glennos

For those wondering...

"Bitcoin days destroyed for any given transaction is calculated by taking the number of Bitcoins in a transaction and multiplying it by the number of days it has been since those coins were last spent."

My favourite part of this announcement is:

* Okay, so sue us: we launched on February 29. Please don’t sue us.

I'd second that. Great site! Not understanding the reported concerns regarding OAuth, usability, etc. Works for me.

Only problem I'm hitting is 500 errors, which I assume is because the server is getting smashed. Good problem to have!

My vote goes to 'feature' too. However, I didn't know about this behaviour, so perhaps Google should have a tooltip explaining what it parses.

50GB free for 3 months a year and then $10 per 50GB over... how very reasonable. The typical ISP in Australia "shapes" down to between 128-512kpbs. I've thankfully never experienced it, but I dread the day.

If the topic here is HTML injection, that's pretty creepy. What else are they using that technology for? Surely the cost isn't justifiable purely for excess usage notifications.

I don't envy the licence negotiations they must go through, but I'm always disappointed when these announcements are country limited.

In their defence, I notice that the blog is name spaced as "US". Still, boo.

Seems like it. If so, that was quick turnaround!

Look forward to giving this a spin. Has anyone tried it out yet?

As an Aussie, sad to see a homegrown company head overseas. Can understand why though. 30% corporate tax, lower EBITDA: Market Cap and I'm sure plenty of red tape. Tis a shame.

"This app is incompatible with all of your devices."

Seems that Android Jelly Bean support is patchy. I've got an HTC on 4.1.

Has anyone tried QuickOffice? Google bought the company/app to bulk up its office doc editing abilities. It's been on android for years and from what I can see, it's now built in to ChromeOS. Perhaps this covers the more complex documents.

Rumour has it that PETA forced the shutdown.

Thought the same as the above, but also have an issue with the design decision to use dots as placeholder text. Conventionally, dots indicate that text had already been entered into a (password) field. Even though they are slightly greyed, I think it's confusing.

I'm not a bike rider, so can't comment much on the utility, but I think there's some utility in generalising the application of the devices. Tile is taking a while to get to market, but is quite nicely generalised.

The trick will be to get scale so that the network features become a reality.

"We welcome other clouds."

Does anyone else loath the overuse/misuse of "cloud" by marketing departments?

They do (or at least used to). This came to mind for me too.

The platform they developed is called Murder: https://blog.twitter.com/2010/murder-fast-datacenter-code-de...

Yes, I think you're right. When they brought in priority inbox, then the split tabs for promotions, etc, I couldn't switch them off quickly enough. I aim to get my inbox to zero, so these just got in the way. I imagine that the vast majority of users let their inbox pile up into the thousands, so these features would be a huge help.

Thankfully these examples are optional, unlike the author's qualms.

They've done it tough, but they've signed licensing deals with Sony and EMI in the last 6 weeks.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/28/4668442/grooveshark-settle...

Can see it as a nice way to give them some money and sure, if you upload big files, useful. However, would really liked to have seen data encryption rather than stickers. Everything you do in Trello is stored in plan text. Not a huge fan of that.

When I saw this my mind went straight to 'can I use this as a raspberry pi audio only music player?'. Bought it already, but if you're interested in moving the whole ui into the app, I think you'll have a an even bigger swell of interest.

I agree. I intuitively started scrolling and the iPad frame started spinning while the content moved sidewards. Very disorientating.

This "service" seems extraordinarily twisted.

Not just 2007 from what I can see and given the last update was before Excel 2013 was released, it could be affected too. Do you use 2013?

--From the article-- Article ID: 213983 - Last Review: September 18, 2011 - Revision: 6.0 APPLIES TO Microsoft Office Excel 2007 Microsoft Excel 2002 Standard Edition Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition Microsoft Excel 2010

Yep, that's the sort of project path structure which was causing me grief. Excel then gave me a warning with a list of 6 possible issues, none of which mentioned the 218 limit.

"DOWNTOWN SF. 2015. QED."

As far as I know, this isn't an appropriate use of QED.

Similar colour scheme to iOS7.

Addressing points from this whole comment thread.

Regarding the relevance of Tim Ferris: I'm not overly familiar with his work, but from what I do know, he's very well known for writing best-selling books on applying a scientific method to life improvement. That's what this app does, but puts a nice interface and layer of gamification over it. If Tim also has the tech company exposure as mentioned in the article, why would he not be a valuable advisor? At least on paper, his credentials seem very relevant.

Regarding the manual input of readings, I'm not diabetic, nor do I have anyone close to me that is, so purely an outsiders perspective here. The limitation of cable transfer of data is that 1. You have to support X number of testers 2. You have to support X number of phones 3. It doesn't encourage you to monitor your variations throughout the day. The end result is probably diminished user experience and a much smaller addressable market.

If you watch their demo video, the process to enter your reading is very simple. It will remind you if you're being slack and rewards you if you add information beyond just the reading. For example, you can take a photo of your meal, and make notes on how you're feeling. Presumably the more that goes in, the more value you get out.

Used to work next to these guys. Great team, great idea, beautiful execution. Nice to see a self tracking app that does something really worthwhile.

I imagine the stress that this would take out of new parents' lives would be enormous. Apart from the physical and financial pressures, one thing that I think would weigh on me most when becoming a dad would be "are we doing this right?" Especially for those that don't have parents or an experienced role model to help them, at least as a concept this seems like a fantastic program for a govt to run.

This was a favourite back in the day. 90s ad for Nintendo 64.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzcsORSS4NQ