It's good that Nevada is facilitating this, I'm expecting that industry lobby groups that will be affected by this (truck drivers, taxis, car companies without this technology, insurance companies perhaps) will throw everything they have at shutting this down so it's good to see that at least local governments are open to the idea. It means that it stays in the USA rather than Google launching it in a country more open to the idea.
What I love about Nevada doing it is the tie-in with tourism. If it becomes a staple of that city, you expose people from all over the country to it in relatively short order.
When I was using it, I had the idea of creating NFC tag/ QR code stickers and get gyms to put them on each machine/area. Then you could create an API for apps like Fitocracy to link in with that lets them read what each machine is, and the possible (and perhaps most popular?) exercises are for each.
So instead of clumsily tapping out 'lat pull down' you can just tap/scan the tag, and select from the list of exercises. Or at the very least the app could record the machines you tapped so at home you can enter in more detailed information.
I think you're underestimating the amount of work that is required to cater for those with JS turned off, each new feature would need to keep that in mind, it would need to be designed for and UX tested. Scenarios where you wan to rely on javascript need to have a fallback, each change needs to be tested in a noscript environment.
In my opinion with the multitude of great new JS libraries (particularly knockout, backbone etc) and JS browser features we're going past it being as simple as progressively enhancing your site. If you are a startup trying to do things in a lean fashion it must be hard to justify.
> I think you're underestimating the amount of work that is required to cater for those with JS turned off
This is highly dependent on a number of factors, mostly:
* The kind of site we're talking about, if this is a real-time chat application it makes sense that it can't work without JS, if this is a company site or a presentation site for an appstore application with an embedded video and you can't make it work without JS you don't know what you're doing.
* Whether this was considered from the beginning or whoever built the site just went wild with javascript without consideration.
And even in the first section of the first case, if the unlogged account-less front page can't work without javascript I'll probably still think you don't know what you're doing.
This ties back to the point of the submission -- if you can't make your site work without JS, at least tell the users with JS disabled why you need them to let yours through.
exactly what I came here to say.. What happened to all the virtual buttons? Whoever currently had a dress keeps it and those who didn't ended up with nothing? Or did she pay them out for their buttons?
'She says the site was so beloved in Australia that women still email her asking when it will be back up, “I’ve proven the model in Oz."'
If it was proven in Australia, why shut it down? Did she need to shut it down for investors to take a look? Is there some YC criteria that wont let you have a successful product already?
She may not have been making a lot of money, and I'm sure she did the best she could for her customers (returned dresses or money). If it was her full-time job, Y-Combinator isn't going to work well for her if she has to also manage a company in Australia. I'm all for her giving it a good go in a bigger market and either a competitor will spring up in her place in Australia or she'll come back with better tools and support to her home country.
they just launched in australia, and unfortunately they seem to have a fraction of the library the US version does. Slowly getting there though. Zune Pass is here as well.
I liked the menu button because it meant that you always knew where to go to get menu options. On iOS many apps have different symbols and locations for settings and as a daily Android user I've found it annoying searching for them.
On ICS it's silly checking down the bottom right (where the software buttons are) and sometimes top right (action bar) for the menu button, and if they are deprecating the bottom right/menu button option I can see it becoming just like iOS. When the action bar concept doesn't fit into the design developers will just have to shove menu options at a random place in their UI. I cannot comprehend how that is a better option than having a soft/hard menu button in the same place all the time.
...and what UX "expert" decided that when menu (or action overflow) would appear, sometimes it would be down, sometimes up top, and sometimes (I kid you not) both? It's software: if you're going to display something, be consistent about it!
It's the single most annoying thing about ICS. It's more annoying than the 4.5 hour usable battery life on the Galaxy Nexus. (You get 4.5 hours of screen-on time. You can manage close to 20 hours, if you don't actually use the thing, but what good is that?)
Sidebar here, but I'm running the Virtuous Inquisition ICS build on my Sensation, and I'm getting like 60 hours of screen-off time on a single charge, and something like 12-14 hours of "out and about" usage. Either Virtuous did something astounding with their build, or something's severely off there.
I have a GSM/HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile and battery life is similar to what you describe on the Sensation. A colleague briefly tried the LTE Galaxy Nexus on Verizon and returned it within a week, because the battery life was astoundingly poor as described by dsr_. Conclusion: LTE kills the battery.
I think that Twitter search is a real missed opportunity, I was hoping that Google with all their resources would be able to capitalize on it, but looks like Twitter isn't playing along.
I did a university project (retreave.com) which used the streaming API to receive tweets, index the pages they linked to, and then provide a lucene based search engine for it. It's really cool to search for say 'design books' and see what your twitter network has reccomended that relates to it (and of course, the search doesn't just search the tweet text, but the page text as well). It ranked results based on social stature in addition to relevance (ie a link tweeted by lots of people is higher ranked)
Unfortunately the User Streams API only scales to a few users, and I've been waiting for 9 months for an invite to the Site Streams Beta, but looks like they don't want me to make their search useful either.
For Java, NetBeans + vim plugin does just that. Major win. Same editor (almost, plain old vi) in impoverished production environments, full vim under cygwin for quick patches, and the same keystrokes in my IDE with all the other goodies for long term projects.
