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I wonder if a lot of addresses were added by AM themselves, perhaps from an email marketing list. I have a spam-catcher account where all messages go straight to the junk folder. I use it when required to sign into services that I don't ever plan to return. I found this email on the AM list, though I haven't ever signed up. It's likely that my address was sold by some service or another, is all I can figure?

They just recently banned the bags here in Chicago. I was disappointed that when I went to the store today they gave me a thicker plastic bag with "re-usable" printed on it.

It seems like an idiotic misinterpretation of the entire point of banning bags. What kind of BS political spin-job have we gotten ourselves into?

If you work in assembly you'd be in good shape. Though you probably would pull your hair out with the hardware speed, memory constraints, etc!

Canning and jarring your own food was also extremely common - my great grandfather had a basement full of stuff they had grown and then preserved themselves. The idea of buying canned veggies wasn't unusual or unhealthy at all - except perhaps being viewed as lazy or a waste of money.

Also, there weren't chemicals involved other than a lot of salt & vinegar.

My philosophy is that the first time something funky and unexplainable happens, power cycle and don't spend a bunch of time on it. But keep and eye out for the same thing and if it happens again, then investigate.

Using it to solve a daily problem is a terrible idea, if you have any control over the system.

I'd be curious to know how Gravitational works if the founders are here? How would one take a public service and make it private?

I'd say it's more like they turned off the game after the opening cut scene. This doesn't really qualify as a fumblebrag because they didn't actually start.

They assume that funding was in the bag already, that the product would get built on time (or at all) and that even 1 person would sign up. Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't.

They were right about one thing though, the timing was fortunate that it was squashed just a little past the idea stage.

awesome, thank you!

This article came exactly 1 day too late for me - I literally just blew away one of our test machines yesterday morning, only to find I can't activate it unless I re-install Windows 7. To make matters more fun I chucked the Win7 install disk in the trash thinking, I won't need this again!

One thing I might suggest is that the payment is made in advance and kept in an escrow. Allowing people to hire a drone operator and then trusting them to pay after the footage is delivered seems like a lot of risk for the operator. It's not normally expected with photography that you get the full deliverables before paying. The pre-pay business model is pretty standard for hire-a-freelancer services too, so I don't think it would detract from the service.

I would actually use this service since I'm an amateur filmmaker. I probably would have just posted an ad on one of the film forums or craigslist, though. It's not solving a really huge problem for me.

I just assumed that from the geologist advising people to test their water so they would have a baseline - so they would be able to make claims later. Obviously there's no need for such proof now.

It seems the geologist even underestimated the disaster He was advising residents to check their water at the time so they could compare it later for contamination. Instead of a hidden change in water parameters, we got a river that looks like carrot juice.

One thing to add to that list is that an AAA game is also somewhat defined by the amount of marketing and promotion that goes along with it.

I think sometimes it's a case where things are bad, but the project owners have a few long shots out there and are hoping that one of them will come through. I guess in a perfect world, they would just write that as well.

(Unfortunately I can't reply to the parent since it got flagged)

To add to what hluska wrote - Imagine your 5 year old self, thinking that when you are 20 your dream job will be riding on a garbage truck. You will spend every dime of your income on candy and Pokemon figures. You will live in a treehouse in your parents back yard, and girls (or guys) are yucky. Those things may all be awesome. At 20 you might even do some of them for a laugh, but they're certainly not life goals anymore. At 5 years old, you simply couldn't conceive of what would be significant at 20.

Everything that I wanted at 20 I did - to excess. I exceeded every goal that ever occurred to my 20 year old self. I did it to the point where I grew bored. New things became more exciting. I continued to grow. If I was still running with my 20-year-old self's plan - I would honestly consider myself a failure.

When I was young I told my friends that if they saw me in 20 years married and not playing music full time to go ahead and punch me in the face. I honestly thought that I would feel exactly the same at 40 that I did at 20.

At that age I probably would have looked at my older self and thought that I had lost my passion, had sold out, become uncool, etc. It didn't occur to me that I would still remember everything that I knew at 20, plus have another 20 years to figure out what actually is important to me and become twice as confident and comfortable with myself.

I felt way more "lost" when I was 20 than I did at 40. I don't think I've necessarily figured it all out. But, as much fun as I had when I was young, I like my life more now.

You can always say that you're the designated driver, which at some bars will get you, ironically, free soda.

I live & work in an urban area with young people. Hardly any of us drink soft drinks. When I return home to visit my family (small midwestern town) everybody drinks soda all the time. Most shoppers have a couple of cases of soda in their shopping cart at the grocery. My parents and siblings have 2nd refrigerators loaded with soft drinks. Every meal out includes them.

I think it would be easy to think that soft drinks are going out of style if you're living in a tech bubble (like I probably am), but when you get outside of this circle you can see the massive amount of soft drinks that are still being consumed.

Depriving yourself of culture? Give me a break! Just say that you don't want to pay anything for music and movies released by major labels and studios, but you still want to enjoy them. Don't pretend you're taking some ethical stance.

Both Apple and MS have been doing that for a while. MS got me when they came out with MS Word, which opened formats from just about every other word processor - Wordperfect being the main one. Apple got me when they introduced Bootcamp and I was able to run both OSs on one machine. Slowly but surely it got to be a pain to keep booting back and forth and I switched to OSX.

I'd imagine it's a similar story for a lot of us out there, just different apps, libraries, dev tools, etc, luring us back and forth between the various operating systems. I wonder if I could be lured back to the MS side?!

We do the same thing except we don't keep the version number in the main table since we have no reason to ever display that unless we're looking at the history anyway. We have a history table with two JSON columns representing the before and after state, so we don't need to keep columns in sync. (Technically the before state might be redundant, but it makes comparisons simpler). I really like this idea of using triggers, though. We handle it at the ORM event level so the DB isn't entirely self-sufficient.

There have been many times where having the version information has helped us to debug and fix problems. We've had customers call us, freaking out because they accidentally deleted something, or confused because somebody else in the company changed something. We can tell them exactly when, what and by whom the data was changed and easily restore it.

If you feel that way and don't want to support the industry, the real ethical thing to do is to not watch or listen to their products. Only support artists who are releasing their material under terms that you agree with.

As far as I'm aware most thermostats don't really factor in humidity which has a big factor on my comfort. When I'm at home on a relatively mild summer day, my house actually feels uncomfortably warm. When it's blisteringly hot outside my AC goes into overdrive and turns my place into an icebox - even though the temperature is always set the same at 72.

It doesn't really take a lot of intuition to know that the vast majority of startups are going to fizzle. Heck, "fail fast" is a mantra of the startup scene. Landlords just "know it" because they've already gone through it.

I think that the shared office spaces are really a wonderful solution so that young companies can have a great space without the long-term commitment. Ironically when we visited one (in Chicago) there were quite a few corporate "outposts" there with large companies like IBM.

Censorship of your freedom of speech really only applies when the government is doing it. Github is not the government and, by contract law, you waived your right to freedom of speech when you agreed to their terms of service. If that truly does concern you then you're free to move your code to a new repo, or host it yourself.

Unless Github decides that "anything goes" on their servers then it's going to be a judgement call sometimes. Using the word 'retard' in this context might be seen as harassment, unlike using profanity. I personally think Github made the right call here.

Just curious where you got the 10 million number?

Congrats on launching! Can you call out from a phone janitor number as well? It sounds great, but if I return a call then they have my real, unfiltered number.

To me it seems more like the most relevant time to pitch your own project. It also might introduce the original poster to his/her competition - of which they might not have been aware. If I'm interested in the post, then I'm probably interested to know what other similar tools are out there. My opinion, of course.

There's some utility methods like FluentWait, but ultimately they're just convenience wrappers for polling the DOM and waiting.