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He posted Garcia's original comps (not the final poster) on his Facebook. The images had "©2013 Spike Lee" slapped on them. These images are not in this article, but were on JG's website yesterday.

Garcia kindly asked him for help, presenting both of themselves as victims of a shady middleman, leaving plenty of room for Lee not only to come out on top and save his face, but even to turn this into great publicity for the movie.

Apparently, Lee decided otherwise.

We live in post-xhtml times, browsers will try to make sense and render all sorts of bad code.

>If you accidentally put the logo twice on the page, it will be clearly visible. It virtually never happens and when it does it isn't hard to track down.

You're assuming the visual difference in applied style is always clearly visible, like a repeated logo. No, it's often not, not until someone changes something in a class and the change is populated everywhere the class was reused. An ID is a guarantee it was not reused, or at the very least serves as a "do not reuse" sign.

Edit: formatting

The fact that they cannot be reused in a single page is what makes IDs so useful.

There are benefits of IDs others mentioned, but for me properly used IDs make CSS so much clearer. An ID in CSS code is a flag saying: "custom-crafted for this part of the page only, not to be reused", or "non-modular code".

Unlike a class, an ID informs me with 100% certainty that if modified, it will not affect other instances on the page, because there are none. It's hard to overestimate the value of such information, especially when working on older or someone else's code.

The genius of Jobs was that he understood better than others that personal tech had more to do with fashion industry than tech industry.

He run Apple as a fashion company: he set trends, introduced seasonal device colours and collections, presented them in fashion gala shows packed with industry press. He was a fashion dictator.

Most of their competition still doesn't get it, they still think they sell technology.

Apple builds great technology, but it sells hip and sexy.

I don't know if there are other investors than Y Combinator though, there might be one that will push for a sale.

http://www.rte.ie/news/business/2013/0903/471900-stripe-laun... The video interviews with Patrick are worth a look too.

Patrick is 24, his brother is even younger. I am with Stripe from the day they launched in Ireland, it was easy to choose them over the likes of Braintree and Paymill who aimed for simplicity but still required quite some formalities. Also, Paymill is Samwer brothers, a turn-off for some entrepreneurs and developers.

Even when I launch a file from Finder, I get a split-second blink of the Playlist. And when the clip stops, I see Playlist instead of the starting screen and can't drag and drop to play files to it anymore.

When I disable the Playlist by pressing its button on the interface, the expanding transition of the window when opening a file is oddly jumpy — hopefully an easy fix in future releases (I'm on OSX 10.8.5). Playlist still appears at times.

The standalone Controller module from the interface… I miss it, any chance of it ever returning?

Back to the two years old VLC 1.1.12 for me, it was much better thought-out interface-wise (Playlist is just a functionality, not the driving feature and Controller is still there) — and it still plays every file I need it to.

I will of course keep checking for updates.

Obviously, Apple doesn't care for your youtube videos. But I wouldn't expect a Keynesist to understand the nuances of how modern products are structured and real product often concealed behind a freebie.

If you want a media player, just download one. My favourite is AVPlayer for iPhone (and AVPlayer HD for iPad). Plays all formats I tried.

Braintree seems ok-ish but has a €100 minimum monthly fee. Paymill seems to be just fine but has some formal requirements.

Realex and Sagepay have a monthly fee, also require a merchant account, this is where the fun begins (although Sagepay offers own merchant accounts too).

AIB Merchant Account charges:

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Once off registration fee of €190. Credit Cards: 3.00% per transaction Laser Cards: 25c per transaction Visa Debit Cards: 35c per transaction Please bear in mind that we have a minimum monthly charge of €30, so if your total charge for Merchant Service Charge and Laser each month does not equal to €30, you will be charged €30.

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To get an AIB Merchant Account you also need to provide 3 months of bank accounts, and, wait for it… A BUSINESS PLAN (!)

Also… "Once the signed application is returned to us it will be processed within 5-10 working days."

Stripe. All you need is 10-15 minutes it takes to fill the online form and set things up. Done. I always thought the downside was that it was considerably more expensive than others. Not in Ireland, it isn't — unless I'm missing something.

In Germany and Norway, children are taken from their families on a decision of a social worker, no court is needed. All it takes is a teacher's report stating that a kid is "sad".

Google "Jugendamt" to read the horror stories. A classic scenario involves forbidding a divorced foreign parent to speak in their non-German language with their kid, ever.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/czechrepubl...

Reportedly "dangerous stand-off" meant that Russians pulled guns on the plane and Czech police withdrew in order not to escalate.

Suppose you give a bar of gold to everyone, for nothing, every month.

Question: what's gold going to be worth on the market in half a year?

Employing someone in EU is like accepting them into a kindergarten, you assume full responsibility for them as if they weren't adults.

Matt Henderson gives an eye-opening first-hand report from Spain here:

http://www.dafacto.com/2011/02/12/the-unfortunate-consequenc...

Allow the employers to fire easily, they will have no problem hiring again.

Otto von Bismarck

(also attributed to others as is every good quote)