jonheller

Pretty funny, but ... there's only been one new iOS mail app in the past year, right? I understood when people skewered to-do and weather apps, but I don't really see a glut of mail apps.

I agree. I feel as though my time spent in computer science courses in undergrad and, even more so, graduate school, helped me be a better programmer than I could have hoped than if I had spent those years just programming instead. It taught me to think differently.

Of course, this doesn't apply to everyone. A huge number of people skip computer science degrees and are still highly successful.

But one swallow does not a summer make, which seems to be the approach of many of these articles: Hey, look at me, I didn't go to college and I'm successful!

This seems to be an argument that is very difficult for either side to argue, because I don't see a way you could really look at a statistical analysis of the careers of CS grads versus non grads and make some kind of conclusion.

Better than what I had initially though from the headline: That she had actually looked at the logs of how they used it during the day.

Yeah, "NBC News" seems a bit of a misnomer

The prices of the items themselves are the same. It's slightly more pricey due to the delivery charge and tip.

What is the "slight margin" they add? 5%? 10%?

We have used Peapod a few times, a grocery delivery service here in the Northeast serviced by Stop and Shop. I couldn't figure out how they offered it so cheaply, as the prices are the same they are in stores. They charge delivery ($7) though you can often get offer codes.

Then I found out that apparently orders are serviced from a separate warehouse, where everything is categorized and optimized for online orders. It makes sense -- I couldn't picture guys walking through the store collecting 10 carts worth of orders.

Unfortunately even though it was only slightly more pricey, it still added to much to our household costs since groceries are such a huge part of a family's budget (avg family of 4 spends $770/mo). Not to mention delivery added on to the cost as well.

I love Trello, and have been using it since it was first publicly available.

It was such a refreshing change from the Project -> To-Do List arrangement of, well, pretty much every web based project management software up until that point.

What distracted me the most was not the glasses, but the weird gazing into the distance look that he did when "reading" the glasses. Kind of disturbing.

Interesting, thanks. I didn't realize they were two separate entities.

I remember Gamespy as being one of the first software options to easily facilitate multiplayer gaming back before it was baked in to most games.

This is really excellent. It's nice even just to use it to compare a few themes I like but could never really tell what the difference was between them, and hence why I liked one over the other.

What I like best about promoting offices like these is not so much the decoration (although personally I like it, especially the library room), but the furthering of the idea that work can be accomplished anywhere -- not just at your desk.

I doubt there's much of a question as to whether the people at Google work hard and get a lot accomplished during their days. So you'd think that if such a productive company could accomplish that in a distributed (distributed meaning people working at places besides their desk) office, so could your more run-of-the-mill companies.

I'm a fan of the BreakTime app for something similar (and a bit easier). But I find it very challenging to be forced into breaks, especially for how often you are supposed to take them.

I think what would be ideal is a script that would detect when my system was idle for, say, 15 or 30 seconds. It would then check the last time I took my break. If it had been past a predetermined time, then it would prompt me for a break.

With forced break apps I find it very annoying to be interrupted in the middle of a thought, or line of code, and end up disabling those apps.

Looks interesting. I recently tried Marvin for iPad, which I like a lot, but it doesn't have an iPhone equivalent.

I wish the product page had more information though, unless I'm missing something. For example, how do I add books to my library?

Microsoft seems to be repeating many of the mistakes here of the pre iPad tablets, when there was a crazy in the mid 2000's or so of everyone trying to succeed with one. It's a machine that tries to be both and excels and neither.

I'm very surprised, but excited, to see this is true. Thanks for sharing.

Same here. I'm not sure I see the need to version control the entire Wordpress install, seems like it makes things a bit messy.

Mostly waiting for Parallels to spin up and compiling in Visual Studio. I have the 1.8 i7.

I'm in a similar situation. I commute 3 hours each day on mass transit and love the Air in those situations, but I do miss the processor power.

I happen to have a pretty beefy PC at home, so I just RDC into that for my Visual Studio and compiler needs (I think I'm one of about seven people who develop .NET on a Mac!)

Thank you, I really enjoy this.

I spent so much of my time in Sublime Text these days that not having to leave it (even to go to as great a program as Omnifocus) is really nice.

I think Bootstrap is wonderful to allow you to start hacking away on an app and have it look halfway decent through that process. But I agree that once it moves on to a beta stage more focus should be placed on a unique / better design.

I kind of agree. I've attended two conferences for the past few years: Pubcon and An Event Apart.

Pubcon was priced at $699, and included three full days of sessions, with 5 different tracks. I learned a lot there, and felt it justified the price.

An Event Apart was $899 the first year I registered, I believe, and this year is $1045. I work for a small company that pays these expenses, but I couldn't even justify asking for that this year.

I know that I am paying to see some of the "biggest names" in the industry. Several of these people are excellent and entertaining, and I don't doubt their knowledge in the field -- Dan Cederholm and Jared Spool specifically.

But do I really need to pay over $1000 to hear from the "biggest names"? I'm not sure if it's worth it. Yes, Eric Meyer is a genius at CSS, but how do I somehow explain the ROI of using slightly more optimized CSS? Or one year AEA had a speaker who spent almos the whole hour somehow relating fashion magazines to web development. Ugh.

I guess what irks me is feeling like I'm paying extra for the celebrity status of some of these speakers, when in reality, I'd most likely learn just as much _useful_ knowledge at a Wordcamp or one of the multitude of sub $200 conferences.

And how are those folks faring who didn't time the market for the past decade? On average, their funds are at the exact same place they were in 2001.

I work for a company (who I won't mention simply because I don't want it to appear that I'm shilling for them), who has used market timing since 1972 and over the past 40 years have consistently outperformed the market using three fairly simple market timing indicators. Not by leaps and bounds - generally just a few percentage points - but still outperforming.

It seems like the backlash against "the fold" has been taken a bit too far. Yes, we know that people scroll. But it's still essential to have the important parts of your site visible in the three seconds a user takes to make a decision on whether to stay on your site or not.

Plus, Matt Cutts recently said at Pubcon that Google now analyzes the content which it decides is above the fold, and places a higher value on that content in terms of determining SEO results.

I completely agree that we shouldn't stuff the top of the page with every important pieces of content and navigation option to the point where it makes the page a mess. But at the same time you can't treat a really long page as if the content in the middle or bottom gets the same attention as the content at the top.

I love Asana, and feel it's finally some worthy competition to Basecamp, which has always been way, way too slow for me.

Just saw the update - awesome! Thank you.

Great app. I only wish there was an option to exclude the # when copying, as then I could directly paste the color code into Photoshop.