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American tax dollars benefit Israel so I suppose it evens out. (meant as a joke and not flamebait)

This is the first live space launch I've ever watched.

Smoke and close up damage seem fake.

Sidenote: Annoying how simple slide animations like that on the homepage that I assume are using jquery are super laggy on the iPad itself.

Just like putting a urinal in a gallery doesn't make you an artist, right?

Most people who work in an agency still do it this way as the roles are divided by specialty.

Ah, that is until you look at the average salaries for developers versus designers.

Heck, even look at the average salaries of illustrators vs. graphic designers.

It's also MUCH easier for a developer to bootstrap and start a project on their own (be it a app, website, or add-on) than a designer/illustrator. The latter group can start some interesting projects on their own without needing to code but they are GENERALLY less scalable and lucrative.

Seriously. Oh development can be 5k and above but something also important like music? Pssh, screw that...

Minimal, clean, lots of white space... very European in design. I like the design a lot.

"Don't spend $100,000 on an app. Or even $10,000."

I think that's easy to say if you are a developer. If you are a designer, how is possible to not spend at least 10k on a developer?

It reminds me of why I first moved to Google from Yahoo/Webcrawler/Altavista/etc in the first place.

"Luckily, there was a second tablet available on stage that was working, so the changes for the hypothetical app were successfully written to the pretend database, and all was well."

That's not luck. I would think that a backup is almost always a must for any presentation.

Oh God yes. I've been to JFK/LGA/LAX/SFO and I've NEVER had to wait in immigration as along as I have at Heathrow. What is the point of even being part of the Commonwealth (as a Canadian) if Europeans get better treatment.

I'm Canadian. I went to Heathrow one time last year and waited in an immigration line longer than... well ever. It was around a 1 hour wait through the International line.

I don't even see a point of being part of the "Commonwealth" if there isn't a line for citizens, while EU citizens pass largely freely. Regardless of preferential treatment, I thought it was ridiculous that the EU wait time was 0 minutes (as in, there was clearly not a lineup at all) but the internationals line was incredibly long and they didn't bother adding more officers to deal with it.

Really? Most agencies I know in NYC/London/SF have a clear separation of roles.

Makes sense. It's not like we call the Macbook, Macbook Pro, or iPod by version numbers. Instead, at least browsing on Craiglist, it's usually by years (for laptops) and generations (for iPods)

Haha I hate to admit this since McDonald's is junk but I go there quite often (a few dozen times a year) and I can remember only once not having the right order, in which case the teller has usually corrected it when I drive back in plus added something extra to compensate.

Meanwhile, I've used Seamless.com a couple times and some restaurants STILL sometimes forget to include certain items. Far more often than any other delivery service/fast food joint I've ever been to.

Different strokes.

Having lived in both countries, my experience in the U.S. was less than ideal. About the same amount of wait times as in Canada, and the doctors I saw gave me very little options as to how I could treat one of my chronic injuries. Never suggested a follow up appointment, physio, or even x-rays/MRI's to get a better look. In Canada, they recommended me a specialist, and I have a nurse at a clinic who has built a great relationship with me to assess my needs when I need help, as well as x-rays/MRI's done within a week.

My experience isn't like all in Canada or the U.S. but after touting how much better I thought the U.S. would be because of my great insurance and living in one of the top cities in the country, I wasn't impressed at all.

> Wrong and poor advice to subvert browser functionality. Alert the user to which input they are currently working with. Eliminates [tiresome] user guesswork and is conventional. Also helps the visually challenged.

If look at Google.com, the outline is a single pixel color stroke that replaces the gray stroke that currently exists when it's not in use.

When you look at Facebook.com, they don't have a highlight either.

Alpha male and evolution as reasons would make a lot of sense to me prior to the modern era, where options for women were limited, survival of new families was more difficult, and women were generally not encouraged to be so forward.

Nowadays... eh.

Exactly. Attractiveness (height, weight, look) is just as superficial as wealth.

Honest question: why?

Why in a world where we are trying to promote equality do we 'require' men to make the first move?

I actually think that works against certain people. You think you have a huge inventory of people to choose from so you are additionally more discriminating. In real life, the selection is generally much more narrow.

Re: Leadership Qualities

It strikes me as odd that so many high level tech execs/founders in SV aren't Asian, if only because so many engineers I've met are.

I just assumed that with the % who get into great American schools (especially in CA), there'd be more Asian entrepreneurs/business leaders.

Then again, I could be overestimating the number of Asian's seeing as how it's less than 10% of the U.S. demographic.

Indeed.

With regards to Hollywood film making, if you look at startups, you can be any gender or race, but as long as you bring your A-game, people will take you seriously.

In Hollywood, you have to be a very specific type to make it as a performer, otherwise you are relegated to working in the background to help create the movie OR fitting a stereotype to be part of a movie. In the last few years, the only Asian actors I've ever seen lead a 'Hollywood' movie without being relegated to action heros is Harold and Kumar.