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It's good that Nevada is facilitating this, I'm expecting that industry lobby groups that will be affected by this (truck drivers, taxis, car companies without this technology, insurance companies perhaps) will throw everything they have at shutting this down so it's good to see that at least local governments are open to the idea. It means that it stays in the USA rather than Google launching it in a country more open to the idea.

When I was using it, I had the idea of creating NFC tag/ QR code stickers and get gyms to put them on each machine/area. Then you could create an API for apps like Fitocracy to link in with that lets them read what each machine is, and the possible (and perhaps most popular?) exercises are for each.

So instead of clumsily tapping out 'lat pull down' you can just tap/scan the tag, and select from the list of exercises. Or at the very least the app could record the machines you tapped so at home you can enter in more detailed information.

This certainly takes things further than my simple SemicolonScript idea, nicely done. http://rodhowarth.com/semicolonscript/

I think you're underestimating the amount of work that is required to cater for those with JS turned off, each new feature would need to keep that in mind, it would need to be designed for and UX tested. Scenarios where you wan to rely on javascript need to have a fallback, each change needs to be tested in a noscript environment.

In my opinion with the multitude of great new JS libraries (particularly knockout, backbone etc) and JS browser features we're going past it being as simple as progressively enhancing your site. If you are a startup trying to do things in a lean fashion it must be hard to justify.

exactly what I came here to say.. What happened to all the virtual buttons? Whoever currently had a dress keeps it and those who didn't ended up with nothing? Or did she pay them out for their buttons?

'She says the site was so beloved in Australia that women still email her asking when it will be back up, “I’ve proven the model in Oz."' If it was proven in Australia, why shut it down? Did she need to shut it down for investors to take a look? Is there some YC criteria that wont let you have a successful product already?

they just launched in australia, and unfortunately they seem to have a fraction of the library the US version does. Slowly getting there though. Zune Pass is here as well.

I liked the menu button because it meant that you always knew where to go to get menu options. On iOS many apps have different symbols and locations for settings and as a daily Android user I've found it annoying searching for them.

On ICS it's silly checking down the bottom right (where the software buttons are) and sometimes top right (action bar) for the menu button, and if they are deprecating the bottom right/menu button option I can see it becoming just like iOS. When the action bar concept doesn't fit into the design developers will just have to shove menu options at a random place in their UI. I cannot comprehend how that is a better option than having a soft/hard menu button in the same place all the time.

This sounds great but my question is are you a morning person normally? I'm definitely not, so perhaps I'm doomed to not be able to do this?

I think that Twitter search is a real missed opportunity, I was hoping that Google with all their resources would be able to capitalize on it, but looks like Twitter isn't playing along.

I did a university project (retreave.com) which used the streaming API to receive tweets, index the pages they linked to, and then provide a lucene based search engine for it. It's really cool to search for say 'design books' and see what your twitter network has reccomended that relates to it (and of course, the search doesn't just search the tweet text, but the page text as well). It ranked results based on social stature in addition to relevance (ie a link tweeted by lots of people is higher ranked)

Unfortunately the User Streams API only scales to a few users, and I've been waiting for 9 months for an invite to the Site Streams Beta, but looks like they don't want me to make their search useful either.

You can get VsVim to use vim like editing inside of Visual Studio, which may give you the best of both worlds?

Awesome project, was surprised when he said he bought all of the computers, I was expecting him to just get friends to bring their machines and plug them in out the back somewhere. I guess buying the machines allows an even playing field and lets friends without fast PC's play as well.

Not sure if it's part of these changes but I'm glad that everyone you've ever emailed no longer gets added to your contacts list. That was a pain whenever I synced with my Android phone, all of a sudden my phonebook was full of useless email addresses that I'd emailed once off. So glad that's fixed!

Have you tried GitExtensions at all? GUI client that integrates with Explorer and visual studio.

I own devices across the 3 major platforms, and have been using a WP7 for a couple of months. The problem with the apps isn't that there isn't enough, its that the isn't enough GOOD ones. Sure there may be equivalents of your iOS and Android apps, but chances are they won't have feature parity, or be as polished as their counterparts. And why would they? Until there is a good market share it's hard for developers to justify anything other than an obligatory WP7 app. Time is better spent elsewhere for now.

WP7 will grow, at present there is no disputing that the app market place is inferior.

I don't what the problem is here, if you watch the interview he was asked about Siri and he explains that Tellme allows you do very similar features, ie you can say 'send text to bob' and it guides you through that process, or you can query things with Bing. He even concedes that Apple has far better marketing around these features, but makes the point that it was the only real new feature of the phone.

All of this is true, and it is hardly newsworthy. What else was he to say when asked about Siri?

PS, interview is here: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2011/11/23/microsofts... skip to 1.50

which would you recommend for a designer to use as an intro to Git and source control in general? I'm trying to get my partner into git to collaborate with me. Is this client still just as easy when using it on a non github repo? or is its integration with github its main drawcard?

I use a computer for most of the waking day, and started getting bad wrist pain last year. I replaced my work keyboard with the 4000 and the pain went away within days. If you look at how your hands sit when typing, they come in on an angle, and you bend them slightly to suit a rectangular keyboard, the ergonomic keyboards simply leave your wrists at their natural position.

They are very cheap, and a great investment.

This may have been answered in one of the many other threads on these, but are they going to run these regularly? There's so many I want to do but I don't have time to do them all at once. Have they said that they will run them later next year?

this is what will actually make it take off I believe. While a subset of Android devices support it, the marketing push it will receive when Apple bring it to their devices is what will drive adoption. All the news articles and other coverage that come when a new iPhone is announced will talk about how the new iphone is making the wallet obsolete etc, and people will get their first introduction to the technology.

I was disappointed the 4S didn't support it, as it would have been a good feature that only the 4S would have.

iMessage is iOS only, SMS costs (unless its included in your plan) and requires phone reception (as opposed to just wifi), I find facebook messenger ends up with too many people on the web interface just saying hello to me as if I'm at my PC wanting to smalltalk.

The draw is its free per message, cross platform, internet based and is a direct replacement for sms/mms as opposed to being an existing chat program pushed onto mobile.

I'd be interested in hearing about the legal hoops you guys have to jump through to launch a betting agency in Australia.. I'd imagine it wouldn't be easy?

edit: oh and by the way, I only knew what your site was from the title bar, though I'm sure you'll have more up there on Friday. Good Luck!

http://sql.learncodethehardway.org/ (not yet finished though)

I think that a few posts on HN is hardly enough evidence to say that if you make apps you'll probably be making enough money to support yourself within a year of starting.

I'd be interested to see the stats on people making apps on HN vs people actually making a lot of money on them

is the US really the first to get an upgrade? Most of Samsungs phones are launched first elsewhere, and US versions later come with their own carrier specific versions. The plain Galaxy S is not on that chart, and it would have received the upgrade before all the US variants.

out of interest, what would someone say if they had been spending the last year working at a job that required iOS apps that interface with a PHP backend? 0.5 years each?

I've recently purchased a WP7, initially the browser was horrible, now they've upgraded it to IE9 it's much better, but I've still noticed problems on some pages, most notable of which is the new version of the Facebook Touch site. It's much better on my Android and IOS devices than it is on WP7, I'm not sure whether thats IE9's fault or Facebooks for not testing it on those devices, but it looks worse and has a bunch of rendering errors.

So the varying opinions are probably both Mango vs older WP7 versions, and also certain websites not being tested on it (perhaps using mobile webkit specific stuff)

I find that Trance and other electronic music like the author listens to works well with coding, I listen to DI.FM's trance station all day/night while working despite the fact that I'm a big heavy metal fan and wouldn't normally listen to trance.

I find the lack of lyrics, and the fact that it's not a song I particularly love (ie, I'm not going to get distracted by how good the song is), makes it fade into the background - behind my thoughts.

Do you mean Herman Miller Embody? Or Herman Miller Aeron? They're separate products I believe.

yes, and the article mentions this twice