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He completely failed to acknowledge a big issue for developers and users of other mobile platforms. They miss out on apps in a world where there is a leading platform in a monopoly position, and nobody can use cross-platform toolkits to develop for that platform. (I don't know why Gruber was compelled to invent the term "meta-platform", but oh well.) Ask any Linux or OS X user - except Gruber apparently; non-native apps might suck, but they are better than nothing if they're the only one of their class on your platform. Most people prefer native apps on any platform, that's why Apple had to change Safari on Windows to better match the Windows look & feel. But if Safari were the only web browser for your platform you would use it no matter what. Even with cross-platform toolkits we Linux & OS X folks don't get quite the # of apps there are for Windows (unix software doesn't count for most people ;-).

I'm apologise in advance as I strongly dislike the term, but Gruber is a fanboy. You have to keep that in mind and know to bring a sack of salt to daringfireball.net. That said he gets enough right on the money to keep reading. Just don't forget the salt!
One big thing that only Couch does is offline replication. You might shrug and think "so what" but once you've had a taste of how relaxing it is to be able to shovel data around whenever and where ever you want, it's very hard to go back.
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ALA is fantastic, but it currently caters to a different audience. There's high demand for a site like the previous version of ALA, or even SM in its original form.
We are keeping it as a closed beta through our launch on May 17. We built the site quickly and as a very small team we had to get all the agreements in place/UI/etc before we are ready to go public. Feel free to email me at trevor at appbackr.com if you have any questions.
An interesting comment on this story, about NASA:

"They have been one of the big fuelers of my dreams for most of my life. I grew up in the Apollo years where we broke through one boundary after another and celebrated the early years of the Shuttle program where we created a system that is still unrivaled after 3 decades for it's ability to deliver and return payload to Earth.

Then Challenger blew up and along with it the spirit that was NASA. Instead, it was replaced by bureaucrats and risk managers. Everything involving manned exploration became so risk adverse that it amazing we have even managed to keep the program running today. If you have any doubt, look at Constellation, where we were going to basically replicate the accomplishments of Apollo, and take twice as long to do it and burn huge sums of money in the process. We can dream bigger and I am glad the current administration killed the program."
I suspect the whole hunter-gatherer thing is over-done in evolutionary biology as applied to humans. Most modern humans ultimately come from a farming background, rather than hunting / gathering. For example, northern Europeans tolerate lactose (i.e. milk) and relatively high levels of salt (i.e. preserved food), which are at least associated with nomadic keepers of herds, if not actually settled people.
"I’m not arguing that it’s anything other than ruthless competitiveness."

Seems more like an explanation of their motivations rather than a defense.

Not to be a Gruber apologist.
Quartz 2D is Apple's C-based graphics drawing framework, mentioning that is irrelevant here.

Quartz 2D is written in the C preprocessor language, not primarily C. To use it, you mostly use C preprocessor directives, not C. It's then translated into C by a compiler, before being compiled by the actual C compiler.

I still haven't seen anything specifically mentioned that's not written in C.

Other people have. Tons of applications, probably tens of thousands at the very least make direct use of some kind of abstraction tools. Hundreds of thousands (or all) if you take Apple's clause literally.

You mentioned using Lisp & Haskell to write iPhone apps, which ones are those?

I'm not obligated to tell you.

Who else is doing this and which apps have they published?

Is this a serious question?
I have to pick one platform besides CocoaTouch it would be Nokia/Intel's MeeGo.
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I moved to a Thinkpad (from a Powerbook) two years ago and couldn't be happier. Ubuntu just works and the hardware feels more solid that the Powerbook did.
"nobody"?
I was just mentioning it, because i am sick of seeing people sucked into that apple marketing dream and telling it over and over again.

Let's take the whole mobile phone market as measurement. The iphone is still only used by the vast minority, yet it feels like apple users are caught by all that marketing and buzz around apple they reject reality.

Yes, of course, the iPhone has the appstore, it's good hardware and software and shiny and usable and so on. But the reality is STILL that it's a minority.

The reality is that the big old mobile companies have still enough money, resources and potential customers to get.
It's just not that Nokia is making all the fuzz around this as the press does about apple. Steve Jobs farts, press coverage instantly. It's sick.
What's wrong with it? It works great for me. Memory usage seems like it might be a little higher, but it's well worth it for the extra add-ons and configurability.
Empirical evidence? Ask the guys Apple is funding to do MacRuby.
Sneak peek into iPhone OS 4 features
That PDF is only the first three chapters.
Number one I think it's a pretty obvious smack at Adobe, countering their planned CS5 which was supposedly to allow you to use Flash tools to compile to an iPhone app. I don't believe there is any legitimate move for this, it's purely business, anti-competitive, "Not Being Nice".

Number two -- and I think this was more of a bonus not the main purpose -- is a blow against cross-platform toolkits.
"Everybody lies."

Gandhi.
Here's a thought experiment for you. If you were a hunter-gatherer out on a hunt and you succeed in killing something, how would you get that kill back to your camp? Would you leave it all there or carry as much as you were able back? Science does leave room for applying common sense, you know. Anthropological studies of modern hunter-gatherer societies also provides pretty good insight into these sorts of issues too.
Then just support messaging instead of power, initially, until battery tech catches up.
I have a questions on the dynamics if you don't mind me asking...

-is this your full time job and your sole source of income ?
-are you able to find a normal amount of work just like a 9-5 job (i.e. 40 hours a week for 50 weeks -> 2000 billable hours a year)
Yes, because agricultural societies supported higher population densities than does hunter-gathering. So over time, those who adopted agriculture displaced those who didn't. However, before agriculture took over, everyone was a hunter-gatherer.
Looks like http://xmlvm.org/overview/ is still usable, isn't it?
I am wondering when apple will close this route down, too, though
yeah thanks for picking that up - I meant to write "that ate less" but I was stuck on the whole meals per day thing!
The very selective process that allowed the Fart app, but rejected the Google Voice app? That one? :)
Shame it [gmails version] doesn't work like that though.
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I'm a business guy and a tech lover, in that order. Two years ago, I had a Blackberry Curve.

I was the first in line to buy the original iPhone. I loved it for about 2 weeks. I returned it, I returned to the Blackberry.

I was the first in line to buy the iPhone 3GS. I loved it for about 3 months. Then I moved to New York City. And almost every other called was dropped. I sold it on Gazelle for $450, and I returned to Verizon for a new Blackberry Tour.

I have not had a single dropped call since.

Apps are cool, but actually being able to make phone calls is cooler. I like my phone to do three extremely important things very well: make phone calls, get emails instantly, and actually be able to TYPE on it. Would I, will I, ever return to the iPhone? Maybe, but no time soon. I am very content.
I would concur. I certainly hand out a few CDs of every release to interested friends and colleagues. I happened across an anesthesiologist just yesterday playing tunes in the OR with his Hackintosh. Not Ubuntu, but I'm willing to bet he's tried that too. So I think the people who are starting to look seriously into alternative computing is on the rise and in a variety of sectors, not just male college geeks and their friends.
"... IMO there is nothing wrong with this lie ..."

A truthful man is the hard to compromise. A man who is not greedy is the hardest to scam.
I find the premise of the article interesting, but much of his research seems to be bullshit. "an energetic body capable of high mobility and peak energy bursts"? What the hell is this guy talking about? The peak energy burst of a human is absolutely puny in comparison to any other animal in the African savanna. The fastest sprinter and the strongest weightlifter would be torn to pieces in nature when paired up with modern predators or prey, and their increased caloric consumption would make maintaining their muscle mass too difficult a task.

I also take issue with his comments on aerobic training and running, since if there is one area where humans are far and away superior to practically all others is long-distance running, which maps properly to the hunting methods of early hunter-gatherers. Seriously, human beings can kill almost any land mammal by tiring them to death.

He also talks about the supposed health benefits observed in professional basketball and football players. Has this guy even SEEN these pro players after retirement? Most of them bulk up weight very quickly and many have substantial lesions from playing. It's a regimen that no one can maintain for more than a few peak years of performance without seriously screwing up your body for good. In contrast, I have met literally hundreds of runners, cyclists, swimmers and triathletes who can still succesfully compete beyond their 50s. Beyond early 30s fast-twitch muscle fiber performance goes down dramatically, but aerobic capacity and slow-twitch fiber keeps up, and for all intents and purposes we depend on slow-twitch muscles and a better lung and cardiac capacity much more than bulk muscle mass.

Finally, just because we consumed a certain diet as hunter-gatherers does not mean that it is the optimal diet, even if it was much better than what we had as early farmers. Nowadays domestic pets live far longer than they do in wild, among other reasons because pet food contains lots of nutrients those animals lack in all-meat diets.

Look, it's all fine and dandy with thinking about evolutionary processes, but you have to realize that evolution did not select us to reach old age, which means that it misses out on the sort of things we need to prevent aging.
People lie because they want more power in a social situation. In the "$10 million of VC investment" scenario, lying about the multinational customer gives the entrepreneur more power than he otherwise would have had in the deal with the investor. An investor-entrepreneur relationship works best as a collaboration. So why would you want to start that relationship with an obvious power play against your would-be investment partner?
Performance is an easy excuse. A terrible programmer can do worse than cross compiler. If Apple do care about the so-called performance, they should judge apps by their quaility, not the process of how they are created.
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If we weren't constantly waging war on multiple fronts, we could give NASA a massive budget.

But when you are gushing $4+ billion a month, everything else has to be cut.

What they are giving NASA over the next five years, will be spent in just April+May in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Do not stop immediately, stay the 1 week and keep it cool and leave them with a good impression. Also I have heard from some people that taking a nice vacation when this happens as a great option.

On a side note: I have a need for a marketing/sales person at at the moment, drop me a line, my contact info in my profile.
I'm in Raleigh, NC. I develop iPhone / iPad and Android apps for a small dev firm. We price our apps on a fixed rate basis, typically starting at $3k, for full service work (graphic design to app store distribution); 2-3 week lead time.

Although we could bill $100 - $150/hr, we find clients respond better to fixed rate pricing, which seems to be a more manageable on both ends.

We focus heavily on providing excellent design and rich UI/UX. We often work with agencies behind the scenes or with enterprise customers, brands, publishers and entrepreneurs with an "idea". Pretty much all types of customers.

We also build the web service infrastructure, which may include social, geo and eCommerce capabilities and/or integration.

Btw, we've had iPhone apps approved in as little as 2 days.

Your app seems like some of the apps that we've developed for $2-3k, assuming you have a workflow / spec draft and initial design consideration.
It seems not to work with existing labels whose names contain a slash, even if you rename those labels. Also note that the parent label must exist, e.g. to have "people/friend-a" and "people/friend-b" appear in a hierarchy, you must also have a "people" label.
I've read plenty about the benefits of high intensity interval training. I think people will be disappointed to learn, that like always, it seems it's best to do a little bit of both.

Reading his article did remind me of this old reddit link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUpo_mA5RP8

It is a persistence hunt- hunters chase antelope for many many hours until it falls over from exhaustion. This is a well documented hunting technique that humans have been doing for a long, long time. It kinda contradicts his thesis.
Why Apple is fighting Flash CS5
How to create an $850M fad, like Bebo did
Once you have fans, they'll instinctively defend you. That doesn't mean you can't lose your fans.
I agree it's a blow against Android/Java and Flash/ActionScript, but also (probably and to a lesser extent) C#/.NET, and any other cool, modern, high-productivity language like Python, Ruby, etc.

I've shipped about 9 iPhone titles over the last 2 years, and my 2 biggest gripes had become #1 the App Store submission process -- which they finally improved significantly a few months ago -- and #2 that I was forced to produce and master so much iPhone-specific code & rituals. Rather than more reuseable/leverageable technology like HTML, Python, Java, Unix tools, etc. In other words, I was becoming a share-cropper.

So they seem to have improved #1, but now much worsened #2.

Makes me more glad I've stepped away from it recently, despite my love for the device as an enduser.
Out of curiosity, do you happen to have chicken scheme working on the iphone? I've been developing a 3d engine with it for the past few days with the intention of porting it to the iphone, so if you have some progress already, that would be awesome.

...or would have been, before this announcement. Ouch.
Many extremely fit people have regular workout regimens.

I think the point is "extremely fit" doesn't necessarily equate to overall health. One of his key themes is the importance of avoiding extremes.

His article on the risks of marathon running covers this in more detail: http://www.arthurdevany.com/articles/20091028
40 hours a week of billable work is damn near impossible. Even if I could find that much work, I wouldn't be able to handle it on a regular basis.
Ask HN: Articles about the effects of differentiation on social groups?
Well the title says all. Please if you know any (maybe well known) papers or journal articles (free, behind paywall) about the effects of differentiation on social groups post it here. The problem is I'm not from the field. I'm trying to write about online communities (maybe for HN) but I can't find any papers, only some (known?) books on the topic.

On the topic but can't find paper: Holmes, Stephen, Charles Larmore, Niklas Luhmann, and James Schmidt. Review: Luhmann in English - The Differentiation of Society. Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 12, No.2.
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"if you need a change in your schema, it's dead simple to do--just start using the new schema
if you don't care that the old documents don't have the new field, you don't have to worry about them"

For me the scary part is that I usually do care. How do you stop caring about this? Doesn't this mean your application code starts to get populated with if/then/else? Is there a best-practice for backfilling data when the (effective) schema changes?
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That does sound interesting.

Stephan Guyenet also discusses some of the literature at http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology... and http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2008/08/life-expectanc...
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I've noticed this trend in my university as well, but mostly with females. My hypothesis is that the touch screen is hard to manipulate with longer fingernails and the fact that with a physical key, it's easier to pick up the phone (think about it - hidden in the labyrinth of a handbag, the phone utters a shriek. Freaking out and being afraid of missing the call, a normal person would pick up the call, and then raise it to the ear. With a physical keyboard this is almost automatic. Not so much with the iPhone).

Well, RIM will survive. There will always be a crowd for hard-keys. Besides, I bet there's a market out there that gets some other smart phone over iPhone just because they're scared of breaking the screen. Sometimes, we over attribute technological prowess to a shiny newcomer on the block; don't let that get to you :-)

-S

P.S: I love the iPhone and it's KISS model (granted, I have my reservations about App store and other things). If anything, you should invest your time into iPhone as well instead of considering it as an enemy.
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Alrighty, added to blip.tv: http://defn.blip.tv/file/3461134/

(it's still being processed at the time of this comment, but you should be able to start playing it at least)
This article of his "Top Ten Reasons Not to Run Marathons" has citations for each of the supposed risks, including cancer.

http://www.arthurdevany.com/articles/20091028

I think the lack of citations is because it's a concentrate of his theories & discoveries. Individual articles (many of which are paywalled, sadly) seem to have better references. It'll be interesting to see how well referenced his book is.
It'd be an issue, but it would be relatively easier for Apple to protect against gaming than for Digg or Reddit. Unlike Digg, Apple can get access to unique hardware identifiers. They also have some experience with DRM. Is it possible to get around that? Sure, but it's much harder than simply gaming IP addresses and cookies.
The Evolution of Matter
Your most valuable relationships are with people who are smarter than you.

So, by all means, go ahead and lie to them. They'll know right away, while everyone else will only know eventually.
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Good point. About Mac, agreed, especially software-wise. Hardware-wise, it may not be as hackable as the Apple II was, but it comes with way more powerful and interesting and useful software.
Pretty snappy. Googled some random names and cross checked with this - scary how comprehensive this list is. Only a matter of time until some kid's gonna make a Google Earth layer for this :p Wait, make that a twitter mashup.
I doubt that Microsoft has copied anything from the Linux ecosystem. And with Linux innovations such as moving the window buttons around for no reason and upsetting their users, I don't see why they would.

Linux fans need to relax a bit and realize they're number three for a reason and work harder not complain harder.

Edid: I'm sorry, do I sound bitter? Maybe I've grown disillusioned with the difference between the reality in the trenches and fans extolling the features of product X, where X is any of Linux, Mac, Windows, iPhone, etc.
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A couple of months ago I had an idea for an iPhone app that requires a client and server component. I decided to focus on the backend development and outsource the front-end. I have posted my tender on http://www.getappsdone.com/ and in a very short amount of time I have received several offers from shops and individuals from all over the planet, mainly US, UK and India.
I have replied to every contact asking for a portfolio and I ended up with a couple of candidates.
I also received all sort of prices, from suspiciously low (40US/hour)to rip-off high (> 200/h).
I have based my choice on the quality of the portfolio, on the similarity of apps already developed by the shop to mine and, of course, on the overall price.
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I have always wondered why people keep so many browser tabs open. From my point of view, open tabs represent unfinished tasks or web pages I should go back to as soon as possible.

At work, I have four browser instances open: three Chromes and one Firefox. I have placed two of them on the same virtual desktop, and the remaining two browser instances are on separate virtual desktops. On the first virtual desktop I manage my work-related tasks, such as company email, Hudson and VersionOne, a project management tool for agile software. The browser on the second virtual desktop is for developing software: the web application I develop is on it. The third virtual desktop is for fun and free time use. Altogether I have about ten browser tabs open; even that is too much. I feel that the more tabs I have open the more fragmented my attention is.
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Is Gruber a programmer?

Why would it matter?

I don't see how the user experience would be
different for an app written in Haskell versus
an app written in Objective-C, except that the
Haskell app will run faster and crash less
(in general)

I assume you wrote some apps for iPhone and did some benchmarking, right?

"Platforms" have nothing to do with it

This is where you are really wrong. Platforms and cross-platform development
makes are huge difference in user experience. Take Android: if you try to
target as many devices as possible you aim at the lowest common denominator.
That means that more capable devices will provides lesser experience than they
are capable of. Now if your tool allows to target Andorid and iPhone it gets
even worse. Gruber's example with Kindle apps is spot on, it's ugliest app for
Mac I've ever used.
Hopefully, this article will be counter-balanced at some point by discussions with successful entrepreneurs who had open, candid, and honest relationships with their VCs and customers. In my experience, telling the truth builds relationships and lets people focus on problem solving.

If being honest with your VC means losing funding, it may still lead to funding of another, more viable idea.