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This post kinda collapses if you take out the assumption of Ev's moustache-twirling malice at its center.

AT&T is allowing it, but only through a semi-convoluted series of email notifications about notifications, followed by verification links that unlock verification links.

This is just _public_ repos, right? That might skew numbers a bit.

The big weird variable time buffer required at the airport would seem to wipe out the time you gain, right? Or, at least, what's an extra half hour when you're on the hook for two hours of security and waiting, followed by a couple-hour flight, followed by another hour of transit on the arrival side?

People tend to enjoy private alcoves with a view on the action, which is kinda best of both worlds. Christopher Alexander describes that pattern in _A Pattern Language_.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_F9jxsfGCw

Oh man, don't roll your own linking, caching, and history. Use what you get for free from the browser. You have better things to spend your time with.

Simple! Just heat, oil, reheat, and cool your pan six times in a row. For eighteen hours. And don't mess up or you'll have to start over.

"But Salesforce also poured lots of its own effort into building a completely new product that’s intuitive enough for any person to use — just like such popular games as Angry Birds, Candy Crush Saga, and Farmville."

I kinda feel bad for Jordan Novet, having to type that and somehow find a way to keep pressing letters on a keyboard in a meaningless existence.

Yeah, finger only works locally.

Whats how do trolling

In the modern-day version of The Jungle, Jurgis would have had the job title "Sausage Hero".

What's the motivation behind posting these? Is there a way to say "these are the kinds of posts that are good for the community" without tacking a number on it?

I think code should be able to hang around for 30 years without automatically being called "shockingly obsolete." Are there choices the programmers could have made that would have held up better over the years?

The quote that plants this firmly in pretending-to-be-serious land: “The average pedophile at this point is probably thinking, I’ve got to get an Apple phone.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo

Except that it's rarely "what works" as much as it is "what we can convince somebody else works, so they pay us to do it." There is shockingly little measurement and followup in the marketing world, despite what the industry would like you to believe.

Do you love packaging? Do you hate the two minutes it takes to cut things more than you like your money?

"37 Proven Systems to Win Powerball"

"the money helps show the market that the company has stability"

Free money from some dudes unrelated to the company's business really shouldn't indicate "stability", should it?

But I don't wanna type like a robot.

Completely defeated by the interface. I have no idea if my scrolling had any effect on the position of anything, or how and why anything was playing, stopping, or advancing.

"37 Ways to More Accurately Read the Bones You're Casting to Predict the Harvest"

I read this whole thing in the voice of Baby Cakes, and it was wayyyyyyy more entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9taJVvD0ivM

Another metric I'd like to see: "total user-hours wasted onboarding, learning, importing, and exporting data". So many of these follow the same dumb pattern: "Make this tool part of your life! We're the solution! Uhhhh… never mind."

I don't think people's reaction to the water sommelier is derision — maybe more "what kind of idiot do you take me for?"

Neat! It would be nice if README.md gave a little introduction to the project.

I guess they didn't just want the 18 trackers Ghostery found on that post, they needed them?

Leslie Cabarga's _Logo, Font & Lettering Bible_ has a nice section on this, too. http://amzn.com/1581804369

I used Square Wallet all the time, and was frequently told, "That was the first time I've done that!"