really observing the future he just becomes aware of the event before the man on earth.

If it wasn't light that was being transmitted the man on the moon could warn the man on earth about what's happening before it's reaching him in the same way that people near the epicentre of an earthquake can use twitter to warn people further away before it hits: http://recovery.doi.gov/press/us-geological-survey-twitter-e...

datr··on Do Facebook B’day wishes mean anything?
I reached a similar conclusion a while back and actually ended up writing an app that would automatically wish friends happy birthday when I was trying to get to grips with the facebook api: http://blizzardsystems.co.uk/dr/node/44
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