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> Since the beacon, Mark has always been sincerely recognized his mistakes, ask for forgiveness and try to fix those mistakes.

Isn't Facebook's MO that they do basically whatever they want and when called out for shady stuff they issue some sincere apology and try again?

He's about right but it's not really a ground breaking observation.

The author was lucky to have a half decent experience on the train given the appalling state and cost of our rail network.

I think I might be Finnish

All this seems needlessly complicated just to avoid having even a simple phone.

They all pretty much start with the disclaimer "I was given this for free but that didn't influence my 5* amazing review that follows"

I'm pretty sure Medium at one point was a decent low level solution to the problem they set out to solve - it just doesn't scale to the multi million/billion dollar solution the founders wanted.

I've found more recently that the discovery playlist that I also loved is churning up more and more of the same stuff now. Not even a good mix of songs from artists I definitely like - just a very small set of songs from them.

I do love it though, generally speaking although being a heavy daily user I'm not sure the discovery part is actually as good as it initially appears.

I think there's an element of them forcing an entirely new Google standard (then favouring it in their results) on to something they could just as easily punish (slow sites) directly.

Slow sites can be sped up quite often with small optimisations and improvements and those improvements can be guided by Google tools but instead they're forcing their own new format in the name of speed.

I just tried a couple of photos of websites from my monitor and it's really nowhere near close to identifying. One of them was roboto from the play store which I'd have hoped would be an easy one.

Does it struggle with photos of screens in particular?

Showed me the same results (price wise, order was different) in Chrome Incognito on Win 10 desktop and Android.

and Russian clapfarms

I can't wait for them to add a stories UI so I can see what my friends are searching for while I'm searching.

They still use their mighty data to show me ads for things I've literally just bought, I do sometimes wonder if all data is even.

While I commend the drive to switch to career it is a little scary that it's apparently so easy to become a $100k engineer in 5 months in SF.

Reading HN from the other side of the pond in UK sometimes I get the feeling that there's more money than sense flying around the startup world and that this sort of switch to work in this startup ecosystem is why there are so many dreadfully poor app ideas that should never see the light of day being funded with millions of dollars of VC cash.

I may just have a slightly distorted view of startup world but is it really that easy to score a highly paid job with so little experience because they're so desperate for bodies who can write some code or is OP someone very talented who's just rolled with it and got very lucky?

I only read the first slide.

It makes it practical though since so many people seem to think linking off to HN instead of having comments is a decent way of handling discussion.

Me too, really looking forward to meeting some of the other speakers and attendees.

Read the article, thought it was a bit wooly and vague. Agreed with this comment which points out the obvious nicely.

http://www.techinasia.com/mobile-strategy-is-bullshit/#comme...

All nicely wrapped up.

Would he not be better off spending 100 days making his product more fundable?

How do I find out who they all are?

"On the other hand, think of it as a never ending conference of a very specific type of crowd"

That sounds truly horrific if most web design conference tweets and talks are anything to go by.

I don't get why everyone is so up in arms about this. I come across folks every day who say they charge "$x" or "$y" and think it's way above market rate for what they say they do.

The reality is that perhaps this guy and his todo app might score some work at that rate or he might not, it's his prerogative to decide what he wants to charge.

I might look at someone elses folio today and when they tell me they want $500 a day I'd look at their work and think good luck.

There's a massive difference between saying what you charge and what you actually charge on the invoice at the end of the day.

I don't like it either, I personally find it hard to establish any sort of importance or order.

Gamify everything!!!

I wonder if folks doing this are also the same ones complaining about people stealing apps and torrenting movies? There's no real difference.

The numbers are impressive but whenever I login to G+ my timeline is always like this: http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2010/239/d/f/forever_alone...

I'm glad I'm not alone in still not understanding exactly what Rocketr is for or how it benefits anyone.

It's a totally different world these types of people live in to mine. I read the blog post, it was nicely written and a seemingly heartfelt reflection of a mans own position in life but I guess it's difficult to feel he's been anything other than a success already.

Perhaps it's all relative and compared to Sean Parker's bank balance he's a dismal failure but to reach 40 and have "a little under a million" in liquid assets and to have been able to dabble in angel investing for several years just doesn't seem that bad a life.

It's not just you. Could barely read it.