PG, would you say your long hikes are something like extended versions of the shower thinking of "The Top Idea in Your Mind", or are they more directed thinking--as in, "I want to think hard about this particular problem, so I'll go on a hike to accomplish that."
It's interesting. I read your comment through the "backtype version" below the article, and, because it was out of context, I interpreted your meaning to be exactly the opposite of what I see it is now.
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I'd be worried about legal ownership issues with this. If someone just writes code for you and says, "Here you go, it's free" I'm not sure that would really work. There has to be a contract in place (right?), and can contracts be "for free"? I guess this could be structured as an internship, but I read here awhile ago that those are being cracked down upon in the US.
Here's one idea: Have ehansul write and open source code that would be helpful to you. That way there are no ownership issues.
Before clicking the link I was about to post a pedantic "please change to a headline that doesn't editorialize", but after a second of looking at the pictures...holy crap! That is (objectively) insanely cool! :)
MagCloud said it was in fact shipped, but they are sending me a new one anyway--expedited shipping, at their expense. So assuming I do receive the mag soon, it was a well-handled issue.
I just found my receipt. Replied to the email saying I didn't get mine and the auto-reply email opened up a case number and it said they'd look into it.
I'm curious--did you actually ever exceed it? What I mean is, I've never encountered a Starbucks that actually enforced the 2 hour limit. Sometimes I'm logged out, but I just log back in and everything works. In the beginning I just assumed this was a glitch when they were rolling out the service, but if it was, they never fixed it. (I go to lots of Starbucks, mostly in San Francisco, and some around California.)
I have heard that Apple can actually turn off particular users' apps on their devices, but this isn't necessarily the case. I bought NetShare (a tethering app) and it was later pulled from the store, but it never disappeared from my phone. (Now I never actually got it working, but that's beside the point.)
So I would say this is only bad for the user in the sense that they might not be able to have all the cool apps they want because (a) they may be pulled before they can purchase them or (b) they may never be developed because it's too risky to make them with Apple's fickle review policies.
They [Diaspora] offer anyone who donates $2,000 or more a brand new computer specifically "configured" to host Diaspora. Again, it had better at least be a Mac Mini, because I'm having a hard time coming up with any reason that a server for this sole purpose should cost so much money.
That's such a bizarre criticism. It's a donation. The server is a thank you gift for your donation. It's not supposed to match that cost of your donation, or else what's the point of the donation?
Incidentally, when I saw this server offer on the Diaspora website, I thought that was too big a gift for only $2000. Not only is there the cost of the hardware, but also configuration time, and probably support time too.
Yeah, and also PG on the list is weird. ViaWeb got $10,000 in investment (http://www.paulgraham.com/sfp.html). Not much, but that's still not a bootstrap.
It seems like a lot to add a brand new case to your iPhone just to replace one card (which it doesn't even do, since you still have to use your regular Visa card at most businesses).
But I doubt the people who would participate in this cartoon day "despise" the speech involved. To most (all?) of them, I'd guess that drawing Muhammad, as an act itself, is about a big a deal as drawing a table or a pretty tree. In other words, nothing like dressing up as KKK.
In your first paragraph you claim that this is about "the right to do things they find offensive". (I agree.) But then you change it to "making fun of Islam for the point of making fun of Islam." But I think this is a very different from your original characterization--and I don't think you are accurate here.