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You forgot an (IMHO|IMNSHO) or two in there I think.

that's how copyright works

>> Just because the device says it's a keyboard without "looking" like one, doesn't mean it's suspect.

You forgot the part about its fake USB DEV/PROD ID (masquerading as an Apple keyboard) and the part about trying to send local data to some "masked" URL.

Without all those advantages you listed, the price to pick a competitor for your next flight would likely be close to zero though. So they have to provide those running incentives. The cost of switching the phone provider for my next call... way higher.

That would be a star rating system then. Supposedly they work worse.

Spaghetti code is not necessarily the result of fast thinking... shallow is enough... fast or slow.

However, fast thinking is necessary for playing out different versions of a solution inside one's head and generally for analyzing the suitability and elegance of one. That process is fast, internal and generally not conductive of talking. Just concentration and discipline. Also, verbalizing a thinking process is always a lossy compression. At least for me. And it's not because I don't know how to express myself, although I might not be very good at that either. It's because verbalizing a thinking process always feels like serialization of an inherently parallel and real time process. The mouth is a shared resource here.

Indian code monkey ?!?! {...} certain innate aptitude (that presumably they don't have in your opinion){...}

wow

Someone who is able to think and talk at the same speed is either an impractically fast talker or an impractically slow thinker.

Whomever did, it's funny that it would appear to be against it from a cursory examination, what with using such derisive term, and yet the effect is probably just the reverse... (negative association) hence maybe even a supporter. Or proponent. A social hack of sorts.

Ouch. My first negative.

Comefrom could be usefull to implement aspect oriented semantics.

Invisible asserts are also possible for debugging purposes, that don't pollute the codebase. They also don't self-document the code but (and I might be mistaken) PHP can't just optimize some statements out so as to not have them eat cycles like compiled langs.

Both of these could sit in separate modules and be coupled in or not depending on weather one debugs or deploys.

a comefrom would indeed be interesting and arguably more useful...

That article was published a year an a half ago and refers to declarations of a guy who's no longer the CEO of Seagate. I'm sure the "news" in news.ycombinator.com is not to be taken literally but come on!

>> or did you mean that it disconnects you as soon as you type G ?

Yes.

>> Is your DNS working properly ?

Yes.

Thanks for all the replies. It was a peering problem in the end. I guess they didn't like the pink slip idea in the end. That or the thing broke other more important things for them.

Thank you for the tip. Never needed it so never knew about it. Dully committed to BrainDB.

Yes. About 10 seconds after first seeing the blank page. The trace looks healthy and ends ok. Pinging news.ycombinator.com directly drops nothing. HTTP apparently is where it chokes. Thank you for your interest. EDIT: telneting to tcp 80 just get's me a killed connection when I press "G".

Please don't joke with this :)

www.hackerne.ws get's me a blank page as well. The plot thickens (I know it points to the same IP). Hopefully, I won't have to google for HN with site:wikileaks.org to untangle this.

Most appreciated. Thank you.

I feel a proverbial pink slip going to my ISP if they don't fix it soon. You don't mess with part of someone's lifestyle like that. Thank you for hosting my homepage.

Of course, that's Firebug not Firebird.

Heh. I used to have that bit set. No biggie though. I wasn't using it that much I was just curious and mentioned it as potentially useful for someone wanting to restore my access. Having to access HN through VNC over SSH over lame ADSL is what cramps my style these days.

Nah, I think that article is posed wrong. They compare smoking the electronic cigs to not smoking at all. Of course not smoking is better. Much much better. But by blocking them from the market they are denying another use case. For people that already smoke tobacco. I don't know if you smoke tobacco and if so, if you tried ecigs. I do, and I have. And smoking ecigs is much much much better although in a "lesser evil" manner. The e-liquid (what gets vaporized in ecigs) manufacturers should, I believe, purposefully try and try pretty hard to mach the level of toxins and carcinogens in common cigarettes. They don't. What is readily perceivable is to a net BIG gain. I have used these devices for about 3 months last year. They were wonderful. I would ABSOLUTELY prefer them to regular cigarettes even if they would not have a wonderful potential for quitting smoking altogether which I strongly believe (with arguments) they do. Outright denying that opportunity should be considered criminal in my humble opinion.

May I ask where you get you atomizers from?

Interesting link in one of the comments. OT but relevant to the business practices of Big Pharma: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20090809231252693

>> Doesn't google show Chrome ads on google.com and youtube.com for users with IE6.

They do. I for one, wish they'd stop doing it for FF users too though. It's getting really annoying.

Even if you're right and we'll soon see a 180 turn on Google's app, it will still leave a bad taste in many mouths due to the way they booted the other related apps from the store.

>>Also, did you use your front brake?

I used both but only the front worked. So I landed on my helmet, bike on top. Quite the other way than you, I tend to use mostly the rear break. Not being used to rely on the front, not in a "to the floor" way anyway is what got me. That and the lack of proper adjustment tolerated to the rear one.

Also, nice link. Thanks.

I don't think cell networks are dead meat. They will be, relatively soon, for anything but data carriage yes. But everything you want to get: voice, messaging, web, whatever else; you (and I) want it over the inet. They're (cell nets ops) problem is that inet access is just one product. They got quite confy over the years selling all kind of products and product levels enabled by their cell nets. Inet access is only one product, and in the long term, tends to have only one level: fast, no limitations.

That is a big problem for them I think. No room for up-sells, no room for fudging price plans. It's going to have to be fast and with no limitations or someone else will provide something that will get you closer and closer to that. And the natural advantage of having those towers is not going to last forever (think WiFi, WiMAX and what comes afterwards) so they will have to reduce their expectation and be contempt of selling plain, unlimited inet access. I'm eagerly expecting that future.

>> I think you have to do something weird to land on your head.

Not weird, just reckless. Like tolerating faulty rear breaks for a little while. What was I thinking :)... Anyway, the helmet took it and the dog that prompted the full stop got away unscratched...

>> The other is that you can never have contempt of your users... which you're paid hundreds of dollars an hour to do.

In all fairness... those are clients then. Totally different situation.

Sure. You install the "Stylish" extension and then you use CSS to customize to your heart's content. This IS Firefox. I have all the chrome hidden when inactive.

That distinction is likely temporary though.