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And Windows 95 had no modern security checks in place, so good luck with Internet access. That stuff has performance costs. Also people seem to forget that we had to reboot those machines all the time due to crashes, more code that has performance hits. Yes there is definitely bloat but there is also a lot more going on underneath the seams than before.

I think the biggest issue isn't the searchability of mobile apps but rather the price point. At the current price point you cannot pay for any advertisement unless your in the top 1% and hence your whole marketing plan is then the App Store search results. If prices were more realistic and people could spend on advertising then any app could be discoverable. This is basically what happens when you go with bottom of the barrel pricing...

What happens if you get in a car accident delivering Amazon packages and don't have commercial car insurance as I suspect most people don't have not realize they need...

I found it ironic that the author talking about web cruft also had some on their website. The header image on my cell phone in landscape mode took up 20% of my screen and stayed even if I scrolled. Anyways I thought that was pretty funny :)

If you ever work on two computers over a shared network drive with Macs working in the exact same folder you'll immediately know the answer to this question ;) I don't understand why every system doesn't have one.

The problem is you can't write that optimized lean assembly code in a lifetime anymore. Software today does a lot more than it used to under the seams now that most people forget about.

That's the crux, the worst and best teachers will be evaluated almost the same. You need some kind of additional flag to identify this, and unfortunately the next class isn't always possible. Another idea would be a follow up survey 5+ years after the student fraudsters. This is possible as most professors teach for longer than 5+ years.

It's not just the highlights reel, but rather the aggregate. So for example if you have say 52 friends (52 weeks in a year to put emphasis on the point) then the odds are that on any given week someone is on a trip. In other words it looks like all your friends are travelling all the time but it's not true, it just feels that way.

Now if you increase your friends to 100, 200, 500, or more than this perception is even worse!! You'll be seeing multiple friends travelling each week. And on the holidays it will be even worse. However individually each friend is about the same on average.

To make things even more skewed you will probably have a few friends that will indeed have a better highlight reel, and possibly a better life, so of course you'll compare yourself to them more than your average friends cause that's how humans work. And God forbid one is a prolific facebook poster!

Also another thing to remember is that the more a post is liked the more feeds it showed up in. In other words really cool news will appear in a lot more feeds and negative news dies fast. This further skews our perceptions of how great things are.

The key is that comparing in facebook is a bad thing. The data is all skewed and not really comparable, but we still do it because it's in our nature. The best advice is to try and appreciate and remember this and as a result avoid those kinds of comparisons. Well that and like everything else such as TV, etc., limit your time to something reasonable. Oh and if you have friends that are really just acquaintances that fall into these categories then don't be afraid to hide their feeds ;)

I don't think it's so much that Betty need to buy a subscription, most people just aren't willing to do that, they would rather just deal with ad filled pages. How many people for example pay for gmail? Same problem.

The main issue is how do news websites make money? Other than spamming us with ads, which itself has low ROI, no news website has been able to figure a good solution. And if you point to sites like NY Times, ask yourself first if they are really succeeding if they also didn't spam us with ads too...

Any specific ones from that list that you recommend?

If you have an ssd and more than one Apple device, each device you synch eats up about 10gb of space or more. If you have a spouse with an iPhone in addition to yours, a kid or two with itouches, then that can easily eat up 50+Gb of an ssd drive. This can be a very significant percentage of your drive!! And there's no way to change it to anything by the c drive on windows.

I wonder how the usage progresses as you age. What's important at 15,20,25, and beyond are different. Not different demographics but the same people as they age through the different demographics. In other words how consistent would the diffeent media options change with time....

I shouldn't need a license to drive either, or to do anything I want should I? There's a reason licenses exist.

Then the price for "standard" or "compatible" machines need to increase. A company who offered this could potentially make some good money...

I think the main problem is that people from HN are on average much more self-motivated than your average person. And as a result the average person who goes on bench quickly gets bored with nothing to do rather than take the initiative and do something. They need someone to direct them. Remember most people socialize, watch tv, etc. most people are not self-motivators. It's sad but unfortunately it's the reality. On a positive note we need employees, not everyone can be an entrepreneur.

I think Ubisoft is doing a very good thing. It's better than most companies. If they want to maximize their retainment investment they just need to have some direction for the people on the bench. The problem is, is it worth this additional investment? Probably not. On a positive note your self motivators can take advantage of it which is great. And those that don't, well they don't.

I think the issue is revenue and not user forgetting about the website. People remember sites years later. The problem is the business model. People are not willing to pay for the services of a travel planner which is expensive to build, which means your revenues are affiliate or ad based. This is not enough to support the dev costs.

I've just read many comments that show getting traffic is not an issue. Yes it might be more competitive but lots have gotten traffic. The common issue I see is that none of them have been able to generate enough revenues to support themselves, even with good traffic.

Why is it that almost all comments worried about the Ebola virus are down it's and flagged, regardless of their quality? That alone is very telling :(

Ps: yes I expect to see this doe voted too :(

My comment is getting down other yet not that log ago it was said our system was so good that someone with Ebola would be immediately quarantined: http://www.foxnews.com/health/2014/06/30/could-ebola-spread-... I guess we missed the boat on that one. They were sent out and continued to expose people to the virus.

Also the odds of it leaving Africa and coming to the us were virtually non-existant: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2014/06/25/324941229/could-t... I guess that's another oops.

People are underestimating this virus and whenever you underestimate something you generally later regret it. Hopefully I'm wrong for example, but I see too many people sending their sick kids to school and so on. I just think that although we can stop it, it's not nearly as easy as it's made it to be. And we need to stop it sooner than later. I hope I'm wrong but I dont want to find out the hard way. Assuming were bettr than a virus is never wise...

For now...

What's going to be a real struggle is how do you differentiate between symptoms of the stomach flu, influenza, Ebola, and so on...

Also for those of you who haven't watched it, they continually make fun of the valuations, ideas, and funding available. So when I say exists I mean not just that it exists at all, but what it's really about also ;)

The fact that the tv show Silicon Valley exists, as much as I love it, really shows that were in a big boom right now. It's starting to feel a lot like the dot com era again.

I've noticed this becoming a trend. The votes are not for the quality of the comment but rather the agreeability. It's too bad...

So how come we can't stop the seasonal stomach flu ;) it's not as easy as they make it out to be and I for one don't want to test this hypothesis...

Even at 2.5, which to me is low, that 1.4x2=2.8 times another half doubling and were looking at 4.2 million. That's quite a difference.

If the under estimation is by a factor of 5 then you're looking at 44.8 million.

The exponential value is really important, especially in the early and end games ;)

That's assuming the current count is accurate which boots on the floor consistently disagree with:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/09/23/world/africa/23ebola.ht...

http://racingheartblog.tumblr.com

Considering the doubling rate I would personally increase that number by at least 2-5 doublings...

My fear is that we're not able to stop a simple stomach flu which is spread almost the same way, through bodily liquids, so I don't think it will be easy to stop once it hits first world countries like most people currently assume...

There's a crunch at today's salaries. Plain and simple. Increases salaries and a lot more talent will appear. Most people are no longer willing to work at the rates corporations want to pay. Simple market forces at work ;)

Something I've learned is never sign any work or business contracts unless you fully read through it and understand it. Even if this means getting your own lawyer to read it.

Unfortunately saying you did understand the language is not a valid reason. It sucks but that's also the reason why thee were so many bad mortgages in the recent real estate bust. Too many people didn't read their mortgage agreements.

As the saying goes everything is good while it's good and everything goes bad when it goes bad.

I don't think you can just do a cold re-write of that size without domain knowledge. I would first try to refactor the existing system just to reduce the code size. That big a system probably has horrific code and you can easily shrink it quickly. Just finding duplicate code will have an impact. Pulling out to open source systems like file utilities based code.

Basically I would first try to reduce the size of the problem while trying to get domain expertise. I wouldn't consider a rewrite at this stage...