tsurantino's comments

I think his exceptionalism can be accounted for based on the lawsuit.

You're right - Bing shouldn't bother improving it's product for potential new users because people prefer to use other products which don't have these features...

This is completely anecdotal. I could just as easily argue that the vast majority of businesses across cultures, demographics, socioeconomic factors use a variety of tools to promote themselves. In Canada, we have plazas, traditional websites, and more to get the word out. B2B, B2C, whatever you want to call it.

For the other cases you mentioned: Groups to collaborate, Events to organize - these are all completely underwhelming alternatives to other market products. The biggest tragedy of Facebook is that it has enormous scale but it can't write comprehensive products that satisfy all of that scale uniformly. You get the lowest common denominator, which is why customers go for niche alternatives.

Excel is not Facebook. Yes, Facebook is big. Excel is big in its industry. However, Excel has just enough of a balance between niche and scale. Excel is about computation and reporting. It solves a very specific need that is fortunately applicable in all types of applications. As soon as you try to go outside the bounds of what Excel can do (large data analytics, more customized reporting, interactive applications) you stop trying to rationalize Excel and start using other tools. People do the same with Facebook. More people do it with Facebook because Facebook doesn't effectively solve as many core needs.

For those confused - the visual part is done in a GIF (i.e. http://treyhunner.com/images/list-comprehension-condition.gi...).

I think animating the transformation from a normal loop to a list comprehension is a great way to show how the syntax translates between the two forms. Very awesome and comprehensive post.

The experience is pretty awful. I am on a community of Computer Science students and it's hard to find threads I get updates for in my e-mail because they are horribly categorized. On the view you attached, you'll find it incredibly hard and annoying to focus on a particular thread. When viewing within a thread, you still have to expand each comment, and so on.

Definitely a case of style over function. It's really frustrating.

YouTube actually had something like this available for a while (or still does this?) through Caption Search.[1] If a video had captions available (either user provided or automated), one could search based on the captions on that video. Results would return the video and the time associated with that clip in question.

I am not exactly sure why they discontinued the user experience, since it seems like it could be really useful for finding relevant parts in potentially long videos.

[1] http://youtube-global.blogspot.ca/2012/02/captions-for-all-m...

Doesn't this person deserve some form of severance or the equivalent of?

It's kind of ridiculous that he was "cut out" from a job like some kind of child who was no longer part of the "club". It's grossly unprofessional to disconnect an employee without any due process or policy.

I guess I shouldn't be surprised given the events leading up to the situation.

The initial example is broad, but can't this just be extended with additional questions? For example, can you tell me about dinner options that cost less than $20 per person. What are other people saying? How far away is this? It's questionable whether each of these follow up questions is actually that complex. I think you are arguing that things get hard if a user tries to put that together in one single complex query. Do people do that though?

I think the idea with a conversational interface is that it's succinct and on-demand. You receive the most relevant information directly in as simple of an interface as possible (arguably).

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I am a recent grad who is looking for product management and related roles. I have a history of experiences where I've worn many hats, worked with limited resources, and did whatever it took to deliver. I've shipped at Microsoft and worked with my school administration, faculty, and student body to have the first large-scale hackathon hosted at my school. I am looking to take my background into a role that gives me the responsibility and guidance to make an impact.

Asana did something similar: https://eng.asana.com/2014/02/scaling-asana-com/

There is an argument to be made that a ubiquitous, developer-first system translates into more instant changes. Seeing changes quickly makes it easier to iterate, which is better over time than the initial investment to learn Markdown.

This makes sense. Thanks a lot for clarifying and taking the time to write your original post.

Doesn't "publishing with a paywall journal you acknowledge that your field values the prestige awarded by that journal" contract with "it's not the publishers that are dictating the prestige".

Your arguing that if I post it on a blog, it gets lost in a sea of other content. If I publish it, then I get validation.

If I understand correctly, you are saying that one of the fundamental reasons for publishers to exist is because they validate someone's work (citations, vetting, peer approval). Why does this have to happen at the expense of public access, if the research that goes through that vetting process is publicly funded?

Isn't that kind of an irrelevant distinction if Echo is mainly designed around that one feature/gateway to features?

The whole problem with radio is that it completely misses how music is consumed nowadays.

It's no longer driven by the ivory tower of the music industry.

The whole idea of playlists created by others is that it exposes me as a listener to the long tail of music, mostly composed of everything I want to listen and more. I discover new sounds based on the fact that I am now able to find that other person on the other side of the world who shares my taste. I can skip through the songs and get right to the content I want.

I drive my listening experience, versus the radio station.

I completely disagree with your notion that U.S. is less interdependent than China. The exchange is clear: U.S. needs cheap Chinese manufacturing to proliferate its innovation, and in turn, China gets direct access to U.S. blueprints, and is able to leverage and improve upon them to produce their own products. This is basic economics, not a question of "who is genuinely innovating". American companies need cheap manufacturing as much as the Chinese needs technological know-how. Why? Because if no one buys "innovative" products (because of how much cheaper they get) then we wouldn't get that innovation in the first place.

Doesn't Yahoo use Bing for search? How do they have a Search API? https://developer.yahoo.com/boss/search/

For reference, here are details about the program:

http://unbouncepages.com/7975010c-edb3-11e3-b3e0-12314000cce...

I feel like this is an over-simplification. Like others have mentioned, despite the initial hurdles, going through the process of configuring that Django project initially forces you to wrap your head around a standard architecture that is essential in creating your web app. You have a greater understanding of a typical web app's components, making it easier to debug and understand the source of potential problems.

The problem is not one of dealing with bloat, but balancing a potentially intimidating setup process with the need for showing results to new programmers or programmers moving between frameworks.

If you want to emphasize results, then you should first develop a TemplateView and then work your way from there to discuss Forms and finally Models/ModelForms. Things like configuring your settings, URLs and views should stay as they are, as bringing them all together into one file encourages a disorganized mess in the future.

Interesting choice of an IE preview for the home page. Is it by accident or is this something online stores are looking to validate in terms of features? (IE compatibility)

This is definitely better. One subtle thing that it takes into account that's different from the Microsoft screenshot is that the current Microsoft version has two shortcuts for the Start Menu - the pinned start items separated by a line and the live tiles.

Jay put the live tiles where the items are currently separated by the line to make that cohesive experience. I really hope they move forward with that design for the next update.