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Here's an example that I encountered a few days ago:

I only had an iPad (something more and more common, keep in mind their growing popularity) and wanted to download the Song "Alfur ut ur hol" by Björk (which you can't buy in record stores or the iTunes store - it's a rarity recording she released when she was 11 - but it's available on Youtube).

While there are youtube-downloading-apps on iOS, none of them were able to convert the downloaded movies into audio-only files.

Then I found youtube-mp3.org. The site, together with the iCab iOS web browser (which can download files) did the trick.

It's possible that this is not his normal work style, but that the director asked him to move the head a lot to add some action or to conform to some preconception of "what painters normally do".

I'm not trying to make you look bad, I'm just reporting my opinion. It's great that you're answering, already a big plus in my book. Private email sent.

Nice to hear you answer, thanks!

- I'm located in Switzerland.

- Search example that failed are numerous, I added one to my original post.

- while that setting did indeed do the trick, I contest your default setting. I delete my cookies quite frequently, which will kill those settings. I see that you're trying something good with that feature (preserve my query string from reaching the target site). In this case, your implementation is just not good enough. You should not mess up my browser history in any case. Can't you do this differently?

"Most startups don't fail at building a product. They fail at acquiring customers ". I disagree, at least when it comes to me and duckduckgo (which Gabriel founded). Here's why:

Three months ago, I started using ddg instead of Google. I'm quite disappointed:

- search speed is slow. Instead of <1s, it's often more like 2-3 seconds.

- search quality is adequate to quite bad. Example: "amazing spiderman rotten" (I was looking for the rotten tomatoes page for that movie that just came out, entered a typo) gave the right page for google, while the right page is not amongst the 20 top results in ddg.

- while ddg says that they don't track me, the still insist in not using direct links in their search results, but indirect results (via duckduckgo.com/l/u?=...). Not only is this insincere, it also messes up my browser history: when I visit a page through ddg, Safari lists that strange ddg url in the browser history instead of the target page.

Now, Gabriel was succesful at "aquiring" me. I tried it out. For a long time. And I'm on the verge of leaving. Why? because he failed at building a good product.

But maybe that is exactly why he is failing. He is focusing very much on these other "most likely cases of failing", while ignoring the very reason he is failing in this instance.

--edit: examples, conclusion.

It apparently needs the user to move to get a position lock.

This will not work well with the typical use case: user is in a shopping mall, needs to go to the bathroom, wonders where the closest one is and where he is, stops walking, opens his phone and starts the app.

Expected outcome: the app says "toilets are 50 meters to the right".

If the app now tells the user "I have no idea where you are. Please walk in a random direction in a straight line for 20 meters and I will try to find out, then tell you where you are and where the closest toilets are, which means that you might have walked in the wrong direction to begin with", the user is not really happy.

Indeed, it dropped off the front page several times: http://hnrankings.info/4217596/ (the rank gets updated every 5 minutes, but at 11:55 and 12:20 there is no data point in the graph.)

Compare it with a more typical curve: http://hnrankings.info/4216152/

Article might just be very controversial, with lots of up and downvotes.

Another wish to add to that: independence from any one cloud provider. So if amazon has a power failure, or Dropbox gets asked to turn off your account, or MegaCloud gets raided by your favorite 3-letter acronym, all your files are still there. And you did not need to upload your data 3 times (in other words, there is a protocol where cloud providers sync their data for you).

Not sure if this is technically feasible, though - for example, what happens if an interceptor gets hold of service 1 and tells the other services to delete everything as part of the synching process?

Article also mentions the wish to tell cloud providers to search through data for you (without you needing to download everything) while withholding the decryption key from them (that's how I read it, anyway). I'm not sure this is possible either.

If people from SL are asking themselves why it didn't grow more, here's my story:

In the past 5 years, I've spent about 5 hours reading and watching videos about SL. And yet I've never once downloaded and run the client. You know why? Because the whole gameworld is just too ugly.

There are many reasons for its ugliness. A missing lighting engine, that most of it is very empty, bad frame rate / low drawing distance, and also the fact that it's all made by the users and the majority of users don't have any taste.

I'd rather spend my time in WOW or Zelda, they appeal much more to my eyes. Or, you know, meet in real life.

That's very interesting. Do you have any sources to back this up?

What do you mean by "We'll start keeping a majority of funds in cold storage as deposits grow"?

Are you re-investing some of the deposits, and the ones that you don't touch are in this so-called "cold storage"? If yes, what percentage do you keep in cold storage, and why don't we get interest if you reinvest some of our deposits?

The "glare handling" pictures makes me wonder why anybody would buy a portable device (=to sometimes be used outdoors) and be happy with those outrageous reflections. I mean, you can barely see the content!

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6023/the-nextgen-macbook-pro-w...

With the new decice, Aplle again tries to makes those unusable mirrors the only display you can order. I'll pass.

Of course ICANN is wrong. There just in it for the money. Their TLD-creation is like a money press, why stop?

Good point, I missed the calendar app.

Moderators should note that I'm commenting on a disparity between the article contents and its title. If you know that there are more pivots that's all fine and dandy, but the article only mentions 2 and that's not enough not warrant the "many" in the title, imho.

"Many"? Article only mentions 2: from life broadcasting to web broadcasting, then to twitchtv (specialized game broadcasting).

That page is very badly designed. Why is the workspace picture not shown directly below each name? I don't feel like clicking 20 times to look at 2 workspaces.

What happens if you span the desktop across the internal retina display and an external non-retina display and then move a window so that parts of it are on both displays? Is it just double size on the non-retina (which would be bad)? Or does it get drawn twice, in both resolutions, and each display gets their appropriate resolution (which would be preferable, but might be overly complex and taxing on the hardware)?

Wow. How many photons that bounce of the planet, travel a few lightyears and get caught in this 40m mirror are we talking about here? 1 million per night? Are we close to the limits of detection or what else is possible?

Interestig. There is another blog that is strikingly similar in scope: http://finerthings.in/web/

Phil Schiller clearly has egg on his face.

Until Apple stops their stupid policies and starts communicating openly, they will embarrass themselves again and again.

Stop that. The guy is dead. Look forward.

Not small. It's 230+ years old and one of the top influental newspaper in the german speaking part of the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NZZ

Yes, there probably aren't any at this time. I'm just outlining my main points of critique to suggest further improvements.

For mismanaged sites where the site owner changed URLs and could have added proper redirects but instead chose to just show 404s for all of them (article mentions the examples of github and java, but there are countless more), there should be a wikipedia-style community-driven reference project with better redirects. Is anybody working in this direction?

Looks nice, but that dropbox-export is not enough futureproofing for me. When I rely on something like this, I need to be sure it will keep automatically existing even if any one company goes down.

In your case, I should not have to manually initiate the dropbox backup, and it should not rely exclusively on one cloud provider.

So there sould be something like a RAIC (redundant array of independent clouds) and then your service would be provided on top of that.

With those changes (which are non-trivial, unfortunately), I would happily use the service.

For iPhoto: go to ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/Originals - there are all your unaltered Photos.

Why didn't you do a backup before using such a risky feature, or use the feature on a copy of your original files?

Just found out about Yii. How would you rate it?

That $160 includes the royalty. It's the decision of each photographer whether to ask for one. If you don't like that, google for "royalty free stock photos", which is the much more popular way of licencing photos.

Even Getty has such a section: http://www.gettyimages.ch/creativeimages/royaltyfree

Of course, the really great looking photos often are not royalty free, which is why Getty features those on that page.