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Comment · 12 years ago
To your aside: I for one really appreciate Heroku's color scheme. I find high contrast color schemes very fatiguing, and prefer light-ish on dark-ish color schemes like Heroku's. I don't really believe in a universally ideal color scheme. I think we should instead focus on building and supporting tooling to help people adapt content to their needs.
Comment · 12 years ago
I have been both fat and slim. I don't think the change was caused by a change in my moral turpitude.
Comment · 12 years ago
My bad. I wish there were gender neutral pronouns I could use so that I wouldn't have to worry about shit like this when it doesn't matter.
Comment · 12 years ago
He's probably not referring so much to the specific limits on mailbox size as he is to the policy of forcing responsibility for maintaining permanent archives on the users of the system rather than the administrators of it.
Comment · 12 years ago
"Such policies indicate either an agency that is not concerned with preserving good audit chains or one that has an extremely penny-wise, pound-foolish approach to IT policy."

I think AND is more appropriate than OR here.

Comment · 12 years ago
I wonder if this will eventually lead to google making use of a decentralized federated search strategy where they provide the technology to everyone who wants their site to be findable by means of google, but do not actually produce the results themselves. From a technological pov that would certainly be far more challenging than their current system, but it might make them less of a target legally.
Comment · 12 years ago
Governments always expect to be tracked, the only surprising thing is when voters see the results and pay attention.
Comment · 12 years ago
Yeah, but how do you get the journalists to drink it?
Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Very nearly all of modern science is based on appeals to authority. I don't have the training or time to validate even 1/10'000th of the things that a modern 'scientific' person is supposed to believe.
Comment · 12 years ago
Especially since a very active human will only require the energy equivalent of a liter or two of gas per day.
Comment · 12 years ago
I downloaded Hawken and played it once and enjoyed. When I went to play again I realized that I would have to type my 20 character random password in in order to be able to play, alt tabbing between the password manager and the game repeatedly.

I uninstalled the game.

Comment · 12 years ago
Comment · 12 years ago
Probably pretty similar to how it feels when soyuz capsules land on land on parachute descent. It's not a new technique.

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