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I just heard on the radio this morning that the excavators for the expanded London Underground are finding incredible artifacts while digging the new tunnels. Fascinating stuff!

http://www.npr.org/2014/12/23/372623549/we-go-underground-to...


The article reports that they found skeletons and coins. Why is it hard to believe that human remains and coins were found under a city where millions of people have lived and died? I think these findings are highly credible.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04b7cbj

This series is excellent and covers a lot of this stuff.


Agreed.

I'd guess that the wired version is just for the beta. When it's released, I'm sure a wireless option will be available.


A front end developer is someone that builds the interface. Designers are becoming programmers more and more nowadays, but it used to be that the designer drew out an interface and the developer built it.

Here's a good article about it, as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front_and_back_ends


I'm not sure this is a good thing for code quality and thus app quality.


You have to hit the "pin" icon on the playlist, I believe.


I'm not wondering how to download songs for offline playing. I'm wondering how to toggle/filter so I can only see the offline content.

After reading through https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/1250232?hl=en-G... I do not think the iOS version has this functionality right now.


This is a good start, but the guide is actually really old - the copyright is from 2010.

Some of this stuff is no longer valid.


We wrote the guide to be pretty evergreen. If there's anything you see that's out of date, just mention it and we'll look into updating it.


In the section about 'alt' tags, "If a user is viewing your site on a browser that doesn't support images" sounds like something coming from a very old text. I wonder if that's still relevant for anyone. The second part of the sentence (screenreaders) taught me something, though!


Blind people still use browsers like this, it's a 508 compliant standard if nothing else.


Matt, here's a few things: - on page 4 you might mention that Google may change your title tag on the search results. - on page 8, you might mention case sensitive URLs (can cause dupe content if not used consistently) and the use of hyphens vs underscores in URLs. - on page 15, I would updated the heading "Create content primarily for your users, not search engines" so it takes out the word 'primarily'. - Page 18, would it be helpful for users to add location and tags, titles, in EXIF data in images? - Page 21, I would mention specifying xml sitemap location in robots.txt file.


This seems out of date: "Google AdWords provides a handy Keyword Tool".

You'll end up on a page explaining Keyword Planner has replaced Keyword Tool. To access the tool I must sign in to my AdWords account.


So you have to sign into your free Google AdWords account to use a feature of Google AdWords? The link still works and even explains what has changed in significant detail.


Why is it on a user content domain?


Google is pretty paranoid about hosting things under google.com unless they absolutely have to be there, since user authentication cookies are the holy grail for malware or other attacks. The published papers from research.google.com are linked off the same static.googleusercontent.com site, for example.


I think Google knows more about how Google works than whatever SEO source you're trusting does...


uhm, ok? How does that help me, if I want my site to rank higher for a particular term?


Follow the guidelines in the document? It's not rocket science and unlike most SEO guides it's not filled with voodoo.


do you know of a more recent resource?



I'm a big fan of Kim's concept work and read his blog regularly, as I think that his insight and designs are top notch.

That said, it'll be very interesting to see how his talent will be used. I wonder if it will just be industrial/hardware design or if he'll be designing UI's. I think that he's better suited for the former.


They just added it in the last hour or so.


Technically you could just run a standard LAMP stack since it's running an ARM-compatible version of Ubuntu. It just won't take advantage of the multiple processors.


And web server that would take advantage of the multiple cores?


it will apparently ship with erlang or be erlang-capable, so it's entirely possible that you could put the high performance cowboy web framework on the device.


I think that this is a great idea and it kind of reminds me of http://usesold.com/ with an expanded scope. I'm constantly packing up things into bags for AMVETS, but having a box sent to me that automatically gets picked up would be awesome.


This looks pretty sweet!

Just one question:

Was there any particular reason for the limiting of color schemes? Why not just show the user a color wheel and let them choose whatever they want?


No particular reason. Mostly just time, I want to get a color picker like that in there someday.


Ah, got it. Looks great! Looking forward to the next version update.


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