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Re:Willow Garage shutting down on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @05:46PM (#6253515)
I used OpenCV in a bunch of college projects and had no idea it was the same guys who did ROS (used for my senior research project). Best of luck with your next venture!
Re:ThatInbox - The Mail Client for Attachments on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @05:42PM (#6253490)
I'm slightly confused. Let me see if I got this right:

Ink (nee filepicker.io) is a developer tools company that is trying to make a framework for talking between iOS apps.

Yet they build 4 applications for the itunes app store, afaik seem pretty reasonably full featured.

What's the strategy here? I would have assumed that they would be trying to get as many partner apps as possible.

Re:Why The Tech Industry Is Ruining SF on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @05:38PM (#6253467)
> The story is ridiculous

I agree that there are both high and low cost options. The author seems to trying to sensationalize the story. [1] But it is true that the cost of living in the Bay Area is high. It's affecting things like home ownership, income levels, homelessness, public transportation.

[1] VentureBeat's audience is probably reasonably geographically centralized here, where we understand, but I can see how someone from the Midwest would be completely surprised by $4 toast and think that those prices are the norm. (It's the same reaction I get when I explain that yes, there is a slide in the Google office, but most people take the stairs like normal human beings).