My biggest problem with vim is the fanboy base. You all are worse then mac users. (typed from my mbp) Get over it, its an editor, a tool, not the end product.
Yes, it is a tool. And sometimes tools differ in boring ways that make no difference, like they have different colors.
But how would you feel if you worked as a carpenter 8+ hr/day for 10 years and then realized you had been using a dull saw the whole time? Or that you were doing things in a slightly wrong way which gave you blisters or split the wood?
You might even want to tell other people about it...
I don't think using an Apple brand computer vs. another brand really makes that much of a difference to anything except taste.
I'd be overly cautious with this company. I've had over the minimum required to cash out for a month, and they will not let me cash out my account. The claim is that there are still in beta, so they won't pay you yet. Will they ever exit beta? Will I ever be able to cash out?
We are happy to pay you directly via Paypal, please email your information to [email protected] and we can process this for you immediately. We don't have a self-service process yet.
There is one problem with the "find who is googling you" feature. For about a year now, google has started hiding the search results from the referral when someone uses google while logged in to google services.
You may have seen "not provided" in google analytics for searches that found your site... This is users logged in to google. And with more people using google services such as gmail and g+, more and more results will be hidden. On my corporate, tech web site, I'm seeing 40-50% of results from google as "not provided" nowadays, and its increasing every month.
(not provided) is lame, but I don't think that will hurt how this service tracks who's Googling you. It looks like they look up the IP address to see who is searching for you.
BTW - I run notprovided.com and have had 100% days of (not provided) keywords referrals....at least I have a good idea of what they were searching for : )
The interesting part about it is it allows google access to the data for information in their metrics & analytics while blocking out their competition in the metrics scene.
I thought that's a feature of HTTPS, not sending referral headers to non-HTTPS links. (and so not an explicit move by Google but a necessary consequence of providing secure connections for logged-in users)
Yep. Basically if you're using Google behind the HTTPS (like you're logged into Google+) they'll send back a non referral header. There ARE ways around this, but it's tricky
I just don't think this scandal will have a big impact with the general populous. As big and as important as this scandal may be, it has one big thing going against it. It is dreadfully boring. I have to admit, while I did manage a single read through of the details when this was discussed earlier this week, I have not managed to listen or read through a full article since.
Do we really need another social network site? Yes, we do! I am still waiting for a winner that allows me to share private details such as kid photos and contact information with select family members close friends. I want this data to be unavailable to anyone outside of my circle, including advertisers. Are there options available now that do this? Yes again, but I need a solution that I can get Grandma on board just as easily as my technically inclined brothers.
My problem with all these social networks is getting the family on board.
I'm still waiting for a mature product that I can be confident about sharing with them - G+ is there, but not really anything else. I don't want to get +20 people onto a site only to have it go "sorry, we're shutting down", or "yay, we've been acquired, sorry early adopters" in a year.
I've been burnt before, and I hate it when it happens.
In my opinion, to be truly confident that your data will be forever exclusive to yourself and people you choose is to pay for the service, to keep it running in the long run.
Otherwise, how is the service going to survive? They have to monetize somehow down the road to pay the bills.
How long are we going to be saying that grandmas are technologically illiterate?
RFC 3 is older (by a few months) than me - April 1969.
Bob Kahn and Vint Cerf are about 70. (That's old enough to be a great grand-parent.) Jon Postel was born in 1943. There are many old women who are Internet pioneers because they were librarians, and the Internet was something that got rolled out to university libraries early on.
The killer app for getting the elderly online and using computers/tablets/smartphones has been Skype, in my experience. Specifically, video chat. It's revolutionised communication with family who live far away. I suppose these days FaceTime would be equally appropriate. From there it's a slippery slope for most of them. The retired in my partner's and my family now spend more time playing video games than those of us in our 20s. (they simply have more time to spare)
I could see them picking up on something like this if they could overcome the trust barrier. Most 50+s I know don't trust Facebook and don't have an account there (I don't trust them either, but I'm in the minority in my age group).
I think that it is easy to confuse worth in terms of cultural value, historical value, and monetary value. Is Instagram worth more monetarily? Yes, in the realm of advertising, Instagrams user base is right smack in the center of the target demographic sought by many advertisers; the 12-30 crowds.
Historically and culturally speaking, I believe that the NYT offers far greater value. But, who wants to spend $1B on historical value?
