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What a tone-deaf name choice for a technology startup, especially one posting to a site called "Hacker News" and trying to recruit hackers to join their ranks (unless of course this is joke that's gone completely over my head.)

"It’s still early days, though – we are about to embark on the design process proper, and all we can say in terms of a release date is that our iPad and iPhone versions will be out some time in 2012."

So to be clear, a release is not imminent. Looking forward to seeing how this works out, though; Scrivener is a really different sort of writing environment for the Mac.

> Hopefully, she just went on a bender, had a absolute blast, but it got a little out of control- perhaps resulting in dehydration or something else without too much social stigma.

As long as we're using the absence of details as a springboard for wild speculation, we should also consider the possibility that she was kidnapped by a pack of wild monkeys.

I suppose the answer is something along the lines of, "find a partner who knows something about designing and manufacturing hardware (or learn it yourself)". But yeah, I've wondered this myself on those occasions when I came up with an idea that involved some kind of hardware device.

As one of the commenters asked, I wonder what startup(s) they're visiting in Greensboro, AL?

"I haven’t bought an app for about a year. Neither hardware nor software excite me very much, after whatever brief (and usually painful) novelty has worn off."

It's probably because I'm so immersed in tech stuff at work, but it's hard for me to understand how such an imaginative science fiction author can be so... indifferent about the technology he uses.

It's hypocrites all the way down.

Chrome 16.0.904.0 dev is what I'm running on my MacBook, and it works fine there. It wasn't working for me with Safari either until I saw the tip in SnowLprd's comment about enabling WebGL.

As many times as I've flown out of the Shuttlesworth Airport (in Birmingham) I never knew who it was named for. Thanks for sharing, Colin.

I imagine that at least some of the disappointment is due to a lack of surprises. We've pretty much known for months that at a minimum the new iPhone (whatever model number it ended up having) would have incremental improvements over the iPhone 4. That is, we expected to see the A5 processor, and a better camera, slightly better battery life, etc. But we were simulatenously hoping that Apple would throw us a curve ball too, something that no one had predicted, whether that was a new form factor or, you know, ... something else. There was no "one more thing".

I understand. Best of luck.

If it's the situation that someone needs something from you, I think you're within your rights to limit the "conversation" to whatever medium you're most comfortable with (e.g. I myself prefer e-mail for most communications). But if it's a situation where you need something from them (e.g. sponsorship from a potential PhD advisor) you may have to just suck it up and place the call.

You don't mention why you're averse to phone calls. If talking on the phone (especially with strangers) makes you anxious, maybe it would help to write down notes in advance about potential topics of conversation, and have those in front of you before you make the call.

I'm still using the 3GS that I bought about a week after they went on sale, and it works like a charm (though I too may upgrade next week, depending on what gets announced). Luck of the draw, I guess, though it sucks that Apple wasn't able to give you any more concrete diagnosis of what's wrong.

I carry my iPad around with me and it's very much a personal device. It might be a different story if it somehow supported multiple user logins; there have certainly been times when I would like for it to have at least supported a "Guest" account when I wanted to temporarily let someone else play with it.

There's not an official, supported way (though I wouldn't be surprised if someone has cooked up a hack for this). To be clear, you are aware of the Kindle app for the iPad, right?

> I'd still be stoked to get a Kindle Fire

That could be a clever ad line for the Fire (if, you know, enough people knew the actual definition of "stoked").

See for example the "license policy" page [1], where it says, "We do hope to release a free 2.0 upgrade (which will require Leopard) but we provide no guarantees about this, we do not promise what features it may or may not include, we do not have any expected date of release etc."

[1] http://macromates.com/license_policy

exacerbated

Link is to the GitHub repo for the source code for a slide deck: Bryan O'Sullivan's Intro to Haskell workshop at Strange Loop 2011.

And here is a link to the slides (HTML) themselves: http://bos.github.com/strange-loop-2011/slides/slides.html.

All those critics, saying he hasn't created any jobs...

Spoken by a man who has never encountered a "tabbed notebook"-style UI with multiple rows of tabs, stacked on top of each other. ;)

> It seems to me that somebody should invent a "life processor" that would collect these traces of our former selves and allow us, after death, to somehow more actively participate than we've ever done before.

All I could think after finishing the article was, "I sure hope she has those messages backed up somehow." Too many horror stories of Google locking up someone's account with no hope of getting it back. (And yes, that could happen with any service provider, she just happened to mention that she's using Gmail).

> I use their lowest paid plan, $5/year, so I've set up Thunderbird to download messages immediately, so as not to bust my storage limit... I have my own domain, and I just point my domain to fastmail now instead of gmail.

The plan descriptions on the fastmail.fm web site make it sound like you have to sign up for their $40/year "Enhanced" plan before you can use your own domain. It's still a good deal, obviously, but not as good as $5/year.

I've never heard of a situation like yours where so many family members are affected. If I may ask, is the aunt you refer to your Dad's sister or your Mom's?

As for me, diagnosed with Crohn's in 1987 (when I was seventeen). Symptoms currently under control, thankfully!

Although it's the naming pattern I've always used for constants (both in Java and Ruby code), I've never heard of it referred to as "SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE". I like that.

Endgame Systems

Thanks for the clarification, Allen. It's a great tutorial, I was glad to pay for it, and I will be recommending it to others!

I was one of the maintainers of SWIG's Ruby module during that rewrite he mentions, and I remember how difficult it became for me to really understand how the code worked. I would just hack features into the Ruby module and be glad when they seemed to work, but it always felt like a house of cards. Fortunately some more talented developers took my place when I gave it up.

I'm a little confused about the various editions. Just a few weeks ago I bought the "Think Stats" ebook published by O'Reilly (same author). Is it all the same content?

I'm an advocate for OSS in many circumstances, but you have to understand that one of the consequences of open-sourcing your software is that things like this can happen.

I can't tell if the blog's author is upset so much about the fork as he is the idea that someone other than Jigowatt is making money off of this plugin. The whole Git and GitHub ethos has certainly removed a lot of the stigma once associated with forking.