mibbitier

Don't most people actually end up using git in a centralised manner though? eg the rise of github.

I can totally see git is ridiculously powerful, and general purpose. I just wish it'd default to what most people want a bit more.

As a relative newbie to git,

Why do I get prompted to enter a commit message when I'm just doing a git pull?

Why do I have to explicitly add every file I want to commit each time? Why can't it just default to "everything under the current dir" like svn does?

git is so overly complex (Coming from svn).

Firefox seems to have gotten worse. Look at the "inspect element" horribleness, and the ridiculous 3d inspector thing.

The Chrome developer tools blow all others away.

I feel for you. Our account was shutdown with no warning in July. We got the same brick wall of canned responses, and no answers to our questions.

We were finally able to get to the bottom of it with some help from someone within Google - in our case, they had decided to shutdown the product we were using (adsense for ajax), and had just forgotten to mention it, instead opting for closing our account, leaving us wondering what the hell we'd done wrong.

If you have contacts in youtube, adwords, etc, they should be able to find out what has gone wrong in your case if they dig enough...

Imagine if they did it for email...

"Hosted email. Just $10/month for 100 incoming emails."

As you say, you can just buy a VPS for less than $10/mo and install an irc server on it.

First thing I noticed as well. "pre-Order on kickstarter" screams out "This is a scam!!!! You'll never get anything".

I've never understood why anyone would give anything via kickstarter. A "donate now" paypal button would probably be less scammy.

Giving people food and welfare, makes them dependent on the state. Once you're dependent, you have no incentive to progress through your own hard work.

Giving handouts does far more harm than good. It keeps people down.

Ridiculous.

Doesn't it seem idiotic to duplicate what we already have? (English characters) in some arcane non human readable, punch-card-esque idiocy?

In a few years, all cellphones will be able to read english characters and words. There will be no need for QR punch-cards.

Or you could take a picture of peoples name tags and it could just do OCR... surely?

Supporting Opera has in my experience, been as much work and pain as supporting IE6/IE7.

You can pick up barcode battlers on ebay for cheap. Although they're probably antiques now.

I've yet to scan one of these codes, or see anyone scanning one. It seems like something from the 90s just came back for one last dying breath.

Not really the same IMHO.

Giving people access to healthcare and fire protection doesn't create any bad incentives. You can't 'use' healthcare for monetary gain.

Giving people food, money etc, gives people incentives to not bother working.

Also I would say that a national health service ensures that the public is 'healthy'. Which affects us all, as diseases are transmitted etc. Just as the fire services ensures fires don't spread and burn down all the houses.

The same isn't true of giving people food.

One thing I've never understood, is why a seemingly large number of Americans don't seem to see the similarity between public fire protection, and a public health service.

Aren't these two things pretty essential for civilisation?

d) You use a non-standards compliant odd-ball browser such as Opera, which is used by around 700 people globally.

99% of people aren't using Opera. I think they can cope with upsetting a few folks.

Opera is full of nonstandard irritating mishmashes of stupid.

Their market share has been under 1% for years, so it's really not worth any website worrying about.

Misleading title. It'll be off by default, but users will be able to turn it on if they want.

I'm not so sure they are the way forward. They're clearly the way forward if you dislike being "locked-in". But is being locked-in always a bad thing? Nope.

We could easily have a distributed web search engine to replace google. It could run on everyones machine, and it'd be awesome. But what would be the advantage?

Also before twitter/facebook, we had email - a distributed social network. How is the "new" distributed social network going to be better than email?

My daughter loves things like the Pet Shop: http://shop.lego.com/en-US/Pet-Shop-10218

Really fun to build.

Lego Friends has been selling ridiculously well. They're making lots more sets to keep up with the unprecedented demand.

Buy Lego friends. They're pretty good 'girlie' sets.

This looks awful. Buy some Lego instead.

I'd guess that people assume it's "oo" from the way it sounds.

"lose" doesn't sound like "pose"...

I've used Java for 10 years. I've never used Spring. I've never created an AbstractFactorySingleton. I've never used XML. There's nothing in Java that says you have to use anything in particular, apart from the runtime (Extremely solid), and the basic language syntax (IMHO nice enough).

OK, maybe they're not an idiot. Maybe it's warranted. I'd say it's probably over engineered stupidity though.

Even so, the title is like pointing to a stupidly constructed house and calling it "Everything that is wrong with bricks".

And that has absolutely nothing to do with Java. Why is it Javas fault that some idiot decided to create such a class?

You don't do security by picking specific cases and guarding against them.

Either do it properly or not at all.

Of course they do.

Any responsible host filters all outgoing packets to limit them to <only IP addresses we own>.

For example, linode does this afaik.

80,000 messages a day is still ridiculously minuscule. It's a rounding error. Average them how you like. Assume exponential growth. Whatever. It's still around the same number of messages that go on in say a single channel on freenode.