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Apple specifically forbids in-app payments for non-digital goods/services.
I did read your post. And I think that the Khan academy is doing wonderful things. Both by presenting content in novel ways and also at incredibly low cost. Thats great.

But you seem to be tossing the baby out with the bathwater when you suggest that we put all of the money back in the public's pockets instead of in government coffers. I don't have a problem paying to improve the average level of education. I am just against inefficiency and waste, which is why I suggested vouchers directly back to families.

I guess I would get less than what I put in but thats ok with me.
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I completely agree and would add one more point:

You may get tweeted by doing this but you might not like the tweets. I'd think a better solution would be to let the user tweet part-way or at the end of the video (but of course this may be harder). It's certainly easy to do where you control the player, but that's obviously not the case with YouTube.
nice job, very clean, works great.
We've been using a web/application server written in PHP for quite a while now: https://github.com/indeyets/appserver-in-php
"That means cutting the hardware price to the point where you're not making a profit but where your prices are at least competitive with Apple."

Microsoft has the funds to take a loss for a while (like the 360) and push Windows/Xbox Live Marketplace in place of the App Store. Since I doubt they'll release hardware on their own, I could see them subsidizing hardware partners when they try to enter the market.
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If it's coming from a source you trust.
Only 15 minutes for lunch with your girlfriend? I'll give you some feedback: if you'd like this relationship to last, she's going to need a little more time than that.

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The headline and tone of the article encourages blatant ageism. If we said "Best bet is to go for men" or "Best bet is to go for Caucasians" there would be an appropriately strong uproar. People should be judged on their capability, not the inevitable aspects of their identity.
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Why do you think major free e-mail providers still haven't made it easier for people to use BCC and cleaning up headers when forwarding trivial emails? I think it should even be the default mode.
Yes, but in the case of IBM mainframes, my grandmother (to use the oft-cited example) also doesn't have to deal with the inevitable issues that arise from this kind of rabid attachment to the idea of backward compatibility.

Granted, she also doesn't have to worry about whether or not her 12-year-old copy of freeware Whist software will work either.

Still, I think there is a big difference between a mainframe manufacturer taking on the burden and selling it to corporate customers and Microsoft forcing that burden onto millions of "normal" people

EDIT: Clarification in opening sentence.
Just installed it, and it doesn't even open.

I pretty much the exact same experience as the only review the app has as of right now ( the one star ). I like the idea, it's really cool but I have no way of trying it if it the executable won't even load...

I'm holding back on the one star review for now, but it really sucks buying something and it instantly not working.
Congrats on the launch!

Since I assume you wanted some feedback..

1. Have you looked into any of your competitors, such as iStat or MenuCalendarClock ? There are some things they do very well that may be worth learning from -- for example, I find it useful that MCC can replace the clock (so no menubar space is wasted), and is accessible using a global keyboard shortcut.

2. Why does 'Select Another Month' get it's own menu option.. isn't that what the arrows next to the month are for?

3. The design is elegant but I'd recommend taking a look again at MCC which conveys the same information but is somehow more than 2x as compact. For example, I personally don't value having a per-calendar event-count under the date if I can see my list of events right there.

4. Based on the first review on iTunes, there appears to be some sort of crashing bug... fix it ASAP, or risk the wrath of the iTunes rating mob :)

Looking forward to seeing the progress on this one!
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FYI. The contact link in the footer of homepage should have a "mailto:" before it.
PHP in general encourages a whole lot worse things than lazy development. If we've already agreed to overlook it's other shortcomings by saying "good developers matter, the programming language doesn't" then we can overlook this too.
And then you can spend far more than twenty hours a week hunting and gathering in online games. Plus ça change...
I genuinely wonder why companies can't get this right. I know Apple is good at what they do, but if you can't play in this game, why bother?

I understand, on one hand, if you're making a budget knock off at 2/3rd the price. Then the lack of polish is forgivable from a business standpoint - the price is your biggest mover.

But if you're competing with the iPad for top of the line why even bother? Why bother overpromising on battery, when the first reviews will prove that false. How does a corporation even assume they will have any success in the market with this type of strategy?
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I guess it would be reasonable to ask people pay the full $25 if they ever used a pirated copy of the software.
oh is that what was going on? I had no clue. I put in a search term (scientists) saw nothing and came to the comments section to kvetch.

So yeah... that needs to be clearer that the other images are behind the paywall. It was not clear to me.

And I would not sign-up till I saw what you had...
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The CBO includes corporate taxes as a tax on shareholders income. The shareholders don't actually pay this themselves and one can make a strong case that the cost of those taxes aren't entirely borne by shareholders.

Warren Buffet's tax rate is lower than his secretary's, and no one in the forbes 400 took him up on his challenge to show him that it's any different for them.
Yeah, but for computer technology, the last contribution of Mass General Hospital was MUMPS.
I guess they acquire more than I thought they did : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
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Just because you "don't have a problem paying" doesn't mean I should be forced to. Public school is not a choice; it's force. And, as we're all too familiar, it's quite often not a very good education, especially in lower income areas.

I have a child and there's no way I'm sending him to government school. I want him to learn everything he can get his hands on, not just what some bureaucrat decides he should learn. I don't want his education focused on passing tests that somehow measure a school's effectiveness; I want him focused on learning.

Vouchers are an admission that public school is broken and that competition is needed. The system is funded by force, not by the market. Instead, I propose that we stop trying to fix a broken system and instead replace it with one that works and isn't governed by politicians.
I will admit to being of the political persuasion that tends to keep me away from the Huffington Post most of the time, but when did the site become such a massive clutter of bloated ads, social media widgets, and meaningless navigation bars? Has it been like this for long? I haven't visited in a long time, but it shocked me how my poor little netbook almost froze under the strain.

The article, nonetheless, was very amusing (once you actually got to it, scrolling past tag clouds and crappy social media "tools").
Not completely true.

In MS-DOS you could terminate a program, but make 64K of its memory resident. And then you could program a time interrupt handler to wake it up and do stuff periodically.

That's how some viruses worked btw :-)
Thanks guys. Listen ... I had to pull this app's availability on the app store, because almost everyone is getting the following message:

"Calendar.app" is damaged and can't be opened. Delete "Calendar.app" and download it again from the App Store.

This is horrible. We could have made so much good with this app, it's #1 in the productivity category, but because of this one thing, it's going to get bad reviews. Now when we release it, I doubt it'll be number 1. SUCKS!!!! SO MUCH!!!

I'm not sure what is causing this bug. Can anyone help? I am going to email apple support tomorrow and try to get them to expedite an update as much as possible. Has anyone any idea what could be causing this? I could use all the help I can get right now.
How many people are willing to pay twice the price of regular cabs - it's not really something I'm interested in splurging for unless it's extremely inconvenient to get a cab where I am.
Memories indeed, I still have the 25 odd floppy disks needed to install windows 95!
I hate the argument of "Google is doing it too!" Just because someone else is behaving (what I would consider to be) badly doesn't make the behavior any less reprehensible.
I used to work in a shared space that was once a dance studio - high ceiling, polished timber boards, etc. A freelance copywriter who was in the mix used to have a cheap white gazebo around/over his desk space.

It was novel but tacky so I set to cutting a couple of gazebo threads each day with a scalpel to hasten its demise. He never noticed and ended up moving out before the thing collapsed.
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Please note: in most cases, you can claim foreign income tax as a credit against US income tax, which will probably totally eliminate any US tax liability.[1]

[1] I am neither a tax lawyer or an accountant, merely a retired working stiff.
AOL did buy them....
You're right, and to be honest I have little knowledge of staffing requirements for an elementary school. That said, I can't imagine that transitioning from staffing teachers to staffing childcare providers would not result in fewer staff and lower costs.

At the end of the day I just see things like the Khan Academy introducing a paradigm shift in education, allowing us to think about entirely new institutions for educating young children. The idea that we need to keep 19th century education styles in the 21st century is just mind boggling to me.
Have you checked out the crash reports in iTunesConnect? They are under [Your App] -> view details -> crash reports
This line has haunted me for years: "It's hard for someone to hold it against you when you miss a meeting because you've been at work so long that you've passed out from exhaustion."
My first computer was bought in '94, so a year before the Win 95 release.

I got it with MS-DOS 6.22, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and MS Works (forgot which version).
It's mostly all included in my comment. But Paul is simply a lesser evil. I'm a bit older than most founders - I remember the dotcom bubble. I watched the absurdity as vulture capital tore through many good developers in the late 1990's early 2000's. I've come to realize that anything that takes away from your iteration loop kills you.

The instant you take VC money (Paul's included) you now have a focus away from your customers towards inward interests. You have to worry about raising money, about the next round, about that meeting next week. Over time, customers stuffer. Right now Ycombinator is the darling of the "startup" scene, but my opinion is that the "startup" scene is a bad place to be for building a company. (Great place for a quick exit though! But the odds of that are poor.)

Whatever their intentions, VC money alters your fledgling company in a harmful way. A quick browse at all the news items on this site about "navigating VC world" and raising capital, and convincing VC's of X should be evidence enough. That time is better spent navigating product strategy, raising customers and selling product.
"it's really easy to underestimate impact"

And I bet the guy who made the video which inadvertently spawned this idea probably didn't imagine the impact it would have on another man's life.
There are no crash reports. I don't think the app even gets launched. It has something to do with the bundle maybe?

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This is the only clue I have.
I meant that you can put them in a place where they have no more domain knowledge than I do and they see meaningful connections between seemingly unconnected ideas that I miss. The people that I've met that are good at doing this are also highly creative (they appear to be related).
Ah, these kids today don't know anything - rest assured that Trumpet will never be forgotten, and I find it just flabbergasting to be able to say hi to you, and thanks.
XP and later has a built-in IPv6 stack, but I remember reading that Trumpet Winsock later provided IPv6 implementations for older versions of Windows for the few people still using them.
Donated. Thanks Peter. I had no idea that all of that mucking around trying to get things connected back then would lead to my career for the last 15 years and my own business for the last 13 years of that.
WePay doesn't work except in the US, which will do nought to get him money from outside the US, where he no doubt has fans to.

Besides if PayPal is that stupid, we can always post to reddit that PayPal is stealing the guys money. Should cause enough of a problem that they open it again.
My mom and dad don't know what a browser is. This is not fantasy or creative editing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4MwTvtyrUQ

If so, so many people don't know what a browser is, you can only image how smooth a distributed social network would have to be to work.

Bit torrent works because it's three steps: 1. Download a bit torrent client, 2. Search Pirate Bay, 3. Click on the torrent. Occasionally, you hear the failure mode: why won't this stupid thing download? The only people who say things like "More people need to seed this" are tech literate.
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I think they know that a lot of people will buy something based on specs alone. Many people will look at the numbers and believe they're getting something great, without realizing that the experience will be pretty lousy.

I'm certain the Android tablets will get better quickly, as the phones seem to be, but it obviously just isn't there yet. At this point it seems like Motorola wanted to capitalize on all the uninformed consumers, and those who don't want to buy an Apple product.
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Toorld? Too hard to pronounce and spell. But it seems like a great idea.
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I had this huge debate with regard to our vision of Google's future today. The question was whether Google should stay focused on developing its distinctive competence: being a superior search solution, and monetize through advertising, or whether it should branch into new ideas such as Checkout functions or even desktop products. Personally, I think it's crucial that Google to strike a balance between external acquisition and internal development for these reasons:

In terms of internal development, Google’s ultimate mission is to serve as a superior search function for people. So due to the saturation of the market in web search and consistency with company culture, I believe Google should leverage core tech to expand into niche search markets and strengthen additional platforms. More specifically, google should expand into niche search markets or industries where information needs to be more open and organized, for instance, the arts industry, the fashion industry, etc. In additionally, I believe small mobile devices will continue to grow in terms of user base, especially in emerging economies where more people could afford such devices. Therefore, creating applications that ties in with its platform should also be a part of Google’s platform development.

Externally, Google, by becoming or adopting the image of Microsoft has brought negative attention to many other high-growth companies, increasing hostility and competition from companies including Microsoft, Ebay, etc. To avoid multiple organizations joining hands to go up against the giant and hence, increasing costs like it has been in the past few years. Google needs to learn to adopt new market in a subtler manner. Instead of creating all functionalities explicitly under Google’s name, acquire small enterprises that serve similar functions and avoid too much publicity during the acquisition.

Item number 8 of Google's philosophy highlights the importance of going across borders. Neighboring Asian countries such as Japan (38.20% of market share), and South Korea (3% of market share) fancy locally flavored search engines such as Yahoo Japan over Google, seeing it as a form of “cultural imperialism”. In the end of the day, Google is user-based and a service product. Creating fear among users, in addition to competitors, weakens the potential growth of all other platform products it is developing. The solution to this ties in with the discrete acquisition suggestion- to create products that are culturally sensitive.

So instead of attempting to produce additional breakthrough products, I believe Google should keep in mind its core philosophies and focus in, with cultural sensitivity in mind, strengthening additional platforms and expanding into niche search market.
Wow!
This is a major move.
In a simultaneous attack on fb and linkedin.
The fight for the "profile" page is on.

It is like the internet revolution all over again, but for the masses. Most people with any sense in them already have a ~uname/ somewhere and //that// is their profile. But for "monsieur tout le monde" it is too complicated to order hosting and install wordpress on it.

This is why everyone absolutely //loves// facebook -- because suddenly they can heave their "own website". Sure its just a wall and mostly used for other people to spy on you, but you can spy on them too so isn't it a great deal?

This seems like a sure flop to me because it is essentially an escalation of rights from knowing my email address to knowing a bunch of other things about me. Not cool.

On a different note, it is funny to see Google try something and fail... we have gotten used to their superpower, maybe they are not so strong after all. Has the Goliath gotten slow?
I actually found it surprisingly entertaining.
I think you are massively over-inflating your 300M estimate. The typical usage of bit torrent is to leave it running 24-7 to download the 300 torrents you've got queued. I would bet it is is far lower than 5-10 times and I really doubt it has tripled since 2008.
I definitely sympathize with you.

What about payroll taxes in Australia? Are there any (and if so, how much?). Federal income taxes aren't the last of my withholdings... There are California state taxes, medicare taxes, and Social Security taxes (even though we are all aware that the last isn't going to last).
I thought "That’s all we know." is cute because this is probably the only moment in Google's history to admit not being able to find/ know the reason why as a superpower search engine! =)
I think it was in Simon the Sorcerer: a hotkey that highlighted all clickable objects.
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I don't entirely understand. You've already filled out the prior IP form, right? I take it they're asking you to fill out a new one? But you have your copy of the original one that they signed, don't you?

IANAL, but I think you should just quit. This is not ethical behavior on their part. If you go along with what they're asking, you're essentially abandoning your IP rights, in exchange for nothing but continued employment. I wouldn't want to work anywhere that even asked me to do that.

Yes you can and should consult an attorney, but if the situation turns adversarial, you might as well quit.

IP-related conflicts of interest are a real problem for anyone with entrepreneurial aspirations who nonetheless needs to take a traditional employment position. I think the best policy is to avoid working for companies whose businesses have much overlap with one's own plans (I have done this on occasion myself).

Yes, that probably means taking a less interesting job, possibly even making less money, while you work on your project on the side.

The suggestion someone made to sell your IP to a holding firm is a very interesting one, but I don't understand the implications. That company will somehow need to defend its IP rights at some point -- at least, the way this is going, that outcome seems likely -- and I don't know how it's going to do that, unless you can get a patent filed in a couple of weeks. Even then, to litigate a patent you need money.

It's more than possible I'm missing something, so maybe you should look into that option, but my initial reaction is not too optimistic.
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Less likely for a sudden burst of activity to result in a frozen account?
Feel free to contact me by email if you like. I'm not sure I can be much help, but I am curious to know how this turns out.
> I think they know that a lot of people will buy something based on specs alone.

Really? I don't know anyone besides geeks and neo-philiacs (ie, folks like me) that behave that way.

Most folks (ie, the mass-market) treat tech like they'd treat appliances or cars or other stuff they don't fully understand. They ask folks who do know, visit review sites, and play with what's on the showroom floors.

When there is a large contingent of these that infer that the iPad is the best, the mass market buys it (as sales numbers show).
Email is just as much a strawman. Compare how simple email is to all of the features Facebook provides (and don't forget your ability to click on your cows in Farmville).

You say there are no technical reasons why it can't work. That is very akin to the "You can do anything, it's just a simple matter of coding." The reality is that some problems become intractable due to their complexity. Distributed social network may not be intractable (Diaspora will probably figure that out), but it's a hell of a lot harder than email.