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Text file, today at the top, copy that part at the end of the day and email it.

No specific immediate need. In general I prefer to use things that won't go away when the proprietor does, or that can be implemented and sold by anyone, like email. Anyone can lose interest; Google killed Reader for example.

Mirrors don't reverse anything.

Stand in front of a mirror, hold your arms straight out to either side.

Your left arm is on "that" side of the room where you are, and the reflection of your left arm is also on "that" side of the room where the mirror is.

Nothing's reversed, nothing's moved, nothing's weird.

If you painted the front of you with black ink, held out your arms and pressed yourself against the wall, where would you expect the imprint of your left arm to be? Right there where it is.

It's very nice, I hope it does well.

I may have missed it, but does this do collaborative editing between 2 or more people? That would be the thing that could convince me to use this or something like it. Otherwise it's just a really nice drawing app whose drawback (others would call it a feature) is that I have to get to it through a service.

What I'd really like to see is something that two or more parties could install locally, and collaborate interactively without a server in the middle, or only the lightest of facilitation by a server. Which is not what you're trying to do here and I apologize. What you've done is pretty sweet.

I merely bought and installed an xbox 360, and now I have a small number of windows live or hotmail or xbox accounts, I haven no idea which are distinct accounts and which are linked in some way. Ptthht, ptthht. Trying to cancel the auto re-up of their gold account was a nightmare of circular hate. Ptthht.

OK, so how do you deal with a world where:

  - Many people never abandon their primary identity email.
  - But many other people often abandon their email identity.
  - You don't want to use a social network as the gatekeeper to *your* site.
  - You don't want to have human support for password resets.

Sekrit questions/answers along the lines of your first car's maiden name? Those can be forgotten just as easily as usernames for login.

It sounds like being an employee at a stereotypical startup is like being a native bearer in an African expedition movie from the fifties.

If you weren't careful you'd pick it up with your finger on the triggers and spray the room with letters.

Too late for this query, but for anyone else, I've read that when you apply for individual health insurance you should do it with all of your candidate companies at once so that you can truthfully say "I have not been denied" to as many companies as possible.

I think you'll be able to get some kind of health insurance in 2014 when Obama-care kicks in. Maybe work a job just until then? You might be able to work/start/research your own company in the meantime, and you'll be free to "build one to throw away."

You might talk to all the health insurance brokers you can find. Small companies with health insurance might lead you to them. Also talk to your life/auto/home insurance broker, they might point you to options.

EDIT: Is there an association, and/or forums or other groups for you condition? They may have found ways to get insurance. Does your condition have some sort of government fallback support?

But which is which?

I sometimes wonder if a good alternative to django/rails is to use the most minimal framework that's reasonable to start with, and then gradually customize it away.

Maybe because our niche is intelligence, and we're able to notice effect and possibility.

I have a back of the mind low grade worry that some insecure squinty eyed troll at work IT is going to accuse me of vague and scary things if anyone ever notices "Hacker News" has been coming through the fire wall to me. "See! He's reading about Hacking!"

There should be more like that. Get in, say it, get out, STFU.

Can you sell me some software that will let me bypass my IT department that's on "our" (I feel we have a relationship now) second ticket to fix a recurring bluescreen because they insist on trying to troubleshoot it and fix it (see: second ticket) rather than just issuing a new laptop and troubleshooting it on their own time?

Judging from the map it looks like North Korea has managed to protect itself quite nicely.

And Silicon Valley may find that Silicon Valley is not as politically monolithic as it thinks it is. I'm sure there are plenty of closeted conservatives in the Valley who would love to get paid to further the message.

As I said, it gives you an idea of what an impaired user might see.

The key isn't so much using paid alternatives (although I personally think that's a good solution).

The important bit is to always use your own domain where possible. Gmail can be used with your own domain. If you leave Gmail no one is disrupted, because you just move your mail hosting business somewhere else, and point your domain there.

No one buys these paintings. The whole point is the extortion link to remove you from the database. The paintings are just dressup to make an extortion site look like not an extortion site.

Extortion.

"I might move the "Python is a programming language..." bit higher up the page."

If you look at the site with a text browser like lynx then this is even more important. Lots of menus and other things that assume you know what's going on, then finally on the next page break or two an explanation. Make that all but topmost.

(And y'all ought to view your sites with a text browser once in awhile, it will give you a rough idea of the experience of people using browsers for visual and other impairments.)

I've dropped two interesting online courses because I can't devote the time. The maddening thing is they're canned videos that have already been produced, and quizzes and tests are graded automatically, so the only thing that requires real time is interaction with official course assistants.

ENIAC to your phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selectron_tube

I have this vague idea of an open, minimal social network that is little more than the internet:

- If you want to just read, use an RSS reader and subscribe to ... stuff.

- If you want to participate, get a personal page via someone like Wordpress that serves RSS, or run your own via your choice of technology if you want.

- If you want to build relationships between RSS serving participants, use the missing RSS feature that allows client RSS readers and site RSS readers (another missing piece) to piece together inter-site RSS conversations and relationships.

- Mix in some personal privacy and control, and you're done.

EDIT: add missing word.

The "back in my days" speech has been old since recorded history. But I think you'll find as you get older that your "my days" occurred in particularly brilliant times. At least, that's what history would suggest.

Why would Google want to maintain and promote an app that makes it easy for people to go to non-Google sites?

See also the bookend piece The Computers of Tomorrow, Martin Greenberger, Atlantic 1964. Both articles linked here: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/unbound/flashbks/computer/te...

I just looked at the TypeMatrix site. Looks cool 'n all, but I'm wary of their keyboard configuration (grid of even rows and columns of keys) that's so physically different from most very other keyboard you might encounter (standard staggered key arrangement).

I'm not saying that standard staggered is inherently superior, but it is what most people learn on and use.

Comments?

"Personally, I don't pirate movies/music, but as a CMU (SCS + Heinz) alum, the lack of rigor and potential conflicts of interest displayed in this paper are disheartening. More than that, they cheapen the value of my degrees."

It's probably also worth writing a letter stating exactly that to your school, your department, and the department involved, as well as a letter to your alum magazine.

Haven't spend tens of thousands, but I have a similar experience.

I use pairnic.com for registration and dns. I don't know if their customer service is good or bad because I've never needed it, but I suspect it's excellent.

I use fastmail.fm for both SMTP and IMAP. I've never needed their customer service, it just works.

I don't use my gmail account, but I keep it in part for a backup SMTP, although I've seen gmail SMTP go down and I've never seen fastmail go down. I suppose they must have and I just wasn't doing anything active at the time.