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Yes, for the love of god yes

If HTC (or someone) would make a line of phones that offered vanilla Android, OTA updates within 30 days of google releasing them, and a two year update guarantee, I think they'd find themselves selling a a lot of phones. Compete on hardware and service and sell skins as a premium upgrade if you really want to be in that market

Building a UI just to have a brand is just fail
Well I for one care about the treatment of other living creatures especially when weighed against what is essentially a luxury product.

If you're really concerned about the living conditions, you'd want more expensive, better quality milk.

I think we'd be better of, as a first step, ending subsidies to dairy farmers and enforcing some basic health and humane regulations. I mean, there are many dairy farms where discarded chicken meat and feces are fed to dairy cows.
Here's a story about a guy feeding doughnuts and cookies.
http://www.cheeseslave.com/farmer-feeds-doughnuts-and-cookie...
Cows have very specialized digestive systems meant for processing grass. Even if we grant that cow's milk is a good thing for us to have, certainly it doesn't apply with diets like that.
wonder if this will lead to more focus on WP?

i mean, Android just looks like an incredibly crowded market and it seems even if you put out a great device (One X) it's hard to compete.

in this context i think, despite all the criticisms, Nokia was probably better-off going with WP, despite all the challenges
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But in all seriousness, the design looks really great. It's reminiscent of path, but that's a good thing. It seems like Evernote would be one of your main competitors, but luckily your application has a much more casual user friendly design.
If they do get subpoenaed and it turns out I am right, I'm going to buy myself a beer. ;)
Love the addition of printed reports (revenue!) but this seems (quite literally looks) like Path in terms of the layout. Given that you are pulling from other networks and adding other improvements on Path's model, why not change up the look a bit to differentiate?
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By 'mobile', do you mean iOS only?
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Saying "we almost lost Atlantis" only confirms the point that they could have mitigated the foam lost before Columbia, and they could have fixed the O-Rings before Challenger. Not investigating those incidents properly, is a human factors failure.

I do agree that design decisions like side-by-side staging of SRBs wasn't the safest choice. Safer abort scenarios is definitely a feature of Dragon.
Beautiful! Well done! Hopefully, it will be a good replacement for paper journal. Would greatly look forward to the iPad release!
Arguably, Anonymous acts like a military with Valve-style management as well.
HTC is dead in the water. They don't control any part of the supply chain (like samsung) and don't have an ecosystem to monetize (like amazon, apple). HTC is not going to survive another two years in a market where these devices are becoming more and more commoditized.
I wrote a similar thing for Virginia Tech for private use. I definitely considered monetizing it but in the end I didn't.

Good luck.

But I think you're going about this all wrong. If you actually wanted to resolve this situation, you should have requested a meeting with the university provost or president and explained your service one-on-one -- with humility. I doubt they were trying to screw you over 'just because'.

It's probably already to late to do this though since you've gone to the media and have made it a big public issue. There's almost no chance that the administration is going to make any concession. The terms of service are written so vaguely they can do whatever they want.
Slick looking app. Kudos!
I wouldn't say the DC-10 problems of the 1970s forced McDonnell-Douglas out of the airliner business. They continued in business into the 1990s before being acquired by Boeing. The DC-10 itself was in passenger service until just a few years ago, and is still flown in freighter and military configurations.
are you applying artistic taste standards rather than box office standards?
Whether gender-specific scholarships are legal is a question for lawyers and courts.

But regarding "equalizing the gender ratio", the gender balance for college undergraduates in the USA swung far in favor of women 10 or more years ago. Today, most colleges that want to 'equalize the gender ratio' would have to offer male-only scholarships.
Can we please get a Chrome release version that uses DirectWrite like FF4+ and IE9+ already? Sheesh. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups#!...
Just pointing it out: this article is outdated. The Xcode version in it is 3.2.6, whereas the current is 4.4. There are a few changes (for example, Interface Builder is now integrated into Xcode), so following this step-by-step won't work.
Out of curiosity, why CentOS? The software in the repositories is antiquated. If you want RPM, just go for Fedora.
Update: this was fixed!
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It was better back when you could totally freak your teacher out simply by running a simple program like that in class after you finished the assignment before anyone else.
I fully understand breaking the rice pots and burning the boats, and I hope that you are right. However, his implementation doesn't create the developer education that you suggest. As they well should, young founders look up to guys like Dalton and may well take him at this word that Facebook's negotiating tactics are surprising. FB's stance on these issues are so ruthlessly consistent and well known that it's hard to even consider the specific tactics described as unethical.

I feel a responsibility to make it clear that such things are the norm and need to be accommodated in business planning and risk assessment from the beginning. Please note that I failed to do so the first time I dealt with Facebook, but that doesn't make it their fault -- rafer.net/post/168541483/lookeryupdate

Please also note, that I'd be damn excited for app.net's current iteration to take off and will go out of my way to use it if I can. I'd love a dev program that had ongoing stewardship built in, but no for-profit platform provider has ever made such a thing work over time.
B2B can incredibly interesting once you have a grasp of the problem space. My last two companies are B2B and I've loved every minute of if. But to outsiders it's usually not that exciting.

The one type of B2B I won't touch is that which has a lot of external friction in the value chain. Health care and government come to mind.
I'll spring for one brew of your choice as well.
UPDATE

Quora has processed my deletion request and confirmed that my account has been deleted. Except that not a whole lot was deleted, as far as I can see.

I can still log in.

I left my account logged in and did not deactivate it before sending the request. It looks like most of my details are still intact.

* My name was replaced with User-XXXX, where XXXX is a four-digit integer.

* My followers and the people I'm following were removed

* It looks like the comments that I left on answers have been deleted.

* I'm not sure about things like my biography, country of origin, etc. because I removed those myself first

* I can still see other details such as my edit history and the messages I have exchanged with others.

My answers do not seem to have been deleted.

I'm not 100% sure about this, because I made sure I manually deleted them all myself before asking for my profile to be deleted. But when I view a question I answered, I still have the option of undeleting my answer. Maybe Quora normally permadeletes answers only if they weren't manually deleted first. Maybe they just flag them as deleted like I did manually. I have no idea.

All the questions I had created still exist.

The only questions I was able to delete myself were the ones with no answers on them. The others remain, but with my name scrubbed off them. I find this acceptable and didn't expect Quora to delete other peoples' answers along with my questions.

Ultimately I'm pretty happy with this. I would have preferred to have everything permadeleted, but as long as my answers are no longer visible and my personal informatoin has been scrubbed, I'll leave it at that.

Here's a screenshot of my Quora edit history, with the individual edits blurred out: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/4630539/Quora%20Edit%20List.png
Indeed, something I thought too. If they know they can make a higher minimum requirement, or that those exist out there, I am sure they would prefer putting their investment money in those areas. They are potentially bigger markets, and potentially a more successful company. At 10 million users though, even just throwing up some basic ads you can likely make enough money to cover your burn rate..
Bring me on as a consultant. I could have saved Google+ Games; the documentation is probably still there.
love it! great way to show progress while I keep working on another tab while waiting.
Sounds like typical Google to me. If you've ever had to wrangle with getting your Adsense account unsuspended you'll know it's near impossible, well in-fact impossible to get a sensible or reasonable person on the phone let alone by email.
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Ok... so I get what the app does, but why would I want to use it? Why would I want to capture every single moment of my life, regardless of importance, forever? What do I care where I was a year ago? And why on earth would I want a "quarterly report" of my life with statistics? Honest questions. Apologies for the bluntness.
whoa I think their site is pretty cool
Fixed - Chrome will no longer treat DELETE/PUT requests as GET and cache them
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=136320#c21

This was fixed in the canary build (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/chromesxs/)

Thanks to those who voted, (and thanks to those who fixed it...)
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Why does this kind of app scare me ? (Regardless of how beautiful they look, how well they are programmed, how kind/smart/known is the funder, ...)
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I don't have a clue, but Stephen Wolfram could probably answer this question : http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
A person who has a personal diary, would really see value of this product.

Having to consolidate all my public sources and also allowing to update privately is really cool.
You could create a retrospective like Stephen Wolfram:

http://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2012/03/the-personal-analytic...
That's something that continually surprises me. I've been on the Macs for almost a decade at this point. The touchpad on my 15" 2010 MacBook Pro is quite large and comfortable, it's basically 5" diagonally.

Now my sister's 11" MacBook Air has a much smaller touchpad for obvious reasons. But I see recent 15" or 17" PC laptops with touchpads that are just as small, maybe 3" diagonally. Having the large surface is so nice, I don't think I could go back.

Maybe that's a driver thing too. If large touchpads were always producing false input from being brushed by the palms, using the smaller touchpads may actually be beneficial for users.
I think there are two kinds of B2B startups that can be super interesting:

The first is eliminating entire classes of jobs and the second one is eliminating entire "glue industries"/middlemen (disintermediation).

The former may sound callous, but creating a solution that frees up a human so they can pursue greater endeavors is a noble goal.

Those are exciting problems.
If you want something powerful and portable, check out Lenovo's X series. I am a 99 percent full-time Linux user and Lenovo consistently impresses me with their product's durability and longevity.

http://www.lenovo.com/products/us/laptop/thinkpad/x-series/
Does anyone know of something like this that is current?
I tend to keep my laptop on the table in front of my couch. It seems like I manage to catch the cord every 6 to 9 months. I'm happy I don't pull my laptop down, but most of the time I'm happier that I don't end up face-planting because my foot got caught.
I'll be starting my Freshman year at UCF in the Fall. I would have loved to use this as compared to myUCF when waiting for my preferred Calc I class to open up. It was a hassle even to just check it every time, and I was never given a clear answer half the time.
I think ther are some sexy B2B problems, ie problems that can solved with technology rather than business solutions that use a tiny bit of software.

Analytics is pretty huge. Companies will pay big dollars for profitable insights into their data, queue distributed computing and machine learning. In machine learning and AI there are a massive number tasks being done by unskilled temps that could be automated away, for example data entry, basic research, report interpretation (back to analytics).

Then there's whole field of taking almost any piece of enterprise software and just giving it a decent/usable user experience, using sexy Web tech, html5, etc.

I think the only thing unsexy about b2b is that you'll never be famous in your friends eyes, ie you'll be the guy who made their accounting software 30% less frustrating rather than the guy who created the latest local cat photo montage social network
Well, it does go on to say:

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Technically it could be another particle with a 126GeV mass, though that's hopefully something more experiments will show one way or the other.
I've had four phones manufactured by HTC: Google dev phone, G1, Nexus One, and a Sensation 4G.

The first three were wonderful phones. Absolutely loved them. The Sensation just frustrates me. Sense makes no sense to me; it's obviously inferior to stock Android, and leads to inconsistencies and long waits before OS updates. T-Mobile has packed it full of their shovelware, which cannot be uninstalled, and was not present on the prior three phones (I guess Google provided the OS image on those).

The Sensation has horrible battery life. If I use it heavily, it doesn't even last a whole work day. It also feels flimsier...I haven't had any issues with it, but I've also managed to avoid dropping it very often or very far, so it hasn't been tested.

I won't be buying another HTC device, and I won't be buying another device that has a custom Android image or is loaded with crapware. I had no idea the average Android experience was so poor; I thought all Android phones were as awesome as the Google-branded devices. I'm very frustrated that I paid $500 for a phone that is so disappointing (I paid full price, as I'll also never sign another two year contract), so I'm not too disappointed that HTC is taking a beating.

Maybe they'll stop wasting money on Sense, which is garbage, and instead focus on making phones as good as the G1 and Nexus One again. If they do, I might consider another HTC in a couple of years. If not, Samsung will get my next purchase (a friend's got a recent high end Motorola that's even worse than my HTC).
Releasing twice a day makes sense, if you're not the most visited website in the world. There's something about Facebook's approach to things like that that screams, "immature startup" Facebook is an adult now and should act rightfully so, it has stakeholders and investors to appease and if something breaks for even 5 minutes the share price could tumble having a roll on effect and everyone knows Facebook can't really afford to suffer any more share price drops.
Sorry, yes we're only iOS for now. But hopefully expanding to Android soon!
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I am a developer and yes I do like beer. I am a human, who would have thought? I also like long walks and holding hands with girls on the beach, then having sex. I hate the stereotype that makes it seem like developers are different to ordinary people, some of the developers I work with you wouldn't even be able to pick that they're developers, they don't walk around in Github t-shirts, wearing glasses and throwing words like release cycle and debugging around.
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Some friends, distributed across a few states and continents, are developers. They have one or two products being used by clients and a couple more in the pipeline.

It is becoming obvious that they are following into the same trap as many techies before them. The products are not fully defined and new features keep getting added. When an obstacle comes up or if a client has an idea, work shifts to a different product, the first one being left unfinished. Sometimes the vision of the product is not clear to the team. The look & feel and usability is left to the personal likes of the developer implementing them. The people involved know computers, programming, databases, system administration, etc. They are all intelligent, curious, etc. They have the kind of skill set any employer would kill for, but they are their own employers now! They are not the kind of folks who read blogs or new.ycombinator posts so, on their own, they don't know if zynga is a good model to follow or twitter.

What are some good, to the point, books which will help coders become the kind of people who are good at "building stuff?" Manage team, develop vision, manage process, avoid typical pitfalls (like constant requests for proofs of concepts which earn no revenue), etc., etc.

Look forward to suggestions!
Even without the contrast (impossible given this particular dataset since the survey wasn't given to a control), it's still interesting. Here's why -- when you consider the broader context of the outlash against beer/alcohol at conferences, notice that only 5% of developers said they hated beer. That apparently means a tiny minority of people could have an outsized influence on conference behavior. Note that this survey wasn't given purely to conference-goers, so it's not selection bias.
Sure this is a good point. You're referring to the the brand and stamp of approval a degree represents.

I think that's really an extension of the 'skill verification' bullet point. One can easily imagine a program run by a trusted institution whereby a person pays a fee and they are evaluated over the course of a week or so. If they pass, they are given a stamp of approval, if not they either try to improve their skills or go to a lower-prestige institution and repeat the process.
I haven't tried the new connector, but I worry Pogue is right.

My last MacBook Pro came with the old T connector. It was a massive improvement over standard laptop connectors, but I did run into the crossed legs problem. If I had my legs crossed and set my laptop between them, I had to angle the laptop to be parallel to my left leg; otherwise my leg would dislodge the connector.

My current MacBook Pro has the L style connector. It doesn't have the lap problem, but it bugs me that it covers some of the ports. I usually plug it in so the came comes towards me (more convenient the way I have everything positioned), but that blocks the FW800 port, so I have to swap it around if I want to plug a FW800 disk in.

I like the idea of going back to the T connector, but the idea that they weakened the magnets makes me think the cross-legged problem would be even worse.

I guess I'll find out when I replace this machine with a newer one, probably in a year or two.
I think you're spot on, and a consistent branding scheme will improve their fortunes, but I'm sceptical that the branding they have chosen is going to help much. Samsung is a brand. Galaxy is a brand. Droid is a brand. HTC1X is a model number, something that should be relegated to FCC filings, not a brand you can rely on to sell millions of handsets. I dont blame Sprint for re-branding their One X as the Evo LTE.
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I've been writing "writing simulation engines and 3D rendering engines since around when you were born" and I love JavaScript.

Like most C/C++/ASM programmers I hated it at first and I'm under no delusion that it's going to replace C/C++/ASM any time soon. But like many say, "the right tool for the job". By any measure Lua is complete shit and yet Carmack made it popular by using as the glue for most of his games.

JavaScript does many things extremely elegantly and the environment it runs in is fun, cross platform and accessible. It's fun to make things in JavaScript the same way it was fun to make programs on my Atari 800, Commodore 64. You type something and click "refresh" and it's up. No downloading a 2-4gig dev environment. No finding 4 SDKs you need to install. No figuring out how to get your image libraries to link. No worrying about how to get the initial screen up,

And even better, when it works you just send you friends a link. No installing. No worries if they are on OSX and you are on Windows or Linux.

Are you going to write Shadow of the Colossus in JavaScript? Probably not. But ICO? Yea, no problem. Any Zelda to date? Sure. 80-90% of all games ever shipped would run just fine in JavaScript at this point in time. Very few games actually need every once of perf.

> And unsecured access to the graphics stack is a terrible idea.

WebGL does not provide unsecured access to the graphics stack so I'm not sure what this BS remark was about.
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The amount of available work doesn't decrease as productivity increases. Global productivity has increased by at least an order of magnitude since 1900. If available worked decreased, we'd have 90% unemployment now.

The biggest obstacle to "spreading out the work" is payroll taxes. It's much cheaper for an employer to hire 1 person who works 100 hr/week than is it to hire 3 people at 33 hr/week.

But my point remains, there are people out there who do nothing but work, by choice. They want a job that requires 60,70,80 hrs per week. Are you suggesting we tell these people to find something else to do with their time?
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That's true. The T shaped connectors detached faster when you tripped. With the L shaped connector, sometimes my laptop will rotate up to 90 degrees before the magsafe detaches.
NPR recently had a great report[1] on women in the sciences they said "When women were reminded — even subtly — of the stereotype that men were better than women at math, the performance of women in math tests measurably declined" so one might think that this living expense would reinforce that stereotype, however they concluded that "In order to boost the numbers of women who choose to go into those fields, you have to boost the number of women who are in those fields." Which is exactly what this stipend will do and hopefully that positive will out way any perceived negative. I think its a great experiment and you might want to reach out to the researchers in this report to see if they would be interested in what you're doing.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2012/07/12/156664337/stereotype-threat-wh...