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I got a letter in the mail recently that I wrote to myself almost 10 years ago. It was only one page long but it's ridiculous how much it moved me. I wrote about my relationship with my family and what I hoped to do with my career. Getting that brief window into my former self was amazing.

I've been using Everyday.me for about a month now and it gives me a lightweight version of that feeling. I don't record everything in my life, but I throw in the occasional photo or comment about my weekend. I probably could keep that same data in a physical scrapbook or word document, but having an iOS app makes it convenient.

For me, journaling is not really about the input; that part is tedious. I enjoy consuming the journal later, so the input is necessary. Everyday.me just makes the input a little less of a hassle.
Knocking up a REST API in any decent web framework is easy. Rails makes it slightly easier.

It's good that things like cramp exist but async is really something you want to design into your language and framework from day one and not bolt on via libraries later.
Indeed! That's the direction we hope to move in with our period reports based on your entries. Nicholas Feltron was also a big inspiration for our work.
I think HTC is failing more because they've failed to understand what consumers want. The HTC One X was an incredible phone but they went with a non-removable battery that significantly held it back compared to the Galaxy S3. The locked bootloader on the ATT One X was just too bad. And for all their touting of the camera, the Galaxy S3 has the better one. The silly decision to implement aggressive process killing was just stupid. And for some people, no sdcard option didn't cut it.

And no these aren't just features geeks would want, even if they are, geeks influence buying decisions of a lot of people. So they're definitely important. Especially at a time when HTC wants to build up a strong brand with their One series. And for all their trumpeting that they would release only flagship devices, they keep releasing phones all the time. And they fail to release their devices with a consistent branding across all american carriers, or at the same time.

HTC Sense adds no features (like e.g. a notification power control widget like samsung's touchwiz has.) It's just too bloated.

Plus it's just be the fact that the mobile industry is incredibly competitive right now. I don't imagine HTC will have any better luck with WP7/8.
The Facebook auto-share any time I start a new conversation, text someone (for EVERY TEXT?!), or login to your website is awful. I liked the service but opt-out auto-sharing should be nuked from orbit.
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The name confused me at first because I already knew about the Everyday app by Noah Kalina, Adam Lisagor, William Wilkinson and Oliver White - http://everyday-app.com/
Because it doesn't send live video back to Earth. It sends pictures to the satellites that orbit Mars, which relay the data to Earth, and it only has periodic contact with those satellites.

So I don't think it has the bandwidth for video. It'll probably be a fairly slow data rate, more like a progressive GIF downloading.

I suppose it could record video, and send it back, but it wouldn't be real-time.
Whatever. Apple makes 35 billion instead of the expected 37 billion in a non-holiday quarter - sooo disappointing! They must really be losing their way.

All things of course come to an end, but does 35 billion worth of revenue in a quarter signal Cupertino's imminent demise? I mean come on, how many consumer companies can say they've sold 35 billion dollars worth of anything?

IMHO, Apple's downfall will come from growing and expanding too much, not too little.
Well this the way we went about developing our product at FreeGate which was widely praised by our customers and lead to a successful exit (acquisition ) in 2000. However through out my career so far I have had more success when problems come to me rather than making ones to solve.
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Ask this question in two years time once the projects Jobs was apart of have run there course.

But personaly I see no shine lost, sure they lost a great man but there again he had more than enough time to leave his legacy inplace and that is exactly what he did. If jobs was still about I'd expect the share price to be exactly the same and with that the public have already answeared this question that need not be asked.
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I'm not sure I like the direction a lot of these applications seem to be going where the point of living becomes to distill all of our experiences and adventures through a 3" screen. It drives me nuts to no end when I am hiking or at a concert and everyone has to stop what they're doing and waste time trying to view what's right in front of them through their phone.
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For me the problem is not so much the lack of targeting the ads for the business but instead the traffic you'll receive.
Lets say you call some businesses in your area and they jump on board since it's a dollar, very little to lose if it doesn't produce any results, perhaps 10 of these businesses decide to do it and 10 more randomly from the internet(most of which will be spammers trying to get hits for their site). You've now spent time building, making sales calls, etc. to earn ~$20. You now also have to get 20000 impressions to these jokes. Since odds are that the business owners go the quick route and just nab a popular joke from another site (copied content, google doesn't like that) you're not going to have high rankings and are in direct competition with large humour sites that everyone knows by name because of their high brand recognition.

Point being: regardless of price points, CPM, what business advertises, etc. it's highly unlikely that you'll get large amounts of people looking for jokes traffic as well as business looking to advertise this way.
Don't get me wrong though, if you want to build it then do just that but do it because you want to or keep working out some of the kinks until you have a strong model. At this stage though it is not really a 'business' and is a flawed model when it comes to CPM prices and potential revenue.
Here's an article about Curiosity's image capturing capabilities. It'll take some pictures first thing when it lands, but we won't get them for about two hours, because of the timing of the satellite orbits.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-226
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Let's suppose that a browser vendor claims that they support a feature, when in fact it's broken (either small but annoying bugs, or "horribly"). Therefore you can't trust a browser's self-reported feature set. So, an obvious solution is to create a similar client-side table of features. Why can't we do that now instead?
No one's ruled out the idea that they may be the exception to the rule. Nevertheless we can't name any other contractor that has done what you say they are doing, for very long without sliding into rent-seeking.
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Where's the information on this? Was he querying the myUCF dozens of times every second? Is he accused of bring the networking infrastructure to its knees?

Or is this simply the faculty attempting to make a student conform? "Watch this presentation to see our side of the story." What story?

Edit: so we have to click more links on the linked page to get any more context. My apologies for being lazy.

"University officials, however, said Arnold's software was tying up the campus computer network, claiming it accessed UCF's scheduling website 220,000 times, as often as every 60 seconds."

I want to know if the reporter bungled the information or if these officials are this clueless. If this thing accessed the server "as often as every 60 seconds," where's the problem? Was the student really that clueless that he wrote his service to query constantly?
This comes from misunderstanding The Lean Startup.
Read code. Code. Repeat.

It's really that easy. Most people focus too much on reading articles when reading code from talented, experienced individuals helps you more than most articles.

To not read other people's code is to try to learn to write without ever reading other people's work.

I would love to see courses that do the equivalent of "book reports" where students pick large projects and read them end to end, producing qualitative comments and discourse on that code.
if it's all about bots, why the US&UK CTR is 1/10th?

aren't US & UK markets more lucrative too to bots makers?

I suspect someone somewhere has CTR statistics for certain keywords on certain regions and kind of map it out. Bot makers may have ILLEGAL access and probably do it to avoid suspicion.
Yay real excited about this! I'm currently a Backbone.js junkie but I'm looking for something more opinionated and less boilerplatey. Nice to see Ember.js maturing. Let's see some more documentation!
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Apart from the printed reports, i wonder what is so different here from Path ? Path is an established app with a massive user base, that does everything i can ask from a journal,with the additional ability to share it to a private, handpicked social graph. I see no compelling reason that would make me switch to everyday.me
It always seemed to me that his dad cared more about the prestige factor than the actual quality of education his son received.

Sadly, the prestige factor doesn't end when one enters college. My sister and I are Asian American and our parents emigrated from the Philippines. My sister's majoring in Urban Studies at Stanford. Despite this, my father insists on telling family, friends, co-workers, etc. that she's studying law.

Quite a shame indeed.
I think this whole Personal Analytics thing is going to explode. Every time I see a service like this my heart skips a beat. I want to work on this stuff so much but I have to finish my army service first. Good job.
The slides on the linked page give information about the (lack of) load placed on myUCF servers.
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It's a shame that the University punished him for helping out students, though it certainly may have hammered the class registration servers as a side effect. Either way though, this is going to get a lot of publicity for a guy who's undoubtedly talented and motivated.
Considering the effort he put in to both this and the parking app, it looks like the guy would have little difficulty getting a job in the Bay Area or other startup havens, even sans-degree. At this point, I'd probably leave the university if I were him. Employers will accept him with open arms.
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Why are people so much more willing to give Google a pass for this kind of stuff than Apple? Whenever the Apple app rejection story du jour makes the rounds, I rarely see anyone taking the "two sides to every story" angle.

At least with Apple you can appeal to a human. With Google all you can do is appeal to the press and hope someone there cares.
There has always been something wrong with these usage policies. Its a technical problem, no? If you don't want me to make more than X requests, tell your webserver to stop answering them. If you can't do that, then what the hell are you doing operating a webserver on the internet?
I was actually just talking with a buddy about how even schools that promote entrepreneurship (with possibly the exception of Stanford) so constantly stifle and work against entrepreneurs.
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Guess which company wrote a bigger check to Verizon in order for their high end phone to be the big summer model?
From a usability perspective, the start screen is faster than clicking items on the start menu.

However, that's only true because Microsoft kneecapped the Start menu in Windows 7.

I wouldn't use Windows 7 without Classic Shell (http://classicshell.sourceforge.net/) and I'm sure the same will be true for Windows 8, if/when I'm forced to move to it.
Your template docs are nice, I've been doing something similar for https://templateria.com. We have our own standard that serves as a base to generate HTML in other standards such as Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor.

Just signed up for beta, I want to try some of our templates there.
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Auto-answearing ANY form of comminication is not good.

I understand the problem that this approach is trying to address and whilst it is in some way a problem there are better ways. I spent less than a minute thinking of a better solution (IMHO) and that is:

You have a webcam on your desk (or remote hot vid mini desk spots) and you are permanatly logged into that. This allows the remote worker to be apart of the office and also for people to walk up and speak to them, allowing the remote worker to be seen as well as see who is approaching, instead of wam bam in your face. This also affords people to see when they are busy or not. To me this approach is better. But this and also assumes the remote worker has the bandwith to accomodate this and there not on some 3g/28.8 connection due to there location and for alot that is why they are remote working anyhow. Rememebr remote working also covers workers in different locations. I and many others I can garantee have worked in companies with more than one office in more than one location and none of them have an issue and tend to still use bridged conference calls or phone calls. Video has it's uses but it also has its distractions and overheads that can outway the task at hand.
There appears to be a more extensive PDF archive of hearing docs here: http://www.centralfloridafuture.com/polopoly_fs/7.52307!/Hea...

On the last page, an IT administrator testified that the application logged on every 15 minutes and checked the availability of every UCF course at each logon, which (according to the administrator) caused a total of around 14 minutes of query processing time.

That seems excessive, but if there are hundreds of courses and each course takes 15 seconds to check (presumably due to inefficient queries being run on legacy computer systems) then I could see real lag.

The hearing docs also say that the "YouCanFinish" service was a paid service and the on-campus IT agreement forbids building paid services on top of campus resources (in this case, the class registration service, not just the campus WiFi network). I can think of good arguments to object to a private service charging students for access to classes; it puts students who can't afford "YouCanFinish" at a disadvantage in class registration and (if competition emerges) there's a huge incentive to intentionally lag the registration servers so that students effectively have to use the private service to get classes.

Seems like the sort of service where the right path is to work with the school, not try to privately monetize class selection.
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The guy who made this app set up a timeline here: http://ucouldfinish.com/conduct/

Reading his side of the story it seems that the University IT blocked it first out of fear of being overwhelmed and then the University looked for some way to make it stick. I understand that charging for the service is the reason they have officially decided to keep it blocked.

Unless he has misrepresented the facts about how much data his service pulls it is trivial compared to daily use of the university service. He has invested significant time and money into creating a much more user-friendly interface to the course catalog. That is worth the amount he was charging. The problem, of course, is that he does not own the course listing, and the university has every right to offer it on their terms.

Better to ask forgiveness than permission the saying goes, but in this case it seems forgiveness is not forthcoming. Based on the free garage spot counting app he mentions in the presentation it looks like permission would not have been granted either. So while the university is within their rights, they do seem to be contradicting their own value statements.
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I especially enjoy the University's ludicrous overreaction (seriously, read the letters they sent this guy; specifically the one where they demand he do the job of the "myUCF" team and come up with how he would update the application -- wherein he is specifically forbidden from saying he'd write something like the app that people obviously found useful since, you know, they were using it.)

I also enjoy that he has to attend a 'coaching session' where they teach him that University policy is sacrosanct -- and he has to pay for it as well as write a "spelled-checked [sic]" research paper about his coaching session (WTF is there to 'research' about an hourlong chat?)

What's even more bizarre is why this app exists at all. PeopleSoft's "SA" module that UCF is using for registration includes a waitlist feature that already does all of this -- actually, it's better, because it just pops people off the stack when a spot becomes available.

So, let's be clear:

- UCF willfully refuses to enable the waitlist option in PS

- Student uses a public interface to replicate the functionality

- Star chamber declares the student broke a nebulous IT policy and that he has to write humiliating 'research papers' as contrition.

And people wonder why higher ed is less and less valued...
Just curious. What's the reasoning behind this being a mobile app? Shouldn't this just primarily be a website ?
Apple has its own, that is current: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/iPhone...
How does this compare to something like Dragonfly (https://github.com/markevans/dragonfly/)? 1000memories's issue was with the time it took to generate 12 different versions, not the speed of Imagemagick itself. So I'm not quite sure why they needed to write their own extension. Even Carrierwave (plus caching of course) can be setup this way (https://gist.github.com/1541912).
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Yeah the concept of their quarterly and anual reports reminds me very much of what Nicholas Felton was trying to do with Datum. Where Datum broke down for me was that I had to stay consistent with manually updating it.
The last DC-10 airliner was made in the 80s. The 747 is still in production. People aren't buying tickets to fly FedEx so the safety perception isn't as big an issue.
People have been saying that Apple was going down, in my experience, since 1981 with the introduction of the IBM PC.

Seriously, in the 1980s it was IBM, Commodore, Tandy, et al. In the 1990s it was Windows. In the past decade every two-bit media player was called an iPod killer. Every phone ripping off the iPhone is called an iPhone killer. Every tablet is called an iPad killer.

And of course the myth has been spread that anything Apple does well is just the result of Steve Jobs.

Just as everyone who buys Apple products does so because they come under Steve Jobs "reality distortion field".

And how everything Apple has been doing in the past 5 years was poor because Steve Jobs health was bad.

How about that the iPod sucked becuase it didn't have an FM tuner?

Or the iPhone is never going to fly without a physical keyboard.

Or the iPad sounds like a woman's product and nobody will buy it, and of course nobody will carry it around.

Etc. Etc. Etc.

Apple is failing, always has been, and always will be.

Every time the stock goes down $30 (equivalent to a $60 stock going down $3) the stock is crashing.

When Apple misses wall street expectations by a few cents (but beats their projections) its a sign that the stock is in decline - before Steve Jobs died it was just proof that Apple sucked. When he was sick, it was because he lost control. Now that he's dead, Apple will never be able to accomplish anything good.

It has been 30 years of this crap.
Now that so many things in our lives are timestamped and available online, collating it all together is a natural next step. It's interesting to see all the different ways that this is being done by different apps and services.

When I came up with Remembary in 2010, I thought I was the first to mix diary-writing and all these public feeds - and then I discovered that Momento had been doing a similar thing for almost a year beforehand. I feel like there's been a lot more of these kinds of apps and services popping up lately.

I like the Annual Reports idea - I'd be interested to see what gets tracked and how it's analyzed. It's also a great monetization strategy, although I know from experience that print fulfillment and shipping can be a headache!

Also, their "Blast From The Past" feature highlights one of the less-known benefits of keeping a journal: seeing what you were doing in the past and comparing it to what you're doing now - and thus getting perspective on both the past and the present. I have about six years of handwritten diaries, and I'll often go through them and check the same day in each one. The new version of Remembary (just finished QA testing - should be in the App Store in a few weeks) has "1 Year Earlier" and "1 Year Later" buttons just for this kind of thing.

Congratulations on a cool looking app. Trust me when I say I know how difficult it can be to make something that seems to simple.
Apple adding HDMI and reverting the Apple TV UI, to me, are already signs of that. What's next? Blu-ray?
Not everyone wants to share everything. So this could be a great personal analytics tool capture life and build a better self. Then anything you don't mind sharing could go into a more public social network. I like the idea of a private timeline.

In the Reddit AMA Kevin Rose said he thought "Quantified self (eg. fuelband, fitbit)" were the next trends. So a Quantified self timeline would make a lot of sense and bring things together quite nicely.

Good luck with this and excited to see how this progresses.
And maybe (I don't know nothing about magnets) the fact that their magnet are very close to other silicon chips inside the MacBook AND the LCD display (It's LED, but technically they're almost the same).
All of our production servers run centos, and it makes it easier to just run the same system and use nx/nomachine for compat reasons. I have not had the chance to play with fedora yet though.
Can Apple do anything other than lose its shine? Is it possible for it to get shinier? I mean, it already has the world's highest market cap and is revered in a way the subsequent next highest market cap companies aren't (Exxon, MS, Wal-mart).

It's like a basketball player who makes 100 free throws in a row, misses a couple, and people wonder what the hell happened to him/her.
That sounds like an interesting way to add some of the nuance of physical presence to internet communication, and I would definitely try it. God help the person who occasionally picks their nose at their desk though. You are always watched!
Why do you say an SSL compromise necessarily means the attacker can manipulate the connection? And what about a promise between the SSL endpoint and the database?