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So... is this XSLT reinvented?

I'll admit it looks like it'd be a tonne nicer (less verbose and strict) than XSLT but it all looks very familiar to me... just add a client library and you have the same thing?

Or am I missing something here?

To add to your fears I had catastrophic syncing issues last few. Stupidly enough I had turned off local backups thinking Google would be better. 10gb of design files gone.

I still haven't worked out what happened but there where 5 computers syncing the files at work, something got muddled and deleted everything off all the computers at once. All I know for sure is somehow they where modified by a person who wasn't at work that day (and hence not on there PC). They where then deleted, but not available in the online trash, gone off all computers but not moved to the local trash as the forums so it should of, and all history had disappeared from the online drive.

They still appeared how ever if I did a search for them, you just couldn't navigate to them or find them in through any other part of the UI. So I did manage to zip them all up and get my data back.

Anyway lesson learned, and for me its dropbox and local backups from now on. All trust lost for me. I have no idea if it was syncing, an error in the cloud, or someone in the office, but yeah total loss of trust for me.

I found this extremely humorous (John Stewart Show on gun violence and politician motives): http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...

@ 2:00 it speaks volumes about US politics (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=T...)

I did some reading into this last year while I was stuck in bed sick and what I came across was it was to do more with light pressure than a frost line. The frostline has more to do with where water is likely to form than how a come to exist.

Light has trouble pushing heavy materials outwards, so theres a denser percentage of them in close to a star, the lighter the material the more it gets pushed out, high percentage of hydrocarbons in outer planets. Like a giant centrifuge. So our system should be fairly standard unless the rules of physics are different elsewhere.

That doesn't exclude random formations as you are dealing with super heated eddies, explosions etc... during formation. Or even stars pulling there planets in. Both our planet set up, and hot Jupiters are to be expected because its a giant chaotic exploding mess.

Wait... He makes an active decision to work more aggressively and chooses sitting up straight as the method.

...Sure its not the fact he made the decision the first place and is sticking to it, rather than the sitting?

Anyone have an idea what the usage stats for instagram are these days?

I've seen a massive drop off on Facebook. It's gone from my news feed more or less just being instragram pics... almsot everyone using it... down to about 3 regular people. It feels to me like everyone I know has stopped using it, unless Facebook is deliberately hiding pics.

I for one totally hate the layout of iMessage, and skype ... which this seems to be a clone of.

I always find myself with both iMessage and Skype having to always check I'm in the correct chat window, this layout to me doesn't automatically say "Hey you're talking to Mike", I have to stop and visually verify each time.

Looking at his design, with almost zero contrast, it would be orders of magnitude worse trying to work out which person you chatting to at a glance.

I would honesty stop using adium if this become the default UI.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casper_(cat) Heres a similar ca story thats not anecdotal.

I'm not at all surprised by the story growing up with working dogs on a rural farm. Dogs would constantly surprise you with the understanding of the world around them, often better than people you would work along side. One dog we had knew the locations of buildings by name, and you could tell it the speed to get there and wait for you (I think via the urgency in your voice). You could say "met at the house" and it would turn and head straight back to home, or "go to the kennels", it'd shoot off and wait for there etc.. (Collies BTW, various other breeds we had struggled with simple things like avoiding running head first into barns if you called their name out loud while they ran LOL).

Whats more fascinating to me is this Boing Boing piece on baboons raising pet dogs http://boingboing.net/2013/04/26/baboons-raise-pet-dogs.html

Yeah, it was just the eutopian arrogance of the statement that ticked me right off. I watch those homeless people who can't even make it to the shelters and food banks due to substance abuse every other day from my desk. It hit a nerve with me that those people are treated as sub humans, the forgotten, and his statement precludes them from his little dream. Just a personal rant I normally try not to put online but this one got me for some reason, probably should of deleted after I had my knee jerk disgust at it :)

Because my bullshit detector went off when he was claiming 100% coverage. If you can't see the fact he's grand standing I don't know what to say. In near perfect conditions its not achievable let alone when the odds are stacked against people. Or are you forgetting the world is full of arseholes, war mongers, dictators, and centuries old hatred and conflict that often undermine efforts to improve other people. If that can be fixed in 10 I'll be well and truly surprised, hell if they even get proper phone networks, cell coverage, internet to rural communities in western nations I'll be mightily surprised.

Oh excellent, he's planning to cure poverty and hardship is he? I hate to break it to him but right now there are people who sleep on the picnic bench outside of the ISP I work for which streams free wifi to anyone near the office. In the centre of the western world, in a well off country with strong social services... let alone the troubles the developing world has.

I use one as I use multiple browsers, on multiple computers, at multiple locations, with varying permissions. The social discovery is quite neat in some of them as well.

But yeah pay for one... you'd have to have a special need to pay for one. For reference the one I have been using and enjoy is Kippt (https://kippt.com)

HOWEVER their latest update has broken login on Safari if someone from kippt reads this please please fix it so I can use it on my ipad :)

Not at all, in fact I have a smug satisfaction each time I read stuff these days.

Years of listening to mindless defenses and personal attacks for pointing out the obvious fact "that they are just as bad as any other company" ...the taste of sycophantic tears warms my jaded heart just a litte ;)

And why not just by a Mac mini and thunderbolt expansion chasis? achieves the same goal doesn't it?

e.g. http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/Thunderbolt/PCIe_Chassis/Merc... , http://www.magma.com/expressbox-3t , http://www.sonnettech.com/product//thunderbolt/index.html

At a guess I'd say the whole place has really decent extractor fans as no one really seemed to be wearing much protective gear... and I assume there would be ample chemicals n the air. I'd also guess fans would do a lot for clearing dust as well as stray chemical fumes.

No way am I merging my work accounts, my personal business accounts, and my junk email together. Especially with a company already proven to slap happy deleting accounts they don't like.

This happens to me all the time, my company hasn't allowed youtube (plus a swathe of other stuff). But youtube gets me annoyed the most. I usually get a hyped 'check this out' friend a friend on IM, then I have to spend what feels like an absurd amount of time swapping accounts and fighting against chrome modals which is always prompting the wrong account details for login. When I'm finished I have to log out and back into my work account. Total pain.

Whoops sorry, I did mean preprocessor as the other person guessed. I assume I was auto-corrected first time around and didn't notice.

Awesome thanks for this. Only thing I could recommend would be an extra column for any processor :)

Is anyone else entertained by the fact we finally have decent support for rounded corners for web design, and everyone is moving towards right angles? :)

Exactly, I remember one day throwing out (to good will) 20+ industry shirts, from events, vendors, prizes etc... because I reached an age where the social value wasn't there anymore, infact it became prohibiting towards being taken serious.

I look at the young guys I work with now getting all excited about vendor gear, smile, and reminisce about being the same age, but to me shirts are worthless (and as noted a stigma in some situations).

Thats fine, when you get several hundred emails a day you don't want push notifications. If its important it shouldn't be going to me via email, I mean thats why I have a phone.

Downloaded it, couldn't use it, wondered why a 3rd party needs push access servers for a mail client... became suspicious... deleted it... probably not reinstalling it.

... and people at work won't play online games?

Just full your account up with junk info, use a nickname, install ghostery, and sign up with site specific auth. I'm pretty sure Fucking in Austria has an extremely high Facebook population... I know ALOT of my friends say they come from there LOL

Then its nothing more than a forum with photos of your friends and family, downloaded them and untag yourself.

Wheres the MSN Live/Skype/Xbox network?

Most of the Microsofts revenue comes from server side stuff anyway, 60% from memory(?), it'll be a good 5 years at least before that market dents. I don't think you'll see c# going away anytime soon.

EDIT : couldn't find 2012 but heres 2011 http://punchcut.com/sites/punchcut.com/files/win8_1-8_eb-msf... business + server looks around 60% which I guess is where my figure comes from

I used to work with a guy who used to lock the door, anyone who showed up late had to knock on the window and get begged to be let in, it disturbed the meeting enough to chastised the late person with a disappointed frown or jibes from the rest of the team. Very few people arrived late to his meetings, and when you where going to be late you'd let him know.

"majority of meetings helped management types feel more connected" ... isn't that technically there job? it might not be a need to feel, but a need to get information out of people they are struggling to get otherwise...

Its all good I definitely don't hold the place or the people to blame. I was living in Cookstown at the time traveling around meeting long lost relatives. I met more than a few good people, but also some of the worst (a few fisticuff incidents stories not appropriate for here, and being questioned as to why I had just wandered into a local pub). It just took a long time to gain peoples trust after that you where treated like royalty.