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Interesting idea. A couple of suggestions: 1) Don't do the auto countdown thing with the camera. Just let me take a picture. 2) My knee jerk reaction when I received a photo was to ping my friend for another one right away. In fact all my friends did this until we got fed up with each other. Maybe limit pings to once an hour or something. 3) Give comments more focus. If someone sends me a photo I want to interact with them about it. Maybe that's why I'm heading to ping them so quickly...

Otherwise I'm happy to see a novel approach to social networking.

This is great for me to read. I'm 37 and I didn't graduate from college until I was 30 so I'm constantly worried that I will soon lose relevancy. However, even though my experience is on par with a developer ten years my junior, I often find that my age can sometimes give me an advantage. I'm less affected by politics, more able to see the big picture, and occasionally looked up to even by those I work for. That said, I don't have a family so I am still free to work long hours if I want and spend my free time in pursuit of whatever I want.

It appears they trademarked the word Go?

Holy crap.

Congrats. I think it's pretty impressive what you've accomplished.

Fun!

My personal favorite: http://fuckingblocksyntax.com/

I didn't know Harlem had a tech community. Brooklyn, for sure. But Harlem? That's news to me.

Very beautiful.

There's a ruby client for IB, believe it or not. It's not bad, either.

https://github.com/ib-ruby/ib-ruby

Very interesting. And seems like it doesn't affect most mobile users since they use a default client, for the most part.

Holy crap. If I'm reading this right, this basically destroys all pixel tracking, so no more email open stats, no nothing.

The same author published a similar article back in September on the same subject. Very intriguing!

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/quanta/20130917-a-jewel-at-...

"Let's say you're an idiot" :)

Very well written. Kudos.

Haha wow! Thanks. Wasn't trying to be mean about it, but it feels much better now :)

Man I was so excited when I saw this. I have a 4S and I feel like the responsiveness of the home button has been seriously degraded with iOS7. Alas, I already had all the settings they mention set the way they describe. I suppose it's just a hardware issue for me.

I'm curious, because I don't really know this system, if other scientists feel this way. I have some inkling that journals can often publish erroneous papers (maybe I got that idea from Nate Silver?), but that would be so very unfortunate for Science's reputation. I hope it's not that bad.

Oh, ya think?

Omg so many horrible UI ticks today it's driving me crazy! Pro tip: Don't add falling snow to a website with a white background. I thought I was having a stroke for a second.

Is it just me or is the scrolling on that blog incredibly annoying and "cushiony"?

I didn't expect to find humor in this thread, but here I am, laughing. So that's nice.

I really don't care about Apple's problems. Apple can take care of itself.

God I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time, but just didn't have the networking chops to get started. Glad someone beat me to it!

I imagine this would work well, not just on networks you own, but with cooperative neighbors as well. What if an entire floor of an apartment building used the same proxy? Would that work?

I served 4 years in the Army, but back before the current wars. As someone with a good high school education and promising background many people did not understand my choice. To be honest, I wasn't too clear on it myself at the time. But like you I was looking for...something else.

The Army was not at all what I expected. I expected to be told what to do all the time or for it to be like something out of Full Metal Jacket. I expected extremes. It IS different and it can occasionally be extreme, but most days it just felt kind of like a boring job that you can't quit and I'd guess that's the usual experience (again, I'm talking peacetime here), no matter which branch or type of soldier you are (I was Infantry). I was a good soldier, but I spent most of the time looking forward to getting out. As far as helping others...I never felt like I had the opportunity.

However, I have never bonded so closely with a group of people before or since. And it definitely changed me for the better. I came out of it with a focus and drive that most of my peers severely lacked. Life just seemed a bit easier somehow. It also earns me respect wherever I go (deserved or not). Not to mention I was in hella good shape ;)

There's also a bunch of financial benefits: VA medical care for life, low interest home loans, access to better credit unions (USAA) and money for college + bonuses. Overall not a bad deal. It will set you back a few years in terms of career, especially if you want to continue programming. My only regret is that I did 4 years instead of 2. Everything good I got out of the military I had at two years.

I'm not really arguing for or against it here, I'm just giving you my experience. But it's a decision not to be taken lightly. We are at war. You may be involved in combat and you may not. Think on what that means to you before signing anything. There are other ways to help people, if that's your itch.

But if you're feeling hopeless and your itch is to just go do something a little bit rash because you're young and want adventure, might I suggest a backpacking trip through China? Or a road trip to visit every state? Or a job on a cruise-liner? Life is full of crazy shit to do. And you might just figure out what to do next along the way.

I would work. But not for someone else, and perhaps not for any clear goal or achievement. I would work patiently and methodically on long-term projects that could only be possible with that amount of leisure time.

Haha it's not my product, but I'll be sure to pass that along!

No I get what you're saying. I'm not suggesting that the burden is somehow on the customer to figure out their genome, what I'm saying is that the problem described in the blog is not because of some inherent fuzziness in the science, but just a problem with the web-app.

All systems have bugs, even the ones which lives depend on. It's cool that the author was able to bring the issue to 23AM's attention, but it's also cool that they were able to correct it.

Wow, this actually makes me pretty impressed with 23andme. Yeah, ok, maybe their analysis front-end is borked, but hell, the science seems pretty sound if he was able to get the "right" answer from the original sample.

I've used PostgresSQL quite successfully for the past few years at rather large scales and I can tell you, using TEXT everywhere is sooooooooo much easier on everyone involved. Especially on large teams (hundreds of developers) where migrations are a big deal. And especially when the business teams are essentially dictating the use cases. Those people change their minds ALL THE TIME ("Yeah, I know we agreed that we only need about 20 characters for the description here, but we now think 25 will really make the whole thing pop, ya know?").

And as far as the argument for keeping schemas in strict SQL so that some future database switch can be made more smoothly...I mean c'mon. Even if you actually do that (who does that?) you're going to have more annoying things to do than replacing some TEXT columns to VARCHAR.