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your sarcastic point doesn't change the fact that drugs destroy lives. Alcohol also destroys lives, so thanks for pointing that out.

Please, give some details on that case, I'd be interested to read more.

Unlike recreational drugs, motorcycles are a useful tool that enables society to go about its business.

Knives also enable me to prepare dinner and surgeons to remove my appendix.

I don't think that class A drugs carry the same risk/benefit ratio, do you?

Also, I think you missed the part where I said that society and family carry some of the responsibility for that child taking drugs, but then you were too busy arguing the point you wanted to make rather than actually tackling what I said directly.

Cigarettes would not be legal if they were invented today. I've seen first hand what years of pot smoking does to people, it's not worth it.

Drinking to excess is a growing problem and one that should be tackled.

I can't really understand what point you're making, is it that you think class A drugs should be legalised?

until you see the many lives destroyed by drugs. from mothers abandoning their children, to ending up homeless and alone, to deaths and murders.

Sure he's just one cog in a giant machine, but he's also responsible for death and hardship as a result of the drugs he moved.

Society in general also carries some of the responsibility, as do those involved in his upbringing. But I know that if my child came to any harm as a result of the drugs he supplied for his own profit I'd want him to be behind bars for that long - or until he was rehabilitated.

"In 2004, 17% of U.S. State prisoners and 18% of Federal inmates said they committed their current offense to obtain money for drugs." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-related_crime

They should have released two different products. Chat Heads and Facebook Home.

I think Chat Heads looks like a strong product (only from referencing the videos though, I don't have it).

Without Chat Heads, would Facebook Home have been released to such a fanfare?

It doesn't matter how good you think you are or how much you think you already know - but if you are not learning something new every day, you're already behind the times.

The thing with this industry is that it's moving ever faster. So rather than hiring an expert now, based only on the fact they are an expert is a short sighted gain.

You should actually be hiring people who want to learn, who learn fast and who iterate and innovate on what they just learnt.

Learning is not a destination, it's a process you should actively participate in every day.

The PayPal horror stories are just the problems that people shout about and that go viral.

In fact the problems with PayPal are much more wide spread. I'd say that PayPal got lazy because no one has challenged them. As a result they still have an underinvested product that is painful to use.

I've used paypal as a merchant/developer on many products and on my latest project I actually decided not to bother charging customers until Stripe arrived in the UK (which it now has).

It's not that people don't feel the need to write something good about PayPal, it's that there's very little good to write about PayPal.

(not to detract from what PayPal originally did, which was monumental at the time, but they rested on their laurels)

I think people are starting to suffer from signup fatigue (even with just 3 boxes). Wherever possible, services should get right into the kernel of the experience and ask for registration later.

Everyone has the ability to be creative. Being creative has been part of human history for thousands of years.

The problem is more often that people aren't empowered to think creatively. You often get handed a set of tasks to complete or instructions to follow.

Some people naturally break out of this and follow their own path to accomplish the task. That's why it's so important for managers to watch this and understand they need to create an environment where people can get into the "open" mode as John puts it.

I agree that throughout life and education we've been taught to think and act within certain parameters, that's why I love this video so much, it actually gives ideas on how to create an environment that fosters creativity.

One of the best talks on creativity I have ever heard. Worth a listen whether you're a designer, developer, writer etc

This is an especially good video for managers to watch. In fact, it should be mandatory.

You might find this interesting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders_of_magnitude_(energy)

Total worldwide energy consumption (2008) 10^19

Total energy from the sun that strikes earth each year 10^24

Total energy output from the sun each year 10^34

Developing electric cars is vital. As is providing charging stations and other infrastructure.

Just because today we generate a lot of power from coal, gas, oil does not mean that in the future we will be 100% clean with renewables (!), nuclear or some other innovation.

The two things should be developed independently, and transportation should be developed on the assumption that the supply of energy will eventually come from a clean and sustainable source.

One handed operation of this would be a nightmare. If there's one thing my Nexus 4 has taught me, it's that any kind of beveled edges pick up the base of your thumb (as a press) when reaching over with the tip of your thumb.

(like when you hold the phone in your right hand and try to click a top left icon with your right thumb)

MailChimp concluded that social login wasn't worth it. Would be interesting to know how much of their demographic consists of "technical people"

https://blog.mailchimp.com/social-login-buttons-arent-worth-...

tweet in question https://twitter.com/_nnnick/status/313983245987479552

the problem is with the way they are selling tickets. All they've managed to do is tell a load of developers that Google Wallet is flakey.

I don't know what they are so worried about that they give you 5 minutes to pay. The thing is going to sell out even if they give people a week to pay!

the reason I prefer measuring energy use rather than distance travelled is that it also taxes less efficient cars.

safe + efficient is the goal for transport in my view!

But some people will be on the road more often than others, so the likelihood of an incident will be different.

I think it would be much better to add a premium onto the fuel the car uses and all claims would go to a central organisation.

Self driving cars should level out risk we currently have in different driving demographics i.e. a teenager in car is as likely to crash as someone who has been on the road for 20 years. So it's not like you'd be paying more "liability coverage" than you should.

guilty until proven innocent.

thanks for the explanation, I never realised it was like this.

Thanks for the link. I actually have that playing as well as the cafe background noise.

Kind of feels like I'm listening to music in a cafe! Working pretty well so far :)

If you look from an international perspective, there are companies started in Europe that did much better in the european markets than the "original" product. The end result is pretty much that the "original" had to buy out the clone.

For example Groupon buying MyCityDeal

The Samwer brothers are experts at this http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2012/04/features/ins...

When I go in a tweak the CSS of various html elements, it would be nice to have those changes available somewhere (even if I reload). Even the ability to replay those tweaks after reloading.

I need this to be able to move that css back to my external files.

If it's about the asteroid Apophis, then the last I heard was that it won't be hitting earth (I can't see the video on that link for some reason, but the dates rang a bell).

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/home/Asteroid-Apophis-Ta...

fair enough, my comments were directed more towards these terms used in a project management context rather than where she actually used them.

I would still argue that using them as part of marketing speak is doing something towards setting the tone though.

Actually, you should always define some "buzzword soup" as you put it, or as others put it "define the tone".

Picking out opposites to words she says is a cheap shot. Of course no one would ask for "stale, frustrating and ugly" websites.

However, she could just as easily have said "robust, bold and permanent" which would have resulted in a site better suited for obituaries.

I often encounter people who put these very high level definitions down to project management fluff, but the truth is the stuff makes a difference on it's way down the development chain.

If you're expecting something potentially embarrassing, then it's not so hard to be at the ready with a camera to take a photo of the screen.

I've worked remotely for 10+ years for various companies. I really appreciate the trust and commitment my employers have for letting me be in this situation.

As a result I always try to go beyond expectations and pay a lot of attention to communication.

Some of the things I do which I think give my employers confidence in me are:

1. Constant communication. Don't leave it to the imagination what I'm up to. I have a weekly work diary where I say what I'll work on, then tick off what I have worked on. I update throughout the week via IM or email.

2. Think about problems no one is working on yet. Kind of "skating-to-where-the-puck-will-be". In my case as a product designer I work on features/ideas we haven't discussed yet (usually not on company time).

3. Flexible with time. Need a presentation done over the weekend? Sure, no problem.

I'm a huge fan of remote working. My ideal scenario is 4 weeks home, 1 week office or something along those lines depending on projects. Although currently I have not been to the office in about 1 year!

We've heard plenty of stories of false accusations in order to settle old family scores.

"Interested in men" does not necessarily mean in a homosexual way, but it can be twisted to look that way.

I accept what I'm implying is a stretch, but I'm not 100% comfortable with Graph Search either.

Except that in Iran, you get hung for being gay. It's not a huge stretch to see what this search is implying

> “Islamic men interested in men who live in Tehran, Iran“… “Places where they’ve worked.”