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No there aren't, which doesn't really give me any confidence that an ISP could do it either. Presumably all it takes is an encrypted connection to a server outside of the ISP's filter and you've bypassed the filter.

http://www.jungledisk.com/

Though cables can vary a bit in price depending on quality, so that might have come into it a bit too.

In the case of huge stores like BestBuy that are basically like a warehouse with pretty much no customer service except at the checkout I would have no problem buying from the cheapest alternative provider (Amazon/ebay/whatever).

As I understand it, the problem with my eye is that my lens doesn't focus a point light source (e.g. a pixel) onto a point on my retina - one consequence of which is that the point source gets smeared out over a larger area (also I have astigmatism which means my eyes aren't perfectly spherical so colours get messed up, but lets ignore that!).

You can't fix that smearing by warping the shape of the image, but maybe you could adjust the brightness of the adjacent pixels to cancel out the smeared out bit - I guess by making the adjacent pixels a little darker than they should be. I don't know if that's a solvable set of equations.

If I flip my glasses over and look through the lens backwards, my vision doesn't get twice as bad - it's actually better than no glasses at all. Not sure what that tells you other than optics is very confusing to me.

If your eyes have different prescriptions it's not going to work, but maybe you could set it up for one eye and just close the other (but then maybe it would be easier to hold the phone closer to/further from your face).

I wish I could remember enough about optics to figure this out!

But I also agree with your assessment - safer and easier might have psychological advantages

Your coworkers and (possibly more importantly) your managers, are critical determining factors in how it all works out for you. Probably more so than whether you have a choice in technology, etc.

If I found a new social network that I thought offered something new I would start using that in parallel to facebook. Then I'd use the new one more as more people moved over, until eventually facebook just became a way of emailing my grandma.

A lot of these facebook killer conversations seem to be based on the idea that I'm only going to use one social network. I'd argue that's not true at all.

Looks like the blog article was written by an Australian - their level of job security falls somewhere between the UK and the US.

EDIT: Also, I believe, in the UK you can't make permanent staff redundant if you've got temporary staff - so the contractors are first out of the door.

I am going to simplify a lot here, but let's say that the train operator has a fixed operating cost and has a profit target, from which they know the gross revenue that they want over the next quarter. They know how many rides they expect people to pay for, so they divide the target gross revenue by the number of trips to get the ticket price. Assuming that the train timetable is fixed, more paying passengers means they can charge less per ticket and still hit their targets.

So in the case of stealing from someone's wallet, the victim takes a $50 hit. In the case on not paying for a train ticket, the operator will have to charge a slightly higher rate to paying passengers, so between them, the paying passengers take a $50 hit. If there's only one person not paying then that doesn't make much difference. But if 1% of passengers aren't paying, or 10%, or 50%... then that can start to affect the paying passengers quite significantly.

Or if the train operator is a bit less charitable and doesn't raise/lower the price in response to number of passengers, then the train operator's profit takes a $50 hit, which is passed on to the share holders, who may well be (in part) yours and my pension fund.

I would say that just because the $50 loss is divided by a large number of people, it doesn't make it any more morally defensible.

If you're working on your own then commiting frequently is fine. If you are working with a team then that's a lot of information for your colleagues to process, so it's a good idea to condense your changes down a bit when you commit to the main branch. I think that's what the article is getting at when it talks about feature branches.

If you don't mind going for mercurial instead of git then take a look at hginit.com. Then if you're on windows, go and install tortoiseHg.

Is this is specifically for the meetup.com website? If it is then I'm not your target audience so ignore me (might be worth making that more obvious). If you are talking about organizing meetups more generally (not tied to meetup,com), then it's not entirely obvious from the front page why I might need it. I don't know why I'd want to add social elements (I can create a link to a map easily enough myself), and the other 3 I can already do.

Does it handle managing who's coming/not coming? Who's replied? Who came last time? I could probably find all of that out by creating an account, but I'm not going to bother doing that unless I already know the answers to those questions.

Hope that helps! Best of luck.

It's also very useful for managing different versions of packages - e.g. I can upgrade to the latest Django for one project without risking breaking all of the others.

Having said that, I install the stuff that I consider to be "core" globally - for me that's primarily numpy, but also a handful of others.

Do you know of a list of services that actually make use of these domains?

Limewire and alternatives are of interest to me yet I have no interest in downloading any content via those services. Why am I interested in Limewire and friends? Partly because I like to know what's going on in the tech world and partly because I'm interested in what other people are up to. But mostly because I find the ongoing fight between the RIAA and co and the pirates massively interesting. In what other industry does a leading industry body actively harass potential customers in what appears from the outside to be a losing battle?

I'm pretty sure that the people looking for alternatives don't need to read PC Mag to find them.

The crucial difference between a drivers license and some kind of centralised internet ID is that anyone can verify a drivers licence with a reasonable degree of accuracy - they don't need to contact the government each time to see if it's genuine.

With an internet ID the provider gets to collect a lot of information about me and what I'm doing (not saying they would, just saying they could), which makes me nervous.

I've lived in the UK and Oz and in both countries my drivers license stays in my wallet ready for when an over eager bouncer to ask me to prove my age or for when I sign up to a new video store on a whim. My passport pretty much stays at home unless I'm going to the airport.

So sure, they solved the first failing unit test (make IE9 look quick), but don't seem to have written enough unit tests to make sure the second part of the requirement works. So they would fail the acceptance tests and have to keep working on it.

(Wouldn't count myself as a full on TDD proponent but do use it when the time is right.)

If that's the case then I'd say you created a new implementation of existing font?