I know people, and indeed, get like this myself sometimes (though not as often as I sued to), who will have natural cycles in which they are awake for hours on end and sleep only 1 or 2 out of every 24. But even for those who seem to be naturally wired to do so, it only lasts for a few days before either their body or their mind needs sleep so badly that they a) fall asleep in the case of physical exhaustion, or b) must take sleeping aids to force themselves back into a normal pattern so they can think clearly again. Polyphasic sleep sounds good in theory. In practice, well, there's a reason why sleep deprivation is used as a form of torture.
I don't think the system needs changing - sometimes submissions just get unlucky and/or have a bad title. Just try again a while later, or hope someone else does. Nothing wrong with that as long as you aren't spamming the post (imo).
My highest voted submission of recent times was an article I thought was great, that someone else had submitted a few days earlier, which hadn't got any upvotes. So I made the title more appealing and tweaked the url, hey presto 100+ upvotes. The system works! (well enough)
This is clearly only designed for home NATs. The simple fact of the matter is that most home users don't want to know how to forward ports so that they can use p2p software.
This allows one to write software so that such users can use p2p software without having a central server to discover IP addresses.
This is why we started this website and are telling a lot of people, to help us maintain this cycle.
It'd be very easy for me to say "Eh, screw this", but the fact that we have ~50 Twitter followers, local friends, and other people following us through the website, all helps to give us motivation.
Okay! It's actually nap time, so I'll be back to answer some more comments in 30 minutes.
Reducing the content is a good way to raise prices without "raising prices". And the green spin as the reason to reduce content, well that's just brilliant.
I don't play video games either, but that hardly gives me the authority to deprecate them for creating merely a "manufactured sense of accomplishment." There are many people for whom games are the only practical release from daily drudgery and that alone makes their existence, and by extension their creation, worthwhile.
Not everyone aspires to solve "interesting, difficult and worthwhile problems." Sometimes we just want to have fun!
I might be showing my ignorance here, I'm not a network guy, but a vast majority of internal networks use 192.168.1.0/24 192.168.1.1/24 and so on. What happens when the source and destination networks both use the same class C addresses?
That's true and probably the reason why interfaces improved so much. Whitespaces are a design element and what you call junk is somebody business need.
The fact that the blank canvas got bigger on the web allowed to much better interface patterns, or maybe it was just a question of maturity.
But I guess the most interesting discussion is not the visual part but the utilization scenarios of the Ipad. I'm not sold on it as a mobile device, but how many people use a laptop as a mobile device? Mobile phones are the first truly mobile devices.
I'm just starting to notice Iphone owners on the middle of a crowd trying to text somebody, you have to hold it closer to the horizontal plane to have better accuracy making it less natural.
I'm not sold on the Ipad as a mobile device, in the mobile phones sense, but I also don't think its success depends on it.
I'm very pleased that this topic has been raised on the international agenda.
So far I have only heard meaningful criticism of the plan from within the Internet industry.... this is so much more important than the man on the street realises.
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The elephant in the room is that shipping bottles of carbonated corn syrup around the world will never be "eco-friendly" no matter how much effort invested in the packaging.
One of the things that is important in my own value-system is to cherish eccentricity. As the author points out, the entire race is becoming more and more homogenized.
I'm not going to spell out a list of eccentricities. Oddly enough, if I did a good job of it you guys would just vote me down.
I will, however, point out several of the ways that society is creating more and more conformity: sites like this, the use of medical diagnosis to cover simple human differentiation, the use of various mental illness labels to cover formerly fine behavior, widespread rampant consumerism teaching people they are all basically the same consumer, use of new laws to control what is or isn't acceptable, use of social intervention as an excuse to make everybody's private behavior now a public concern.
The species desperately needs outliers. We need our (peaceful) Ted Kacinskys And we're getting better and better at finding them early and fuzzing them out.
Indeed - regardless of whether this is stated - one should assume that with the internet as a whole. You can't takes something back once it's out there.
"There's nothing unusual in that agreement. It sounds like every other social network."
I don't use any other social network, and this is one of the reasons why.
I have now deleted my profile on LinkedIn, which is a shame as I had a nice recommendation from a customer at a past job on there. Then again, the site has only ever generated me irrelevant junk mail from agencies rather than useful leads anyway.
Having dealt with small construction contractors several times, it's not just that they don't show up, it's that half the time they stop showing up in the middle of the job. Just vanish.
I'm just saying, there is a big niche for shared hosting providers.
Setting up many modern webapp frameworks requires more than 'basic linux shell skills' and it requires sitting on several security mailing lists to watch for holes in the framework, etc...
Early to mid twenties. They both have supportive work environments and a whole host of people helping them through the days. Theoretically it will take them a few weeks to get used to it.
