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Another vote for ChartDirector. The support forum is really active and the library itself has been licensed for use in a large number of commercial software.
You want a ~3ft length of streamer, not fins (which are fickle).
I really don't get this argument. It seems that his point is that section 3.3.1 is going to scare developers away and ruin the platform.

Ok. So let the developers go elsewhere.

The only party hurt here is Apple. If they want to shoot themselves in the foot, then let them do so. It's one thing to have an intervention for a friend that is an addict, quite another to save a company from itself.

As a friend put it, section 3.3.1 pisses off an extremely small subset of iPhone users... namely, the developers themselves. No one else cares. If they app ecosystem dies because of it, then people will jump to another smartphone. But until that actually happens (if ever), Apple can get away with whatever it wants, and trying to argue about it is not going to get you anywhere.
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This quote is just absurd: "Flies ignore a Happy Meal and microbes don’t decompose it, then your child’s body can’t properly metabolize it either."

Wrong wrong wrong. If this assertion is true, then people won't get fat eating junk food. But no, let us make a obscenely wrong jump in logic to support our biases.

And she didn't say how she stored it. In the shade? In direct sunlight? Was the food still wrapped in packging or directly exposed to the flies in the air?
I would still like to have some tips on how I can embed the text ads on 3rd party sites when I do not access to the code of the 3rd party site.
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I can think of a lot of software that's priced in the $1000-10000 range.
I presume all these other programming environments allow one to target the iPhone/Pad/Pod using a PC. Is Apple, with all their (new) clauses, trying to say in a round-about way "If yer wanna target our iDevices, buy a Mac"..? After all, Mac sales is where they make the most money.
As a prospective (licensed but unreleased) developer, I don't care about this particular rule, because I'll be working directly in XCode. I do care about how Apple sprung it on their developer community out of a clear blue sky, trashing a lot of peoples' hard work in their quest to hose Adobe.

If Apple doesn't mind taking a wrecking ball to Unity3D's business model, who's to say they won't come up with some crazy rule next year that prohibits something I'm doing? How can I build a healthy long-term business around iPhone/iPad development, when I could find myself on the wrong side of a turf war I didn't even know was being fought?
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It's not about Adobe. It's about waking up one morning and finding your development toolchain, process, or application being prohibited for some bullshit reason that Apple came up with to sink somebody else's battleship.

If they did it to Unity3D, they might do it to you, too.

First they came for the crappy Flash games, and I said nothing because Flash sucks...
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Strangely enough, the auto-completion box, when you type 'wikip', shows www.wikipedia.org complete with Wikipedia logo as the first result.
Weight gain is just a question of energy extraction and it's != extracting a foods full nutritional value. The human body uses microbes to digest food. However, we also masticate and use strong acids etc. Depending on the type of preservatives used it may negatively impact the body's use of microbes which would be a serious problem.

EX: I don't think they use antibiotics to preserve food, however if they did it would prose a problem to complete digestion.
$TEXT_EDITOR and $TERMINAL_EMULATOR running $SHELL. What else?
The problem is that a happy meal that isn't visibly decomposing doesn't prove anything in that regard. Give me a control sample of local, organic food and you wouldn't see much difference. (Never mind that the biggest culprit for preservatives would be the bread, as the fries and meat is mostly preserved by freezing, not much else needed)

Nobody's saying that McD is health food, but that ain't proof. I'm particularly scared by some of the comments, especially when they come from teachers. Reminds me of the old penny/coke parlor trick.
Actually, I do kind of want the video of tumbling.

For $28, we can try both :)
Here's the same experiment from the tail end of "Supersize Me":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCfHA7AdjIY

The difference of course is the prevention of the drying of the food using the jars. This lady performed this "experiment" in a low humidity environment (at a high altitude) allowing the food to dry before decomposition.

Drying is an ancient form of food preservation. This experiment would have had dramatically different results if performed in Florida.

The "Supersize Me" piece is freaky enough (observe the mutant indestructible fries) without the embellishment and the "think of the children" angle.
i left the iphone game middle of last year. i had some fun but it wasn't the business i wanted to be in. anyways, these new rules are in keeping with apple's general disregard for developers. i don't think this particular rule would have affected me so much because i had already resigned myself to writing obj-C (which i grew to like after a while).

the general theme i see in some apple's more controversial policy changes (e.g. removing erotic apps, restricting developer tools) is to improve the quality of apps, both in terms of content and performance. i think a lot of the problems they have stem from the structure of the app store and that's what's incentivizing shitty, throwaway apps. restricting developer resources seems like a short sighted approach to addressing this. honestly, if they just started ranking apps by total revenue generated (instead of download volume) i think a lot of their problems would be solved. developers would be far more willing to put the time into making a quality app if they thought they could actually charge more than $0.99 for it without getting pushed out of the ranking.

this was one of the reasons i left iphone development. i spent a month or so working on a knockoff of Set (called Fetch). A friend did the graphics, i implemented wireless multiplayer. I really tried to create a nice application. I barely made enough to pay the designer and certainly didn't make enough to account for the time spent on it. I made another app called eyeTrip in a day. Not quite as dumb as Sound Grenade, but close :) Anyways, i made more money in a day off of that then i made off of Fetch. Once I realized that was the game, I started looking for a job.

I guess my little story is not specifically related to the OP, but the point is that there are much larger problems with developing for the app that are driving away developers.
I have been in the process of porting an existing iPhone app over to Titanium as well as doing some contract iPhone development.

I am frustrated by Apple's decision, but I understand it. I don't enjoy ObjC, but I can handle it.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Google Talk. For a while I suffered through the tangled mess that was using jabber transports to connect to other protocols because it was so minimalistic and slick. I'd love to see Pidgin or Psi reimagine Google Talk's UI while keeping the extensibility of the backend.

Also, you might be interested in a free game by the name of Skyrates (http://www.skyrates.net). It's not really an MMO, but it was made for people with not much free-time in mind so it doesn't favor people sinking a lot of time into it.
Insulation has dramatically improved since you lived in the city. I live in a building with ~300 units, and when I am in my unit I am under the impression that I have the building to myself. I have never heard anything.

Glad to know I'm not the only one who wants to hang pictures at 2:30. I just do it, and if someone asks me to stop, I will. But nobody has ever asked.
I don't want to learn another language and platform when there are two I am already intimate with that can be used to deploy apps on that platform.

Adobe, Novell etc enabled us all to skip learning a language and platform that is otherwise utterly useless .... would you learn Objective-C for anything but iPhone? Course not, so why would you learn it at all if something you already know can get you there.

I don't even have time to learn another language, I'm busy working my ass off on my startup - analytics for games. Thank fucking god I didn't pick "iPhone" cause the new terms kill all the guys who've put so much time and effort tackling that too.
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It seems like china has found a new way to gain intellectual property and classified informations without hard work. I hope it won't hurt them at the long run, and even worst they don't care about the rest.
Why should I, a consumer willing to spend $500 on a good product, cut FusionGarage slack?

Also, Notion Ink seem to be doing just fine with their Android based tablet. The reviews so far have been positive and, even if the actual device turns out to be a POS, you can just slap Linux on it and use it for something else.

http://www.slashgear.com/notion-ink-adam-hands-on-0969281/
But we're talking about whether cross platform apps are of such a low quality that banning that outright is a good thing, how can anyone suggest Firefox isn't a counter example to that?! Compare Firefox to the average App Store offering and I think its obvious that this Section 3.1.1 is bullshit. This move by Apple is just an attack on Adobe that is catching innocent developers in the crossfire.
After the iPad announcement in January I bought three books on iPhone and Cocoa development and spent a few weeks learning it before deciding in the end that I just couldn't live in Soviet Apple-land. The technology, sure, no problem -- but the contract terms, well, I thought at first I was going to choke them down, but when it came to actually signing, it felt like my self-respect was on the line.

I'm not upset at their latest whims because they're only more steps down the road I already balked at. They already banned the interpreter, why not ban the compiler? I will never write a native iPhone app except perhaps for hire, or after a regime change.
I haven't seen a good 5th generation language that does visual programming well yet. Even the wonderful morphic libraries on Squeak or the ALICE virtual world still require lots of typing.
Ok, so what else is it? My understanding that the new Go language is not officially called object-oriented because it supports only interfaces and not inheritance or type hierarchy.
If you grab the DVD copy of Supersize Me, and have a look at the extras he does exactly that.

[Edit: Here 'tis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-ljW5YEdao&feature=relat... ]
The test seems absurd, but here is what I'm finding strange about US food (I've been living for more than 10 years in US , I was born and lived all my childhood in Bulgaria):

- Cheese can sustain really long in the freezer. Bulgarian cheese won't - you have to eat soon.
- Same with milk. In Bulgaria (well many years ago, now you can find the same crap) - you have to drink the milk max 1-2 days after it was bought. Same with yogurt.
- Bread back in Bulgaria couldn't stay for a long time, you have to eat it too.

I can't say whether food getting rot quickly is testament for it's quality or not. Just observations.
Er, I wasn't talking about Apple, but software development in general.

As I see it, there are two elements that define the modern software: end-user experience (not only GUI, but things like local storage, geolocation etc), and communication with the Internet. With low bandwidth, Web apps have all the advantage with the latter and are good enough with the former; with ubiquitous broadband, the latter advantage is meling away, and the former just being "good enough" might not be, well, good enough anymore.
"Also, a small fraction of complaining customers might actually purchase a Mac."

While the rest can't use their IPods anymore? I don't think Apple would be too happy with that.
Oh it definitely is! The reason why food preserves so well in the States is because of all the additives. Most US food if prepackaged and processed, its' all about hassle-free eating. Preserves well, easy to prepare, looks good etc.

All the shit in the food in the US is really unhealthy. The reason it could happen is because of corporate interests meddling with regulatory bodies. The US government is letting it happen.
Sounds like someone is speaking without experience here. I signed up as an app developer for the iPhone, got approved in 3 days. I wrote a new app in 4 days (a decent rss reader that pulls feeds from facebook) and the app was accepted in less than 2 days. Figuring out the certificate stuff was not hard as long as you know how to RTFM. I mean seriously, how about give it a shot before complaining on hacker news?
I know from personal experience as a sometime working artist that limitations create a known space where creative attentions can focus less diffusely on the work at hand, which often has the effect of strengthening the cohesiveness and effectiveness of the final result. A lack of limitations, where 'anything goes', in common creativity (to distinguish it from those rare instances of exceptional creativity, where all bets can seem to be off) can be overwhelming. In art at least, and I suspect in good app creation as well, giving the creative impulse every opportunity to focus closely on the important details of the work will increase the chances that the work will end up with the qualities we most admire in well-crafted pieces of whatever medium: clarity, cohesion, efficiency, simplicity, elegance, among other qualities; that those of us who dwell in the modern era so admire.
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How do you feel about Javascript? Objective-J? Why not try using Node.js for the server and Cappuccino for the client? That's a webapp with need of only one-ish(does Javascript and Objective-J count as one language?) language.
1.) Fix the Flash player properly on the Mac by showing Apple that Adobe developers can work within the constraints of the underlying platform: so not using private API calls, not working around the Apple-provided API, and working in the same sandbox as other applications. The argument that Adobe needs direct access to the GPU hardware to fix it's performance problems sounds odd considering the number of Mac applications that deal with the same types of media without needing this direct hardware access. So basically demonstrate to Apple a willingness to work within the Mac platform, and potentially the iPhone/iPad platform, and remove the key arguments Apple has for locking the Flash player/common library out of the iPhone/iPad environment, and build back trust with Apple. Adobe need to do this themselves.

2.) Change their Flash-to-iPhoneApp converter to emit/generate Objective-C code that then compiles cleanly using Apple's compilers, and then publish the source code openly to demonstrate that the generated code is using the Apple API calls properly and correctly, not using private API calls, not duplicating/emulating/simulating functionality already available through the iphone API. Then with the compiled Objective-C code, submit that to the Apple App Store and keep track of the path it takes to acceptance/rejection (basically mirror the Opera browser count-up clock).

3.) Fix the stability issues with Adobe software running on a Mac, and demonstrate to their loyal user base as well as Apple that Adobe takes good care of their customers.

4.) Ensure that the Flash player runs as a first-class citizen on every other suitable mobile device.

5.) Teach their Flash/Flex developers about the importance of accessibility, and how it's even more important to consider on mobile devices now. Teach them the correct techniques. This also includes fixing the accessibility issues within the Flash player and the AIR platform.

I can't really see Adobe cross-compiling Flash applications to work in HTML5, since that eats away at their Flash platform mindshare/lockin.
Bitmap fonts are easy. I made a truetype font in the 1990s using CorelDraw so I know that's not hard. Keyboard maps, again trivial. And don't discount the power of a felt tip when it comes to marking a keyboard.
This is purely a function of moisture and environment. I guarantee it would rot outside or if in a more humid environment.

Also, counterexample: Organic Jerkey. It's healthy and easy to digest, yet it will not rot. Because it's dehydrated.

Rotting != Human Digestion
I've wondered about that and wondered how much of that is due to a total sale adding up to much more than $10K?

And of course that's not a hard rule, there can be software priced in the middle where a less strenuous effort on the part of the corporate buyer gets the job done on his side (and many think that a major reason for corporate software piracy is not that the corporation can't afford it, but that it's so hard to get a purchase order through that borrowing a disk from someone across the hall is by far the path of least resistance).

And maybe this help explains some major failures, like Centerline's Code and ObjectCenter (interpretive environments (with interpreters, but you often just load compiled code on the fly) for C and C++ that are as close to a Lisp Machine as you could get for those languages).

Also, the $1,000 limit is undoubtedly too low, it's whatever your corporation allows you to spend without too much effort (e.g. CxO signoff). A few thousand dollars are OK, e.g. that's how PCs slipped into a lot of companies, on departmental but not corporate budgets. (Heck, that's how a few Z-80 CP/M machines slipped into LMI when we had at most 3 CADRs operational at a time and a strong bias against doing anything outside of a Lisp Machine.)
I think it's a really valid question. If all the iPhone app makers now turn up and say "nah doesn't worry me" then it's an interesting metric.

I don't think anyone is saying that people don't have the right to be disgruntled or disproving unless they are developing for the platform.

It's simply interesting whether the concern is drive by a feeling that this is wrong, or because it materially affects people.
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Cordial agreement, more like it.

Joel was talking almost entirely about the sales effort, not so much about marketing (although you need a much more expensive marketing effort if you're playing the big sales force/big ticket sales game at the upper end, if only to establish your company and/or brand).

And I really wonder about lowering the cost of marketing. I don't know at all how this Apple App ecosystem works, but it seems to me that rising above the crowd and noise of 100,000? 1 million (if not now, soon enough) apps means you need serious marketing of some sort, or a stroke of luck where your app goes viral without much connected effort on your side.

The generally greater interconnectedness of today probably has a lot more to do with lowering the cost of marketing than anything having to do with the App store ... although that'll e.g. depend on its search function and how and if people use it. I note that Amazon gets by with what is by far the worst search engine of any site I've used in years.
> The tablet runs a custom operating system based on Linux.

That's an amazing claim. Or you don't know what an Operating System is.
Who needs the video evidence of the resilience of McD fries. Haven't you ever cleaned out your car and found some missing dried out chunks under your seat. They've probably been there longer than 10 weeks and that environment isn't anything like a clean glass jar.

Is there even much room for preservatives in fries? They just seem like dried out, deep fried starch sticks. Can you even eat McD fries without washing them down? They hardly need drying out, they're half way to cold rocks by the time you finish your burger.
It works because C structs are just contiguous bits of memory, interpreted as various fields

Well... almost. C structs can have internal padding -- but the C standard doesn't allow padding before the first element, so that first element is guaranteed to begin at the beginning of the struct.
So, by lumping together four (or five) different platforms, you manage to come up with a number that is larger than those using Rails? That's not entirely surprising.

You're also counting Javascript, which I find odd. Javascript is used in ALL of those platforms, so including it in an argument is extremely unfair. I do some Javascript programming from time to time, but I also spend a fair amount of time in Rails. When I was doing PHP and ASP.net programming, we were also using Javascript. So, yeah, there are going to be more jobs for front-end developers than those who program in some back-end platform, because all sites need some sort of a front-end (excluding some project that's purely an API).

There's also a dilution of programming jobs for the aforementioned platforms, from my experience. Finding a job doing Rails seems to be fairly easy as, even though it was the "next big thing", the average programmer felt better sticking with Java, PHP, or ASP.net. There are way more Java programmers than there are Rails programmers, but it seems the ratio of programmers to programming jobs seems to be more in the favor of Rails.
What the original post said is metabolism, which is the broadest term she could have used and does not make the distinction you rightly make. So yes, I agree with you.

I don't think they use antibiotics to preserve the food. That would put them in a ton of regulatory hot water that I don't think $0.99 products cooked in McKitchens can support.
"Fireshot" is "Windows-only".
You are in a very small minority... of people who get it.

I have nothing against consumer electronics devices, but they're about consuming. The promise of computers is in creation.

Steve Jobs took Alan Kay's work, but not his ideas. The promise of the Dynabook isn't about hardware, but a change in how we create software. That change is coming, and that's the change to get excited about.
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Vicarious embarrassment?