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I found the site by way of an @AndroidDev tweet [1], and I was incredibly frustrated. Their old documentation [2] was completely useless, and this is even worse. Am I supposed to purchase and learn proprietary design tools to develop an effective Android app? This turns me off to the platform as a whole.

[1]: https://twitter.com/#!/AndroidDev/status/157570583800971264

[2]: http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/i...

This concerns me about my investment as a user in Twitter. Even if it's only 3.75% of Twitter the company now owns, I don't necessarily want to support the venture of a Saudi billionaire. Maybe if they are really proponents freedom of speech and the press, it isn't such a bad thing.

This stance paid for by the entertainment industry!

I vowed never to use Netflix again when I realized they cancel your subscription instantly instead of giving you the month you pay for (a la WoW or any other properly run service). I also take every opportunity to bad mouth them for this awful business practice. Yeah, it's in the terms, but it's shit.

Someone needs to teach them what an MVP is. I was looking forward to Diaspora, a year ago.

Yep, I'm actually kind of excited to hit the news stand in the morning in hopes of getting a few. It's definitely a first.

I hate Apple, but I'm not going to lie, I'm teary-eyed right now reading all this. I can certainly see from the comments how much he has inspired everyone, and for that I am grateful. Thanks Steve.

Same here. Tried a friend's Spotify account, and I couldn't find any of the music I've been listening to recently. Most of the stuff I listen to is relatively new that I find through The Hype Machine. Seems to me like Spotify is going to be pretty slow to add new, non-mainstream music. /hipster

Ah, that is quite a plague. Thanks for the info.

The app looks really nice. Only feedback is some labels are some airline labels are missing on the search results (G2, Gingerbread).

My feedback is more specific to Hipmunk in general. I want to use and love it but the prices have been off each time I try. For instance on jetblue.com right now I can get a ticket for tomorrow JFK -> AUS at 9:30AM for $423 but on Hipmunk it's $797. I'm guessing you might be pulling the price by flight time and not flight number. There is another flight leaving at 9:30 which is $797.

I agree it was probably a little bit of a lost opportunity for YC. I was interested in talking to a couple of the YC companies but it was hard to find them in the crowd.

Overall I can't complain though. Personally I met some great people at the event and got to shake hands with some alumni. It was a great experience and not a missed opportunity for myself. Thanks YC for that. I will take the sentiments toward the NYC startup scene as a challenge. :)

After waiting for this for a long time, I'm disappointed to hear the specs of the fire. I hope it really isn't android 2.1 with their own UI. I have faith in cyanogen to fix it though :)

I think the scala/lift books are available free in PDF form.

A free nontechnical book I recently read is fitness related: brain before brawn.

I'm really digging that quote. I never thought about the paths I have chosen away from corporate life (assuming that is what he is referring to by "navy") to be fun, just that they were more interesting. In the end, I like to think that it is about fun.

This has been out a while and I always thought it had a lot of potential, but they haven't really pushed it.

One barrier to more use of the service myself is their URL strategy. I don't know my own link and, in the past anyway, it wasn't easy to navigate to my profile.

Thanks for sharing. Running through this tied up some loose ends for me.

TC in general seems to have been very sensationalist lately. I now take them about as seriously as I do Daily Mail.

I always thought I was weird for liking XFCE more than Gnome. Sounds like I'm not and it's time to give Xubuntu a full-time shot, especially with Unity being the default in Ubuntu now.

I really enjoyed that series and thought it was very well done. I hope it's even better on Bloomberg.

I didn't go through all of their links, but I found their first, the Benjamin Franklin NYT post, quite interesting.

I'd have to trust Mozilla to keep up in the browser space before I considered using an OS developed by them.

I agree that this makes development suck. I run a fairly popular Android app in my spare time, and I do everything I can to make it the best software possible. Now that I can generate an APK for specific device issues is just an overwhelming amount of/annoying work for a side project.

I personally use Toodledo [http://www.toodledo.com/]

This is how I felt: http://imgur.com/1FFB0.jpg

My hero.

There's a good amount of fear mongering going on here. I've been using App Engine+Python exclusively for side projects since its release and never run into these problems.

2011, year of the Linux desktop

I could see myself using your service to charge monthly for access to a webapp. Do you have any plans for that, so that a user has to pay only once per month instead of each click? Apologies if that is already in place.