^ Yes. Clearly people can't take jokes here, already downvoted.
Edit: Even the above got downvoted and I get reminded again that HN is full of stuck up, overly sensitive and unhumorous engineers. With the exception of this being a great place to find interesting things to read the community aspect is uninviting and unforgiving.
Technically you're not prevented from doing so - you would just have to keep it to yourself (/family/friends/etc). Non-technical people rarely care about these things.
> backstabbing developers
I don't disagree. Would be interesting if there are any stats on who/what made Twitter popular, got any?
> And why is that a problem?
It's a problem for Twitter when you're trying to run a top-brand. Clients who don't keep up-to-date actually make Twitter look bad to the public. It also makes it harder for Twitter to innovate, move quickly (and probably get usage stats), without coordinating with external developers.
Apple actually does (in some aspects) force developers to keep their apps up to date. I develop iOS apps and this actually consumes way more time than I wish it did.
Your concerns are valid from a third-party concern but from Twitter's first-party concern they are distractions.
I actually think they've been very clear on this from the beginning, including the reason why (although it wasn't spelled out).
They've always meant apps that offer more or less the same functionality as official Twitter clients.
For the people who actually read the terms instead of picking up their pitchforks back when Twitter had that big tos "change of heart" would have understood that
They definitely could have handled it better and been clear that the user limit was really meant for Twitter-clones.
It's clear they want to control the way most people use Twitter, but also to show advertising. As best I can recall, the tos change came around the same time as they started putting in ads. Besides the few remaining twitter clones always play catchup when Twitter puts out new features (recent example; polls).
I think J-1 would be the most legally correct (IANAL and all but I have some J-1 experience). YC should be able to bring founders on board. Since J-1 is for education and the program is basically an education.
J-1 is also quite openly (ab)used to bring employees over who do not qualify for a H1B or O-1.
Only important thing to remember is to pay the J-1 "student" otherwise they are (depending on origin country, but most I think) subject to a rule preventing said person from returning to the US within two years.
I think J-1's are 18 months max. Plenty of time to get a business up and running. By that time if the founder is successful (e.g. take on more investment) they could probably employ themselves with a H1B or E-2 ("investor") visa.
But I'm sure the J-1 has a bunch of issues concerning founding legal entities - this part I have no experience or knowledge of.
He links to Visual Website Optimizer[1] as the A/B testing tool he will use. I haven't used VWO personally but based on their features page it's a point-and-click to change some visual details on the website. Install a javascript link and good to go. Again, haven't used the tool but doesn't seem like much work to me.
I see a lot of (rightfully) upset comments but this doesn't really come as a surprise to me given that Twitter (and others like FB, GOOG, ad networks) already track websites you visit.
I know there are ways of blocking that but I would have a hard time believing that many (outside of HN readers) block that type of tracking.
A drone could detect loss of communication with the pocket device (snow or falling into the ocean should be enough to do that) and start some recovery/emergency sequence. E.g. stop + try pinging the device, if there's still no reply automatically call 911 with an emergency and GPS location. Is there a 911 REST API? :)
For those asking/wishing for open source, according to the comments section[1] they will.
"We’ll release the usable parts of the code as free software with the most free license we can. It belongs to the community (and the community paid for it)."
"We’ll release the usable parts of the code as free software with the most free license we can. It belongs to the community (and the community paid for it)."
Seems they changed their mind about open source, according to the comments section[1] "We’ll release the usable parts of the code as free software with the most free license we can. It belongs to the community (and the community paid for it)."
> As of 2013, 24 states had stop-and-identify laws. Regardless of your state’s law, keep in mind that police can never compel you to identify yourself without reasonable suspicion to believe you’re involved in illegal activity
Maybe the problem is the length of countdown timers? I don't know how they are determined and set but anecdotally I often see 10 seconds or sometimes others in excess of 15s or even 20s on a road that takes ~5s to cross.
It seems to me like this is a reasonable law IF the timers were set to only give the pedestrians minimal amount of time to cross the street. Given it takes 5s to cross, timer starts with 5 remaining. Pedestrians in the road see it and rush to either side. Pedestrians about to enter the road will have an easier decision to make: I can't make it in 5s so I wait. Obviously some will think they can, then fine them; I think that's reasonable. But holding up pedestrians with 20s remaining seems unreasonable to me.
The main problem I see is for slower pedestrians; seniors, handicapped etc. They might need more time and could be caught of guard in the middle of the street with no time remaining... An immediate thought would be a white flashing hand as a warning that time is running low (no counter!)... Probably requires lots of reprogramming though.
I applaud your courage to stand up to that but I don't know about following the advice after reading "i do often end up in court with cops over a lot of things, this included"... Confused.
I agree with the advice above, and adding on to it, as a founder... If the case is morally and ethically sound then I wouldn't hold it against you, probably applaud you. On the contrary if it's a shakedown of sorts I would be questionable.
As an exercise I would look into the recent lawsuit against VC firm Kleiner Perkins. Search the web for "kpbc lawsuit" and read how people have reacted to that case.
Edit: Even the above got downvoted and I get reminded again that HN is full of stuck up, overly sensitive and unhumorous engineers. With the exception of this being a great place to find interesting things to read the community aspect is uninviting and unforgiving.