I am finishing up my PhD and I have a very direct analogy to what PG mentions.
There are multiple research groups with different success rates and what I have noticed is groups with extremes are not doing that well. By extremes I mean professors who try to micromanage and get a daily update and professors who do not care at all. In my group, we have a biweekly meeting for everyone to present what they did in 2 weeks time which makes all of us work hard but on our own terms. I think incorporating similar things in education/research will be very helpful in the long run.
he is bad!! I saw him in the olympics and i noticed he was not even giving his 100% and won all the awards and broke all the records. I haven't seen this one but am pretty sure he will break this record too. He is michael phelps of running.
Thanks for the link and wealth of information here. My startup is actually developing products related to standardized tests. This will come in handy. I was completely unaware of Google Insights. It looks very comprehensively and intelligently organized.
Given, we are talking about Ben Franklin, I would be more inclined towards The Public Good rather than "meaningful" in reference to himself. And that is the reason I avoid good in my questions because my questions relate to "meaningful" to myself. :)
I have tried doing "what have I done today and what shall I do tomorrow" in that order, right before I go to sleep. It works amazing whenever I do it. I just need to do it everyday.
I believe he is. However, I believe a lot of news organizations/blog owners are trying to do it these days. They will have very controversial/eye catching headlines with no substance in the article to gain more traction. Dvorak is a few steps ahead, he tries to justify those headlines by pulling fake data.
This is a very good start IMO. I think they should try to monetize these websites and run like a corporation and then lower the taxes side-by-side. I dont see a reason why they should not. People will be paying money from all around the world and we (US tax payers) will be saving money. :)
I am sure iPhone does that too, because as a developer we get crash reports of our apps. However, I don't think that apple sends this information through internet, I think it does it when you sync your iPod/iPhone.
I agree with most of the comments that it seems like a spam tool and using twitter in domain name was not probably a good idea. However, I consider the approach that twitter took to be rather an extreme. They should have made an initial move by emailing the guy and asking him to shut down the service and provided reasons for it and given him a chance to change his practices. I just hate the fact that it is so easy to sue in US which IMO is also one of the reasons that insurance costs are so freakin high.
The fact that they have made a choice to increase their profits while compromising on user convenience is a completely opposite direction of what google was based upon IMO. Google is a company I used to look to whenever I had to think of a business problem(User convenience/solving a problem before making any money). If you are providing user what they want business model will work out, which seemed to be the case but not anymore, I guess.
I have been noticing it too many times at too many places these days. Especially on big news network like CNN/ESPN. They will have completely misleading title for the post just to grab attention.
I am new to this but always wondered about the non-existent search functionality? What is the rationale behind not having it? I can see that the news is archived because you can find it, then why not have a search on the news page itself?
but if u look from the positive side, I would love to have those sensors on my iPhone with all the important information protected. I used to own a thinkpad with hard disk protection and loved that feature.
I dont know why people just want to look at the bad side of things.
The more I am reading about new apple patents, the more I am inclining towards the fact that beating an iPhone is going to be extremely difficult.
There has been a lot of complaining against the appstore, FCC starting an investigation, apple rejecting a dictionary app and what not, but still no one has come close to beating an iPod yet, with all what iPhone is offering, and the patents apple has applied it seems like it is going to get more and more difficult in the future.
I bet this guy had couple of terrible apps on the appstore which didn't made him the moolah he was hoping for and now he is blaming it on apple and trying to get traffic on his website by being dramatic. .
This appstore thing has been discussed on HN so many times, and I just cannot believe how some developers are blaming Apple for everything. I know their needs to be improvements in the appstore. I also know apple is screwing up at some fronts but overall appstore rocks. People need to be critical about bad things but then they should give credit where it is due.
This is a very good start. There is a huge need of inculcating entrepreneurship attitude among researchers in STEM. I see a lot of innovation around me being a PhD student but a lot of money is wasted at the same time. Good luck to these postdocs. Hopefully, they will be successful and more researchers will move towards researching on real world solutions.
I hope there is a day when all my medical records/my professional (from school to PhD) records/my financial records are available at one place. And I hope that place is such that no one but myself has access to it without the scare of it being hacked. I know its a lot to wish for, but someday hopefully it will happen.
My personal experience is very similar to what jzdziarski mentioned. Make a good quality app and support it, you will make money on it. Dont invest money on marketing, I have heard horror stories about it, unless you are someone like EA, amazon or target.
There are a few dirty tricks that I have noticed being constantly used by other developers like releasing an update as soon as your previous update gets approved to be in the new release section. We don't do that because we are serving a niche market and we don't want to upset users, but it works. (IQ Test by McPhun is amongst top 5 apps in education for last 6 months and they come out with an update every week. They do it for almost all their apps.)
Our startup has a name which has nothing to do with what we are doing. Everyone we tell the name says its a cool name. There is a funny story behind the name but at this point we dont go out telling the story to everyone. When someone asks why, we simply say its cool and we like it.
they are not charging people who got their consoles jailbroken. They charged the guy who was jailbreaking them for money.
Moreover, the analogy you have is completely irrelevant. I was not arguing against the moral issue behind it. I was saying he broke the LAW and thatz it.
He definitely broke a law. But to send him to jail for doing this is just ridiculous. He should be penalized financially for this and thatz it.
IMO, anyone who jailbreaks their own stuff shouldn't be put under the law, but someone doing it for others for money definitely are breaking the laws. But it is not something that taxpayers money should be wasted in sending him to jail and going through the investigation. Fine him and be done with it.
The app would be so much better if apple allows a setting such that you dont need to run the app to do it. As soon as the iPhone bumps another iPhone, the contact is shared with a notification.