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Is it still "swag" (stuff we all get) if you pay for it (and eventually for the shipping)? I bought a couple of tees and stickers from Github because I love everything about them and I thought it would be nice to support them - that was before that $100mm investment. I think people should buy merch from companies they admire and want to support even more. $15 bucks a month for a tshirt with the name of a service you don't use and might even never heard of seems a bit weird.

No, actually WE pay to advertise startups.

They're among the most expensive Android devices and that's why I assumed they mostly owned by passionate users. My geek friends who are not on the Apple side of things have Nexus and S2/3 and the rest of the people I know who just wanted a not so expensive smartphone settled with Desire or Magic and so on.

It can be beautiful on the large-screen top models like Nexus S, S2, S3 and so on that are owned by geeks, not on the LG Optimus-ish and other low-quality phones that regular people buy. On my Samsung Galaxy S Mini not so much, for example I couldn't install Path because the screen is too small.

Why 2 laptops though? So you can bitch about crappy Skype or email clients twice? :-)

Your setup is quite radical in my opinion although I know that are even more extreme ones and this is not a way for most of us. Several years ago we used to memorize contacts and birthdays or keep them in a (paper) notebook but that's not an alternative for most of us nowadays.

I keep my setup as minimal as possible and I'm still frustrated by these bugs and limitations.

Yes, we all can relate to that posts and everyone I know complains about software mentioned there, such as Skype, iTunes, Chrome, I might even add the fact that if you have 3 synced Apple devices near you a reminder pops on each one of them at the same time which shouldn't be so hard to avoid given that they're all connected to the same wifi. We live in this cloudy era, everyone speaks of clouds and sync and data everywhere but synchronization is the most broken thing of them all.

There are a lot of silly problems with the software and hardware that we use everyday and most of these problems are noticed by us, the power users. It's like with the Twitter-ad-supported saga: the power users bitch about it, look for alternatives but the regular Joe sticks with it and he's very happy. I know a lot of people who don't see any problems with Skype or Outlook and are very happy with them.

Today I was at the bank and the clerk wanted to print something and I had to literally wait there 20 minutes because the Adobe Reader was updating and some guy from IT was logged in remotely to make sure everything went fine with the update. She apologized telling me that "you know how it is with these computer programs nowdays" and that she was very happy with the old setup. I chuckled and thought of that Adobe Reader update meme[1] but deep inside I wept.

[1] http://t.qkme.me/3qk2v4.jpg

That would be a pretty bad joke but it someone doesn't sign out of their Facebook or email account on a share computer, they kind of deserve it.

Not really. I had a few websites that ran on Wordpress and got "infected" because of some vulnerabilities in a plugin. I had to manually remove the malware code - usually it's pretty easy to find - and go through Google website verification https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en...

I think they are a bit more than just a reseller.

And the Android one https://github.com/WhiteHouse/wh-app-android

If you use vim you SHOULD remap Caps Lock to Control.

From here http://www.elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=pfu_keyboards...

http://elitekeyboards.com/support.php#2

Agree, "Angry dev coding" could easily be "Working with XML".

Pretty nice but you should really get a mechanical keyboard, that's the real coding sound http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWPH7FAUfUY

That picture of the Facebook recruiter is also on the main page of http://salon.io/ as the most representative (?!) image of the event.

If you're tired of deadmau5 mixtapes you can head to musicforprogramming.net for some new coding tunes :)

I think people are frustrated about this and feel betrayed because they were a great indie dev team that made a great product and the users loved them and their product and supported them by purchasing and recommending their product from the beginning, despite the lack of features. Customers trusted them because they thought that the indie dev team will continue to be focused on improving the app and creating versions for other platforms (iPad, Windows etc) and now, boom, it's over.

The author of the blog post focuses too much on the money. It's not really about the 10 or 3 bucks. I was an early adopter of Sparrow and I literally jumped out of my chair when I read that the iPhone Sparrow app was released, because that almost completed my email workflow. Now Sparrow plays a big part in my workflow and I KNOW that the iPad app will never come out and that they won't release any new features or improvements for new iOS and OSX versions. I'm not frustrated about paying those 13 bucks or so but because I will have to stop using an app that fits so well in my workflow and start looking again for alternatives. Which is not a tragedy in the end and as a developer and startup enthusiast I'm actually pretty happy for the Sparrow team.

We tend to get too attached to these startups and it's painful to see them get acquired by the big players but it looks like it's a trend. It's getting harder and harder to be an early-adopter, to support a product/startup with money, data and feedback, to see it be awesome and then to watch it die.

YoruFukurou is great and I've been using it for more than a year but I already use Tweetbot for iOS on my iPhone and iPad so switching to Tweetbot for Mac makes perfect sense, especially if you're like me and obsess over synchronization and UI consistency.

More potential "winners" are here http://plaintextoffenders.com/

It would be nice to send him emails asking about those wooden carvings of ships to restore his faith in the Internet.

I think the "serious" part of his description stops at "He works at GitHub". Everything after that sounds pretty jokey.

The new Macbook Pro landing page is out http://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/

That's really neat! So those big companies pay to be on your service? How did you get them to do that?

Let us know when you're ready for an IPO.

It's hard not to be hungry with a 10 bucks app that has a landing page that says nothing about it and competes with Instagram, Camera+, Hipsmatic and such.

Oh, I see. Mea culpa then.

"Most of the time I do not have an Internet connection. Once or twice or maybe three times a day I connect and transfer mail in and out. Before sending mail, I always review and revise the outgoing messages. That gives me a chance to catch mistakes and faux pas." http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

Oh well. The interview is from 2010 though.

Here's his interview on The Setup where he describes his laptop and the software he uses http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

He was robbed by someone attending his talk, not mugged on the street at gun point so I don't think that "glad he's okay" is appropriate here, especially since "okay" in this case means that he's in a foreign country without passport, money and medicine.

Such a shame.

They are popular because of Rails among developers, most of business/non-technical people have no idea about they're affiliation with Rails (or what Rails is for that matter). On the other hand, Basecamp is used widely by lots of small businesses and not only IT companies and it's fair to assume that most of their revenue comes from it.