“There is still something in Japanese culture that demands the warm, personal feelings that you get with a handwritten fax,” said Mr. Sugahara, 43. A quote from the article. Never in my life have I imagined nostalgia power of the fax machine.

"Save as PDF..." + Dropbox + Dropbox for iPhone/iPad and you're done :)

Yup, and that works okay for me, but I think "print to iPad" would be appealingly simple not just for me but for lots of less-savvy users. "Print to Kindle DX" (or other large-screen e-ink reader) would be good too.

This "hidden tax" applies to the government as well. Inflation expectations are baked into the valuation of financial instruments. For example, if investors think inflation is going to be high they'll demand a higher interest rate on their bonds. Inflation is part of the interest rate. This includes the interest rates at which the government borrows, so they're not particularly jazzed about a high inflation "tax" either. So if you're sitting on dollars and paying this tax, you can rather easily be compensated for it by lending that money.

The relevant changeset in Three20 where Joe resolves this should answer your questions:

http://github.com/facebook/three20/commit/8183ae25528bbc575a...

This commit was an incomplete fix (i.e. you'd still get autorejected after 2 weeks of waiting). Looks like the complete fix was merged in from the uprise78 fork yesterday, so Three20 is safe for the app store once again.

See http://github.com/facebook/three20/commit/c62a4cfd26c19d9248...

Waiting 2 weeks for an Apple reviewer to press the "run static analyzer" button sucks.

Best single sentence in the article (referring to management gurus rules/habits): "But most of these rules are nothing more than wet fingers in the wind."

One-off: FMDB, Three20, MPOAuth

Finally, my baby is born!

We'd love it if you could Digg this article too!!

is the mother drew or arash?

You should create a new plan geared toward people who use it mainly in their iphone. I can see something like this:

"Pro iPhone 16 for $3.99 per month"

I'm sure gonna be your first customer for this plan :)

Excellent job

Quick request re viewable file types - The app correctly recognises .h files as C, and lets me view them, but not .m files. Would it be possible to add .m files as well?

I have a similar request, but for viewing .asm files as assembly code.

Perhaps the option to view unknown files as plaintext?

he's making a case for the product with this statement.

McMafia by Misha Glenny. Interesting read on globalization and organized crime as circumstances have materialized since the end of the Cold War.

You'd probably also be interested in the book Rogue Economics by Napoleoni. It discusses how the money from illicit activities are flowing around the world.

Very Nassim Taleb. These are great books NT's written that discuss our susceptibility to survivorship bias and other rational failings we have: Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan.

Yes! You're right I'm hardly the first people to talk about such things. The Black Swan is a classic although oddly enough right now on the front page of HN there's a critique of Black Swan that pokes holes in it. :-)

But yes it's true there's lots of good material on these subjects for those who want to explore further. Hopefully my piece whetted your appetite -- it's not the final word!