I got a 23andme kit from work and I thought the results were interesting...it said that I'm 5x higher average risk for Colo-rectal cancer, and 17x higher average risk of developing gallstones...which interestingly enough my Grandpa had Colo-rectal cancer, and my mom had gallbladder surgery (and so did 3 of her sisters)...so my results were actually very interesting
I came across a USB thumb drive from when I was in highschool (freshmen), and I was embarrassed when I looked at it just recently...I was storing login credentials in a browser cookie, and not a session cookie, how insecure but I didn't know any better at the time...
I'd say the best thing to master is solving problems.
In the case of developers it may mean that you never become a master at programming, but what's more important: solving a problem or having elegant, well documented non-solutions?
Hackers make things work, and I think that's more important than being a "master" - I don't even like the word master, it almost feels egotistical.
Hackers (by my own definition) make this thing here work now.
A master of his art has the time to design not just his solution, but the task itself, and the experience to understand all the implications of a given solution.
If they make the menu hoverable (at least on desktop) then their other products are still only a click away.
This makes more sense actually because it means more searches from Google's main homepage, because there are less options to navigate away.
It also makes the page less cluttered and gives the user 2 distinct set of actions:
1) Perform a search
2) Use a popup menu to navigate to a different product
I suspect google, like many of us, is either designing 'mobile first', or at least prioritizing mobile highly enough that they will never design a fundamental interaction that requires 'hover' to work.
It's easy enough to tap a menu to get it to open. As an iPad user, I don't think I would mind a well-designed hover-centric workflow, as long as it works okay on touch too.
It would have to be well-designed, though. Apparently it's really easy to wind up with a moronic hover-based menu, judging by the number of them I see around.
The trouble is that android doesn't support hover-events the way iOS does. On iOS taps automatically turn into hovers when there is a hover behaviour, on android a tap is always a click.
I'm young and live at home (I do pay rent to the parents) and have saved a bunch by living frugally.
If the OP provided more details about the company I might be looking to invest 5k-10k, and/or offer development help.
Always looking to support local startups being that I work at one also, and I know how hard it is to build a great product that consumers want, and raise funding.
Good points. What's funny is that by posting this, it's almost like temporary fame, albeit to mostly techies like myself, but none-the-less it's kind of ironic how that happens.
It seems like backing up your media files to a Dropbox-like service instead of iCloud would solve the problem of being able to get your files from any device you want.
I'm not attached to any one device in particular because all of my content is stored on a third party that can be accessed from anywhere.
I could drop my Macbook Pro or iPhone 4 at any time and not feel like I'm missing something.
Good thing about Apple products is that they last awhile, my Macbook Pro is now 3 years old, and my iPhone 4 is 2 years old, and I haven't had any issues and don't plan on upgrading them until they break.
