litewulf

I find that this means there is an ambiguity between "I have not read this email" and "I am working on this"

Also, certain things that need to be done can be done by multiple people, so a "I am working on it" email is a good locking mechanism.

(I usually say "I'll look at it", delay, "Done" to remove some ambiguity.)

In fact I strongly suggest you consider ntfslink (http://elsdoerfer.name/=ntfslink) which provides a nice UI for doing all this in explorer.

As far as I can tell, reparse points for directories will usually work perfectly well for most of the things you'd expect them to. I use them, and a subversion repository to version control pretty much everything config related on my windows machine.

Just in case anyone ever wants to be cool like me, I actually sync all my email using Windows Mail (yah, I know, I'm not very cool), which means it shows up in my desktop search as well as in gmail.

Just in general, the backup strategy of storing things in at least two places is the only way to go, and simply knowing in the abstract that I could backup my data if I so chose is meaningless. Make a cron job, sync your home directory, whatever floats your boat, just do it.

(I work at Google, and I am consistently surprised by the amount of effort people put into portability. I think this is important and underappreciated)

Webmail is, I think, a substantially "easier" problem (with the caveat that this is mainly for technically proficient users)

I use gmail for email hosting but it all routes through a domain I control, so if Google one day goes crazy, I can switch out of gmail. (And IMAP is well understood so I could also copy it off), whereas things like my facebook friends are much harder to migrate.

(whoa whoa whoa. Has Apple, you know, actually talked about a realized device? Are you not doing the very thing you are criticizing engadget for?)

- A very happy Vista-running tablet user.

I feel its the sort of thing where there are pros and cons, and really, convincing people to change the way they collaborate online is a lofty enough goal as is, without needing to change the way people use scrollbars.

Rhino is a mature project, so at least for my purposes, this was actually a bit more important than performance.

The other thing is that it allowed my team to rewrite pieces into Java as needed without it looking dramatically different.

I was chatting with some scribd folks today, and apparently they wanted to organize this because rubyconf was going on?

I'm using Rhino on the JVM.

Imagine writing Java code, without having to type classnames all the time and you have a rough approximation of what its like.

(And yes, you can import arbitrary Java bits into Rhino. It is "freaking sweet")

Its possible that operating at a loss would attract ire (because it really would be like the behavior Microsoft is/was so criticized for).

Running virtual machines on hardware?

I mean thats pretty much what ganeti provides right?

I would like to think that Google Code really should not call out whether a project is an official Google project. Ideally all open source projects would live and die on their own merits.

Have you lived in Asia for a long period of time? There are clear cultural differences between people who have lived in China their entire life as opposed to someone who can speak Chinese and watches Asian music videos.

Just saying that a so-called "cultural advantage" vanishes if you, well, aren't of that culture.

(I was born in Taiwan, but... not so cultured.)

I'm pretty sure Twitter is "guaranteed delivery", but thats just my naive user expectation.

Poking, while needing to be reliable is a 1:1 activity, so light on writes and easy to read, whereas broadcasting is difficult because of the wide variance in update frequency and number of followers from user to user.

I'm going to make a prediction that the default will become "not live typing", and the feature will disappear altogether later.

(And yes, a thousand times yes, sensible defaults. But even more than that, as few preferences/options as possible. I would much prefer people make a design choice, than no design choice.)

I think its a bit interesting that everyone is criticizing the "instant typing" when in the original presentation they almost immediately said that they were going to have the option to turn it off. It seems a neat feature but its not exactly deal breaking to just remove it.

At the same time, facebook can simply drop messages on the floor if they're bottlenecked, so they have less strict scaling requirements.

Minor nitpick: You probably don't want to set "everyone", but instead add your particular user. Wouldn't want my roommates rummaging in my stuff uninvited!

(Excuse me as I enjoy my free Google snack and munch in confusion)

My manager no longer comes by my desk and pats me on the back every day. I no longer bathe in milk in the gym shower anymore either. Its been rough.

Almost all versions of Chrome will read "released 2009" since the browser has only been around since 2008 anyway.

I'm pretty sure that in user tests most people don't know what the URL bar is.

In fact, solving Sudoku puzzles was a programming assignment given in my first year of undergraduate study. We were given input/output specifications, and told to write in C++. That was it.

Seeing as how most of the class passes, I assume almost any joker can write a half-decent sudoku solver if sufficiently motivated.

In practice, almost all core code is C++/Java (vast majority is C++, though its slowly shifting), with Python relegated mainly to scripting glue.

(They're named palantir, after the crystal balls in Lord of the Rings... so hence that shirt)

I also have the shirts too. Good addition to the collection.

(Actually... yes. Strangely enough, I've been very surprised. She figured it out because whatever site she uses has a "search box" that is basically just adding site:awesome.com to the query. She was then able to generalize it on sites with no search.)

I thought the main argument was RSI reasons? Programmers do need to be able to type without crippling pain...

I use Colemak, and I find that I can type on smartphones relatively easily.

I think when you switch to Colemak or Dvorak you probably want some base competence with QWERTY still just so you don't look like an idiot when you use other people's computers or whatever.

I believe actually that 'this' points to the global object.

So if there is no obvious thing for this to point at, it'll point at the global object. Its just implementation detail that in browsers it points to the window object.

I think its important to give away things that are not your core business. I like the pandora hat and I remember it fondly, but if my coworker got a super-awesome pandora account, I think I would just feel "dang, why didn't I get one".