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There's some research that indicates that the "venting anger" theory leads to the opposite, i.e. more anger, not less.

[1] http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bbushman/PSPB02.pdf (quick google, there are certainly better and more up-to-date papers).

"I don't know enough to form a valid opinion here.".

Beautiful. This is pretty much the last thing I ever expected to read on the interweb.

If you are living in germany, https://www.dkms.de/en/become-a-donor has you covered. They'll send you a home kit so you don't even need to leave your house to register.

This post made me listen to erasure. Thank you.

Also, sorry for the OT.

This.

I'm currently working on my 3rd Android-BLE project and it's incredible how bad those APIs (and of course the vendor's implementations) are. An inconsistent pile of .. well, nothing nice. I don't get why they have no interest in fixing that..

thanks for sharing this. Since i'm in a somewhat comparable situation, would you mind getting in touch? you can find my website, alas email, on my profile page and I think talking about some stuff that worked and didn't work might help me. Thank you.

yes, they do. I'm contracting (in germany, if that's important) and about a third of the companies that hire me have high or very high standards when it comes to avoiding technical debt, adherence to sane development cycles and clean code. So yes, there are those companies.

Sounds all to familiar. I discussed and still discuss this problem with my peers offline a lot, and thought about creating (haha, new project there) a platform where people with this exact problem can pair up and in a way play supervisor for someone else.

The point is that my procrastination immediately stops if i make a commitment to someone else: if i promise a friend to deliver xy, I do. Social pressure seems to be working for me better than the will to suceed.

so, a platform where you can define your goals and have someone else check on your goals regularly, asking why it didn't work – while you do the exact same thing for the other person. while it's nice project wise, it could also provide helpful advice for whatever it is you're building.

just an idea though.

gendered products.

That's great.

Maybe someone here can enlighten me as to why the systems, specifically TCAS and GPWS in modern civilian planes are only ever used to issue warnings/recommendations, but never take control? it would have at least prevented the überlingen mid air collision and probably some other CFIR incidents in the past years.

I thought about this for a while and couldn't come up with a really good reason.

To be fair, the concept behind diaspora. I was closely following the development at the time diaspore was "hot" and, honestly, the setup was too complicated for people who are used to setting up wordpress or something.

I still think the concept is amazing, but unfortunately, they kind of failed to deliver.

Yesterday, I tried uber in berlin for the first time. It was a professional limousine driver, with insurance and a permit to work as a driver. So, for uber black that's true, while it's not for uberpop. i guess uberpop is really the problem.

depending on your field of expertise feel free to get in touch (I'm not a recruiter, but a freelancer with an extensive knowledge when it comes to good/bad employers here in germany. :)).

A while ago, a recruiter from one of the big players got in touch.. well, after 4 interviews they finally figured that I was too inexperienced (merge sort run time complexity is, in fact, way more important that most other things when developing mobile stuff). Total waste of time.

The process concluded with them offering me that I may apply a year from now, again :D.

Hi, author here.

No. Not using Bluetooth LE, since there is no support for acting as a "server" device that can be discovered by other peers. It's sure to come someday, but right now it's only possible using a rooted phone.

It maybe possible that Firechat uses either Wifi Direct, which is supported on most modern Androids or classic Bluetooth, although the discovery/connection requires user interaction.

Spot on. I'm working and living in germany, and this is one of the biggest problems, in my opinion, for the future of this country. You rarely find some startup here that is truly innovative – the fews that are usually don't get funding. It's a dead end, and I don't see it changing.

Well, you must have missed the discussion a few days ago about the evilness of the hamburger button. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7794505

The main argument against using a menu-button is that it hides the contents behind it, which makes them hard to discover and interact with.

The original post makes a good point that, paraphrased, it's about improving a flawed information architecture instead of trying to fix symptoms, like the hamburger menu. And though it's tempting to use esoteric, hard-to-use/understand gestures and interaction models, it's almost never the right way. It's that subtle difference between an interface that feels like it's been designed to 'feel smart', instead of something that's easy to use.

Actually, the original article the tc-story summarizes is at http://lmjabreu.com/post/why-and-how-to-avoid-hamburger-menu... .

And while I'm not a big fan of hamburgers as well, proposing a scrollable tab bar as an alternative is.. a bit strange.

> They do not allow medical devices.

thank you, i was wrong there.

That's what market research really is good for. And frustrating potential users to minimize your business risks isn't acceptable, in my opinion. There's always risk involved. That's the nature of business.

I totally like cool products like the one on display here. But i'm so tired of those preordering-sites.. really, i want to order your stuff. now. Tell me when it's finished, put the site online. If you really need an indication whether someone likes/needs it, perform market research without irritating potential customers. And if you need additional funding to make your vision happen, sites like kickstarter offer a clean and generally well understood way of making that happen.

No, I'm not going to preorder a product now that ships sometime in 2015. Not even for a 50% discount.

As a recommendation to the author, it would make sense to show the example/demo area the whole time, not only once I scroll down. It confused me. A lot.

Forgot about that one, thank you. Another one on the list, unfortunately.

Isn't it easier to just use Charles Proxy (http://www.charlesproxy.com/) or mitmproxy (http://mitmproxy.org/) for those stunts? I can see the value for anyone not familiar with those tools, but for me as a developer, this is clearly something that can be solved without depending on a third party server.

Am I the only one who thought they just released an updated version of a license?

sorry for replying on your comment, hn's flamewar-protection prevents me from replying to the child comment directly. I am not planning nor considering to attend the lean startup bullshit bingo parade event. My impression from other events wasn't the best, I think we should have a seperat meeting in another location. my two cents.

true. a year ago we had this nice hn-meetup, but i didn't follow up (sorry..). why don't we .. meet and discuss this problem? i am really interested in a good solution.

Have to disagree here. Every time I found the time to bootstrap an event (like techtalks, user groups) it worked. The demand is high and a lot of folks around here are doing IT. For one, hockeyapp is based in Stuttgart, as are many other companies. Nobody talks about it, that's the issue.

nice, thank you!