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But you would need at least 30 Heroku dynos to handle that reliably ;)

> What am I missing here?

A refund to affected customers?

The fact that they apologized and accepted the blame does not change the fact that they knowingly degraded performance of their oldest and most loyal customers and forced them to pay much higher costs for years.

It could be easily implemented that you have your own "hidden submissions" page that will let you review what you have hidden, and "unhide" when you change your mind.

"hide" could even work as a downvote, which we don't have now for submissions.

> 1. Once Germany was a leading intellectual, scientific, and engineering powerhouse. Academic titles still have some cultural significance. It might be a kind of a relict.

Why past tense? It still is a powerhouse, especially in engineering.

Another option for developers is to just install JDK directly from Oracle site[1] instead of going to java.com.

[1] http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/inde...

Neither is fork or pull request something that you can't do easily without Bitbucket and Github, but people still use them mainly because those two sites make it easier for them to fork a project and keep the fork up to date. I guess it's all about convenience, and time will tell if people will use it.

> But if so, would the other board members care either way about Ubuntu/Linux?

Of course they would care if it brings profit.

I would go as far as to say that title changing by admin is lying to the users. Submitter decided on title, submitted with that title, and suddenly, 20 minutes later, the title is changed while submitter name stays the same. That created false impression that submitter said something what he didn't said.

Why stop at title, why not change comments also, if admins think they are not good enough for HN standards?

If title in bad, the article will be downvoted, or not upvoted enough. That's all regulation that is needed.

If you have to change the title, at least state clearly that the title is not written by the submitter, and leave original title available somewhere.

Thanks for the tip. I created a real poll here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5161302.

I'll delete this if possilbe.

Somewhat annoying.

Not annoying at all.

Yes, very annoying.

What's up with those submission title editing lately? There was nothing wrong with the original one, and the new one is so "inspring" that I wouldn't even click there unless for checking is this yet another title edit.

That's where one single rule helps: use only tabs for indentation and only spaces for alignment.

Nothing wrong if you leave in Brazil, Spain, Portugal or some of the countries where it is common / normal name, or if your origin is from some of those places. But imagine that someone in Brazil give his child a name like: Vukašin, Milutin, Slobodan, Dejan, Jirži, Mbutu. I bet verry few people would be able to evn pronounce it.

Well, if you live in a european non english speaking country and you hear people giving their children names like: Tarzan, Sandokan, Dell Boy, Superman and Ronaldo it's easy to wish that giving names is somehow regulated.

As someone said, children are cruel, and will mock the hell out of Ronaldo, and even a lot of adults will lough behind the back at someone with the name Tarzan.

On the other hand, there are so much beautiful names that one shouldn't be forbidden to choose from because they are not on the list.

You don't even have to know anything about typography. Without knowing anything about any typeface, after guessing and comparing the results of first few, I was able to nail 13 of 14.

I guess that anyone who knows anything about typography would answer correctly to all questions.

Clue: I went for bolder font. Also, Helvetica is a bit wider in these logos. After that, I also noticed the clue in C.

Shen is the new version of Qi. Qi is not developed anymore.

By the same analogy, downloading multigig torrents is also not a victimless crime, since it also reduces bandwidth available to those that paid for their internet access? Heck, even downloading anything reduces bandwidth for everyone else, because bandwidth is not unlimited.

Nothing stops you from playing a few seconds with Chrome inspector or Firebug if you really need to see the answer. If I weren't too lazy I would probably make a Greazemonkey script to remove the login overlay, but since I visit that site once our tribe a month I just don't bother.

Wow, didn't know she was a daughter of Lord Byron, the famous poet.

> For anyone who might be looking for an option for the future, Zoho offers a free tier for up to 3 inboxes: https://www.zoho.com/mail/zohomail-pricing.html.

I actually started with Zoho a few years ago before switching to Google Apps. But, inability to sync contact and calendar, and use activesync with my android phone was a deal breaker for me.

I see that they offer Active Sync in free tier too. Does it actually work reliably?

Yes, $50 is not much, but _you_ would need to pay $550/year for your 11 users if you signed up today. I guess that is too much for one person liking to have a few aliases.

Is this behaviour of PayPal possible only in USA, or it also applies to EU countries? Does EU regulations enforce some additional protection mechanisms for both sellers and buyers?

No, they don't. I even remember that the prices for legal Microsoft software in one of those "developing nations" were higher than prices in the USA.

And it's not only Microsoft, some other companies (Audodesk, Adobe, Apple) also keep higher prices and worse quality in some of poor countries than in the USA. It's kinda like they try to punish people that want to buy their software legally.

For me, it's an easy decision, I just don't use their software at all, but some people have to use their software, and I totally understand why some of them decide to pirate it.

I remember reading a while ago about an initiative to switch Emacs elisp implementation to use Guile backend. I haven't been watching that closely.

Does anyone have more information about the status of that project/initiative?

... and Scheme, Common Lisp, Clojure and many others are just lisps.

People are polarized because some find it very useful and some very annoying. Seems like a perfect example of what would be the best candidate for configuration option.

Scrolling. Selected text or word is just a marker when scrolling fast. It is much easier to follow visually fast moving selected part of the text than to keep track about sentence that I'm currently reading.

When using keyboard it's not that important, since one quickly learn how much PgDn scrolls, but when using mouse it is good to have a selection marker to quickly continue to read from there after scrolling.

Whether it is an individual effort or joint effort that Einstein took all the credits fro later, it is still not 100% sure. See the page[1] about Mileva Marić.

It wouldn't be the first time in the history of science that one man was recognized for something just because he was louder in self promotion (see Tesla vs Edison).

I don't claim that Mileva Marić is of Tesla caliber, but treating woman that is as educated as her husband, and who also participated and contributed highly in his early work as a mere home service says a lot about person doing it.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mileva_Mari%C4%87#Role_in_physi...