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I've corrected that assumption now.
I'd delete my comment now, if I were still able to.
I created a Dropbox account (which I do use) a couple years ago, and last week I visited the site for the first time in almost as long as I've had the account.
A word of warning to you, since you don't access the site often: your password expires, and you'll need access to your email account when it does.
My laptop semi-died last week (it's not actually dead, but I couldn't get it to boot at the time), so I used my girlfriend's to order a new one.
I keep my KeePass database in my DropBox for just such occasions, so I tried to log into Dropbox's web interface to retrieve it and access my account on the computer retailer's website. Dropbox accepted my password, but told me I couldn't continue until I changed my password, which required clicking a link they had sent to my email account.
Unfortunately, the password to my gmail account is also in KeePass, and is an incomprehensible mess of generated gibberish that I don't know, so I couldn't get in. I had to reset my Google password using an email account that is apparently on file with Google, in order to reset my password with DropBox, in order to access my retail account with the laptop vendor.
I don't know if this would have been easier had I known about DropBox's two-factor authentication before this, or if maybe I could have installed DropBox on my girlfriend's laptop and got in that way without needing to reset anything, but I ended up burning half an hour on this because I didn't know I had to keep my password constantly up to date on their website.
It seems like an obvious thing to do, but for something like Dropbox which is just "always there" on your local machine, it's an easy thing to forget.
A week or so ago, it was pointed out to me that ircmaxell was also banned from reddit - I think it was a shadowban as well, since his username still appears as the submitter on some items, rather than "[deleted]" - because he was submitting too many links to his own blog.
Now, this isn't just some average blogger. Anthony is a very well known PHP developer - by which I mean he develops PHP, not just in PHP, and has voting rights regarding the direction the language takes. (Please don't hold that against him, Jeff.)
While I'm sure he was posting a lot of submissions for his own site, it was really great stuff. The first I really heard of him was due to a series of articles he and another developer wrote as a guide to understanding the internals of PHP with directions on what various C code was and how it hung together. It wasn't spam, at least not by any definition I care to recognize.
This didn't matter. Quality didn't matter. Apparently, one of the moderators to /r/php even went to bat for him with the admins, asking that the ban be lifted. The admins didn't care.
Meanwhile, many people submit a lot of content they also made themselves - memes. If you want to make a bunch of advice animal image macros and upload them to imgur, that's fine. If you write a five part dive into the guts of PHP's internals, you're banned.
It's funny too, because maybe I'm remembering incorrectly since it's been so long, but I seem to recall early reddit specifically saying that it was cool to submit your own stuff, and even encouraging it. Now, there's some sort ratio of yours-to-others content that you need to keep in balance, otherwise you're marked a spammer, regardless of how good your own content happens to be.
However, there are many - including myself for a time - who still fight to preserve the original meaning. I stopped doing it when I realized that a) English is a fluid language, and b) some people - again, possibly including myself - simply liked to correct people to show off.
Also, what's the problem with someone using an Amazon affiliate link to help pay for their site / earn some income from the work they put into the site?
His comment made me feel like maybe he thought I should feel bad for not knowing the information already.
Instead, the site will randomly show one of the alternate domains on every page load. At one point, it would even give 'gmail.com' and other legitimate domains as the alternate if you tried to scrape them too quickly (or rather, they hypothetically-yet-definitely-didn't-do that).[1]
Today, the alternate domains are shown as an image[2], and even that isn't a complete list, since other people can simply redirect mail incoming to their domains to mailinator.com. Mailinator explicitly condones this.[3]
[1] http://mailinator.blogspot.ca/2011/05/how-to-get-gmailcom-ba...
[2] http://www.mailinator.com/get_alt_domain
[3] http://mailinator.blogspot.ca/2007/10/new-mailinator-alterna... (end of second paragraph)
It's a colloquialism referring to a users broken expectations. If a user tries to open a page and it doesn't render properly, the user will blame the page, not the device. If a website renders wrong, that's the websites problem.
If the site uses a feature that is unsupported (or poorly supported) by a browser with significant market share, then its the sites responsibility to fail gracefully. You can rant until you're blue in the face about how the iPad/Safari should handle these things better, but most users simply don't care about your particular definition of "broken". They only know the site doesn't work.
The worst case scenario is that you're ignored, so the only cost to you is the time it took to send the message. The best case scenario, however, is that the message gets forwarded to the proper department and someone fixes your issue.
The cost/benefit analysis here is pretty clear. If I were you, I'd send a message to the Feedback department.
I often play devil's advocate, and the risk of that is that you can be misinterpreted as supporting a position when you didn't intend to.
I can understand why many users could misread your intent, and I was just trying to explain why you received the reaction you did.
This post in general reminds me of a lot of a criticism of many AskReddit posts, where the poster is accused of trying to relate their own story while tacking on a "Whats your best $topic story?" question on the end to try to make the post relevant.
More specifically, these customer complaint/"bitching" posts illicit a 4chan style "not your personal army" response in a lot of people. While the post might to some good for the OP in getting a response from the company, to most readers it's just noise drowning out the signal they come here for.
I'm not normally one to complain about these types of posts (and again, I'm not trying to do so right now either), but I do understand why some readers might be less than enthused by their presence.
> I would really appreciate if someone @AirBnB would help to intervene the existing ineffective process. No need to return the money - just return the booking to my wife, make us happy :-)
This is a specific plea for action from a company, but it's directed at a forum of people who are almost all completely unrelated to that company.
I wouldn't recommend using that domain name.
Since I was in a hurry to buy the tickets (a last minute gift), I signed up for a second account without the "+SERVICE" section, bought the tickets, and sent them an email asking them to either merge the accounts, delete the old one, or otherwise allow me access the other account so I could purge my credit card data.
What happened next was a bit shocking. They sent me an email back a few days later saying that they had fixed the issue with my account by removing the '+' symbol.
The risk of exploit was relatively low due to the extreme obscurity, but it was technically possible for a short while for a person to go to my email provider and register the username "nameSERVICE" and access my account on the ticketing website, including my credit card information.
According to this NIH page on said certificates[2], it sounds like even if they were served a subpoena for the information, 23andme could still tell them to fuck off.
[1] https://customercare.23andme.com/entries/21262376-how-is-the...
In each loop, he initializes the output variable to an empty string. If the current integer is not a multiple, he replaces the empty string with the integer. If it is a multiple, he doesn't know which one it is, or if it's a multiple of both, so he appends the text to the existing string variable. At the end of the loop, the string is output.
Since the `output = i` line is the only assignment that occurs when that condition (not a multiple of either) is met, it makes sense to just reassign the variable rather than append to it. It might be less flexible, sure, but flexibility isn't required here.
- On smaller screens/windows, the "plugin examples" slides overlap the text at the top, particularly the subheadline/description. Obscuring this text prevents visitors from immediately understanding what the site is about, which could cause them to bounce quickly.
- I'm not a fan of the missing vertical scrollbar, but that's just a personal opinion. It should be noted that it does appear if you use the arrow keys to scroll, but not if you use PgUp/PgDn or Home/End. If you page down and then start scrolling with the arrow keys, you get scrolled back to the top of the page to where you would have been had you used the arrows from the start. It's inconsistent, and potentially confusing.
- I'm not sure about the advice to non-Perl programmers that "if you don't know Perl, you can just use this Rosetta Stone-like page to hack it together using your language of choice as a reference". Again, that's a personal opinion, but it seems like it could easily lead to poor quality plugins.
Shame on you, Thomas! I thought you were a professional!
[1] Based on a remarkably unscientific test I just ran on an Ubuntu 12.04 VM on my laptop. 87.8 seconds.