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They work with c2c charging. Your source is probably not playing nicely with power delivery. For instance, Apple's original usb-c chargers lacked certain standard profiles and don't work with non-Apple products.

hire people, not test results*

*test results in a foreign, artificial, high-stress environment, using an IDE no one uses for normal work.

Medical providers in the US do not compete on price. There is in general little to no price transparency, as everything is traditionally paid for by private insurance. So as a rule, dentists will charge the maximum allowed by private insurance for x-rays.

In the US, people are complaining more and more about the cost of healthcare, but usually in terms of the cost of insurance. They never ask why providers charge what they do (p.s. - if you're in the hospital, don't ask your nurse to bring you a tissue, just buy some from the gift shop).

If you enjoyed this, I highly recommend the podcast episodes from The Gist (from Slate) where they talk about Billboard #1 hits from various years.

https://www.google.com/search?q=molanphy+the+gist+billboard

It's not a marketing release, Ember is simply following semantic versioning. Many of the new features that might've slipped into a 2.0 have made it into the last few 1.x releases, since they could be made backwards-compatible; e.g. Glimmer could've been held back for marketing reasons, but they pushed hard to get it out ASAP in 1.13 in June.

Great TDD demo by Toran Billups from EmberConf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b1vcg_XSR8

IMO: Menus can change often Good food photography is hard/expensive Hard to present tastefully/there's a stigma Overall, there's no demand from customers for pictures/limited utility over text descriptions

This is an interesting side effect of the U.S. carrier cartel. People simply don't know about the alternatives. Americans have accepted that Verizon and AT&T are the only acceptable carriers, and are no longer price-sensitive, just as long as it feels like they're getting a free iPhone every 2 years.

People who are hung up on this and that missing feature, I understand why, but that's missing the point imo. There has never been a phone this good, this high profile, sold directly to consumers from day one, for this price.

This is simply the biggest shot so far in a strategic war Google is waging against US cell carriers and in the mobile device space against Apple.

It's absolutely about transparency though. The origin of the complexity is that insurance companies usually get the bills. And insurance, which has all this machinery to deal with the hospital's machinery (see video), sends you a TL;DR and as long as everything seems reasonable - though who really knows what that is - you send your insurance co a check for some fraction of it and everyone moves on.

There are a lot of things broken about US healthcare, but chief among them is that no one is allowed to talk about cost of services. It's untouchable. It's seen as getting between the patient and doctor - again, whatever that means.

Nintendo is in real trouble, this is only the beginning. The huge decline in 3DS sales should be a warning shot. $200 handhelds w/ $40 games are a joke in 2011. Wii, a novelty that rode the back of a huge economic bubble, was probably the worst thing to happen to them long term - it gave the company confidence to stay on its insular course.

Nintendo is too proud to go software-only. They need a hardware product in every home in order to perpetuate their real strength: characters and brands. Wii2 is going to be a huge flop in this recession. Don't bet on Nintendo.

HHS operates a really good site to find public and private insurance options:

http://finder.healthcare.gov/

College costs are just like any other bubble: they rose and continue to rise due to the ease of financing. Why we allow 18-year olds to blissfully sign up for a lifetime of crippling six-figure debt is beyond me. At least make them get an engineering or business degree from a public college. In-demand colleges can keep raising tuition because students will just get bigger loans to get the name on the degree.

You have to remember the audience is a college of music. In a venue like this, the primary question is not how to become a commercial success, it's how to become better at your craft as a musician.

Mayer is also speaking from the unique perspective of being a serious commercial success, wanting to nurture it, but still having the "burden" of creating music to (his) high standards. I don't think most normal people need to create such a black and white line between posting on Twitter and writing a song, but Mayer needs to, and it's at least somewhat interesting to hear his reasons.

"More and more, Nintendo is looking like a lumbering, hubristic giant overconfident in their brand identity and almost unresponsive to industry trends and changes."

Nintendo reminds me a lot of Sony. A Japanese company used to winning by always doing things its own way. Wii was an incredible success, but it all seemed so random, the product of a cool novelty coinciding with an economic boom. Nintendo has coasted for a long time on the considerable goodwill/might of their brand and properties. The marketplace never really cared about a lack of genuine innovation or progress, so long as there was a new Mario or Zelda around the corner - consider that even now they are releasing a console whose tech will only be on par with consoles released 6 years before it. In a way it's refreshing because Nintendo is a game company that just cares about games.

But I really think Nintendo is in real trouble now. There are ridiculously cheap (and very good) mobile games for the smartphones everyone already has, while consoles now live and breathe with rich internet-based ecosystems (which Nintendo couldn't have cared less about with Wii). I'm very curious to see how Wii U will sell considering 9% unemployment and the Wii paperweights currently sitting in living rooms across America.

imo Samsung is the one (non-Apple) tech product company that gets it. The 9, GS2, and even new galaxy tab are just plain great, polished products. For too long, product development at all these non-Apple places was basically to mindlessly copy Apple. Samsung is there now, and I think Lenovo is also getting there slowly. And don't get me started on Sony.