Deezul

The CC is on file in order to streamline the purchase process when you decide to buy something. For OUYA to be a success there needs to be an appealing app ecosystem. That won't happen unless it gains developer interest and developers often invest in markets with a profit motive.

Wow, thanks for making my day.

Feature Request: The ability to save and re-load tabs as a labeled set. An array of open tabs is often the result of an intentional workspace. If I could label a saved OneTab as "iOS Development" and have it launch iOS Dev Center, JIRA, bitbucket, and various API/documentation, it would make switching from casual browsing to work mode a breeze.

"And yet, he was getting his work done on those days off, so no one fired him."

He may very well have been a poor worker, but it strikes me as odd how superficial our idea of a good worker is. Productivity being equal (at home or work), what does it matter if he seems to be having it easy? The illusion of looking busy still carries a lot of weight apparently.

I can't find your email anywhere and I'm not on twitter. If you can temporarily put your email in your profile I'll get in touch with you.

Gamasutra looks like a great place to start looking. I'm currently filtering by "network programming". Thanks!

Imagine what we might not have if everyone followed this misguided advice. The flip side: if you're breezing through your work, maybe you're not challenging yourself enough? You don't think searching for the Higgs boson can grow weary? Or training for an Olympic medal? Great things require great effort.

Aren't a lot of the comments satire?

I really appreciate hearing about the very paced/zen schedule you seem to keep. I'm a firm believer that productivity is an easily exhaustible resource and you can't simply extract more of it per week with additional desk hours. You can have all the money and time in the world, but true freedom is the ability to bask in every small moment of the day, revel in the experience and reflect on life as it happens. Don't wait for the big payoff.

This got me wondering how many people have built successful products and businesses with the sole intent of making it big? In other words, if your end game is cashing out 1 billion, are you crippling your full potential? Are the real successes born out of greater passions? Happenstance plays its part for sure, but that’s part of my point. Not barring ones drive to hack and tinker, what might you be doing if money wasn’t the goal? What would you build and what road would that take you down?

Isn't cutting through the bullshit a more useful skill?

Try this out: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/sftp I haven't used it, but I'll probably end up taking a look at it soon. Please report back if you end up using it.

I've recently started using Sublime Text 2 for iPhone development on Windows. Okay I admit, I've been doing it for a while. Rather strange setup perhaps, but with Synergy it's a fairly seamless workflow between my Macbook Pro and Windows desktop. I keep telling myself I'll get around to purchasing a license and this finally did it for me. I wouldn't say it's purely on guilt, more of a slowly growing relationship. Auto complete is an enormous help, why wouldn't I return the favor?

You're missing my point and getting caught up in the fact that entitlement annoys you. Regardless of how you feel and regardless of the consumers state of mind, this is happening.

> No business can meet all demands.

Absolutely, but it isn't being met. The demand of universal access is being fulfilled elsewhere.

>They act like not getting what you want is unique to our times. Unique to the internet. It's not.

What's unique to our time and the internet is that I can get what I want and it's more convenient than the conventional way.

That's the problem I was trying to highlight, hopefully this doesn't come across as snarky.

It's this line of thinking that will eventually send old media to the grave. They’ll hang on for a while, grasping at the golden years of yore, but if they don’t adapt to demands they will die. It’s not about “excuses”, it’s about reality, facts. If technology and the convenience it affords isn’t used as a medium to enhance customer experience it will be its demise.

"The fee will help allow us to continue to support these single bill payment options ... and is designed to address costs incurred by us for only those customers who choose to make single bill payments,"

Isn't running a for-profit company supposed to address costs associated with taking customers money? Convenience charge could simply be translated to a "because we can charge".

> In fact, my educated guess is that far more women die from car accidents than from crazy murderers.

This has got to be one of the most overused and misappropriated statistics I've heard during a multitude of arguments. I can't even deduce what point is being made beyond X is greater than Y. You can't simply invalidate a problem, because you found a larger (scarier) number on Wikipedia. Have you considered the amount of time spent and km traveled in a car versus time spent in bars and social gathers? I hope not because it's a rabbit trail and a moot point.

Perhaps people have faith in the disaster recovery routes their credit card / banks provide, whether it's well grounded or not.

What I want to know is why can't these financial institutions provide a read only username/password for users?

There is a big difference between that and going from poverty to upper middle class. By your logic those stuck in poverty in 1967 will now have graduated to upper middle class by 2010. Even if that is how you define middle class I don't see very great strides. I rent because the housing market is a mess (http://seekingalpha.com/article/115464-new-home-prices-vs-me...), I wash dishes by hand and don't care for an iRobot vacuum with a state of the art cat fascinating feature, health care is very costly or down right unattainable, but yes I do enjoy my Xbox 360. It hasn't convinced me of your point though.

I think you're making a mistake trying to apply something like Moore's law to a middle class lifestyle. Niche technological advancements don't necessarily translate to higher standards of living. If you're thinking the middle class life will simply scale the way hard drives and TV resolutions do you're in for a big surprise.

I understand that many of the things we think we "need" or want become very relative over time. But if we include basics like needing food, shelter and then add in middle class health care, mobility, security, leisure and luxury, you are talking about an expensive ticket. Yes we have made impressive advancements and maybe someday we'll have things like 100% robotic aggregation/farming and no longer need to think a lot about how we'll get our food. But I don't think the middle class life will simply becoming the default option anytime soon.

What about overpopulation? Increase demand from developing nations for this "middle class"? What about our numerous energy issues? I'm also not sure what your frame of reference is for the past. I must be stuck in the rebound towards an up trend because I know for a fact that a houses were much more affordable for my parents who lived on one carpenters paycheck, even while I make a higher salary after inflation and have the assistance of my spouses income.

What I find most notable is that this appears to be the first time Google has ever required a user session to interact with the home page by prompting a login screen in order to change the background.

I think the most important thing I've gathered from this article among others is that the iPad can do a lot for you and can do it pretty well, but possibly not exactly as you would like it. I think it has one the best sleek form factor to performance ratios out there, with style and ease of use to boot. So it really can't help but produce entertaining and useful software for people (with developer support). Power users who already have multiple desktops/laptops may struggle to justify their purchase, but in a large household I don't think people will be questioning the irony of the device when they're too busy using it.

I have to wonder how this would have turned out if Apple wasn't already taking a lot of heat for the new developer agreement. Perhaps they are tempering their stance.

I think this makes a fairly good case for performance based and measured employment. I've never understood why most management seems obsessed with just simply doing and not what you're doing or how you're doing it. If you are operating at 100% all the time, there is no time to reflect, revise and improve the tasks your are responsible for. Perhaps it's due to the illusion that employers need to squeeze every last minute of productivity out you, when in fact productivity was never intended to be measured in minutes.

You would have never found the treasure with the water level high.