mikaelgramont

It's like Wolverine's healing factor that went crazy once Magneto stripped the adamantium off his bones.

If somebody steals your money from a bank, the bank can replace it. If somebody steals your data from the cloud, there's no way to make things ok.

Yes, you're right, that makes more sense. Now let's never bring this up ever again for fear of confusing people some more.

Agreed. Sessions and the limitations of forms are the biggest obstacles to 100% restful APIs used from web browsers.

Like others I bought the ebook back in May. Is the final version different enough to make me re-read it now?

Why should this guy be punished for people downloading stuff from some other website? Why is Real going after him and not the other website? How can they know how much traffic this guys sent to the other website?

THIS IS CRAZY!

An EEG is probably necessary for official reasons, before a "certificate of death" can be issued. But there is a point where the emergency rescuers have to give up, and it probably takes hours before the EEG can be done.

Further discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.usability/browse_...

Hopefully Google will use some of those $3B to lobby against software patents.

Nobody knows how to IE6, that's the point.

Welcome to the club.

By 'dressed up', I mean choose a set of colors (say 3) and use them for recurring elements in your pages (titles, questions, etc). Try to use colors and white space to visually separate questions, rather than borders (ex: the legend tag uses borders). Use colored backgrounds to give a sense of vertical space. Also, most sites have a footer, that helps give a sense of space too.

I personnaly would stay away from using yellow/blue/pink/green on the same page (at 1:00 in the video).

I can send you my email, but I don't see yours in your profile either :p

While it is good that you kept the UI very lean, you would probably benefit from having a UI/UX guy help you with making the app feel a bit more 'dressed up'. Currently this looks like a developer designed it (I should know, I suffer from the same problem).

Also, having worked on pretty much the exact same product for the French market, one thing I remember people liked was help sections. By that, I mean big long blobs of text that explain the law in detail. On each form page you could display the relevant explainations, and then compile that into a searchable index, and even use that on dedicated pages for SEO purposes.

Oh and maybe you wanna say 'the easy way [to do your taxes]', rather than 'an easy way'.

You could allow access to that link about 5 times. After that, display a link that says something along the lines of "Thanks for using us. This link has been used 5 times already. If you wish to access it again, click here and we will send you an email with another authorization code (or whatever)". That way your users don't lose access to their stuff, and you can keep track of abuse. It's not a perfect solution, but it's better than nothing.

Does not exist yet. There's no final spec for this, and Opera just started experimenting with it. http://my.opera.com/core/blog/2011/03/23/webcam-orientation-...

Very unlikely in the long term. As millions of these get built, cost will come down.

Looks like work-in-progress. Their HTML is a mess, and the homepage doesn't even have a title tag.

Never heard of them, I thought they had a service to create gif images of letters. Char-GIF-y.

So what kind of servers/load are we talking about? This is really interesting, I'd love to hear some figures.

I don't doubt a lot of money goes into allowing some people into ivy league schools. But why should that counterbalance the fact that if you're born poor then chances are you won't go to college, especially a good one? In the end, some especially gifted, smart or hard-working kids will make it, sure. But they'll be competing for the same financial aid. Why should those have to work any harder than the rest?

"The more poor, the more financial aid is available". Why isn't everyone able to go to an ivy league school then? Your statement implies that by being poor, you get lots of free money, which is basically saying there's nothing below the middle class. I think _that_ is not how it works.

Also, what if you don't want just "the new replacement for a high school degree"? My point exactly: why should you have to shoot for a lower degree because you're poor?

As a foreigner who never had to pay for his education (provided for free by the government), I find it disheartening to see that no one (even here) brings up the issue that everyone should have access to education. Some kid whose only fault was to be born in a poor family should have access to the same opportunities as another one born in a richer family. This is destroying the fabric of society if you ask me: poor people don't get educated and are getting poorer. Maybe you'll call my point of view 'socialist', who cares. It just makes me sad that everyone takes the fact that college tuitions cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for granted.

The eco-friendliness of a car does not come down to its MPG only. You also need to look at how much greenhouse (and other) gases come out from the combustion. New cars tend to do better.

But on the other hand, building a new car requires lots of energy, so maybe in the end we're better off driving old ones... ? It's all so complex, I don't know what to think, personally!

Can someone explain this to me?

"For example, participants estimated that line-drying clothes saves more energy than changing the washer’s settings (the reverse is true)"

Makes no sense to me. "Changing" doesn't mean anything. I'm sure the article is on to something, but that quote here is just too unclear.

I like how the reasoning behind the move to MP3s instead of discs is that MP3s don't wear out. Because, you know, hard disks don't wear out either... And with the whole move-to-digital thing, you might think you have less stuff, but what you're doing is transferring your belongings from one device to the next over time. Over the course of your life, you're gonna own dozens of laptops and the energy and the chemicals released to build those aren't free. Compare that to books and disks you bought once and for all (granted they don't wear out). Maybe the move to all-digital is for the better, but it's just not that obvious to me.