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I think I've only ever seen platform screen doors once in my life, on the Paris metro, and I thought they were great. It ameliorated my own personal fears and general curiosity about the tracks. Why do you think they are so bad? What if they weren't faulty? On a cursory glance on Google, I don't see much except rare cases where people got stuck(?) in them?

I feel like they would be reduce incidents of people/things falling into the tracks as well as help with queues in front of the doors (i.e., people know where to queue, as opposed to just following the train until it stops).

I guess it was more like, an impulse, not a conscious thought. So I had an impulse to do it, but never actually thought about doing it, and didn't realize what I had almost done until I was at a complete stop.

While driving home from work, I almost thought about speeding into the car in front of me because it would make big number.

+1 for IcoMoon. I tried a few of the other icon compilation apps and IcoMoon is by far and away the easiest to use with the best selection. There are slightly snazzier apps out there, but they just weren't as flexible as IcoMoon.

You should be able to delete a page so other people can claim it/for testing purposes.

The other post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7271704

They're so so great. Unlike plastic wrap which inevitably gets wrapped in itself and you have to cut it and mess with it, this is really substantial, you just pull it out of the drawer and you're done. And I have no problems washing it. I was using foil before I found this and that's even more of a waste...

I hate it too! I've started using reusable wraps, like Bee's Wrap (http://www.beeswrap.com/) or Abeego (http://abeego.com/).

Ugh, I was afraid of that. It looked very much like a stock photo. They really, really don't need a picture there to begin with.

Glad to see that y'all have removed the Kate Upton photo, I can see that it was just a mistake :)

Seems like they copped up to it and said they forgot to remove it in their new HN piece.

I was slightly impressed after reading the blog post and then completely turned off by seeing that image. I almost thought they might have forgotten to take it off, but it seems pretty intentional. It's just so completely irrelevant to their message. It might be funny to men, but I can't imagine many women who would find that charming, so you're alienating the demographic that schedules services for their homes.

Since you brought it up... Hulu has some of the worst ads I've ever seen. In my geographic region I have to suffer through upwards of three Cricket Mobile ads in an hour long program and they are the WORST. The Geico commercials are pretty bad too - I have a friend who likes them, but he's a cheese ball.

Haha, yeah it wasn't exactly mean to last, but this didn't help matters. Hey, you could even say iMessages helped them do the right thing. Good guy iMessages.

I know of a relationship that ended because of iMessages. They had had a fight and he texted her to apologize and then he never received any responses (they went straight to his computer) and then she got more upset, he thought she wasn't talking to him, etc.

Intensely boring - going to steal that one.

Hm, didn't learn anything new (was hoping I would in Mastering Issues), but Mastering Markdown is better than their markdown tutorial before.

Yeah, exactly. I also don't have a need to use any of those heavy weight apps more than a few times a year, so every time I go back, I have to start over again from scratch. Something appealing, lightweight, with good tutorials would be such a boon for web developers who don't have time to learn all the subtleties of Illustrator.

Coffeescript is way easier to learn than Illustrator.

Awesome! I'm really awful at drawing on my computer. Many failed attempts at trying to learn Illustrator, Gimp, etc. What's really cool about a web app of a drawing app is that you could use all the open source product tour JS libraries to create interactive tutorials... So impressive, thank you!

You sound like an awesome progeny, I'm sure they are very proud of you.

Haha, the end kind of freaked me out. This would be fun for making scary photo collages.

I've been in a coffee shop that does this. You can either set the password yourself or log in via facebook. Don't remember the exact workflow, but it's possible.

Oh man, good blog post, but I opened VA-Live's website in a new tab and it scared the living daylights out of me with that awful music. I thought we weren't supposed to do things like that anymore...

Yay EmberConf! Anyone have any idea where it might be?

Sidenote, this was really fun to read for some reason, like eating a bunch of little mini cookies.

I died @ "Unplug me! Make me Freeee!"

They look cool, but man I hate the orange that bleach on black makes.

I saw Denton on there and while surprised, not really surprised. I think you can get a decent turnout there, a very music oriented town. If you're in Victoria (and you have those buffer days), would you maybe want to come out to Houston?

Totally dig it! Unfortunately, you're not stopping by my town... Best of luck, it's gonna be an interesting time in the south for an Americana solo act from Connecticut.

Surprised you didn't know about Elfster - I thought about making my own app too, until I saw Elfster.

It's not quite perfect and seems to barely hold itself together (am I signed in, do I have account or do I not?!, etc..), but my friends and I have gotten by. I was able to invite people, remind them to join before the deadline and set exclusions on matchups (I didn't want significant others to get each other as well as people who aren't good friends). People have wishlists, like you mentioned. It's served us well enough for a one time thing, I'm not really sure what else I would need or want.

I guess one could extend the concept and become a broker for the gigantic anonymous gift exchanges? Like the Reddit Secret Santa, except people order from you or send you the packages? I know of people who never got their present even though they had sent a present.