grannyg00se

Wow, it's really quite offensive. It's almost as if it's been deliberately crafted to mess with one's peripheral vision while attempting to focus on the article.

"informed people of good will can examine the same set of facts and reach different conclusions."

Except they weren't talking about available facts to be examined, and their conclusions. What they were doing was presenting a falsehood as a new fact. Without any evidence.

It's one thing to say "because of x,yz, we think they have WMDs".

What they did was: "THEY HAVE WMDs!!!" (evidence to be examined will be provided soon, promise)

I'm sure that bringing Brendan Eich's politics into question when he moved into CEO position has made this a more popular trend.

I found it interesting that it works at all given that it's using td elements as board cells, jQuery to compare dom elements for cell referencing/dereferencing, and setInterval to update the animation and gamer input.

"We find that Understudy is much more natural than Skype for collaboration (as opposed to for idle chatting). The whiteboard canvas lets you gesture and make visual references, and you can attach PDFs or images."

This is a false analogy. Skype isn't limited to idle chatting and you can also attach PDFs or images into a skype chat. And you can also screen share on Skype so any paint program would double as a whiteboard.

I suspect the use case for Understudy is much better served with Understudy than Skype, but the way the comparison is presented on the site doesn't really help, and may be interpreted as completely disingenuous.

If it's a shared whiteboard with embedded video chat how it it tied to a particular book? They indicate that they are starting with two books for now.

Isn't that part of a general problem with corporations? It's almost a requirement to prioritize cash flow over being decent to people.

It's hard to imagine that a high number of intersections are so bad for left turns that a three right turn detour is warranted. I've seen some left turn lanes get severely backed up during rush hour on the busiest of streets, but as a general rule I'd expect the left turn would win. I'd be curious to see more data on this.

This is possibly because the buttons aren't labeled. Depending on whether you see them as "zoom in/out" buttons or "add/remove columns" buttons, your expectation is going to be different.

Changing my browser window width doesn't seem to affect anything. Even after a page reload. It doesn't seem responsive at all. Am I missing something?

If he disappears and suddenly my backups aren't available. Then I'll start backing up somewhere else. No biggie.

If he disappears, suddenly my backups aren't available, AND my drive blows up, all at the same time, then I'll be sorry I guess.

Maybe nothing. I didn't look into other options because Tarsnap is already cheaper than a cup of coffee per month and it's run by someone I trust and want to support.

How "painfully" self-centered. It's not about whether you consider it to be enjoyable or easy. It's about what Colin is likely to experience. And given his past reluctance to listen to similar Tarsnap related business advice thrown his way numerous times over the years, one conclusion we can draw is that he fully understands what the options are and he simply doesn't believe he would enjoy the change. There are other possibilities for his lack of change, but I didn't hear you suggest any.

It's in gigabytes right on the home page conveniently converted. How does $0.25 / GB - month feel less real than....anything else?

Exactly. What patio11 calls "Geek to Geek" business and suggests Colin move away from. Any new user who sees the suggested standard three tier pricing scheme is going to immediately recognize a traditional business. And there goes the entire g2g market. Which I suppose patio11 doesn't care about given that he's suggesting a move away from that.

But without g2g, Colin is going to be competing in a huge market with a bunch of other players. He's also likely to enjoy his business a whole lot less.

Or...How I would run an online backup service completely unrelated to Tarsnap, with different goals, different priorities, and different ideals.

I use it to backup my entire machine from /

It's only about 2MB per day to upload. I have a daily cron that does the backup and deletes all but the latest two images.

Quality of service, along with Colin's amazing pricing, make it an easy win for me. I never feel like I need to stop and waste time thinking about other options.

You're reccomending a high sugar diet for weight loss. Yet its nutritional value is nil. How does it benefit? Low starch, high sugar, low fat, decent protein sounds like a diet that would be improved by omitting the sugar.

Would a 100 calorie quantity of bread not be better than a 100 calorie quantity of sugar cereal?

Assuming of course that you don't buy bread with sugar in it.

"Although the Glycemic Index provides some insights into the relative diabetic risk within specific food groups, it contains many counter-intuitive ratings. These include suggestions that bread generally has a higher glycemic ranking than sugar and that some potatoes are more glycemic than glucose." - Wikipedia

"Parents getting educated"

I think most of us know that sugar cereals are bad, sunnyd is fake and disgusting, and soda is poison. The problem is we just don't care. At least that's what it looks like. When you see an obese child whose parents are also obese and they're all happily consuming their favorite poisonous snack do you see that as an educational challenge? I see it more as a discipline problem.

I find that very difficult to imagine. JC isn't some mid level manager with a pet project in mind. He's one of the founding technical leads in the company FB just acquired. He has high political capital as well as personal financial independence. A close minded brush off like that would be likely to get that suit fired.

Could use a bit of tweaking. Maybe my camera image isn't good enough?

http://www.tiikoni.com/tis/view/?id=e6fe518

The marriage issue is complicated by many factors, one of which is religion. It doesn't necessarily mean he doesn't believe in equality.

A lot of people are against same sex marriage for various reasons but aren't necessarily against homosexuality or LGBT.

More specifically, Brendan has publicly indicated that he intends to actively pursue equality throughout the organization[1].

So people seem to be calling him a liar with no evidence. And they're also bullying him solely based on his beliefs, rather than his actions.

[1]https://brendaneich.com/2014/03/inclusiveness-at-mozilla/

I see that Eich put up a small amount of money to support a bill against gay marriage. This says nothing about the way he treats people, or how he might serve as CEO. Is there something more, or is it really all about his political ideals?

Holy shit, John Carmack works for Facebook. I can't believe this.

...with the right friends :)

I really appreciate the sentiment here, but at the same time I don't want to see a thread with five hundred comments that say

    This.

Or whatever trendy catch phrase is floating around the mindspace that month. And this system differs from what you describe in that there will be no set group of moderators. The community itself will decide what it wants to see and encourage the type of contribution it deems valid.

Many users will endorse a comment whether it is popular or not, so long as it contributes to the discussion.

What a show of support for consumer grade VR. The Oculus Rift seemed to me as though it would always be a special little paradise for nerds. But this. This is mainstream and could blow the market wide open. I hope the OR team is ready to ride this wave.