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No paywall: http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702303...

So what's the rationale for charging $1500 to early explorers? Pure greed? Desire to keep out the riff raff? All of the above?

I don't think it will in the short term.

This is a really smart move by Blue Bottle though. Overnight, they have a Web presence and a mail-order/distribution network.

I know that your question is more about productivity/managing with less space, but at the very least, to make your life easier I recommend Stay for OS X.

If you go from a dual monitor setup to solo and back a lot, Stay will manage your windows and keep them in the same position (and crucially, the same size) when you plug your monitor back in.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/stay/id435410196

This was happening during the outage. Oops.

MoPub competitor it seems

The ugly side of big data

non paywall link: http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304...

"Still, the addition of official support by Instagram is a good indicator of health for Windows Phone."

What? It took 3 years for them to develop a camera app that can't take photos and this is a good indication of health?

No, not at all evil, if they don't control the message who else will? (HN commenters not withstanding)

I'm just saying the way they are going about it insults my intelligence.

I love Teslas. If I had the disposable money (and the need of a fulltime car) I'd buy a Model S without hesitation. I think Elon Musk is a brilliant entrepreneur.

But this is tripe. I can smell PR and sanitized wordsmithing when I see it--and this post reeks. If that wasn't obvious by the medium of this post--The Official Tesla Blog.

Gee, how did it get up there? Do you think that maybe, just maybe, at some point in time the author was in contact with Tesla's PR department? And do you think Tesla PR decided to let someone post something with no oversight whatsoever? And this post just happened to be perfectly on message with the talking points Tesla PR had drafted up?

For all we know, every word of this is true, but in this format (a very defensive post on the Tesla Blog giving a 100% pro-Tesla version of the events), Tesla has no credibility. Why not have this person write about this in the user forums and then link to it from the official blog with a foreword from Elon?

True story: in the '90s, I used to buy print editions of the Onion for $1 at the Tower Records at Bay and Columbus in SF.

How times change.

important to note that this is not verified by Twitter

The Globe and Mail updated this story, but they fell for the hoax. https://twitter.com/KatzOnEarth/status/396332095196262401

The BBC, Reuters and AP did too. The hoax originated here: https://twitter.com/HeadIineNews/status/396326759966068737

Pira Energy Consulting Group.

Gee, I wonder if they have any interests or agendas.

One of the organizers here.

We needed funding to pay for the substantial costs of the event, and we needed a mechanism to sell tickets.

The Kickstarter model gave us both.

these are so bad, for so many reasons.

Although, it is funny to watch how Microsoft behaves as an underdog. So desperate.

Companies with 4% marketshare on smartphones can talk all the shit they want because they've got nothing to lose.

Per the updated article, we at least know revenues are sub $1B, as this is a requirement for being allowed to file confidentially

Unbelievable. This is what happens when you hire college grads with Social Media Strategist titles on their resumes and then have corporate marketing drones rubber stamping all campaigns.

I usually never post rumors, but this is coming from Om Malik.

Thanks for the candid post, Dan. Very introspective and honest.

Kind of a gossipy story, but also fascinating.

Odd move. Twitter has always been about optimizing the user experience. TicketMaster has always been about gouging the user and exploiting their monopoly on events to give ticket buyers a huge middle finger at every step of the buying process.

This does not bode well for Twitter--at least in my eyes.

RIP Jeffrey McManus. You will be missed

I've always felt that no physical controller access was a limiting factor for Apple killing the console.

The next (and IMHO inevitable) step, would be to open up the Apple TV via an SDK.

No pitchforks, just belly laughs. Rather than just a cosmetic flub like "Dear [First Name]...", they left out the most critical info of the email with a placeholder.

Mostly meaningless in the grand scheme of things, but pretty funny nonetheless. Makes me feel better about some of my past email fails.

Yea, to be fair, I think she was referencing mostly middle management and upper management folks, not engineers.

This post is really light on the references and methodology, but I'll take it at face value.

I think it's great that they've let go of this obsession for Ivies.

But what they don't even talk about in this post is how the Ivy-only policy poisoned their company culture. To quote a friend from mine from a top startup: "All the assholes at my company come from Google."

Horrible mea culpa.

"We appreciate the feedback from a number of journalists and customers that the first version of our financing product wasn’t quite right,”

It wasn't that they were doing really complex calculations that they made an error on, they were being intentionally misleading. That is what they should be sorry for, not that the math was not "quite right"

ditto on Safari OS X