DoubleMalt

For a web version to be fully distributed it would need to be run on a server, so people would have to hook up a RaspberryPi at home, rent a VPS or trust some big Nightweb farm (the diaspora model). It's infinitely easier for most users to just install an app on their phone.

A Desktop version would probably not be "always on", which would limit the usability as a social platform seriously.

That's mine ... awww feels like the beginnings of ICQ ;)

But ... we can hack on it ... finally a good reason to learn Clojure.

int res = int.TryParse(s, 0); // 0 as the default if parsing fails

Of course if there is no reasonable default you should bubble the thing up anyway or handle it on the spot. But very often for input parsing there is sane default you can choose.

I'm convinced everytime I have to manually write the try catch clause for parse a kitten dies somewhere!

The problem is that with overreacting to some tasteless but pretty harmless joke she started the vicious circle of jerkiness.

Sexist assholes felt their world view validated and in turn validate her out of line action by making her a martyr with their immature reactions.

Thank goodness this is just the cyberspace. The same dynamic at work can be witnessed in places where it Leeds to riots and deaths.

I would not want to work at SendGrid (I contemplated applying last week) as long as Adria does not see the error of her actions, it would make me feel uncomfortable.

However I would love to see everyone threatening or slurring Adria over this incident be fired. They deserve it (as opposed to the guy who was fired over this)

Had it gone the other way it would have been an utter disaster and contrary to every common sense

Still it concerns me that 3 judges sided with the publisher. In such a landmark decision even 6 to 3 seems to close a margin for comfort.

Of course if you don't use a DE with nautilus ymmv.

However I am aware of the fact that many of my gender are incredibly offensive to women and that after a long week with many conferences and in all likelihood having to suffer many comments and jokes that really warrant a calling out the sensitivities are heightened.

Unfortunately calling a tasteless joke about a big dongle sexist draws attention away from the real offenders and validates the believes of die hard sexists that this is drama about nothing.

I'd rather have people concentrate on stopping things like http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Flashbelt_slide_show instead of twitter shaming someone who made a joke among his friends, that was not thought for the ears of the OP.

I am well aware of the seriousness of the assault on our freedoms on behalf of the corporate overlords.

And I would rather be chided for being ridiculous writing this comment than rewarded with an uneasy laugh of the people that recognize how close to home it hits.

But despite my deep feelings of antipathy the charges that are brought against him can NEVER warrant 10 years of prison.

That's ridiculous.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5331146

Actually I'm tempted to write one to get this functionality with current browsers.

[edit] As Oscar Wild put it: The only way of getting rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

https://github.com/webcrofting/href4all

And most (older) browsers ignore unknown attributes anyway.

However they lost me when they introduced a breaking change to the API without notification. We were still in the testing phase, but this is just a big NONO.

Also they did not react to request about getting a new contract because of a changed Bank account.

Happy to use stripe though.

And even if it feels safer because you assume they have people working on it that know what they're doing, in many cases this is a very bold assumption.

People that lose their own money on these scams can't expect sympathy for being greedy from me.