splatterdash

Using the same setup and I've been loving it so far (almost 3 years now).

The package manager is just so sweet.

Depends on where you look. Last year (this year, actually) I saw several openings looking for Rails experience I think.

Besides, the projects are pretty open about it. You can approach a project and come up with your own ideas. Not only this makes you more noticeable, it gives you the flexibility to do what you really want.

That is one possibility. But with subtle things like that, the trick is to come up with an experiment that either supports or falsifies them. Until such data exist, it remains a mere hypothesis.

As someone who uses YouTube a lot to listen to music: thanks for this!

I have some comments + questions, though:

Comments:

1.The video feels too small for such a large screen estate. Perhaps add an option to resize it? Or relocate it to the bottom of the screen or top of the playlist, instead of using the corner..

2. You should add an option to directly copy-paste the URL. As I see it now, I can't even highlight it.

EDIT: 3. How do you determine which video gets played? Sometimes the video I want is not the one as the top result, but #4 or even #5. Maybe add an option to use the next video in the search results?

Questions:

1. How did you create it? What do you use for the frontend and backend? Are you planning to release the code somehow? (just curious)

Again, thanks :)! It feels very slick and I like the color scheme.

Almost every part of the human body directly exposed to the environment is covered with microbes: the skin, the gut lining, your mouth, your nasal passage, etc. Only a small part isn't (as I recall your eyes are sterile). I don't have proper citation for this, but AFAIK if you disrupt the microbial balance on these surfaces it might result in health-related problems. So in a way, yes, we need them to live healthy.

Other parts have to be kept sterile. Your brain, your heart, your lymph nodes, are some examples. When these parts gets infected, you get sick.

On another note, microbes are fantastic creatures. The earth is covered in them and they've been around much longer than us. They can live off a myriad of different substances and even without the sun.

Yay microbes :p!

My initial impression is it's a little confusing.

Getting to the starred lists and to the watched lists require a considerably different navigation. (e.g. why is there a "Stars" tab beside the "Issues" tab but no "Watch" tabs? Why are my own repos starred instead of watched?)

I hope they'll make it easier.

Ah true, I take back that part of my argument then. Maybe Google does owe him something.

I still think he was being childish and over the top, though.

I feel 'meh'. I just fixed mine, and that's it. People shouldn't rely on Facebook for making new connections anyway. And my friends who are there know how to contact me better than to rely on Facebook only.

I mean, do people seriously expect these things not to happen? We don't have absolute control over these things. These companies only give us the illusion of control so we can make them some cash, at the end of the day.

The default was set to the first option, which (as much as I hate to say it), still gives his argument some grounds. Google should've set it as opt-in instead of opt-out.

But, man, talk about being over the top. It's Google's products that he's using for free. They don't owe anything to him. His rant does more damage to his character than to Google's profits, IMO.

EDIT: It goes without saying that I prefer Will Wheaton's post much more than Scoble's. And he's not 'freaking out' as Scoble claims.

How much are internships usually paid in the US? For some parts of the world (developing, especially) the GSoC stipend is ridiculously high.

Ah true. I meant explicit version control (e.g. you can tag/name a version and go back to it later).

How does this stack up against Google Docs or other similar collaborative document websites/apps? The only obvious difference I see is versioning support, but I doubt versioning works well with regular documents.

> I'm honestly not trying to be mean,

Hey, no problem :), I'm just here for the discussion.

> but I'm not sure you understand human psychology in this area. Humans are very consistently swayed by looks over intrinsic value.

I do understand that looks matter to a degree. Some website redesigns does make them much more appealing. But I feel like at best the effects are only temporary. It doesn't take long before the user gets bored and thinks about how ugly it looks, unless the redesign comes with added functionality/feature (which I fail to find in this case).

Moreover, I mentioned earlier that it doesn't seem beneficial for Bing that its redesign is a reminder of its competitor. So I still find their decision puzzling.

That seems plausible only if the search quality differs by a small margin. I haven't been using Bing extensively, but I remember trying some queries a while ago and Google was showing better results. Is this still the case now or have they improved considerably?