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Ask HN: Mobile apps vs web apps over next 3-5 years
Hey HN, I wanted to get your opinion on how you see mobile apps vs. web apps performing over the next few years.

As a hacker, I normally find myself in a position where I can create an app using web technologies but it doesn't have the same "polish" (read: smoothness in animations) as its native counterpart. I'm aware of the benefits of web apps but I find that consumers often get peeved at this lack of polish. Do you see this changing anytime soon? Will people eventually migrate to web apps even on their smart phones?

Thanks!
Looks just like variablekitten from Abstruse Goose: http://abstrusegoose.com/345
I was a computer science student in undergrad and grad school. None of the CS undergrad curriculums I was involved with (either as a student or as a TA) had this level of architecture for undergrad CS majors.

For the record, my grad class used Hennessy and Patterson (http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-App...). Also, I think that "summary" should indicate that the real thing will have "much more grueling detail."
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purple cow and how is that?
Hopefully this means search results that link to issues will stop being completely worthless and incredibly frustrating.
So maybe they should make the time, I don't see how an education system that pushes students in undesirable directions to make things easier on administration is a good one.
Seriously? You're comparing a rocket with a self-destruct button to an uncontrolled projectile with several hundred times more mass?
If you didn't write quantum mechanics yourself, how do you know it's not out to get you? :)
well played, sir!
Surprisingly, there is a complete C implementation of perlin noise in the w3c SVG specification : http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG/filters.html#feTurbulenceElement
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I want truth - I do not might failing as long I am learning. I appreciate you taking time to help me.

-this is a lead generation site for the car dealership industry; the phone is optional, but this is how this business will make so if you want to save some easy money 1 minute could save you several grand. Internet surely are always discounted than floor prices.

I thought I was helpful with the divorce stuff - but several people have told me and you are confirming it - to keep it more on the positive note. I am not a middle age guy - I read a lot of books about them and am married to one so I am trying - was going for the wild look - perhaps I have overdone it.

M3 - cut paste errors; will correct;

The browsers I have testing on are IE8, Safrai, and Firefox. I will take a look at Chrome.

Hmm - I do not understand what you are saying - why do you think these leads are not serious inquires with purchase intent.
My competition websites are one page with very little info except the same signup form. In less than 2 years they are bringing $5M/year And they are spending $55K/week on adword campaign.

I can not afford so I am trying to do this organically initially. Albeit a klutz attempt.
I'm ambivalent about wanting to make millions. I believe very firmly that money per se doesn't solve problems and can compound them. (I have heard that two thirds of folks who win the lottery are bankrupt within five years and some of them have bad things happen because they are suddenly rich.) But I and my oldest son have a medical condition that can cost millions over the course of one's life and we have basically gotten well at a fraction of the price it usually costs to keep people like us limping along. So I suspect that once all the fall out from that is fully resolved, I may have the potential to make millions.

My concern isn't so much how much wealth I have (after achieving a certain level of security), but making sure it doesn't screw up my life. I think at times about the American fantasy of winning the lottery and I suspect that would wreak havoc with my life whereas earning it shouldn't have the same kind of impact. One problem with winning it is that it suddenly and irrevocably cuts a lot of your social ties -- for example, people typically leave their jobs promptly and often don't have any real plans other than to party hardy with their newfound wealth. But earning it usually involves building solid social ties: Relationships to the business community, to your customers, to your employees/coworkers/cofounders, and so on. I think when people have too much aimless time on their hands and too little in the way of healthy social ties, it tends to lead to bad things. A lot of people seem to desperately want to win money because they have unhealthy/unhappy social ties they wish they could escape (like their job) but the reality is that money by itself doesn't usually resolve personal problems. So being able to show up at work one day and tell your boss "Fuck you" to his/her face doesn't necessarily lead to the freedom and peacefulness that such people likely are envisioning.
Jared Brown, why are you linking to your own site, which only links to the actual article you list in your listing?
These guys produce an entire awesome startup's worth of development every couple months. Definitely need to be paying more attention to the how of what they do. Luckily Tom's quite the excellent speaker and writer. When he talks, I listen.
I find it somewhat amusing many of these things were not invented when I had my introductory architecture course...
Ok, I thought he meant the post was a summary of something more detailed than the course.
You work on all types of projects so you can test out the world and see where you fit. Add in liberal arts to the project-centric professional, vocational and technical approaches and that could be a very balanced and exploratory approach.
For the camaraderie and priceless advice from the experienced mentors,founders, and alumni.
Ha - that was exactly what I was trying to mimic - Maxim. The ideal customer profile says that is the magazine the user reads - so I was so happy when you said this. My other websites with more like consumer reports. You think this would be easier for me after doing 30 iphone apps and several commercial websites, but I always had other people to bounce ideas off so... I never realized how much easier that was.

You are nth person to say that the site is too busy - I will doing another one - thank you since I am never sure if it is too little or too much. Of course judging other people's work I am always sure. :-)

The ideal customer profile is for a man in midlife crisis purchasing sports cars in the $30-$59k range. There are fewer buyers in a more affluent market and they require more finessing (at I thin they do). I am trying to go for the easiest market to access and convert.

I will adding 100+ sport cars by the end of next week. I will be only focusing on the personality of the car owner as it related to a specific model.

Thank you for your suggestions and encouragement. Selling enterprise sw is cakewalk compared with this. I do not mind criticism; it is all those endless long arguments that I have with myself on which way to go. I am going just have to choose a way - right or wrong and then fix as I go along.
Yes I use a similar one using unison on my laptop myself. Once setup the only time I ever have to do anything special is when there's a conflict since it won't destroy a file that I've altered on both sides before a sync has happened. This happens rarely (usually to a configuration file for some software I've put in the directory for syncing) and is the behavior that I want, e.g. don't destroy local changes automatically let me decide what to do about it so that there's no unintentional data loss. And while there is a conflict it will continue to happily sync everything else happily ignoring the conflicts.

Edit: I should also say that I'm not using lsyncd or anything like that to manage it, just cron on the laptop. I initiate it one way at a regular time. Though using lsycnd does sound interesting. I also didn't use autossh and instead opted for OpenVPN since I knew I was going to want the other benefits of having a VPN at the time (being able to tunnel traffic easily for the most part)
Full IPv4 tunneled through DNS[1] and even ICMP[2] has been possible for ages, and I've personally used ICMP-TX on an airliner to avoid paying for Wi-Fi (not because I'm cheap, mind, but because their registration didn't work).

[1]: http://code.kryo.se/iodine/

[2]: http://thomer.com/icmptx/
I like how a reputable company still has screenshots with bug comments like "Ship the fuck out of issues2". I love GitHub.
I can definitely see it not working well for mbox, but maildir it ought to work fine since every message is a separate file. But even then I do all my mail through imap anyway since it's a much nicer interface for keeping that all the same everywhere for email.
Did you try it? Seems that your hopes have been fulfilled.
For this kind of article we need a new word like Steven Colbert's "truthiness". Scienciness? It has a lot of that. This is the reason we don't let MBAs and economists do medical research. The tonnage of grains consumed says nothing about the form in which the grains were eaten. If you want to maintain that a slice of bread and a chunk of beef is equivalent to the same wheat- and meat-equivalent in Hot Pockets, this article will be food for thought.
exciting.

:)
Congrats guys! Can't wait until the API to bring http://githubissues.heroku.com up to date with all the new features :)
i guess because money shouldn't really be a qualifier on a brilliant idea
Java 8....we can always hope.
Pun observed and appreciated.

My two-hundredths-of-a-dollar on this whole 'debate' is that if you can't modify the curl pipe command so that it writes a file instead of running it immediately (as someone other than root. Right? RIGHT?) then you really deserve that Trojan you just piped into your shell.
Haven't seen this operator before; reminds me of angelic programming. (see eg. http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1706339)

This also seems like a very natural application of monads.
Haha, good joke. You almost had me going for a second.
Hadn't seen that. Doesn't show up when searching for "timer" or "countdown". If I'd seen these, probably wouldn't have wasted an hour.
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Airlines are very different from carriers. The market for air travel is dominated by frequent one-off transactions (with consumers often using multiple airlines for a single trip), and boasts several good ways to compare availability and cost. A new entrant can start off with a few routes, build a good reputation, and grow out from there.

New entrants in the telecom market are considerably disadvantaged by comparison. Consumers in this market make long-term purchasing decisions, often driven by contract pricing,and there remain no good, well known ways of comparing providers. The situation is even worse if you're a new wireless carrier, since coverage is crucial and the market is pointlessly segmented by phone tech.

I'm not saying we couldn't benefit from deregulation in some aspects of this market, but the devil is very much in the details, and simply pointing out that "deregulation" helped improve a market with high capital requirements for entry isn't saying much.
The URL needs to lose the trailing / .
Kord, you are why I clicked on this :)
addon for firefox: http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html

and chromium: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/laankejkbhbdhmip...
Filter out Facebook Questions / Places
I think Facebook does not need to layout, test and contract manufacture motherboard for the servers. Each iteration in hardware cost lots of money. This is not agile. Better make the specs and have ODM companies handle that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Design_Manufacturer
Tutorial on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation
I don't see any reason to use them over GMail
The important thing is that you've created something unique that you can keep.

I think the point I was (not so eloquently) trying to convey in my parent post was that hackers value 'creating something unique that they can keep' more than most people in the population, and since woz is the ultimate hacker, it makes sense that he's pushing for this sort of project-based education. I don't have any good examples off the top of my head, but you could imagine other cultures or even personality types within your own culture where people place value on something other than projects that they can hack on and show off to the world on github.
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Jealous? Forget what an outpouring of support feels like? Or do you just never pass up an opportunity to divide people and call attention to yourself, in a quest to remain relevant?
Anyone care to give their thoughts on GitHub Issues 2.0 vs Pivotal Tracker?

(sorry, I know question-in-a-question is a little poor form, but I only really care for the opinions of the HN community on this rather than asking more widely)
I actually thought the most on-point part of the article was its suggestion of a strategy for Google's social features. Like the author said, if they want to have a chance at beating Facebook in the social realm, they really need a "social network", not a random smattering of social features tacked on to already existing Google features. There needs to be a single URL you can type to easily access this social network and easily navigate to every feature from it, and it needs to have a common, clean UI like Facebook does.

And moreover, it needs to have a big, well-planned release. I didn't even know Google Profiles existed until a couple weeks ago. If Google were to release an entire social network on a single day with an Apple-esque release press conference, there's a chance it might get enough people interested to have an actual impact. Doing things like a limited beta release is a horrible idea when it comes to social features, and arguably a major part of why Wave failed so spectacularly.

Everything they've tried up to this point has been completely disjoint and confusing.
At first glance this looks amazing!

I've long been looking for a service almost as good as Gmail so i can leave and finally have some privacy in my email correspondence.

Thanks Opera!
It is funny how they do things, they are really established and they can do things totally their way, two years without that feature could be inmoral for other companies.

Anyway, welcome new issue tracker!
For the most part, I think Apple's products are wonderful.

And what Jobs & co. have done over the last 14 years or so has been absolutely amazing.

But I think Apple would be even better with Woz.
Loads of people with crazy uncles and unimaginative grandmas ended up receiving titles to parcels of moon property!

http://www.moonshop.com/ - warning: 1998 wants its web design back.

They better not dig on my land!
It's a scam. Just doing some basic arithmetics would show you that even if you find rare earth metals on the moon, there is no way you can get them to earth for anything near their cost on Earth.

These guys probably just want to win the Google challenge and do some cool spaceship stuff and need a story to tell investors.
"It's not quite true that Feynman could not accept an idea until he had torn it apart. Rather, the idea could not yet be part of his way of thinking and looking at the world. Before an idea could contribute to that worldview, Feynman wanted to turn over the idea, to see why it was true, from any angle that he could find...In other words, he wanted to connect a new idea to what he already understood and thereby
extend his understanding."

Perspective is the key to genius. Feynman wanted to understand problem from all angles and understand why something was true, not just that it merely was true. Your perspective is your answer to "Why?" (see http://jamesthornton.com/blog/how-to-get-to-genius). His approach resulted in a tight mental framework that enabled him to connect new ideas and build upon insights from the outside in -- breadth before depth.
I know the following sentiment will not be popular here, but here I go anyway(bye bye karma).

I really liked Groklaw in the SCO days but after that it seems to have degenerated into a place for Microsoft haters. I do not know if her investigations led her to seeing a Microsoft shadow everywhere but it felt like too much of a witch hunt to me, along with related sites like boycottnovell.com (now techrights.org). And Apple almost always gets a free pass even if they attack 'open'. Even her last post is a microcosm of this.

>But the world has moved from computers and desktops to mobile and the cloud. Now it's Microsoft and all its venal little helpers and proxies attacking Google and Android....No matter what tricks Microsoft may pull going forward, the world knows now that when there was free choice in the marketplace, people chose Android, which runs on Linux, over Microsoft's phone. Nothing they do can change that. All they can prove perhaps is that dirty tricks and misuse of the courts and regulatory bodies can distort the marketplace. But without the benefits of a monopoly, people don't actually choose Microsoft phones, at least not in comparison to Android. All they can do about that now is try to force you to use their products.That's in a way what a monopoly is.

People did not choose Android because it was open or because it was Linux. They choose it because the devices had multitouch capacitative screens(same as the iPhone) and ran on non AT&T carriers while Windows Mobile devices had resistive screens forcing use of a stylus and were not touch friendly, didn't have proper GPUs, suffered fragmentation etc. Windows Phone 7 is a total ditching of the old paradigm and a fresh start, but it came quite late and is facing an uphill battle against the network effects(yes, the same network effects that a monopoly or duopoly entail). If it was around when Android started, it could've been a very different market now, regardless of PJ's ramblings about monopolies. The new Windows phones are actually not bad compared to Androi but are missing many features. How can she declare victory for Android when WP7 has been barely out 5 months yet?

Interesting to see that she sweeps under the carpet things like Apple filing patent lawsuits against Android phones, and Jobs insinuating that Android is for porn. I sometimes feel that she plays to her primarily anti-MS audience, especially to keep things interesting to them after the SCO case ran out of gas but at the same time cannot criticize Apple too much even if deserved since that would anger the pro-Apple portion of the crowd.

In short, while the legal analysis was great, the bias, witch hunts and paranoia got too overwhelming once the SCO case stopped being interesting and it was the time that I stopped reading it regularly and I've seen some people who share this sentiment so I am not alone on this. Microsoft is definitely not an angel, but to obessively see it as a devil behind everything is a bit too much.
Sure, and any smart team of developers can get over language issues, but then again any smart team can get over pretty much any problem - it doesn't make the language irrelevant.

For example, I could write a version of C where you have to type each line twice, once forwards and once backwards. You could get over it, but it wouldn't make it illegitimate to suppose that the language could be improved on and was making life difficult.

You hear this argument a lot (on hn and elsewhere) and I for one call bullshit - language matters enormously, but if you don't get an ideal language, you can work around it, yes. It doesn't take away from the fact that language matters.
The cool part is that Kyle Neath deployed Issues 2.0 during his lightning talk at CodeConf. Quite badass.
Ok then go back to Java. What value accrued to Sun by creating and marketing Java? Sorry to use the word "startup" as I suppose it is easily misunderstood. The creation of the language and its libraries and tools was to a certain extent an entrepreneurial act, in my opinion, whether it was understood this way by Sun at the time.
I am trying to ask assistance in thinking about the origination of whole languages or even just major language features within existing features in a coherent way, economically. I am attempting to ask the right questions about language development as a way to leverage capital and add value, not just to look at programming languages from the end-user's point of view.
let me attempt to clarify with a thought experiment. suppose instead the article was something like "All-star politician X claims that fund-raising, public speaking, polling your audience, and framing your ideas to persuade others should be the marks of success in school, not grades."

How would the HN crowd react to that? probably not nearly as favorably as to Woz saying that hacker-like projects should be the marks of success in school. But one could argue that those skills (persuasion, fund-raising, crowd psychology) are important for success in life as well.

The point I'm trying to make is that this project-centric view of success is very biased towards hackers, and it's an oversimplification to believe that most of the population would also find this appealing.
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Yeah, he's going to have to answer to the Galactic Confederacy if he wants to do this.
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Words that are primes base 36
you HAD to make me write new laws of physics? you %@#$
The thing that seems to me as missing from this (and most similar materials) is at least some discussion of how control logic for any of these RISC-like datapaths looks like in hardware. In my experience many people expect lot of complexity and magic in that and then are surprised by it being significantly simpler.
> Mr.Mueller has accused Groklaw lying and attacking him to get attention.

There is no shortage of irony in that statement.
Indeed. Perhaps this is more of a case of "what comes around, goes around."
Unfortunately, this is the sort of thing that sounds good in theory but leads to a pretty awful experience in practice.

Here's an example for you: You are a private user on the social network. You post on a friend's wall (or equivalent).

Can that friend's other friends see your post? If not, that's going to make it seem like there's no activity on your network.
Can that friend's other friends request to add you as a friend? If not, that's going to prevent people from making new friends. But if they can, then you've confirmed your existence on the network every time you've done anything.

It turns out that if you want to be a private person, you don't get a lot of value out of your social network, and the social network doesn't get a lot of value out of you. Your best option is to not join a network at all--and, indeed, if you target your network to users who mainly want privacy, you'll find that is what will happen.
I believe that pg said in the original announcement that they had already (easily) detected which applications had this bug (that's also how they know how many were affected).

I don't have a link offhand, but I believe that all founders were notified.
I chuckled when I read the word "triforce" near the beginning of the article. I assume they're either referring to the Legend of Zelda or an offensively-named 4chan meme.
In my opinion, both native apps and Web apps will continue to coexist. However, with HTML5 and other possible future standards the gap will narrow down.

Further reading: http://globalmoxie.com/blog/mobile-web-vs-native.shtml and http://venturebeat.com/2011/04/07/how-html5-will-kill-the-na...