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When you hit the home button, you go to the hoem screen. There are also visual indicators that show on which screen you are.
It's not bad, but it will slow you down tremendously if you learn how every framework or library you use works. It's a psychological barrier - just as you (probably - I'm going on the odds here) don't really know how a processor works, you really don't need to know how a framework works.

By all means, dig around in the frameworks, but treat that activity like the hobby that it is.
I agree. This is definitley a good read and kept me want to read it all. I usually skim read most articles but this made me want to read the whole article.
I had this choice as well (HBS or start company)... last company grew to 100+ people, learned stuff HBS will never teach you. If you want to be an entrepreneur 100% then be an entrepreneur. If you want to do VC, IB, consulting, C-level exec at F500 - HBS. Good luck. To each his own.
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The pound sign "£" near 15k might give you an hint....
> If the user can't remember where they came from, why would they want to go back?

Because "back" is often conflated with "out"--the user might simply be done with the task and wants to get out. Unfortunately, the app simply shoots them to the previous app on the stack, which may or may not be where they want to go or remembered they came from.

Ex: Many apps go to the browser, but the user might not remember which app sent them to the browser. They might have thought it was Twitter, when it was in fact the home screen.

To enlighten you, the home double tap in iOS does not take you straight to the previous application. It brings up iOS's multitask tray that has the four previously viewed apps on it, in order of recent use. The first app on it is always the previous app. You can see which one it is. Android doesn't show this to you, nor do you even have the option of getting to the previous app unless you are at the bottom of the stack.

Edit: We're arguing about the merits of having a dedicated back button. If an advantage to the iOS task switching feature is found in yet another button on Android, that doesn't contribute support to the back button's existence.
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What is this "K"? The prefix for thousand is "k" and if asking about money it would be nice to specify the currency.
Industry troubles aside, the art/animation they're using is so refreshingly fun compared to most new companies it actually gave me a rush.
Ask HN: Hosting an event on Heroku, App Harbor, or EC2
At work, we're considering hosting for a one day event that may receive considerable traffic over four hours (we hope for 100,000 visitors). The site will most likely be .NET due to a tight deadline and us knowing .NET better. Here's a quick rundown of the simple things the site needs: one form that will be used frequently, all text fields; one comment form used less frequently, also text; image upload used infrequently; image and comment feed for moderation; another feed of approved comments and images; probably to send about 30,000 emails. So it's simple enough, and if we host assets on S3, we should offload a lot of the traffic to S3.

Our likely candidates are Amazon EC2, App Harbor, or some other dedicated server. I'm not sure how good App Harbor is. I hear great things about Heroku but have no idea what traffic it could support. If there is a strong argument for Heroku over everything else, I'd be interested to hear it. Our imperative is to keep the site up and running well during the whole event.

Any tips? This is my first introduction to such a large volume of traffic. I'd greatly appreciate any advice.
Ask HN: Can I compete?
I am looking for help/advice.

A few weeks ago, I had a flash of inspiration, which turned into a good idea. The more I thought about it, the more I realized it was a _great_ idea. I looked around for other companies/products that were doing something like it already, figuring something had to be out there. I couldn't find it, so I began figuring out how to make it myself.

However, I discovered a service yesterday that does almost exactly what I wanted to do. It's not completely off the ground yet, but it's been covered in the press, is YC backed, and was built by three people from companies like Google and Apple.

I've never worked for a huge tech company, nor do I have any funding or co-founders. How can I compete? Can I?
Too many people confuse SF with the Bay Area. SF is just one city in a much larger populated region. You don't need to live in SF proper even to work there. And housing is cheaper outside of the City than in it (generally).
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The benefit that the index gets you in such a situation is that sometimes you are working on two unrelated changes at the same time, but they both touch the same file. Git (using the -p flag to the add command) lets you interactively select portions of a file to add to the index.

The interface is pretty simple: it just shows you each small piece of diff to the files you are adding, and you say whether you want to include that bit of diff in the index or leave it in the working directory. Alternately, it can drop you into a view of the diff in the editor, and you can add or modify diff lines as you please.
How about a seniority/years of experience field?
Why bother to remember when you can just use Google?
It seems like the journalist never realized that his personal situation doesn't apply to everyone. We could use the same anecdotes and say something far more meaningful, like "life is too short, do something you value."

A career isn't mutually exclusive with a life goal. For some, a career is a means to that goal, for others, it is the goal. To each his own.
As an intern, my real yearly salary is less than 60k, but I voted for the yearly extrapolation in 60-100k.
Why do you say you'll never be able to access these? Because you don't get things done and lack the reasoning abilities necessary to get said things done? Sure, there are people who just aren't capable of performing at the level necessary for either a Harvard MBA or Techstars, but I bet you've just convinced yourself that you aren't of that caliber. Have you actually taken on complexity and found that you just don't have it? Or are you complaining because you've been conditioned to think you can't do it?
Fair enough. My guess is that the apps that don't support it are mostly games, which generally use a different framework that doesn't bake in this or any other interface conventions. But I can see how any amount of inconsistency could prevent a feeling of confidence. I guess to me the fact that these games tend not to look or feel anything like other apps is enough to keep their behavior from polluting my subconscious mental model of expected behavior in general.
XCode 3, on account of XCode 4 is still too buggy. I'm still puzzled as to why it apparently "works fine" on everybody else's systems.
Yes, everything defaults to that screen. To quit an app for example, you hit the home button and it automatically flips to the middle "home" screen.

The "back" button goes back to the last thing you were looking at (a sort of stack based approach kinda like a web browser, but across the entire OS).

So if you are in an app, launched from the left-most screen, and want to get to another app on the left-most screen, you might hit "back" and it'll background the app and put you on the left most screen.

Given the same scenario, if you want to go to the right-most screen, it's easier to just hit "home" and swipe twice.
I am in Germany, and 70k EUR seems average for someone with experience and/or specialist skills. (Of course less experienced or "motivated" developers will be on a bit less than that). 70k would be low for anyone in a leadership role. Of course half of that gets taxed away, so I wouldn't really compare it to 100k USD.
Yes, you are; SVN doesn't allow you to commit parts of a file -- it works at the file level. Git allows you to commit an arbitrary subset of changed lines from whatever files you've changed in your working copy. It doesn't track changes to files, it tracks changes to content in its tree. See here for a more complete explanation: https://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/GitFaq#Why_is_.22git_c...
This has got me thinking. I would literally pay someone to figuratively sit down with me, go through what I've done/can do etc and then based off their experiences tell me what I could be getting.

Of course, it won't be too accurate and location makes a big difference but perhaps an enlightened recruiter type with a bit of experience in a couple of parts of the world could give a ballpark figure, say X in SV, Y in NY, Z in the UK. That's more use to me than looking at self-reported salaries where I know hardly anything about the real circumstances. Failing that, just a guy in one place from which I could very roughly convert to my part of the world.
It's careless, but the currency is almost certainly USD.
This may sound embarassing, but i still get mass forwarded emails. I hope G+ will put an end to this.
> In fact the most swipes I need to access any of my five screens is 2, on iOS as above it's 4

That's the best-case scenario. Another scenario is that you don't have perfect memory and don't always recall where all 80 (5 screens of 16) of your apps live, so you go to the right looking for an app, and you don't find it, so you then have to go to the left, for a total of 6 swipes. I'd bet that this is a pretty common scenario for most people with enough apps to fill 5 screens.
I think the reason the Apple TV isn't as disruptive or genius is that I don't believe that Steve Jobs watches much if any TV. He is a busy man running a Fortune 500 company. Do you think he spends a bunch of free time on his couch watching TV?

Apple products are great in part because Steve Jobs and other executives use them and so they make sure they are top tier.

Apple TV is a "hobby" because the people signing off on them don't have the same deep understanding of the TV watching experience that they do the phone experience or the desktop/laptop computer experience.

For example, for the longest time the Apple TV was where you could watch YouTube and movies you download from Apple. No DVD drive, no Netflix, no Hulu, no DVR, no game console. YouTube and iTunes purchases. That is not what a couch potato would design.

A couch potato would design something like a cross between the current Apple TV and the Wii or something. Streaming content + downloadable music/movies + casual games all running iOS. Make the Apple TV interface with the iPod Touch, iPhone, or Wiimote and you're basically there.

Again, if Steve Jobs were a TV junkie this might seem obvious to him, but I don't think he is so it probably isn't going to happen.
I had the same reaction and looked at the linked Georgia Tech article for more info. It's pretty much the same except it mentions carbon nanotubes as well as silver nanoparticles - woohoo! Maybe they'll use it to power fuzzy neural networks.
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Just a tip if anyone can't get an invite code:

Google "uk proxy" or similar and use a web based proxy search like daveproxy to sign up for a UK spotify account. Once your account is created, you can change your country on your profile to the US :) Download the spotify app and you're good to go.
3.2.6 on MacBook Air (I'll switch to Xcode 4.1 when it's officially out with Lion as it is much faster than 4.0)

4.0 on iMac.
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It's bad UI if the developer programs bad UI. The back button returns you to the previous activity by default, you can override it but you should have a good reason. If I downloaded shovelware from the app store and a button labeled 'Play Game' actually took my photo and uploaded it to hotornot, I wouldn't blame iOS for allowing buttons to do things other than what they said.

That's also another thing: iOS is app-based, Android is activity based. You don't have the same navigation possibilities in iOS so you can get by without it. When you flow from one activity to another, you want to return to the previous activity rather than the previous app. Hence the back button.

I talked about UI indications for the previous app elsewhere, but it's dishonest to present the lack of indication as a point against Android when iOS doesn't even have a precise analogue of this, and what feature it does have already exists Android by long-pressing Home!
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Former startups founded by college dropouts:

* Apple

* Microsoft

The fact that some people from a highly driven and intelligent group were successful at startups is not really significant in and of itself.
Interesting project. What type of data are we talking about? Would you host leaked data a la Wikileaks?
Like with Rdio, you can do collaborative playlists!
In his 1997 WWDC Keynote, Steve said that he likes to create products that he would want to use.

Even if he doesnt have time to watch TV, or isnt a couch potato, he will surely be interested in creating a TV that he would want to use.

I deliberately placed the word "use" here, because Apple is intent on creating highly interactive and/or immersive devices.

Apple is sure to use its learned experience from the success of the iPhone, iPad and Macbook to bring something revolutionary to the largest mainstay screen in our homes.
Anything that can quickly prove you are awesome can be your resume. TopCoder, your LinkedIn profile, the list of hacks and demos that you've put together yourself, I think they all fit this category.

Did you create some awesome project on GitHub (or on any other CVS for that matter)? Then you have something to show off.

But none of them in themselves will help you get hired. They will maybe help you get to the interview.
Same. I use K9 mail and Android 2.3.
It's just a pain to bart/caltrain/drive every day.
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Front-end dev, Just below 60, I got the feeling taht even for back-end salary are much lower in Canada
TV programming is ripe for an iPod/iTunes style disruption - Netflix is doing it now with streaming - but it'll be hard to get people to buy a whole new TV.

The iPod had a simple selling point - all your songs in your pocket - and it only had to displace cassette/CD Walkmen that wore out in a year anyway. Ditto for the iPhone - internet in your pocket, but this instead of your next phone upgrade.

TV is harder. What's the selling point for an Apple-branded TV, and is it enough to make me buy a new TV now instead of 5-10 years when mine wears out?
You are right, my home screen is a clock and calendar widget. A couple important contact shortcuts (for super speed dial), email, browser and navigation. The absolutely most used things on my phone.

One screen to the right are the rest of my social media things and various camera apps plus the powerbar widget for turning on and off various things on my phone without heading into settings (flashlight, wifi, GPS, etc.)

One more screen to the right are my various nerd tools, an ftp server, a terminal emulator, file manager, heck I even have a tricorder app and the tron bit on there.

Going left I have productivity apps, google docs, drop box, a folder full of various audio apps like pandora and Tune In radio, The Kindle app, a comic book reader, etc.

And finally all the way left I have games, emulators, calculators whatever sort of entertainment junk I want.

I know immediately where I am on my phone at a glance and can almost navigate to it without looking.

If I start to run out of space, or want more organization, I just dump a category of apps into a folder...or my Launcher lets me add more screens if I want.
Why? How are honest values more "noisy" than faked ones? I mean if it turns out that more programmers work in places that have San Francisco salaries, then those values will dominate anyway. If people in other smaller cities with lower salaries artificially inflate theres for the survey, they survey will present a skewed result. If they enter the correct values, then whatever information can be extracted from it will also be more accurate.

I recommend people don't enter "adjusted" information in.
Nice! I really appreciate the tone of Tim's post in that it acknowledges both the strengths and weaknesses of NOSQL in general and of Cloudant Search in particular in an honest manner.
That calculator is making a very common and yet very fundamental error: It assumes that cost of living adjustments should apply linearly across a salary range.

It costs more to live in San Francisco that it does to live in Detroit. However, that additional cost is largely static: You'll pay a lot more for housing, you'll probably pay noticeably more for food, and you may pay somewhat more for clothing and other items. You won't pay more for a car (if you have one), you won't pay more for the items you buy from Amazon, and you won't pay more for your Netflix subscription.

If you earn $30,000/year, the difference in cost of living between San Francisco and Detroit will be dramatic. You may not be able to afford a place to live in San Francisco at all on that salary.

If you earn $300,000/year, the difference will be almost negligible, since your living expenses will be a trivial portion of your income. (The one kicker will be housing--you'll probably need to settle for a smaller living space.)

It doesn't make any sense to apply a cost of living adjustment as a strict multiplier, which that calculator does. It claims that someone making $30,000 in Detroit will need an $80,000 salary in San Francisco to be equivalent, while someone making $300,000 will need $800,000.

That's clearly ludicrous. It does not cost an additional $500,000 annually to live in San Francisco.

Determining equivalent cost of living is a complex question, and will always be imprecise. There are things that simply can't be converted--on my current salary, I could afford to buy a house with a hundred acres of surrounding woodland near my home town. There is no amount of money in the world that will buy that in San Francisco. Equally, there are many things available in San Francisco and its environs that can't be had for love or money in my home town.
If that's the case ... then it's a real problem.

The mainstream argument lately has been that SSL is so minimally computationally intensive that it doesn't hurt to just use it by default for all of your traffic. If piping your traffic through SSL is so computationally intensive that it dominates your entire cross-webserver benchmark ... then the mainstream argument can't possibly be true.
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Well, Mac OS X exists, so it applies to those developers as well.

I use 4 but I don't think it's particularly good. It improved over 3 in a lot of ways, but it also had some huge steps backwards (why can't I have the debugger in a separate window so it can be on my other monitor?)

I'm also not sure why Interface Builder being integrated is considered a good thing. Designing interfaces is different than writing code, in adherence with the Unix philosophy they really should be separate applications.
Just apply for jobs, and negotiate, and you will get a feel for what you are worth.
That just doesn't make sense. Maybe you don't know the difference between criminal and civil law?

The police are not anyone's personal force, and what they enforce are mostly crimes, while a suit over this MP3 player would be a civil action. Nobody's going to show up and cuff you for patent or trademark infringement. The State is not involved in civil actions unless the party you harmed happens to be a government.
Counterpoint:
I have fat fingers, I mis-click apps a lot. Sometimes I just graze safari or something when I am scrolling. Current functionality takes me back to the place where I left off. I easily click the app that i actually wanted.

Imagine my frustration when I mis-click an app, and instead of taking me back to the place where I was just a moment ago, it warps me back to the first page of applications. I have to rescroll through a few pages of apps.

After doing this a few times, I curse Steve Jobs' name and hurl the device from the driver's side window... lamenting the day I bought it. I hollar to my driver. He snaps his whip, urging my fine brace of stallions on-wards... to my local Verizon store where I purchase The Jitterbug: a testament to Human Interface Guidelines and ease of use.
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It's near impossible to find anything with zero competition. If you think you can build and market it, do it. You never know what direction your competition is going to take.

I'm working on project that would have been in direct competition with a YC funded company. Then they were bought by Twitter and dissolved a month before my launch date.
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If it's complicated to explain, then it's complicated.

Android's back button strikes me as an interesting idea that doesn't really work. If it depends on application X doing the right thing in order for the experience using application Y to be pleasant, then it seems pretty broken.
I don't quite understand the factors involved in making salaries in SV so high compared to other locations, and I'm not having much success just googling.

Could someone please briefly explain them to me or point me towards some useful resources so I can alleviate some of my ignorance in this area?

Edit: I'm aware of the higher cost of living, but I'm thinking that's probably not the only significant factor.
Did you look at the product he was selling? It was a ripoff copy of the iPod Shuffle.

Kind of ironic that you're accusing the Apple lawyers of trying to stifle innovation, when the kid was making his money from what was essentially a pirated product.
Are we talking dollars paid or adding up all the benefits?
Remember this is an international site. Coming from a poor eastern europe or african country, his chances of ever getting in reach of one of those programs are near inexistant.

That said i am from germany, and without parents that have the funds and passion to guide you in that direction... its not much prettier...
You wouldn't hire someone based on their resume alone but a resume is usually required. What you're saying is Github is now a requirement which is absurd.

Also this would mean I have to use a particular tool for development (maybe I should be required to only use gcc for my C projects too). A particular tool on a particular site. I like Mercurial. The projects I like to contribute might use Google code. Guess I am going to have a hard time finding a job now.
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It is a good thing because having to deal with more than one apple dev product at a time is a sure way to go insane.
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