alelefant

You're missing the point, and you make it seem like everyone should be an expert in everything. Not everybody that uses a computer understands the thick stack of technologies at play. It may seem simple to you, but that's you.

When my car makes a noise, I take it to Don the Car Care Man because aside from replacing the battery and windshield wipers I can't do much. If they told me I needed to get part X replaced, I'd trust their input and buy part X.

When people visit eBay, there is an inherit level of trust placed in that site. It's a legitimate business used around the world. If a listing links outside of eBay and is asking for personal information, not everyone understands that such behavior is a sign of an attack.

My grandma doesn't know what a URL is. If I told her to visit my companies website, she would ask where it is in her bookmarks. Just like I would ask where part X in my car goes. To me that's a very basic question; to a car expert they might be thinking: "Good thing this guy is having us take care of the problem".

I've never built a Rails app, so perhaps there's something simple that I'm missing (I'm mostly a C# guy), but how would I use Skylight to monitor my on-premise application? The pricing makes it seems like a hosted service. I would have expected some sort of profiler to be needed on the server and then perhaps a centralized location for the data to be pushed to for display.

The design of the site is great and I'm mostly curious because it sounds like something I wish was available in the .NET world!

> with no skin in the game

I took that as referring to field expertise. If that wasn't the intent, my mistake.

I get what you're saying, but there isn't video documentation of everything, so at some point you take the words and recollections of others.

You don't need expertise in a particular profession to come to the conclusion that someone is being smug, rude, etc. If I saw someone on the street being disrespectful, is it unfair for me to come to that conclusion because I don't fully understand their field of work?

Especially when hosted by a company residing in a G8 nation.

Fair enough, "very casual" wasn't the best adverb to use. I agree with dyladan's point though; drinking on the weekends would certainly be considered casual in my circle of friends.

I think that answer is easy: $$$. A lot of drugs cross state and country lines, so the fact that it's crossing the border of Colorado surely was expected.

I'm surprised at how polarized the usage percentages are. Near 50% are using between 1-5 times a month and a touch over 20% are using 26-31 times per month (daily). It sounds like people are either using casually or they throw all their chips in (not that I blame them).

Hopefully Wisconsin can join the club in the next decade.

Thanks for verifying the article was on-topic. ;)

Tracking still works. Tracking multiple opens doesn't work since Gmail will cache the image, but the first load of the image can still be tracked.

Blueprint Roomba instead of DJ Roomba?

Sorry, but how does being a random shareholder imply that business is being conducted in the most efficient manner? Just because a company had an IPO doesn't mean it will make the most sensible decisions. I'm not saying Twitter is being irresponsible as I have zero knowledge of their organization internals.

I'm by no means a typography expert, in fact I don't particularly care about typography all that much. I like the new font, but there's some characters (e.g. "o") that just seem like they have an extra pixel or two on the outer edge. It still looks nice and clean though.

His mention of the glowing hockey puck made me realize that I haven't seen a glowing puck for awhile. Granted, it may be that I haven't watched hockey as much as I did when I was a kid, but I certainly didn't see it last year when I watched some games.

When I did see the glowing puck it made me feel like I was watching NBA Jam on Ice.

It's almost certainly the multiple animations (<video> elements) on the page.

"And I have made the that mistake. Friends and family member I have tried to show/teach programming."

I'm just curious, knowing what you know now, how would you go about trying to show someone how to program?

I may have that opportunity soon and I was going to suggest thinking about a simple yet everyday problem that arises, and try to make it better with an app (could be phone, web app, client app, etc).

The author writes:

"The borderless nature of the web means it can be hard to avoid the ranting bigots and creeps we would ordinarily shun in the real world."

While I understand his point, I believe this is one of the great things about online communities. I think many people are too quick to shun those who we disagree with (I know I'm guilty of this). I think there can be a lot to learn from those we vehemently disagree with.

I wouldn't call 3 months with 20 minutes of downtime a great track record. I'm not saying that the company isn't worthwhile, but more time might be deserved before calling it stable.

I suspect this has spread like wildfire since their site isn't responding.

At long last I can avoid codeplex for browsing the aspnet source!

I'm really looking forward to the self-hosting features. I have a few client (Windows Forms) applications that would be so much better within the browser. Opening that door for client-side web applications where network connectivity is a major issue would be so helpful.

However, there's 150 comments and no mention of the "vNext" name. Someone else must find the name silly!

The colors speak for themselves. ;)

It is amazing how long that is. My only experience with a belt was working at Walgreens on warehouse truck days. Even our 60 foot belt continually had product falling off of it. I wonder what kind of oversight is done to make sure the items stay on it.

This anonymous post is no better than the unsupported claims by Julie. Unsupported claims on top of unsupported claims.

I was surprised to see you're based in Madison! Dangerously close to Muramoto.

While that research is certainly interesting, the poster above you acknowledged that overclocking could result in failures.

Can't look busy on my phone either.

I think he means as a startup company you don't need the great tech team, you need the idea.