mfish

I think the same idea can be applied to the backend as well, instead of creating a firebase account, and allowing someone else’s code to magically serve your tiny website. Granted, its not as simple as <h1> Tiny Website </h1>, but it is just as satisfying to build something on the backend that is “your own”, as least in my humble opinion.

except this may not be either useful or disruptive. Perhaps Apple relegated it to a gimmick because they knew that tying something as fundamental as navigation to it would not work. Just think of all of the people who claimed they got sick from or were simply terribly annoyed by all of the motion in iOS7. Now imagine that this motion is the foundation of your device. Does not sound useful or disruptive to me.

I think Apple's face is blissfully smack-free after this particular announcement

He never says like iOS. you are inserting that. he says he never realized that, in order to get his voicemail (and i read that as to get it in any way shape or form), he had to download t mobiles app.

>He wanted T-Mobile VoiceMail app to be bundled

no, he wanted voicemail. T-Mobile decided to require a different app.

How is it unreasonable to buy a phone and expect it to work? Anything less than that is either the carrier screwing up a phone that works fine or HTC screwing up by not having a phone that works without the carrier's help. It is bad user experience, which is what his post is all about

"What we’re hearing from multiple sources is that Google+ will no longer be considered a product, but a platform... Oh, okay, that makes some sense. They have created the features necessary to integrate Google+ into everything they do from now on. Makes sense. "

If G+ was originally intended to be a platform, rather than a product, this would make sense. And I don't have any firsthand knowledge, but it seems to me that everything points to them wanting this to be a facebook-killing product...not a platform on which to build other things.

you got one wrong. i think it is supposed to read:

"ONLY commit on master when drunk."

my company did this (out of necessity) back when there were ~10 of us. As a young developer, I didn't know any better, but I dreaded it. I was SO glad when we moved to a dedicated support team. Also, in my experience, if you are hiring good people, a dedicated customer support person is going to give your customer a MUCH better experience.

yeah, i clicked the link, took one look, and left