Who owns Nokia now?

Nokia is an independent Finnish company. Mobile phones under the label "Nokia" are made by HMD Global, also a Finnish company, which bought some of the remnants of Microsofts smartphone branch, which had previously bought Nokia's smartphone branch.

Why did Google succeed and Yahoo fail?

Google succeeded because Yahoo used it as its default search engine for years alongside their directory. Google got enormous exposure from that at a point when they needed it. Imagine if your little startup had a "How about you try us out ?" on google.com, permanently. Plus, eventually, Google got better at Search.

At the same time google was stocking every level of their org chart with legendary engineers, Yahoo appointed a demented Scientologist from Hollywood as their CEO. Yahoo for some reason thought they were in the show business. They could not have succeeded on that premise and it’s a miracle the company even survive the reign of Terry Semel.

Good insight.

I wonder if Snap suffers from similair thinking.

The board is less expensive to fabricate because it is physically smaller.

This is really not out of the realm of a dedicated hobbyist.

The switches and keycaps can be ordered from quite a few vendors.

Also, custom circuitboards are no longer difficult to design or produce in small quantities (especially separate left/right boards).

Use a Teensy to wire it together as a USB HUD device.

3d print the case.

Shameless plug for my own custom keyboard firmware project: https://github.com/dhowland/EasyAVR

Works with the Teensy

Thanks for linking this, I’m actually in the design phase of this project right now so the timing couldn’t be better. I’m going to try it some time this week.

So, I used to have a full-size keyboard with a built-in calculator as part of the numpad (had an LCD display above).

I would love to built an updated version.

You mean USB HID, Human Interface Device.

Yes. Good catch.

What if Mark acquires you?

I will only sell to Megaupload.

It's my intention to build the company of my life and run the service forever. I hate the idea of a BigCo buying us, shutting down our service, and screwing over all the devs that trusted us. It would have to be a pretty ridiculous amount of money to make me sell out like that (in case you're listening Mark).

I believe that you truly hold this attitude now, but your response could literally be the preface for every "our incredible journey" post ever published.

Yeah, that's why this objection is pretty frustrating. No one will really believe me anyway so I don't get too worked up trying to convince people.

I think we just need build trust in the community. That takes time and I accept that.

Hi – Miguel here. That is totally valid point. I also think this objection stands true for every dependency of your technical infrastructure. This is the kind of decision you have to make, assessing the risks on a case by case basis. I believe no dependency is 100% safe. It can happen to any given service, from companies like Heroku, MixPanel or Segment to the smallest open source library you rely on.

Obviously I think the benefits of outsourcing your in-app subscriptions to us is well worth it, based on our experience and the engineering time you will be saving, but I might be biased :)

Hi Jacob :) Good to see you still building things. I love your optimism but this is something I've heard countless times that almost never holds true. Truth is you eventually get bored of a product after a few years and move on. It's not even always about the money. Also, you're playing in space where Apple could build their own and Sherlock you. I know a thing or two about that.

Hi Shane!

I've grown a lot since the AppLoop days. :)

As far as not losing motivation, I can't prove a negative, so I won't try.

We are not dead if Apple does something to make the system much better, the problem of multi-channel subscription management will still exist for our largest customers.

P.S. Hope L.A. treats you well. I have scooter envy.

Tell us your thoughts on voting.

Agreed. I don't see how justice and bargains are compatible.

> It is only data from universities, not real for-profit businesses.

Plenty of universities work (often in collaboration with national laboratories and/or with corporations) on work that's far more important and critical than many "real for-profit businesses".

This is not better or worse. It's just as bad. Do you not think universities handle sensitive information?

A large part of what universities do is research in consultation with businesses and especially governments. It's not just teaching students; in many universities, that's only a small fraction of what the staff do.

ha. Have you seen what some countries charge for tuition.

University administrators are not shareholders! Their greed is much better for society...

Why the heck would an administrator care if they 'hold shares' when they are pulling 200k-500k per year as base pay?

Ouch! Is "greed" a bad word? It's not an inaccurate one...

Strange claim about what the site 'implies'.

I use hashids and did not assume such things.

I use it so a jerk end-user can't keep incrementing an integer-based URL param.

You rely on hashids to be secure, so that your jerk end-users can't increment the id. You would like to know how secure it actually is, don't you?

This is exactly what I'm wondering. If an attacker finds a way to reverse the hashids, then he can increment the ID and scan the resources.

No.

If they can figure that out, I will have bigger problems with the users.

So apparently you have bigger problems with the users now.

yeah seriously. the hashids people are very clear about what a terrible idea it is to think that hashids are secure in any way. fine, do a cryptographic analysis, but don’t suggest you’re actually saving people from some false claim or implication about security.

The hashids website has been updated since the cryptanalysis was published. For example, the old website used the words encrypt/decrypt instead of encode/decode, which was confusing.