Barnabas

Gattaca was very prescient and thought-provoking movie, one of my favorites. The story described a future where individuals are allowed or denied opportunity based on a genetic test at birth. I think the point was that technology cannot predict or limit the human heart.

That same idea applies here too. This article illustrates that there will be other, nuanced perils to bioinformatics besides rewarding genetic lottery winners and punishing losers. Genetic testing is a powerful tool that should be used wisely. Of course, it will be a bumpy road until society settles on what "wisely" means.

Agreed. The third party to defend against is not only an intruder to LinkedIn, but LinkedIn itself.

If there are "misperceptions" about Intro, let us include LinkedIn's own misperception of how some of us view account security.

My favorite part:

> Bounce Imaging is planning to sell an emergency responder version for about $1000, a military version for something under $3000.

Because, you know, military.

You know that product {X} has arrived when it's assumed to be so mainstream that is's being used to describe functionality {Y} in sentences like "it's like {X} for {Y}".

Went to check it out. Pretty. I didn't see anything but yet another "create a login" screen, no sample of what the email looks like. Closed tab.

Matthew 6:1-4

I was looking at kinvey.com mentioned in the comment of the article while researching an alternative for Adobe Publish at work. Their 1-2-3 explanation on the home page is compelling, except for the 1 part. Yes, one should have the option of creating or extending a custom model, but why not have a library of pre-built solutions? "Here's our e-commerce starter kit, it's got a cart, products, customers, tax tables, and inventory management. Also we built an awesome back-end and some integrations with these payment processors." If you're building a BAAS, why not pick three or four common web-app types and make the models for them.

I transferred to namecheap.com over Bob's Elephant hunting controversy some time back. Now that doesn't seem like as big a deal in retrospect.

This domain is blocked by my work firewall as "pornography". Too bad.

I wonder if this is jedburg of reddit. I only say because he said "reigned" in his goodbye post today, and this pastebin said "reigned" too, when they both meant "reined". Also the writing is very similar. Similar number of sentences (48 vs. 54) and words per sentence (15 vs. 12) too. Maybe I'm just being paranoid, or it's a glitch in the matrix.