Incidentally, I came upon this restaurant site. Now that is a restaurant site done right: http://www.porte-sainte-claire.com/#home

Make sure you wget :)

good idea!

If you read carefully, I think that email was sent after they were supposed to meet at the coffee shop.

  After the five reviews, Aaron asked for my phone number
  and said he’d call me the next day with a meeting place. 
  It has now been three days and I have yet to hear from 
  him. He’s also stopped responding to my emails, including 
  one in which I asked him, “Is this really a scam?” Which 
  means, obviously, I’ve been duped.

I think you're right, the email looks like it was sent after the intended meeting time.

I still think that a waiting time and a 'missed' appointment could've been a part of the scam. After all, when you've been on hold with customer service for 10 minutes, do you really want to hang up at that point?

10 minutes? What planet do you live in and how much is the rent for a one bedroom? :) If I wait 10 minutes I consider myself lucky, usually more like 30.

It's easy to make claims about branches of history that never occurred. It seems like an absurd scenario where computers weren't widely adopted, but it's not really so absurd if you think about it.

I wonder why they are not offering ogg vorbis support. Is it just not as popular? Are the files typically larger? Either way, it's a glaring omission imo.

I'm not an expert, but I've been doing a little research on audio file compression to cut down on Amazon S3 charges for a personal site I have up that suddenly got a fair amount of traffic. The way I understand it, ogg vorbis files actually compress better than mp3s, so they're better on a quality/size ratio. A 3MB ogg file will generally sound better than a 3MB mp3 file.

I think the reason Amazon might not be supporting them is that not all browsers can play them natively — specifically, Safari needs a plug-in to play them. So, for my site, which is using jPlayer, I have to compress all the files as .oga and .mp3, then set up the mp3s as a fallback so Safari will stream them.

Almost no one uses Ogg, not a very glaring omission in my opinion. Amazon sells MP3s. Apple sells AACs. No one with any market share sells Ogg files.

This doesn't apply here but it is interesting: there is one major player making heavy use of ogg, and that is spotify. All their streaming is done in ogg.

AFAIK all games sound and music have been in ogg format for ages.

And none of that would be in Amazon Music... Again, no one with any serious market share sells music in Ogg.

The amount of music sold in file format is totally dwarved by the amount sold on CDs. For a while I used to rip to ogg, I'm probably not the only one.

My assumption is that this is a strategic move against Apple and ipod/iphone doesn't support ogg, so it doesn't come into play. Just a guess.

Agreed. The author has way too much time on his hands.

I wouldn't say it is a waste of time to read, but the author does seem to complain about a lot of things that just don't matter to most people.

I _have_ been unemployed for a week.

Submit your resume to the Chrome team, then you can fix all this stuff. :)

Hahaha this post is a troll.

There's a reason why the expression "feeding" the trolls is popular. Trolls only exist if you let them.

I will argue that simple text editor does not usually equal simple + powerful. Most "simple" text editors (think Notepad) are just plain simple.

Emacs seems quite simple to me, actually. Intimidating at first, sure. Complex to master, but simple to use.

Then again, there's an obvious difference between something that is difficult to learn and something that is difficult to use. In fact most tools require training at first to use them, and Emacs is not any different.

The above goes for me as well. You might not have meant for it to be that way, but you just happened to use a pattern of sentences used by people with hidden criticism quite frequently.

Now I'm really worried. My comment received 36 upvotes. How many were from people who (a) think think that Lisp and Emacs users are brain-damaged and (b) Upvote what they perceive as an insult as a kind of social bullying rather than to signal a contribution to the discussion?

I upvoted it because I found myself agreeing that the arguments for both are kind of similar, whether those arguments are correct or not on their own merits aside.

Probably quite a few.