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I think you are mixing two different concepts.

Balsamiq is about creating wireframes. Wireframes are there especially to not mimic too much the "final" product so that you can concentrate more on the feature an flow aspect without suffering of the interference that the visual elements could create.

Keynote, at least the way you are using it, is to create mockups. Mockups are there to crystalize (or invalidate) the ideas expressed in the wireframes together with the branding you are creating for your application.
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My second grader has a ton of anxiety over the confusing and disorganized lessons & homework that are coming out of the "Everyday Math" textbook that his teacher is using.

Hmm, I wonder who wrote this Everyday Math curriculum...oh, look at that. It's the University of Chicago.

(And yes, I'm opening that door.)
Smart people go into Ivy League, smart people come out.

It's possible a smart person might go into teaching, but rare.
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Hey, I'm hell banned also! I believe most people keep on posting because they don't give a crap about this stupid point system and arbitrary hell banning. I said one thing that 12 people disagreed with, so now I'm in hell. It's so stupid. It's supposed to be nothing but a circle jerk here, or what?
Please look into the B category first (both b1 & B2), for the 3 months period. After YC, if you get funding, as a founder you should look at the E visa category. I believe E2 visa is the one for founders with secured funding that can realistically create 10 american jobs in the long run.
Please don't mess with scrolling.

I'm not trying to be one of the neckbeards who complain about edge cases (it doesn't work with my emacs scroll bindings on my custom build of Lynx, etc), but:

It doesn't work. Trying to override native behavior with custom behavior is always risky, because you not only have to fight with edge cases and undocumented unsupported APIs, but because you run the risk of falling into the uncanny valley (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley).

I pulled the demo up on my laptop first (macbook with momentum scrolling). Everything worked normally, except not quite. The scrolling lagged a tad bit, flicking didn't scroll it quite as far as normal, something was off. It was a slightly unsettling experience, not one that I would choose to replicate.

I then tried on the intended (I assume) platform: iOS.

I don't know what went wrong, but it didn't work. After a few flicks I got scrolled to the bottom of the page and stuck there. The flicks were incongruent and did not assist in the reading at all.

It's a great idea, and I wish scrolling worked like this. However breaking native functionality is a dangerous game, and if you fuck up you go the way of www.onswipe.com/ which is pretty much universally hated for making perfectly good content unreadable on mobile with the pretense of making it more readable.
Quote from the article:

"…one that didn’t last more than, well, probably a week if my memory serves me. And thank heavens for that! Can you imagine what eBay might have become with such a boring old logo? Still, it could have happened…(shudder)." - Jim Griffith, the first customer sales representative at eBay and the current host of eBayRadio, regarding the #3 logo (above)

Seems to apply this time around, as well.
I've said it before and I will say it again. Apple needs to compete on, and thus focus on the quality of their products. Not sue everyone else into the ground because they feel threatened. Apple will just keep squeezing out incremental changes to their devices and suing everyone else until they are the only ones left standing.

Maybe they should let Woz run the company, he seems to be the last innovator left.
wtf is this shit, i mean, the best "security experts" will not work for a goddamn NSA facility, they will make money in private sectors or better they will be responsible for the attacks...

NSA clearly got it wrong, "hacking" is not for "your country" it's a selfish act, for your personal goals, i mean, let's say you work for NSA and you stop or make a stuxnet like virus... you cannot brag about it, as a hacker, you got to show your work, to proudly say: i did that.

IMHO
Lightworks for Linux alpha will be available October 30th
Lightworks is a world class video editing software that's in the process of being open sourced and ported to Linux and OSX.It's been used in movies like Departed, Hugo, King's Speech, Pulp Fiction....
Indeed, what's the big deal? Alibaba is free to improve Android, and they did. Google is free to sell (or not sell) their non-free additions to Android to whoever they want. They presumably choose not to sell to companies producing unbranded Android forks.

Alibaba needs to pick an unencumbered hardware partner if they want to go down this road. Amazon (and whoever the Kindle OEM is) made it work, so it's not like it's impossible.

(Edit for clarity: again, this is presupposing that Alibaba is shipping modified Google-written software without a contract with Google. It's also presupposing that there are manufacturers -- like the Kindle's -- willing/able to take business making unbranded Android devices. If either becomes untrue, then this is definitely anticompetitive.)
> as long as the message was loud & clear

I actually do think there is a kernel of something interesting in your post, but the way you said it and a lot of your actual content got in the way.

First, PG was making an observation about the finances, but said "For better or worse that's never going to be more than a thought experiment. We could never stand it."

In other words, YC is like 500 with respect to mission and values.

Second, are your returns following a powerlaw? It seems like they are. So regardless of your strategy, the financial observation PG is making seems to apply to 500 as well.

In that context, "Screw Black Swans" doesn't belong in your title.

Separately, I'm pretty sure your international strategy is a stronger Black Swan strategy. That is actually a really interesting idea, but when couched in a needlessly contrarian post, it is lost.

Ironically, in developing my own strategy as I begin angel investing in earnest hopefully next year, I think we'd agree on a lot. What if the median investment had a 2X return instead of the typical (1/3 gone, 1/3 1X, 1/3 huge) distribution?
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Controversy over Intellectual Property provisions: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Strategic_Economi...
Another alternative is buying robust phones! My Nexus One has met the pavement with some assistance from gravity and my clumsy hands a couple of times and the casing has a couple of scratches to show for it. Screen as new.

Then there was the Blackberry Pearl I threw down a couple of times as a demonstration...
I know that. The historical motivator is the 1986 paper, "The new new product development game". I think the difference in what happens in Scrum is that the team gets further isolated from an organization through the ScrumMaster and Product Owner and therefore has less ability to influence and more process imposed (the various invariable rituals of Scrum and more). The teams are now viewed as units of production, stick story in, get implementation out. Almost never will the Product Owner be really a product owner within the intention of Scrum and the ScrumMaster will drift towards a semi-team-lead role and his incentives are not aligned with those of the company or the team.
If they are using AOSP, they can use it without any license from Google I think. If they want Google's apps, then they need license from Google. If Google wants to standardize the ecosystem and is cracking down on these manufacturers who mess too much with Android then I'm 100% on Google's side.

Google needs to be harder on these manufacturers for the good of the consumers, the ecosystem, and ultimately the manufacturers as well. What will the "Android ecosystem" become if they create bigger and bigger incompatibilities and make developers jobs that much harder?

If manufacturers really wanted to customize their own OS, then they would never even try using WP8. And Acer is one of the WP8 licenses, too. So Acer wants their cake and eat it, too? Sorry, but no. Google needs to take actions against further fragmentation, and for removing any opportunities Microsoft might have with their more unified OS.
Thanks, I'll check out Blueprint. Wasn't aware of it!
I'm curious how he mounted it?
I do agree that the way to provide APIs has been poorly conveyed by the core members. All of the samples end up amounting to:

render :xml => @objects

Which, naturally, falls apart quickly beyond the most basic serialization. However, as long as you treat the API like any other view (even HTML is just another API format), then Rails does a pretty decent job.
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No. for the same reasons pda's haven't.
They will most definitely not replace the experience 100 million gamers get from their pc
Au Contraire. Its not clear <you> are able to distinguish technique from technology. And even if so, how much proportional impact is technique vs. technology. And even then, and in this case in particular, ex-post-facto how much technology and/or technique have been applied to put these images online.
Thanks, I misread the first time, made sense the second time! My mistake!

I still have my doubts as to how readable such an approach like this would be in large JavaScript application's when taking into account the already very dynamic nature of JavaScript, but thats more of a personal opinion than anything else.
The idea that only pure android phones are worthy and that carrier ui layers are the only thing holding them back is silly. Many people like them and ICS replicated many of the things from carrier skins for this reason. Telling partners they can't differentiate is radically hypocritical and likely would just drive more to fork Android.
Weird, Adolf Hitler is meant to have a Bacon number of 3, but he doesn't return anything on Google. From the Wikipedia page:

Adolf Hitler was in Ewige Jude, Der (1940) with Curt Bois
Curt Bois was in Great Sinner, The (1949) with Kenneth Tobey
Kenneth Tobey was in Hero at Large (1980) with Kevin Bacon
that is why i something hate to be in a third world country :(
at least i will haveturn by turn
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There is for the most part no difference between the ability to observe IP traffic in real time and the ability to intercept and modify IP traffic.
The artist used a company called AirSign, who fly five aircraft in formation to write messages as a dot matrix: http://www.airsign.com/skywriting.php You can read more on the artist's website here: http://ishky.com/pi/
You're absolutely right, you don't need Sinatra to write a JSON API either. The more ruby devs that realize this the better. Really, just people getting out of the mindset that Rails is the be all end all of ruby is all I'm going for.
Infamous does indeed refer to the bad kind of fame - this is either a simple brain fart, or possibly the writer just doesn't have a very sound grasp of the language.
Minor gripe (otherwise, loving it): Dont love the grey background behind all the elements. Black text on it just doesnt read well.
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"I get that the guy wants to create a Bostromian Singleton."

I didn't get that, although it's been a long time since I read it (and I have a general rule against taking movies too seriously). The world in the graphic novels was hyper-'80's bleak: a high threat of nuclear holocaust and extreme stagnation in every other area. (I can't remember, did the extremely popular but hideously depressing pirate comic book make it into the movie?) My impression is that Ozy wanted to break the stalemate, altruistically. If he wanted to rule the world, he could have done that easily enough, and cheap energy, etc., would likely reinforce the status quo.

Instead, he comes up with a complete game change: He removes Doc Manhattan, who is very bad influence; who is going to want to do anything with Manhattan standing around? (IIRC, that works out the same as in the movie.) And he arranges for humanity to discover an outside enemy, one which requires humanity to pull together and work like crazed gophers to advance science, technology, and likely general society in a way that hadn't happened since WWII. The outside enemy turns out to be giant, psychic, trans-dimensional aliens, which have the advantage of not actually existing.

The death toll involved is significantly less than the movie, since he only has one of the things and uses it to destroy New York. On the other hand, I have a friend who's favorite character is Rorschach, because he's the only one who is in on the story who doesn't go along with the murder of millions of people.

(By the way, I'm humming "Sympathy for the Devil" right now.)
Yup, you hit all the bullets. Many a day in high school, I'd come home with the side of my left hand colored silver from fresh graphite.
The brain is a complex system, and depression is a complex phenomenon. Sometimes it takes a few tries to find medication that works right for you, or to find the form of expression that works right for you, or ... whatever. Keep trying; let the doctors know how things are working every step of the way.

And definitely keep your wife informed. When my wife went through something similar, it was a big deal just to know what was going on and be able to give feedback.
Apple should have won a copyright case against Samsung clearly copying too much of the overall iPhone design. Instead Apple won a patent case which sucks for everyone, not just Samsung. A litigious Apple could use this win against other Android (and smart-phone in general) manufactures.
@potatolicous - Maybe they are Canadian? We seem to use that word wrong all the time.

Lets just call him LEGENDARY.
I also wonder if these folks were handed a brand new 4S, unhampered by apps and months of use. In my experience, the speed, even for activities like homescreen navigation, got slower over time, especially when I load more and more apps. Newer store models always seem zippier than my weathered old phone.

All this said, they clearly picked gadget plebians, as anyone even slightly in the know would immediately check out the 8-pin dock connector and 5 rows of apps.
eBay's and Microsoft's new logos communicate nothing about the company/brand.

I appreciate clean, minimalist design, but logos that antiseptic are like marketing that says nothing about the product or service (which admittedly works on rare occasion...)
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> If they are using AOSP, they can use it without any license from Google I think.

I believe they can use the OS, but I don't believe they'd be able to use the "Android" trademark and logo. They'd have to call it something else, which'd probably cut sales dramatically.
I can't tell if this is a serious question. I'd imagine it matters to a great deal of people what he thinks.
In what world does Apple not focus on the quality of their products?

Maybe they're the biggest public company in the world because Woz has never been in charge?
I for one am glad that the United States National Security Agency is being proactive in training new hackers, and in recruiting existing hackers. Much disagreement with United States government policy in general, and with specific actions attributed to the NSA, has already been expressed in this thread. In an ideal world, we would all agree with Henry Stimson that "Gentlemen do not read each other’s mail,"

http://chronicle.com/blognetwork/edgeofthewest/2012/08/17/ge...

but we do not live in an ideal world, and while we live in the world we all live in, I am glad that the governments of free countries with representative democracy are developing hacking capabilites. Hacking used for defense protects our secrets and thus reduces our vulnerability to attack of all kinds, and hacking used for offense often is more precise in targeting and saves civilian lives and property while decreasing an enemy's means of waging war.

I'll give one example of an activity that free people in free countries (employed by government agencies or not) could do to increase the prospect of world peace. Break down the great firewall of China and help everyone in China have full access to uncensored news. Then do the same for North Korea, for Iran, for Belarus, and for anywhere else where there is significant government censorship. Wikileak all over the world the internal documents of the Communist Party of China and its allies. Help the common people of the world's most oppressed countries understand their current condition and what they could to gain more freedom. That would reduce the risk of war among any combination of state or non-state actors, and help all of us enjoy more peace and prosperity. You could do this without working for the NSA, and without living in the United States. But anyone who can do this ought to consider doing this. More free flow of information with less censorship is desperately needed in many countries,

http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-wor...

http://transparency.org/country

and any hacker contributing to that cause would be helping humankind.
You know that Tor was developed for the navy, right?
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I agree and can give the opposite example.
I have a Sony Ericsson X10 since it was released (2 years ago? Longer?), never had a case, and have dropped it several times. You will find the marks from those falls only if you will look really hard.
your average person, grandma, dinosaur wants the most generic application possible. I would continue building for win 7/xp etc and maybe develop a mvp for win8 (generic and quick as possible to see if there is any adoption)
Teaching and learning often occur in supportive, nurturing environments where mistakes are made, lessons are learned, and people grow. Testing usually occurs in the same room, but often has a cold, authoritarian feel to it. The human who used to happily answer your questions now quietly and soberly tells you to go back to your seat, that providing the same warm answers to your questions would be very wrong. Mistakes are punished and even talking is not allowed. Learning feels like love. Tests feel like prison.

Is there a way other than testing to measure a student's progress?
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To clarify, that's not a thing you can meaningfully do. It makes sense to define your units such that, e.g. c=1, because c has units (distance per time). You're really adjusting your units, not your numbers. But π is dimensionless. Diameter and circumference are both measures of distance, and they are never equal.

If you say "this number times one equals that number", and the numbers aren't the same, then when you say "one" you don't actually mean "one" the way anyone else speaks about it. (By convention: whenever you can do multiplication, if there's something called "one", then "one" is the multiplicative identity.)

There's nothing to stop you from, e.g. renaming all numbers x -> x/π. But you wouldn't gain anything; you'd just say things like "1/π squared is 1/π", and "1 squared is π", and "π times 1/π is π". It looks weird, but what's happening is perfictly ordinary, just with weird names.
So you're asking for proof that a device that is made of solid glass and metal is more fragile when dropped than the same device surrounded by rubber, plastic, leather or another soft material?

I know it won't protect the device in every situation, but the $10 case protects the device in some situations (maybe only 10% or 20% of drops), so it has a very high ROI.

I once dropped my unprotected iPad from a height of about 2 feet, it landed on the granite floor on a corner edge, and the screen shattered. I had to buy a new iPad basically as Apple doesn't fix them. It now has a $20 case, and I would be willing to bet the value of the iPad that if I dropped it from the same height and it hit the same corner, the device would not have any significant damage although the case might.
This is lazy journalism.

Will people stop posting what Steve Wozniak thinks about everything? Just because he's Steve Wozniak doesn't make him a foremost expert on everything related to technology. Does this quote add any insight or value at all?

“I don’t agree with it — very small things I don’t really call that innovative. I wish everybody would just agree to exchange all the patents and everybody can build the best forms they want to use everybody’s technologies.”
It's very interesting to see how different financial factors can change the rent vs. buy decision. Here's the full report in case anyone's interested: http://trends.truliablog.com/2012/09/rent-vs-buy-summer-2012...

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The Cassandra team seems to be very well-managed since the 1.0 release (and leading up to it).
Sounds a little irrational...
This will just get him disavowed as a cofounder of Apple by the hardcore supporters. Eventually no one will remember he helped start Apple and everyone will think Jobs was the only one. (edit: true enough that they already see him as the black sheep, the embarrassing uncle everyone tries to ignore)

No one cares what the "naive, idealistic" engineer clueless about business thinks. That's the battle we're fighting - to fix patents, we have to tell people how it's not mere idealism or ideology, but how real businesses can get squeezed out by patent trolls or assholes if software patents don't get reformed soon.

On the bright side, I'm noticing more friends getting Androids, even around this time when the iPhone 5 is being launched. Only the core Apple supporters are going straight for the iPhone. The tide may be turning and Apple losing a bit of its shine, at least in my circles.
It's interesting that camera quality is so important for people, yet I find it difficult to find information on image quality beyond how many megapixels the sesnor has. The least they could do is tell me the sensor size/aperture size too.

You really have to search the specialized review sites to find good comparisons on image quality.