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    > Americans drink a ton of it. It is one 
    > of the very few foods in the US which 
    > Europe simply cannot approach.

Portuguese, "puxe": http://translate.google.com/#pt/en/puxe

X sounds like SH.

That’s accurate. Articles are peppered with first person pronouns. Minimalist on presentation AND content, sadly.

Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses [1][2] is long-overdue. “There is a current, established format for international addresses” is probably one of them.

[1] http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-b...

[2] http://infiniteundo.com/post/25326999628/falsehoods-programm...

Tada!

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

Guess what? Even worse usability.

A millimeter (which I rather often call “milímetro” or “millimètre”) is also too late. By the way, the SI uses powers of ten.

An inch is too big. A centimeter is too late.

I was reading this like any other ordinary story. Then I got to this part:

    Amazingly, he doesn't do transplants anymore. 
    Tracheas, he has decided, can be regenerated 
    from scratch, using stem cells.

Pro: tab bars are modeless. Con: less content, more chrome.

The same blog post in Chinese is provided as a 10 MB PDF [1]. My PDF reader simply gives up while loading it and prints insane amounts of error messages. I'm guessing they converted all the text to curves to avoid being censored?

[1] http://services.google.com/fh/files/blogs/google_chinasearch...

Certainly. In my opinion an explicit quote of part of the original article would have been better than paraphrasing. Quoting reinforces the value of the source (“we couldn't write it any better”), paraphrasing does the opposite.

Hence the "drama".

Real life needs some serious mutexing.

A case of poor timing, I think. TNW posts a non-attributed version of the article [1]. Author complains on twitter. Meanwhile, TNW notices the error and ninja-edits the post with proper attribution [2]. You check the updated post. Drama ensues on twitter.

Edit. Oi, I'm not saying TNW is in the right, people. Just pointing out something that their CEO seems to have missed.

[1]. http://cl.ly/0q1C3n1j323R3C131X0d/o [2]. http://cl.ly/1a0c2y2p291H1u2T2s3S/o

I really need something like this. However, I watched the video and came back unconvinced. You don't show me how to manipulate data. How do I get it into the canvas? Can I get it from APIs? from Google Docs? Can I bind data to attributes of the objects I drag and drop into the canvas? Can I filter and aggregate my data or must I preprocess it offline? We really need a web app that brings infovis to the masses — like a Garageband-ified Tableau. There's nothing like that yet. But if you are just a themed clipart canvas, you'll find a formidable competitor in PowerPoint.

The comparison to a football coach is very accurate, but I think it's unfair to put Linus Torvalds and Ulrich Drepper in the same bucket.

While Drepper is pure asshole, Linus just uses insults in the same situations the rest of us would use bold text. I wouldn't like to be on the receiving end of one such email, of course, but most of his tirades are actually very constructive.

So, you are saying that if you were the maintainer of a project which required a feature such that the Github implementation was inadequate but the official git implementation was OK, you'd use the Github implementation anyway?

My Spanish is rusty, but the article says that:

- Stallman felt ill halfway through a lecture he was offering in Barcelona, probably due to a blood pressure spike;

- he asked the staff for medical assistance;

- meanwhile, he continued the lecture with some difficulty, but in a good mood;

- the lecture was suspended when the ambulance arrived, and was eventually cancelled;

- after being attended by the medical staff, he was well enough to walk out of the building;

- no further details on his health.

The OP are not comparing cars to software. They are comparing the natures of the commercial relationship between the owner and the car manufacturer and between the user and Adobe. Expecting free "recalls" from Adobe is not unreasonable.

Just bought it! Skipped the trial because the video demo was enough. You should really be proud. Works like a charm, somehow feels like a UNIX tool. Hope you get rich in exponentially faster increments of five bucks.

This is not about copyright, but author rights.

I would translate it exactly like that, though it's actually not ad hominem but ad humanitatem, really. We are all biased creatures, as others have pointed out. I think the critique is biased, I think it is biased because the author put a lot of effort in his (otherwise awesome) Java product, and therefore I quoted Upton Sinclair.

For instance, he argues that it would take a lot of working around to provide instant feedback for code with side-effects, but isn't that obvious? The LightTable video doesn't claim it magically mocks every external component or does some other fancy stuff. That doesn't make the feature less useful, especially in a language like Clojure, which was used for the demo. For me, that part reads much like "since it ws so hard to create Chronon, one cannot pretend the LightTable features are so easy to implement. Let me prove that by putting LightTable in the context of my product."

There was — deliberately, yes — a bit of snide and a lot of cynicism in my post, but I hope to have made it clear that it was not without a reason (for the cynicism, at least).

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

That's the blog of a company that makes a tool that integrates with Eclipse.

Software that predates the iPad, it seems.

You missed the last space after her name.

Do you know what kind of auto-completing Google should really halt? Spoilers. Do not type Game of Thrones character names on Google.

EDIT. I'm really, really sorry. I didn't mean to spoil by implying that there are spoilers. I removed the character name.

How is Obtvse, in any way, an improvement upon or alteration of Svbtle?

As far as I can tell, it's a 1:1 clone, but "open".

3. That's actually not a close icon, but an "expand" icon. You can just click anywhere to close the lightbox

That's also a usability issue with the lightbox UI. I couldn't figure why the "close" button was not working, either.

Indeed. Here's some statistically ignorant experiment I just did. Loading the Function [1] document (not the whole page, just the document) takes around 1.6 s here:

  Connecting:  0.837 s
         SSL:  0.258 s
     Sending:  0     s
     Waiting:  0.767 s
   Receiving:  0.001 s

   Xfer Size: 14.26  KB (gzip)
      onload:  3.37  s  (primed cache)
              12.78  s  (empty cache)

   Blocking:  0     s
    Sending:  0     s
    Waiting:  0.204 s
  Receiving:  0.037 s

  Xfer Size: 23.94  KB (plain)
     onload:  1.09  s  (primed cache)
              1.82  s  (empty cache)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Reference/Global...

[2] http://www.w3schools.com/js/js_functions.asp

Same on the iPad 2.