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Yes, a big disappointment. As the silence of the ISPs.

> major activist investor: Nelson Peltz I wish the press would do the responsible thing and use the proper words for those things: "corporate raiders". Giving into establishment's …

Thanks for your feedback. This is very interesting. > Your two big competitors are Facebook (free for posting events) Facebook is not exactly a competitor because it's a walled gar…

Brandond, would you care to give insight why the local event idea is bad ?

I'm interested in that, too. I go out a lot (in my home town, and even more so in holidays), and I'd love to have an app to give me suggestions of events (special nights, museums, …

> traveling to Austin during SXSW can be a big productivity and morale boost. I like that you are including morale. I'm fed up with productivity gurus, GTD peddlers and existence h…

So TypeEngine (a company I didn't know existed) got free publicity from Arment himself ? Pretty clever...

And yet 007 is not the same as 7. Go figure.

TLDR. Excel is a tool. The major problem is the dimwits (mainly in suits) that use Excel instead of thinking. Anyone can make a decision if $A$1 > $B$1 + $C$1. When an Excel formul…

I second that. As javaists are concerned, Play 2.x is not a good thing : bigger, slower, more rigid and with a lot scala dependencies/idioms you don't care about. Forking Play 1.2.…

Machine are awesome at life advice. Since I take their input, my life is bliss : * wall-e on romance : now I date an ipod * robocop on hairstyle : I had to stop as it screwed major…

Also, it may a good idea to keep an eye open on elementary/luna : a linux distribution that has UI designers (that owns Apple devices, obviously). That distro (currently in beta) c…

From what I understand, it may be tough to open up to your teammates when you feel down. After all, in the workplace, you are expected to show leadership, strong will and the power…

Fixing your moods by replacing them with something else is pretty smart. And if you manage to have a somewhat healthy something else, you're relatively lucky :)

"Yes, some may raise the argument that the reason why Jobs was rarely in situations to apologize, was because, for the most part (minus Siri), he pushed excellent and complete prod…

Twitter is the batman trilogy of startups. It took an old idea and make it new and relevant again. In the second movement, it went huge and was the new sensation. The conclusion of…

And as for Microsoft, it would have been more interesting than buying a client side software (Skype).

Bloated application : itunes. Clunky user experience : finder. Bug ridden OS updates : you know the ones. And best of all, offering two ways to run Windows on your Apple branded ha…