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Interesting and useful article, thanks. If the original author turns up, I'd be curious to know how you felt about their being two of you in it together and not just a single co-founder.

Also, what happens if the user swaps the order of two tracks? Or adds an additional track to the end? How close does a users playlist have to be to the copyrighted one?

Apparently I can't, you're game does something rather weird to my brain. Fun idea though!

I've been using Feedbin as my post-google feed reader after trying out a few others, and deciding it was worth the basically-nothing a month to support one of my most-used web apps. I've been very impressed so far, and the UI is great (though I'd like an expand all for the sections...).

I think going OS is a bold move, and with a bit of luck (and community interest) it should help propel some interesting developments and keep it at the cutting edge in the post-reader landscape... and if that expand all thing annoys me enough, I could just code it up myself.

Thanks!

I've signed up, I'm hopeful it will spur me to write and worry less about how it looks.

Have you given any thought to being able to import existing posts that are in markdown format? I'm currently using scriptogr.am and have a number of posts that ideally I'd like to import.

I'm curious as to why you think they're unemployable? Simply because they can't talk about what they've been doing, and you can't ask for a reference - or is it something about the job itself?

Great, thanks for the update. Not sure why someone felt the need to downvote my original post though, was true at the time.

Apparently it's not available I'm the UK store yet.

Stickers is the name Facebook are giving to their version...

http://newsroom.fb.com/News/604/Messaging-updates-for-iPhone...

I would suggest that outside of London the salaries are massively different. Though £15k is still almost-criminally low regardless of where you are.

I'd expect someone with 3 years web dev experience to be anywhere from mid-20's to mid-30's outside of London, and a cursory search for Suffolk that appears to be about right.

£42k after 3 years? Where are you working - London? That makes rather a large difference, as I'd be shocked if someone was getting that after 3 years for web dev here in Manchester.

Perhaps he believed that platitudes wouldn't have helped, but that giving the permission was enough (as it so obviously was for this person). I couldn't imagine it was a particularly easy request to receive and he could have just ignored it.

Agreed. I'm a big Google Reader user, and will inevitably be trying out Feedly, but just haven't had the chance yet.

Judging by the amount of people I've spoken too over the last few days, there's a whole lot more than 500,000 of us. I'd love to see how many people Google considers not worth their time. I'd happily pay for Reader.

Agreed. I'm finding the iOS version of iA Writer doesn't like it when I modify the file elsewhere - I have to manually switch files for it to detect the change.

My concern is simply that trying to be the de-facto app means you'll never really get the traction you need to become successful. I hate to invoke Facebook here, but even they started with a very limited market. Once there was enough demand, people were coming to them asking for access and they evolved.

I like what you're saying about keeping it narrow by the communities you're targetting. If it's truly useful, and generic, then people will start finding their own alternative uses.

I wouldn't have three different type of question on your front-page header;

1. Lost my Dog, if you spot it ... 2. Wanna play a game? 3. What is...

I'd pick one type (personally, the 2nd) and stick to that. 1. is only useful with significant localised usage and 3. is better left to something like twitter for now.

Whatever you do, best of luck.

I worry that you're trying to be everything to everyone. Just because your backend can handle anything type of "shout", have you considered effectively turning it into a white label, and creating dedicated "sport" brand, etc.

If you manage to get X number of people to sign up, currently they likelihood of finding someone who wants the same thing is significantly lower than if those X people all signed up to looking for a similar thing.

Though I should imagine there is some advantage to keeping it generic to a point (sport over tennis) as someone may just be after someone to play games with, and might also be up for badminton or basketball or whatever.

I recently met, and had the opportunity to speak to, an old family friend who has been blind for many years. He's had several guide dogs, and I was hearing for the first time what they actually do (they're far more incredible than I had imagined).

The subject turned to technology, which it normally does when I'm around family, and he showed me his "fancy" Nokia that was especially equipped to help him out. It was very expensive, I presume it came to him through an organisation that helps blind people (he did say, but I've forgotten those details), and he showed me it's special assistive features claiming (with humour) the he would be willing to bet mine couldn't do that.

I flipped out my iPhone (4 at the time I think) switched on the assistive settings (which I'd not done before) and handed it over to him. He had it figured out almost instantly. What blew him away was that the price of this fancy new phone brand new was still significantly cheaper than the phones available through his normal channels - and it was his opinion (after an admittedly short time with the phone) that this was more useful and easier to use than his current phone.

Accessibility is something I think is probably (note I said probably, I have no evidence either way) overlooked by most the startups around here - but I think Apple are trailblazing here too. For most of us these are features we may not even know exist, but for those who need them - they really need them. To take them away could literally be life changing.

and they've compensated for that, by allowing the driver to still see once the airbags have deployed.

24 here, and it's still quite laggy for me on an i7 Macbook Air.

Absolutely this. I had an XDA II, then an XDA Mini S pretty much from launch (rebranded HTC phones on O2-UK), but as a student simply couldn't afford the data plans to go with them.

The iPhone (and really, the iPhone 3G for me) is when prices started to become reasonable.. nowadays, you can get decent data plans with (almost) everyone here.

I thought that statement taken out of context sounded a bit arrogant (though perhaps well deserved!). However, when read in context it really didn't come across like that at all.

Perhaps a title change in this case wouldn't be all that bad.

Is there a way to search for groups you may be interested in joining... other than guessing the URL? Or is that somewhat missing the point?

Is your house relatively new? I think the use of mixer taps is on the rise in the UK.

Obviously if you're working with massive datasets or many many VM's this may not be true, but everyone I know who has 16GB RAM has claimed that it's more than enough. I've got 8GB, and haven't any complaints. I even know people with 32GB who say that with hindsight they'd have been perfectly happy with only 16GB.

An SSD however, is incredible. I originally wrote "essential", though I guess it's not... but it certainly feels like it is once you have one. The downside is that it will make working with non-SSD desktop machines irritating-as-hell.

    Give these guys a break and work with them one on one to find a solution to your problems.

In the article it sounds like instead of them trying to work one-on-one to fix the problems, they just outsourced it to a digital removal firm. If that's the response he got, in what way would you expect the OP to be able to work with them one-on-one?

Perforce and TFS (Team Foundation Server) are other choices that I've seen used in large corps.

(TFS obviously for Microsoft houses only.)

The biggest risk here would surely be that around PID (Patient Identifiable Data). Who is responsible for ensuring the safety of this data?

As it is right now, it's ultimately the trusts themselves (as is my understanding), but what safeguards will there (or could there) be in place to keep this data safe.

And what about that data? Do we force any new staff-written applications to create their own MPI etc. or do we let them access the main systems through some kind of API? In which case, that would need creating - and interfacing to a variety of different software is never simple. If it's all to stay on the internal network, then who hosts these apps - and where does that budget come from?

There are a lot of big questions and potential risks here and I'd be very interested to see what these eye-catching initiatives turn out to be. Until I see evidence to the contrary, I remain pessimistic about these being anything but trivial and largely pointless.

If this was a serious effort, why ask the doctors, nurses and other clinical staff to learn to code - and not reach out to the open-source development community and ask them for their help. I'm sure a great many developers have, or know someone, who has used the NHS and would love to have a part in making things better.

The suggestion is actually; Everybody, apart from those who worked closest to him.

The worst are when you spot a bug that means the functionality should never have worked in the first place, yet somehow has been working fine in production for years. I really rather hate those ones.

I think it's possible to say with some confidence that his life wasn't in vain. He, along with his colleagues here and on the moon that day, haven't inspired just one generation - but every generation that came after.

What an achievement. May he rest in peace.