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I think you're missing the perfectly plausible use case where the user has used the Dropbox send link feature. Note that a third party will now have the second party's email address without Dropbo…

Yup. I used to do this with a personal domain. After a while I realized that the spam folder was filling up faster than I could manually empty it!

"they've certainly got a problem" If you mean they should sort out their forum moderation policies then I agree. If you mean that this must be a technical problem on their part then I disagree. A 3r…

Entirely possible. The moderator's handling of this issue was pitifully bad but the assumption that Dropbox MUST be at fault here is ridiculous.

That's Heal's department store on Tottenham Court Road. So neither, it's just a display of wares for sale.

Presumably some of those correspond with the start of funding cycles.

The obvious difference is that those companies are not funded out of a regressive tax (technically a license but nobody's fooled by that).

"Where is outline mode?" The bug's still open: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38262 Grandfathered in from: https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959 It seems crazy to me tha…

If Facebook had auto-liked a post on your behalf would you be annoyed? If so why? If Facebook creates the appearance that this has happened are you annoyed? If not why not? Suppose the latter was inte…

There's a big difference between what Facebook could argue and what Facebook's actual intentions are. I'm very skeptical that this was accidental. Even if it was, it looks intentional: users don…

The suspicion - and I think it's a reasonable one - is that the confusion is completely intentional. In which case it really is as bad as it seems. Why they don't just make the search facilities work …

If the difference is real (I've not seen it) then perhaps it's a result of more users becoming aware of the option to disable "Pair my social actions with adverts" via settings: http://www.facebook.c…

It's tiresome but it's also legitimate given the (ab)use of the word. If unchallenged it becomes accepted usage. Much as it is tiresome but legitimate for trademark holders to challenge misuse of thei…

Good consternoon affable. No, I thought this speedo was in KPH.

I used to think in stone. But I don't need to know my weight very often and when I do it's usually for ski bindings at european resorts - so now I find myself thinking in kilograms. The only non-metri…

Stephen Fry has an interesting anecdote about receiving compliments here: http://www.stephenfry.com/2007/09/27/let-fame/single-page/ …

Just as an entertaining aside - the British Airways registration page currently includes Viscountess amongst other titles. Even so it's relatively limited - in its early days it contained a bizarre li…

"Europe" can mean a number of different things depending upon the subject under discussion and which particular European one happens to be talking to. Which just reinforces the point that generalizing…

The Hodges biography of Turing has lots of in-passing mention of fascinating technology like this. I think my favourite was the use of a CRT as a memory array (by picking up the charge on the fluoresc…

Anecdatapoint: I've seen a handful of people post this link on Facebook. All of them are promoting something. So far I've seen no other users post it. FB's job is to keep the average user (who won't p…

Jobs had a reputation for killing products at late stages - after lots of money had been committed. Traditional big companies aren't good at that for reasons that I won't examine. If that reputation w…

Until relatively recently two collapsible opera hats were maintained for the use of members who wished to raise a point of order. I think even the Reverend Dogson might have considered that a little p…

I've found Santander to be absolutely ghastly as soon as any exceptions to their core process occur. Anecdotal, but in my opinion you're probably better off avoiding them anyway.

Popular and successful are not the same thing. I could go through and dispute his points one by one in traditional internet style but to do so would be to miss the fundamental difference in viewpoint.…

That was a very interesting read, thanks. Unless it's already been on HN why not submit it as a main article?

A sign of respect for your reader with a bonus that the reader will think you smarter as a result: http://web.princeton.edu/sites/opplab/papers/Opp%20Consequen... …

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"...if you’re a knowledgeable and experienced designer ... then you can solve this problem through design analysis [as opposed to user testing]" But if you're an empirical scientist you will use user …