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Aereo was great when I used it. I even tried applying to work there because I was super interested in their service. I only had one bad experience and it was trying to watch the SuperBowl using Aereo. It wasn't bad but wasn't great (freezing,buffering,slow speeds on a fios Connection) . I completely understood that it was a big national event and didn't hold it against them. It probably wasn't even their fault but their bandwidth providers was probably being hammered also.Unfortunately, because of that I ended up canceling and getting Fios TV.Mainly,because I hosted a Superbowl part at my house and everyone was upset at the stream so I ended up getting Fios TV that way for future events/parties I didn't have to worry about a buffer or people being upset again. Regardless I love what they stood for and used the service a lot when I had it. It's sad there's no real alternative.

I believe this is a step in the right direction.

This is a good thing everybody. Lets see what happens going forward.

The pi is wonderful for tinkering. But i'm finding it too slow to do most things I want it to do. The beaglebone black is good but I just hate the micro hdmi port.. I wish they put a reg HDMI port on it.

Huge hip hop head here . Great article btw

I also felt insecure being a black male in tech. A lot of it came from when I would go to tech events or hackathons in NYC and I would be the only black male at most of them and at others there would only be one other black guy. Also for jobs I felt I had to take w.e. salary I was offered . Mainly because I felt I was even lucky to be black and have a tech job. Then one day I realized that fear was in my head . I was never once denied a job and if anything a lot of businesses want to be more diversed and they just don't find a lot of good black candidates in Tech and I could use that to my advantage. I also find a lot of techies listen to hip hop as well and that helped us connect. What also helped me get over it was that no one cared I was black.In all my years at being active in the community no one has ever mentioned it even when I felt it was the elephant in the room. I think in tech more people are open to the idea that it's not the color of your skin or your sex ... They judge you off how smart you are and what you are bringing to the table

I don't mind YouTube ads on most videos . The only time I truly mind YouTube ads are on any video where the main target is under age 5. Nothing is worst than having to tell my 1 year old son he has to wait 30 seconds for the ad to finish until he can watch his show that he already saw the thumbnail preview to . I would gladly pay a resonable subscription for that to stop.

I dream one day we will all have 1 Gig per second up and down on our mobile phones and it will cost less than a gallon of milk. A man can dream can't he lol .

Awesome. Didn't know that existed. I have to check it out for my own personal email communications between my friends.

What a great article. To think this guy had no idea for months he was talking to one of the biggest whistleblowers of our generation. Reading this makes me wonder if there's room for a yellow pages style public key directory for journalists. That would of saved a lot of time and hassle.

This goes to show how important analytics is in a business. They found something they could market better in their own software by understanding their business more. Big ups to Ghost for that discovery.

Yes I have in more than a few situations, but like I said people will be people and you can't change them. The only thing that will happen is maybe for 2 weeks they will change but they will slowly creep into being back to who they are. By complaining to your bosses about it - it ends up looking like you are the problem instead of them.You would like to think your manager will see it your way but they usually don't. All they will end up seeing is that anonobot is the one always complaining to them and that your co-worker isn't. It's weird but it's true.

He may just have a bit of a god complex or is being very competitive and that may just be his personality. I have yet to figure out a perfect way of dealing with it because you can't change who people are.

Some advice I can give is to ride it out and do great work for the experience and switch jobs when you can because not all companies are the same and there are some that have really nice people.

If you can't switch jobs or don't want to switch jobs then something that worked for me is just hear what he has to say and then do what you was going to do anyway if and only if it's better than that persons suggestion.

Try to be open minded,listen to the things they say and not stress yourself over his personailty because he could have some valid points in his rants.

As for interviews .. Try to do a separate interview with candidates going forward if those things are going to stress you out.

To be honest I don't see room in the mobile payments market anymore for third parties. I see Apple pay,Google wallet,PayPal and Amazon taken up 95% of the pie in 5-10 years.