mikecarlucci

If the tech shrinks enough to fit in what are today normal glass frames, then it will be everywhere. Until then I feel like it's more like the camera was before it merged with the phone: a device you use when you want to capture an experience. Some people would carry their camera everywhere, but most would take it on a trip, to a concert, to a party, etc.

Depending on the data being analyzed the app could have a use for sports organizations as well. But that's a more difficult market to break in to directly.

A company I helped with on a few apps had a table at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics conference this spring. One of the apps looks at boxscores to provide custom sports news for fans and identify interesting plays. I'm guessing it is much less involved than this project but a number of club officials found it intriguing because it could surface numbers from across the league.

Not messaging per-se exactly, but making Dropbox an account that could be accessed through Mailbox. The standalone messaging without sending a file as well is just a wacky idea of a different direction Dropbox could decide to take things.

There are so many options once Dropbox can theoritcally be accessed through an inbox interface...

Mailbox could be a first step to competing with Messages/gChat. Instead of rolling out their own email, Dropbox can be another type of account Mailbox works with to send pictures, videos, files over data rather than texting or emailing. An odd feature to roll out without acquiring a popular product, but making Dropbox the goto rather than the link attached to something else.

Yeah, even if it influences the Xbox Arcade (and Sony, Nintendo competitors) then it could have an impact on the market simliar to the Steam effect.

Every July and December gamers on Steam go crazy over sales - twice yearly excitement in general that the big three consoles only get at launch and with major title releases every few years.

I agree.

I've always thought it was a combination: a thank you that the person took time to talk to you and with you about the position (especially a non-HR employee), a follow up to the interview if there were other questions or to send a work sample as discussed during the interview, and to state again something that marks you as a fit for the position.

I hope someone creates a version of that game for Google Glass. Or a Glass parody video acting out similar poses.

I am.

I like restoring old computers, replacing capacitors etc. to get them running again, keeping my bike in order (though not my car), and messing around with HTML for simple things on a blog. I'm working on learning Ruby and slogging along iOS tutorials while designing my own board game.

I did take a few CS classes in college but was a liberal arts major. If I had known more, might have flipped it, but at the time thought programming would mean cooped up in a cube all day.

This is exactly what I am striving for. I don't want to program full-time, but I like to be able to understand enough and be able to muddle through somewhat if there's a project I feel like working on.

Maybe I end up doing more than that, but it's nice to have, like learning a foreign language. Not everyone becomes fluent, but a lot of people know enough to get something out of their studies.

As an Apple user with an Android phone I've really tied with pointless bashing from either side. Android is successful and Apple fans need to live with that.

At some point with it's like athletes who shout political/religious beliefs until it overshadows their play on the field. I just stop following them. Which is too bad because I liked what Marco said about other tech issues and coffee.

This.

Cyanogen is still harder than jailbreaking an iOS device, but the gap is narrowing.

As that edge reaches more casual users, who aren't just tech-heavy people, there's no reason Cyanogen couldn't be the Ubuntu of Android phones. It could have a large base of converts who want an alternative but don't want to have to spend all their time learning how to use their software in (for us techies) awesome ways.

Exactly. This is the sentiment I expected to see on HN, where there is always praise for the hacker "building" and sticking it to the man because he/she can make something on their own.

Aren't the members of the handmade movement part of the capitalist system? If no one purchases their goods, preferring instead a factory made product, they will go out of business. Or maybe just continue to produce as a hobby or for friends and family as gifts.

Amazon must have concluded that people with Kindle hardware would be more likely to buy books than those with who have Prime but an iPad which uses the Kindle, Nook, and iBook stores to name a few.

Maybe they'll loosen that restriction after the holidays when the free Prime trials from the initial round of Kindle Fire sales will have expired, potentially adding many new Prime subscribers.