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The first time I see a company recommending to install VirtualBox and Ubuntu on it just to get the app to run on Windows. Better than saying Windows is not supported at all I guess :). Must be getting a lot of support tickets though. But it does look like interesting OSS project.

In the Elisa press release they explain that they are actually demanded to block the DNS records as well as set of IP addresses (3 IPs). http://www.elisa.fi/ir/pressi/index.cfm?t=100&o=5130&...

Just tested and this does seem to be in effect. Quite surprised to see it in action here. Not that I support piracy but if websites can be shut down on basis of piracy, what stops them shutting them down on for any other reason. Lets hope this stays as a separate incident.

And I guess most people using torrents know how to use anonymous web-proxies, so this doesn't really block the site that efficiently. To enforce blocking piratebay they'd have to block the proxies too, and that would open up another set of problems. Lets now wait for the decision from the supreme court and hope they are sensible.

I had my suspicions of Apress already after reading their Practical Django Projects (2004) book. Book itself was quite ok, but it was referring to downloadable source code of the presented projects from Apress website. To my knowledge this sourcecode of the sample projects isn't still there. Gladly I found some bitbucket projects with those sample projects written by other readers, but my trust for Apress was lost.

Interested to see how it is but I get "Internal error, Ticket issued: unknown".

I think part of the problem is that all new Google apps want to showcase the newest UI elements and themes. As a techie I do enjoy seeing apps with new UX innovations often. Also from developer point of view its good to see what is possible. But on the long run I do understand the value of UI consistency, especially since I started using IPad a while ago.

Putting more effort on their UI guideline pages might help. It seems its not updated recently to include any of the newer UI elements yet. Since their own apps are using them they should be good enough for the guidelines: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/i...

Maybe it's UX lesson #1: Host your blog on a scalable platform :).

(the website is down at the moment)

Too good to be true? It seems the guy has been talking in Ted too (http://www.ted.com/speakers/justin_hall_tipping.html). They make quite remarkable statements, but at the same time they are quite vague. At least they are not promising too much too soon nor do they refer to some "official" research that would make them right like some more suspicious companies always seem to do.

I think Google is perfect company to make those future products that have been 5 years away for the last 15 years. Intelligent fridge probably comes to mind first, but there are a lot. Some of those ideas just need clever people to work on it (check), resources for research (check) and ability to produce it in scalable way (check). Maybe we'll finally see an affordable house robot that helps more than disturbs.

This looks interesting, something innovative from Nokia. That device didn't look that usable, but it does open many possibilities for new features for future phones.

I have the same feeling. I am also interested to get bit deeper knowledge of stock market. I find that the books written by financial experts can be a bit though read for someone not used to all the financial terminology.

I agree, few articles that I have read about this (including BBC) clearly mention this as speculation and a possibility. However probably there are people who still take this as a fact after reading the article. In my mind media has been surprisingly careful with this not to claim this as a new discovery.

Old or not, it did remind me of how easy it is to manipulate out thoughts. On the other hand he might be just presenting pop-science stuff in a nice package.

Thank's for the article, good information.

Does anyone have any user amounts about the different no-sql databases? Or just say two most popular ones? I guess some of them will rise above the other's in following years and some will drop. User amounts would indicate which ones have most potential to stay around and be accepted as standard no-sql databases.

I agree, if I met similar problem in real life I'd easily call it impossible. Maybe that's arrogance, but it's good to do these every once in a while to remember that even if something seems "impossible" there still might be a solution. And the solution might be simpler than you think if you can just get rid of the tunnel-thinking.

Also, in real life problem you usually agree that there might be no solution, which makes you give up even quicker. Here I knew (99% sure) that there is solution, but still I managed to miss it.

That's great list, was glad to see some familiar ones there too. I'd suggest putting up for example your top10 list. It takes a long time to go through all of those and as mentioned, not all are that intriguing.

Thats truly amazing. He's no hacker but brave as hell. My body was just trying to scream "attach the safetyline !!" during the whole video.

Here is where you see that open-source doesn't really attract ux experts or designers. I also miss the final touch on my linux that would make it truly enjoyable experience.

Yep, can't see it either (I'm in Finland).

This would be useful for calling my own phone to find it from my apartment :) (I dont have skype open usually).

Nice clean design. Didn't find real-life usecase yet, but it's good to keep this in mind. Maybe adding functionality to just get results for one word would be useful too.

ps. there seems to be a bug when I input only one field and press button (in chrome).

I somewhat disagree with the point that good programmers think about the problems 24/7. Even good programmers loose motivation if there is bad company culture or some other de-motivating factors. I find that true motivation and true interest for the project are very important in software development but so many companies neglect it.