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True, this is something of an experiment and may not be the optimal way to educate. At least, not yet. But Xoom tablets are $200 today and the price for tablets continues to fall. In a year or so, there will be e-readers on the market for $20 and many decent tablets will be available for $60 and less. The market is glutted with last-generation tablets and phablets. Something of this nature could provide a second life for these tablets. Xooms in particular are extremely durable and could service children for years.

I would also keep in mind that the development community is probably biased toward hiring new teachers. Again, this just sounds like an experiment.
Also classy is the "It's been real" signoff at the end. Kind of a stain on the startup team to end so abruptly and with so little respect for their users.
From what I understanding is that they allow searching on their desktop OSX app but not on their mobile iOS app. Unless there was a recent update that I'm not aware of. If so then please ignore my comment.
Skeuomorphism's Last Hope
Same in India. They left a village with a computer. Within 30 days, the previously illiterate students through it. It's important to note that they didn't master the computer but used it as a tool to master educational content.
here's my thoughts... this sounds more like a bug in the specific js runtime to me (are there the same problems in v8?) why not just alter 'delete' to work how the author describes so that delete explicity undefines out the reference so it can be GC'd? I think the idea of allowing js to worry about memory is probably not a good one as 'free' seems to suggest.
Hey, some people learned programming with BASIC on Z80...
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Solid. I remember the app standing out because of the good UX and design.
Oh for side projects that small.

I started my side project in about 1993. I lost it completely[1] some time around 2000 and decided to rewrite it starting in 2008. Since then I'm still only 20% of the way through it (I probably got to 60% before).

Right now it's dropped way down the priority list below: wife, 2 year old daughter, full-time job, part-time degree (now complete!) and startup (that will hopefully take over from full-time job some time in the future).

1. Long story, I had a backup but the primary and backup were destroyed independently within hours of each other such was my luck.
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The Xoom is really solid, now that they've upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich. I often tell people wanting a new laptop to just buy a Xoom. You can't get better bang for your buck. I have a Xoom and I totally love it to death. I love it as a tablet. It also makes an excellent desktop when you connect it to a monitor and bluetooth mouse / keyboard.
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Why do you need 2000 pixels per inch?
No really.
Photographs are between 300 and 600.
Are you making scans from the screen?
Hmmm, I have to disagree with the conclusion: "Either skeuomorphism is over and Jack Dorsey isn't the next Steve Jobs, or skeuomorphism isn't over and Jack Dorsey is the next Steve Jobs."

with the thought that it is possible skeuomorphism isn't over and Jack Dorsey is not the next Steve Jobs.
I'm not sure this will be a popular sentiment here, but I think we might want some sort of consumer protection laws dealing with things like this. Have a sort of mandatory cooldown period for (paid?) web services after a notification of cessation (or maybe a major restructuring?) of services. Somewhat like an eviction notice.

Of course people will argue that regulatory action is unnecessary: if sudden terminations are an issue, people will naturally flock to services which guarantee due notice through terms of service.
What would you do with the domain name?
The issues do lie with Asus, but your average consumer isn't going to make that distinction. All they see is Google/Nexus branding.
Seriously. Who wrote this, Jack Dorsey's mom?
A good observation.
This is one of the worst shutdown announcements I've seen on HN.

* no reasons/details

* no apologetic tone

* short timeframe to move your data

Suck it users!
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An argument that rests on the assumption that people read and pay attention to the TOS?

I would love to see someone make that argument and try to keep a straight face at the same time.
The reason why we choose a small number of days to download your content is simply because when you used the app, the photos remained on your phone.

We're monitoring who's downloading their content and who's not. If we see that there are a large number of users who still haven't downloaded their content, we'll adjust that date.
The trick is to not use the same tactics as wannabe "internet marketing gurus."

You can fit the strategies that Michael is speaking of into a number of other businesses. In fact, I'm always surprised the lack of email strategy by tech companies.

When a user comes to your site, there are methods of introducing him to your product that isn't a hard-sell "You need this product--sign up now." You need to introduce them to your product before you make a sale.

So you can offer a giveaway that entices a user join a newsletter. Then you send interesting emails---emails that a reader appreciates being sent. The kind they actually read till the end, and think it was a good decision to read. This builds trust.

But the next step? You introduce them your product, show them why they will get a benefit from it, and then offer them the product---and because they trust you, and understand where it comes from, the user will be likely to buy it.

I'm working on something similar with RescueTime---introducing users to the product with a more story-telling angle.
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Thanks for clearing that up. I'm just starting to play with C++11 and have some trouble getting to a supporting compiler from work.
Also not even one sentence describing what the product was.
How can a C-style cast from char to unsigned possibly be "less safe", and how could a different style of cast be more safe?
While skeumorphism is a perfectly valid thing to debate, this might've been the most pointless article possible to write about it. Why would Jack Dorsey give a flying fuck if an Apple exec who happened to like it left the company?
Yeah, the end really sent it off a cliff for me as well.
It's an interesting perspective. I'd like to hear from someone with some expertise on how accurate it is.
If charter schools consistently out-performed public schools, you might be right. But they don't! It really seems to be a myth that charter schools provide a better education — if anything, it is worse, since they have a number of advantages.
Or, that whether or not you happen to like skeuomorphism is a necessary condition for being "the next Steve Jobs".

If the most important part of being Steve Jobs is making sure your app has leather in it, then you can witness the work of a few hundred-thousand "next Steve Jobs's" just by browsing the App Store.
Why would you want to teach kids a local language instead of a more widely-used and applicable language? Forcing groups to stick to their own language sounds like a more useful tool to oppress them than giving them equal language footing. And for the country overall, unifying everyone to one common language is a massive benefit.

What am I missing? Why teach them skills in a lesser-used language?

(Personal experience from having lived in Guatemala, where there's pressure from outside groups to "keep the culture" and teach kids in their regional languages. As some of the parents of those kids noted, this only sets things against them: Having perfect Spanish offers them much more opportunity.)
I meant just in terms of Postgres expecting a "standard" relational schema; the interface and query planner and the like are designed around that. It's not a bad schemaless data store per se, but it's not really designed for that use case, so I would expect rough edges when using it that way.

The modern selection of schemaless data stores weren't as mature (if they even existed) when Reddit was getting started, so don't assume that they would choose that architecture if they were starting today. I suspect that if you build on postgres in this way you'll have to write significant pieces of functionality by hand that you get for free with mongodb/couchdb/redis/neo4j/etc.

That said I'll emphasise again that I don't know too much about your system; at some point, prototyping and measuring will be the only way to see what works best for you.
This might be a use case for Amazon's Glacier.

When you go out of business, save each user's data separately and send them an access URL. The user can pay Amazon to retrieve it if they want it back.
why are the social buttons getting in your way? I don't see any problem with a full size Chrome browser on a mac---are you on mobile or something?
Hard to believe that they got $7 million in funding and are not even trying to sell the leftovers on ebay.
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Color accuracy is infinitely more important than the number of pixels I can push on a screen for photography. My color-accurate monitor is 1440 x 900. If I need to check for sharpness, I zoom in anyway (and I would zoom in if I were in a retina display, too, practically until I could see the pixels)
"It's been real"

In a situation like this, if you can't say anything professional, then don't say anything at all.
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Absolutely. Falling to the deepest depths and surviving has the side effect of making you more fearless, and thus stronger.
Seems to me that GoDaddy did the right thing. The texts were unsolicited and based on some of the claims in the story, weren't actually targeted at voters. Not sure why this is considered news, although the way I read the title, GoDaddy did a bad thing. Perhaps texts should be changed to spam.
> “The kids had completely customized the desktop—so every kids’ tablet looked different. We had installed software to prevent them from doing that,”

For instance, they could have had one of those "lock" apps that requires a code for certain apps like system settings or app installation, and the kids killed the lock app via a task manager.
Agreed, that space is wasted.

However 'infinity' is not a number. :P
Good point. I know even more of those :)
That money bought a lot of respect for their users.
Any plans for mobile apps in the pipes?
Are you proposing patents should be granted for those who spend tons of money, regardless of how innovative or useful the results of their inventive process are?
I don't know what the proper name of the button is, but my colleague's android doesn't have consistent behavior across all apps. I really meant it to mean that there are also a lot of things I'd want to change in Android also, but the topic was iPhones.
It should be noted that it is not considered the most factual account of any of the mathematicians it profiles, but rather a dramatic retelling of anecdotes and "hollywood gossip" [1]. That being said, it is certainly an entertaining read.

[!] Truesdell, C. (1984). An idiot's fugitive essays on science: methods, criticism, training, circumstances. Berlin: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-90703-3. "Genius and the establishment at a polite standstill in the modern university: Bateman", pages 423 to 424
Tim Cook is Apple's CEO. While he might negotiate agreements that lead to an improved logistics situation, there are thousands of other people involved in getting Apple products to their destination.

But assuming he was, surely you aren't suggesting that Apple's speedy delivery times are the pinnacle of human achievement, and that by their accomplishment of this, that every other human undertaking must be trivial.

Writing a Google maps clone is extremely difficult, and if Apple expected to be successful with it already with the meager amount of resources they have put into it, then it was an impossible task and I'd be delighted to tell Tim Cook, that it was in fact, too hard.

As it has been mentioned elsewhere, Google has like 7000 people working on maps, while Apple has 13000 people period. It's doubtful that they would have over 60 percent of their workforce plugging away on a maps clone, so clearly they can't expect their program to be better, especially when Google has been doing this for several years already.

But my comment wasn't even intended to excuse the state of IOS Maps, I was simply pointing out that while we don't know for sure what happened, there are some possible scenarios where the failure wasn't this guy's fault. I was also pointing out that the statement "there is no such thing as not my fault" at the executive level, it a statement that is only true when an executive is given free reign over his work, without anyone else overriding or commandeering.
Similar story here, I thought of writing a testing framework, somehow Testicle seemed as a funny name. Surprisingly it was already taken http://testicles.rubyforge.org/
The systems came pre-installed with software to prevent the kids from using the devices cameras and customizing their home screens. They found their way around these 'protections'.
From https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page

"every effort is being made to keep the filesystem stable and fast"

I trust those guys.
no poking fun intended, merely a historical note that feminism (as a loosely-defined movement) had changing views about language and its use... if someone were to just hear about second-wave feminist stances on the language of oppression, they might have a hard time understanding things like the "slut walk" and other acts of linguistic reclamation.
It is very difficult to design UIs in the desktop style that can stand up to DPI changes like that and not end up with text rendering problems or pixel cracks between elements.

That's why OS X only supports 1x and 2x HiDPI; everything else just resizes the whole screen.
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Because the cause of the problem is Skype's (and iTunes) poor development, not Windows.

I didn't state the problem is invalid, I merely provided anecdotal evidence from my years of experience in using DPI scaling in Windows to demonstrate that it's a non-issue.
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Website looks good (Still waiting on your email - No worries though)

A couple of things spring to mind which other HN'ers have addressed, but I will put my thoughts down regardless

1. Having an iPhone app is great - given the fact that you can take pictures, log your location - but for a large part of my day, I have a full blown keyboard and a 25" screen - and not being able to use that to jot down thoughts defeats the purpose. Everyday.me and Day One get this right (although they both have issues that I will highlight next). Case in point - I need a client on the desktop. Momento, the app that I have been using for close to 2 years now sucks at this, but they get almost everything else right.

2. With regards to having a client, perhaps an API would be nice - one that someone can run with to build a desktop client. I have no issues using a web interface, but Day One gets this right - a rich client, a keystroke away to capture something really quickly. Furthermore, it gives me the ability to post longer - like an end-of-the-day entry covering how I felt, and how I thought the day went

3. Export - I want my entries out of the system. Momento (my current journalling app of choice) gets this right. They give you ways to back up your entire journal, and a way to export your entries as plain text. This is my current issue with Everyday.me (I know they allow you to export entries now, but it's only specific ones - No bulk export capability)

4. Security - This is the reason I stopped using OhLife - I still post once in a while, but all my truly personal thoughts go in Momento. You mentioned that you already have Dropbox integration on your list, and that would certainly be nice. That does not mean I will not post to blobly but I need to know that security is a top priority.

5. Tags and potentially Address book integration - Momento gets this right, to some extent - But tags not only help search better, they provide (at least to me) some context to "group" things together.

6. Multiple photos per entry - Momento gets this right, Day One not so much.

7. Integration with other social networking sites - Twitter/Facebook at a minimum. Momento gets this right. Another one is the potential to hook into an RSS feed (Momento does this)

7a. (Addendum to point no. 7) Here's my approach to it - I export my phone entries, text messages, photos, momento entries, and calendar entries every month. I am working on a script that "stitches" together all this information to give me a full view of what my day looked like. I think for most this would be a little extreme, but getting close to it would be nice :)

With all that said, let me say that your app looks gorgeous, and I can't wait to give it a spin on my phone (once I get my invite :D) - I would love to have a one-stop full featured journaling app on my phone (and desktop). I wish you well - and you can be certain you will be getting some feedback from me - and something tells me, even some money :)

Good luck.
I would disagree. What reasons are needed? It's a startup: we know they ran out of money. The rest is probably personal or not worth delving into. Apologetic tone? Save your PR spin. Eight days to migrate? Well, the users probably all have copies of the photos anyway. I liked the note. Short and to the point.
Significant, yes. Most important, not established.
If you needed to know, you would have already known.
THIS!

I like the project though. Real initiative here, but also great advice that must be heeded.
I'm proposing that patents encourage the production and disclosure of new technology, and that the inventor has a temporary monopoly with which to re-cooperate the costs of doing so.
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I loved this video. It seems like you guys have a really kick ass culture.
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Keep on improving. You've done great. Make sure you monetize it too.
I wish there were a service startups could use when they're setting up new products which will provide a 60-90-180-etc. day transfer period for users if the startup ever shuts down, runs out of money, etc. Maybe integrated with more mundane disaster preparedness for the startup, too -- a datacenter ready for them if theirs is flooded, etc.

It would almost make sense for AWS or someone else already providing the infrastructure to do this for a few percent premium on every bill.
"Linux kills everything that cannot differentiate."

Yeah, and Windows differentiated by offering an insane level of backward compatibility which makes both developers happy (they don't have to maintain and patch their apps as much) and users who don't have to lose their favorite piece of software, which is why Linux has never overtaken the desktop. Windows runs the apps people want : MS Office, Photoshop... the mac also runs some of those but you can see how fickle backward compatibility is with Apple. You can install Windows 8 on the early macintels, you can't install Mac OS X Mountain Lion on those. MS offers better support for older Apple hardware than Apple themselves.

Apple is not going to survive android on the long term unless they truly manage to turn the iPhone into a fashion statement and multiply their effort to make it look like jewelry. Apple revenue depends entirely on the iPad and iPhone nowadays, Mac aren't making them any money. Unlike Windows, people don't have any sort of long term, or big in $ investment in mobile software. Transitioning from iOS to Android is not like going from Windows to Linux and losing Office, Photoshop, thousands of dollars worth of a game library built over a decade..
The worst I've gotten from a recruiter was just a few days ago. All it was was an email with the subject "Please call me right away thanks", and the message only contained his sig, including his phone number. This is bad in so many ways I wouldn't even know where to begin enumerating them.
You can never trust a client you don't have absolute control of. Unless you have such control, you can only assume the client is compromised.

I understand that your scenario calls for trust where none is warranted†. That's risk. And your mitigation is to be clear how you handle a compromise (likelyhood).

† As does probably 99.9% of sites on the Internet.
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It kind of makes sense. It's a page targeted at their users, not hacker news commenters.

Although it's not a very good page for their users, either.
Indeed, at the rate companies are pushing and customers buying updated versions of gadgets a program like this is way better than dumping unsold or outdated tablets on a landfill.
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So Meles was Tigray, and the new guy is from Wolayita, not Amhara. Why would these guys want to stamp out local cultures and replace them with the Amharic language?

I think rule #1 with regard to Ethiopia is that non-Ethiopians don't know what they're talking about, no matter how well-intentioned they are.
FOSS is a wonder of the world. The idea that we can all run this stuff, read the source, and make changes is incredible. There is still plenty of opportunity to make money as a developer. If you have any skill at all, you should not feel threatened by a tweet scheduling app. And there's still software at $25 and up, even in the App Store. Just aim at a market that will pay for quality apps.
Given that all companies are evil (and they certainly all are if you cherry pick enough evidence), it seems reasonable to pick the most open, unlocked ecosystem so that at least you have the freedom to control your exposure to it, leave the system and exercise your free will.