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In all honesty, it is all of these reasons that make me believe that we're not hearing the entire story.

Thanks for posting the semmelweis piece from Aaron. With all of the links being passed around this week I missed it. It is amazingly relevant to this discussion and (if it hasn't been done already) it should be sent to the DoJ and Ortiz personally.

Not that I think it will make any difference though.

I think you just pointed out about the only useful thing out of the entire PayPal integration experience.

That makes a surprising amount of sense.

I tried with all ones (after the card #) and it would not accept the expiry date. I admit, I might be part of the problem. ;)

Very well put, and surprisingly earnest. I respect Lessig immensely and this sentiment only reinforces it.

There is a very pervasive and troubling thread of professional "politicking" invading every single aspect of our lives both institutional and private. No one cops to anything, no one apologizes, and no one ever sees the errors in their ways. Admitting otherwise is weak and will undermine ones political future, career etc.

It's sad that honesty is no longer the best policy.

Very neat.

Just wanted to add, the demo works if you use the 4242 sequence for all fields (YMMV).

Great theme, installed!

The bracket highlighter is awesome. So simple, yet powerful. I've been using it for the past 20min and I'm not sure how I survived without it. ;)

How so? I don't see this as reflective of his employer. Looks like a guy trying to defend his wife. I imagine his personal life is in a bit of disarray at the moment.

I'm not defending anyone here and I believe there was prosecutorial overreach in this case, but I disagreed with the family's use of their son's obituary to make a political statement.

He was obviously a troubled man if he believed suicide was his only option. He needed assistance (and reading through his posts, it seems obvious in retrospect) and I think a better statement would have pushed for improved mental health awareness and assistance in the US.

The create is nice, but the delete is absolutely essential. Thanks for implementing this.

This is very cool. Thanks for sharing, and thanks to Netflix for opening up resources like this.

Edit: If only Amazon would offer something similar...

This is cool. If you don't mind my asking, are you using imagemagick to generate the final image? I went through some of the js/css and I didn't see any CSS transforms or js trickery (funny comment about IE in there though).

An always interesting facet to these types of stories is the ambivalence I feel for the people involved. While I would love to have a problem to tackle that is large enough, similarly unique enough to solve that it would make my career, I would have a problem large enough, similarly unique enough to break my career.

As another commenter mentioned, the engineering involved in the story is likely not required very many places on earth. To be in a situation, developing a solution to a massive problem with little to no precedence is an exhilarating and terrifying position to be in. It may sound overly-engineered to you but, at the time, it may have been the most cost effective engineering solution to a problem rarely encountered.

I'm still not sure where the arson/gun violence comparison is viable. Steps have been taken to try and curtail deaths caused by fire (deliberate or otherwise) which have clearly succeeded.

Are they foolproof? Not at all. But aside from more inspections to prevent code violations, what additional steps are there? Preventing doors from being locked? Providing better battering devices for police? Banning fire?

The way I see it, the pro-gun lobby and enthusiasts have so successfully barred the door to future attempts at legislation that most consider it a topic un-worthy of discussion.

And, again, I say all of this not even really believing that more gun legislation is the answer. These are the better options:

- Better, easier to access healthcare (including mental health resources -- this is something that most western countries should improve)

- Close the income discrepancy between the wealthy and poor which will open up advancement opportunities for lower income families and individuals

- Decriminalize certain drugs, or at least possession

- De-emphasize incarceration over re-habilitation in the prison system (for profit prisons? Jesus...)

Address the perceived necessity for weapons rather than the weapons themselves.

But arson has been largely addressed in western countries by legislation. Building and fire codes are strong, positive examples that federal and/or state legislation saves lives (as I'm not a US citizen, I'm not sure where juridiction lies).

Outside of higher-yield weapons like bombs, guns are the fastest, lightest and easiest-to-use methods for murdering the most number of people in the shortest amount of time.

It seems insane to me (as a Canadian citizen) that the pro-gun folks continue to peddle that safety comes from increasing the number of "responsible" carriers. Here are the issues that I see with this:

1. The assumption that all gun users are trained and responsible. It seems obvious to compare this to other licensees such as drivers and you'll immediately see that it is not a valid argument. There are terrible drivers on the roads with valid licenses, who have presumably been trained with a lot of experience. The barrier to entry is even higher in that the cost of a vehicle is higher than a weapon.

2. How do you differentiate the good vs. bad in a situation such as Aurora? If you see a number of random strangers running around with guns in hand, few of whom would have any sort of melee training outside of video games, who do you shoot at? Where does the liability lie if one innocent murders another innocent by mistake?

3. The number of guns will increase (as they are now). With more lying around either forgotten or marginally broken, it increases the availability for non-licensed usage as I doubt responsible users dispose of their weapons appropriately (see item 1).

I say all this fully recognizing the gun's position as a tool, strongly advocating mental health reform and even supporting the OP's position of rational rather than emotional response to Newtown.

I realize this, it was just an off-hand compliment to those involved.

Pretty cool to see the inside of the CERN in such a casual, off-beat manner.

Also, the LHC hiring protocol for students must have a attractiveness clause. ;)

This is insane. Amazing, but insane.

Not sure I agree. There is a shorthand github option in bundler already which is there (presumably) due to the fact that a good percentage of the gems are sourced from there.

It would be helpful if pre-bundle update to know that the significant gem source is not available and exiting.

This is great. Needs to find it's way into bundler. ;)

This is great. I was just complaining about this today in the other GH thread. What a nice surprise!

A few items I'd like to see:

- Attachments in the issue tracker. Pictures tell a thousand words and it would be infinitely easier for user submitted issues to have screenshots.

- Better code search.

- More granularity in the notifications. For instance, I'd love the ability to toggle email for my own repos but leave it to web notifications for my watches. I've missed pull requests because of the deluge of messages.

- Better reliability.

It's a great tool. I really enjoy using it, but with a few additions it would be near perfect.

This is unfortunate. I realize that it is distributed, but when you're in a major push it really sucks to have to scramble around to setup another host to get working again.

I love their service, but they really need to get their reliability issues figured out.

Funny, the one thing that is making we more and more wary of using Mac OSX in the future is the convergence of iOS.

Different strokes, I guess. It just seems odd to celebrate it.

Had another one of our accounts mysteriously locked by Google (yes, we still use them as a relay) so tried Mailjet out today.

Does what it says on the tin! Was setup in minutes, the helpful page on DKIM and SPF was a nice touch, now we're working through the email backlog.

This is brilliant. Very well laid-out with a nice polished design. Might just have to check this out.

I'm not sure how I feel about it. Maybe I'm a luddite, but I prefer list view and I can't see how to flip that on in the music section.

Something still feels a bit unpolished about it as well.

This is cool. I didn't realize this was coming out of the Android camp and into general use.