Thanks for the recommendation. I just switched.
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I had never understood how "air" fit with B&B. It wasn't until I saw the original screenshot that I understood that it's "AirB & B" rather than "Air B&B".
I suspect the link was provided mostly for the users that can still see it. There is an "undelete" link[1] for users with that privilege level, but it takes ten votes to restore the question, with no guarantee that it won't be blown away again right after its restoration.
I'd prefer to give him the benefit of the doubt rather than jump straight to accusations.
[1] I didn't look too hard, but I came up with this link quickly: https://gist.github.com/benjaminsinger/ad5231be7748de3a9a11#... - I didn't immediately see the license on the original it was forked from, but this one has a license, so I assume there's some sort of compatibility.
I never knew that this
functionality existed7 days ~= 4.16 cents/hr
30 days ~= 2.08 cents/hr
90 days ~= 1.38 cents/hr
This is based on the full 24 hours per day. If you do it based on "usable" time, which I've defined as 8 hours a day, it looks like this:
4 hours ~= 124.75 cents/hr
7 days ~= 12.48 cents/hr
30 days ~= 6.25 cents/hr
90 days ~= 4.17 cents/hr
> When asked by Time magazine in 1994, "How do the Heisenberg compensators work?" Michael Okuda replied, "They work just fine, thank you."
I suspect the article being referenced is "Reconfigure the Modulators"[1], but it's behind a pay wall so I can't confirm that.
[1] http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981892,...
http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=79&year1=2005&y...
I apologize for the error.
If you're Canadian, you may simply be remembering incorrectly as Amazon.ca used to be $39, but also changed to $25 a few year ago.
I don't know Python, but I've gone through a few phases where I'll play with it for a bit and then put it back down. (Incidentally, I appear to be entering a "play" phase right now.)
I can't explain it exactly, but the 2/3 thing makes me really uneasy about learning the language.
On one side, there is Python 2 which is supposed to die in the non-immediate future. I don't need to learn it, particularly since development isn't my primary career at the moment and I'm unlikely to "need" it before I inevitably switch careers back to dev. If I don't need it now, and I don't expect to be in a situation where I need it in the near future, why not go for Python 3 right away?
On the other side, Python 3 is the new hotness, and it's the future of the language. It's the heir apparent. It's going to be "the" Python in the nearer-than-you-think future.
But it doesn't seem ready. You get the impression that you'll start a greenfield project and then get to a point where you want to drop in a well-known component and you just won't be able to.
You also look at the fact that it's been around for over half a decade yet 80% of of respondents to this survey say they use 2 more than 3, 40% have never touched it, and 20% say the whole thing was a bad idea. If you were walking into that environment, would you really be so quick to disregard it?
I suppose the answer is to just learn it all and try to keep the differences in mind as you go, but it's understandable the a lot of people don't want to half to learn and semi-unlearn the same language all at once.
If you're asked to sign one when you leave, depending on your contract, any severance package might be considered consideration.
[1] http://news.softpedia.com/news/Windows-8-1-Preview-Won-t-Sup... (This isn't the article I read back then, but it's the first thing I found when I just searched.)
Honestly, separate achievements is the part that gets me excited. Maybe I'm odd, but I'm pretty particular about my achievements being mine.
If people have to "choose to not send", then you shouldn't claim your process is "completely opt-in", as what you're doing is the very definition of opt-out.
I've had my non-smartphone for six years now. It still works, and while I'm sure I'll upgrade to a smartphone one day, I have no urgent desire to do so.
Is it really that hard to set up an SMS system as a fallback? I'm still able to use two-factor on my Google account because they offer this solution.
I wasn't sure of this last night when I wrote the comment, but I just tried it out with Google Analytics (since it's pretty ubiquitous), and it wasn't only unblocked on that domain.
Either you are incorrect, or this functionality is non-obvious. Based on recent experience, I'm leaning toward the former.
When I go to edit my blocking options when a site doesn't play nice with Ghostery, I'm given options either to disable certain tracker-blocking or to disable Ghostery entirely on a given domain. There doesn't seem to be an option to stop blocking a given tracker only when its loaded from a certain site.
There is one tracker I've unblocked because it breaks functionality on one site, and I'm fairly certain I've seen its effects on a different site recently as well. It doesn't seem to have unblocked that tracker only for the one site I need it disabled to use.
I saw that warning earlier today when I made my comment (note that the screenshot of the enabler pop-up shows SoundCloud as the URL), and thought maybe I had just missed it before.
Alas, I just tried an actual sound page, and the result was as before. I didn't see any "click to play" items, and clicking around the page (on obvious targets like the Play button, and less obvious targets like the progress bar and times) revealed nothing either. Where do you see the new target?
The problem was that you had to, as the article says, "click" to play content. This was fine on YouTube, Netflix, etc., since there was a very obvious visual cue about how to activate your content [2]. However, not all sites had such obvious cues. SoundCloud, for example, would just silently fail, and I would have to manually disable the feature to get it to play (in practice, I just loaded the URL in Chrome).
Since Firefox 18, this has been much better. Now, there is an area next to the address bar that you can use to enable content, even if there is nothing on the actual page that you can click [3]. When you click this area, a pop-up appears asking which plugins you would like to load, and if you would like to always allow plugins on that site.
This pop-up is hidden for the most part, and isn't trivially discoverable[4] - something Mozilla really needs to work on - but it does pop-up the very first time you encounter a page with blocked content (per Firefox session, it seems), so there is at least some notification that you can unblock content.
If they're planning on having this feature enabled by default, I really doubt it will be the end of the world for most people. They'll just click the notification, and play through.
[1] Set the value of `plugins.click_to_play` to `true`. If it doesn't exist, create a new Boolean value for it, setting the name/value as above.
[2] http://i.imgur.com/jhxqoJ9.png
[3] http://i.imgur.com/RNXw1JO.png
[4] Admittedly, this could be because I'm using a non-default theme on my install, so perhaps this is more obvious by default. I haven't checked.
If you're interested, I made a few notes to try to help you improve the site:
* The point count on each Q&A section gives the points for the question, not the answer. The answer score doesn't seem to be given at all.
* Selecting a user/question which is low on the page doesn't change the scroll position. You need to manually move the browser up to the top of the content. For questions, this is easy to notice, but it's pretty jarring for users lower on the list, since there's no obvious suggestion that you're not at the top.
* If you select a question for which the users answer isn't the accepted one, nothing loads in the answer section, with no indication as to why.
* Your onclick hand;er is a bit overzealous. Ctrl+Clicking the SO link at the bottom of the answer closes the question on stack-ed. Same thing when selecting text. I'd suggest having explicit open/close buttons, or possibly just an explicit close.
* If you do add an explicit close, you may want to think about having the large question title at the top turn into a link to the question. I know that there's a small link at the bottom (see above), but I instinctively tried to (Ctrl+) click the larger link before I found the smaller one.
* You may want to consider allowing sorting by vote, in addition to your presently available view and answer count options.
* You may also want to consider making it a little more obvious that "topic" means "tag". The most popular tags are for languages, so its easy not to realize that it's not limited to just that.
* Deselecting all tags doesn't collapse the other portions of the page (top users, questions). This is a bit confusing when you're trying to select a new topic.
n.b. Ctrl+Click is the same as middle-click. On most laptops, there isn't a middle button under the trackpad, so we use Ctrl+Click instead. My laptop is like this, so I can't say whether a true middle click would make a difference, but I expect it wouldn't.
My reply was merely a "mea culpa", and the note about removing the previous comment was more about removing inaccurate information than about saving face.