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As much as I love Mailbox's flow for handling my email, I can't get over the performance issues and random crashes with the app. After a few weeks of usage the app slows down on launch and becomes a chore to use.

In contrast, Outlook (previously Acompli) is very stable. It may require more taps to do something like move an email to a specific label, but at least the app performs well and hasn't crashed on me once.

Good point. I haven't done much browsing on it in a while, it's mostly used for my son's apps. I'll need to play around with that a bit. It's running the OS 5.1.1.

The iPad 1 still runs a surprising number of modern apps. My son plays newish games like Angry Birds Star Wars 2 or Asphalt Heat 7 without crashes or minimal lag. Not bad for a 4 year old device with only 256 Megs of RAM.

I'm not sure what apps you're running, but I haven't had the same experience. If the app can be downloaded from the store and doesn't prevent you from opening it on older devices (ex: CSR Classic) it'll run just fine.

A lot of the engineers making games don't want to do anything else. They're willing to accept a lower rate of pay to stay in the industry. When they look for other opportunities, they're usually just moving from one games company to another. Since there a lot less games companies than there are companies that employee engineers in general, there is less competition and less pressure to pay the same rates as engineers may make at companies like Google or Apple.

I'd love an iOS home screen icon.

Since iOS allowed saving web pages as icons on the home screen, I've had a link to Hacker News on the first page of apps on my iPhone. iOS looks for an image in a specific location and will use that as the icon for the bookmark. If it can't find one, it'll take a screenshot of the home page.

Since updating to iOS 6, my home screen bookmark icon for Hacker News has started changing to the icons for websites that HN links to. For example, my icon currently is a purple 'Slate' logo after reading a story at Slate.com. The only way to change this is to recreate the bookmark until this happens again.

It'd be great if we could get a HN icon that iOS would use instead of failing to the default and now changing often.

Implementing this is as easy as placing specifically named and sized images in the root directory of the domain.

Specific naming and sizes can be found here: http://gigaom.com/apple/how-to-create-ios-device-home-screen...

If you've never interviewed someone before you should speak to someone in HR group to review the types of things you CAN'T ask. Asking questions about religion, family, health could result in a lawsuit.

Some quick examples: http://www.alllaw.com/articles/employment/article14.asp

Here's a SFW link to the uTRON: http://gearcrave.com/2008-12-02/the-wicked-utron-keyboard/

Thankfully no, but given the speed those companies move I wouldn't be surprised if IE6 is still there, 3 years later.

End users at large enterprise companies have zero say in the support browsers of that organization. These policies are put in place by their IT organization which in some cases manages all applications and patches that are pushed down to an individual's machines. In those large companies even Windows patches are managed in house and not through the standard Windows update process. I think those companies will easily stomach an additional charge for IE6 since they're used to paying for everything else. That said, I'm sure they'll use their size to attempt to negotiate themselves a better price.

I've worked with a lot of Salesforce.com partners and customers and the acronym SFDC is universally used.

I agree, but I believe it helps for Apple's employees to know they won't get away with a user experience like that under Jobs. They've got smart people, the ability to get things done, and they know what specific areas cannot be compromised.

There's a decent amount of overlap among the feeds I read. I would love to see Google Reader combine any articles that point to the same link into a single thread.

Outlook's market share isn't directly correlated to its capabilities. Many large organizations force their employees to use Outlook as their corporate standard.

"The phone is brilliant, but the market went elsewhere with it's carrier locked subsidised junk models. That's just a market reality, like it or not. Google tried to "do the right thing" and the market went somewhere else."

Carrier locked, subsidized junk models are the norm, not the exception. Google tried to take that in a direction similar to what Apple did with the iPhone but without the same effort behind that. To say that the market shifted away from that ignores the way cell phones have always been sold in the US.

I wouldn't call it a "real" competitor until the device launches. Until then it's in the same realm has the HP Slate and the other forthcoming Android tablets.

The biggest issue with this whole WakeMate fiasco was the original ship date announced. Given all of the recent communication and delays, it is clear that the original January ship date was a fantasy from the start. If they had pre-announced their product but gave a more realistic ship date, they wouldn't be dealing with all of the negative press they are now. While figuring out how to ship hardware is very difficult for a company doing this for the first time, it appears they were nowhere near a shippable product when they set their original release date.

Those generic manufacturers have to follow the same rules and regulations as the name brand companies to sell in the US. The only difference is your putting your faith in a different company, one you may have never heard of. I'd rather put my faith in a company with a strong reputation like McNeil/J&J. At the very least I know that they'll want to preserve their reputation in the eyes of the public by keeping their product safe.

I've been a TiVo subscriber for almost 7 years now and hope they're around for a lot longer. As a Cablecard user, I've given up on-demand and PPV in exchange for having my own set top box. The change to SDV will only make things worse. I'd hate to give up my TiVo in exchange for a box from Comcast. My TiVo has a nicer UI, better recording options, and allows me to stream Netflix.

NBC doesn't care about formats. They probably made a great deal with Microsoft to make Silverlight the exclusive choice for their Olympics coverage. NBC makes some money and Microsoft gets their plug in installed on a lot of machines that wouldn't otherwise.

I saw the same message when attempting to view a video on NBC's Olympics site. After grudgingly installing Silverlight I was still unable to watch anything. The videos require Silverlight 2 or 3, neither of which is supported on a PowerPC mac.

Adobe ignored OS X for years and is now finding themselves in a position where they're losing a hold on Flash as the 'standard' for online video. Rather than fixing the technical issues they're focused on marketing. The last 3 years of iPhone sales have proven that people can live without Flash. All Apple has to do now is continue to ignore them and hold their ground while Flash slowly fades away.

It's a reference to this blog post: http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2008/10/programmers-view-of-...

Colbert loves attention. He may or may not be genuinely excited for the iPad, but I bet he's more excited for the press it generates.

This is the typical model for enterprise software that is sold through a sales team. The price of the product is determined by how much the customer is willing to pay and can vary widely from one sale to the next. Sales made this way usually yield a higher price at the expense of speed/volume. You can only sell as fast as your sales team works.

"Of course, we’re not in the Promised Land yet. I’m actually surprised that Salesforce isn’t a lot bigger than it is; a variety of things are holding back the migration to the utility model"

Many organizations still attempt to 'build' their own highly customized CRM system using SFDC as a starting point. It doesn't matter if they buy a system off the shelf, the IT organizations for big companies will manage to make these projects just as unsuccessful as their built from scratch counterparts.

The success of these implementations, and in turn the companies that sell the systems like SFDC, are dependent on how willing their own customers are to change their internal processes to match what the system does well. The biggest project failures for these systems occur when these organizations refuse to change how they do business and instead spend millions of dollars in customization fees to the vendor. SFDC isn't immune to the failures that the author describes, they just experience it from a different perspective.

Apple is setting a price that millions of people are willing to pay. I wouldn't call that greed.

One invite please! http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01scJxUkYbEiucSpzR2yB5_g==...

Awesome idea and clean execution. I organized my last job search in excel and retained a lot of the same information.

One suggestion: It would be useful to cache the job listing the user links to. During my last job search I remember finding a lot of my bookmarks to be invalid because the original post had expired and the recruiter reposted it.

"I don't see myself taking the YC plunge because I am married and have a kid, so taking a risk is kinda hard at this point." ... "I'm leaning towards saving up and then taking 3-4 months off my job to work on my own product."

Couldn't you do both? Seems like you could save up and go for YC while working on your product. Either way you'll have a similar amount of risk. One could even argue that with YC's network you'll have less risk since you'll be around like minded people and more opportunities will open up for you if your original idea fails.

Whatever you decide, go for it!

I'm not a customer yet but I agree on it being indispensable. It'll be an easy decision to pay once I run out of disk space. There aren't many products which I actively promote to my friends, but dropbox is one of them (the extra space for referrals helps too).