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It wasn't directed at the female attendees at all. Here's how it was meant:

"Hey lonely geeks: you will have the chance to meet women there because our catering staff is female."

Did you interpret it as though they were planning to force the female attendees to serve the male attendees beer?

> Having/Wanting someone to serve you is not "idolizing".

Is that the point of contention, that people feel that serving someone is demeaning?

> And as said elsewhere, just because you say shitty things about everyone doesn't mean that it's okay to say shitty things.

So you agree that the comment wasn't slighting women? Or are you just generally offended by all the possible interpretations?

Actually that's the funny part, this "joke" was in no way belittling women, it's idolizing them. It was made at the expense of the stereotypical male geek to whom women are otherwise inaccessible. Somehow it was appropriated as being about the female attendees.

According to their press release[1], this is their pricing:

> $0.02 per cloudlet per hour from ServInt, and 0.016 euro from dogado.

However, when you build your environment it still says 0$ regardless of the resources that you want, and has this clause at the bottom:

> Our prices will only be published at the official sales launch.

[1]: http://blog.jelastic.com/2012/02/16/next-generation-java-paa...

What is your preferred language for simple, cross-platform game development?

> but the idea that he actually didn't know what MU was being used for

Is that a reason to be held liable? Isn't the whole point of the DMCA that we realize that every open service that transfers bits will be used illegally by some, so as long as the service provider acts on takedown notices they cannot be held liable for the actions of their users?

> or that he cared about preventing it

They had a special tool for content creators which gave them direct delete access to everything on MU. This goes above and beyond the DMCA.

> The last people you want to fill the role of early adopter are the people of Facebook.

Could you elaborate on this?

"If your finances are in order and you have money in the bank quitting that job isn’t quite so scary."

The pivotal point of this philosophy, and yet you make sound so wonderfully trivial.

I love Trello, simply because it's such a generalized way to organize thoughts. I use it for everything from project outlines to detailed to-do, to-read and to-watch lists.

One thing I've found convenient for my high priority to-do card is a script that prints it on to my desktop. Trello already has a fairly solid API.

In my opinion the biggest challenge for to-do solutions is how to stay in the users face all the time. Which is probably why sticky notes on the monitor are still popular.

Yes, one block is considered to be 1 cubic meter. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/443693773/the-world-is-bigger-n...

I'd understand this post if it were just a cry for more professionalism, which is welcomed, but how can sexual innuendo be construed to slight women in particular? Because the speaker mentioned breasts? Is this the '50s?

Off-topic: How would you compare Eclipse to IntelliJ IDEA and why did you choose Eclipse?

Every time someone analyzes an AI system, they invariably conclude that it isn't really AI, but rather just a complicated system of different, strung-together technologies.

At what point do systems of sophisticated text-to-speech and grammar analysis technologies actually become AI?

Precisely my concern. I feel that 4" is the goldilock size for high-end smartphones. I held the Samsung Galaxy S II the other day and I got the slightest hint of feeling that it was too big.

No that's for setting cookies, so that website A can't set cookies on your machine while you're visiting website B.

What I'm talking about is the ability to limit when cookies as sent out with requests. Privacy wary users could perhaps have their browser set so that for example Facebook cookies are not sent to Facebook just because you're visiting a website that has code from Facebook on it, but only when you're actually browsing Facebook.

How about if browsers implemented this cookie system: Each time a cookie is set, you could have the ability to mandate when that cookie is sent out. For example with a Facebook cookie you could tell the browser to only send that cookie when your address bar reads facebook.com. Problem solved?

0.002% faster.

Works great in the stock Android browser, but it's stuck on "Loading" in Opera on Android. Then again . . Opera on Android seems to mess up every other site.

"charge too little, and people won’t use your service"

What?

I loved Learning Python the Hard Way so I think I'll do the Ruby version as well, would you recommend anything specific after it to learn idiomatic Ruby?