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Would this work (in the usual cases) where you have more than one server interacting with S3 ?

He has been active on HN though: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=patio11

You can always use "Forgot Password" if you mistyped a password. You can't if you mistyped the e-mail address (the username you wanted is gone).

Timeline of Events:

October 27th - 29th: Database compromised according to MongoHQ.

22:15 PST 10/31: Notified of breach by MongoHQ

23:30 PST 10/31: Communicated breach to customers

And I thought all impacted MongoHQ customers knew what had happened on October 27th or 28th itself.

Can you please choose Microsoft and decide to use Windows? I want to see what happens tomorrow. :)

What? http://apple.stackexchange.com/

If Support-Foo is going to be open source, and as per its description "Instead of charging per-seat, it would charge by volume of support.", then why does the Enterprise option say "1 year license to run behind the firewall with unlimited support and agents" ?

Is it open-source, and you need a license to run it behind a firewall?

or you can e-mail them to request screenshots of this feature.

Random theory: BB might have contracted app promotions to a number of marketing agencies (or just one), and the account manager tasked with promoting the Android app figured out there's Mechanical Turk and Fiverr.

Now if I talk to couple of friends at digital marketing agencies, they would tell me this is pretty common. The client doesn't need to know or decide how it's done. It's just done.

It's most likely a bug in that wordpress theme.

I have used the same theme in my personal blog, and I occasionally notice the main and posts page turning up blank when I myself visit it. Doesn't happen if I switch to another theme.

The funding to support server + bandwidth + sysadmins.

I'm speculating another issue at hand (not that this one caused issues for BBM itself) that a substantial number of users downloaded fake BBM apps that were made to look like from "BBM Inc" or "BlackBerry Inc" (BB itself is registered in Google Play store as "BlackBerry Limited").

These apps had full access permissions to Phone Logs, SD Card, and Network Communications. Users were forced to provide a rating for the apps before the app "allowed" them to login and then crashed.

A related article here: http://trak.in/tags/business/2013/09/21/fake-bbm-apps-fools-...

"Plus, while GitHub is lauded for being open source..."

Since when?

For an article that focuses on GitHub, the distinction between "git", "GitHub" and "majority of the projects hosted at GitHub" must be pretty clear.

Could be this (thumbnails): https://www.dropbox.com/developers/core/docs#thumbnails

Adobe used to have the Stack Ranking System until a couple of years, which they eventually ditched: http://www.hreonline.com/HRE/view/story.jhtml?id=534355695

Regarding LinkedIn, I am seeing selective-career-history-wiping happening more everyday: http://mobocube.com/post/5312332640/did-your-prospective-hir...

No, it's rather "If you don't like it, fork it."

fwiw, FireFox on MacOS shrinks the tabs to favicon before scrolling, without using an add-on. The article screenshots indicate it spoke of Linux.

"to advertisers" are the important words to note in their claim.

Here is how I am using this:

1. Install the add-on.

2. Panic that it has deleted all "not open now" websites' cookies.

3. Choose the option to "Suspend Operation" via the add-on icon.

4. Repeatedly "Undelete" all cookies until it's all done.

5. Keep the add-on suspended.

6. Now, for the next few days, I will browse like normal, but will remember to "whitelist" the websites I like to stay logged-in (Hacker News, Webmail, etc.) by clicking on the add-on icon. Remember, it is still "Suspended".

7. After a few days of usage (and when I've re-visited enough number of my regular websites), I will "Resume Operation" on the add-on, where it can start destroying the rest of the cookies like anything.

I think the "Training Period" above in point 6 should have been by default. Somehow.

What looks to me as a counter-feature is that if I'm logged in to GMail, and want to stay logged-in, I have to whitelist the "google.com" cookies.

Wouldn't that allow all the Adwords tracking cookies as well, across sites?

Yes, there's a whitelisting feature where you have to mark "Delete cookies Never for this website" while you're at that website (or there's an Options panel for this - I haven't explored enough yet).

Please make this non-shocking for non-geeks.

Upon the first run, without warning, I see this: "If you read this, all of your cookies that are not currently in use just self-destructed. Don't panic. You can undo this if you prefer to keep them for now." . . . "Undeletes happen in batches. If you had a lot of cookies, you might need to restore more batches. Click SDC's icon again. Select Undelete (more) cookies from the menu. Repeat this until you get a notification stating that No more undeletes are possible."

Couldn't the extension have simply asked me once before proceeding with the delete in the first run? Basic usability.

It's not just advertising that Google stands to benefit from.

The Google Ads also help them keep a track of where the person has been around the web and also acts as a proxy site stats data for Google (irrespective of whether you use Google Analytics or not).

"Maybe even a simple regex for <theirdomain>.tld would work."

It won't. They are mailing to hisdomain.tld ; probably support@hisdomain.tld

Take a look at StartPage (http://startpage.com) - similar Privacy Policy.

We recently were at the same crossroads (choosing between "github" v/s "bitbucket" v/s own-hosted git repositories). I ran through the various options for own-hosted git repositories: (1) Gitlab, (2) Gitolite, and (3) Stash (10-user license for $10)

We ended up installing Stash as it seemed that it would reduce administration+maintenance by a tad bit (GUI + knowledgebase) and would be supported by a company responsible for bitbucket. Stash has been a pleasant experience so far.

This applies to usage of Google Fonts as well, isn't it? Similarly, Adobe gets the hold of site visitors via use.typekit.com

"and thus giving them the possibility to track your visitors"

This is an understatement. There's no reason for them not to do it - it's fodder for them.

"As for non-technical users -- they're probably not going to be opening Firefox's Preferences dialog in the first place. And if they do, they probably aren't going to start randomly checking and unchecking stuff to see what it does."

You would be surprised what non-geeks tend to do when they have no clue what to do.