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Tim Cook is the man. He owed up to Apple's clear failure. The statement reads like a balanced and fair apology - should put a damper on the AppleMap-gate.

zuralskion Behavior of young children in a situation simulating entrapment in refrigerators

I am very surprised nobody has picked up this line for discussion: " Success in escaping [..] was also influenced by the educational level of the parents, a higher rate of success being associated with fewer years of education attained by mother and father combined. "

There's no attempt at explanation for this in the article itself..

Would it be safe to deduce that the more educated "you" are, the more passive (or "inactive") you are in the face of danger?

zuralskion A tipping point for Quora?

Has Quora reached a tipping point and became just another site for teen-advice on the internets (I'm looking at you, Yahoo Answers!) ? Is this a natural progression for any site with a user-generated content? And how to keep things relevant? I wonder what you think :)

zuralskion 37signals selling Sortfolio on Flippa for 480k

"I doubt that 37signals makes tons of $$ with Basecamp"... Really?

A few people have attempted at figuring out 37signals annual profits (which mostly come from Basecamp). Some veeeeeery conservative figures put their profits at around 10M a year. Probably a multiple of that. To you it obviously isn't "tons of $$". I get it! Next, you're going to say that no one pays for "time-tracking" anymore...

zuralskion Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message

Really? The last time I checked it was filling for an IPO. And a lucrative one...

zuralskion Facebook now informs the sender if you've read their message

The logical conclusion then is that "the reality of how people use Facebook" is going to change. Facebook (not for the first time) is attempting to shape users' behaviour. I am curious what sort of thinking went behind this change.

zuralskion Bootstrapd - a gathering of web professionals with an independent spirit

Finally an event that doesn't have a 'startup' ring to its name.

Just bought my ticket. And I can honestly say "I can't wait"!

zuralskion Pricing in reverse: use a product's price to figure out what you need to build

It seems to have worked for people you're quoting. Why the doubt?

zuralskion Interesting Church Site in pure HTML

It's not quite pure HTML. It relies heavily on CSS.

It'd be much cooler to see what you can REALLY do with pure HTML5. No CSS. No JS. No bells and whistles.

zuralskion A Pinterest spammer tells all

Everywhere I go, I find a spammer has been there before me.

zuralskion Codename: Obtvse

Open Source is a long race. I believe Dustin cares more about HIS creation than some guy who blatantly ripped it off.

To keep contributing to the open source, you need to care beyond "oh, I'm just going to rip off this guy's design because I failed to ask him if he's actually going to open source it, in the first place'.

This whole thing seems like terribly short-sighted thing to do.

So, Keep Calm and Carry On. The race is long.

zuralskion Codename: Obtvse

dcurtis - don't worry about Obtvse.

Just keep improving Svbtle and release it when it's ready.