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Xcode devs consistently produce far more polished apps than Visual Studio devs

What is that statement based on? It is an absurd idea. If "more polished" means better code then this statement is just not true.

I just completed an internship in a big technology company and the code produced there (for automation/control in the energy and utilities sector) is quite certainly "more polished" than any iPhone application or whatever else people develop in Xcode (certainly not automation/control applications). And they use, amongst other more specialized tools, Virtual Studio.

Xcode is an IDE with a very small user-base, alone because of the fact that the Mac still has a small user-base within the industry. It probably even still has a small user-base in the developer community (aside from the hipster apps world).

I would love to see some evidence that apps developed in Xcode are usually "more polished" than apps produced in Visual Studio.

And in my personal opinion Visual Studio, especially IntelliSense kicks Xcode's butt every day. And same with MS Office...

Note: I don't use an IDE unless developing in C/C++, C#, Java or Objective-C
Sorry for the crashes - any chance you could let me know what device you are using it on?
Just curious, what's the currently most popular responsive CSS framework that scales down to phones like this one?
Thanks. It's targeted for kids of all ages.
thanks! really appreciate the help spreading it around.
Agreed. I don't have Lion installed yet, but in SL I can enter "ä" by typing option-U, then A. The article makes it sound like the new behavior can be disabled so I'm hoping that means the current behavior, which I'm very happy with, still works!
Anti-Hotel Service Rivalry Heats Up As Wimdu Threatens To "Kick Airbnb's Ass"
It's very interesting that he had the exact same experience and was given the run around by AirBnB. His story also shows that they are not being completely truthful when they said EJ's case was the first time anything like this had happened in 2 million rentals. I wonder what the real statistics are.
Having had that exact situation happen to me (a burglary), neither my wife nor I acted anything like this. And yes, I understand that everyone reacts differently to these situations, but she seems like she seriously needs some professional help (which I would argue also is ok; different folks, different needs), that she is willfully NOT GETTING, but rather airing emotionally-laden tidbits for the masses to consume as a substitute. I agree with the OP here; something is tingling my skeptic-sense on this one. Of course, maybe I'm wrong.
NYC is very clearly dominant with respect to the media/government/finance thing; unfortunately the tech scene gets taken there with it. This is a draw for some people, if you're into one of those sectors then NYC is roughly the best place to be in the world.

However, the city is terrible at "technology for technology's sake." Take a look at most of the companies on this list; virtually none of them would have come out of a university research lab. That's not a bad thing; arguably most of HN focuses on the "agile web startup that defines itself on execution" style of company. I personally wanted to work on something with a bit more intellectual substance; startups that focus on research and engineering (as opposed to social coupons or selling stylish eyeglasses online) tend to be near Boston/Austin/Seattle/SF.

Also note that tech journalism coming out of NYC has the finance/media/gov't/social slant as well; I tend to distrust the Times' technology reporting because it's going to inform me about Foursquare instead of a radical new GPS chip company. If the latter did come up, it would be viewed through the lens of investment and profit instead of the underlying tech.
I'm still using IBM Model M's on all my home and work desktop PCs. I have a good supply stashed (from ebay years ago), though I've hardly had to dip into it. Most PS/2 -> USB converters would not work with the Model M, so once I found one that did, I laid in a supply of those as well. Will pass the stash on to my kids if they're interested...

Edit: for extra credit: I'm still using the Logitech Optical "Marble mouse" (trackball, really) which I switched to (again, on all home and work desktops) perhaps 10 years ago when use of a standard mouse led to acute arm and shoulder tightness and ache/pain. I remain pain-free in this regard since the switch. Maybe any other trackball would work just as well, but this one did the trick for me. BTW I use an HP DV8113CL laptop with Synaptics Touchpad extensively and I'm happy with it (though the keyboard is merely adequate). I've had occasion to use IBM trackpoint's (including those built into IBM Model M's as well as Thinkpads), and did not like them one bit.
There's probably quite a few more that haven't come forward because they've felt it was their own fault, much like domestic abuse spouses blame themselves.

A different way to put this is that most rational people recognize that letting strangers into their home is completely within the realm of their personal responsibility. AirBnB will have to put some processes in place in order for the business to succeed in the mainstream, but that doesn't absolve the hosts of responsibility for their apartments. Comparing this to domestic abuse victims is ludicrous.
But the result is that Airbnb is taking a PR beating. So if EJ is intentionally misconstruing the facts (or Airbnb for that matter) it is important and relevant.

Look, I'm not saying they [Airbnb] are doing everything right. But at the same time, the renters have got to take on some responsibility for handing out their keys to strangers; yes that's what you're doing, is that a surprise?

This isn't all on EJ or all on Airbnb. Clearly the responsibility goes both ways, but while neither side is absolved of responsibility, EJ must back off on laying the blame on Airbnb so intensely and without remorse. Previously she stated they offered "emotionally and financially" support and were extremely helpful, only now there's veritable lynch mob has she backtracked on those statements.

Still I think Airbnb has a lot to answer for: their statements have been inconsistent.
I use a challenge-response system called Active Spam Killer.

http://a-s-k.sourceforge.net/

When some dastardly spammer adds me to their list, despite the challenge message explicitly telling them not to, I then add them to my "blacklist" and never hear from them again.

Note that you do have to be running your own mail server to get this system working; and you have to edit the lists from the command line. Those challenges aside, this software has eliminated vast quantities of spam and unwanted list mailings for me.
What's the problem with webinars?
Just to toot my own patches, this version of Ruby has a huge number of improvements to Ripper, the built-in Ruby parser in 1.9. There are some critical bug fixes, and local variable references have a different node type than bareword method calls. I dare say it's close to being ready to power a full Ruby implementation at this point.
Stocial Launches In Beta To Blend StockTwits With Yahoo Finance (Invites Herein)
RDP's usage of a hardcoded private key [2005] [pdf]
Thanks for all the kind words everyone. We're really excited about this app and appreciate the help spreading it around as well as the feedback/suggestions.
That looks great.

It would be great to have a baby mode, where tapping the screen did a random coloring, and maybe played a sound.

My daughter isn't two yet, but she really likes to swipe at photos and make them go from side to side.
She IS unsafe because the people who robbed her apartment stalked her by email, manipulated her, and were still out there at large a month after the crime was discovered.

On the other hand, she had the good luck to be criminalised by people who went to all the effort of using a service to make sure the home they robbed was empty instead of chancing it on one that looked empty, to lie to her during the crime to keep from being discovered, to be gone before she returned, and to have not returned for a month afterwards.

I wonder if there are any studies indicating if she would be at statistically significantly higher risk of crime than most people now?

THE PEOPLE [AirBnB] ALLOWED TO ROB HER HOUSE.

And you accuse jacquesm of manipulative wording.
Ahhh! Eric that is exactly where I got that info from, I couldn't place it, but I finished reading "Drive" a few months ago so that must be where it came from.
The notion that "EJ" is in any way responsible for Airbnb's PR is one of the toxic premises leading to the "team Airbnb" vs. "team EJ" nonsense populating these threads. It leads directly to the notion that anything said about "EJ"'s case that isn't 100% favorable to "EJ" implies that she's dishonest.
It's actually very disruptive, that post is missing the point. Yes, for some established businesses, it may not make sense. And they aren't overthrowing credit cards or banks, but that's not their aim. Square is democratizing payments--allowing anyone to be able to accept a credit card payment. Think of the implications of that: any small business owner will be able to accept credit cards, anywhere. Or my friend can directly pay me back money he owes me with a card. That wasn't possible before. They also have a really good chance of closing the "redemption loop," which is a huge, hairy, unsolved problem. They're very disruptive.
Dude, I'm glad you took the FB offer. Don't discount the value of money. Stay there until the IPO, get your much deserved money, and then have the freedom to work wherever you want to work for the rest of your life.

You must be very intelligent to get so many offers from some of the best companies, but if you don't know what to do with $500K yet, please don't spend it all. Save it and retire. I'm not saying retire from coding or doing what you love, but having F-U money means you can continue to do what you love no matter what happens. This is worth more than having a fun job.
"can't make decent payments as salaries"

Yeah, that's a dealbreaker. I need to pay my bills. If you can't do that, sorry, but I have to keep my housing.
Yes, Feynman's Cargo Cult Science lecture is an old favorite of mine, and anyone who doesn't bend over backwards to repeatedly question every assumption and bit of evidence and source of information is never going to reach the best available analysis.

And doing that is hard, and all of us humans have huge limitations in our analytical abilities, and as a result I find it tremendously important to nurture an intellectual humility about my own understanding and knowledge and analysis. At the same time I find it important that at some point when you've done a lot of analysis on a lot of evidence over a long time, not to waffle about contradictory opinions that a hard look will show have little to no substance, because it's just a giant and completely uninteresting waste of time, and trying to debate every person who is wrong on the Internet who demands you provide a complete body of analysis and evidence that the Earth is not in fact flat, could easily absorb and completely waste every waking moment of one's life.

I also find it tremendously important to respect every person, even when I don't believe or respect an analysis or opinion of theirs, both as a basic axiom of human existence and because doing so makes me happier and because it's the only way to open the other person to a reasoning dialog, and obviously I haven't quite mastered that yet but I am practicing. I admire that you kept to an honest effort at reasoned debate after my exasperated flame.

With that said, I'm puzzled how after citing Feynman's Cargo Cult Science lecture and the importance of looking to rebut the strongest evidence rather than the weakest in an opposing view and looking straight to original scientific findings instead of to meta-meta-opinionating, the one real argument you bring up is Landsea's resgination letter.

The worldwide efforts to study the Earth's climate and to study what we might want to do about it involve untold thousands of people around the entire world for years on end. What are the chances that some one human being somewhere in there doesn't spend every moment of their life behaving in an absolutely rational and honest manner? And if the chances of that are non-zero, how much do all the molecules in the Earth's oceans and atmosphere care about that? And if those molecules don't care, what would you find a more useful focus of inquiry on which to spend your brain's finite operational lifetime?
Thanks for your thoughts. I'll definitely look into the slow loading of the site. We've been trying to get everything together so quickly we probably didn't optimize it as much as we could have. I'll go back through and try to fix that for sure.

Undo isn't in the app right now but it's on the list for a future update.
I've been on Dvorak for 6 years now, and would call myself a vim power user. Never had an issue, but that might be because I can switch between qwerty and dvorak with ease (I use both at work every day).

I definitely like Dvorak a lot more. On the qwerty keyboard, I notice how much more finger stretching I have to do. Whether that actually makes a difference in typing speed or ergonomics, I have no idea. I switched one day out of pure boredom.
Otherwise you can use Gmail filters to archive/delete emails from ex "*@convore.com" (every friggin day)...
I tried doing this for a while, but it doesn't work in 90% of the cases (why is everybody re-inventing email validation!!).
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The other problem is that it is interchangeable with many other jokes of the same flavor, ie, they were buying Facebook private shares, getting into the LinkedIn IPO, et cetera. This is a tip off that even if it's funny it might not be relevant.

See also the South Park critique of Family Guy.

Saying they were doubling down buying shares in Hilton and Motel 6 would at least have been marginally on topic. But still a bit obvious, right?
My recommendations:

* create a github account and start to contribute open source projects

* finally switch from windows to linux and forget about virus

* find a college in one of the English speaking counties and start collect a money for CS education

* stop thinking about job and spend all your time on education

You'll get really good job after college If you will do all this, no need to hurry to become an adult
I actually learned about that one recently as well, but haven't had much luck actually using it to filter. I think my problem stems from not having an accurate record of what services I've used that technique with and which I haven't. :)
It'd be awesome if you set up a system where people can press a button and have you send a killer color printout (for a premium fee)
The best solution I have found is just to use Gmail filters (if you are using Gmail). I have about 20 emails a day that get labeled "useless" and are immediately archived or deleted...

Plus: you can define pretty specific filters (incl. keyword based if you just want to remove certain emails from a certain address/domain, for example containing "upgrade", "marketing", "try", etc)
> I think if Windows shipped with the ability mount an ISO, open a tar file, ssh client, virtual desktops, usable notepad, "Open with" doesn't make you hunt for an exe, drag to resize command windows, dialog boxes you can clip error messages off of, ctrl-a consistently selects all of the text in a field, that might be a start to getting positive support.

No, I bet if it could do all this things, it would get more lawsuits and BS. It's all about Steve Jobs famous distortion field.

Disclaimer: proud mac owner.
And why would anyone want to immediately terminate an instance when you can just stop it instead?
Why would you want passion? The thing you should look for is interest. Passion only means that they don't have the necessary information to tell if what they are doing is reckless or not.
You could work for a European startup which has offices in the US, work for them in Europe for a year and then transfer out on an L1.
Not necessarily,

The hit to confidence in bitcoin might decrease the value of the remaining bitcoins more than the loss of these bitcoins increased it. I suppose we'll have to look at the exchanges...
Interesting. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. We did talk a little bit to a lawyer about the name and he didn't bring anything like this up, I guess time will tell whether or not it will be a concern.
That's actually something we've talked about but haven't worked out the logistics of yet. :)
Sadly, most developers use some sort of ridiculous email validation that doesn't allow the plus sign.

Worse than that, I've encountered several sites and newsletters that allow the plus sign when you sign up, but their unsubscribe URL breaks (presumably due to some escaping/encoding mismatch), preventing you from unsubscribing.
I'm really trying to understand whether grids are relevant to me as a web dev. I've been looking for good boilerplate code for a long time now and haven't been able to extract any from my own work as all the sites I've worked on differ quite significantly.

Why would anyone want presentational classes in their html? The whole point of the semantic/presentational separation of html/css is so that I don't need to touch the html when I want to make a presentational change. This is a backwards step.

Does anyone know of a responsive css framework that doesn't require me to mess with my html?
It is rare these days in my experience - it creates an appropriate separation of concerns to have the management alignment distinct (that can be interpreted to be a Sarbannes Oxley requirement.)

There can be budgeting for specific desk profits in the relative bonus pools decided in IT, but bonus makes up a smaller percentage of developer total comp generally unless you are approaching management.

If you are desk dev and hack Excel and Access for the front office that can help your case in regards bonuses, but this isn't true software development of course.
All of these people are awesome and $1100 is cheap to live with them!! Great place!
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1M & 1 part-time F in one room. 1 M & 1 F in another room. 1 M in a third.

Fourth is open. :)
No, and neither did this guy, Troy, who also called airbnb. I don't think its a good idea to counter with more speculation.
You forget that if they did integrate that stuff they're going to be called out for monopolistic tendencies. There was a massive whinge-fest when Microsoft Security Essentials came out from the AV industry.
For Android, the market can be avoided by just offering the .apk file (e.g. you can self-host the .apk and only share the link with a select group, or if that's not secure enough, require a unique key to unlock the app once it's loaded).

More here: http://www.google.com/search?q=android+sideload+apk

P.S. Has anyone had success developing an Android app with Google's App Inventor tool (http://appinventor.googlelabs.com/about/index.html)?
It does.

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I "made" a very crude treadmill desk a few months ago and I love it. I can comfortably go 2.0-2.5mph while programming and I try to use it for 2-3 hours on most days. Here's a photo:

http://leopolovets.com/img/treadmill_desk.jpg

Basically it's four five-dollar plastic bins on each side of a treadmill, and then a ~2'x4' plank on top. It looks awful but works very well.
This is from my experience in London, I guess NYC might be different due to regulatory concerns.
Yep, the pixelation is something I've noticed all around. Hopefully it will be fixed in 10.7.1.
I don't get why they all invent different naming conventions. We all grew up on 960gs, container_12 and grid_1. It worked well so just extend it. I don't want to have to switch to col_1 end, column_one or fivecol for something so fundamentally simple.
It seems strange to me that you would associate design with the details.

Perhaps details of the aesthetics, but not the details of what's actually happening (i.e. the technical details).

Having said that, I set up an Apple Time Capsule today expecting it to be painful. The hardest thing was remembering my router password to turn the wireless off. I think that's probably a better reason why they get such press - that the user experience is more important than the features.
I'm going to go ahead and assume that EJ has at least as much legal representation as I'd have any time I ended a lease with a significant security deposit, and if you don't think that's reasonable, I don't care; I simply think you're wrong. The world will nonetheless continue turning on its axis.
At the moment even no-fee transactions usually make it onto the block chain as quickly as possible. The ~1 hour (6 block) confirmation time is due to the recipient being cautious that the sender won't try to double-spend the money by rewriting history with lots of computation power. As more time elapses from when the transaction occurred, this becomes harder, and not as a function of your transaction fees.
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The safe option is to use an established government backed currency, I want bitcoin to succeed, but I can't honestly tell people about it without describing it as an incredibly risky investment (right now).

Bitcoin has unique properties in terms of exchanging wealth. If you don't actually need those properties though you probably shouldn't be using bitcoin for anything other than playing with it.
Marking emails as spam willy-nilly can hurt legit companies. I generally only do it if I didn't opt-in, or if they don't provide a one-click unsubscribe or ignore the unsubscribe request. It's good karma to not be a dick.
sounds like the 1 M on his own is over paying...
Yes, it is immoral. It might make it much harder for the sender to send any mails at all, because he's marked in the systems as a spammer.
My side project - http://complainator.com
Hi,

I know this is no startup material. Just little project that I worked on for fun. The reason I am submitting is here is because of honest feedback that hackers typically give (no matter how painful it can be).

I don't expect to make any money on this. The idea came more from real life. Did you ever get into situation when you would like to complain, but would like to stay anonymous? For example your dentist, you really like the service and job they do. It's just that annoying radio station that they play, or personal discussion hygienist had while doing the cleaning etc. I could go on and on here ... Simply you want service to get better without them knowing who is complaining. All you need it email address of complainee.

I know the web interface needs a lot of work - design especially. If there are any suggestions - good themeforest template I would appreciate it. Also, if anybody thinks about helping me out or joining, let me know.

Thanks for your feedback, keep on hacking!

http://complainator.com

T.
That's the crux of it, simply that we should wait for more information before making a rush to judgment, the same reason we have a legal process instead of entering a liability verdict after the first day of media accusations.
Barefoot, since I work at home.
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My apartment in San Francisco was burglarized in a similar manner,without the assistance of AirBnB. I did not develop PTSD. Based off my own experience, I also find that something seems off about EJ's story. I've found the internet's response at least strange as the incident itself.
related: http://www.quora.com/Startups-in-New-York-City/Which-startup...
Why Flash, HTML5 and the ChromeOS are good things for the Linux desktop
Fine if you arrange one but spam emails suggesting you might want to join one are the penis enlargement of business, I get a lot of them for stuff I have no interest in buying.
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