new_guy123

> The only real complaint about this purchase would be that LinkedIn was overvalued. And I wouldn't bet on that since Microsoft surely sent a big team of their brightest cookies to make a valuation of the company.

That kind of justification has almost always gone wrong.

Its a great acquisition. But is the price justified?

How come they reversed the dots and commas?

I was so hoping for auto completion!

I share the same feeling towards my LG G2. The reason I bought it is because it was the android phone with the longest battery life. And how bad could the software be?

While there are haters of the "pure android experience", I like it, because it is quite stable. What I cannot imagine is someone in LG/Samsung saying "We can do better android". Forget design, testing etc. How can the lack of design, tech understanding/expertise in the team go along with ambitious projects like this?

More importantly, If I were building a product that fits the above description, how would I know?

This follow up response is completely expected. No doubt, Justin's blog was incomplete information. While I am still not convinced about how the ads section got bigger, is it really so difficult to identify the user's medium?

I am using a mac book pro. My request header is yelling at you that I am. Your argument makes no sense, if you agree that you know I am not suffering from the lack of a scroll pad. What about that!

Accountability? Really? You haven't seen the problem first hand, have you? Alcoholics can be extremely depressed people, clearly aware of the fact that they are doing it to themselves.

The question you have to ask is what if you cant control? In normal circumstances, all is good - you go home after a happy night. But what if you cant stop after 2 or 3 drinks, everyday. What if alcohol is your recourse when life hits you with a brick. Yes, I hear your speeches about self discipline etc., but they dont make sense anymore. If at all anything it makes you all the more sad.

Its almost a coin flip. Some times, the right stimulus from loved ones comes in. Something more interesting captures your imagination. But may times, it doesn't. It feels like a cruel joke by the almighty or a nasty bug in the mind that takes you down the path of self destruction into oblivion.

I think the OP is if you want to err, do it on the abstinence side.

It doesn't - the undo action is not a permanent option since it is only a replacement for a yes/no prompt. The implementation then could be a delayed action. Might not work for all use cases, but good enough for most, especially in a start up situation.

This argument is called "Go home and use Java" in latin.

Infact, by this logic it is impossible for any language to be a competitor to java, because it is trumped in community, adoption and programmer replacability.

The diff any language can offer cannot be more than the advantage java has in these three aspects for a guy who wants to use java. Typically, you will find the good java advocate agreeing that the shiny new language is better - but common the net advantage is "trumped" by java's reach.

In case someone has ever convinced the seasoned java advocate, please share your angle of attack and the language of your choice. I don't think there are any.

Every time someone says something like this, I hope it is not out of ignorance towards the countries which actually do not have a democracy. Each country has its own inadequacies and I feel sarcasm might be of better use in pointing them out specifically.

As more and more of these get GPlused, the more repuslive they are become. Among all the IM apps out there, I think hangouts sucks the most. More than the fb messenger. 2-3 years back, a lot of people I knew were using gtalk. Infact that was the default IM. We use watsapp now, or fb in case we don't have a number, but not hangouts. This massive transition clearly happened during the gtalk to hangouts change and I don't think I will go back unless the experience becomes better.