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but the big eyes can be traced back to Donald Duck of all characters

If you don't understand what you're modelling, you won't create an accurate model.

For programmers, we create an approximation to the real world and then refine the model as we (or the users) come across the imperfections.

Unfortunately, Nate probably still doesn't know how much he doesn't know.

> But there was almost certainly some bad luck for Brazil. It had more shots than Germany in the match

Comparing number of shots (or possession) is a bad metric if the playing styles are different.

If you're talking about Tiny Habits, I can vouch for it since I took it end of March this year. Of course my word's not worth much but BJ Fogg does explain about the method on his blog: http://www.foggmethod.com/#large-media and http://www.behaviormodel.org/ so in that sense it isn't like the "fitness/attract opposite sex" programs (scams) you talk about where everything is hidden and shrouded in mystery.

It's all automated via email, so it can be free. It is quite simple and effective but applying the rules in a general sense is something you'll have to master over time.

Also although BJ Fogg has my email address, he's never tried to sell me anything after the program finished, even though I note from his updated site he's got a new certification to be a coach program going on.

This is exactly what I would like to achieve. Being present. Could you share how you learnt and practiced it? I am trying but failing.

No such problem in my case. I explained I was strongly against the idea for most of the reasons listed in the original article and it wasn't a negotiable point. Basically if she still wanted the diamond ring then she didn't understand me well enough to be married to me. I didn't get all RMS-esque about it, but somethings are under our control, some aren't. It is one of those things that was. We got order-made platinum wedding rings instead.

Not sure why there isn't more of a discussion going on, given the uproar over Reader, I found the whole article insightful but especially the end. The concluding 3 paragraphs are like the twist at the end of The Sixth Sense.

Not to be too hard on the developer, but judging by these figures, they are under-charging. Clients that are attracted to the lower end of the budget range tend to be more problematic in various ways, as many a web designer can attest.

I don't know, I'm trying not to be negative here but the company mentioned and the numerous under $x (where x= 200, 100, 20) Indian computer stories that have the potential to change Indian education have mostly been vapourware and/or failures.

Contrast this (and here I try to redeem myself in terms of positiveness) to the Raspberry Pi project which not only delivered but over delivered, even though there were delays.

Though the headline above cleverly omits the 6, the linked to article is "6 ways to improve click-through-rate on your banner ads without being spammy", sure sign of link-bait and mostly vacuous content. In fact only 2 out of the 6 (#1 & #5) are ways that could help.

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see footer of the page. They (TextDrive) were already acquired at the time of the offer.

Thanks Jeff for clearing this up

If you look at the offer on the waybackmachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20060202181857/http://textdrive.c...

It has this Q&A item: How long is it good for? As long as we exist.

The footer states: a Joyent company

Nothing complicated, Joyent still exists. shrug

In the end shared hosting with Joyent wasn't very good. It was slow, it was clunky and had an air of neglect. I have one site remaining on it I think. Most of my sites are on Linode.

What was worse was that Joyent changed directions, decided its then current customers weren't profitable enough (my guess shared hosting = higher per head tech support costs) and basically stagnated the service while it introduced new services. I think they did this a couple of times, and it has always made me relunctant to recommend them to friends (even ones looking for cloud services).

Sigh I hope StrongSpace will still honour the lifetime part.

BTW for readers who think lifetime account holders are being greedy, the point of the accounts was that when TextDrive/Joyent needed extra capital to expand, they offered lifetime accounts in return for quite a bit of cash up front. In part, they are where they are due to this clever bit of fund raising.