kellishaver

Ah, thanks so much! That makes perfect sense. I was using the https link that bigbucket provided initially.

Definitely going to give this a go. I have a lot of repos I'd like to keep private, but they're mostly personal projects and not worth paying more money for at GitHub.

Quick question from someone new to Bitbucket:

I have to authenticate every time I push to the repo. I've added my SSH key to the account, but I assume there's some additional configuration, such as how github has you add values for github.user and github.token to your global git config, but I can't find any such info for what those variables need to be for Bitbucket - assuming that's the reason I'm still continually prompted for a password.

Has anyone sorted this out yet or got SSH authentication working with Git & Bitbucket?

As someone who deals with eye strain daily due to vision problems that can't be corrected, some days, it just wear me out and leave my physically exhausted. It's unbelievable how physically tiring it can be.

To combat this, I do a few things:

- Try to take frequent breaks, even if it's just closing my eyes for a couple of minutes

- Keep the room lighting at the right level - not too bright, not too dark

- Use larger fonts and good contrast - a black background on my text editor, where I spend the majority of my time and light grey, almost white, but not quite as stark, text seems to be the best balance.

- Try and get plenty of sleep - If I start the day tired, then my ability to focus on what I'm looking at and my visual stamina are both going to be shot by noon.

Thanks you :) and no, I didn't think you sounded harsh at all.

No, not at all. I'm going with (hopefully) good parenting and crossing my fingers on that one. ;) It's preventing the "accidentally wandering into questionable content" that I'm interested in, in search results, etc.

I'm not so much even worried about protecting her from the "questionable content" because I think that's something she needs to learn to deal with (though we do of course have rules about what is and isn't allowed). I just don't want her stumbling across it on a tablet in her bedroom, where we won't notice and can't offer guidance or discussion.

We have a computer in the living room that she uses for internet access and we don't have any filtering software, etc. on it. It's just out in the open, so generally supervised.

It would be really interesting if they could integrate some form of parental controls along with this whole caching/prefetching/data crunching process.

Say you logged into your Amazon account and set the rating level for content available in Fire and then Amazon's servers would block your kid from accessing freepr0n4all.com. You could add exceptions, specific sites to block, etc. and there would be a known, ever-evolving database of "unsafe" sites by rating.

The ability to filter content in a mobile browser isn't something that exists as of yet, I don't believe.

If I could do this, I'd buy one for my 9yr old today.

Of course, this could then be combined with other tools to "lock down" the fire, e.g. disabling the ability to exit "cloud mode" and thus bypass the filters, password protection for app/movie purchases, like iOS parental controls do, and so on.

If you're looking for product suggestions, Snap Circuits for the budding hacker child are great.

http://www.amazon.com/Elenco-SC-750-Snap-Circuits-Extreme/dp...

I'm working on a simple static site right now, but it's the first one I've done in a long time.

I'm also doing some work for another client that's just delivering PSD files... which, again, is not something I have done in probably a couple of years.

Unless you're working as part of a larger team and you each have specific tasks, most people want at least design+front-end development.

eInk isn't the best solution in a lot of instances. A back-lit display is a lot more visually accessible.

http://kellishaver.tumblr.com/post/10646083786/my-ipad

I think the social impact of siblings is probably more significant that the intellectual one..... whatever that may be. I don't actually have any personal experience to draw from here. I grew up an only child and am raising an only child.

I've been using the iHeart Radio iPhone app for a while and like it well enough, and I stream my local Clear Channel station over the web a lot (Mix 94.5 out of Lexington, KY - I live about a mile out of range to actually get it clearly on the radio). I could see myself using this quite a bit, but the "you must Like us on Facebook" thing is a real turn-off for me, so for now I think I'll stick to what I've got.

I wish it had code folding, and I wish I could do a block cursor instead of the | (easier to see) but I don't think those are hugely popular requests.

I wonder how impractical it would have been for NASA to keep a shuttle around (until there is another agency providing redundancy) for emergencies such as this and just stop the scheduled mann spaceflights.

I wouldn't say there's a lot of scar tissue. It's basically just skin. There are two types of prosthetic eyes. The one I have, the more "traditional" prosthesis, is two parts. There's a clear sphere made of medical grade plastic implanted in the back of my eye socket and then there is skin and muscle over top of that. The prosthesis sits in the eye on top of this sphere. The newer variety has a post that attaches to this to allow for more eye movement.

If you're not one to be easily bothered by such things, I've upload a couple of (somewhat blurry, my apologies) pictures.

The eye socket: http://i.imgur.com/DogTz.jpg

The Prosthesis: http://i.imgur.com/JyQOL.jpg

I assume it's not made from softer materials because they would be more porous and therefore more prone to irritation and infection.

I know some people who take their eye out at night and I've heard different opinions from different doctors, but the general consensus from both my eye doctor and my ocularist is that unless there's irritation to leave it in and leave it alone. Occasionally, during allergy season, I'll need to take it out and rinse it off, but for the most part, I just leave it be and it's fairly self-cleaning. I get it professionally polished once a year and the prosthetic itself needs to be replaced every 5-10yrs.

Bruising isn't a huge issue, but it's the most frequent "complication" I have and is something I probably end up doing every few months. I can be a bit of a restless sleeper, though. :)

Nah, it's not really that big of a deal. It's a little sensitive to irritation from foreign debris, but that's about it.

I don't think I've ever had an infection in mine and have probably only scratched/irritated it 4-5 times in the past 16 years. Usually that only happens when something gets behind the prosthesis and rubs. More often, I find that I've given myself a black eye in my sleep, because a hard prosthetic makes it easier to bruise the lid than having a soft, squishy eyeball in there.

Though I believe the company will be fine, this kind of feels like the end of an era. It's sad, as well, because it sounds very much like his reasons for stepping down are health-related, which can't be good.

He's survived and built amazing things in the face of great illness, when a lot of people would have given up. Sure, he had more financial resources than most to put into that battle against cancer, but a large part of it still comes down to determination and will. It would have been easy, several years ago, to say "I'm too tired to do this anymore" when you've fought cancer and don't need the paycheck. Someone like that doesn't step away from something they love unless they feel they absolutely have to.

I just hope Steve and his family are given the respect and privacy they will no doubt need and desire in the weeks and months ahead.

I'm not certain I'll participate in the gift exchanges anymore, and it has nothing to do with Reddit buying the site. I've participated twice, and both times I got great gifts from the person who drew my name. However, my experience sending out gifts has been less than stellar. Both times, I did a lot of research and spent a lot of money. The first time, the person never even confirmed that they had received the gift (tracking info confirmed delivery) and the second time, it was just confirmed as received, with no commentary made, no thank you, nothing. When the person you are buying a gift for can't even take two minutes to say thanks, it kind of kills any desire to continue participating.

I came here to say the same thing. I can't read printed books at all. Even large print ones are a struggle. I just have to have the back light of my iPad or computer screen to see what I'm reading, in addition to the increased font size. I have a lot of books that I love that aren't available in digital format, mostly due to their age. I think I may well be taking advantage of this service.

I agree, obviously most nonprofits need to have a revenue model, because donations can't sustain you 100%. However I think the general point they were trying to make was that the model followed by many large nonprofits does more to treat the symptoms than solve the problem.

I do a lot of nonprofit work and I've become pretty disillusioned with many large organizations-I feel they tend simply give hand-outs rather than helping communities to become sustainable and self-sufficient and actually addressing the issues. Add to that the costs of overhead and management, etc. and I really feel like the most significant changes are going to come from the small groups motivated by their passion for helping and unburdened by the task of maintaining a large corporate revenue model. The change these groups affect might not be as far-reaching, but think their impact is greater.

This reminds me somewhat of a visual field test, which I cannot pass to save my life.

I expected this to affect me either 1) Not at all, since I have monocular vision and a lot of optical illusions don't work for that reason, or B) ridiculously well, since I have a visual field of only about 15 degrees, a rather significant, centrally located cataract, and severe nystagmus.

However, it seems the reactions I was having to the dots pretty much mirrors others' experiences, which is, to me at least, rather interesting.

I used to not drink coffee until a friend of mine introduced me to good coffee (i.e. not Maxwell House or Folgers). I normally only drink about 3 cups a week, usually in the afternoons, on busy days when I'm feeling sluggish. If I drink much more than that, I do notice that it loses its effect of waking me up, while simultaneously making it harder for me to sleep. It's kind of a shame, because I really enjoy the taste of good coffee now that I've found it. Making the perfect cup of coffee is a kind of art.

I have mixed feelings on this. I want to like it because it seems like a good idea, but then the more I think about it, there doesn't seem to be that much practical use for the service. The way I see this, kids who need phone dialing that simplistic would be too young to use it.

I think this would work better as an IM/voice chat program aimed at the 7-11yr old crowd-a way for them to easily chat with other kids, when they happen to be online (and maybe a "voice mail" type system), from an approved list of friends their parents have added.

Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I don't like the idea of kids and phones - not that talking to Grandma across the country is bad or anything. It's just that I don't think a young child has any business using a phone (voice chat, etc.) without first obtaining permission to do so, even if it's safe. So I would either a: make the call for her or 2: supervise while she dials. I mostly feel this way because kids tend to obsess over things and so a child with free reign over a big yellow "call" button would get annoying to others. By the time my kid is old enough to pick up the phone and call someone whenever she wants to (i.e. has a basic understanding of telephone etiquette and respect for others' time), basic phone usage just isn't a challenge at that age.

Add to this the fact that your average land-line or cell phone service includes local calling, as well as nationwide long distance at a fixed rate and it makes it hard to justify the cost of buying Bumble credits just for the ease of connectivity.

Mobiquity released a statement on TC confirming no affiliation with Starbucks.

http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/10/the-vast-starbucks-conspira...

You don't have to be the owner of the page to request it be removed from Google cache. Who knows, the author could have done it to lend the theory more credibility and try to generate more scandal and thus more blog traffic.

See? Un-founded accusations can work both ways.

You are correct that the Twitter feed isn't quite real-time. It only updates once a minute and the card was getting a lot of activity.

He is and yes, that is his account. I suspect he'll chime in when he notices this.

Sorry, my response was worded a bit poorly - I'll edit it. I have no idea if they still have a relationship with Starbucks or not.

The author of the blog post states that he had to go to Google cache to find the page in the first place, so there's no telling how long ago it was removed from Mobiquity's site. A past affiliation does not imply an ongoing one.

It would make no sense for them to remove the entire page when they could just remove the Starbucks logo, so it could ell just be a restructuring of the site.

I can't give you a reason other than speculation. The author of the blog post states that he had to go to Google cache to find the page in the first place, so there's no telling how long ago it was removed from Mobiquity's site.

It makes no sense for them to remove the entire page when they could simply replace the Starbucks logo with that of another clients. Couple that with the fact that we have no idea when the page was changed and it sounds more like removing the client page was part of a decision regarding the overall content of their site and not an attempt to hide anything.

A past affiliation between Starbucks and Mobiquity has no bearing at all on the current situation if it is not ongoing, and still doesn't imply any personal affiliation with Mr. Stark.

Just to clarify, he's not using a Starbucks API. He's scraping the data from the user page. The API the card uses (for Twitter, for others to check the balance, etc.) is one he created for the project.

A company he works for, in a completely unrelated capacity (application architecture != marketing) has in the past, at least, worked for or with Starbucks. Whether that's ongoing or not is between Starbucks and Mobiquity, but even if they are it's no indication of a professional or personal relationship between Starbucks and Mr. Stark.

Jonathan's a friend of mine, so I'll take him at his word on this one.