marginalboy

I doubt you'd get it from an FOIA request. I believe there's an exemption that covers work like this.

They messed up my "back" button. Party foul.

It is relevant. The entire predicate of this situation was that she is offended by such jokes because they oppress women (a bizarre and utterly arbitrary conclusion, by the way). If an overheard joke made between friends is oppressive to women in her view, then a public tweet of the same nature must also be oppressive to women. It's hypocrisy made plain.

No, it is hypocrisy. She was clearly feigning offense. She eavesdropped her way into internet infamy and her behavior was so extraordinarily irrational, I'm disappointed the PyCon organizers (and everyone else who has encountered this story) didn't laugh her out of the convention.

Am I cultivating a hyperactive sense of irony if I point out that, instead of turning around and asking them to take it elsewhere (as a mature adult ought to have done), she played the "damsel in distress" card and tweeted to thousands of people to come stop the big, bad boys behind her from making naughty jokes?

I honestly think it's more of a statement on the mediocre management of tech workers than the productivity of those workers.

I don't think you're being very fair. You're suggesting a false dichotomy.

I tried several times over several hours and never could get the thing to work :-(

On my mobile device, it was nearly unusable...

I think it sounds promising. As much as my habits are solidly in the "file explorer" space, I can see its limitations.

But, in order to even convince me there's a viable alternative, the user interface of something like Collections has to really knock it out of the park for me. So much so, it seems daunting.

It also seemed to break my back button after I went to the sign up page. I had to type the HN url to get back here after I finished. That was annoying.

This, exactly. Great tool, but having no experience with Mongo yet, I literally said aloud "So verbose...!" when I saw the translation.

I was casually browsing the site, but honestly it wasn't until I came back to the HN comments that I realized there was more than one package with more than one price.

And it appears the bottom-feeder subclass of redditors has spilled over :-(

That's classy.

As soon as I walked away for some more water, I realized I had missed the point ;-)

I don't know; I feel like this would get complicated far more quickly than the FOIL method...

One can't help but suspect these players are acting in concert, to manufacture the most ridiculous exercises of technology patent abuse, so as to motivate the public and Congress to advocate for a reconsideration of the whole mess...

Classic case of "just because you can doesn't mean you should"...

Great work, Evernote! That's pretty darn cool :-)

Signed up already!

Great job on it.

By way of exchange, I'll offer what meager observations my usability & QA expertise inform when I start using :-)

I came here to say "how the hell can I get a backspac.es account". Loved it, absolutely loved it.

This is from 2009. Is there news on whether the charges were valid?

I've managed a high volume call center for 15 years and I agree with this very much. In my experience, it can be easy to view customers with cynicism. But answering an extreme principle with another extreme principle isn't useful, either.

I think it could be reworded and be more useful (see my comment further down).

Whether or not the rule that the "customer is always right" applies is context-dependent. In an educational environment, for example, we can't embrace this principle; it is contrary to our mission to leave people with misinformation that can affect their studies or research.

I think it can be reworded to be useful guiding principle in more environments if you're willing to parse it more carefully. Perhaps something like "The customer's perception is more important than yours."?

iPhone app looks great! Two things I noticed quickly: the swipe-to-sign up wasn't immediately obvious to me, and since I'm typing on the phone, I probably wouldn't mind entering my password twice to be sure I didn't fat-finger it.

If you're worried about too many fields on that screen, then maybe you can get rid of a username that's separate from my email address...

I think you missed the point. The author clearly stated he was willing to whitelist a site he wants to use. There are good reasons for someone not to browse arbitrary sites with JS enabled by default if they choose, from security to memory management...

That's a "feature"? It's probably the most aggravating characteristic of Instagram for me, and it's the reason I don't take all my pics with the app...

Great idea with the blurring solution.

But, being really honest, I'd say the biggest issue confronting you right now is design: it does not look professional or trustworthy. When your brand is based on a notion of trust (that's essentially what you're offering to mediate), you need to be very sensitive to the elements of design that help establish that.

It isn't surprising if Facebook has a large, highly coupled code base. Given their reputation for tight timelines and maverick-advocacy, I'm continually surprised the thing works at all.