greyboy

I thought those were rather lame. Even most of my _friends_ don't have the same interests as I do.

Plus, in my basketball playing years, that was a great example of teamwork.

Better title: 5 simple tips to turn GMail into a powerful collaboration tool

I'm not sure we really disagree, if I understand your response correctly. I _do_ think there can be improvement (and, probably, should).

My main objection was calling for using a device that is expensive, requires special/additional phone plans, and doesn't _really_ solve the problem (especially for most of the global population). I have a rather diverse set of friends by age, income and technical experience - and smartphones aren't the majority.

Look at the "Cradlepoint" brand, such as:

http://www.cradlepoint.com/products/mbr1000

I'm sure you can then find some similar offerings.

In an ideal world, we wouldn't need to worry about unauthorized access. Unfortunately, that world doesn't exist.

But I sincerely hope a requirement for me to use the internet doesn't demand we have a private server instance or a smartphone of any variety (my Nokia candy bar variant serves me just fine).

I can think of many problems we'd need to account for (lack of internet, dead/lost phone, corruption, older folks, etc).

They could have said 'no.'

Well, unless you are living, eating and travelling on each continent for free over the 6 months, it's going to cost much more than the stated price.

Oh, I 100% agree with you, having been in a similar situation. It only happens once, then you learn to carry an extra set of clothes in your carry-on (when travelling internationally).

My point is just that 1% is a pretty reasonable margin of error. If I worked on a team with 1% or less of errors over a life of a project, I'd be ecstatic. But, reality prevails. Email/Gmail, websites, cell networks, car accidents with hours of waiting, etc. all happen. Usually, only a small number are affected (or for a small duration).

26 million of what, though? I don't recall seeing that mentioned in the article. Are we talking 5%, 10%, 35%? What is an acceptable failure rate? Us programmers aren't perfect, either. Or course, it's not justification, but it would sure help put things in perspective.

A family member of mine worked for an airline on the ground post 9/11 and, barring a major issue at the departing airport, there weren't very many problems. The worst circumstances were short layovers (which usually arrived on the next flight and sent to their address) or reroutes to the wrong destination (which this person took the fall for, obviously, as it was all in their control).

The link JoshTriplett gave is a simple script, nothing that takes any time to make it usable after you download it (assuming Python is installed).

But, different strokes for different folks: and choice is usually never a bad thing. Of course, I learned long ago not to throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Personally, I have a few Windows virtual machines and an old, cheap Windows XP laptop around for those rare occasions as well as a Windows 7 dual boot install for .Net development.

However (again, anecdotally), I've not had a problem with using Linux day-to-day. Nothing has been difficult and I appreciate the power the CLI affords me.

My totally unscientific and anecdotal input is that, for what I end up watching (5-10 videos/week), it's in the 50-75% range (for HTML5 videos being available).

Of course, that doesn't mean much and I always have a Windows virtual machine running for just these scenarios.

In addition to the responses from others and depending on the password restrictions set by 1and1, there is no gurantee you can use the same/previous password when you try and reset it.

Correct, there are certain exceptions.

I believe the point of this rabbit trail was to correct that notion that root formations are mirrors (or otherwise similar) of the tree trunks/canopies. At least, that's what I was hoping to show.

Not personal photos, but here are some examples:

http://www.cclockwood.com/stockimages/WE-HURRICANE-GUSTAV-46...

http://www.doc.state.nc.us/news/scrapbk/David-1.jpg

http://www.city-data.com/disaster-photos/photos/220.jpg

http://www.cclockwood.com/stockimages/WE-HURRICANE-GUSTAV-46...

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-m6YoyhPEom8/Tlpzy9dkJII/AAAAAAAABY...

http://ww2.hdnux.com/photos/05/20/46/1378705/5/628x471.jpg

Google something like: https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=hurricane+trees+do...

Edit: Horrible formatting job, and to say that Pine trees were the worst offenders in our area.

Having lived in a very hurricane-prone area of the southeastern US for most of my life, I can verify that tree roots are not a mirror of the above-ground portion.

Personally, I can think of lots of edge cases that will be interesting to see answers to. For instance, a 4-way stop - we know how to handle that easily, and can overcome someone jumping out of turn, again, quite easily.

More importantly - who will be maintaining all the traffic changes? An example - a section of Interstate or road is closed for months, whether by damage or construction. And then, when it's clear again?

I'm interested in seeing how these things play out.

They just closed the NC office, too. Rather abruptly to my surprise friend employed there.

Different strokes for different folks.

I realize this is Hacker News, but Outlook isn't the worst [email or otherwise] product someone can use.

Edit: The comment was originally:

"I've been using Outlook by choice" Sorry, but I just can't wrap my head around this. You say you have tried other clients and yet you keep coming back to Outlook? Did you only try a few web app clients a few years ago and not sense? Have you tried many other fat desktop and/or command line clients? I personally only interact with Outlook when my employer pays me to spend the extra time required to use Outlook. I am utterly baffled by your statement. Like when someone says they get up at 4am every day, but they are not in the military. Sure there might be some okay reasons to do that (a baby, international trading, long commute), but most normal people would still inquire for more information as getting up at 4am by choice is not normal.

I can work fine with a single 20" 1600x1200. It's not my dream setup but it's also not hindering me for my work (backend systems).

I think we're probably mostly in agreement, even if I wasn't clear about it. In my line of work, there have been times where I was not permitted to use external scripts or binaries (highly sensitive environments). However, that one small example doesn't mean ack should be disregarded!

That's a fine recommendation for machines that you solely work on, or have complete control over. However, it's good to be able to work with the standard toolset if you frequently work on a variety of remote machines (where it's quite common that you cannot install such things, due to permissions or policies, and want to get started working before attempting to download/install a bunch of custom binaries).

Edit: MattJ100 made a more clear point while I was responding.

And yet, like most (all?) calculators, there is no questioning about the houses age, condition, pending/expected costs, etc. Those are things I've always needed to tack onto the calculator results to get a better answer.

Edit: Sorry, I think my message's tone should be better. I enjoyed testing the site but while looking for a home last year it would have been nicer to have more control of how these calculations were done.

That's all well and good, and I understand the point, but it does't appear to apply to PadMapper.

Personally, while I'm not a big fan of Craiglist's UI, it's stretching it to think that PadMapper would be classified as "such enormous public good" simply because a small subset of total Craigslist (and Internet) users (most likely in a small subset of American cities) are fond of it.

> Legally he might not have been in the right but we should be helping him out not uselessly debating and casting judgement.

If he's not "legally not in the right," why should I be helping him (doesn't that imply casting a judgement - that PadMapper is elevated above CraigsList because it's "the best apartment rental interface our there")?

What if the tables were turned and CraigsList was violating PadMapper's TOS? Would you be willing to help CraigsList (they serve more than only apartment listings)?

Should somebody be rewarded, even if (legally) not in the right, just because he/she is a hard worker/smarty pants/exemplifies the True Hacker Spirit?

I often wonder if there is some sort of unwritten clause that You-Must-Pull-For-The-Underdog to join Hacker News? (In the name of Divine Disruption, of course.)

That seems like an implementation problem. (warning: anecdote ahead:) All sliding chain locks I've used are up at eye level, which would make this much more complicated, if not impossible. That, or they have the hard-bar-over-ball lock, also at eye-level.

Plus, my large hands wouldn't have been able to do that trick. :/

> Translated from patent-speak, this just means that the little position indicator along the side of the display indicates where you are in a document. Further claims indicate that the position indicator disappears when you don't do anything for a minute. Anyone who has seen iOS (or Mac OS X Lion) has seen it.

Or, anyone who has used the default Nokia S60 browser (such as on the E7x series devices).

I believe jaems33 is referring to the phone being used as a hotspot. I can, almost literally, watch the battery drain when I put my wife's Android phone in hotspot mode.

Also, there are more popular 4G data plans now, such as T-Mobile's "No Annual Contract Mobile Broadband Passes" that you can enable on-demand, only requiring once-year usage to keep the account active. I'm not sure if other carriers offer similar plans.

Of course, I disagree - I call that being taken advantage of. If I could depend on the employers honoring the same thing - employing people "through thick and thin" - I'd believe it, but it's almost unheard of.

Unfortunately, I worked for five years through "when things got tough" - random layoffs, no raises, decreasing benefits. How loyal does one have to be to satisfy your definition?

Agreed. I'm one of the most loyal employees you'll ever find ... as long as I'm treated fairly. In exchange for good work all they need to provide is ample benefits, flexible schedule, satisfactory compensation, work with challenging/motivating problems - or some healthy mix of those.

Once the balance shifts to (my personal feeling of) inequality, I have no problem (or choice?) but to move on. Gone are they days of "lifers" with company provided pensions that could possibly make that decision (to move) harder (a la IBM full term careers).

I'm pretty sure most of this is misinformation. Having worked in retail before, there are defined and accepted processes about how returns are handled. For my employer (who was MUCH smaller than NewEgg), we had what was called a "Return To Vendor"(RTV) process (actually, there is an entire industry around this).

We/someone would simply fill out some paperwork describing the problem(s) and the vendor/manufacturer would credit either fully, or some percentage, of the cost - including little plastic items, machined items, chemicals, etc. (there are exceptions, not literally _everything_). The cost to my employer was administrative overhead. There is no reason NewEgg should have to hire people to test all returned equipment (that should be outsourced to refurbishment/remanufacturing firms).

So, NewEgg is not stuck here with no options, and a little good will can go a long way.