Colliwinks

Contactless is supported in the UK as well (usually up to a £20 minimum), but isn't nearly as widely supported as chip +pin, and I certainly don't know anyone who uses it regularly.

Google "Design"

> We all know that this goes against the beliefs of 90% of programmers and engineers

Based on what? Within the bubble of hackernews, that's maybe true, but there are (evidently) a very large % of engineers who are either indifferent, or feel the opposite.

Should have printed it out as images via ReCaptcha

Because they get no immediate return from profit (from dividends), but the value of the stock still increases (hopefully moreso if they are reinvesting more of their profit into future growth).

Exactly: "Promotions" is not "Spam". There is already a spam folder, so these should go straight in there, if anywhere.

How does this fit in with the CAN-SPAM act?

"Unsubscribe compliance

    A visible and operable unsubscribe mechanism is present in all emails.
    Consumer opt-out requests are honored within 10 days.
    Opt-out lists also known as Suppression lists are only used for compliance purposes.

"

If there is no unsubscribe option, are google in violation? (Their get-out may be that these are not actual emails, but by making the transition from clear ad space to inbox, most people would argue that the delivery mechanism is irrelevant)

The people targeted by phishing attacks have no idea what those terms mean.

Genuine? This seems so forced and fake it's quite painful. No person ever would reply "Fat with a protruding chin" when asked to describe their face.

And I'm amazed that this hasn't caught on in the US yet. Last time I vistited, I was horrified when they swiped the magnetic strip and asked me to sign for it - felt like I'd jumped back in time.

Excellent writeup here [1] of the use of DirectX over OpenGL in games. OpenGL is far from the rosy open source alternative.

[1] http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/60544/why-do-...

Did it implement RFC 2324?

Not everyone has an iPhone. Young children do/should not have smartphones. Paper does not require constant updates, maintenance and bugfixes. Paper is cheaper. People want to play physical games without the distraction of devices. People don't want the hassle of downloading an app before they can play a game. If the complexity of scoring requires an app, it's too complicated.

"Sharing is not broken"

"Share this on Facebook, Twitter, Digg, Delicious, Reddit, LinkedIn, SlashDot, Myspace, Technorati, Friendfeed, Messenger, or Stumbleupon."

"Cause" is not a valid contraction for "Because." Looks fairly out of place in text.

Or the regular police would suffice, in this case.

The point is that it's very easy for a company to measure the metrics they should care about (i.e. quality and quantity of work output) rather than making random correlations.

An IQ test is also a good proxy for an IQ test: but there would probably be an outcry if companies started basing performance reviews directly on an IQ test.

Atos Origin announced abandoning internal emails a couple of years ago: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/atos-orgin-to-abandon-i...

At a quick glance, couldn't find anything more up to date about their progress.

What is meant by a 'language' is actually fairly well defined mathematically: That is something that can be described by a number of grammars. These in turn can be categorised (see the Chomsky Hierarchy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy)

In that sense, programming languages, regular expressions, and natural language can all be identified by what types of grammar can define them.

Tool icons on the left need text (or at least a hover-over). Currently it's a complete mystery what they do, and users don't like clicking on mystery commands.

Facebook's mobile apps have to use the Facebook API, which is notoriously terrible. Facebook have no reason to devote resources to this, as they don't want third party implementations dragging people away from their ad revenue.

Similarly, their mobile app is capable of delivering far less ads than the web page, so they'd rather people sat on that at their desk rather than browsing on their phone.

In relation to lack of decent search and other obviously lacking elements: They're always going to devote far more resources to things which directly or indirectly improve advertising (graph search, friend finding, increasing numbers of likes) rather than things that enhance user experience (since user experience is far more tied to network size rather than feature set, compared to other markets)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_irregular_verbs Is possibly a better indication. Many other languages also has irregular verbs, but I think the number of extra rules and variations that English employs there are a bit more dramatic.

Sounds like p4merge.

Web "Apps"

Simon Marlow's original letter where he mentions this is directly below Simon PJ's reply in the original link.

I am amazed that their 'huge revelation' was that perhaps they shouldn't be doing huge amounts of dynamic image generation client side.

Is the point of this article "we managed to get charts into email"? In places there is a bit too much subjective self-praise for anything other than a sales pitch: "...elegant, beautiful, and timely..." I personally think their greyscale and doughnut charts don't look great.

"Nobody in England" Or Scotland, where he's from.