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A company I helped with on a few apps had a table at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference this spring. One of the apps looks at boxscores to provide custom sports news for fans and identify interesting plays. I'm guessing it is much less involved than this project but a number of club officials found it intriguing because it could surface numbers from across the league.
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Mailbox could be a first step to competing with Messages/gChat. Instead of rolling out their own email, Dropbox can be another type of account Mailbox works with to send pictures, videos, files over data rather than texting or emailing. An odd feature to roll out without acquiring a popular product, but making Dropbox the goto rather than the link attached to something else.
Every July and December gamers on Steam go crazy over sales - twice yearly excitement in general that the big three consoles only get at launch and with major title releases every few years.
I've always thought it was a combination: a thank you that the person took time to talk to you and with you about the position (especially a non-HR employee), a follow up to the interview if there were other questions or to send a work sample as discussed during the interview, and to state again something that marks you as a fit for the position.
I like restoring old computers, replacing capacitors etc. to get them running again, keeping my bike in order (though not my car), and messing around with HTML for simple things on a blog. I'm working on learning Ruby and slogging along iOS tutorials while designing my own board game.
I did take a few CS classes in college but was a liberal arts major. If I had known more, might have flipped it, but at the time thought programming would mean cooped up in a cube all day.
Maybe I end up doing more than that, but it's nice to have, like learning a foreign language. Not everyone becomes fluent, but a lot of people know enough to get something out of their studies.
At some point with it's like athletes who shout political/religious beliefs until it overshadows their play on the field. I just stop following them. Which is too bad because I liked what Marco said about other tech issues and coffee.
Cyanogen is still harder than jailbreaking an iOS device, but the gap is narrowing.
As that edge reaches more casual users, who aren't just tech-heavy people, there's no reason Cyanogen couldn't be the Ubuntu of Android phones. It could have a large base of converts who want an alternative but don't want to have to spend all their time learning how to use their software in (for us techies) awesome ways.
Maybe they'll loosen that restriction after the holidays when the free Prime trials from the initial round of Kindle Fire sales will have expired, potentially adding many new Prime subscribers.
Failing a class first semester really puts pressure on changing majors. Students go into he program hearing that a lot of people will drop, do poorly, and are encouraged to drop. Someone earlier said schools should try and "weed in" students rather than weed out.
Departments need to take their fair share of blame in creating an environment that can be miserable for even the successful students. Not all the blame, but some.
Even if it doesn't include apps at launch, I think iCloud rather than iTunes gives Apple the flexibility to add whatever type of data they want in the future.
If Skype isn't the default, verbed, system, doesn't it lose some value?
"With the accession of Russia to the Berne Convention, Soviet and Russian works that were copyrighted in Russia in 1995 became copyrighted outside of Russia.[147] By virtue of the retroactivity of the Russian copyright law of 1993, this also included many pre-1973 Soviet works.[173] In the United States, these works became copyrighted on January 1, 1996, the effective date of the U.S. Uruguay Round Agreements Act, if they were still copyrighted in Russia on that date.[174][175] In the countries that had bilateral treaties with the USSR, pre-1973 Soviet works (from any of the fifteen SSRs) were copyrighted even before.[126]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_in_Russia
As members of the Berne Convention, copyright term in Russia had to be at least 50 years. Russia's 1993 copyright law
"...specified a copyright term of fifty years, applicable to all kinds of works. Works of known authors were copyrighted until 50 years after the author's death (50 years p.m.a.).[83] Anonymous or pseudonymous works were copyrighted until fifty years after the first publication, unless the identity of the author became known during that time and the term of 50 years p.m.a. thus applied."
In 2004, Russia passed an extension, similar to the 1998 Copyright Extension Act in the US, lengthening the term of Russian copyright, for works still in copyright at the time, from 50 to 70 years.
For the most part, just given a quick look and using only the summary on the Wiki page, it looks like they are still under copyright.
That said, I bought a poster on etsy of the 500 most common passwords, it's not all creepy.
Maybe the site hasn't reached the user numbers of its "grandparents" - it has a different mission. Through the GDGT Live events Block and Rojas have created mini electronics shows for the users of tech products. It's also a bit of a party atmosphere, but all in nerd fun.
I went to the Boston event in September and saw some interesting products, including a Boxee box. What are the odds one will be set up to test in, say, Best Buy?
The people behind Springpad and SCVNGR were really cool/fun to talk to. You don't get that experience on the web. GDGT isn't Engadget and I don't think it needs to be.
Michael Pollan says it best: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."