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Springshot | Lead Mobile engineer, Android and iOS | San Francisco Onsite We're looking for a Lead Mobile Engineer to spearhead development of our Android and iOS applications. We'…

I found this Apple page that appears to offer battery service for $129: https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=Unite... I have the same "Service Battery" warning an…

For families with children, I've noticed that most airports (I've been to anyway) now have a family security line, which uses traditional metal detectors instead of body scanners a…

Yeah, I second that. The tablet sounds great, so I placed a pre-order on Jun 28. Never got an estimated ship date then and seeing this post reminded me about it. I checked my order…

> Want to learn about the world? Dont travel! Learn a language. I read that to mean "Learn English", which makes sense, but is not very helpful to an American because only learning…

I didn't know what you were talking about until I went back and accidentally kudos'd the post myself. The creators "defense" sounds more like an FU or maybe that the whole thing is…

>> They allow mobile apps to display their listings if you buy a license from them, but not websites. PadMapper already has an app so couldn't they continue to use the listings in …

6 hours later still getting "unexpected error occurred"... wish I could've seen this

I also remember reading a while back that trying to disguise your email with the "username (at) gmail (dot) com" approach is worse than just putting the raw email out there because…

> Good voice recognition would also work, but I haven't seen this yet in a car. Ditto. This seems like the obvious solution to the future of UIs, especially when driving or somethi…

Agreed. We should enforce laws and we shouldn't make laws where the cost of enforcement outweighs the benefit to society of having those laws.

Great point, making something illegal doesn't stop it, but it just raises the price. Drugs come to mind as I read this. It becomes a problem to me when making something illegal rai…

Fair enough point and I do agree that this guy's article is perhaps lacking in proposing solutions or fully explaining the problem. The problem as I see it is that technology allow…

I deleted all WSJ cookies then clicked the link from the Google search results and it worked.

I can't find it via searching the app store and from the direct link (on my iPad) I get "Your request cannot be completed". Guess I'll try back tomorrow or in a few days.

Fair points all. What I read was that he'd prefer more hands-on (i.e. watch me do the craft) types of presentations, whether at school or academia, rather than didactic rules to fo…

It might be unfair to compare the stock price to Google and Apple, but if you compare Gates to Ballmer, you can see that the stock has completely flattened since he took over. The …

But if we never dreamed it so, then we never would have tried and never would have broken down those other barriers. Just the fact that we've broken down all those other barriers i…

Sounds interesting, but shouldn't they have a huge user base before this kind of money comes in? There are a lot of interesting things going on in this space (and with this app), b…

Can you elaborate on what was so incompetent on the part of humans? From my understanding, it seems like they got the crisis under control without any major radiation exposure, unl…

For what it's worth, I talked to a yoga studio owner who had a horrible experience (with Living Social, not Groupon). It turns out that people looking for a cheap deal on yoga clas…

Great site and thanks for the background info. As a developer, I'm always in need of good design. I love the site design and the story of how you found the designer. I hadn't heard…

Agreed. I just tried instapaper based on this statement. I use delicious for saving things for reference and tagging them, mostly as an alternative to bookmarking, particularly for…

Yes, I think what you allude to is that Java is just too verbose and unnecessarily complex and I agree. That said, the tools available for Java (i.e. eclipse) are pretty nice.

Is this really due to impatience though? You've picked the cream of the crop to make your point, but arguably I'd say these guys were visionaries that stuck to their guns (skated t…