Iqbal Khan is Swiss
44 karma · joined March 21, 2011
I was joined with my dad who recently retired and never has left the continent - his first long haul flight and first time to the US.
I feared and prepared for the worst and I even was debating about leaving my iPhone, iPad and MacBook Air at home to avoid any searches.
It turned out to become the smoothest immigration ever: We stood at the curb waiting for the car rental bus within 45 minutes after we stepped out of the plane.
Short lines, smoothly working self-service kiosks, a friendly immigration officer, not one single intimidating or aggressive question.
Way to go!
Will I have to switch between a dozen SIM cards in a few years when I want to send an iMessage, a Facebook message, upload an Instagram photo, conduct a Google Hangout session. Oh hell no.
Just give me a 4G enabled SIM card, a reasonable data limit (ie. 5GB) for an affordable price. I'll figure out by myself what I will use this mobile broad band connection for, thanks.
Why should people require a smartphone to figure out whether they can park on a street or not?
My solution: KISS! European countries show that it's totally feasible to make easy-to-understand parking signs, in 2015, without any Silicon Valley tech at all.
There is no way the SNB could have sustained this currency peg in the long term: It's vital for a "kleine offene Volkswirtschaft" like Switzerland to maintain its independent currency. We've been held hostage by the adverse developments of the EUR currency for too long (a terrible construct from the beginning, by the way).
Three years ago, the SNB gave a lifeline to Swiss companies who rely on exports to the EU area. Those companies had enough time to prepare for the Day of Reckoning which came unto us today. I am aware that there might be a bloodbath ahead, but I don't think it's up to the SNB to make sure Swiss jobs in export industries are artificially kept alive. If at all, it's up to the politicians to protect those industries. They could either decide to subsidize those companies or to turn the employees into civil servants. In case the electorate doesn't like such measures thank god there will be elections this fall.
The 12" MacBook Air is rumored to have ONE SINGLE USB PORT and NO other peripheral port (except a headphone jack). 9to5 claims it will be a USB Type-C port. Take with a grain of salt.
"Create an AJAX request to the location (eg.: /about.html). Change the URL in the browser with the history API (this way, the back and forward buttons still work in the browser). Show a loading animation that the content is now being loaded. When the content is loaded, parse it to extract the contents of #main (you can help yourself there by adding markers in your HTML) and replace the content of your current #main section with the one you just loaded. Make sure that you handle all the links in your new #main content so they will act the same and fire off any BrowserScript required for the page that just loaded."
Aside of usability issues (what if the user has JavaScript disabled?), I don't really get how search engine spiders will be able to index the web site.
But I've also come across dozens of unprotected .xlsx and .txt files stored on group shares which give me shivers every time I see it.
E.g. Rabbits in Australia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbits_in_Australia#Biological...