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There's no mention of it on the video or the page, but it seems safe to presume that there's no support for Windows-based servers? Or am I just missing it?

Finally someone says "Pure CSS" and actually means it!

This works well (with a slight stutter) in Firefox 15.

Not what I was expecting from the title but nevertheless, this is something I've been trying to tell my wife for so long now... The advances that we make ever day on this planet are so immense, so life changing, that "life changing" has become... routine.

People love to look at today and say "Where are the flying cars? Where are the meal pills and the Mars colonies?", completely overlooking mobile phones, microwaves, GPS and fiber-optic worldwide communication.

It's a shame really, that the "masses" simply don't see this and keep on living their lives like there's nothing to it.

Flagged for having no value whatsoever. Plus, they didn't even color the "S" in the gamer keyboard... It's WASD, not WAD.

I'm happy to see that someone is not only standing up to PayPal and going another route, but also that a very good alternative is being set forth. It's not just another "Paypal sucks", and I appreciate that.

I personally can't fathom how I could live with a business model that depends on the TOS of other companies. I mean, sure there are markets for these kinds of things, but the risk associated with it scare me shitless.

Old news! Please, people, stop posting this damn article!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4349305

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4368963

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4351027

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350429

To me, this is a good example of how not to do an online video-based course.

- Staring 2 minutes at HTML code that doesn't move while hearing a disembodied voice is a very bad start.

- Detailed, technical information with no visual cues to help support it. For example, explaining a separate stylesheet file (which he call "style PAGE", actually), with only the mouse cursor waving around on the screen.

- Too many non-useful details at first (non-supported features, difference in versions, etc.

- So Notepad isn't good enough, and the next step is Visual Studio? Geeze, try Notepad++ first, maybe?

- 6 minutes to get to actual HTML creation, almost 10 minutes to type in the first CSS code.

- Spending half a minute calling a CSS property "A key-value pair separated by a semi-colon", repeating it 3 times. What is this, kindergarden for programmers?

All in all, I stopped watching after 12 minutes, having learned more about this guy's bias towards Visual Studio than about CSS (or HTML for that matter).

I'm very glad to see that this is spreading. It would have been really annoying for Google to perfect their car and then have nowhere to drive it because of silly legislations. It wouldn't be the first time senators were afraid of change...

Perhaps people see "coder" as a larger term encompassing programmers (where "program" would be an application), scripters (things like javascript, php, python) and maybe hackers? I'm not sure.

The video in your blog post makes this murky to understand. First, the screen says "Restart the server to apply any changes". Second, you enable Authy for root, and then restart the server and say "Remember to restart ssh so the new configuration takes effect". Perhaps I'm not linux-oriented enough, but for me "configuration" doesn't just mean system config - adding a user could be part of that definition.

Otherwise though, I do think that this is an awesome idea. It only needs apps for smarphones instead of sending an SMS and you're on part with Google and Battle.net :)

Ah, that clears it up. Thank you!

This is great but one thing bugs me. When you add a new user, you have to restart SSH? Wouldn't that prevent people from connecting every time a new user is added?

Huh. Well, in that case, maybe I'll just go to the source and use Fongo then, since that's what Dell Voice uses? No use having an extra layer on top! http://www.fongo.com/

All you need is to have a US IP address to get it working. But, that requires a VPN (which is sometimes expensive) and you`ll always have to go through it to access the Voice service. That most likely means no access from an Android phone though I'm not sure.

As for the phone number, it's going to be local to whatever adress he put in in the US, there are no Canadian phone numbers for Voice.

What really makes me angry is that Google purchased GrandCentral to get their voice software, then they completely shut Canada off from service and haven`t opened it in years. It's not like GrandCentral didn't get the CRTC approvals required to give service, so what's holding up Google? I'm really mad at them for how all these services only work in the US. There are legal considerations, but you'd think it wouldn't take 3 years to go through these kinds of hurdles when you're freakin' Google!

Oh, actually I had the numbers wrong, I'm also in Quebec :)

I'm wondering what prevented them from doing x-rays on the package, or an echography, or something to find out what's inside? I mean, I get that they want to keep the mystery, I just don`t think I'd be able to contain myself for 100 years!

I guess this is one reason I'm lucky and happy to be in Canada: There is a total of 52 weeks of shared parental leave, then there's 2 weeks reserved individually for each parent. The parental leave can be split in any way the parents feel necessary.

And this isn't anything employers do; this is a governmental program. However, the first 6 months of leave are paid 70% regular salary, the rest is at 50%.

I think it's a great program, and I don't know that a lot of women have any issues returning to work after that time.

How about a one-time fee? Think outside the box ;)

Some semi-constructive criticism:

- Try to get a video up, or at least a couple of actual screenshots (and not an obviously fake/photoshopped one), so we know a little more about how it looks and reacts.

- Give some more information on the product. An FAQ and small support page, more info about the company, etc.

- A privacy policy is also pretty critical (where does it say you don`t monitor or record conversations, for example?)

- From the screenshot it seems like you have the ability to reply to a certain person directly in the chat. I'm not convinced that can work in a quick chatroom like this, especially if you start nesting stuff.

- No download required? So you work from a browser and are either using a plugin or certain specific browser functionality. Without knowing what they are, how can I know this is going to work for me?

- What's your end game and business model? Whether or not the video streams go through your server, you still need to pay for your bandwidth, I don't see ads. Tell us how you are monetizing this, or will in the future.

Cute, but I don`t think I'll ever present a demo to clients that boast the following text:

The feeling of his baby gravy frothing down my throat got my fallopian fish stock flowing quicker than a greased weasel shit. Within no time, I could feel the shitty creamy load haemorrhaging from my mavis fritter and all over my panty hamster. Inserting a squash into my hot pocket got me flooding minge mucus faster than snot off a whip. The hammering of my marmite motorway was so vigorous, he soon found his family jewels joining his womb raider deep in my rusty sherif's badge. Hours of fucking like this would leave any girl's sugared almond looking like a hippo's yawn, and I was no different!

"Lorem Ipsum Alternative" sounds a little far-fetched to me. But I guess the comical relief of seeing this for the first time can hold my attention for about half a minute. Just enough to write this comment...

I didn't mean stealing from any particular entity. It was more in a "nabbing" sort of way, a little like saying "The Beatles stole the heart of many of a generation's women". They obviously weren't pulling hearts out of teenagers :)

My first reaction to this was "No... Really???" with an obvious ironic tone.

The fact of the matter is, we are a product of our environment and we naturally try to pick up our traits, values, expressions and emotions from everything and everyone around us. But since books pull you in so much, it's easier to become influenced by them than, say, a short movie. I didn't need OSU to tell me this.

However, one critical point here is that the effect is often temporary. I've also noticed that often, where I will have a sudden boost of inspiration and energy after reading a particularly uplifting book, but this only lasts for days or weeks, depending on the book.

And that, my friends, explains why self-help books sell so much.

Groom them and talk them into coming with them outside the plane, for example. Having been on the receiving end of that stick (not on a plane, but still), I'd ask you reconsider how easy it is for an adult to have power over kids.

Is it not as simple as to add a "Trash" function? It's been around on operating systems for years, everyone understands how it works and that you can restore something from the trash, but you lose it forever if you empty the trash.

Since this is something that's trivial to implement and is a UI principle that's extremely common, there is absolutely no excuse for keeping images around where the user wants to delete them. If you're annoyed at a dozen emails a month, you implement that and then you can easily respond "Wait, you sent it to trash bin, then deleted it, and NOW you change your mind?", in more polite terms.

(Edit: sorry, late for the party, I was linked here from another post on the same subject)

Funny I thought the same thing. "Fuck it, piratebay it!" I guess TPB stole the ship image from common culture...

In a sense, this goes in line with "release early, release often". I get that it's a big step to actually release a software or service, but the more you wait, the more you risk actually defining the product too much, or missing the boat completely while someone else takes the prize. I think even a service that is somewhat prone to errors can be released as long as it's made clear that it is, and that it's at least decently functional. And it is, of course, absolutely imperative that an easy to reach and easy to use feedback system be put in place.

Seems to be either limited to chrome, or the author didn't bother giving instructions on how to enable MediaStream in Firefox...

It's called www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com

Why would anyone go on hackernews to check if a website is down? That doesn't make much sense, there are so many mechanisms out there to deal with this kind of thing....

The question is, can this be repeated? Junk mail creators haven't necessarily seen this story, they may not know that they are in error.

Would some sort of penalty be applied to someone depositing such a check, assuming one received such a check and it does have all the necessary features?