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sometimes the problem is long compiles that get you out of flow and give you enough time to load a web browser

I don't think people who are using social media for personal use would pay for it, but people who are using it for business might.

Maybe pricing that works out so it is free for general users and has a low price point for "pro" users?

Wow. You built 10 clusters, and I could have clearly given a name to each cluster.

As part of your demo, you should let me build a list based on each cluster.

Have you any thoughts of handling the edge case of users with ridiculously common names?

In the top ten for my firstname lastname I have:

   a famous chef,

   a life coach who is doing branding SEO,

   someone else who is a programmer,

   a professional photographer

In the top three firstname middlename lastname

   various high school kids,

   a registered sex offender

just noticed that you've been responding with two different accounts, pcambron and patrickambron

You could have a one-time pay service to get a "verified" badge on the profile, like what Twitter has for celebrities.

has anyone used rocketr vs asana?

I've been using Asana for a 16 person team and enjoying the experience.

I need to have some demo of what is going to happen on a site before I use facebook connect or give you any login information in any way.

Requiring a logged in user to use the site should not be the first step.

this comment is the second result on Google for "whois endosquid.com" within 40 minutes of posting the comment on Hacker News.

wow.

It wasn't until he added his picture to the sidebar that I realized the author, Yanis Varoufakis, was the basis for the Heavy in Team Fortress 2.

"It's not like the DJ is doing anything but playing other people's songs"

I wonder what would happen if everyone started calling him that "funny, junk lawyer"

This was kind of what Google Base (Now called Google Merchant Center) was meant to be. It was launched by Google in 2005.

http://googlebase.blogspot.ca/2005/11/getting-off-first-base...

I haven't played with Merchant Center, but Google Base was never good enough that merchants would adopt it in numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Base

I think Inception, Memento and The Dark Night show that Christopher Nolan is a filmmaker who is taken seriously.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0634240/awards

Another interesting point is that the Oatmeal started a reddit-like site called http://bearfood.com 25 days ago.

I wonder if that could make him be considered a "competitor" to FunnyJunk in the eyes of the law.

I've uploaded your picture to FunnyJunk, because that is exactly the kind of stuff they are looking for.

Thank you.

"beloved internet celebrity"

We've also had non-internet celebrities for a long time, not to mention politicians, etc. Trying to go after one of them is going to be a bad time too.

The issue is when you try to use the law to go after someone with more _power_ than you.

The Oatmeal's power is their internet fans, but obviously FunnyJunk thought they had the same power and were on equal footing.

You probably have not been following this issue as long as others, but do you realize that in May 2011 that FunnyJunk's admin sent out a message to all of their users asking them to harass the Oatmeal?

"The FunnyJunk owner known as Admin responded with a message to all users “the Oatmeal wants to sue funnyjunk and shut it down! He thinks we're nothing more than dirty content thieves...Contact Oatmeal anyway you can!" and provided links to The Oatmeal's e-mail and Facebook page.[1] This triggered spamming by FunnyJunk users and a flame war with The Oatmeal readers."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oatmeal_and_FunnyJunk_legal...

The picture of the bear is substandard to the other work on his site.

It is intentionally petty and juvenile to draw the comparison that the letter from FunnyJunk's lawyer is petty and juvenile.

When I was junior I really thought that everything can be fixed.

As I've gained more experience I've realized that maintaining a code base is like any relationship with conflict -- you have to pick your battles carefully or everything turns into a fight / falls apart.

I wonder if the IRS will ever start targetingthe more popular AirBnd profiles.

I imagine most people do not declare the income, and $20k a year is significant revenue.

Other than the simple top 100 password list, a password based on the name of the service is the most likely password that everyone has.

Usually something like "domainname"+"common password for all sites"

I think you solved my imgist.com addiction. Thanks!

what is the recommended approach to handling work hours?

close your browser when leaving work? :)

or is there something I'm not understanding?

Has anyone tried to use a home Chromebook as a development tool connecting to a corporate network over VPN and using VNC to connect to a linux box?

I think it would be much better for my marriage if I could handle the "work emergencies" from the same room as my wife.

no, I had assumed it was an HTPC from the landing page.

I've completely forgotten that Chromebooks even exist because I've never heard of anyone buying one.

Experience has taught me that if you want to get something done, you need to stay off the bleeding edge, or at the very least only drag yourself to the bleeding edge at controlled increments.

The only thing that should be changing often is YOUR code. Everything else should be as stable as possible.

What I find works best is playing leap frog: * your code is unstable / upgrade nothing * your code is stable, stop changing it and upgrade things one at a time

test suites / regressions are a must.

Thank you for posting this, Matt.

It's amazing that you were able to learn so much about his condition. It gives me hope for the future of medicine, because I sometimes feel like we are still in the dark ages.

I hope you have success with the treatments.

"Whow, are you arrogant. Can you even contemplate somebody who doesn't want to have children?"

Can you contemplate that if you are having heterosexual/breeder sex, you may have children even if you never planned to?

"A non-parent could similarly argue that you don't get to pass judgement since you are under the influence of cognitive dissonance."

The difference is that someone who is a parent has also been a non-parent.

Someone who is a non-parent has never been a parent.

link to original article instead of yahoo aggregator: http://mashable.com/2012/04/16/sergey-brin-worried-internet/