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I'd like it if you could still support openID. It's still very useful despite it's flaws.

Access to education is the problem Kahn Academy solves for me. I changed schools a lot as a kid and was kept back to repeat classes I had no problems with because the new school would teach classes at a different rate or in a different order.

Even in classes that I didn't have to repeat I was board a lot in class. (Bio, Physics, Math) I wasted a lot of my youth that way and while it was annoying then, it angers me now. Getting 100% on a class or test wasn't hard and shouldn't have been the limit of my education.

If this was available then I would have pounced on it and tried to test of classes. (If that was available of course, but that's another topic for discussion.) If my parents had some other way for me to get out of grade and high school they would have taken it.

This style of learning wont be for everyone. But it works for me.

On a side note, I've personally used Khan to teach my friends, my siblings, and myself the basics in subjects we've gotten rusty in or never covered growing up. I quite enjoy it.

He wasn't super polite and didn't try to educate him, but I wouldn't call him a dick. There probably isn't any other way to communicate this message except via support.

He does alright on the social media front. He's also got five albums. Plays gigs pretty constantly. Beloved in the gamer community. Has had spots on NPR. Etc. Etc.

I've been a fan ever since his 2003 song fight entries and I still typo his domain from time to time.

I should refer you to the Feynman Series (from the Segan Series creator) http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL92F9FC91BBE2210D&...

SEEKING FREELANCER NYC preferred. Contract or by the hour. Incremental work on a larger project. Looking for a javascript dev for either frontend or backend work (Nodejs, backbonejs.) Email is in my profile.

I'll do the same thing I did with godaddy and leave. Verizon was already on my shit list for tracking every website I visited via my phone.

Where's SOAP? I can't search for open "problems".

I live in Chrome and Firefox all day for web development. Firefox is playing catch up but they didn't kill their browser. Maybe just starved it for a while. And while I agree I'd rather google then microsoft have browser dominance, they're not perfect and shouldn't reign supreme.

In the past month, Google has advertised on the new tab page for their chrome book using a mechanism for emergency updates (in some cases people can't close the ad), and started a fight in the chromium community about supporting Dart directly. Neither one is a major offence but both exhibit they have their own interests at heart.

Spdy is another good example. (I like Spdy, and I think its a good idea, but...) SPDY™ is trademarked to Google. It currently has no rfc. (Just a mostly empty draft. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-agl-tls-nextprotoneg-00.htm... ) It was developed internally and not opened to comments. They control the largest implementations both server and client side. And while they're selling it as a way for everyone to make the web faster, they still have full control. (Apache support is here, nginx doesn't support it, Amazon uses it heavily for the kindle fire.)

Those ads are usually not allowed on the networks they run on. They're often posed by affiliate's as the original companies have long since been blocked. Unfortunately finding the article on this is harder then finding a real teeth whitening product...

I currently work at a NOC. We've built a pretty nice setup to do our jobs (mostly software) but I've got no idea what others do. As for hardware, I don't know how I could use more then 3 or 4 screens or how the team could use a big one.

(Though we do want one but only because they're cool.)

I'd love to hear some war stories and see how you work with other teams.

I'm an avid fan of hacking our own phones and being able to run what I want on them. But I'll be keeping 3rd party apps far away from my google wallet.

Which is already too late.

One of the coolest things on that list is the "RE<C Initiative" http://www.google.org/rec.html

Some of it's videos have 8 (now 9 I guess) views. I'm confused as it's not a major project and hardly anything to cancel. This must be the most press it's ever had.

I wanted something like this a few years back for small scale billing. I decided to partner with a local print shop who was able to get me a good pricing on 2 color prints and envelops. I never was able to find a place with a good API that handled low quantity orders with a reasonable price. ($0.45 a bill)

Sendwrite is too expensive (obviously has a different target audience). I had to sign up to get prices.

  1 Card - $2.99
  3 Cards - $7.99
  10 Cards - $24.99
  20 Cards - $39.80

Forget embedded systems, cisco routers seem not to handle time zones well. I ended up with a discussion about timezones with one of my network guys and he admitted it was much easier to set the system time on cisco devices to GMT then it was to make the daylight saving switch. They don't have complete timezone databases apparently.

The crux of my conversation with him is that it matters where you are just as much when you are. The fact that America is two weeks off from the rest of the world caused no end of annoyances these past two weeks. It also ended up with lots of debates about how "wall clock time" has little do with the actual time especially when talking about past or future.

(Think 4pm in London 5 moths from now, what time will that be in NY? What about Brazil? Is that the same time of the day if it's 6 months from now?)

Too many internal systems have an incomplete vision of what time means to them and it rarely holds up. I could go on, but I leave it with this. If you can help it, store points in time in a unix timestamp (or at least UTC) and avoid having to write scheduling software.

No, if TimeMachine screws up a file it stays screwed up for ever after every backup, there's no integrity checking. It also completly barfs on large files that change little by little. The best example of that is the entourage mail store, but any single file db will do. I've seen clients bit bad by these problems. Don't get me started on the time capsule...

I find it even stranger that this petition is on whitehouse.gov. The real issue though is that this bill wont die, I'm sick of hearing of its lunacy and the fact that it's even in the house irks me to no end. That's why I signed it.

They rewrote a relatively small part of their code base, a small part of their in memory cache. For a team who a) wrote the code base and b) change it every day, this wasn't a big deal more then it was an interesting problem. From an operations standpoint I'd consider app servers that need to be rotated every hour or so a very brittle architecture. (I don't let that kind of think go without protesting wildly.)

This is only for http but I think you should take a look at Netcat. http://nc110.sourceforge.net/

I'd much rather each community select a few people who they think are the best at knowing what time it is and then take an average of them.

I just downloaded an html version of facebook profile before deactivating the account. It's got almost all the content you could call yours in it and it's presented in an easy to use way. You don't get everything, but it wasn't nothing.

What is your "higher availability environment"?

The community, does Drupal have an official organization behind it?

They have an open bug about it, it sounds like they'll work on it.

https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/15 Give some love to IE7-8

I always got a kick out of these buses. From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolmu%C5%9F

  These share taxis depart from the terminal only when a sufficient amount of passengers have
  boarded, and the name is derived from Turkish for "apparently stuffed" for this reason.

I have to second prepared statements. You wont have to change your code too much to use them and they are way too important not to use. They can even lead to speedups if you're going to reuse queries.

No blog, no content..

I've read though most of our comments here and I have a question. Are people concerned with the education of their neighbors kids?

I'll be able to afford private schooling for my children. The average demographic here probably can. I relish at the idea of seeing how a Khan Academy Classroom could teach my child (maybe in some sort of "Free school" environment?) and I realize that public education probably wont be able to cover that.

What I worry about more is that my children's friends wont be able to go to a private school, and while I realize Khan Academy is free online. Most kids will probably be sent to public schools.

I was educated in public school and I don't think it was horrible but I do think we can do better.

I think the question is; How do we bring this type of learning to public education?

I'm going to say no. I'm dyslexic and dysgraphic and I deal with it, but it's only after many years of practice and by doing most of my writing on a keyboard. (I'm still not so good with written numbers.)

The best way I've heard it explained is that the word CAT doesn't look like a cat. A quick google search found this. http://dyslexiavictoria.wordpress.com/2011/02/25/dyslexic-pr...

"Also the alphabet is a type of abstract concept that Dyslexics have a frustrating time trying to learn because unless the letters are part of a word they don’t mean anything other than sounds. Dyslexics need concrete real images that can be connected to symbols such as words and numerals. “C – A – T” are sounds but do not bring up any images of real things. The word “CAT” however can be imagined."

Showing a kid the wrong spelling will only confuse them. (Writing was already confusing.) I was told growing up that my mind was trying really hard to find a cat in the letters, it flipped them around, held them upside down, put them on top of each other, and nothing looks like a cat. You don't actually see anything move (common question) but I used to stare at words trying to make sense of them. I don't know enough about cognition to tell you actually how it works.

I think if you can short circuit some of these wasted cycles it might help dyslexic kids pick up on what reading and writing actually is a bit faster. I'd give the font a try but they're using some sort of vector JS based font rendering (Cufon) and I don't know how to get that back to a ttf. But I doubt it would have much of an effect on myself anyway as I've learned how to read and write a long time ago.

Just my 2c