What's the problem with a 0-10 mm ruler? I would clip that onto a keychain and use it to check gaps and alignments. In fact, I may steal this design and start 3D printing them for profit.
And in the spirit of the Uncomfortable Ruler, this has the same frustrating design flaw: the scale doesn't start in the corner so you can't butt it up against something and use it like a depth gauge!
Eh, this looks like most academic personal pages, heavy or lightweight. Some promo of their books, minimal content and links to papers or presentations that are at least 2 years behind the current year (whatever the current year is).
Was out of it before the later developments presented this article (was maybe out of it when the author of the article was a baby :/) but most of it seems true, though I don't think I ever had any illusions about it being in any way a useful investigation of the topics.
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High school debate today is basically an intellectual game, not an exercise in truth-seeking.
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Was kind of the point. If I learned any "truths" it was about myself and the other weirdos on my team as people, not, Russian foreign relations or education or whatever the other topics were but that seems pretty valuable as well.
There are some projects to start bring FOSS ideas/ideals to building system controls and decision making like this, but I think there are significant difficulties in the variety of proprietary systems and reluctance to change due to capital costs and/or maintenance contracts.
Importing spreadsheets with column headings and data rows is bad enough - my biggest struggle is with spreadsheets used as fillable forms. I've spent tons of time working on generalizable tools for extracting this kind of semi-structured data but in the end each group of files requires a lot of custom work.
One cause of this seems to me to be that most things that people would want to show off (and then possible get smacked down for) have a high enough level of complexity that they can be hard to quickly and constructively criticize by someone outside of the process of making the thing.
Rather than try to seek out the good work that someone has done many levels deep in their code - a time consuming process that might depend on an intimate knowledge of the application, its requirements and the processes of those who made it - it's way easier to find a flaw (usually a flaw that you know is flaw because you've made the same mistake) and point that out. Or, rather than a real discussion of what assumptions the creator made and how they may have led to a less-than-ideal solution to a problem it's way easier to say 'wrong, next.'
Really serious review and criticism is great but it depends on a lot of effort in building context to make it useful for all the people involved.
Since the company has been acquired what are the plans for the service? http://labs.mitro.co/ says that "The service will continue to operate as-is for the foreseeable future." but there is a lot of ambiguity in 'forseeable.'
While I really appreciate the value of having the client and server code open sourced I don't want to run my own server nor do I want to sign up for a service that, with the changes that will likely happen after the acquisition, could disappear without a lot of warning.
"Mitro has committed to funding continued operations of its servers until at least the end of 2014. If their code proves to be secure and popular with the community, we will be advising them on how to create a sustainable home for that infrastructure.". Erh. Yes, so I'll be staying on KeePass, strategically "cloud" backupped in encrypted form to my email address (also, yes, this does not solve Android integration..etc. so suggestions are welcome!)
I recently started using KeePass2Android [1] instead of KeePassDroid. It has some features I really like, like cloudstorage integration with Google Drive, Dropbox and more.
I really, really love KeePass2AndroidOffline. The app itself needs no permissions except the ability to read a file from the phone's local storage. Using OwnCloud's app and the "keep a file up to date" feature, I have my KeePass file synced to my various computers and my phone. Plus, KP2A has the "type this password for me" keyboard instead of relying on copy/paste. I didn't realize until I read the docs for another project, the clipboard is an API that can be hooked by other apps to see what's on the clipboard. It makes obvious sense but I never thought about it.
The best thing would be if they would release the server software. That way you could run the software yourself and be totally independent. If that happens, I'm totally on board. Now I'm still on the fence between this and LastPass
