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It's not unreasonable to think that companies would warn you before cutting off your API key. Any time I've ever integrated with a 3rd party API and come close to reaching their limit I've gotten friendly emails from devs asking if they can be of assistance.

This is a great result for the Rapportive team. LinkedIn seems a great fit for their product. It's one of the most useful utilities that I use on a daily basis. Congratulations to the team!

I thought the idea arose when Drew lost his coveted USB key? [1] The frustration, however, of emailing files to himself no doubt helped in pushing him over the edge. [1] - http://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriabarret/2011/10/18/dropbo...

Pretty much everything in Europe is more expensive when it comes to driving. Tax, fuel, insurance are all higher than the American equivalent. In Ireland insurance for young males is ludicrously expensive due to the heightened probability of a crash.

I wholeheartedly agree with this. Having connections and keeping your eye out for potential cars to buy can make a huge difference.

The first car I bought, a 97 Opel Corsa, was going to be scrapped by a friends neighbor until I stepped in. It had been sitting without use for ~18 months. The parts needed were minimal. It cost me €150 and 6 bottles of wine. It still drives absolutely perfectly.

The second car I bought was again going to be traded in/scrapped. $20 later and a can of 44K to clean out the engine it passed smog and has been running since.

tl;dr it pays to keep an eye out for cars that people are looking to sell. Offer to take them off their hands for a reasonable price and you'll find they're very receptive.

I'm not trying to excuse this but I don't believe Curebit are the only startup to have ever done something similar. As benjlang said it seems a bit more like directed hatred.

It's not acceptable if you want to present yourself as the spokesperson for a friendly business. If you use your Twitter account as a platform for expressing both your personal and corporate thoughts I think it's best to keep the wording civil. Roasting Curebit over Twitter like this seems childish to me at best.

Maintaining integrity usually doesn't consist of calling people "fucking scumbags". Notify people of their mistake, make it known that what they have done is not acceptable but crossing into personal insults and curses is not acceptable.

You seem to have a good bit of experience securing rails apps. Are there lessons hard learnt?

While yes a theatre experience is more "grand" I think I'm not alone in saying that I've watched more movies at home in the last year alone than I have spent on theatre tickets. What they'll lose in "quality" they will most definitely make in quantity. Ease of access to the content will lead to higher viewership.

It's great to see such projects being created even while so few have access to the beta boards. I'm very interested to see what the community produces once the first batch are sold and in the hands of users.

This would be really nice. I tried (unsuccessfully) to get this running locally on OS X. The amount of dependencies required seemed very long.

On a similar vein: for those of you who have not yet seen it Cory Doctorow's talk "The coming war on general computing"[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUEvRyemKSg] is definitely worth viewing.

The most dangerous part of SOPA in my opinion is not the damage it'll do immediately but the incredibly shortsighted legal precedent it'll make for future legalization to use as reference.

I think Joel is 100% correct in saying that this law will fly right over the heads of the average TV viewer if it's debated on technical merit alone.

Regarding the lying: you're going to have to expect that. This is a fight the media industry feels is worth winning at the expense of the truth. When confronted with it however it will always look best to give a level-headed and reasoned response. You have the moral high ground and you should keep it.

The same point above applies to being interrupted etc. I think you'll look much more in control and certainly more comfortable if you keep to the format. Having to run interference while your opponent is making their point looks weak. Wait your turn and look professional.

Keep up the excellent work Alexis!

Maybe they don't want to give specifics until things are more solidified. Were it me I'd hate to make an announcement and then have to double-back and disappoint people.

Am I not mistaken that if you hold dual-citizenship or even a Green Card but are not living and declaring income in the US that the IRS still expects you to pay tax in the US?

It's one thing to watch from a distance as the US legal system becomes more and more unnerving. It's completely different to think that even in your own home nation such as the UK that US law can cross international boarders and ensnare you. This is wrong.

Does the CM stats page only record those who allow anonymous statistics to be collected? If so surely the actual number of installations is much higher

What are the regulations in the US about using such a service? The recording could be seen as wiretapping. Do you have to play a disclaimer on the call before you can use such a service? It sounds great and I'd love to use it but I'd be wary of the possible legal repercussions

I don't see the first 10 thousand boards lasting very long on their shelves. I can't wait to get my hands on one.

I love the insights that OkCupid share from their data set. OkTrends is one of my favourite blogs on the net because of this. It's nice to see a company blog that isn't purely about technicals or features but rather genuinely interesting things that they share with the world.

Doesn't Chrome already do this to a certain extent ? I've seen server logs myself where Chrome has tried to fetch URLs that I have not finished typing.

IIRC the redesign was the final straw for many users and caused the mass-exodus. I think the functionality of subreddits and the ability to completely ignore the "mainstream content" if you so wish has been the main feature that has helped reddit stop the decline.

I haven't paid for cable in my life and I don't plan on starting. The on-demand functionality that streaming services offer and their multiple-device support is way too useful to give up in place of cable services.

Funny because I care not for the children's programming but for the ability to watch the classics as well as more recent releases. A large library can cater to many different tastes.

One of, if not the main feature that I associate with Netflix is its large library of content. I pay the monthly fee as I can assume to a certain degree that the majority of the things I want to watch will be available. I'm sure I'm not alone in this.

Fragmenting the content like this over numerous streaming solutions each with their own charges and workings is, in my eyes, a huge step backwards for online content. I can't see users being happy to pay more parties for the same content on numerous services. This to me reeks of networks killing the golden goose.

Unfortunately the degradation of community and content is one of the issues that is associated with scale. I personally think reddit has done a much better job at staying off the decline than digg did. I'll be interested to see how things progress as their traffic numbers continue (presumably) to rise.

While I'm a huge fan of Twilio as a service there are certain use-cases that they do not fit. It would be ill-advised to build a call-center operation based on Twilio, but it would be less so to use AT&T for the same. Twilio are a reseller based on networks larger than themselves, one of which I would assume is AT&T. I don't see them killing AT&T off in the near future.

I have found their recommendations to be stellar and much better than anything else.

Surely the technical part is no more open to abuse than normal parking signs in cities listing the amount of available spaces in certain car parks.

The QR codes would contain very little information I would imagine but rather a key that is used by the car as an argument for further operations. Leaving all the directional data on the road would be way too easy to abuse.