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As a Brit interviewing to work remote for a SV company (as a contractor, due to residence) IR35 is something I really need to wrap my head around.

At first glance, it's a bit scary.

I use Newsstand for one magazine[0], purely because the digital version of the magazine is so well done I subscribed on the spot after reading the first digital issue, and renewed again last month. It's not just as good as the paper copy, it's (IMHO) better.

Every other iPad magazine I've tried? Not worth the bother, but that's the publisher's fault, not Apple's. I buy some one-off issues because I'd rather not have a paper copy taking up space, but that's it. I dislike having to have an app in Newsstand just for each these, so that's something Apple could maybe improve.

[0]https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/white-dwarf/id539505817?mt=8

I think he means getting devs who deploy Rails apps to start using HTTPS for their app, rather than there being a deficiency in the framework.

It's probably not quite what you're looking for, but I've been experimenting recently with using the Prompt app from Panic on my iPad Mini to SSH to a Debian virtual machine on Joyent (I have some spare credit with them I wanted to put to use up). For me, using VIM this way works pretty well, especially when paired with a bluetooth keyboard.

I've used a Steelseries 7G for the last ~3 years. It's built like a tank, compared to the Razer keyboards I tried in-store before buying it. It doesn't have many fancy bells-and-whistles, but it's far and away the best keyboard I've ever used.

I'll be sad to see it go when I move house and no longer have room for anything more than a laptop.

Is there a way you can continue without VC? It sounds like you're compromising yourself/business and don't really want to.

To continue your marriage analogy: don't do it if your heart isn't in it. The inevitable misery and divorce aren't worth it.

Support Lead (and the "Application Expert") for an Oil-Major internal web app here:

"support fixes" - ASA(F)P, after 2 rounds of testing and several sign-offs + Management approvals.

"Change Requests" - Deployed after an impact+risk-assessed notice period (between 1 - 14 days), and after the above testing/sign-offs/approvals

"New Release" - Should be Quarterly, after several rounds of testing, sign-offs, agreements from all affected business units... but there's been a big push on the app recently, so there's been 3 releases this year so far.

And then we have to go through all the testing/sign-off/deployment stages again with any Joint-Venture companies that have their own installations due to local data laws.

DF has posted quite a number of links over the last couple of months, highlighting how poor sync on iOS currently is (iCloud in particular). I'm pretty sure Brett Simmons has posted quite a few of them too... My theory is they tried to get sync working in as polished a fashion as they wanted, it didn't work well enough, so they dropped it for v1. If Apple fixes iCloud sync at WWDC they'll add it back in a new version. If not, they can just say it's not something they feel the app needs.

> _And Microsoft doesn't show any signs of wanting to sue anyone for any of this_

I'd go so far as to say (at least on the ASP.NET side) they're trying to _encourage_ community participation. Wasn't NuGet a community project before it was baked into Visual Studio? I'm pretty sure they're now shipping the JSON.NET library in one or more of the core project templates, rather than write their own.

You've come a long way, baby.

I remember when WordPress first appeared. I'd deployed the b2 blogging engine a couple of times before, and anything which made b2 easier to install/use/adapt was welcome. Amongst the (many) blog systems I'd tried up to then, b2 had the lowest technical barriers but was still an exercise in frustration to get installed and configured. In those early days of blog systems each product had its own quirks, and their own belief about what a blog was and how it should work. WordPress always tried to come across as "the Writer's" blogging system; once you had it setup to your preferences, it would stay out of the way. For the most part, anyway.

WordPress was never perfect, and it's still far from it, but you have to admire any system (particularly on the web) which is still going strong after 10 years, while remaining fairly close to it's original vision and principles. It made writing on the web more accessible to a generation of users, and for all its faults that should be celebrated.

I wrote something pretty similar almost 8 years ago[0], and for the most part I've found the advice holds up.

My current job is a lot more flexible for remote working than any other I've had before. I don't work remotely all of the time, but at least 33%. For me, I found a bit of self-discipline is essential, as is being able to "train" others. I'm living with my parents at the moment and had to get my mum to realise she couldn't just pop into the room at any moment to chat - I could be in a call with my boss/a client, or trying to focus on a task... anything really.

Another anecdotal observation I've had - once you've trained yourself to work from home, you'll often find you're at your most productive there. I know I do. Partly it's the more comfortable/relaxed setting, and partly it's guilt of being caught "goofing off". Scott Hanselman mentions the guilt aspect in his reaction to the Yahoo! ban on remote working[1].

If I ever lost the ability to work remotely I don't know what I'd do. Nowadays I can't go more than a few days at the office without feeling completely drained, demotivated and demoralised. The flip-side is working from home for an extended period can leave you wanting to go into the office to see real people again, not just a Office Communicator window.

[0]http://chrismcleod.me/2005/06/15/six-tips-for-working-from-h... [1]http://www.hanselman.com/blog/BeingARemoteWorkerSucksLongLiv...

I find it amusing that someone further up[0] believes the exact opposite - "Jobs hero-worship" is still strong here...

I'm sure it depends on the threads you read.

[0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5754440

I disagree. As someone who's gone back and forth between platforms several times, I much prefer the iOS system. It's more button taps for me, yes, but I find it clearer and I'm more likely to check what it's asking for. It's also more granular... I can allow access to my camera, but not to contacts for example. Android, by contrast, gives me a long list of "stuff" to accept and I have to allow access to all of it. Admittedly it has got a bit easier to check that list in the latest version of the Play Store, but it's still not ideal.

My favourite system for requesting permissions is actually Facebook's, which lies somewhere between these two - give me the full list, but let me "turn off" certain items if I want.

If I could make a suggestion... give some indication of what the editor can do on the site itself. Description, screenshot, that sort of thing.

If I could tell what it can do I would be more inclined to come back later and try it out. As it is, all of the login methods you support and the YouTube video you link to are all blocked at the office - so all I can do is admire your logo.

So did I until I went to Uni. The "Crusty Old Unix Guy" who taught some of the smaller course modules would knock off a mark if you didn't refer to it as 'hashbang'.

I thought cb-welcome was a very nice touch when I'd finished the install. It would be nice if more distros did something similar to get a new user setup with some default packages related to their needs.

First thing I did when cb-welcome finished was uninstall Abiword, Gnumeric, and Iceweasel (replaced with Chrome + Google Docs).

I installed CrunchBang on my aging Core 2 Duo desktop (2.3GHz, 4GB RAM). Whenever I played about with Linux before, I installed Arch, but this time I couldn't be bothered with the initial setup.

So far, I love it. Enough that I'm seriously considering making it a full-time switch. I've made a few tweaks (compiled a newer kernel, installed systemd) and I've now got an old PC that boots in just a few seconds and is more than responsive enough for my day-to-day use. I didn't _have_ to do those tweaks though, as everything worked right out of the box anyway.

That, and the page is designed so most people will click the "Accept & Download" button without even reading the top-level permission requests.

It's got the title and button at the top, taking up a large chunk of space (1/3rd on my Nexus 4), and then a vague list of - to most users - technical-sounding "stuff".

My guess is a large majority of users never look past the button.

Looks like he only did the intro. The main site credits these guys - http://www.artisanblue.com/lsg/

It's mostly about the synchronisation. For my use-case, I read articles in Google Reader during my lunch break at work. When I'm browsing at home later, on my own PC or iPad I don't want to have to wade through dozens of articles I've already read to find the new stuff.

I guess there's also the convenience of access to the web app pretty much anywhere, but that's secondary (to me).

So? If you _know_ you've done something wrong, and you get caught, then you should own up and accept the consequences.

My experience is people have more respect for people who will admit to a mistake/wrong-doing than for someone who will try to weasel their way out of trouble.

Link to the same post on his blog, for the Google+ averse: http://wilwheaton.net/2012/12/regarding-instagrams-new-tos/

My (admittedly limited) understanding is that it depends if the patent in question covers the idea/concept, or an implementation of that idea... with the usual caveat of different countries/different rules.

If it's anything like the iPhone 5, it'll be the total number delivered into a customer's hands - which will include some pre-orders but not necessarily all of them.

I believe it was changed in the last few years, but it's still pretty uncommon. The only examples I can think of, off the top of my head, are by the supermarkets (particularly those from Asda).

If Nokia has (supposedly) better map data than Google, how much money could be made by licensing that data?

Alternatively, how much could be made by creating a map application for the major mobile platforms, and sell it to the consumer direct? (bundled free with Windows Phone, no doubt) Probably not as much as a licensing deal, but still no small amount.

This little feature has allowed me to fill in the blanks after more than one drunken night out...

Found a new, partial name + a number in your phone the morning after? Use the "find friends" feature to find the rest of the details[^1] to get in touch without looking like so much of a fool[^2]. You didn't get everything, without making a friend request, but it was a starting point. Obviously it works both ways - people can find and get in touch with you as well (that may be a pro or con, depending on your outlook) - I probably owe my current relationship to this feature!

[^1]: This doesn't work for everyone, but the hit-rate in the 20's-mid 30 year-old's is pretty high in my experience. [^2]: Not guaranteed!

> after all, there is no way to turn of 3G in the settings

There is on my 4S running iOS6 (and I'm sure it was there on my old 3GS...) :-

Settings > General > Mobile > Enable 3G (toggle switch)

Nice site. If I had to nitpick, I'd say put the FAQ above the order form, and would've liked to get at least some sort of representation of what sort of tees I'd be getting.

The idea reminds me a lot of Valley Schwag[0], which was doing something very similar back in 2006... I got a few great tees out of being a member there, and a tonne of stickers and other little promo items.

[0]:http://techcrunch.com/2006/05/04/get-web-20-schwag-from-vall...

Indeed. I keep seeing these sorts of posts all over the place today... "Ohnoes, App.Net doesn't have millions of users yet - it's a failure." Rubbish. It's been around a month or so, and is only really known in tech-circles at the moment. They have managed to convince a significant number of people to sign up for a service when they can access a larger competitor for _free_. That in itself is a pretty big success.

It's too early to call App.Net a success or failure. Maybe it got too much press too early, and that has given people unrealistic expectations? I say come back and look at the numbers in 12-18 months. Then we'll be looking at a mature service, and will know how many users they added, or convinced to renew their subscription.