Just finished with a conference where the name badge had holes on both ends of the top edge of the badge. The lanyard part went through both. This doesn't completely stop the "flipping around" problem but does mitigate it.
I sent a link to my friends who play fantasy football to see if the stats were of use to them.
One thing I can say is that I love the attention to detail you put in the slider thumb labels. Especially for those where the labels would collide and you merge them into a single label showing an interval.
To be notified when someone replies to me I use Notifo (http://notifo.com/) and put my Notifo username in my HN profile. I don't think you need a mobile device to use Notifo, you can install a desktop app that provides notifications when you get a reply. http://notifo.com/desktop
I think I'd prefer a desktop app over email. I don't get a lot of replies here, largely due to my infrequent commenting, but I'd hate to randomly hit upon a popular comment and be flooded with 20 emails while I'm out.
Like the concept, reminds me of QuickWrite. However, I am skeptical of claims that text could be entered without viewing. At a minimum it seems that viewing would be required to target the center circle. Maybe this could be solved by "re-centering" the entire input space based on initial touch.
The input surface could be marked so that the finger feels what is the home center and where the quadrant boundaries are. The marking could be done with ridges or indentations on the surface, or by vibrations or even sound.
Sure thing. That is another way to hone in on the center. Some sort of tactile gravity well implementation. I think that if 5-ways on candy bar phones were actually joysticks instead of 5 buttons this may work better. And it could definitely work on devices with mini-trackballs.
I've been wanting to see proper support of combinations of column-height, column-width and column-span for a long time. I would definitely be a user of a library if it could give me these features.
Looking at http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-multicol/#spanning-columns it seems to me column-span is implemented exactly like the site in question, i.e. wrong from the point of view of existing behaviour (that behaviour being all the printed magazines and newspapers since we worked out how to mix text and images.)
Google plans to employ 50-60 people to run the data center. So far they have found four, so they have some head hunting to do.
Google Maps says Hamina is a 2 hour drive from Helsinki, can any Finns comment on if this is an accurate time? Or is it one of those 6 months of the year the roads are dead sort of thing?
Yeah It's almost 2 hours 15 minutes drive from Helsinki but driving is the only option to reach Hamina. There is no rail system connecting Hamina (there was one, no longer operational).
I have been closely following the news about this particular datacenter and it really is strange that Google hasn't found enough engineers for the job there. I have been seeing the ads for the jobs at Hamina datacentre since last one year or so.
I've only been to Hamina once (nice harbour BTW) but I don't recall if there was a university or technical college there. I'd have thought Helsinki/Espoo, Tampere or Oulu would have been better for communications and near to recruitment grounds.
You are right. Helsinki/Espoo, Tampere or Oulu would have been far better choices from the point of recruitment but this is a large piece of land and probably Google didn't want to let it go.
Besides they must have thought the name Google is enough to get smart people where ever they want.
I assume they are getting a big chunk of local/national/eu grants to support the depressed area and a quick pass on building/environmental permits which you wouldn't get for building it in the capital.
Plus as the article says - this is really the St. Petersburg/Stalingrad/Leningrad data center without the political problems of having to keep renaming it.
There's a data center in Lenoir, NC which they spun as a way of training and employing laid-off furniture / textile mill workers. The fact that this is in a paper mill shut down two years ago makes me think they would try to do something similar.
Same here, except using Notifo.