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I think you can feel and show emotion and still be very in control of your words and actions. Certainly looked like the administrator was acting very intentionally and in accordance with their values.

Do they have to maintain decorum all the time or just when they are on professional duty? In any case, I suspect those students were in perfect control of their feelings and very intentionally seeking to call out and disrupt the speaker.

It's a matter of focus. We'd love there to be more self-study content available for kids also. But MOOCs have a famously low completion rate and it's hard to stay motivated without interaction. So we're focused on connecting learners and teachers and having them interact over video chat.

This comment is bleeding edge: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Anews.ycombinator.com%...

> Not to mention there's very little incentive to amend these policies outside of generating general goodwill.

There is now an incentive for other companies to follow suit since savvy employees will value offers from Pinterest and other companies with this policy much more highly.

It's rare that a company like Pinterest breaks ranks on things like this. I hope they get a lot of goodwill from employees and applicants as a result.

I'd suggest reading Four Steps to Epiphany to learn about customer development.

We always prefer to be open and thought it right to inform our customers of the change.

I hope that openness is interpreted as a strength.

Ouch! That's not good timing.. working on it

Edit: should be good now

We've worked hard to ensure continuity and Antoine is excited to move forward, so hope you give us a chance.

An amusing aside - from the Exchange Visitor Host Site Handbook which is sent to supervisors of J1 program participants:

Signs of Cultural Adjustment Issues

“This country is really stupid…” - A common statement from trainees who are seeing a cultural trait of the United States through the experience of their own culture, not that of the U.S. A response might be, “Why do you suppose we’ve done that for the last 200 years?”

“English doesn’t have enough words…” - A common statement from trainees who cannot find a way to express emotions that are described in their native language, but not shared by the Anglo cultures.

“All I want to do is sleep…” – A common statement of depression brought on by the overload of change.

“I’m gaining a lot of weight…” – The change in food often results in weight gain. It is often difficult for trainees to understand how to use local and different foods for a healthy diet.

“Americans ask ‘How are you doing, but don’t really want to know…”– An accurate and common observation that may indicate the trainee is understanding what is said literally, but not hearing the underlying or cultural meaning.

“Why should I celebrate your holiday; I’m not American…” – A common attitude that could indicate the trainee is suffering a bit of cultural identity crisis.

It's a reasonably common question and we think we have some quite good answers - you can see a summary on our homepage.

Our customers tell us they choose us vs alternatives for: - the efficiency of our build / test cycle - the broader API out of the box including native UI components and integrations with 3rd party SDKs like Facebook, Flurry and Parse - the ability to push updates to the app without going through the App Store approval process using our Reload feature: https://trigger.io/reload

Cool!

> There’s even an Android app to make connecting easy and show useful status info plus an iPhone webapp you can save to your homescreen.

What does the Android app do to show useful status information? Can we expect an iPhone version in the future too?

Interesting! What version of Android / device did you take that screenshot with?

In general it doesn't appear to be fixed: http://caniuse.com/#feat=input-datetime

And I verified it just now in an Android 4.1 emulator going to this url to test: http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml5_in...

We provide native UI components and Facebook SDK integration out of the box.

Our customers tell us they value our super fast and simple build / test cycle and Reload feature: https://trigger.io/reload

You can develop for free.

When you want to package for launch or build with a premium modules, you need to pay at least for that month. You can downgrade at any time.

There are no run-time dependencies on Trigger.io servers except for using our Reload feature that allows you to push updates to your live app code: https://trigger.io/reload

=> Your apps keep working for end-users even if our servers disappear

We're backed by top-tier angel investors and value our own reputations which protects you when it comes to 1. That said, we do have some more upcoming announcements that will hopefully do more to assuage those concerns.

We'll add more case studies and user comments to our homepage, but in the meantime we've blogged about some examples:

Hojoki (my favorite): http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

Wine Box: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

Need An Accountant: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

Great pivot Sean: Zenbox has become critical for us in a very short space of time.

We use it with Stripe, Mailchimp and Salesforce so when we received a support email we can immediately see which plan the customer is on and the details of their recent builds. That allows us to provide personalized support faster.

Request: it would be great to be able to color code emails in our support inbox so we can see which ones are our Go Pro plan customers even before opening them.

With trigger.io you can use native titlebar and tabbar elements so you don't have to mess around with position:fixed http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.4/modules/topbar.html#modules-t...

:-D

You're right, you can see a simple transition here: http://jsfiddle.net/Fqbym/

You'd need to setup the Trigger.io build / test environment to see the full example code from the post used in a mobile app. Maybe next time we can show that to you in a screencast, we'll work on it.

No problem, thanks for your interest!

Reloads will still be applied beyond the limit - you'll just get a nice email from us :). In the future we will charge an overage rate.

Reloads do not block the UI, by default the old version is used until the updating is done. We check and apply updates when the app gains or loses focus, but you can modify the update behavior using the Reload API: http://current-docs.trigger.io/modules/reload.html#modules-r...

We were concerned with keeping our platform affordable when we launched our pricing: we added the $19 / month tier specifically for indie developers.

We grandfather plans so if you sign-up now you've locked in that pricing, which most people think is fantastic value relative to the time they will spend developing and iterating their app :)

Reload is a unique feature not available on other mobile platforms, but it is perfectly possibly to launch an app with us without ever using it or upgrading higher than the $19 / month tier.

Yes, many cool apps under development and we're working on a showcase page.

Here are a couple of other links for now: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wine-box/id525182844?mt=8 http://needanaccountant.org/MobileApp.aspx

Love it. Ignore them.

Yes, when we get a spare sec we do need to add that to our site. Here's a taster:

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hojoki/id525010205?mt=8

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fanium.app

http://parisboo.com/

http://itunes.apple.com/se/app/skovik/id465972002

Just wanted to point out that Trigger.io doesn't require you to code in a web browser as this comment implies. We don't provide any kind of IDE, web or otherwise.

We do provide a cloud build service so you don't compile the apps locally. You interact with that via command-line tools or our UI toolkit.

I was pleasantly surprised to see this write-up when I woke up this morning and then sad when I read your first sentence :(

We frequently blog about app development ourselves at blog.trigger.io but this write-up is nothing to do with that and we certainly don't pay for 3rd parties to post on their blog. What made you think that's what's going on here?

By the way, if you email us at support@trigger.io we'd love to send you a t-shirt! :)

Thanks for the write-up and your recommendation Peter :D

We're working on supporting more and more native features, such as the ones you describe. And you'll see from our blog that we're getting features out reasonably fast at the moment.

You can send a text message using our SMS module right now though:

http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.3/modules/sms.html

Absolutely!

You interact with our cloud build service via our command line tools - signup at https://trigger.io/forge to download that

Or our UI Toolkit: https://trigger.io/forge/toolkit/

Devs seem to prefer those methods than uploading code into some kind of web form. If you want information about how our cloud build service works, here's an overview: http://trigger.io/cross-platform-application-development-blo...

Not yet, we'll work on that... though of course you can install a Windows 7 partition on your Mac which is how I did the screencast