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jsloaton Facebook brings suicide prevention tools to Live and Messenger

That's a little reductive. Another communications medium would take Facebook's place if it weren't the platform for this bullying.

jsloaton The History of Board Games

I'm also curious if a widespread "gaming tradition" has positive effects on other areas of life. Games tend to require critical thinking, creativity and most importantly create interesting social situations.

TED Radio Hour podcast just had an interesting episode about the benefits of play, check it out: http://www.npr.org/programs/ted-radio-hour/390249044

jsloaton Bill Gates's Favorite Business Book

Bill links to the Amazon version on the "Xerox Xerox Xerox Xerox" download page: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00L1TPCKW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=...

jsloaton Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

Poll's a little old, but most HN readers use OSX: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3786674

jsloaton Our Love Affair With the Tablet Is Over

My HTC One (4.7") has more or less obliterated my Nexus 7 usage.

jsloaton Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

Screen mirroring on Apple TV works well, assuming, of course, that you're on a Mac and the OS lines up.

jsloaton Chromecast now open to developers with the Google Cast SDK

> Can we anticipate that we have so many apps installed on our phone and keep looking for the one we need to control every time?

Total tangent, but I've come to depend on the Android app Conjure[1], which acts kind of like Mac's Spotlight search for apps. You can type in a full app name, or show all apps that contain the letters you type in in that order, even if you skip letters (e.g. searching for "cre" would bring up ChRomE").

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.iojess.con...

jsloaton Why the Chromebook pundits are out of touch with reality

How is more choice and innovation a bad thing? What actual cross-system limitations are you worried about?

I switch from iOS to Android seamlessly, as my digital life is platform agnostic. I am more invested in Google's ecosystem in terms of where my data lives, but until they remove the ability to export/sync that data (e.g. I can download all Drive files at once, and simultaneously convert them to Office or PDF format), I don't feel all that "walled".

jsloaton Why the Chromebook pundits are out of touch with reality

It's not a harbinger, it's a remnant. Netflix can keep imposing device limitations, but those devices are converging in capabilities and the transition between them is becoming more fluid.

It's in the best interest of companies like Netflix – or a disruptor – to design a service/business model that is in-line w/ the reality of device usage, not to try to change it.

jsloaton Why the Chromebook pundits are out of touch with reality

You can definitely merge in Google Spreadsheets, is this a ChromeOS-specific limitation you're referencing? There are, of course, plenty of other limitations of the Drive suite.

jsloaton Monitor your Website’s Uptime with Google Docs

Noon question: couldn't you just write a simple script to do the same thing and set up a cron job on a free hosting service like GApps instead?

jsloaton If you lost your wallet at Outside Lands, your information is now public

But the point is, if you were worried about the information going public, why not exercise some of that "great responsibility" and not push further traffic to it until the problem is fixed?

jsloaton Show HN: Swipe-to-delete goodness for the mobile web

That was my initial reaction as well. Cool project!

jsloaton How I automated the boring parts of life

I'd actually really appreciate the affiliate link, thinking about trying it out. Would you mind posting it in the comment thread here?