Your reply couldn't have been a better demonstration of the author's point. When I noticed the length of your reply, and its tone, I stopped reading it. I have limited time, and I could tell that you weren't considering the audience's limited time (although normally I give major leeway towards comments, which are written on the spur of the moment). There are so many other good things on the Internet that I could read, and there are so many things that I want to write. I just don't have time to put up with reading other people's shit.
This type of stuff happened leading up to the bubble. Somehow the knowledge didn't successfully transfer from the people burned then to those getting burned now. Fuckedcompany.com sure tried.
Mobile browsers can help matters by letting you override the user agent (e.g., with a desktop user agent), to stop sites from redirecting you to their horrible mobile versions.
Something doesn't make sense. From the ambiguity of your description, it sounds as though you own the code, and that you had no formal business relationship with Sparrow, and that you accepted no money from Sparrow (it is really strange that Sparrow would even encourage you into such a position, and that you would put yourself there --- you left them in the situation where they could turn your work down, and develop their own Windows client). If that is all true, then the code is yours, and you can turn it into a Sparrow replacement. But you are giving off a sense of finality, as if what you wrote is useless. This confuses me. Think like an entrepreneur, not an employee. If you have roadblocks to selling the e-mail client yourself, overcome them (e.g., if you are worried about UI copyright, then change your UI, and then sell it). Once you earn money from it, move to writing a Mac version, an iOS version, etc.
The American dream is (or was?) to own a mansion in the suburbs, living in isolation. I wonder whether the people living in this environment change their American-dream target to something more communal. Maybe some hope to find it at work, but that is tough given all of the constraints at work (e.g., worrying about ranking and rating with your peers). But if you don't get access to social and human capital in real life, you can at least find it here or on reddit.
Balmer and the other managers aren't the only ones at fault for bad bureaucracy --- the employees that live with the system against their better judgement, rather than leave or fight, are also responsible.
I'm excited about Metro. I've hated every one of my Windows experiences to date. So I'm in a different boat from most people, who are probably upset about the changes, which will require learning something new with dubious benefits. But for me, I might actually find Windows useable for the first time (where the payoff of using it exceeds the effort to use it).
Regarding your experience with the condescending interviewer: I had a similar experience in my last job-interviewing round, and got really pissed, but tried to stay polite and answer the question. This doesn't work though: I spent the whole time distracted, with my mind considering the paradox of a founder having such behavior, and that I'd be using the guy as a mentor. The result: I underperformed on the problem, and got walked out, leaving me feeling like the fool. My new rule (and this goes for general life too): I call people's bad behavior, but not in a judgmental way, but rather to avoid adding a negative dynamic as a kernel to the relationsihp (e.g., in a meeting, I speak up if someone could interpret something poorly, to clarify it, because otherwise some subset of the people will be passive agressive and fume and suffer a downward spiral, rather than speak up themselves). I would have felt so much better about myself if, during that interview, I had said, "You know, this isn't going to work; there is no point spending your time on me anymore." And then walked out.
What's up with the down voting? The score is now so low that you have to play with the screen contrast to read the comment. Does it enhance the quality of Hacker News when we can't read a side of the argument? This is judgmental crap, not mature debate.
The mainstream press in America is very pro America. They don't air lots of news pieces that would paint a critical picture of the US. Is it any surprise that Assange's show is not aired by the mainstream press? How is RT's slant towards Russia any different from CNN's pro-America stance?
I find it ironic that he writes this as a rant, which is an anti-pattern for influencing people. One of his commenters hints at how it might have been better presented: introduce messaging systems, explain how they solve the problem, and describe their advantages over the database. For further discussion on why a rant is probably an anti-pattern, see Dale Carnegie's "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
Another company blog without a link to the company home page. I had to manually type your company URL to try to learn what this is all about. It is absurd how common this is.
"His reputation has taken a deep plunge since he shook the world in 2010 by releasing, in cooperation with The New York Times and several other news organizations, masses of secret government documents, including battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan. Most news organizations edited and redacted the papers to protect lives. Mr. Assange put everything on his Web site."
The author skips the part about how Assange initially published redacted material, but then one of the "other news organizations" published the encryption key to the whole archive, making the redactions irrelevant.
It doesn't sound like it is tunneled within SSH --- rather, it uses SSH as a sign-in method to launch mosh's own protocol handler that uses its own socket. Once mosh launches, ssh exits.
Since it uses ssh for authentication, it has eliminated some of its peer-review problems.
Paul Goodman published "Growing Up Absurd" in 1960. I wonder how much of our secret sauce is based on people trying to escape the absurdity of their environments --- would we have a Silicon Valley if people felt comfortable and happy remaining in their childhood communities?
Sure he has disdain for the bad design that is Android, but he objectively has described why that is so over the years. That he dislikes Android, which clearly has a different design approach to Apple and Microsoft, doesn't make him a fan boy of Apple. If he didn't acknowledge the good design coming out of Microsoft these days, then you could argue that he blindly favors Apple. Perhaps you also refer to the drama that has developed from the competition between Google and Apple, and his criticisms of this, and of "don't be evil," etc; design and company culture can't be separated, and so it makes sense for him to approach that topic too. Just consider hiring practices at Google --- do applicants get evaluated for algorithmic abilities alone, or is there something more? Culture is important.
He does original thinking. This includes analysis and synthesis. Additionally, he practices good journalism. He is one of the few people that I read routinely --- I don't read him because he is about Apple, but because of his original thinking. He isn't a fan boy, as many people like to belittle him; he discusses good design, and points out when others practice it, such as the latest Windows mobile (metro? Or something).
And as often as your wallet can afford the trip --- travel by boat isn't cheap. I noticed that they didn't mention the cost of the boat taxi; either it is a free shuttle, partially subsidized, or in worst case you'll cover the actual cost of the boat trip (a ferry in Seattle cost me $20 one way when I was there years ago; gas prices have gone up since, boats get horrible mileage, and they depreciate quickly and need lots of upkeep in salt water).
Thanks. That particular example is about children under two years. Do you have anything for older children? Under two years falls in my category of being neurologically unprepared to deal with the stimuli from TV. But what about at 4, or 6? The children are in a very different development stage, and (from my current, but always adapting, perspective) it becomes a balance of negatives and positives. For example, I have seen how TV accelerates understanding of social situations --- it is like having exercises at the end of a calculus chapter, but for preparing for the variety of social situations one will encounter, and learning to account for someone else's perspective.
> I'm convinced that watching TV is harmful to a child's intellectual development. (And there's an established body of evidence to support that.)
There might be evidence that early exposure to television, before the child's neurological development is ready to deal with it, is harmful. But I'm not aware of "an established body of evidence" proving that TV is harmful. Do you have sources? I'm very interested in seeing such sources, as I used to be under the impression that TV is harmful, but I am now convinced otherwise.
Be careful ignoring the scientific method here. You are equating a fear of bad side effects from TV with bad side effects with iPad use. Fear is not the scientific method.
There are many dimensions to consider when evaluating harm. For example, in early childhood development, the child desperately wants to imitate the adult (or role model), and will suffer certain side effects (e.g., problems with self confidence) if forbidden to imitate. Thus even if there is harm in using the iPad, there could easily be more harm in forbidding its use (but this can easily be remedied by never allowing the child to see the adult using the iPad).
I urge you to be careful about following any lines of parenting that mold the child (e.g., the child should be outside playing ball, not inside doing X). I see parents force their kids to conform with preset ideas of how a child should be, ignoring how early child development works, and thus cause pscyhological harm (e.g., internalization of fear of the parent). An analogy would be the parent teaching the child how to walk by grabbing the kid's legs and moving them in micro-adjustments; the kid will end up with poor motor control.
I'm happy that their business model is designed around lower market share, with higher quality product, but I don't see how they will lose market share in tablets. There just isn't anything comparable for the whole experience of using the iPad (e.g., having access to content from the iTunes stores, including videos; or being supported with software updates for many years; or having access to a local Apple store where I can send my Dad when he needs help). Plus, the potential competitors just don't seem to get that the iPad is more than hardware and software --- the iPad provides a paradigm shift that many customers want, such as being locked down and which can't be pawned while browsing the Internet, and which can't be pawned by incompetent developers (e.g., button bars for the web browser). It is similar to game consoles.
Apple traditionally has an 'about' page where they attribute open-source projects, etc. Doesn't this version of iPhoto have the same? Or perhaps the iPad/iPhone version has no 'about' page? [edit: by 'page', I mean a dialog box or something comparable within the program]
Can you read the post without signing into a Google account? I click through via my iPhone, and get prompted for a Google account. Isn't this a post about getting tracked on the web?
I live in the same area and get decent performance with sonic. Things feel fast. Until recently, I had Verizon FIOS, and Sonic doesn't feel all that much slower (or maybe I've become accustomed to the drop in speed). I love how the DSL just works; I have a DSL bridge, connected to an Airport Extreme, which doesn't need to fragment packets because Sonic gives you the full frame size (another reason I like Sonic). Note that you can find performance boosts just by improving the phone wiring in your home;I played with mine until I found a sweet spot.
The car is too risky to purchase if it can brick. There is no way to ensure that a brick can't happen. Any charging source could malfunction (e.g., trip a circuit breaker) without you becoming aware. You have to plan your whole life around keeping the car charged. You can't lend it to friends (nor your spouse that doesn't care about tech) --- oops, sorry, I didn't plug it in after my several-hour drive. It's like having a dog that needs constant care. This sounds too fantastic to be true.