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I've never even had a Linkedin account and they dirty my email with requests and reminders.

In the even more distant past, you would sometimes encounter this problem when using your vocal cords in a noisy environment.

I believe the answer is no, but that's irrelevant. You could grant permission on the dummy account and then share the folder with your real account so it would show up.

You can drag anything into the Evernote icon on a mac too.

Yes the potential for abuse in any of these sensitive systems is why I think it's understandable we're moving slowly. We don't want to fuck up. The Hacker Way of “Move fast and break things” isn't always realistic.

At times like this, I'm reminded of the Mars Curiosity's tech specs which are something like 200MHz, 256MB of RAM, 2GB hd,and 2MP camera and all the posts about how my iPhone is so much better. Well it was good enough to get to Mars and a hell of a lot more reliable.

In the US, most planes do have GPS, and it will be a requirement by 2020.

For those interested: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_dependent_surveillanc...

With enough quarters a monkey could beat Area 51 so I think that is arguably "pay to win" as well.

I don't mean to defend in-app purchases, but this isn't the first time the game industry has tried to nickel and dime you. How is it that different from the 90s when the game industry put out incredibly difficult games and charged players tokens every couple minutes to keep playing? I know I've personally spent a hell of a lot more money in the arcade than on in-app purchases. This isn't a mobile example, but I think Riot (maker of League of Legends) is a company that really gets it right with in-app purchases in a tasteful way.

I really like reading posts on High Scalability: http://highscalability.squarespace.com/start-here/

Svbtle has been around longer than Medium although you had to apply to use it (or there is a pretty popular wordpress knockoff theme).

Just an fyi, moot is always written with a lowercase

I've read similar stories of teenagers with cancer turning to online games, because everyone treats them differently in real life once they're diagnosed. In games though, they'll get yelled at and raged at like everyone else which is ironically welcomed.

pg somewhat makes that argument http://paulgraham.com/gap.html and says inequality may be a sign of health.

The concept of tenure is definitely somewhat controversial, but it is incredibly difficult and rare to fire tenured professors. I doubt you could cite many if any examples of professors losing tenure because they're not publishing. (Although sure professors who don't publish probably won't receive tenure in the first place)

I agree South should probably make the list although database migrations have finally made their way into the Django core so perhaps that's why the author didn't mention South.

I guess time will tell, but I think this is a pretty slam dunk trademark infringement case (like it or not). Also it isn't a function of them taking the bait or not, trademarks have to be actively defended if the owner wishes to retain them.

Sounds like the ads are super effective then.

It isn't particularly robust but if you pay for prime, Evernote offers version control (on some platforms/clients).

This. I'm always particularly annoyed by the tech support when I've tried to submit bug reports. One time I found a reproducible bug in the Chrome Clipper and even offered a possible explanation/solution for what was happening and the person first insisted that it wasn't happening. I couldn't believe he was telling me what wasn't happening on my screen when I was looking right at it. I pay for prime so next requested to be put in contact with a developer to submit a bug report and was denied. Finally like the author they asked me for activity logs which I also refused to fork over because they seemed too personal so instead I just put up with a buggy clipper. I wish they focused less on selling socks and more on the software. [https://www.evernote.com/market/feature/socks?sku=SOCK00106]

""" The fiercest critics of technology still focus on the ephemeral have-and-have-not divide, but that flimsy border is a distraction. The significant threshold of technological development lies at the boundary between commonplace and ubiquity, between the have-laters and the “all have.” When critics asked us champions of the internet what we were going to do about the digital divide and I said “nothing,” I added a challenge: “If you want to worry about something, don’t worry about the folks who are currently offline. They’ll stampede on faster than you think. Instead you should worry about what we are going to do when everyone is online. When the internet has six billion people, and they are all e-mailing at once, when no one is disconnected and always on day and night, when everything is digital and nothing offline, when the internet is ubiquitous. That will produce unintended consequences worth worrying about.” """ --Kevin Kelly (What Technology Wants)

Nice affirming a disjunct.

No. The lowest setting is still slightly lit: http://www.amazon.com/forum/kindle/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg1?_encodin...

I believe it is only true of a small number of featured tags: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/featured_tags

I remember last year when Kony 2012 blew up for a couple days, they switched their site to static s3 pages to handle the traffic and collect donations. I thought it was pretty clever.

I think it is a little unfair to oversimplify the Ouya to just indicating "people were indeed interested in a cheap console that plays phone games on their TV." In addition, one of Ouya's biggest draws was its openness which Google and Apple will have a harder time competing with than just releasing a cheap console with better polish.

I don't think digital goods / things that are very cheap on the margin really subscribe to the same laws of supply and demand.

For example, most people would probably agree piracy drives the price of photoshop up for the people that actually pay for it. In the eyes of supply and demand though what should happen is more piracy == less demand for legal copies -> lower prices.

I think Nicholas Carr made an interesting distinction in The Shallows about the usefulness of tools in the context of short and long-term memory (interesting even if I feel ambivalent about it):

"In freeing us from the work of remembering, it’s said, the Web allows us to devote more time to creative thought. But the parallel is flawed. The pocket calculator relieved the pressure on our working memory, letting us deploy that critical short-term store for more abstract reasoning. As the experience of math students has shown, the calculator made it easier for the brain to transfer ideas from working memory to long-term memory and encode them in the conceptual schemas that are so important to building knowledge. The Web has a very different effect. It places more pressure on our working memory, not only diverting resources from our higher reasoning faculties but obstructing the consolidation of long-term memories and the development of schemas. The calculator, a powerful but highly specialized tool, turned out to be an aid to memory. The Web is a technology of forgetfulness."

I feel like it is a little unfair comparing the number of years someone is sentenced and going to jail for and the number of years someone could go to jail for if they are found guilty and receive the max sentence.

(Perhaps people don't think the hacker did anything that should be considered a crime worthy of a sentence that long, but that's a totally different argument)

Because he is a philanthropist.