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I know HN loves anecdotes, but they're a great example for me. As an overweight guy whose relatively open about it (read: happy to discuss my weight and weight-loss difficulties) I'm constantly having this site recommended to me by non-technical non-early-adopters.

Figuring out what makes that happen is the magic key to plentiful riches, not so much tech-industry blogs. Of course, positive coverage in the tech press is unlikely to hurt.

I am having the exact same issue. I'm hoping it's a minor issue with validation, but that seems like a weird message to get if that's the case?

edit: swapped "had" for "am having" as this is on-going

The problem here for me is not so much that MS found an image they didn't like and then over-reacted (which I rather think they did). It's that they have obviously written tooling specifically with the purpose of finding these things, and then shutting down accounts.

That they think it's OK to routinely look at these files, where I think most consumers would have a reasonable expectation of privacy, highlights to me an extremely scary though process.

It was quite genuine, I didn't mean to offend or upset. Lesson learnt!

You don't mention this, but I didn't to edit my original post, as i'm not a big fan of editing post content - but rather adding as part of the conversation.

I'm sorry you took such offence at me using "cruel and unusual" as a turn of phrase, rather than to mean it's dictionary definition. I'll admit I'll happily use it in conversation - but perhaps I should have been more careful online where things are taken somewhat more literally.

I do feel that forcing Apple to link to a competitor, and advertise for them, is a form of punishment though.

Off-hand this seems like a rather cruel and unusual punishment. Are there any previous examples of this sort of order?

I can't help but wonder that perhaps the point of giving feedback on their own blog is not just about responding to Rocketr, but giving that same advice to all their readers too.

Leaving the equivalent of that post as a comment on the original Rocketr article would have meant that their own readers wouldn't have seen it.

An interesting and relatively recent example of this is that ex-UK Prime Minister Tony Blair didnt publicly announce his intention of converting to Catholicism until he left office.

  Just like they denied Sparrow of push notifications at first but as more and more users started pestering them about it, they finally had to give in.

As far as I can Google, they didn't give in - and Sparrow ended up having to do it the same way everyone else does... with them in the middle?

Why not go to bed later?

I've been using 1Password for about six months now, and loving it. It can auto-generate passwords for you, so for most of my main sites now I actually don't know the password anymore.

The advantage of 1Password is that it runs on Mac/Windows/iPhone/iPad which are all the main platforms I use regularly, though this setup cost a little more than buying it just in one place.

A feature I quite like, and that made me feel somewhat more confident in trusting ALL my passwords to it - is that not only does it sync to dropbox, but you can visit the dropbox website and view a .html file to get web-based access to your passwords though a now-familiar UI.

(I'm just a happy customer, I don't work for them - and I've never tried a competitors products so this isn't a comparison)

In their article where they announced the new UI, the explicitly stated that they removed all caps from the panel headers as people didn't like it, and then in the line below immediately said they'd put the menu items in all caps.

I actually read it twice and laughed out loud. No idea what they were thinking. Thankfully it looks like we can turn it off!

I'd love to hear more information about how to pick a decent niche. There's always some vague mention of "research" but really, what is this - what's involved. Surely you need an idea of what to do BEFORE you research it?!

I agree, one-day-only is a big motivator for me. Even though Panic's Diet Coda was priced a little more than I would normally have paid for an app I know I probably won't use very often, knowing the price was going to double tomorrow rather forced my hand.

Is it just me, or is there nowhere on that page actually linking to the kickstarter project?

I think that's a good enough reason to not include them in the stats, but I find the use of percentages confusing over simply the raw numbers?

20 People. 3 Not Looking, so removed. It mentions your fellow students, so minus 1 more and we're down to sample size of 16. 88% of 16 is 14.08 - 14.08 people is a weird number. Maybe the maths was done including yourself, so that'd be 17... which gives us 14.96 people - so that doesn't make sense either?!?

Surely something like "Out of his fellow students 16 were looking for, and have job offers on the table. 10 of whom are headed to startups, with the other 6 mostly employed at consultancies." My numbers aren't accurate, but I think the sentence is much clearer.

This is an aside though, congrats on being brave enough to go off to another country to do this - never an easy choice, though sometimes here on HN it comes across as not-a-big-deal.

    88% of Groom's fellow students currently have job offers on the table, with approximately 60% of those headed to start-ups and the remaining 40% mostly employed at consultancies.

If the total group size is 20, why not use actual numbers rather than percentages? I know it sounds like more using percentages, but it feels a little misleading to me.

edit: formatting.

Before anyone get's too excited, note that according to a comment on the same article 96% of those men where under 1 week old - and thus legitimately males with midwife episodes.

edit: apologies, that was from a comment on the article.

I've had 1Password for a few months now, and didn't know this. Colour me impressed. Thanks for pointing it out.

I've not actually heard of these guys before (maybe I've not been paying enough attention) but this looks like a fantastic product/service.

This looks to be perfect for me to recommend to friends and family who want me to create them "a quick website", with minimal costs.

The iPhone app video looks pretty compelling. Congrats.

I wonder if people said the same thing about EA? And look where that got us :(

I had exactly the same problem - I agree that a little animation would go a long way here.

It would be awesome if they did. When you hand over your password it isn't just your privacy that you're giving up, but that of all your friends too.

Though technically Facebook should be suing the users who hand over their passwords. I should imagine that would have the opposite PR effect.

To my shame, this hadn't actually occurred to me. Duly done. Though I don't like that it came to that.

Here's a screenshot with my browser open at the size I'm comfortably browsing the rest of the web with. When I went back to check I could in fact expand the page and push that off to the left, which is less annoying, but still not great.

http://d.pr/5IyI

As interested as I am in this, I decided to pass thanks to that share bar. Seriously awful.

I love this app, that it's free and easy to use for the hospital radio station I help run. So thanks to all those involved.

Is there anyone with some design chops who can't help them out though?

As a British citizen I'm not sure if this makes me sad or angry. I think it's both.

There's disagree-ing, and then there's talking in circles. As you point out - if they're being voted up, then surely they have a place. I'm just tired of seeing the "is this relevant" discussion on every single one. I find it no different than having someone go "by a Windows PC" on every Apple post, and vice versa.

I agree hate is a strong word, and I used it only a short-hand description of what I meant. I'm not overly sure which other words would be more accurate.

Personally I like their posts, and it certainly doesn't bother me when they reach the front page of HN. The only thing I'm tired of is all the predictable hate that goes their way. In fact, I find it a little petty and embarrassing for HN.