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The development has been glacial bordering on non-existent since launch on digg reader. The betaworks team that created it was able to do so in a matter of weeks– after re-writing and launching the new digg on a similar timeframe – which makes me think the current lack of progress is because they've moved on to other things (Instapaper, for one).

It's too bad, digg reader had a lot of promise.

HTC sold its share of Beats last year:

https://gigaom.com/2013/09/27/htc-is-selling-back-its-shares...

Symlinks sort of allow for graph-like structures in the filesystem, no?

Some of these "flops" include: the RSS spec that evolved into the currently used one, XML-RPC, SOAP, OPML...

You must have a very high standard for success ;)

Edit: arguably podcasts were first implemented by Winer too

> Coca Cola which has effectively its own police

Link with more info?

Link to the Planet Money story on Stradivarius: 'Is a stradivarius just a violin?' - http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/05/16/313099219/is-a-str...

I can appreciated GP's optimism, but as someone who has actually utilized both data sets in various forms this is spot on.

Foursquare's data is vastly superior, something I attribute at least partially to the fact that they've built a service that incentivizes checking in, while Facebook is more heavily scrutinized for their questionable privacy practices. It'll be interesting to see if this continues to be the case when 4sq releases Swarm.

Textastic[1] and gitmongo[2] are my indispensable duo when it comes to code editing, searching and git interactions on my iphone/ipad.

[1]: http://www.textasticapp.com/

[2]: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/gitmongo/id593450102?mt=8

Although this isn't exactly a case of great eval use – the exceptions are effectively swallowed after printing (at least use warn?), and the $@ isn't being properly localized

I agree on the separation of input fields, but wanted to point out that the search functionality you mention exists in Chrome too (Mac equivalent in parens):

ctrl(cmd)+l to focus omnibar, alt(shift)+enter to open results in a new tab

I'm also in the Boston area (Somerville) and have been wondering about the proper way to respond to right turns with a cyclist in the bike lane behind me.

When I have right-of-way and use my turn signal ahead of time, shouldn't I have the ability to turn right without waiting for the bike to pass (similar to how the cars behind me must wait for me to make my turn before continuing?)

Burlington, VT (last I knew, anyway) has a similar law -- stop signs are effectively yield signs, while red lights are stop signs, as far as cyclists are concerned.

Lift[1] has some interesting ideas for using social interactions to achieve non-social goals. Their blog is worth a read.

https://lift.do/

That's a pretty amusing example, but I'd be surprised if prepending 'ruby' to your query wouldn't have fixed it.

While their APIs are nice, they require separate permissions and having access to them isn't always a given depending on the company that runs/owns the Jira instance.

Relevant reading for those that are interested:

Snakes in Suits: When Psychopaths Go to Work - http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0061147893?pc_redir=1395239748...

You could always have a fixed length randomly generated number prefix, with the numbers after that being sequential, making it obvious internally the sequence while obfuscating to the customer.

For example if you did a four digit prefix your first three hotfixes might be:

97321 33562 77493 ...

I've been frustrated by the lack of iterm2 features in Linux terminal emulators: local autocomplete, tmux integration, etc

That seems like a bit of a straw man: the official OS X native version of vim, MacVim has literally all of those key map pings by default – cmd+c to copy, cmd+a to select all, etc.

How about data provided to the business on who their customers are? This seems especially genius in that it doesn't even require the extra step of "checking-in", but can provide the business with the same data.

Yeah. I'd like that functionality too, although I'm not sure how great the range would be.

This is not the same creature, though -- The Wii U gamepad has an infrared transmitter that allows it to act as a universal remote.

AFAIK, the PS3 is the only current generation console to implement CEC.

The current AppleTV has bluetooth -- you can use it for pairing of a keyboard. The issue is that AirPlay doesn't support bluetooth as a transmission method in its current implementation.

Obligatory vim equivalent: https://github.com/rking/ag.vim

The question is not the age of the people fighting wars, but what a government chooses to "use" its youth population for.

Interesting sentiment, and I can't help but think this is why the government seems to fear the youth the most/ships them off to wars in other countries.

I've been running iOS 7 for a day now and had some co-workers give it a try -- all of them current iPhone users -- and literally every single one of them tried to swipe up to unlock.

Unfortunately, in my experience so far, this isn't the only case of misleading and unintuitive design in iOS 7.

The second sentence of pg's post is:

> The shortage is of really good programmers.

From your quote:

"... individuals with the skills needed"

Compatible statements, no?