There's a pretty big effort jump between writing an article and approving it for editing, in addition to writing involving you intently think about the story for a significant amount of time. This means that any ethical, financial, pr - related concerns are applied longer for the writer. NYT writers are highly motivated and competitive people, and would worry about even the occasional negative piece. Bay Citizen writers aren't held to the same requirements, since they're aren't viewed in the same critical way. Editors, since they simply have to review the piece and what gets on the page is whatever is the best to choose from, are a lot more likely to approve a piece.
You're only technically correct because of how averages work. Novice computer users make up a major part of Apple's demographic, and often times their products are more suitable. More specifically, there are a number of features in Mac OSX which simplify the file system for novice users, including "All My Files", "Date Last Opened"/"Date Added" sorting capabilities, and browsable folders straight from the dock.
Did you get data on how other students did? I received an A in a science/tech/policy class which I didn't do half the assignments for. Talking around a bit, everyone else I knew got an A as well.
The domain is non-descriptive, and .info is typically associated with spam. It also looks like you're in a flux state of completion, with not a lot of detail. I'd suggest limited your scope and making a smaller, but more polished product, before trying to attract more contributors.
I also used to believe Unicode and UTF-8 were different types of encoding until someone corrected me. I just remembered why I had thought such a thing in the first place:
To be fair, the confusing structure of anonymous, and the multitudes of 'alternative' press releases under the name of anonymous certainly confused the issue. As more people joined the occupy protests in SF, new issues started getting mixed in (from prosecution of banking board members to banning circumcision), and the press naturally published what was most interesting to the general public.
E. I used it for 5 months before switching to IntelliJ. Code completion isn't worth using in Eclipse on large projects, it often took an entire second to show up. Partial building happens on every save, which seems like a nice idea, but on android it has to rebuild a substantial part on every deploy anyways, so it doesn't speed anything up. Often times the building would cause the UI to simply lock up. The debugger would often crash on breakpoints, windows would reset themselves and jump around, and when you modify files outside of eclipse, it would take multiple refreshes before it picked it up. Add that to no native support for color schemes (they're laggy at best with the Eclipse Color Theme plugin) and an insanely slow load time, and you wonder how this software has lasted so long. Switching to IntelliJ has not only made me significantly more productive (30% additional maybe?), but in general I feel less frustrated at work.
Is there more to the story that you know (considering you used to work at Digg?). You're claiming that leadership at Digg didn't attempt to retrain these programmers new projects, which is a pretty substantial claim. Also, I don't see why Rose's educational background is relevant to his leadership ability, and that statement seems like a superfluous ad-hominem. I'm not necessarily defending Digg leadership in this case, but I certainly question an emotionally heated top post in an HN thread.
First off, both iTerm and TotalTerminal were very useful and fairly well done.
On Mac OSX Lion though, Terminal.app supports 256 colors and split pane (although only vertical stacks). I don't know what use growl gives me, but having to update it was annoying.
What I do miss from TT and iTerm is the visor mode bound to a shortcut key. Both had downsides though: TT would mess up copy and paste, iTerm would just crash sometimes, you couldn't have the visor down while typing something on another screen. All in all I decided it wasn't worth the trouble to reinstall either when I switched to Lion.
Same here, we had to abandon usage of it in favor of a simple json-tcp bridge. We were looking at 100ms+ for communication between two ec2 instances; with straight tcp it was closer to 7ms.
With Minecraft in particular, I'd hypothesis that much of the piracy is done by under 18s who don't want to try and justify the use of a parent's credit card or paypal.
The SF situation is completely different. Padmapper shows studios ranging from 1400-1900 depending on your distance from the financial district, and areas really close (SOMA) have few openings, mostly 1-2 bedrooms in towers (3000+ easy).
Living outside the city isn't too bad, south of SF you can find 1 bedrooms for ~1200 if you don't mind a 30+ minute commute (traffic/train), or Oakland there's plenty of 1br/studios for ~1000, but you deal with higher crime and a social stigma that you live in Oakland.
I agree with the implication of your last question. It would certainly make sense for google to integrate Google Plus directly into their core product. I haven't thought of an exact path this would take, but if you're branding an operator, brand it everywhere.
I'm an engineer with a pretty keen eye for design, but I've never understood these font wars. At a certain point, whether your serif is 3% longer, or the loop in the letter a is downwards or upwards, none of that helps or hurts readability. What companies really need to start working on is their rendering technology. The Segoe family was designed for clear type, one of the most readable and cross-screen technologies available today. Mac OSX suffers horribly from a blurriness on non-Apple displays, and as unfamiliar as I am with the tech that underlies Linux distros like Ubuntu, they haven't seem to hit any screen right yet. ClearType handles bleed, leakage, contrasts, all seamlessly. Apple has only designed for their devices, so yes, it tends to look very good on their tech. Android gets the worst of both worlds: no good algorithm, and no control of hardware.
Pragmatically though, you'll never be able to stop new advancements from seeing the light of day. Blocking MIT from researching this won't stop the NSA or defense contractors, and even with a fair government, it wouldn't stop criminals. So far, the best path for dealing with potentially dangerous tech has been to keep it open and studied.
Wouldn't it be vulnerable to simple eavesdropping? SSL can be attacked via MITM, but since certificates are authenticated your browser knows when it occurs. (I still don't know quite how that works)
I entered a 48 hour startup competition with source control for recipes. I won 3rd out of 8 or so teams, mainly because I didn't have a good strategy to penetrate the market (massive competitors like All Recipes, or branded ones like Betty Crocker hold the stage now). Everyone loved the concept though, and combining it with an Ingredients->Mobile Grocery List would be useful for just about every one.
I suppose if anyone's interested, I'd be willing to carry the idea further. I'm a technical guy, with experience in RoR and NodeJS and Android, although I'd love to explore the business side of things more.
I'm a bit "germaphobic" really, I couldn't dream of using my laptop or phone while doing anything of that nature. I realize that my hands on my keyboard are probably far dirtier even with washing them, but eh, I guess I'm not a completely logical machine.
I've been working on an early stage startup which does something very similar to this, although less celebrity focused and more on common circles. It's funny actually, when Google+ happened, I figured they did exactly what we've been working on, but they didn't. Seeing as everyone on HN seems to want something like this now though, it seems to be putting a lot of pressure on.