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Google Fiber has been aggressively upselling us to a higher plan the last 6-12 months, prior to that in my 6 years with them I don't remember a single upsell. Guess I know why now, trying to grease the numbers for the highest possible sale price.

I'll be sure to take this as a warning sign in the future with other services if aggressive upselling starts happening unexpectedly.

Fruit does not have added sugar and the fiber in fruit helps slow the digestion of the fructose greatly dampening the negative effects of the sugar. Plus fruit is loaded with naturally occurring vitamins essential to the human body.

I've been looking for something like this for a while now but honestly if you run a non-technical service requiring your users to sign up for a github account (just to vote on features) is a pretty big ask. Integration with other AUTH services like Facebook/Google would be very beneficial.

I think there are two things at play here.

1. People perceive they don't have a choice. For example when you visit the doctor and you have to sign 12 different form/contracts. Most people believe they either sign them or don't get treated.

2. Fear of not understanding. They think they wouldn't understand they legalese even if they tried, so why even bother? Personally I don't blame them. I've read contracts that were so wordy and had so much legalese in them you'd be convinced the lawyers wrote them that way just so everyone involved would need to hire as many lawyers as possible simply to understand the darn thing.

Agreed. They are both solid frameworks and I've used both fairly heavily. I personally find Laravel more 'natural'. I have to refer back to the documentation in Yii far more often.

I was completely shocked when I read this yesterday morning while drinking my morning coffee. The best outcome that could arise from the author disclosing his password is him receiving hundreds of texts that day. I understand the point he is making, but still a very risky move.

^ This. Ever since Namecheap went through their 'rebranding' the site has been slow and at times completely unusable. I consistently get timeouts when performing basic tasks. The old site was ugly but it worked. The new site is slightly less ugly and it barely works. They had a lot of goodwill built up which they are slowly chipping away at.

Site seems to be buckling under load. Google cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...

This. People sing to the heavens of how stable OSX is and how it just works. I've had as many if not more issues than with my Windows 7 Samsung laptop.

Wifi constantly needs manually disabling/enabling, Bluetooth Audio crashes are common, I average one full system crash per month, display settings reset themselves magically and Finder is infuriating. I should be keeping a log of all the issues I have.

This is on a 2014 Macbook Pro.

No kidding. I was bummed to find most of the links broken.

I was surprised at how well that worked. I was basically blindly cycling between left,down,right (with one accidental up) and got to 1024 on my first try.

I disagree. I think its important to take 'ownership' of your work. Its the best way to obtain visibility in your organization and (for me at least) creates a sense of satisfaction and pride.

If I was just a cog in the machine of the corporate wheel churning through small tasks on a daily basis it would be hard to keep motivated. In fact a lack of ownership for work is what allows large companies to carry so much dead weight for so long. Employees stagnate and start coasting.

I do however take your point to heart and realize taking ownership does not mean I am up til 2am frequently trying to meet unrealistic deadlines.

I am curious what Bill Gates (or anyone who doesn't necessarily have an immediate profit making venture to promote i.e an actor) hopes to achieve with an AMA?

I can't imagine they are very much fun after the first dozen questions. Promoting philanthropy to a wider audience? Bringing the spotlight on a specific cause?

Its awesome that someone as busy and important as Bill Gates is willing to take the time to do this whatever his reasons, I'm just wondering the reason why?

Did anyone else's email address get auto submitted without having to hit submit?

^this. Same with Netflix though for me. Where are you based? I'm in Austin, Tx.

Any of the speed tests online will report 30mbps/5mbps, but I'm unable to stream HD on Youtube or Netflix during peak times.

After travelling/living in Southeast Asia for 8 months and paying between $5-10/month for LTE speeds that are consistently more reliable and quicker than in the USA it makes me shudder when I get my bill every month for $100+ for two lines. Granted there are differences i.e labor costs and total land area coverage, but on the whole the price difference doesn't make up for it.

I had the exact same situation three years ago with Carbonite. Had 80GB of data that I was never able to be restore. Their only means of amending the situation was offering a year for free. Never again. I had a local backup but it was unfortunately 3+ months out of date. Now I keep everything locally backed up with a NAS and a mix of dropbox/google drive.

Its only a matter of time before over the air car hijacking becomes a real problem. I think I prefer my car not be wirelessly susceptible.

This is really, really cool and equally impressive. I can't imagine the amount of legwork that was involved with legislation and groundwork getting all parties involved interested.

I don't see it stated anywhere so I'm assuming you are running this as a for-profit? Are you going to disclose your take?

"All of these tools have different trade-offs. There are so many trade-offs that simple blog post comparisons don't cut it. And so you have the "magpies" who try and figure out some of these trade-offs for themselves by experimentation. (That is what, in my opinion, hack days and 20% time are for, not your new production system.)"

Absolutely. Someone has to be the designated pseudo-magpie in order to architect the stack. Doing so effectively though requires a dev who can look past the buzzwords and elevator pitches to really get to the core of it. Essentially they have to be magpie and anti-magpie at the same time. Does this new technology really offer me any benefit or is it the same end result wrapped in new clothing?

It truly is and even for experienced developers it can be overwhelming. It is simply impossible for anyone person to be knowledgeable every new technology and/or programming language.

I used to constantly fall in the trap of shallow but wide breadth of knowledge. Something new would come out and I would drop everything and dive right in. It feels rewarding at the time but really in the end has very little benefit (unless of course your a tech reporter).

My advice is to achieve a narrow and deep knowledge base. Pick a few that you feel passionate about and really concentrate on mastering those. It would help to pick those that have a large number of related job openings if its your livelihood. Mastering Java may seem old school, but the number of job postings I still see for java developers is amazing.

Its too bad this actually makes things worse if you are a heavy mobile user. Since all emails are archived (even those awaiting todo/reply) using this workflow on mobile now requires quite a few navigation points just to see these emails.

In my opinion multiple inboxes leaves the screen looking cluttered anyway.

I too look forward to this site. The problem with Smart Recommendations that Netflix and Pandora make is they are still subject to highly subjective tastes. I could have watched 6 documentaries on Wine, rated them all 5 stars and I still might not like the title recommended by Netflix, even if it is a documentary about wine and has an average 4.9 from other Netflix users. There are simply too many variables and most people (myself included) are fickle. If I'm in a certain I could like a movie I would otherwise dislike.

I get what you are saying, but it has now become Spike's issue, unless he abides by "All publicity is good publicity, even bad publicity".

Just like many companies drop their sponsorships when their celebrities misbehave. For example Tiger Woods after his affair scandal.

Artur, you should only be seeing the list of notes that you created, would you mind sending me a screenshot so I can see what exactly you are referring to?

Thumbs up to this. Been using the EncFS windows port for roughly a year with Google Drive with no issues. I was previously using TrueCrypt but the lack of differential sync was a killer on my TrueCrypt containers.

I couldn't agree more, nothing is more frustrating than getting hooked on a game only to realize that progress is essentially crippled without massive amounts of free time or a few in app purchases. I would much rather pay an up front fee (or perhaps instead of crippling the game, a one time fee to unlock the rest of the game).

This is superfluous in almost every single way and priced appropriately but I still can't help but want it.

If the climate system works as well as I imagine it would on a $6,000 chair that alone would be worth the cost. I normally feel so guilty for having to crank the A/C (and the heat in the winter) for the entire house, when really I just need my office to be a little bit cooler that I normally just sweat it out.

I get the impression that this lifestyle is a very solitary one although it does seem to be by choice. Which is fine but he seems to make quite a few assumptions about the way other people live their life and why.

For example:

"However, there is an absurd social pressure on men to wear ties. They do this as a form of sucking up to the boss."

Perhaps they just like the way they look in tie?

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Edited to add more context to quote.

Must have been fixed, working fine in Chrome for me.