lylejohnson

http://www.halomonitoring.com - senior citizen health monitoring and automatic fall detection

I am so glad I can't afford an expensive sportscar.

I'm sorry if I was unclear. In their post, Sofa wrote, "We’re committed to securing a great future for [Versions and Kaleidoscope] outside Sofa". I noted that they have not been particularly good stewards of Versions over the past two years, and that therefore the situation couldn't get much worse by handing it off to someone else.

I don't really disagree with the point you make below about software licenses, and that when you buy a license you're paying for the software as it exists today, right now. But I think my take is more along the lines of nestlequ1k's. When I bought a license for Versions, I went into that "relationship" (ugh) with the expectation that Sofa would continue to improve on it, and that I've have the opportunity to buy future upgrades. That's unlikely to happen at this point. So yeah, I got what I paid for, no argument there, but I can't deny that I'm disappointed with how things turned out.

> "Sofa’s products, Kaleidoscope and Versions, are not a part of this acquisition. Both apps will remain available and we’re committed to securing a great future for them outside Sofa."

There haven't been any significant updates for Versions since I purchased my license for it two years ago, so I don't see how the situation for Versions could get worse at this point.

House of Leaves, by Mark Z. Danielewski. Not sure that I can recommend it, but it's very different from anything else I've read.

The actual quote from Mossberg is much more polite than the submission title would suggest: "I have yet to test a single [Android phone] where Flash works really well. I’m sorry. They struggle on those Android devices."

There was a sudden influx of Rails users in 2005.

The Ruby community didn't behave this way before 2005 or so.

Perhaps if you had shared some of those reasons you wouldn't have been downvoted.

> Wouldn't that be something to light a fire under the collective arses of those in charge of keeping EBS stable.

Yeah, the only possible explanation is that Amazon's put a bunch of lazy guys in charge of EBS. How hard a job could it be?

It's been awhile since I studied it, but I recall the Python (C) source code being very readable.

When I clicked through, the hardcover edition was priced at $13.98 while the Kindle edition was a dollar less ($12.99). I think that Amazon's prices change pretty frequently, which might explain why you saw a different price at the time you checked.

From 2006...

As of this writing, Network World has updated the original story's title to read "Samsung keylogger could be false alarm". I guess they're not quite ready to give up.

I like the idea, but there are some weird things about the home page that I thought I'd mention (first impressions and all that).

There are a number of areas on the page that look like they ought to be clickable, but aren't. For example, I was initially drawn to the square with the shopping cart inside ("Pick 24") and tried to click there before I realized it wasn't a link. Likewise, that "24 snacks for $24" box in the banner looks clickable. Might be worthwhile to have multiple hot spots on the page that all lead to the products listing.

On the products page, the text "Add Snackpack to Cart" overflows the button, at least on my setup (Safari & Chrome browsers, on Mac OS X).

OK. Now I have to figure out what to order. ;)

For cryin' out loud, I've got to get my act together and learn Mac/iOS development.

Where I live it's customary for the police to announce the locations of DUI checkpoints on days that people are especially likely to be drinking and driving (e.g. New Year's Eve). For awhile I didn't understand why they would do this (and I know a lot of people who still don't get it).

If your goal is to catch people driving drunk, then no, it doesn't make sense to announce the locations of DUI checkpoints. If however your goal is to prevent people from driving drunk in the first place, it might make sense to announce checkpoints at a number of locations throughout the city. If the potential drunk driver knows he can't go too many places without passing though a checkpoint he may decide to just stay home.

This attempt to promote flapon.com is probably a little too thinly veiled.

Looks like a good set of updates, although I'm still waiting for OmniFocus support before I can completely switch to using Sparrow.

> I think it's fair to guess that this kind of software is made for buyers, not teachers, and may not address their needs very well. I could be totally wrong.

No, you're spot on. She hates working with iNow, and we have yet to talk to a teacher who likes working with it. Seems safe to assume that the buyer was someone who will never have to use it.

> However, eventually the market catches on and your existing ten people start waiting for the GroupOn deals, and now only five people are willing to pay the full price. > Selling unused capacity at a discount without cannibalizing your existing business is non-trivial, especially in this age of rapid peer-peer sharing of information. I suggest that the problem GroupOn solves--selling the capacity--is not the hard problem for this scenario, the hard problem is getting away with pricing discrimination.

Maybe, but it depends on the product or service too. For example, is there any evidence sites like Hotwire and Priceline, that sell unused capacity for hotels or car rental agencies, really cannibalize the existing (i.e. non-discounted) sales that much?

It's called iNow (or maybe STI iNow). Am having trouble finding a link for the company because most of the Google search results are for various school systems that have implemented iNow.

Thankfully, I am long past the point where I have to worry about my GPA. But there was absolutely a time in my life when I would have used something like this, had it been available.

I can tell you that my wife's a schoolteacher, and that her school system has a web-based system where parents can log in and check on their kids' grades. She has a lot of parents who check that site religiously. All that is to say that while it may not be a "sexy" site, you've definitely hit on a useful idea here. Good luck!

Congratulations to Rich and company! That's a significant talent acquisition for LivingSocial, especially if most of the InfoEther team stays on board.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat.

There used to be a humor site named SegFault (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segfault_(website)) but it apparently died back in 2001.

Given that he begins that paragraph (where he discusses the new investors) with, "Now the surprise ending..." I'd say you're correct.

In his post he says that "the paperback will be bound and available sometime in mid-March to book retailers," so I'd assume it will arrive within the next couple of weeks at the latest.

Agreed. I bought the MEAP for "Joy of Clojure" in August 2010, and the MEAP for "Taming Text" a couple of months later (November) -- no updates for either book since the initial purchase. I was glad to get the early content, but I've lowered my expectations for future dealings with Manning.

Several good titles in today's list, including "Being Geek", "Hacking: The Art of Exploitation" and, of course "Hackers & Painters". I am trying to decide whether to buy "Land of Lisp," which I've heard good things about.