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For what it's worth, Toyota built a plant in my hometown and of the 4 people I know who got jobs there, all of them eventually quit due to the anti-union shenanigans pulled by management. They are a good company, but not without their flaws. (And to be fair, I'm not sure how much of this behavior was influenced by corporate policy vs. typical small town closemindedness.)

To be clear, this is on their blog, not "printed in the Paris fucking Review."

Is there a version of Firefox that plays nicely with the new full screen app features? 5.0.1 kind of falls apart with it, but I just can't give up TreeStyle Tabs to make the leap to Chrome, which is a good citizen.

Additionally, there's Chirpy, which seems to be broadly the same set of features, minus intellisense. http://chirpy.codeplex.com/

> So you'd happily see thousands of people killed as long as it proves you right?

Recent American politics in a nutshell, I'm afraid. Football with words, but also stealth bombers and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.

Excellent link. This phenomenon has been driving me up the wall on another site I frequent and that article captures it well.

Absolutely, but it has a lot fewer airports. This is what I mean by scale.

I think we should be looking to learn from everyone, but at the same time, the scale of the problem is so vastly larger in the US than Israel or pretty much anywhere else we could look to that I fear the lessons won't translate well.

If it makes you feel any better, the ease with which something like this could be pulled off, and the fact that no one has tried it, combine to make me believe that the terror threat is vastly overblown to begin with.

I'm not even sure what they could do to fix it. Maybe design some sort of tunnel that has a system of baffles? The lines seem too big to secure in most airports.

I have long thought that the security lines themselves are far more at risk than the actual planes. If you fly through any relatively large airport during a busy time, or even just an unlucky time, you'll sometimes see lines with hundreds of people in them (thousands if you happen to be somewhere like O'Hare during a holiday weather delay). In IAD or DCA there are massive terminals with glass ceilings and windows with large snaking security lines. The carnage from even a small explosion would be immense when the structure itself potentially serves as shrapnel.

It would be more surprising to me if they weren't working on something like this.

I think strongly typed views are an area where things fall down due to lack of guidance rather than design. I don't think a view model is the same thing as the model in MVC.

In my MVC apps, I use them pretty much exclusively, but they exist completely independently from my application model (they represent compositions thereof). This really only makes sense in apps of a certain scale, though, so having the option not to use them, or to use dynamic views (not sure if they count as strongly typed, but they are a weird middle ground) is definitely useful.

Interesting, I've never heard of LightSpeed. I'll be honest that I have a near-zero level of trust for this type of software from vendors in the .NET space, but I'll definitely give it a look.

I wonder if this is going to push the NH guys to do an official migrations package. You can already come pretty close to it just using the schema migration APIs, so they have a lot of the pieces. I'd love to see some competition in what I think is historically an under-addressed part of development on any given Microsoft stack.

Given the roadmap there, I'd say that the wait won't be terribly long. I have been very impressed with the turnaround times on new versions of MVC so far.

The feature that seems most likely to cause issues with a release would be Recipes because of their connection to NuGet. I'd expect to see a pretty feature complete CTP without that first, with the complete implementation being spread across one or two more.

I have no inside line on this, but I've been working with it since v1 so I follow it pretty closely.

One thing that I have learned from Microsoft over the years is that this kind of statement is worth about as much as the ink it takes to print it. It may be true for WP7 in the immediate future, but it has no bearing on WP vNext or whatever they choose to do when they ultimately panic and reorient, which they will, because that's how they have always reacted to change in consumer tastes.

Is there a way to get to this through gmail's navigation?

I'm not the most social person to begin with, so I gave it a lot of time, but I just totally failed to make any non-work friends because of stuff like that. I've been here for ~4 years and am so ready to get out West. Of course, it's never as easy to move that far as you'd want it to be.

I remember in Cambridge I could swing downstairs to the neighborhood bar, find a stranger, and strike up a conversation. Maybe it didn't work half as well as I am recalling, but even then, it was better than DC, where it always turns to "where do you work?" And "a startup" has only slightly more cachet than "I'm unemployed."

From a professional standpoint moving here has been great, but from a personal point of view, I think it's the biggest I've made.

Funny, I also lived in Cambridge for 5 years (mostly the Inman area) and had the exact opposite impression, and in fact, I'm in the process of trying to find a way to leave DC because I think it's cold in exactly the same way you describe. I pretty frequently find myself wishing I was back in Cambridge.

That makes sense. I think the reason I can't remember the name is that it has no real connection to what I'm trying to accomplish. I think Ninite is fine for a company name, but maybe you could use a product name or something to more firmly establish the connection between the name of your product and what it does.

I just recently rebuilt my workstation and wanted to use Ninite but I couldn't remember the name and couldn't find it via search. This is the second time that's happened, although the first time was before the name change, so I don't really count it. (Although now that I think of it, I can't recall the original name either.)

Yeah, the types of problems we had (I sort of wrote about it elsewhere[1]) were just totally inexplicable. I forget the precise specifics but one of them was something along the lines of things that would work one day but not the next, etc. Just really wild stuff that made me have no trust for the reliability of the platform.

Edit: The "best" part, if you follow that link, is that the project I mentioned that ended up cancelled would've had to be rewritten anyway now that FBML is on the way out.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2693190

I think this could be huge. My experience with building on the FB platform has been so dramatically negative that I gave it up and really no longer trust them (I'll take a look at this new platform they're working on, of course) as a platform provider.

I think Google, with their track record of APIs and platforms like GAE, could really light a fire under them that'd be beneficial to everyone.

The DHS is huge now. It covers everything from stuff like ICE to the Coast Guard. If you ask me, TSA is the tip of the DHS iceberg. The whole thing is suspect, top to bottom, and probably ought to be scrapped and done over.

Wow, I should've looked at that, that is stunning, considering that the FBI actually regularly solves crimes.

I imagine if you paid what it really cost to have screeners with that level of training we'd be talking about a pretty hefty increase over the FBI. Mind boggling.

To be clear I didn't mean that there are not literally enough people to hire to do the job. I should've been a bit clearer but what I was really getting at was the massive scope and cost of such an agency with staffing requirements like that. We're talking about something on par with or larger than the FBI.

The TSA already seems to be scraping the bottom of the barrel for their screeners. Given the tremendous discrepancy in the number of airports in Israel vs. the United States, how are we supposed to come up with enough people who are as qualified as the ones Israel can handpick for their airports?

'Who watches the watchers?' is indeed a good question with the TSA. It's not clear based on their behavior that anyone is doing much watching over there, unless you count watching out for #1.

I'd say Anna Karenina is a good alternative. It's always been my personal favorite of his.