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justjohn··on Glassdoor is now adding real names to user profiles without consent
I was able to bypass the modal by going directly to the account setting page: https://www.glassdoor.com/member/profile/accountSettings

From there you can at least deactivate your account, not sure what other pages are also accessible without going through the modal.

justjohn··on Why I threw away three Jawbone UPs, sold my Fitbit Flex and deinstalled Human
I had a pretty similar experience with the Nike FuelBand I bought. I haven't had any hardware problems, but I couldn't get over the feeling of having a hard plastic wristband on all the time. The value just wasn't there to offset that. Now it just sits on the charger on my desk, not doing much of anything. These days I mostly just use the Moves app on my phone which gives me the number of steps I walked and total distance, which is all I really care about anyway. It'll take a really integrated/seamless experience to get me to try another band.
justjohn··on Passwordless Products
Assume the channel delivering the token is email. Then to login you provide your user ID or email, identifying who you are, they immediately email you a token (or link containing the token) to login with.
justjohn··on The Humble Origin Bundle
It is great that it's all going to charity, and as you said, kudos to Origin for that. I just don't like the direction Humble is going. I want them to be a place I can go to find interesting Indie games I might not have heard of before.
justjohn··on The Humble Origin Bundle
This doesn't feel like a Humble Bundle to me. I loved Humble for spotlighting great Indie games. If I want cheap older triple-A titles I'll buy them during a steam sale.
justjohn··on Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more
The best replacement I found was to host my own instance of Kolab 3[1] which was a pain to setup, but seems to work pretty well and looks nice. I couldn't find any good hosted solutions though.

[1] http://kolab.org/

justjohn··on Show HN: Pick a better background pattern for your website
You rock. This is crazy useful for trying out styles on stuff i'm building. I'd echo one of the suggestions here, there needs to be a way to apply to non-body elements.
justjohn··on Turn your browser into a notepad with one line
In Chrome: 1. Tools -> Extensions 2. Enable "Developer Mode" 3. "Load Unpacked Extension" and select the directory you cloned into.
justjohn··on University of California introduces a modern logo
That logo reminds me of the first time I figured out how to make gradients in Photoshop. It wasn't good then, and it isn't good now.
justjohn··on Mozilla blogger bought 1 million Facebook entries (full name, e-mail) for $5
I wonder what other data the seller has. It seems likely that you could get more valuable data from the users of these facebook apps since people tend to says yes when apps ask for permission to access data.
justjohn··on I just left 200 fake parking tickets at YC Demo Day...
The only regular use I ever have for QR codes is loading a long page url I'm looking at on my desktop to my phone. I keep a chrome plugin installed so I can click a button for a QR code. Beyond that, I'm not going to some random link encoded in a QR code.
justjohn··on Git-annex assistant: Like DropBox, but with your own cloud
Nothing is ever a new idea, it's all about implementation and marketing. It will be interesting to see how git-annex assistant compares to the other products linked here when it's finished.
justjohn··on Enforcing Different Passwords for Different Sites
You just have to add a clause to the TOS, nobody reads it anyway so you could grant yourself a licence to do anything with their email!
justjohn··on I'm an American and I want to watch the Olympics. What do I do?
They run every few minutes, it feels kind of random. But they have a very nasty habit of running right at critical moments during the games.
justjohn··on LESS Prefixer
This looks fantastic. I've been using a similar (but less complete) css3 less file in some of my projects. It's nice to have a more complete one available.

I would reccomend also taking a look at this border-radius mixin: http://tech.matchfwd.com/a-better-border-radius-mixin-in-les... it's quite well done using guard statements to allow more fine-grain control.

justjohn··on Why one company is making all its employees learn how to code
It seems unlikely to me that the business types will do much serious programming; after all that's not what job is. I suspect the real value of this will be improved communication on technical subjects. It's much easier to work with someone (like an engineer) when you have a common baseline and can appreciate the work they're doing. It's also a fantastic learning opportunity for the engineers, since teaching/mentoring people on a topic is one of the best ways to improve your knowledge of it.