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"A new browser for our friends", as in the developer community? That seems like a lot of effort to build a browser for a very small group of users.

The sad truth of browsers is that most people use whatever comes on their machine. A lot of times that would be IE - lots of people I know/companies in the UK still use IE out of a lack of knowing any better. Some more savvy users will use Chrome/FF but that's because they realise it has a lot of benefits over IE or are shamed into not using IE.

This doesn't really offer any 'wow' features that entice me as a web developer to try it, so your average user is even less likely to try it. And really, when making a browser, your target needs to be the masses because otherwise no web dev is going to support your browser if it requires even the tiniest of special treatment in their code.

Bills like this worry me greatly as an advocate for internet freedoms and because of a desire to a right to privacy.

When I discuss government plans for the internet with non-technical people it worries me even more that they aren't at all concerned about it. I hear arguments like 'I have nothing to hide' and 'If it stops terrorism, why not'.

I try to tell people that they should demand a right to privacy from the state, but I find it hard to not come across as a tin foil hat wearing goverment-skeptic. What arguments do you use with people that don't understand the web all that well to get them to care about this stuff?

I wouldn't expect an Uber driver to know the final destinations to my home in the suburbs, but at least the general direction. Most of my Uber journeys are stationary for a couple of minutes while the driver works out the best way to go, rather than just heading off in the general direction and turning on the sat nav at a red light.

There is also knowledge that I'd expect a professional driver to have. I recall a journey I took once where the sat nav told the driver to go through a tunnel which I knew was closed. I told him to take the bridge instead to save a big waste of time.

My point is though, you do sacrifice quality for cost. I don't agree with this article that says they are cheaper and better.

Shared hardship is a very powerful force to bring people closer. It's why military personnel often have a really tight bond.

I can't speak for San Fransisco, but in London there is a clear difference in service between 'Black cab' regular taxi services and Uber taxis. The Uber drivers often have no idea how to get to where you want to go, and don't even have an idea of which direction to head, whereas black cab drivers have a great knowledge of the whole city. This may also be just my bad luck but I've been in Uber cabs where their driving practices have been 'questionable' at best. I feel like a lot of the drivers are new to Uber (fair enough), but perhaps even new to driving.

The huge difference in price leads me to use Uber semi-regularly, whereas before I would use a taxi almost never. That's an obvious benefit to me. However the old adage 'you get what you pay for' holds true in my opinion.

It looks like you are using some horribly outdated OS/Browser. If I had to guess, I'd say IE7/8 on Windows XP. For reals?

Non-mobile version with proper photos:

http://fakingnews.firstpost.com/2015/01/pics-if-facebook-was...

What sort of deposit did you need to buy an apartment building?

I'd wager that this isn't a viable solution for most people.

The danger is that increasing your income often leads people to spend more on higher quality things that they might not need, thus forcing you to work longer, or to make even more money.

The trick is to be happy living well within your means, even if that means a lower quality of life than you could afford (but not a low quality of life)

Looks awesome, good work! I am using Ionic at the moment to develop a hybrid app and while it's a little more mature and a joy to play with, it doesn't as far as I'm aware have the awesome state change animations this has. Excited for the future of hybrid apps :)

You wouldn't hire the guy because he doesn't have his own domain name? That seems somewhat harsh.

I agree it comes across as more professional when you do have your own domain name, but with 10 years experience I imagine it's not that he doesn't know how to do it. It's probably just not a priority for him.

Yes, people with responsibilities are excluded, but that is life. You don't see parents of young children out clubbing till 4am. Younger people go out clubbing because you can feel shit the next day without the kids wanting attention. Not being able to go to a hackathon for a whole weekend is something you'd have to give up too if you had other priorities.

Really really nice tool and very well executed.

Offers lots of utility in the event you want a non-interactive app. The problem with it is however you still need to know how to code. It's all very well having a login form, but if you cant code that up to make a request to your auth server, it's useless.

I guess the point is though, that you get the visuals nailed first, then add the code, so for that instance, it's spot on.

Nice to see an established UK tech company that fulfills a function and does it really well :)

I agree. I wouldn't have one in my home, but for most of the non-tech savvy population, all you need to do is stick something on the box that says "100% secure" or something similar and their nerves are calmed.

This is obviously not apparent in the HN/tech worlds, but the unfortunate perception I get is that no one really cares about their online privacy (unless it comes to their finances). When I talk to my non-techy friends, most say the cliches like, "I'm not doing anything wrong, so have nothing to hide". Therefore the reason governments can get away with forcing tech companies to give up data, is because the people don't really care, or believe the bullshit in the media about stopping terrorists, and tolerate it.

This is like one of those startup websites/videos that tells you absolutely nothing about what they are doing.

Those are all sites that have been around for ages though, and jQuery is quite hard to remove from a site once it is embedded in. Anyone creating a serious web-app from scratch now really shouldn't be using jQuery, but one of the alternative set ups mentioned above.

Sure, but once you upgrade to a certain point, your browser should update itself automagically. I know for sure that Chrome auto-updates, as does (I think) IE9. So once that initial investment has been made, this argument doesn't hold true

It's a shame that a company even need to write an article like this. The venture backed economy in most technology companies really warps pricing models and allows companies with huge funding to disregard the actual 'making money' part

Good idea. Takes ages to load though! A screenshot, logo and short description of the startup would be better I think.

and 14: "all the staff are striking"

I thought this was downloadable software

Not all organisations would feel comfortable hosting their code on GitHub. I can see large companies or those with sensitive code preferring to keep their source code in-house

Tells me basically nothing about the product. Wants email address.

I see this trend far too often.

This is a great idea but I don't think it could work. My immediate tactic was to put in 10 dollars each time until I saw the price dropping barely any lower. It wouldn't take a non-technical person long to realise this aswell, so in practice, shops would probably just raise prices accordingly, and look uncompetitive if people compared the unnegoriated price.

The difference with in person bartering is that you're dealing with a real person, who can walk away from a deal, and who has actualy emotions and needs. I don't care if I offend this computer with my ridiculous offers and I don't see the market stall owner with children to feed.

Just because someone is from India, it doesn't mean they know everything about (incredibly diverse) cultures from every other country on the same continent. It's like asking an American of the culture of Brazil.

TechCrunch is the kind of site read by indie start up kids and just peddles crap about whichever startup is hot or 'crunching it' that week. Same goes for Mashable. I used to read both for a while before realising it was all mostly hype with no real content or analysis.

Good exposure though, just maybe not to the right audience.

For a permanent employee, don't forget the employer NI contributions, pension, paid holiday, possibly maternity pay, expenses, etc. So maybe the total cost for a permanent employee would be 40-50% of the contracter

I agree. The amount that law enforcement in the US seem to get away with is quite staggering.

I can understand the night prison officers actions a bit better than the arresting officers, as from their perspective, everyone they have in the cells has already been deemed to be a menace of some sort and it's not their place to get into who is right and wrong. But from this account, it seems there's nothing this guy did to deserve any of the shit the arresting officers put him through.

What happened to the cyclist? Did she get arrested for staining the street with her blood? Or causing a public nuisance?

It's interesting that Facebook and Amazon have a terrible experience for blind users, considering their wealth of resources. I imagine it is common knowledge among blind users to expect the mobile site to perform better, if the desktop site is sucky.