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I'll agree there are much more neutral & accurate titles that could be used, but given that the title is factual (For some reason, Apple has begun enforcing a policy that they were being selective about previously, and is now indeed rejecting apps that use Dropbox.) and the source is a post to the Dropbox developer forums (not a blog post.) I don't think this title is far enough off the mark to warrant changing it.

Linkbait might be "Apple still bitter Dropbox rejected buyout offer, bans API from App Store." ;)

As best I can tell, the title here is better than the title of the forum post ("The Horror." has been removed.) I think "Apple rejecting applications which use Dropbox." reflects what's going on pretty well. Why do you disagree?

"SUCCESS - 2 second burn!"

http://twitter.com/#!/SpaceX/status/197056890595852289

From their twitter: "May recycle and try again today, watch for update."

http://twitter.com/#!/spacex

I seem to recall reading somewhere that most kickstarter projects get the bulk of their support at the very beginning and end, with a "trough" in the middle. It seems like a good prediction model would take this into account, perhaps by integrating data from a number of similar projects that have finished funding (big-$$ games, other hardware projects, etc.)

ProvoCraft seems to be operating on a razor & blades model, and aggressively suing anyone who tries to provide another source for getting 'blades'.

http://www.scrapbookupdate.com/2010/04/07/provo-craft-sues-m... http://www.scrapbookupdate.com/2011/03/11/provo-craft-sues-s...

MakerBot, on the other hand, publishes the plans for their hardware so anyone can build it, and maintains thingiverse.com so anyone can design anything they want to print.

I understand why the editor wants to draw a connection, but there are some significant differences in the two businesses' philosophies.

Thanks for those links. The analysis on the older one is really interesting Most significantly, 76% of HNers were 'NT' types, compared to 11% in the general population.

Since HN has grown quite a bit in the last few years, I'd be interested to see if we've drifted closer to the 'norm' or if we're still dominantly NT Rationals.

He links to the site that uses it. It's not hard at all to use your browser's developer tools to inspect the requests that site is making and find the one that returns a JSON list of all the busses for a given stop. Give it a shot, no reference needed.

You seem to have just lifted your comment directly from this 2008 Business Insider article and changed "we" to "I." But you missed the "our" in the second paragraph.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2008-04-23/tech/30027421...

That's not why it's called ripping.

From the Jargon File: "Rip: 1. To extract the digital representation of a piece of music from an audio CD. Software that does this is often called a “CD ripper”." (http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/R/rip.html)

Audio CDs don't have encryption.

s/protest/attempt to prevent/

The article (and that statistic) is from 2008.

"We investigated some traditional payment processors like Braintree and Authorize.net ... A lot of traditional gateways have long, complicated setup processes, often involving sales calls and working with banks. ... They also typically require you to send credit card data through your servers, which means obtaining a level of PCI Compliance (not that we aren't already security-conscious)."

I've used both of these. Braintree may not have been the right choice in their situation, but grouping them with Authorize.net for these reasons isn't really fair. Braintree's bundled merchant account and gateway services are much easier to set up, and their transparent redirect eliminates the need to handle card data on your own servers.

And in my experience, their "We (heart) developers" motto is, well, true. They have really great, friendly support. Braintree and Authorize.net are miles apart. At least as far apart as Stripe and PayPal.

"Mery Christmas" [sic] dates back as far as 1565 - It's "Happy Christmas" that doesn't show up until the 19th century (and apparently is still more widely used in the UK than in the US.)

That to say, I think the origins of words and language are fascinating and could spend hours reading Wikipedia articles like this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_greetings

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The correct plural of "life" is "lives." "Lives," the plural of the noun "life" is pronounced differently that "lives," the verb. Go figure.

I bailed the first time the site told me to upgrade to Firefox. I'm using Chrome 15, but that shouldn't matter. A modern site purporting to offer jQuery plugins should support all modern browsers.

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Charge more than you think you should.

The fact that you're still a student doesn't have much to do with it. How skilled are you at the technologies they're asking you to use? Do you get things done?

You might charge on the lower end if you're going to be getting regular work, higher if the jobs are sporadic.

I've just started doing freelance programming work with a brand (Sole Propietorship, d/b/a).

One reason I made that decision is that my name is very common and I want something I can tell people that they have a chance of finding with Google.

Another is that if I release iOS apps, I'd rather have my brand on display in the store than my name.

Having a d/b/a also removes on potential trouble spot for companies who are concerned about contractor vs. employee issues with the IRS. Writing a check to Joe Smith is a potential audit red flag, a check to JS Design isn't. IMHO, this is more a perception of an issue than an actual issue, but when you're trying to get business it doesn't hurt to remove even perceived roadblocks.

I try to be very clear on my website that I'm a one-man shop. I don't want anyone to think I'm trying to look bigger than I am. I avoid writing "we," etc.

He suggests your identity data be stored in the cloud so all your browsers and devices can access it.

He doesn't mention whether or not you need a password to connect your new phone to your cloud identity wallet...

If I knew my full family tree, I'd probably find a closer immigrant, but 13 generations back my great..great grandfather was on the Mayflower. Not a great data point for this survey though: he was an indentured servant, and the whole Pilgrim voyage represented more of an attempt to preserve their comfort zone at all costs.

"We are working with RBS to recover the data from recipients where possible."

Is there some business or legal necessity for making statements like this? When I've got my geek hat on, this seems like an incredibly stupid statement that betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of data. What am I missing?

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I had this same issue in college, and later as an employee. I've discovered I don't perform very well when I have to ask "why" too many times to figure out the value of the work I'm doing.

"Why am I studying this material? To pass the test. Why? To pass the class. Why? To get a good GPA? Why?..." You lost me several Whys back!

As a professional, it was the same way. The worst was when my short stint in Finance, but even working for nonprofits and social-conscious startups, it's tough for me to get motivated when the end goal is too many layers of abstraction away.

(I think that's strange, because when I'm actually dealing with technology, abstraction is one of my strengths.)

This was one of the factors in my decision to start my own company. I want to get rid of the layers of Whys and let them have more weight. Why am I working on this project? To make this client happy, so I can pay the rent this month.

Another approach that has helped me in the last year or so has been phrasing my goals and aspirations in the form, "I want to be the kind of person who ___." Then do ___!

Having had a machine in Romania keep (and supposedly destroy) my card in the first week of a 10-week visit in 2004, I can attest that this is not a US-only thing.

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Sometimes, I do have time to read all the comments and evaluate for myself which are good and bad. That's great.

Other times, I don't have that much time and simply want to glean from the best comments on a post.

And then there are the posts in subject areas that are outside or on the edge of my expertise, where I have no business evaluating the comments. I can still benefit from reading them though, and the karma helps me give weight to the good ones and disregard the bad.

Considering Netflix accounts for 20% of evening traffic? Nope.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-20020434-17.html

He references, links and quotes that post: "Benchmark Capital VC Bill Gurley reminds us how good this trick is in an excellent post..."

(The original article is definitely better than the TC summary.)