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I believe "yes" has become less useful over the years, with flags like force and quiet solves this now.

If anyone, like me, is wondering what "yes" is used for. You can use to pipe "y" to commands that require interactivity, so if you just want to say "y" to all the inputs, you can use "yes" to do this:

  yes | rm -r large_directory

  yes | fsck /dev/foo

http://tweet-a-lot.com/ Gamifying twitter for your brand. Good for gigs and music events.

I'm curious what is your web app?

Who remembers Sun Microsystems (now Oracle) Sun Ray's [1]? I worked for Sun (UK) in 2005 and they used them for all their employees. I never understood why they didn't sell them to schools and enterprise. Maybe they tried but couldn't.

I really liked the true hot-desking. Find a desk anywhere (even another building) stick your badge into one of the thin clients and you had your entire desktop.

You could also use USB thumb drives and it would work as expected.

My manager had a Sun-ray in his house. He also used to go abroad to the other Sun offices and would just carry on with his session like nothing changed.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Ray

edit: added url

http://tweet-a-lot.com - #tweet-a-lot is a great way to start your own contest to encourage twitter users to post with your hashtag. The service uses gamification to reward behaviour that helps you promote your brand to the most followers.

Depending on what you build, you could get away with using free tier on a lot of hosting solutions, like Heroku.

In the past I've used Heroku for some charity websites, and they've been running well for years. If you do it well (caching etc), you could handle a lot of traffic with the free tier.

You could ask them to donate money after they find a job, as a way to keep the service running for the next person.

I got in contact with them for one of my projects. They don't have £ support yet, which they say will be available in June. I'm looking to use this service if its as good as they say it is.

They do this so they can remove your contact details and also sometimes they like to add a "cover" page with the details of their agency.

One annoying thing about Zurb, it overrides the default styling of forms!

I find that really annoying because sometimes you want to use something like formtastic, which works by add a class name on the form element, but won't work because zurb has overridden the default style. Twitter bootstrap does not do this.

I love the grid layout on zurb. It stretches to fit the width for tablets and phones. With bootstrap, the stretching happens only on phones.

Good and bad on both frameworks.

Server Density is a UK company. They use to have pricing in pounds.

They seem to have switched to dollar pricing.

My question: Are they taking payment in dollars? or are they converting the amount to pound equivalent in last moment and taking that payment?

I've been thinking about pricing on the internet, whether its good to price in dollars to make it more convenient for the american customers. I feel like customers from UK are alright with paying dollars, but americans don't like to pay in pounds.

Islamic finance is a fairly complicated subject. As someone who has no background in finance, I have been trying to understand some basics.

But overall, what I understand is that for a bank to give out loans, they must also provide every opportunity to help those who are borrowing money. For example, they can extend the payment, provide advice etc

The main thing about Islamic finance is that it is all asset based. You can take a loan to buy a car, but you can't take a loan to renovate a house etc. This is to stop people from borrowing when they can't possibly pay back. There are few models for unsecured loans. But, as I said, its very complicated.

Love it! thank you

Tweet-a-lot is an exciting new social media web application which allows people to create competitions to get people tweeting, a lot!

The outcome is that organisations using the service are more visible on social media. It is a great marketing tool to get people talking about your brand.

Tweet-a-lot works through gamification of twitter, getting people incredibly competitive.

Users receive points for different types of Twitter posts, and a score board is displayed on the tweet-a-lot competition page. Users have to keep tweeting to stay at the top of the score board. As simple as that.

Everything runs in real-time, players are scored live and there is a twitter stream to watch the game.

Tweet-a-lot includes automatic player discovery. Users who are unaware of the competition are drawn into playing. When they tweet with the competition hashtag, they receive @reply’s with their score and URL to the competition page.

The best part? Your users do not need to install anything or even register to play; they can play using their favourite Twitter client.

You can join the example competition by tweeting with #tweetalotapp hastag. http://tweet-a-lot.com/36783-sample