Let me just tell you and anyone that worked on the team, thanks so much for it. You saved me hours of work and let me do it really damn well. This is a sad, sad day. I used Pipes extensively and ironically enough at Yahoo for some features/prototypes on News and Search. It was such an elegant and powerful app, I really wish Yahoo had given it more love.
Vevo is hiring! We're looking across the stack: frontend, backend, API, Data, etc. Both in NY and SF offices. Great work/life balance, fun team, and you get to work on music videos!
Yahoo hasn't had a search back-end since about the Bing deal. Most everyone on those teams was laid off while they transitioned over. Yahoo BOSS is backed by Bing.
Been using it for years with no intention of stopping. Me and my friends use it as a way to track all the places we've been to and places we like. So when I'm back in a city I've been to I can look at my history and recall a place I liked and go to it again. Or if someone is going to a place I've traveled to, I create a list of the places I liked and share it with them. I wish it was easier to do these use cases in the app. Mining my own history and surfacing that content would be very interesting and useful to me, especially if I can share it and have others shared with me. The tips are also far more helpful to me than the foodie-wannabe Yelp reviews for the same venues.
I'm curious about this POV from folks of getting mobile web apps to look and feel like mobile native apps being a prerequisite for success. I just don't think this is true. After all, desktop web apps look and feel nothing like desktop native apps.
I too believe that mobile web will one day overtake mobile native apps for most peoples' daily usage. I just don't think it'll look or act anything like what we're currently doing. Luke Wroblewski gives a great talk about the early days of a new medium being an awkward state where we try to shoehorn what worked in the last medium into it. At some point we'll figure out a design and usage patten for the mobile web that'll make a world of sense in hindsight. We're just not there yet IMO and of course I have no idea what this looks like.
The crux of their troubles comes from this paragraph in the Warning Letter:
"However, even after these many interactions with 23andMe, we still do not have any assurance that the firm has analytically or clinically validated the PGS for its intended uses, which have expanded from the uses that the firm identified in its submissions. In your letter dated January 9, 2013, you stated that the firm is “completing the additional analytical and clinical validations for the tests that have been submitted” and is “planning extensive labeling studies that will take several months to complete.” Thus, months after you submitted your 510(k)s and more than 5 years after you began marketing, you still had not completed some of the studies and had not even started other studies necessary to support a marketing submission for the PGS. It is now eleven months later, and you have yet to provide FDA with any new information about these tests."
The FDA, while being a pain in the rear at times, will actually work with you to meet compliance. But you have to show work and be continually in touch with them and show progress (and document everything according to your own procedures, complying to regulations of course). You can't just say you're working on compliance and then not follow through and show evidence. The issue for 23andMe is the on-label use of the product "in the diagnosis of disease or other conditions or in the cure, mitigation, treatment, or prevention of disease, or is intended to affect the structure or function of the body." They market the product this way. If you want to market your product as such, you have to show proof to the FDA and receive approval to label the medical product in this manner. It looks like 23andMe is either not working towards compliance (and is misleading the FDA) or is doing a terrible job documenting their work towards compliance and keeping the FDA abreast (my guess is this is what's happening). That in itself will get you in trouble, but then expanding your marketing for even more on-label use of the product - which hasn't been submitted to the FDA apparently - while at the same time not having FDA approval for the original use is just plain stupid.
Honestly, even for someone that started his career making table HTML layouts with inline styling it's a major PITA to code up emails that look respectable on all clients. I can't wait to try this out.
Tragic. My condolences to her family and to the driver of the car (not a situation anyone wants to be a party to I'm sure). I've done this ride a couple of times (OLH to Skyline and back down 84) and from the pictures can swear I've seen her out there before. This is an extremely popular route for cyclists and unfortunately it's also very sketchy (bad lighting, narrow roads, no shoulder, cars and bicycles going around 30-40 on descents), both on OLH and Skyline. For the safety of everyone in those parts perhaps better lighting, slower speed limits, and wider shoulders should be installed. The last time I road out there in early Aug, SB from OLH on Skyline was a fatal car accident and the road was closed.
I've been out of the industry for a while but I spent 5 years working on regulatory projects in the MD&D sector.
We never advertised off-label. Whether it's legal or not, I do recall you'd get slapped by the FDA for lack of controls. We had many cases where doctors would use a product off-label and it'd come back to us in the form of a complaint or defect (product comes back as defective, we investigate and find out the doctor was using the product for an off-label procedure it wasn't designed for and would fail, hence the 'defect'). At which point we'd have to proactively train doctors to not do this and other corrective action measures would have to be put in place. If upon investigating we find this would be a good use of the product, we'd have to go through another round of FDA fun (sometimes clinicals and how much testing depended on some factors, definitely rounds of internal testing and implement new QA tests and procedures to ensure the product can work for the new use and have proper fault tolerances as well as new labeling and training, etc).
Now, do companies try to skirt around this? Sure. Part of my job at the time was to make sure we didn't. FDA Warning letters are no joke in this industry, it can literally put you out of business.
That's what NBA League Pass offered last year. You pick a couple of teams and you get their games. I happily paid for it and will do so again this season.
The NFL has driven me crazy with not adopting a similar model. I can't get DTV at my home (condo), I don't care about the local teams, and paying for the whole league wasn't available on my local provider. They had a PS3 streaming option last season but I read it didn't work reliably so I didn't bother. Like you, I'd happily pay to follow a few teams teams + Red Zone. Luckily, as someone above posted, there's a great deal for $99 this season to purchase Madden and get Sunday Ticket included. I jumped all over that!
Awesome, a new game to play! I used to play 'Cover Orange' which had a similar inverse Angry Birds gameplay. Did you research that game before working on this?
This seems nice but I just don't see myself using this over WAMP/MAMP. It's a cinch to install and of course gives you a mysql setup right away to start your codes. Plus it's likely closer to your production environment anyway (if you're on LAMP). So what's the real use case for this then?
Everyone is different. I had my place burglarized some years back and I never felt safe again in the place. I suffered many sleepless nights and would awaken at any sound. This was no way to live "at home" so I moved out and have since lived in "more secure" buildings (condos). It's not a fun experience so I can empathize with anyone that has been through it and isn't the same after. In effect you really do feel violated. Now, some people just say "screw it shit happens," and carry on living in the same place. I tip my hat to you for being able to do so.
After years putting it off I finally drove up in the wee hours from Miami for the last launch and caught it on the same bridge (Max Brewer Bridge) mentioned earlier. Small world! It only took 3 hours to make it up which just led me to regret not making more trips up for it. It was truly spectacular, and the nerd in me nearly jumped out of my skin!
As someone making the move from Miami to SF I can give some approximations that are hopefully time-accurate. Brickell/Downtown/South Beach/Grove 1BR prices are in the $1200-1600 range down here now for a now standard pad. You can of course go much higher, but not much cheaper (cheapest I've seen is $1100, a total steal these days). I myself have paid $1250 or so the last few years, however the building I just left in Brickell now has 1BRs starting at $1400. Demand has certainly moved the price needle up in the cooler parts of town here. For a similar looking place in SF I'm looking at the $1800-$2000 range in similarly cool parts of town. I could of course venture out to the Richmond and save/get more space but that's the same anywhere. In keeping apples to apples I'm comparing the Miami areas above to Nob Hill/Russian Hill/North Beach/Marina/Pac Heights/Inner Richmond areas. If I'm off in the SF comparisons someone please DO let me know. :)
The smaller labels or clubs is the way to get the DJs. If you let them monetize their own rooms (sell their merchandise, music, or own ads) then there's a huge incentive for them. The clubs would be interesting though. Imagine using virtual currency to buy someone a drink or some glowsticks swag for your avatar.