Can we avoid linking every April Fool's site to HN?
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It matters, for instance, if the cloud storage creates a unique file for each song a person uploads or if it creates 'efficiency' by pointing to a single file if you and I were to upload identical .mp3 files. It probably also matters if their online .mp3 auto-storage is moving a copy of the .mp3, or if it's only storing that you have a license to listen to that song.
These details will matter for determining if Amazon is actually offering storage or if they're actually offering streaming, if their existing agreements speak to streaming.
Right now that means TweetDeck, but if something better came along, I'd jump to it. It lets me do things I can't do in Twitter's tools (or that I don't easily see how to do).
So from an 'outsider' on this topic: boo!
If you're looking for other films that use color in interesting ways, check out the "Three Colors Trilogy" by Kieslowski.
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1) It was not a blind review. The editors knew Sokal was the author and knew he was an important scientist.
2) The editors asked for some revisions, and Sokal refused. http://linguafranca.mirror.theinfo.org/9607/mst.html
"Having established an interest in Sokal's article, we did ask him informally
to revise the piece. We requested him (a) to excise a good deal of the philo-
sophical speculation and (b) to excise most of his footnotes. Sokal seemed
resistant to any revisions, and indeed insisted on retaining almost all of his
footnotes and bibliographic apparatus on the grounds that his peers, in sci-
ence, expected extensive documentation of this sort. Judging from his response,
it was clear that his article would appear as is, or not at all. At this point,
Sokal was designated as a "difficult, uncooperative author," a category well
known to journal editors. We judged his article too much trouble to publish,
not yet on the reject pile, perhaps of sufficient interest to readers if pub-
lished in the company of related articles."
If I can get the shorter commute time of my car AND have the benefits of not having to pay attention, that's a huge gain even if my travel time isn't any faster.
Additionally, there are plenty of use cases that don't rely on interaction. Ideally, my car can drop me off at the door to the grocery store and go park itself and then come pick me up when I text it that I'm ready to go home.
I really don't see a 9 minute mile (basically a 10k in 55 minutes) as incredibly out of reach. I've gone from a 17 minute mile to a 13:30 mile in less than a month, and that was with a week break from the evening exercise. A 9 minute mile is a decent jog for someone that's at a healthy point.
By the way: evening walks are a great time to listen to podcasts or lectures!
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Also, there's a FB "like" icon on the landing page, but once I've logged in, it's gone. I don't know about others, but I'm more likely to like it once I've tried it! This is true both in Firefox and Chrome.
Which is what Apple does best in every category in which they're successful. Is the iPod the most feature-laden PMP? No. It is still the best across the categories that matter for most users. Same with the iPad: I know no 'normal' user with an iPad that doesn't like it. And they almost all have some point of "I wish x was better." It's just that the goods far outweigh the bads.
Oh, and their branding doesn't hurt, either.
Just like emerging through the "trough of sorrow" doesn't seem essential to a strong business yet still seems to do something like what my dad called "building character", I wonder if these ever-present difficulties contribute, somehow, to making people stronger. And even, perhaps, more caring of each other.
"But there's enough troubles already..." yes, yes, I know. But first, it's not a response to the argument. Second, though: what about when those troubles, and then the ones left after that, are eliminated? I've long liked "The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" http://www.kuro5hin.org/prime-intellect/ in part because it shows what might be wrong with just such a world.
Would Abraham Lincoln still have been who he was if he didn't have Marfan syndrome? Or what if he was never born because of prenatal screening? If we could eliminate manic depression, would we ever have another Emily Dickinson? Would Van Gogh still have show us the world in new ways if he didn't have epilepsy?
Eugenics has promise. It also holds terror beyond simply how it has been practiced in the past. We're already seeing the dangers of monoculture in agribusiness. Could a similar molecular 'cleanup' of the human genome pose similar dangers?
I'm curious why you list SF as the location, giving how well everything started out for you even though you were spread out geographically.
Two things that could make me like this more:
1) Let me get the alert on my computer. I currently set two alarms on my phone and one alarm at kukuklok.com. I'd immediately switch to your app if I could have it start talking to me on my computer at the appointed time, rather than having it call my phone.
2) Ring back if I don't push a button to confirm I'm up. Give me an option for if I just hang up the call, call me back. Nagging is good when it's trying to get me out of bed!
For what it's worth: this feedback is based off the landing page. I wasn't able to get the app to "call me now".
You'd have to make the argument that using this data is wrong, somehow. But to make that argument, you'd basically have to argue that users shouldn't be able to share their habits with whomever they want to. I doubt that argument can be made in a compelling way.
I'm surprised Google is pushing this further, and a little disappointed.
Applying isn't the same thing as "getting in"--it's one small part. Where do you apply to? What matters in the application? Do you apply under the course or do you apply generically? Are "A-levels" a thing that matters? What are people looking for in applicants, or how do you find out?
The "What city will you be eating in" lists S.F. after "other" -- straight alphabetization? Struck me as rather odd.