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Does iTerm2 not work for you?

You sound like you have a good idea of what went wrong. But surely you got a lot of things right too. What were they?

It would sound like your mistakes point to a lack of research. It sounds like your co-founder isn't a friend, so you didn't know enough about him to get started with.

Finally, this isn't legal advice, but don't give up on the trademark situation yet. Especially if you haven't launched. I'm not so sure the other party would be willing to pay lawyers for a lawsuit, especially onsidering there isn't much to get out of small bootstrapped startup. Also, if you haven't launched, then you dont have very much to lose. You haven't established a brand yet, so perhaps this might be the best time to tweak with this. And of course, you'd want to improve on your branding research this time.

This is awesome! A simple idea, wonderfully executed. Couple of features I'd like to see: * An RSS/Atom/whatever feed of the articles, so they show up in my feed reader/Calibre * The exact same thing in reverse; Often, I'd just like to boil the text off a web page and read it on my phone on the morning/evening train commute. This possibly changes the scope of your weekend hack to something a lot more complex..

Not really. It would look extremely awkward to announce a new port standard and then announce a brand new device that does not have that port, nor comes with a dongle to convert. No ball dropped here.

I've been using Zite recently on my new iPad and I must say I love it! I've easily spent more time on Zite than on any other app since i've bought my iPad. Great work and congratulations!

It rendered somewhat incorrectly for me, but it was smooth and didn't crash. I'm on Safari on iPad 2 iOS 4.3.

Wow! I've always been looking for something of this sort but I've never found one. Thanks for the link!

I'm not entirely sure the comparison is valid. Music tends to have a greater cultural influence than video games. Not to mention having real-life idols that proscribe to the 'gangsta' way of life. In fact, I think its people rather than the music that causes the deeper cultural influence.

Admittedly, gangsta rap that describes the ways of inner-city life is an artistic statement. I suspect the parent was talking about the certain sub-genre of gangsta rap that eulogizes and encourages a violent life.

To answer your first question (even thought you asked the parent), I can't believe that music of any form can possibly be the cause of ills among the black community.

Is that a good thing or a bad thing?

Ah yes, I don't think it has any CRM stuff at all. Thanks!

I'm surprised no one's mentioned MediaWiki. Does it have some obvious problems I'm overlooking?

As much as I agree with you on your observations of Indian bureaucracy, I think this case is slightly different.

The RBI wants to treat PayPal like a bank and subject it to the same regulations as other banks (whether those regulations are fair or obstructive is subject for another discussion).

PayPal wants to run around and be bank-like, but not really a bank.

"High-speed rail and solar shingles? If that's the president's idea of meeting our Sputnik moment, then Houston, we have a problem."

Really? Why is that a problem? Also, there was more to the speech than these two items.

The author of the article seems pretty confused. He wants to see vision in the President's policies. And yet he dismisses 'green jobs' as ' that's an industry off in the future. ' and demands a solution for a 'here-and-now economy.'

Perhaps the author has a point to make, but I can't see it.

His post wasn't Twitter specific; he just used Twitter as an example.

But since you asked, here's a couple I can think of: * A rate limit on the number of Tweets per hour/day/week * Ability to follow or unfollow * Ability to index my tweets if they're private

This is a crucial step for safeguarding privacy/security if OAuth is to become more prevalent.

Any app may request any number of permissions from me; but I as a user should be able to choose what permissions it gets. I would take this one step further and allow the user to retroactively withdraw permissions (OAuth already allows for asking the user for additional permissions).

It could well be that they have a 'service provider' for bulk email that requires a list of email addresses and content to be handed over in advance. I can't imagine what effects it would have on user privacy though.

Or perhaps the text was written by someone who had no idea of how subscribe/unsubscribe worked and took a 'reasonable' guess.

Some furniture and houses are still made of wood. I was referring to massive skyscrapers made with steel skeletons. In much of the world (where wood is expensive or hard to find), reinforced concrete (with steel) is a popular choice instead. Furniture is often steel/iron skeleton with a fabric/wood layer over it.

He was pretty much on the dot about steel houses and electric trains and flying machines. Fairly accurate about the 'small library in a single volume' but grossly off the mark with:

'Before long it will be an easy matter to convert a truck load of iron bars into as many bars of virgin gold'

Apparently, the greatest inventor of all time had a pretty strong belief in chemical transmutation of metals.

Well called. I think this exercise is going to be vital to prove to the shareholders that Apple will be different without Jobs, but be just fine.

Sweet! You've done a terrific amount of research here. I just realized you have a pretty interesting profile too.

Great link, thank you!

I apologize if my question came off as presumptuous and/or snarky. My question was genuine. I assumed from the up-votes that my question's underlying basis was indeed correct.

Clearly, taking a photograph of an art work does not automatically create a copyright free version of the art. Nor does scanning a book.

Just to clarify: A photograph wherein a copyrighted image appears but is not the focus of the image might likely classify as fair use, I assume?

Modders, please upvote parent and downmod my previous comment.

I can agree with that. But you've made two implicit assumptions here:

1. The disease is diagnosed and identified as 'common' 2. There are no other complications because of say alcohol abuse, or a genetic condition with kidneys and so forth

Unfortunately, medicine today isn't deterministic. A lot of decisions are made with 'instinct' -- a fancy word for intangible experience. Human error is always going to be an issue. What might prevent human error in the design of said automated systems?

Given how rarely I'm in a hotel (probably twice a year and only on holidays, upper bound), I have no problem paying a little (or twice) extra to talk to a real human being. For instance, I'd like to be able to converse about the hotel, good restaurants and some interesting places around that the locals visit. A pleasant conversation after a painful flight is always relaxing and nice.

'The Comfort Xpress Hotel in Oslo now allows guests to reserve, check in and check out without ever having to deal with a pesky human.' I love technology as much as the next geek, but there are some places I would really like to deal with pesky humans -- hotels, hospitals and restaurants come to mind.

I suspect he defines 'crazy' as being unconventional and different and 'productive' as 'great success'. With those definition, I think he means to say that your chance of success significantly improves if you attempt something unconventional and different. His strategy is similar to the many epsilon greedy strategies in CS. Reasonable don't you think?

How is that different from say, a CC licensed photograph of a car or an iPhone?

I keep hearing this phrase a lot but I'm not really sure I understand what it means. What does 'Social search' encompass? Searching for people by their attributes?

Possibly. I should have been more clear though; I really meant 'study' instead of 'video'. I'm ecstatic because of this: 'The ability to dissect in detail the spatial and temporal localization of key molecular and cellular events during P. falciparum merozoite invasion provides a powerful platform to explore strategies to block the process.'

That's from the discussion section in the paper.

Your cynicism is highly warranted though. Its taken awfully long for us to understand this common and curable disease; there's no reason to expect that a usable vaccine will be available soon.