jdonnici

The service will scan the content of PDF attachments for searching, which is nice. The two bigger premium features, for me, are offline notebooks and passcode security.

Unfortunately, the latter feature has been broken for well over a month on iOS. The most release was supposed to fix it, but passcode security still turns itself off after a few hours.

Like you, I pay for Evernote's premium service, love the idea, and - until recently - thought their execution was great.

Now, I think they're too distracted by the "accessories" market and ill-fitting social features that don't fit what the service was sold to be... a digital shoebox.

I don't need WSJ or Nikkei articles to appear in my Evernote searches. Sure, I can turn this "Context" feature off but it's on by default and doesn't do anything I don't get with CMD+T in my browser. Resources were spent on it.

I feel the same way about the Chat feature. Who are these people who want to chat with friends/colleagues from inside of Evernote? Again, more resources spent on that.

In the meantime... Premium features are broken on iOS (passcode security turns itself off), the Windows version doesn't work with HiDPI displays, and the editing/formatting of notes doesn't sync correctly across Windows->Mac->iOS.

Agree. I think the main point is to say that Swift is new and not fully baked, there are no experts, so now's a great time to jump in and become an expert. Get active.

Seems like a fairly clear point... What I don't get is why making that point needed the "I know more ObjC than you do" preamble.

In "Kingpin" by Kevin Poulsen [1], one of the key players made a lot of money by hacking into POS systems at "mom & pop" locations (restaurants, dry cleaners, etc).

Their surface area was "just enough" - they're online in order to run credit cards and early versions of the POS software kept the card details in local files. Once he was into their system, he had access to thousands of cards... when the cards were used fraudulently, it was very difficult to know how it'd been stolen because it was via lots of small breaches that never made the news.

Appropriately for this post... the POS software vendors eventually rushed to be compliant with new security standards (PCI?) and not store those details locally. But the store owners were reluctant to upgrade because the new software versions had an upgrade fee or, even when the upgrade was free, they'd have to pay thousands to their local consultant to actually perform the upgrade.

[1] - http://amzn.com/0307588696 ... Twitter-sized review: Pretty good book and it read like a technology novel at times. Will definitely get you re-thinking where/when your cards are used.

Not with the ones I'm familiar with (Bose QC-15). You have to turn the headphones on to engage the 'active' noise cancellation, but you don't have to be listening to anything. In fact, you can unplug the cable from the ear piece completely and still hear (not hear?) the effect.

Desktop SQL clients get me with this... connect to a database, run a query, go to another window for a while. Come back, try to run another query...

  "Database connection closed. Reconnect?"

Drives me nuts... I ran a query, didn't I?!?

I think "longer" referred to the length of time the question goes unanswered - not the number of characters it took to pose the question.

While you can't quantifiably measure difficulty, it's fair to say that more difficult questions will remain unanswered longer. Easy questions get pounced on. The difficult ones take time.