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Had a really interesting discussion group yesterday with the CEO (several billion a year revenue company) about the difference in attitude to planning and fear of failure in the English-speaking world versus Germany.

In English, if I want to get two things done, I aim for 5, hit three, and happily fail humiliatingly on my other two goals. In Germany, 'a plan is a promise', and anything you publically disclose absolutely must be completed.
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I hate #newtwitter more than anyone, but I disagree with the logic that just because people don't like it, it's neccesarily a bad move - lot's of people don't like change.

I've seen it a couple of times on big community websites when people complained about a new design, and then a week later realised that just because it started off not feeling like the site they grew to love, it didn't mean it wasn't a huge improvement.

They key is that, after you force users to switch, it has to be good enough that they realise you were acting in their best interests - if you force them to switch to something that really is much worse, that's when it becomes a problem.

I was wondering: if someone used the Twitter API to create basically a clone of the original site, would that be against the Ts & Cs, and if not could this be got around somehow. For example if someone made it and open sourced it, I could host it myself with my own API key, and without marketing it anyone other than myself and my friends Twitter wouldn't know or care?
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"they'd be pumping money into ITER"

Isn't the EU paying for 4/11ths of ITER? I hope the UK is paying our fair share of that.
I think the mobile search is more reliable/goes back further also.
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Browsing your site, I would kind of suggest that if you got an email address after clicking on pricing & plans (ie they clicked on 1 plan) then that'd be a worthwhile number. The pricing and plans page by itself I would argue is rather meaningless when you have 2 apparent pages of content.

I'm not saying there's not demand; I'm just saying your pricing page CTR doesn't mean exactly what you think it means. There's no FAQ I could have gone to or an about; just 2 offsite links and the pricing page.
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>>if every car manufacturer would have to come up with a new user interface for the basics of the vehicle, if having front, rear and side windows would somehow be considered something that you could have the rights to.

120 years ago, it might have been...

Also, xPads before Apple looked different. The same with phones compared to iPhone.

The good part is that Samsung might start hiring designers and get ambitions in that area, too.

Disclaimer: I just bought a Ubuntu laptop instead of a Mac, but might buy another Mac next time. (And I love my iPad.)
Non-English speaking Europe generally has the civil law system as opposed to common law and doesn't use precedents except in the most ambiguous cases where precedent can be used as guidance for interpreting the law. Precedent alone cannot be used to make a decision and it cannot contradict the law. Judges also have much less freedom in their interpretations of the law.
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Just like you get a MRI, not an NMR imaging - I read in few places that it got renamed to get rid of the "Nuclear" word, because it scared people.
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Seems like a lot of visual clutter to me (tried having it as background on a monitor running 1366x768, not pretty usable for me)

Many might find http://www.qitty.net/lnx/vim-cheatsheet.png helpful too.
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Do you think that BMW wouldn't sue Volvo if they built a car that looked identical on the outside, regardless of what's on the inside?

Brands each have a signature look. Sure, when there are frivolous patents that are a poison on the industry, but this is about whether Samsung crossed the line in how deceptively close their tabs look to an iPad. The German court seems to think they did. And I bet they did more analysis than most of us.
This is the mobile site. It has always been here. There is even a link on the Home page(though not directly)
Just a quick note (IANAL, but I live in Germany): A district court is a rather low court ("Landgericht" in german, "Amtsgericht" would be lower, but they don't handle such cases). Samsungs next step probably will be to appeal this case at the "Oberlandesgericht". If they also loose there they can appeal the case at the BGH ("Bundesgerichtshof"), which is the highest german court for such court cases (the "Bundesverfassungsgericht" would be a higher court, but only handles matters of constitution). BGH decisions are usually final (ignoring appeals to EU courts).

So, long story short: This is a problem for Samsung, but at the moment nothing is "permanent".
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thin device with a touchscreen is not a concept invented by apple. neither is thin device with a touchscreen that has rounded corners.
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Try this: just look at the side of a bunch of cars, if you can tell them apart you've got a better eye for this than I do, but ever since the 'windtunnel' took over as a designer I am having a harder and harder time telling cars apart. Plenty of brands have caught on to this and actually share 90%+ of the basic design of the car and concentrate on the interior to differentiate the brands. The biggest difference on the outside is the logo on the hood.

Once physics and usability enter in to the design process the constraints can be such that there will be fewer and fewer options and room to play without impacting those in a negative way.

Design is always a compromise. By going for a minimalist design you remove all of that room so any minimalist design for a device will likely be very much like every other minimalist design.
I find it strange that they didn't decide to do it first for Android, and it's coming so late. They did it first for iOS and then got rejected.
What is the underlying tech? Can you talk about your listening and topic modeling algos?
I'm sure plenty do, but satisfied people don't complain, so you never hear from them.

Frankly, I don't use Twitter enough to be affected by their UI in general, but I strongly dislike the URL hacks. I think websites should stick to real URLs, and only use Javascript page changes if the new History methods are available.
What's the impact on patent validity due to prior art or obviousness?

The main problem many have with the system is the large number of spurious filings (the patent on toast filed in the last decade, for one). I don't see how attaching premium benefits to filing could possibly improve that situation.

Greater efficiency is grand. The fairness between two competing inventors is situational, seems like lateral movement at best.

As to the flood of obvious patents crushing innovation? Three steps back.

Until I hear more details on the impact to patent review, I'm underwhelmed.
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"Hint: if people stick to your old interface rather than to migrate to the new and shiny one then they probably have their reasons. Forcing them is not going to make them happy."

This leads to a dangerous line of thinking. There will always be a group of users who are resistant to change, and during a time of change they will be most vocal. If you listen to them you'll stagnate -- which is almost always the kiss-of-death for a company like Twitter. To be innovative you have to take risks and that includes the risk of angering certain people.
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This is fantastic! My wife has celiac. The geolocation failed for me, though - maybe add a search by zip or browse by state feature?
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Protect IP Act passed today, I believe, which is a real bummer for actual patent reform that will promote innovation, since the system was just shifted from a 'first to invent' to a 'first to file,' supporting patent farming/fencing and litigation. Bummer :(
Is there any positive at all that can be taken from this?

No.
I have been there a couple of times and attended a lot of great talks.

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Slower+buggy is not an improvement.

I can't count the number of times that the new interface has reported 'twitter is over capacity', 'you have already tweeted that' (when it wasn't true) and a whole pile of other errors, if it worked at all. Page load times of several minutes on a 10 Mbit connection on a very fast machine are ridiculous.

Of course you have to 'take risks to innovate'. But rolling out buggy and slow software is not innovation, especially not when it breaks web conventions (take a look at the new urls).
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Startups are generally told that popularity is a nice problem to have. Further it sounds like you're over-scaling before you release it. I have no idea what you're releasing though.

If you wanted to look at monetisation opportunities, even if it'll cost a lot of money, you need to say what you offer. Then people can say what you can sell. eg Allow people to do 10 images. Want to do more than 10 a day? Premium account! But how do you define a price?

Recommended material to read about: Marketing, monetisation and something about releasing often (self-educational?)
No, it wasn't the ads. Digg aways had ads. The problem was that the community felt more and more pushed out the door. And it wasn't just thet there was an RSS importer, it was that digg was replaced a website built around a community with a website that was _nothing but_ an RSS reader. There was an understanding in the community that the new digg was going to be about allowing content creators to advertize, not the previous submission/voting system (which was already skewed to the userbase's tolerance limits).

In short it was not the advertising content alone, but that the advertising content replacing real content in a drive to monetize. That is exactly the kind of thing twitter is doing.

Here is an open letter from Ohanian to Rose where he blames the downfall of digg on the VC meddling. http://alexisohanian.com/an-open-letter-to-kevin-rose
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I really am curious as to why the new interface works so absurdly badly.

It's not even a question of being a bit slow, the thing uses constantly 90% of my cpu (I'm using a low end netbook), which makes it technically unusable, and it's not like it does that much work. Hell, it just print a timeline.

The only thing missing from the mobile interface is a basic auto-refresh function.
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I do political coordinating for Startup Visa. Anything with 'visa' = immigration, which is a whole other can of (political) worms. The White House/OSTP is certainly aware of Startup Visa and understands how important it is to the tech community, as they've mentioned the policy during the Facebook and Twitter town halls, as well as the President's El Paso immigration speech. However, few in the political world have made the connection between startup visa and jobs.

In their defense, I just finished up some first order analysis, based on the Startup Genome report. Startup Visa as is currently proposed in the S. 565/H.R. 1114—supported by folks like pg and Brad Feld—would create about 15,000 jobs and nearly $1B in revenue during the first two years. To contrast this with the macroeconomic situation, the US needs to create 125,000 jobs each month to keep up with population growth. Now if someone can get me an economic multiplier number, reflecting the fact that tech companies like Facebook are highly leveraged in terms of the economic impact:jobs creation ratio, that'd be a different fish on Capitol Hill...

Assumptions: cap of '10,000-X' visas, based on the number of unused visas in the EB-5 Investor Visa that would be made available as Startup Visas; no more than 4000 EB-5 visas have ever been granted in a single year to date; 5000 Startup Visas is a reasonable first-order guess

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I'm looking for help for anyone interested in advancing Startup Visa on Capitol Hill, so drop me a message: http://www.quora.com/Craig-Montuori

Also, if anyone's interested, there's a call tomorrow hosted by the White House on the 'America Jobs Act':
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I'm far from a new VIMer and this scares me. While it contains a great deal of information, the noise level feels pretty high when I try to dig into it.
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Please let me know what you think and any ideas on building a community.

I was thinking of maybe offering a $20 weekly prize (same concept used by australian wesbite OZbargain.com.au in early days) for the highest voted deal of the week.
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I don't really see why Linux should have a separate category at the top. Doesn't really fit the line of Business / Gadgets / Programming. Maybe add a category for UX/Design? Or maybe a category focused on startups?

Overall, awesome project. Keeping an eye on it!
Its sad they have to do this to monetize. But they wanted to build a centralized platform, not a distributed service.

A single point of congestion on the Internet so that they could retain their control, and now they're paying for it. They could have just been a federation provider, and one of many equal-level service providers. It would have scaled much, much, much better while offloading costs onto others.

Oh well. Thats where we are on the Internet today. Its all about the control a signal, centralized, web-centric offering gives rather than the service it provides to the users.
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It's so slow it's almost hilarious. It took it 8 hours to print an ASCII mandlebrot fractal frame, NO KIDDING.
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Its not so much about proving yourself honest as proving yourself competent and skilled enough to deal with potentially disastrous (read: bankrupting) problems. If this site didn't deal with money (and potentially a LOT of money), my attitude would be very positive. The site looks very slick and well made.

Its also not really about your age either - but age is a simple indicator of experience, even if inaccurate.

I like your attitude though and wish you all the best.
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Thanks very much for the praise!

However, unfortunately I don't think emergency use when data services aren't up is a legit use case, since webpages are sent from my server to your phone via MMS and I think MMSes are downloaded via a data connection.
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I'm starting to think "the right tool for the right job" is one of those 50s advertising things that was pushed by the tools industry. Like smoking making women look independent.
I prefer to think of the commands being organized conceptually, not by location. Something like this: http://fprintf.net/vimCheatSheet.html

So, if you are just starting out, learn the basic command(s) for doing each thing. Then, as you do it over and over, you'll begin to wonder how to do it easier. That's where the more advanced commands come in.

I do have printed cheat sheets that I occasionally will look at and say "oh, cool, that looks really convenient." But I'm not aiming for total mastery- just efficient use.
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"It seems perfectly reasonable to me to respond to this by pointing out that upper-band tax rates have been distinctly higher in the past, and that innovation and wealth creation have done just fine when they were."

In the olden days the top tax rates were incredibly high (90%), but you didn't actually pay that; you had a ton of deductions to lower you actual paid rate.

Forgetting that argument for a second, was there an opportunity cost that doesn't exist today? With those periods of innovation and wealth creation, did they only happen because we were the "best" location at the time? As in, it didn't matter what the rates were because the US was the best place given the infrastructure you require. Now you can go to many places on the globe and get the same stuff done. Wouldn't that imply that the US has to become more competitive in order to promote growth, and part of that competitiveness (the variables we can manipulate) would be lowering marginal income taxes.
How does that impact functionality?
nice argument, although a little manipulative and misleading. maybe one could fool the german court with this. but of course these were not the only tablets before ipad.

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remove the physical keyboard and replace it with a soft keyboard provided by the os. voila! you've got an ipad!

by the way did you know hp's iPaq precedes iPad? aren't these two names are dangerously similar? they both have rounded corners.
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And Apple takes another PR hit. It's like they want us to hate them.

Like the article posted here the other day said "I want a MacBook Air not made by Apple". I think the Macbook Air looks sexy, but no way I'm funnelling money into an organisation this hellbent on taking away my choices.

Here's hoping Apple and it's power-crazy, trigger-happy lawyers are a short-lived phenomenon which goes away when people stop buying their products as a protest.
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