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Every time Facebook tries to copy Twitter like this, it just makes their product even more confusing and unfocused than it was before.

GoDaddy is the worst company ever. Earlier this year I finally took the step to transfer all of my domains to a different company, and I haven't looked back. Instead of transitioning slowly over time, I just decided to pay the money and transfer everything - it felt a lot better to just be free of them. Imagine a company so awful your customers are willing to pay extra to not be a customer!

One painful part of the transfer experience is that their "DomainsByProxy" service is entirely separate, even though it is sold alongside their domains as an add-on. My problem was that I had originally signed up with it years and years ago, and they do not keep your email or password in sync with your GoDaddy account. So I couldn't "release" the domains from DBP to be transferred without going through this crazy process of sending in forms and a copy of my drivers license to reset the account info. It was awful.

This is awesome. Really good for people who live in an apartment and aren't there during the day to take deliveries.

...but what surprised me more about this was that it was shared from The Daily.

I agree also, you really need a lot more information up front to tell people what the service actually does. Especially for a service like this, I don't see a lot of value hiding the content behind a registration wall.

I think the subtext is that. before, the Google line on the acquisition is that it was solely for the patents. Possibly to not piss off their other partners who are making the hardware that competes with Motorola. To my knowledge this is the first Google exec to admit publicly that having control over both the hardware and software platforms could make better products.

It is really arguing the extremes, when reality, the best place to be is somewhere in between.

Designers and developers should of course have good understanding and empathy for what the other person does. But at the same time, they shouldn't have such a complete understanding that it negatively impacts their primary role.

For example, if you're a designer, you don't want to fall into the trap of only incorporating things into your design that you already know how to code. You might leave a lot of innovative stuff out that would make the product better. If you're a developer, you don't always want to be bound by the existing design constraints either. It's a back and forth discussion between the two halves.

It wasn't working when it was first posted, but just now I was just able to get it to load.

I think it's possible that this extreme tab usage could be pretty common. I don't have 500 tabs like him, but I can get into the 50-100 range. For me, too many tabs isn't the problem - it's just that browsers can't seem to handle so many tabs without using up all memory.

I think that's what in part makes him Steve Jobs. If anyone else asked you to do it you'd think they were insane. But if Steve Jobs asks you to do it, you not only get on it right away, you also feel like the fate of the entire world rests on your ability to change the color in the icon to the right shade of yellow.

I like the idea of supporting your managers in front of employees even if you don't agree. Address it later in private so you don't undermine them.

CNBC had a good special on McDonald's a while ago called "Big Mac: Inside the McDonald's Empire."

They talk to a franchisee, and to me it looks like you need to work really hard to be successful. You're basically the CEO of your own business with your own money at risk, so it is nothing like "passive monitoring." Anecdotally, it's pretty clear to me when you walk into a McDonald's how much the owner cares about it - some are pretty impressive, but some are also awful.

http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=1409843942

I wonder if this is going to become even more of a problem as OS's become more gesture-based like iOS and Lion. All of the three- and four-finger swiping actions in Lion are amazing and useful, but only if you know about them and can remember them. Apple stores do a pretty good job of educating people when you go in to buy a new Mac, but "pinch with 5 fingers to open launchpad" might be harder to learn than "cmd + f"

Give me a break. The older generation "dreamed of greatness" and now no young people do anymore? Isn't this the same thing that every generation says about the previous generation?

The tools and technologies that are already changing the world today, and that will change the world tomorrow, are being worked on by people who might fit the description of San Francisco hipsters. Who do you think works on Twitter? Facebook? Who do you think works on the iPhone? These are products that are already having an impact on society, and it's not just the old guys who are working on them. And as for the "current" generation, what about companies like Square, Heroku, and SimpleGeo? Is that what you call mediocrity? Get off of your high horse.

I agree, I have never quite understood this meme of mocking hipster stereotypes. It's mean-spirited and in most cases very hypocritical.

In some ways I feel like a lot of Android fans want coverage of tech to be fair in the same way that Fox News wants coverage to be fair and balanced.

Just because many sources these days are very positive on Apple and its products, I don't think you can necessarily say that they are Apple-biased. The fact is that Apple is killing all of their competitors right now on almost every measure - product design, profit, etc. Insisting on more "even" coverage of their competitors just isn't warranted because in most cases the competing products don't deserve that much attention or consideration.

Gruber, Asymco, and Marco tend to be very positive on Apple, but when the company screws up, they'll be as harsh as anyone else. For a recent example, look at their coverage of the App Store's change in-app purchase and subscription policies .

To paraphrase Steven Colbert, sometimes reality has an Apple bias.

They use the word "fanbois" to sound pejorative, but isn't this a good thing? It basically means that people are passionate about your company and its products. It means you're relevant. It has always been like that with rivalries like Mac vs. PC, Nintendo vs. Sega, and now Android vs. iPhone/iPad.

I'd be interested to know how Google feels about automatically generating content from other content like this - at first glance it looks like a regular article, but after you read a few it's clear that they have some sort of dynamic template for the content. More legit than a content farm I suppose, but it's not necessarily high quality either.

the SEC already makes filing data available in machine readable format - it's called XBRL. I don't think all companies are on it now, but there's a mandate that will force all companies to eventually do it

marketing campaign or not, I think it's really clever. If all marketing campaigns were even half as interesting, we'd all be a lot better off.

When the package says "100% juice," I think most people assume that means that the juice is squeezed from the orange and it goes into the carton without any processing or additives. I'm sure that's the impression that they're trying to give by putting that on the label. The fact that this isn't the case, and that the juice is actually highly processed in a very unnatural manner, is pretty alarming.

I have never been able to get RSS to work for me - I'd always subscribe to a bunch of feeds, then they'd pile up into hundreds of unread posts, and then I'd just go numb to it and end up visiting the site itself like I did before.

But now, Twitter has filled this hole for me - most every site or writer of significance has a Twitter feed, and it's easy to follow them. I don't feel obligated to read down this huge stack of accumulated posts, so there aren't any mental barriers to use it. In addition, you read the content on the site itself, in the format that it was meant for (or you add it to Instapaper). Twitter is sorta like RSS for normal humans.

Whenever I almost get hit by a car while I'm walking around San Francisco, I'd say that 8 times out of 10 it's a Prius... so this is definitely welcome.

Are you just listing a bunch of random logical fallacies? Every one of his points is real, even though they have a (deservedly) aggressive tone.

The "canon is to simple have the better product?" What happens when you're a small developer and a company like Microsoft or Lodsys or Intellectual Ventures holds some ancient patent to an obvious feature you just happened to include in your product? Having the best product in the world isn't going to help you very much.

I think his point is that it's just a tool that makes it a little easier for startups to incorporate machine learning into their products - like he said, it may be appropriate for some types of problems, but not all. But I'm sure we'll start to see more tools like that become more widely used.

When AJAX first came out, not everyone knew how to do it - but now, everyone can drop in jQuery and do all sorts of complex things relatively easily.

Could it be more of a community or environmental thing than some inherent quality of the coders in LA? For example, up here in SV startups are everywhere, and you can't go anywhere without bumping into someone who works at a startup or major tech company. It's in the air. So it's a lot more likely that an engineer has a friend who sold their company for millions of dollars or who made a bunch of money working for a company like Google. Or maybe all of their friends are working at startups right now. This kind of stuff makes startup life seem a lot more viable, like "yeah, I'm just as good as them - I could do that." I imagine this concentration is much harder to come by in LA.

I think Mark Suster is on the right track with a program like Launchpad LA - bring a bunch of entrepreneurs in together and create that community around startups and risk-taking.

I know this is an indirect solution, but why even have papers in a business course anyway? I was a business undergrad, and after all of the lower-level BS classes, it was all about projects and discussions in class, not paper writing. Any long-form writing I had to do was in-class writing essays and stuff on exams, where you can't copy paste.

I know a lot of the CS people on here look down on business education, but the real value in it is not learning specific facts like "what is WiMax" but instead being able to work on a team to create something and being able to communicate and discuss business problems intelligently.

The team projects and case study discussions is really where I learned things. Traditional assignments in a business course don't really make a lot of sense.

That's pretty awesome - it's like The Tell-Tale Heart way of dealing with cheaters

Really cool - for some reason attaching geolocation to abstract pictures make them seem so much more real and interesting. Seems to be cracking a little under HN traffic?

Absolutely not. The whole nature of twitter is about its spontaneity and real-time nature. Can you imagine if someone had to go through the extra thought step of "which group should I send this to?" every time they sent out a tweet? It would ruin the service.

Also, a primary difference between Facebook (now Google+) and Twitter is that Twitter was assumed to be public by default. It is a public form of communication, and the Google+ style of sorting your messages into specific buckets of people doesn't fit it at all.

I think this is why there is such a huge opportunity for Amazon - they are the best in the world at selling stuff, and if they can leverage that experience with apps (reviews, search, recommendations, etc), the whole interaction of buying and selling apps will be a lot better.