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Anybody have any idea about how they did it? Sorry for the noob question but I can't really figure out how they did it, since the original page loads fine and only after this there's some kind of redirect.

And as I can see it only affects certain pages so maybe there's a compromised component that's loaded on those pages?

Mandatory: I want to franchise this country! (http://everything2.com/title/Franchulate)

This is Google Wave. The "chatlets" and all the philosophy based on bits and pieces point to that. I remember there was an open "wave" protocol exposed somewhere and an Apache implementation of that protocol, though I cannot seem to find the link anymore. Was wondering if this is compatible with the general "wave" protocol or it's something proprietary.

Just for fun I once thought about using my Lego Next kit to build a bluetooth controlled robotic finger to operate my AC remote. So sorry I never got to it.

The article is pretty much a hack-job. Logic 1: the state is funding 10% of your acquisition of a car, thus the state is subsidizing the car seller. Logic 2: the car cannot drive more than 200 miles, thus it is useless. I am amazed that Forbes published this.

I think you are missing the point of the whole article.

This writing is not a piece of news that tells you something you did not know. Rather it works as a "short novel" whose purpose is to create a story around a modern-day phenomenon. If you look closely you can see the age-old patterns of stories worldwide: the low-key individual that takes the path of the hero, the cause, the ruthless enemy, the obstacles to overcome, the relentless fight.

Overall I found it to be an entertaining read, the key here being the "entertaining" part. I do believe that the target of this piece was never the "enlightment" of the audience but rather the "sentimental engagement" of the audience.

After all, this has been the point of storytellers since the break of mankind, keep us fearing the night and happy to have lived another day.

Perfect idea, simple and elegant. Though I wonder if there would not be lock conflicts between the file-syncing dropbox does and the file-reading that stash would need.

Looks really cool and will definitely try it. Was also thinking about forking it and making it save the key value pairs on a file in my dropbox.

Having had direct contact with all the issue of massive crawls (talking about tens of thousands of websites daily), I can say that it depends on the scale and "business-criticality" of the crawl. For the types of crawls that their product seems to be targeted at (quite small scale and with a very precise "point and gather" approach), it might be efficient to go the service way.

But the author fails to mention that the outsourcing decision holds true only for all non-mission critical crawls (whether it's for marketing, accounting or any other operations) while it's totally unfeasible if your company is doing big number crunching. When the product is the data, you need to control the accuracy and timeliness of the crawl without a doubt.

Not exactly. I am saying that public opinion does not benefit unless the law's involved. If discrimination is not condemned clearly and if the perpetrators can hide behind press releases and teary eyed blog posts, nobody benefits.

So bottom-line: the company is not a haven for male brogrammer types, the founders fucked up and please engineers don't let this scandal affect you.

Still, there's a bitter taste left here. The whole situation remains somehow murky and nobody has benefited from this "clarification". My personal opinion is that if you have a disagreement and there's grounds for legal proceedings, you should start the legal proceedings. It might be an uphill battle, it might eventually prove useless, but at least it's a final answer to a question.

My guess is that this public storm did not help anybody: neither Julie, nor Github, nor the movement against sex discrimination in the workplace. Everybody still thinks they were right and no "final" solution was shown. And most importantly, with regard to the real issue (the discrimating treatment), nobody DID nothing. The founder just quit (without being accused of much and without "paying" for anything), Github is still the best place in the world to work in (as it was before this thing happened) and somehow Julie seems to be a little more paranoid than before (hey what can we do, an independent expert did not confirm her story).

Back to square one on this one.

Even if this is a minor "show-off" project, it's a good reminder for the power of open data. Location services, emergency planning software, tons of other stuff benefit enormously from this kind of openness.

[Crazy fun idea]:Basically, given Denmark's open geographic data one could potentially build an MMORPG which takes place in Denmark and have the terrain pre-generated. I think I would call this one Hamlet: The revenge.

On the other hand, you would expect consumers to buy hard drives and storing devices. So maybe that will be the way to go for processing power too?

Indeed, really cool to see so much similarity with Python. Anybody have any recommendations for a book on Scala? Something to use as an introduction to the language?

I believe there might be some interesting results in using the RasPi as a kind of building block for massively parallel computing, but I find that path very hard to merge with the "ubiquitous computing" trend. The later seems so much more promising from the point of view of "processing power available to the masses".

A metaphor for life: impossible to win, impossible to lose. Just a game.

Makes me wonder if there's an "easter egg" hidden somewhere.

On-topic: I remember my undergrad course in macroeconomics. It was a total and utter mess. Just tons and tons of theories and formulas that could not be demonstrated, but had to be memorized. Most macro-economists suffer greatly from the lack of a "credible" scientific base for their studies. Hence the article, a generous serving of all possible stereotypes that macro-economy can give. BUT, I also remember microeconomics, and that was a totally different story. Most useful when thinking about markets and how people behave, but interesting if applied to greater scales (macro-micro-economics?).

Off-topic, but considered interesting: Am I the only one that finds it frustrating that Subtle blogs have no local comments? I find it diminishes the value of the text in itself.