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I guess that's why it's an experiment. Tourist boards are driven by marketing and PR types. It's refreshingly transparent to hear from - apparently - real people... you see the country from their viewpoint.

The Mashable writer might just be a bit sensitive, I like the Sweden account (and follow other similar ones). Users seem to be free to talk about all sorts of sensitive topics without problem. To me, this week is just an off-week, where I am less interested in the person but will be sticking with it.

I'm probably alone on this, but 'lame' is such a lazy word to use. Saying it repeatedly just made me stop reading.

Your mother sounds like she's using tabs like you would in Excel, where you have different spreadsheets for different types of transactions. You see that quite a lot with users who are experts in one area and try to carry over their skills to another area - rather than adapting to new ideas.

As for forward and back, yeah I use them a lot too. Normally via extra mouse buttons or keyboard though.

I don't know where I read this, but I always thought the EC/EU/Euro was an effort by the allied countries to tame a future German economy. If that's true, then Germany distancing themselves would surely defeat the purpose of the union.

I've got to say, I'm wary of supporting technologies that are linked to disagreeable behaviour like that - for a time I was considering phasing out MySQL for a similar reason. I saw Sun as one of the good guys.

It is especially surprising given that conference tickets are usually really expensive.

The good thing about legislation is you can go after those minority of bad guys. That's what happens when businesses call individuals who are on these privacy lists, they are reported to a regulator and the regulator investigates.

Indeed. There's a developer bubble around Hacker News and websites like Stack Overflow, where topics like bcrypt have become second nature. Whereas standard developers, i.e. those that program solely as a job, they don't inhabit these places.

Even opting for bcrypt can be sketchy. Native support only appeared a few years ago, older versions rely on the OS - many of which didn't support blowfish without a patch. Fine if you control the server.

Indeed. Some processing is good, but a lot of it just makes the food too easy to eat. I would argue that even processing food at home, such as mashing potatoes can be a problem unless you are careful about the portion size - i.e. remember how many potatoes were used to make it.

Conversely, it winds me up when products boast that they have no artificial ingredients, yet have colours or flavours which are mixtures of natural substances that have little to do with the products that they are being used to imitate.

That toolbar has improved a lot since I last saw it, it used to make the websites all jerky and difficult to browse.

Even those tests they give developers to do during the interview process are off-putting, especially given there's a talent shortage in many parts of the world. That said, good luck. I think this sort of thing will help most with the recruitment of graduate developers.

Article seems to be about user addiction, yet it skirts over the topic for some reason.

There's a lot of people out there who aren't regular gamers (i.e. don't use steam), so a high profile bundle like this is perfect.

It's easier to switch parts if you don't specify them.

The ideal way to change is iteratively otherwise you create a usability problem for your experienced users, which is why you get those revolts. As far as I understand it, FB enhanced their service, whereas Digg reinvented itself, which is a lot more risky.

Most commodity furniture is like this, if you ever look inside a modern couch you'll be amazed how cheap and poor quality the innards are - I mean plastic instead of metal, and low grade wood that's holding the weight and under tension. I guess it's like most things in modern life, if you don't pay over the odds for quality, then it's all superficial.

I guess there's little commercial sense in aiming for higher resolutions when you can sell 1080p panels in bulk for TVs.

Here are some selective quotes from the document, I take it to mean: tell the user with a clear message at least once (ideally get them to click confirm but it's not a requirement):

"In some circumstances those seeking consent might consider implied consent as an option that was perhaps more practical than the explicit opt-in model... For implied consent to work there must be some action taken by the consenting individual from which their consent can be inferred... This might for example be visiting a website, moving from one page to another or clicking on a particular button... The key point, however, is that when taking this action the individual has to have a reasonable understanding that by doing so they are agreeing to cookies being set."

http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...

This happens in all sort of markets. You charge based on the cost of living. I don't like it, but it happens. It is usually linked to a contractual obligation in the locality, which means they have to charge higher to support the costs of their local representatives.

As far as I understand it, the UK now allows an implied opt-in, so long as you make it clear to the user that cookies are being used.

For me, it was the most memorable. That's the key to winning: something that hits you instantly and sticks with you.

It was simple, it played up to a genre preference of Western Europe and the performance was unique in comparison to other acts.

A browser is troubling but you can opt-out by using a competitor (I think that's a reason why Google still supports Firefox). It's when they start buying ISPs that you should treat it seriously because that's an attempt to control the platform from the street to the servers.

I find the "Sir" part to be the most interesting... you get a hint of how subserviently someone views the world by their use of "Sir" when describing a knight.

That said, I like the tradition. It's good to reward people for hard work, especially for the non-celebrities who rarely see the limelight.

I guess he's trying to say that he feels like he shouldn't be there, a pretender to the throne. Happens a lot when you are working class and join a department/division that attracts people from more affluent families.

SD is my main concern with these hacker boards, I mentioned it in a previous item. They shouldn't really be relying on this sort of basic flash memory, but I know why... it's accessible and cheap - plus many uses won't be 24/7. Time will tell, but it feels like a time bomb that will affect people who don't know about it (i.e. those that don't know about configuring these devices for minimal writes).

The trend for that graph appears to hint at one wave abstracting and building on top of the previous wave (especially in the later stages). So I guess the next wave has something to do with the abstraction of social media and using it to build new technologies and services? If that were to be true then Facebook, Google Plus, Twitter etc. are all destined to become social media service providers - that is, high level utilities.

My guess would be that it's due to the link pointing to the original source and the title being self explanatory.