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monorail··on Are Smartphones Emasculating After All?
This is also a serious downside with FaceTime or Skype on a mobile. You are always looking down at the device and that is seldom a flattering look, double chins etc. I have heard this from numerous people as a reason they don't like video calls.
monorail··on Ask HN: How can I learn to create an iOS application over the summer?
Stanford's free iOS classes are a very good intro.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/developing-apps-for-ios...

monorail··on Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail
Imagining is fun because it doesn't require facts or logic. Pasting Nixon on to the current situation, while mildly amusing, does not clarify what is actually occuring. It is still far from clear. Is there a solid piece of evidence that Snowden is holding back for dramatic effect? Not releasing it, if he has it, lets the story become a mockery of itself because without any facts all you are left with is your imagination.
monorail··on Sorry, NSA, Terrorists Don't Use Verizon. Or Skype. Or Gmail
When an argument starts failing you move the goalposts and make another argument. Concede the original but claim it is something else that you can better defend.