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Why are you surprised? It's a free service. I assume that my data is for sale for every free service I use.

Also, the parent is Intuit which, IMO, is not exactly tops when it comes to data security and privacy.

On here? Probably. Their SOPA support alone is worth the derision. Their CEO is also a lunatic.

Take a look through some of these controversies: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoDaddy#Controversies

This is neat. My only suggestion is to remove GoDaddy as the default registrar though.

As others have stated, I wish there was a bit more information about the service on the page. I use Dropbox and GDrive, but I'm not particularly fond of either of them. Aside from a slight price difference, what makes Copy stand out?

For example, I have a 1Password file that I would like to share amongst my team for all service related passwords. Keeping this in sync with all of our devices is a serious pain, and often results in certain members owning it (usually me) and thus having all of the responsibility.

It doesn't have to be 1Password. I have tried other apps like Keepass with similar results (and web-based versions, I do not like -- security etc.).

I realize that this is hard. Version control, multiple access to the same files and associated updates but it would really be a killer feature.

That's a pretty impressive price point.

The "cry it out" method (or CIO as it's annoying referred to on the baby forums -- acronyms central) does not actually advocate leaving the child for long stretches of time. It is a common misconception based on people not actually reading about the method, or the person who originally advocated it (Ferber).

For us, we had to do it at around 4 months or we would have been in serious trouble. 4 months of averaging 2-3 hours of uninterrupted sleep per week was wreaking havoc on our lives, and no one (including baby) was happy. The only way she would ever sleep is in our bed next to mum, and this was not sustainable, and terrified us every single night.

We read all of the no-cry sleep methods, and ferber. We realized that we were essentially doing all of the no-cry methods already (swaddle, side sleep, white noise, pick-up and soothe immediately, co-sleep, cradle at the side of the bed) and we tried each one for weeks.

None of it worked. At all.

For the Ferber method, you only leave the child for a few minutes at a time and gradually increase it. In our case, she was never left alone for longer than 10 minutes (we couldn't do any longer) and we did it over weeks and as gradually as we could. Now she sleeps in 4+ hours segments regularly which, to us, has been a god send.

To each their own. No one method is foolproof as all babies are different and I've learned through this that I no longer trust "experts" or anecdotal evidence. I will use it as a guideline, but adjust based on my own observations. I don't think any other approach works.

There are a lot of them, but nothing replaces skin-on-skin touch. In our case, it was the only way we could get my daughter to sleep.

We know all this, which is why I didn't sleep while Mum and baby were in bed. It was the only way that we could get my daughter to sleep for a few hours at a time. All other methods (co-sleeping devices, cradle at the side of the bed, crib at the bottom) were not successful (or marginally better).

The simple fact was that she needed to be close to Mum.

Things are better now, but it honesty felt like we were all going to drop dead at around the 2 month mark. I've never been so exhausted in my life.

We tried this (our daughter is almost 6 months old) but every bloody doctor, nurse, family member etc. that we discussed this with put the every living terror in us about accidentally killing her.

The baby slept well, we did not.

I dunno. I find it more distressing that everyone that starts with ELB tends to move off of it at some point (most recently -- filepicker.io).

Does anyone have anything positive to say about it?

Sure! Email's in the profile as I don't do the twitter. ;)

Damnit. Nice, I was working on something similar. ;)

For non-student/non-academics that just want to try it out and see if it works for them, it is a very steep price to pay. I strongly support paying for the tools you use, but $200 for a feet-first dive is steep.

The price is a pretty big barrier to entry. I understand why, but an eval option would be nice.

If it wasn't the security issue laden monstrosity that it is, I could see it living on.

But the facts are that the only real "secure" version is the PPAPI implementation in Chrome (which has it's own limitations), Adobe has dropped future development for embedded systems and that it is almost non-existent on mobile does not speak to the longevity that you predict.

Flex is cool, but it's dependency on Flash will be it's noose.

I'm not bashing them as a whole, just some of their technology decisions. To be honest, I've always felt that MS gets a bad rap. As much as it was anti-competitive, bundling IE in Windows enabled users to download alternative browsers. Obviously, there are other ways to do it but I doubt many users would have gone down that road with higher technical obstacles.

As for Oracle, not much can redeem them. Flash had it's day, but I wish Adobe would let it die already.

While some might complain or worry, this is what makes this field so fascinating. A myriad of options, toolsets and methodologies means that it is alive, open and thriving.

Imagine is Adobe, Oracle or MS had won the Flash/Flex, Java or ActiveX battles, where would we have been today?

As much as I use Chrome (and love it), I can't help but admire the work done by Mozilla to rescue the Netscape codebase and mould it into Firefox. I think they deserve a lot of the accolades that enables this zany ecosystem to thrive.

It's for this reason that I've never understood why developers/designers stick with Firefox/Firebug.

Don't get me wrong, I love FF, but the developer toolset in Chrome is amazing.

This really sucks. PayPal is terrible for doing stuff like this, and I really feel for you. While I don't have any specific suggestions for dealing with PayPal, maybe you could setup a Crowdtilt or similar fundraising opportunity and link it on your site?

I love turnjs btw. Very slick tool.

What's your impression of the Z10?

I can't see how it wouldn't be an improvement. Self-driving vehicles that automatically assess traffic conditions, reduce accidents will likely result in less gridlock, improved travel times, less wear on roads and other infrastructure etc.

I also don't see why this tech couldn't be used in public transit/shipping thereby reducing one of the largest cost factors (salaried drivers, poor lifestyle) and actually increase the amount of available public transit.

This is great. But, one request if you're in meddling with gists, could you make them work with orgs!

Please and thanks.

I sat down with a handset a few months ago with a QA guy at BlackBerry and had basically the same feedback for them. Apparently, it is something they're working on. I haven't seen the OS since launch so I don't know if this was addressed, at all.

They're hardly alone in this regard. iOS/Android suffers from the same problem.

The re-brand is telling. This is not the same organization that launched the PlayBook.

I also believe that the PlayBook is an extremely under-valued product. I, and quite a few people I know, use it all the time. For the price point it is a great device.

If you don't mind me asking, what platform were you on before? I'm considering ditching my iPhone for the Z10 as I'm so tired of Apple. I really miss the unified inbox in BlackBerry world and the hub sounds promising. App selection is not that important to me.

That's just silly and so US-centric it's laughable (as is the parent). It's not BlackBerry that is causing the delay, the US carrier device testing/acceptance is the stumbling block. If it was up to BlackBerry they would be available now.

Excellent post-mordem. As an elasticsearch user (without the scale) there is some helpful advice in there. I've already encountered the heapsize issue they mentioned, but the others are new.

Thanks GH.

Mental laziness is probably best. The common argument is that the costs to curtail are so enormous that it is not worth attempting or that we would be denying quality of life to up-and-coming economies.

My point is that it is easier to deny than work towards finding a solution.

Watch the video in parent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_calving

Thanks for reminding me. It's been on my to-do list.

This video is simply staggering in it's immensity. For the life of me, it is these events that make me seriously question whether the climate change deniers have ulterior motives. The fact that the calving scale has so dramatically increased in the past 10-20 years is terrifying and how anyone can pass it off without concern is beyond me.