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I disagree, he actually makes it clear on multiple occasions throughout the piece that his critique is not about the end product of the logo and what could or could not have happened in the hands of a real designer.

His critique is about her unserious approach to the process, an approach that she then justified in a cloud of post-process rationalization. His critique is saying that if this is the way she treats the logo redesign (even celebrates the casualness of the approach) then is she actually a competent steward for the Yahoo brand.

I think it's a question worth asking and find that many of the comments here seem very focused on the debate about the merits of the logo design, rather than the question of brand management which both the piece, and thankfully your comment, at least attempt to address.
Have you looked at Fidus Writer? It's an open source collaborative WYSIWYG LaTeX editor. With the documents that I used to test it, I didn't notice any slowdowns.

http://fiduswriter.org/
They sure are glad there are people to applaud them for doing bullshit.
Unless there's no gravity giving your arms weight.
BitTorrent Sync. No central server, no accounts.
http://labs.bittorrent.com/experiments/sync.html
I assume your first sentence isn't referring to 0AD, since it is open source: http://trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/GettingStartedProgrammers
This was my concern with the system too.

I might be willing to give up some bandwidth if its opt-in, and is a trade for ads, but that is only if its a 100% anonymous p2p system.
I'd say the most annoying part (of so many annoying parts) was when he says:

"The hard part is defining what your brand is and what it aims to become."

And then somehow supports that with the opposite:

"Is Yahoo “whimsical, yet sophisticated. Modern and fresh […] human, personal […] proud”? Currently, Yahoo is not associated with being whimsical or sophisticated, rather it is mostly boring and dull. It doesn’t portray modernity or freshness, it feels obsolete and dated."

Apparently had he been hired, he'd have designed a logo to what he believes are Yahoo's current brand - dullness and obsolescence instead of what he suggested at the outset which is what you want your brand to be.
Most carriers in Norway has begun to charge the same rate for calls/SMS/data to all the Nordic countries (Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland) as local usage, so it's not that unrealistic.
It's a "Flexible funding" campaign, so they'll get the money even if they don't reach their goal. Any amount helps!
With regards to attracting international students, the effect of English being the language of academia cannot be overstated. If you compare Germany with countries like France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Japan or South-Korea, I would rather doubt that it attracts significantly less foreign students.
This doesn't add up at all. If it's about usage data, they would be buying Flurry in a heartbeat.

I'd bet the acquisition is more about a huge challenge Facebook faces, which hasn't had a good engineering solution for years, and for which the solution is still not clear: the chasm between the web as a platform and the native mobile platorms. A lot of FB's value has not survived trying to jump that enormous gap, and the major casualty has been the concept of "FB-as-a-platform". There is nothing equivalent to Flash in mobile through which they could control social games like they did back in the early Zynga days. Apple and Android are the ones who really control the platform, including payments, for social games and other apps on mobile. FB would love to have a platform they could control as tightly as Apple controls the app store, but they are simply closed down behind a technical barrier. Parse is probably the only successful initiative of a mobile platform that smartly sidesteps the control of the walled-garden-guards. It takes control of the back-end and its access code, and trying to leave the native client part to become just a UI skin, which is under the control of Apple/Google, but which in FB's dream scenario would become a minor part. I think FB's wet dream about Parse would be to find a set of calls that can be abstracted, which define the actual app logic, which can be implemented equally on Android/iOS/HTML5+JS and through which iOS and Android can become just skins to the real app... and offer that platform for developers to develop FB apps, which would run in iOS/Android/the web and for which the gatekeeper could be FB itself.
And the FedEX logo, which is so subtly brilliant.
As well as quite a few others you may have heard of (UPS, ABC, Enron, etc.)

http://www.paul-rand.com/foundation/identity
The author makes a much better point, underlining that it is not about the technical quality of the visual brand

> "This post is not about the technical quality of the logo. I am not writing about brand design, but about brand management. This is about a simple rule: Brand design follows brand management, not the other way around."

He clearly states that and how this kind of approach hurts the business. Yahoo's problem was not the logo, but who and what Yahoo is. The logo can help clearing that up if it is an integral part of the brand identity which goes back to the brand ambition, not to Mayer's personal preferences about colors and shapes.
It's pretty selfish of me, but I hope that Square and Stripe stay separate because I think they both keep their competitors, er... competitive, and honest. Both companies are a pleasure to work with, so I have a[n irrational?] fear that they'll become less customer focused by merging and becoming a large force in the payment arena.
THAT is a very interesting thought and addresses the article on its own terms. I was getting a bit weary of the designer-ego bashing. The idea that the story they are trying to tell is one of rapid innovation in small teams is a really excellent observation, and if that is what she is truly trying to accomplish it's very interesting.

That said, where does the 30 days of logos fit in? Just as a ramp to draw additional attention to the CEO blog post?
Everything we all do in life builds heavily on what others have done before us. The article explicitly states the components he used. The interesting part of the article is that he's attempting to take these extremely new and young components and use them together for something that helps them engineer components of their rockets. That's the way forward for many of these technologies is to find real viable use cases and refine them until using it for that given purpose is successful.
There's a lot of inference going on here that acknowledging the way things are inherently implies fear and worry which for myself personally is entirely false.

I've encountered various barriers, and I've encountered some of the same barriers more than once when my tactics to overcome them have failed. Ceasing to acknowledge that they're there doesn't mean that I'm sitting around somewhere paralyzed with worry. Throwing away all knowledge of what's failed, what's worked for other people, and so on and so forth and replacing it with More Self Confidence! however, I suspect would ultimately be just as ineffective as puttering around as a defeated emotional mess.

Maybe it's helped her that she's a product designer rather than a developer. That's the sort of career that we get mistaken as having. Maybe living in the Bay area helps. Either way, the article is a very simplistic view that realistically is tactic number one for many of us when we start to realize in first year computer science what we've gotten ourselves into. It doesn't take long at all for it to be clearly apparent that it's not going to be enough.
Yes I tend to agree here, that "optimal" strategy could be defined as making the least amount of mistakes. While a poker player also needs to minimize mistakes, sometimes to increase your expected value in future betting rounds or future hands one can make a mistake and get more value from it.

I'd like to add that how poker players generally define as their main goal, to maximize expected value: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expected_value
My understanding is that, contrary to GP's comment, the EU didn't 'mandate microUSB'. The original MoU required the manufacturers[1] to get together to decide on a common external power supply "to allow for full compatibility and safety of chargers and mobile phones". So while officially CENELEC decided the standard, in practice they were never going to not adopt the manufacturers' recommendation, which was microUSB.

As for amount of power, I believe the USB power delivery spec allows 5V devices to draw up to 10W of power (5V at 2A) - though it's fairly new (2012), so I don't know how widely used it is yet.

[1] Motorola, LGE, Samsung, RIM, Nokia, SonyEricsson, NEC, Apple, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments
There is no gender, color, language or height barrier to becoming successful and wealthy.

lmao

look, I'm very down with pointing out class and wealth play gigantic roles, but you shouldn't open up contending other things don't as well.
Is hiring so insane out west that companies are hiring people with 12 weeks of vocational experience 6 figures?
This actually makes me less willing to contribute. The worst outcome here is that they hit 15% of their funding goal and get stuck there, which means that there's enough money to do some work and to raise expectations of results from the funders, but not enough to produce a commercial (or near-commercial) quality game at the end of it.

With a Kickstarter all-or-nothing approach I can be quite generous (I'd probably go for the $100+ option here), safe in the knowledge that if nobody else offers any funding then I won't be the only one chipping in.
Yeah I think that's why I would like to add the human input and tagging. Because in a given context it might be a good move, but it also could be classified as a bad move in other contexts. I need to work that out.
Why link to the reddit page instead of the actual item?
Actual link: http://www.bubblews.com/news/1083267-super-powers-that-wont-...
Did eBay's new logo get this criticized? Because it's infinitely worse. Then again, the CEO probably didnt work on i, which seems to be the major gripe.
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This really looks like Age of Empires 2. It's not a bad thing I was a fan.
One point that is made more often is: "It's very probable that the NSA has newer techniques that remain undiscovered in academia."

How does one go around maintaining such an omerta?

Most cryptographic math is not that hard that it requires a team to remember. So anyone working in this field at NSA could (if true) become professor by working out that math in academia after his/her career at NSA. Or is there such strong commitment to secrecy that not one former NSA cryptographer would try to follow that route?
I'm not sure about "insane".
Over the years I personally moved from a dedicated TeX workstation towards using a Wheezy stable qemu virtual machine with TeX Live and Texmaker.
From there, a server-side online compiler isn't really too far off.
What issues do you have with chat apps?
Whether it's Skype, IRC, etc many people utilize chat clients for instant communication. I'm trying to get a feel for issues or desires people have with the currently available tools. These could be small; like the ability to use markup or displaying animated gifs, or much larger; the way conversations flow or ability/inability to easily reference chat history and utilize instant messaging as a source for tracking problems and solutions.
TA is a brilliant game.

There appears to be a renewed interest, with people playing the original TA on and offline.

Here's a site with information about many of the various mods, remakes, etc: (http://www.tauniverse.com/)

And here's a sub-site with lots of information about online play (http://tazone.tauniverse.com/)
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Postman - REST client packaged app release
You sure about your claims of insulin secretion in response to tasting anything sweet? I just googled up this article, which has references to a number of studies that generally disagrees with this notion: http://www.marksdailyapple.com/artificial-sweeteners-insulin...

The difference between these simple sugars and more complex carbohydrates is that (1) simple sugars are burnt really, really fast by our body, giving us an immediate fuel boost and (2) our body ends up generating insulin in excess.

Nitpicking, simple carbs can burn slower than complex ones. Eg some fruits vs white bread. Fruits will release fructose into your blood stream slowly due to fiber (and perhaps other reasons) compared to how quickly white bread will release glucose. What you really want is to know the glycemic index (GI) of the food you're eating. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycemic_index

White bread, and many other "complex carbs" which are devoid of fiber etc due to processing have very high GI, and are worth avoiding as much as simple sugars. And many fruits/vegetables have much lower GI's despite being packed with fructose, and so may be fine for you even if you want to avoid sugar due to insulin response.
The examples are a bit short (line length). It seems to be more useful with longer lines, and confusing with short lines.
For me spending weeks and months of valuable time achieving a utopian logo would be the greater waste.
I personally am very supportive of this let's get everyone we need to in the room and lets get it done approach. It bodes well for how MM might go about solving larger issues facing the company.
It's great for marketing, sure, though they're working on technology that they feel will help with the efficiencies of developing. I hope it helps.
Certainly the fact that the NSA is pushing elliptic-curve cryptography is some indication that it can break them more easily.

There are valid and sane reasons to dismiss RSA. Keys are becoming larger and larger for example.

What Bruce doesn't say is that the NSA made modifications to DES S-Boxes so that it can RESIST differential cryptanalysis better.

But overall I agree, I think the "Also, we are investing in groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities to defeat adversarial cryptography and exploit internet traffic." is just vulgarization for the people voting budget.

It doesn't matter if you break the crypto or the implementation as long as you provide intelligence.
I bet this is just a hoax and when the rage is at its peak, the real logo will be revealed.

TADA!

We ARE a whimsical company, yay for fooling all of you!
After the new revelations every site who's using SSL should be using Perfect Forward Secrecy with it, too. Right now, only a few known companies like Google (only for the search engine probably), DuckDuckGo, and Ixquick/Startpage are using it.

Considering NSA is collecting as many keys as possible, let's at least make their job exponentially harder by encrypting every session and every message with a new key with PFS. It's the least these companies can do, if they're serious about their users' privacy.

Also, as Bruce is saying - use 3072 bit or even 4096 bit RSA keys (or better alternatives) and AES-256 as soon as possible (hopefully within a year).
I suppose Elon Musk has spent every single past weekend starting a space program, and Marissa Mayer has no potential to ever achieve anything lofty enough to appease you ever in the entire future.
>Just look at the US: Their networks are inter-state, and as a result of having to cover such a large landmass it is almost non competitive. You have three companies controlling the whole country. Prices are extremely high and services/choice is poor.

Where are you getting 3 from? Verizon, Sprint,(CDMA) AT&T, T-Mobile.(GSM) That's 4. There was a proposal for AT&T to buy T-Mobile but the Justice Department blocked that merger to preserve competition in the cellphone business.[1][2]

[1]http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/technology/2011/08/justice-depar...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attempted_purchase_of_T-Mobile_...
The whole thing feels like a marketing play, to be honest. An attempt to gain some attention by riding the media wave about the new Yahoo logo.

There's nothing wrong with that, per se. Plenty of agencies, SaaS companies, and service providers do it. Hell, plenty of agencies get hired to do it on behalf of their clients.

What rankles here is the tone. As you say, it reads "bitter." The author's confrontational style does him no favors. It piques our interest in his agenda (whatever it may be), rather than in his content.
Is there any possibility that we can also hear the small projects?
Could you explain how this Directive is likely to cause this? It seems significantly more likely, in my eyes, that this Directive will simply end up with even less competition than we already have, as large mobile networks across the EU will buy up smaller ones in other countries in a bid to reduce their costs when their customers roam.

If we want mobile networks detached from mobile infrastructure, we're going to have to legislate that, not piddle around with legislating roaming fees.
In my case, I happen to be doing something completely different with AOSP. I'm not looking to build a webapp for the Play store. We are embedding AOSP on our own hardware.

Also, I don't care what Facebook says.
[Walthrough] Create a calculator from scratch using JS, CSS3 and HTML
At first I thought you meant The Song of Github, which is also really cool.

http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=ajacksified
If you embed Android yourself, you can make it do anything you want.
> This doesn't add up at all. If it's about usage data, they would be buying Flurry in a heartbeat.

- Flurry has $50MM in VC funding. Parse had $7.7MM. Something tells me Parse would have been a lot less expensive to acquire.

- Acquiring Parse also allows FB to pass off the acquisition as some sort of pro bono play as Mike Vernal did. Buying an app analytics company would be obvious and deprive FB of this +ve good will they got for free here.

- Parse has 100,000+ "apps", Flurry has 115,000+ "customers". Assuming these are pretty much equivalent as I do, Flurry is 8 years old, Parse is 2. Tell me which looks like the better deal?
Best Hotels + Most Competitive Prices = Hotelscan (Travel More For Less)
Wow, kudos to this perspective. I could have seen these design blogs rattling out a list of reasons why Yahoo's logo process isn't "The Right Way" -- namely because it reduces the process of designing a logo(and depending on who you ask, the entire brand) into a weekend with a small, internal team and the CEO. This kind of practice in a 10 billion dollar company is poisonous for professionals who chalk up big money on brand identity consulting and development. Imagine if Yahoo rewrote a major application in a weekend with a small team and the CEO; engineers would scramble to debunk that it could be accomplished, and work hard at discrediting the results of the Yahoo team who did it.

I think your perspective is probably the real take away from Marissa's blog post. Looking like small agile teams together in the trenches with big decision makers is the way bold ideas come out of Yahoo makes them sound leaps and bounds ahead so many other web giants. Thanks for your take, it was inspiring.
To be clear, it is allowed to be called a TeX if it passes a testsuite:

> To enforce this rule, any implementation of the system must pass a test suite called the TRIP test[39] before being allowed to be called TeX
Dead-simple content management system for static websites
Alternative Approaches to Writing SQL in Java
I fear that we will end up with a complex web of interdependent price regulations that is extremely difficult to keep up-to-date in the face of changing technologies.

I also wonder who will want to invest in next generation networks if the government regulates prices even in fiercely competitive markets.
Are We There Yet? Delivering a Contextually Aware Networked Vehicle
so, the whole logo is bad because Yahoo didn't pay millions of dollars on it?
16 Major Firms May Have Received Early Data From Thomson Reuters
My bad, meant programming language.
> "From 2014, customers would be able to keep costs down by selecting another provider for calls, texts and internet data services while travelling, if their own network charges extra for service abroad. They could do this without having to change their phone number or buy a new sim card."

Seems to me like one of the goals of the new regime is to move at least a bit away from the (somewhat clumsy) regulatory approach of setting price controls, in favour of an approach of reducing transactional costs in order to enable free-market competition between providers in different countries.
I think this kind of things (granting permissions) should be done by the Browser, not the application. If some technology can be abused (like using the microphone or the web-cam, and apparently, WebRTC) then the browser should ask if this is OK, not the web-application.
Where's the bit where he designs something rather than throws predesigned meshes around?

Also, I've seen people working in SolidWorks. They were far more impressive than this!
It looks like a purely javascript* solution that only renders math-mode anyway, so it would be extremely surprising if there was even the possibility to enable them.

*With the possibility of "shelling out" to 2 external services.
About four years ago I lived in Tanzania. I had a sim card from Zain(* ). As standard, it had no roaming charges in East Africa and parts of the middle east. In foreign countries, you could even make calls at the local rate. It's great to see Europe catching up.

* Now (I think) part of Airtel.
Heyah (Poland) have a 25PLN (£5) deal that give you 1.2GB to use anywhere in the EU. Calling and texting prices aren't so good though.
I tried Linux x64/FF23 and FF Nightly on a clean profile, and both leaked insane amounts of memory on this page, hundreds of KiBs per second. Interesting that according to about:memory, memory used by tab with choir.io stayed stable, but "heap-unclassified" grew uncontrollable. Bug in Firefox?
The Evolution of Ad Tech
How Pat Robertson raised millions on the back of a non-existent aid project
Just how I feel about his brand: he'll probably build it. And that is pretty big. We face a lot of disappointment when it comes to tech promises. They don't all have to me amazing and change out lives now, so long as they credibly _could_ later. Musk seems to actually implement things and has the power to actually drive a project forward, so this is neat.
Here's my question. Every comment I read here seems to assume that the roaming charges will be eliminated and that is that. Isn't it more likely the companies will raise prices elsewhere to compensate for the lost revenue?
Does the constant console clearing make this unwatchable for anyone else? I get 2 fps, one of which is the white console and the other is the next printed frame.
I think this is great, and I cannot wait for this to happen, but we also should credit some operators for their current efforts.

O2 launched in UK Tu Go app which I find really great. It basically allows you to make and receive calls (and text messages) over wifi . Not only it is great if you have spotty reception at home, but you can use your phone whenever you find public wifi abroad.
Aren't AT&T, Verizon, etc, nation-wide operators?
Very nice. I was expecting angelic voices, but the click, pop thing is nice too.
They already have a pretty good working game (http://play0ad.com/); this is "just" improvements.
I think this is the important bit from this article.

However, I have been working on a way to avoid being locked in to Parse, i.e. still use the Parse SDK (ViewControllers, PFObject, etc) but build in a kill switch to have the Parse SDK suddenly communicate with one’s own servers instead of Parse’s. Then to migrate out of Parse all one would need to do would be to build an API server endpoint that quacks like Parse. This would be a much less daunting task than getting every user to upgrade to a new app binary that didn’t use Parse. I thought of the name Parseport, i.e. leave when you want. A proof of concept is here[1].

[1] https://gist.github.com/stevegraham/6067333