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great work!

i did one the runs on osx a couple years ago. might be broken now, haven't run it in a while.

https://github.com/helloandre/cam2ascii

This is a fantastic example of a company embracing technology (or more generally newer forms of business) and not holding on to the "old way" of doing business.

The fact that their printed volumes account for a negligible amount of their revenue shows that this wasn't even a spur of the moment decision, they saw the writing on the wall a long time ago and planned accordingly.

I think since Ford is sending the upgrade USB sticks directly to customers it would now be quite easy for someone with malicious intent to send out fake "upgrade" USB sticks to unsuspecting Ford owners. I'm not sure how dangerous it would be from a safety, ram-car-into-tree, point of view but certainly they would have access to any GPS data.

Atwood's Law alive and well.

but absolutely none of that requires a unique identifier, which is where this article focuses most of it's gripe.

i completely agree. i didn't mean that it would in any way be wrong, i am just really interested in how they did it, and wanted to look at the source.

yet another example of a need for a sarcasm punctuation mark.

Is the source/a paper/a blog post going to be released so that we can look at (read: poke holes in) it?

I like this simply for the content on the page, not necessarily the actual project (tho it's cool too). It's snarky, self-deprecating, and dryly funny.

I think it's interesting that the idea of deleting an account on a web service is "incomprehensible" (a bit out of context, but still relevant). It's kind of funny how reliant we've become on a few companies and services.

while you may not support the company and it's methods, the point they are trying to make is more honorable: making the dmca more complicated is pointless.

I was thinking of the NYT articles. Even if I don't have to pay to read them, the principle is the same. I shouldn't have to register on a site to read the content. I can understand registering to interact (comment, etc) but not to simply access.

This is a really good article when considering use cases for your users. Sometimes classifying it under 'stupid user syndrome' just isn't good enough, you have to understand that they are not unintelligent, they just don't grasp the same domain knowledge as we do.

not only is that filed in the wrong place, but by someone clearly not understanding _what_ they're filing. you can't fix stupid.

I see the biggest problem being SEO. How can you guarantee top placement (as your example shows) in search results?

oh, ok, thanks! i would have made the assumption that this would have fixed it and been frustrated.

Did I miss something, or why are these in your head tag? Why not put them in the body tag so they don't load until after the browser has rendered the page?

I think you're simply showing your lack of exposure to new technologies. As 1053r noted, there are tons and tons of new things coming out all the time. Yes, it seems that with the advent of fast, cheap hardware most platforms perform generally the same, but new software is continuing to amaze.

Your wife may use the same computer, but i guarantee you she does not use it in the same way. Does she use localhost? Has she ever run a ./configure? It's like saying my owning a football puts me in the same league as Brett Favre.

thanks. i fear confrontation might be the only available option at this point.

you're absolutely right. Thanks for the reality check. I just needed to get it off my chest and that was the inappropriate way to do that.

The post has been updated to be a bit more level-headed.

i always heard it was a spoon. or was that someone else?

I'm a huge fan of this. I'm up working during that time most nights anyway, and it would be great to be able to work with other people.

Can we get one of these going around in atlanta?

very nice idea and execution.

might want to make it clearer that the person you're trying to get the file from doesn't need a dropbox account, as that seems to be the big idea behind this.

This would really defeat the purpose of personalized recommendations. The test account was for a quick look at what we offer, not as a long-term solution.

we're working on this right now, actually. We're going to support making arbitrary meal portions. Right now it's hard-coded to only 4.

we do the same thing. We have a few remote developers, so we set up our own private server.

I use XChat on Ubuntu, and it is perfect for my limited usage.

not necessarily true. I'm working on a health care startup, and we're running a LAMP stack.

granted, we're a web 2.0 health care company, so we're more of a hybrid.

since you are clearly ripping off the stackoverflow idea and design, why not submit this to area 51? this would not only save you any kind of hosting/bandwidth costs, but would probably get the word out faster.