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There is zero risk for a nonprofit to publish their EIN widely. It's already on Guidestar and Charity Navigator and usually discoverable with a simple Google search.

There is also a ton of value. It makes people who donate more confident that their donations made through corporate gift matching or donor advised funds are going to the right place.

The article's statement "Putting them within a transaction is also no good, as you can't read and make decisions on the result (is the result of the select null?)" is not correct. You can implement task assignment in a SERIALIZABLE-capable RDBMS using a single "UPDATE ... SET assigned_to = 'me' WHERE assigned_to IS NULL" statement, or the equivalent of "SELECT FOR UPDATE" at the beginning of a transaction in order to examine the row in advance.

Also, why does it need to be a Chrome extension? What happened to non-extension web sites?

Does anybody have more information on the claim in this article that WPA2 is insecure too?

In T-Mobile US's case, pre-paid services like the pay-as-you-go or Monthly4G plans do not have access to the full set of towers that the contracted plans do. Per a sales rep I talked to yesterday, the non-contracted plans exclude domestic "partner carriers". This comes up if T-Mobile is poor in an area and they contract with AT&T for coverage.

Guava is a work of art created by the team that maintains it; what's the big deal if you can't add your own code to it? Merely a lost opportunity to advance your own vanity?

Respect their boundaries and let your experience inform your feedback to them. If you read what Kevin is saying, it is clear they are interested in hearing if, how, and why their library is helping or hurting your own project. They will probably listen if your feedback provides the answers they seek.

They've been down for about 10 hours now, and are doing a very bad job at updating their status blog with any information. Apparently they've lost a router.

With the exception of Facebook (which I visited this morning), the results were accurate (Amazon, reddit, linkedin, wikipedia, youtube). Spoooky!

Agree; this strikes me as a kind of anti-trust theater, with two companies that didn't have the foresight to build their own independent branding strategy (nextag) or actually innovate in local search (yelp) complaining about how they are suffering from their own bad business decisions. They put all their eggs in one basket. Whose fault is that? Not Google's!!

Congrats on constructing the perfect troll for this community!

yes, you can actually design a site for your project and host it on google code. directing your users to the gc-provided default is your choice.

the contents of your repositories are hosted available at projectname.googlecode.com, and you can serve HTML just like you can code. example: http://json-template.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/On-Design-...

the urls are not as nice but github's aren't great either.

my take on it is that gc is better at running long-lived projects or projects with non-developer users. github is great, but its emphasis is strictly on coding and dvcs.

i've run svn gc projects, and projects on github, and found the gc stack to be generally more robust, cohesive, flexible, and methodically designed. ex: compare the rich functionality of the gc issue tracker to github and you'll find them incomparable. or, create a project and browse the "advanced" tab of your project and you'll probably find you have more control than it feels like, with little effort.

regarding "can actually host content" - prolly a red herring because both let you host content. they just present a different ui for it.

very little, clearly.

both can host project homepages in a variety of ways. GC gives you a navigable and clean and usable project landing page by default, while github makes you work a bit harder. neither service prevents you from doing what you want, but if you care about your non-developer users, you'll find better conversions using google code. fact.

to the OPs point, there is no reason why you can't make your GC project page have more content for developers. it is a wiki. everybody loves wikis.

the OP of this thread is clearly trolling, though.

I should have qualified my statement to performance problems rather than HR violations. Agree, if you are doing your work poorly, it is either because you are never going to be good at it or because the company hasn't set you up to succeed. In most cases, the manager and the employee should know in advance that there are opportunities for improvement.

Fortunately, the author doesn't say why she was fired. This allows us to wonder if she was fired for having sex in the supply closet or doing oxy off her company-issued tablet, which is a terminable offense at most places of employment. If this is the case, immediate sacking is appropriate. Not that I, as a manager, would terminate her, though. I'm a fun manager.

There are legitimate reasons to whitelist OpenID providers, especially if you are dealing with $$ or want to minimize support costs.

Huh? Browsers support client SSL certs today, but for some reason nobody uses them except intranets.

By what mechanism does BrowserID require RPs to respect the valid-until field?

<i>"Also getting fired is something that shouldn’t come as a surprise"</i>

Sounds like an unhealthy work environment. Management was pointing fingers at other management? Lame. Getting fired should never be a surprise.

check your .html files in to your repo and serve them from projectname.googlecode.com. You can even set your project homepage to redirect there automatically if you are clever.

ck the "My Favorites" link in upper right

You seem to be under the impression that the only reason people consume open source projects is because they want the source code. For many use cases, they are simply consumers of applications, not developers. Google Code tries to satisfy both user groups (this is why all the project homepages are in a consistent format, downloads are easily accessible, developers don't have to learn markup to host docs, etc).

While Google Code has some work to do on DVCS features, I still find it far more generally usable and thoughtfully designed than GitHub.