I think so - I wasn't sure what the paywall would look like and having to dig through the directory seems unintuitive. It doesn't even have to actually have any purchasing logic either.
A fifteen letter password that is a mixture of letters, numbers and symbols is only 56% complex? That's bonkers. What's the point of measuring complexity if you aren't going to be able to remember the password?
Doesn't Fair Use cover "commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching, library archiving and scholarship."? This site seems non-profit and educational in nature, so I would imagine it would pass the balancing test if push came to shove.
I'm not sure that's how people think of it, if someone just came up to you and said that your desk is coming up on 5 years and you should replace it, or your car is nearing a decade and you should replace it "just because", I'd be pretty hesitant.
This works extremely well for me. I wouldn't recommend stopping mid-sentence but leaving an implementation incomplete (eg. just have to fill out another method and everything fits together) allows me to start the next day running.
Why so negative looking? All releases except for Honeycomb have been opensourced allowing for a number of custom roms used on millions of devices (cyanogen, miui) which is more than can be said for other platforms. The openness of Android apps allow for applications and innovation not possible on the iphone or other devices (custom lock screens, homescreens, NASA's phonesats). The CarrierIQ debacle involved all major phone developers including Apple (prior to iOS5), BB, Nokia as well.
Granted, that's a generalization. But it makes the point.
I agree with the fact that it's not really about the $2 or even how many competitors there are -- it just happens to be that the apps are currently priced about the same as a coffee.
My hypothesis is that the bigger question is really one of expectation -- whether the app accomplishes exactly what the user expects it to do (not what the app markets itself to do). The more complex the expected result (ie. coffee -> coffee hit, fart app -> laughs, conversion calculator -> converts stuff, your nifty social app -> ?) the more doubt people have in just throwing down money (regardless of how "small" the amount).
Wow, this guy is so pretentious. Engineers are a creative bunch, and Peter Norvig's post seemed more like an overview of why your images turn out less optimal than they could be. How the composition and what you decide to shoot aren't even touched there and this guy thinks that's all we care about in photography.
Hmm, how is this any worse than reddit or stumbleupon or delicious "profiting" from sharing everyone else's content? It's just reorganizing the information that is already available?
Well data liberation doesn't say that they have to act as a drop box for you. If you have full control of your music to begin with to upload, that's pretty much liberated by the very definition of the term.
Kinda random, but slowly sliding this from left to right actually made me smile! Must be the mirror neurons working hard there, and a pretty usability test :)
It's a decent and useful feature, the only real issue I have with it is the empty space underneath. When you have a short document, I find myself clicking on that empty space to get to the end of the line and then being confused as to why it's scrolling the document. Perhaps it should be a slightly different color than the main document.
To be fair, even the expensive weather tracking systems they use get their fair share of the calls wrong and they employ watchers at different parts of the track (down the back straights, at the corners of the track, themselves at the pit straight, etc) to get a better idea. And that's over a relatively small area of space too.
Does anyone know how to tweak the windowing behaviour so that it doesn't open up all your previous windows (or group the new file in the same window as your other project)? Other than the lack of usable options, it's pretty nice!
To be fair, human memory and attention span is much smaller than that of the system so I imagine the curation is more useful mentally than technically? Same reason that once in a while, I purge my 20 or so odd open browser/ide tabs.
I was thinking something similar, maybe it was a common sequence like Supercalifragi___icexpialidocious or the alphabet (with a letter missing) where when asked, the user could fill in the part of the sequence, but would later forget the exact offset for.
Second this comment, the real time feedback that you get and the realization that you aren't making something that doesn't completely sound like crap makes this surprisingly more fun than I thought it would be.
It's not that bad an idea, it's a kinda obscure page that still gets plenty of hits that they manage -- why not do some competitive intelligence to see if your results are the same as what others are doing?
It is a little premature to say that there is no danger of being sued as most of the litigation around Android surfaced recently (almost after it began to gain traction) and not back in 2008 when it first launched?
With all the bogus patents out there, it is hard to imagine any complex mobile system that doesn't infringe on _something_ out there.