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Looks like it's the Apple Watch that has the sapphire screen?

How are you solving the chicken and the egg problem that plagues most location-based apps?

For example, I'm in multiple FB groups for playing pick-up in my area and see apps like Jogabo mentioned every now and then yet it never seems to gain traction and people just resort to posting on FB.

Some things I noticed

1) Video is pretty smooth 2) So many hatchback cars 3) You traveled pretty far without running into a single light.

I was wondering why you didn't link an Android version until I read the article. :(

Apps coming in iPhone first is by far my most frustrating experience with Android.

The catch is that the updated (this year's) versions of these games probably won't be available right away.

> They're nickle and diming their customers into oblivion.

You're right. Instead of forcing customers to pay $60 for each game, they're allowing them to pay $30 for 1 year to play various games.

It's just a downside to the feature, I guess. Of course, I'd imagine you don't HAVE to enable this if you don't entirely trust it.

For me, having a lock screen at work/home is useless and just an annoyance. It's a pain always having to enable it when I leave work/home so this feature is perfect for me.

> Most companies choose not to recover their legal fees in patent suits because prevailing defendants are required to demonstrate that a plaintiff acted in bad faith. This is extremely difficult to prove and it’s usually easier to just walk away and count your losses – unless your name is Lee Cheng.

Interesting. So if you're a patent troll, there is little to no downside to constantly suing companies aside from the legal fees?

> I think "the guy who she wouldn't let fuck her" was her previous boyfriend, which was confirmed in one of the chat transcripts she posted?

No, those were two different people, @tnm and @Holman.

http://valleywag.gawker.com/ims-and-email-support-allegation...

> Nothing a cab stand, cash, and pen and paper hadn't already solved.

You could use that analogy for pretty much any technological innovation the past 50 years.

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If you're doing that, compare those subreddits to r/gameofthrones and r/breakingbad and that's his point. Majority of the people I know that watch GoT/BB have watched HoC/OitnB as well.

> I'm aware this happened with Season Four of Arrested Development. There was a massive hype right up until it was to premiere on Netflix and then … nothing. People watched it, then moved on.

This pretty much happened with HoC season 1 as well. Massive hype for this Fincher/Spacey series and then... nothing until a month or two ago for season 2. On the contrary, shows like "Orange is the new black" didn't have much hype initially and slowly grew as more and more people binged through it and became pretty popular.

Andy Greenwald said it best: "I’ve argued before that encouraging this sort of bingeing does no favors to the art or the audience. It takes a pleasantly coursed dinner party and transforms it into a hot dog eating contest." http://grantland.com/features/breaking-bad-black-mirror-year...

Why do you expect them to be professional? Obviously, the response was in jest and wasn't some formal response by FB's PR group. This was just done by a couple FB workers who laughed at Princeton's methodology. To expect a certain level of professionalism for someone's FB post seems a bit absurd and pedantic.

> How can you know which phone to pick that should get updates for at least 2 years if not longer?

Pretty much impossible to predict. The safest bet is to either buy a Nexus phone (Nexus 4, 5, etc.) or maybe the GPE of a phone (S3, One, Moto X). Google stopped supporting the Galaxy Nexus so people were a bit miffed about that.

The good thing with Android is that even if your manufacturer/carrier decides to stop supporting your phone, you still have the opportunity to flash an updated ROM via third-party developers. Granted the performance probably won't be the best but at least you still have the option as opposed to iOS.

I think reddit being picture heavy is just a cause of its exploding popularity. Ever follow a subreddit from infancy to infamy? You'll see as it grows, there will be more and more posts of just pictures/memes, which in turn will cause users to complain, mods to step in to filter these out, more subreddits dedicated solely to memes about this topic, etc.

While I do think RES is awesome, most of my non-tech friends who browse Reddit (usually on their phone) haven't even heard of RES.

> You could have made a useful comment

It was useful to me. I was curious what languages/framework the OP did and I had no idea what scirra was until this post.

> and been polite.

Seriously? I don't see any types of aggression in tmikaeld's post.

> Something you could likely consider every time you open your mouth, and I don't mean that in a mean way. Hacker News helped me better modulate what I say.

This post just reeks of elitism. It's like immediately discrediting a comment simply because of one grammar/punctuation mistake.

People have been clamoring for this type of feature ever since the CC and its SDK were announced.

There was a hackathon this weekend for the SDK and people hoped this would finally be when the SDK would be open for everyone but nope :(

In poker, the luck is what keeps the fishes from leaving.

> Why should you learn about sports just so you can participate a conversation of content won't matter in a week?

Hell why stop at sports? Let's just ignore current events that will be forgotten in a week!

You should add:

* The first rule of Fantasy Football is: You do not bitch about Fantasy Football

Literally, no one cares about your team. Maybe the person you're playing against might have an iota but chances are, he's in other leagues and has his own FF problems.

Agreed. This is one of the main reasons why I will never switch to Hangouts from Talk.

I have cable and since I still can't watch all my teams, I resort to the illegal stream sites (almost every day once NBA season starts) and quality is just godawful. I'm sure we've all had that experience opening multiple tabs just to find the stream with the best quality only for it to go down a minute later.

I use my chromecast to put it on my TV but even then, I don't regret paying for cable whatsoever.

There is no way this is common and if it is, must only be common to iPhones.

I remember reading a thread on r/Android about smartphone use in Korea and someone mentioned people tend to carry around an extra battery when their main battery runs out. I presume Samsung dominates the market over there and their phones have removable batteries.

> Sports salaries should be 1/10th of what they currently are.

So where should that 9/10 go?

It was rooted couple days ago but Google patched it right up

http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/google-chromecast-hacked-by-gtv...

Portland being the most expensive city in Oregon is expected... It's like comparing Seattle to Tacoma/Pullman in Washington.

Yes, I used gchat for its instant-messaging purposes, which is essentially what the app is all about. Hangouts pretty much got rid of anything instant about it (online/offline, away indicator, status messages, etc.). I eagerly looked forward to Hangouts and installed it the day Google announced it only to switch back to Talk an hour or two later.

I suppose I wouldn't care if I didn't have gchat on 100% of the time I'm on a desktop but I dread the day Hangouts replaces Talk.

I'm curious how it is online. I've never taken an online Stanford course and this looks like the perfect way for me to start.

You can vaguely tell that someone is online by their icon being a bit brigher but it's a terrible solution.

This just tells me that they want the Hangouts app to be straight up texting app as opposted to an instant messaging app (like Gtalk). No obvious feature of seeing people online and no concept of a "buddy list."