cdixon

I think thee crappy apps are mostly a scam and hurt Apple and all of us devs. Sure, Flashlight is trivial but at least it works. Night Vision is a true lie and feels like adware/spyware is invading the IOS world.

the guy built the exokernal project at MIT. you work with the tools you have. Apple 2 at the time and later radically new OSs.

of course you don't have the degree when you apply and get accepted. the whole point was the guy didn't have a high school to go to, wouldn't ever get a degree, and MIT was awesome enough not to care.

yes, thank you.

is this an onion piece about people who read legal documents and don't actually know how the world works? brilliant stuff.

I have been observing startups for the last decade and SEO has definitely gotten way harder recently for startups. Believe it or not.

Might not be the best example - but I think my overall point stands.

I have one of these. The problem is it breaks when the wind changes directions.

Agree re email. But this can be done in a right way and a wrong way. Right way = new york times explicitly asking you for your email upon registration and respecting email spam rules. Wrong way - data mining off facebook.

I think a non-profit press is one solution. It just doesn't seem to be the solution favored by Americans. Given that, it's probably best to have a selection of well written for profit news sites with different points of view (NYT, WSJ etc).

If you follow the link, you'll see that quote came almost verbatim from the publisher of the New York Times.

I think a lot of times the "hard" part is a prerequisite for the easy part. Think of UGC sites - the hard part are contributors. Without contributors you can't even begin to go after readers.