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It would be interesting to look at the data for how many 1, 2, and 3 word subject lines there are over time. Maybe fewer "Hello" or "Thank you" subject lines as more people got used to the idea that it's good to be specific and informative in the email subject.

If you try it and run into a problem, do file a bug! Here's a bugzilla template link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?format=__default_...

Well they don't. Most of the stations don't have elevators at all. That's why I have to take taxis in London instead of using the underground.

Great stuff and a good story. Her songs kind of remind me of Daniel Johnston's.

I used to have to try to get cabs an hour or more before going to a doctors' appointment. Cabs would just not show up and I'd have to call the dispatcher over and over. Dispatchers would tell me straight out that they wouldn't send a cab into Bayview (where I got physical therapy). To hail a cab on the street, I would have to ask strangers to do it for me while I acted like it wasn't for me (or else cabs would assume I couldn't fold my wheelchair to fit it in, or manage getting into the cab myself) So from my perspective the Uber/Lyft model has been life changing.

That area of Mexico being the Yucatan coast, it's not known for recent incredible violence or cartel activity. It's pretty quiet since the country and region are pushing the Maya Rivera as a safe tourist destination.

Oh wow! This happened to me just recently; I was in Akumal and Tulum and only used a couple of different cash machines. My card info was stolen and then used in Mexico and Florida for withdrawals.

Here a bit late but I wanted to mention at least one amazing and beautiful project that (at least partly!) arose from Double Union members' work. BubbleSort - zines about computer science. Have a look! They are more like gorgeous tiny books than what you may think of as a zine.

BubbleSort: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sailorhg/bubblesort-com...

Or check out Natalie Freed's work in electronics, bookbinding, and art: http://www.nataliefreed.com/projects/

Or Jayne Vidheecharoen's awesome projects and her Appaloosa kit for kids learning mobile app programming, http://seejayne.com/

That is just off the top of my head! So much skill, idealism, and energy, combined with hard work! We have many members who are also part of TechShop, Noisebridge, work in tech, in startups, teach coding to wide audiences, and so on. DU and the other hackerspaces centered on women are worthy of celebrating! Our motivation is also very much that we want to support each other so that we feel able to stay in our various fields, and continue exploring our hacking and making arts.

So many talented women have gathered at the space and want to support each others' work. That's what should be highlighted.

I'll stop now :) Really, it's nice, though.

Thank you!!! Yes!

I agree with this, it was a good experience to help start a new space with a new approach, AND still love and support the other (any-gender) hackerspace I've been involved with! It doesn't really have to be a dichotomy - in fact the SF Bay Area has quite a lot of maker/hacker spaces!

I remember really loving her SXSWi keynote some years ago on human-computer interaction. There was a big overflow room because her talk was standing room only. I took away from that the conviction that we shouldn't design software for who we are but have to think with compassion about the experience of people who don't love computers. And that this shouldn't be looking down on people but instead recognizing their points of view (especially frustration). There's a good summary of that talk here: http://blog.brian-fitzgerald.net/kathy-sierra-sxsw-keynote

It's to help people whose main or only access to the web is (smart)phones to learn how to make web sites. There is a Webmaker program for desktop browser users already. A combination of tools, documentation, and curriculum as I understand it.

She was also on the Board of the Apache Software Foundation.

Thank you for mentioning Noirin's work with digital rights and other organizations.

I didn't know about their work as a medic. Thank you also for mentioning their family's thoughts.

This is sad for us all. Noirin was a lovely person, smart and motivated, dedicated to open source for many years, part of so many communities. I will miss them from geekfeminism and from all our open source and feminist activist circles.

That is pretty clearly not the case here since the author published a lot of game system reviews, maintained a giant list of free RPGs, an encyclopedia of role playing games, and so on (if you look at the entire site, for example, the reviews here: http://www.darkshire.net/jhkim/rpg/reviews/)

There's at least a couple of AmberCons (like AmberConNW: http://www.amberconnw.org/), entire weekends where a bunch of people get together to run games in this system.

This applies as well to mobility devices like powerchairs and scooters and other things like motorized beds that change your position. Without the service manuals, it can be very hard to fix these.

Odd. I am outside the UK, and I don't see ads on the Android app at all.

The BBC News mobile app is a good example. Each article is predictably laid out. There are no ads. Nothing happens if you accidentally click the photos while scrolling. Give it a try!

People like Kawasaki often hire assistants to tweet for them -- not necessarily Mechanical Turk mediated, legit jobs as social media managers.

People making these sorts of statements at work would potentially get into trouble because in some countries we have law against harassment at work and creating a hostile work environment. This situation is more like a bunch of dudes going outside someone's house on the public sidewalk and screaming obscenities. Whether or not it's a direct threat of imminent harm or not, it seems unlikely to end well for the screamers.

I doubt anyone will go to jail from this, or even face charges, but it will be interesting to see that unfold.

This is someone anyone can do, or at least give it a shot. Have a look at this article on how to investigate identity online. It gives some thought to risk assessment and ethical behavior in responding to situations like this.

https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/investigation-online-gat...

Yes, if you follow one of the links from about:crashes, you can see the crash report. If there's already a bug on file for it, click on over to bugzilla.mozilla.org and see if you may be able to help out there. If there isn't already a bug active for your specific crash signature, you can try filing one and explain what you think may have caused the crash. Specific steps to reproduce a crash are especially helpful!

Another interesting thing you can do: click through from about:crashes to your crash report. Then click the "more reports" link. You can see if your crash signature is rare or if you have one of the currently "popular" ones. If a lot of other people are crashing with that same signature, there is probably a bug and developers are probably discussing it. Again the most useful thing you can do is figuring out how to make that crash happen consistently and adding steps to reproduce it to its bug.

If anyone would like to give feedback on how addons are working with e10s (multiprocess) enabled on Nightly, have a look here: http://arewee10syet.com/

There are bugs in progress linked from this tracking site, and so, for example, if you want to help test Greasemonkey or Vimperator or whatever, search down the page, go to the bug, and see if there's something useful you can add to the comments in bugzilla.mozilla.org.

If you're willing to do some testing and go back and forth with developers a bit, it can be really helpful!

Perfectly pitched and perfectly constructed!

Disabled people do not have to buy first class tickets. I am disabled, and often am seated in the very back of the airplane. There is a narrow aisle chair (a very skinny wheelchair) to help people get into the plane and through a plane's aisles. Airline agents at the gate often nicely switch my seats closer to the front of the plane, but not to first class. You are claiming some things that absolutely aren't true, here.

I've been talking about this for years; we have to at the least be aware that there is wide scale sockpuppetry and astroturfing for political as well as corporate ends. Better tools for disinformation detection may help. One person running many personas is much easier to detect than the more sophisticated model we have now.

And let me specify nice smelling natural arthritis cream. Like put something other than camphor in that stuff! A little lemon verbena... some lavender... us old lady hipsters are waiting. I just bought like $60 worth of hand lotion in Common Scents. Opportunity awaits you Marvina!