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Man, I'd be really wary of trying this, even if I knew most programmers hated Xcode. I don't think you could find a worse platform to build dev tools for than Apple's.

For one thing, it's awfully complicated: think about stuff like the iPhone simulator. For another, Mac users are notoriously finicky. Personally, if you came up with an alternative that was great in almost every way, but was as graphically ugly as Eclipse, then I wouldn't switch. I'm kind of sad that years of Mac use has made me care about this kind of thing, but there you go.

Finally: Codewarrior. When Apple made the switch to x86, the Codewarrior guys decided that was one sea change too many, and gave up the fight. On the other hand, you could argue that that project was mismanaged for many years before that, and was likely to topple sooner or later.
Where is text sized across the entire screen? There is text across the screen in the linked blog, but it's broken into distinct blocks.
Perhaps this is why Apple's Ping also failed - many legitimate buyer accounts are "small buyer groups" and do not represent individuals?
<i>Issuing currency is identically equal to inflation</i> No. There is demand pull inflation and cost push inflation. If you remember from econ, inflation or price level is the intersection of supply and demand curves. Since demand and supply are not constant, it is possible to issue greater amounts of currency in the face of greater amounts of supply and still see prices decline if the increase in supply outweighs the increase in demand from issuing more currency. What you are referring to is a gold standard or fixed exchange regime concept(this is what Austrians advocate). In a gold standard, money is a receipt for a piece of gold sitting in a vault. So issuing more money without increasing the supply of gold dilutes the value of money in terms of gold. In fact, this is where the term printing money comes from in the first place. This is not applicable in a fiat currency regime. In a fiat money regime, you can give everyone a million dollars tomorrow and if they don't spend it, there is no inflation. No such thing as printing money in a fiat money regime. All money is created and destroyed in the same way. There is no magical level where money goes from not being printed to being printed in fiat.

<i>continually increasing deficit and debt is unsustainable.</i> Yes but you have to have a model to tell you when to stop increasing deficits and arbitrary numbers like 10 Trillion or 4 Trillion don't mean dick.
With modern money, the size of the deficit is equal to the savings of the private sector. Paying off the deficit decreases savings to the private sector which either leads to a recession or credit bubble ( to make up for the lost money.) Deficits need to be targeted based upon the level of inflation and unemployment in the economy that policy makers wish to achieve. Obama cannot on the one hand call for "fixing the deficit problem" while on the other hand calling for more jobs. The two are pretty much antithetical.
First of all, it's important to separate the actual quality of something from whatever trendiness Hollywood/Madison Ave bestows upon it.

Second of all, startups on average are chasing trends much more than actual traceurs are.
Poll: Greatest productivity app on Mac?
Just out of interest, I would like to know what applications/tools that people use on Mac to be productive.
I'm particularly keen on reading responses about To-Do lists app.

The best ones i've seen are:
Things, Omnifocus, Wunderlist, The Hit List and Evernote.
Firefox is my productivity app.
I think a good place to start would be making a vim binding for xcode. Realistically its very difficult to escape the xcode ecosystem, however vim bindings would probably be enough to make it great.
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"to meet macports dependencies" has gotta be on the list!
Only IB is lacking in useful I find.
Xcode, overall, is quite a formidable IDE.

I also use Eclipse for my Java development but it feels like a shell with plug-ins carrying it whereas Xcode feels.... whole, all on its own.
It still has room to grow and if the past is any indication it will.
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I'm on a 2007 MBP and have no such problems.
Terminal, DTerm, Quicksilver and Macchiato[1].

[1]: Yours truly wrote a Markdown editor, which I use to write pretty much everything. See my Show HN post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858412
^ Option 4: "I don't"
Contrary to much received wisdom on the subject, I don't think that stock Android is significantly less user-friendly than iOS. But requiring users to be savvy enough to strip off carrier crapware is asking too much.

Consensus is powerful. Consistency is powerful. Google has to walk a fine line here but if they don't rein in the carriers soon I worry that Apple's discipline in design & execution is going to overwhelm them. I'm a little suspicious of recent claims that Android return rates are as high as 40% but I don't doubt that they're too high.
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This would make me _so_ happy. There used to be an InputManager hack that could give you Vim bindings in all Cocoa apps, but alas that no longer works. Sometimes I wished I'd learned EMACS instead so that I could reasonable expect key-bindings in non-console apps.
What resources are there available, or how does someone start getting into the demoscene? Are there any good websites or books for a complete beginner?
I use it as the bootstrap step for Homebrew and RVM and other things that depend on GCC then I ignore it.
Klein is pretty funny.

Have a look at The Economist's blog that did a round up of reviews of the Shock Doctrine:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2007/10/naomi_kl...

I remember reading 'No Logo' and wondering why on earth a book about how 'teh evil capitalists' exploit people would pick MS an example of an exploitative company. MS, afterall, has made thousands of millionaires out its employees. Then she goes on further to cite South Korea as an example of how terrible capitalism is because low skill production is moving elsewhere not realising that South Korea is one of the countries you do not mention if you want to talk about how capitalism is evil as it is a stunning success of wealth increase.

The Economist's own review of her earlier work that states:

"Ms Klein's harshest critics must allow that, for an angry adolescent, she writes rather well. It takes journalistic skill of a high order to write page after page of engaging blather, so totally devoid of substance. What a pity she has turned her talents as a writer to a cause that can only harm the people she claims to care most about. But perhaps it is just a phase."

is probably the sharpest criticism of all.
Do you mean that you find XCode 4 responsive? Compared to XCode 3? This isn't stopping me from getting work done but it's very sluggish compared to XCode 3 or even IntelliJ.

Running it as a 32-bit app seems to have helped a bit.
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Some people forget that contrast doesn't just mean an arbitrary amount of distance between two colors on the spectrum. Cognitive contrast is important, and brown + black makes for unpleasant reading.
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Xcode 4 is so incredibly slow for me, I edit my code in TextWrangler and limit myself to testing with Xcode.
Yeah I think this is a losing proposition, just like trying to compete with iTunes on the Mac. The Jetbrains guys may find a niche here with their Objective-C IDE, but they've already done so much of the groundwork that it's much less risky for them.
heh, exactly. I said macports, but yeah. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2858413
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Jetbrains is making a go at it:

http://www.jetbrains.com/objc/

The killer app for this will be that you can install their VIM plugin, so you get VIM bindings inside of a first-class Obj-C IDE.
Are you using the new disk-wide FileVault in Lion? I had to turn that off because it was making MacVim and XCode both run horribly slow (apparently they both write to disk constantly).
> https://github.com/kennethreitz/osx-gcc-installer

That looks very good, especially for my disk space constrained 128GB 11" Air. I don't need XCode on it, but I do need gcc and friends if I want to build things with homebrew for development on the road.

Saving 4GB+ of disk space is of huge benefit to me.
I'm not sure how this poll is intended to inform your plans. I use Xcode for everything, but I would also be willing to pay large quantities of your currency of preference for something better. Xcode is the canonical all-in-one tool for me, but this is not because it's good, only because there's no real alternative.
This is the reason I've never become a Vim user. My emacs muscle memory can translate directly into almost any other editor with five minutes of configuration (less on a Mac). But hacking modality into a non-Vim editor is serious work.
Come on, you know it's true. Ever since 4chan invented the DDoS in 2007, the Web has been struggling just to survive.
I think there's something wrong with your system... I was running XCode 4 on a 2006 Macbook (the one with a Core Duo processor), and it worked fairly well. Not as well as my 2011 MBP but it was still usable.
I am using Lion's whole-disk encryption but it was also really slow in Snow Leopard for me without FileVault.
It's usable. It's just annoyingly slow. I'm still getting work done but it feels like swimming upstream.
Regarding CodeWarrior, the project was definitely on life support for years beforehand, as they never really put their weight behind the transition to OS X. Regarding the x86 transition, they probably wanted out by that point but they really had no choice, as they had sold their x86 compiler tech (IIRC to Nokia) just a couple of months before.
I was the last class in my CS/CompEng college to go through the program learning C as a core language for teaching. I had to tutor operating systems to classes a year after me that had learn mostly java. There was a definite loss of understanding of what was going on under the hood. Blank stares on questions on calling conventions and where variables are stored, let alone virtual memory.
I still wonder how those students can write efficient higher level code if they don't at least have a general understand what happens in lower levels.
A good example of this is choosing a web framework in python. In a previous job I had co-workers that wanted to combine an async framework with a synchronous DB API, in a single thread, and expected high performance.
I have it because I have to, and I close it whenever it opens.
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I think it MIGHT be worth it for some specialized niche that isn't covered yet, but yeah I've tried several Rails-oriented IDEs like RubyMine, etc. and nothing really "feels" right compared to XCode. For some reason, using Eclipse doesn't really bug me that much on Windows, but on OS X it's just really frustrating.

I'd argue that it would be very difficult to make a better XCode or a better vim, but there's probably room for a better TextMate or "XCode for ____".
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I've been writing iOS apps for about 8 months now and recently started writing some simple Android apps to get a feel for it. Maybe things get worse with more complicated apps, but I'm actually finding so far that Android makes the easier things easier than iOS.
Loved it before Xcode 4, not hate it with a passion. Sure, I am willing to get used to the different way it works, but the fact I can no longer drag files from other projects makes it almost worthless to me.
I'm branch mining at the bedrock right now, finding about 1 diamond for every 2 iron. Of course, I'm finding very little iron.
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How about someone buying a coffeemaker (they sell those) and telling the clerk "I've got $100 on the card and I'll pay the rest in cash"?
Regarding the for loop, it's not magic either. "For comprehensions" in Scala are a wonderful syntax sugar that can look like familiar "for loops" for Java folk, or familiar "do loops" for Haskell folk depending on how you use them.
But they always desugar to flatMap/map/withFilter method calls that you could have written yourself -- there is nothing "special" about them in that regard.
Quicksilver, Evernote, SelfControl, and Terminal. On the web app side of it, I turn to Google (Gmail, Docs, Calendar), and Remember the Milk.
I really like the web page. I can't comment on the app, because there's no way to try it without shelling out $20.
You really need 8 GB of RAM to make it dealable.
$20 is a hard "check out."

It looks cool though
This might be a long shot, but try deleting the project.xcworkspace directory for your project. I've heard doing that can speed things up.
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A government that can react to real crises while being vulnerable to fake ones is the best option I've seen so far. People are very creative when it comes to working around problems. Some people see data processing efficiency as a problem to solve. Others see finding ways to manipulate government for profit as one.
Clever phishing attack using the BBC News URL
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Personally had no Xcode4 performance issues on 2010 MBP. Seems quite snappy to me (not running filevault though so YMMV...)
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I'm very sorry, but I can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.

(edit for reply) I'm asking if you're serious that the Web is struggling to survive? And I guess if you are, can you elaborate in any way?
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Think it's going to be tough to compete on price with: http://markedapp.com/
Wondering how this will stack up to emdee.app (still in development).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foE-dXgTHoU
Personally, I think Ping failed because Apple threw a party and no one cared.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/-/ automatically redirects to any site it's prefixed before.
With all due respect to the developer who wrote this post, standalone apps are relatively easy - you start jumping into the rabbit hole when you start getting into server API integration and doing processing off the main thread (AsyncTask, IntentService, Service, unit tests lions tigers oh my), layouts that don't suck, and custom animations... Making an Android app look sexy/good is an art in itself that I am still trying to learn.

At a certain point of app complexity, writing an Android app becomes less about writing an Android app and more about writing a well-structured, async/decoupled and performant app in Java.

Why is iPhone development relatively easy? Well, for one thing, the territory is well trodden. And it is based on the beautiful foundational framework of Cocoa, which has its roots in NeXTSTEP. Cocoa masters have been able to switch to iOS and tell people/show people how to code properly. Cocoa has been around for a while; the Android SDK is a WIP (but it has come a long, long way since Cupcake). Also, Java lacks compiler-level support for/doesn't have blocks and categories (two of the things that make Objective-C a joy). And, love it or hate it, you will start to miss CoreData when you don't have anything near equivalent on Android.

Some of my favorite resources for learning Android:

The best book for the money (frequently updated, author has huge SO reputation)

http://commonsware.com/Android/

Reto Meier's blog

http://blog.radioactiveyak.com/

Styling Android blog

http://blog.stylingandroid.com

Android UI Patterns

http://androiduipatterns.com

The Google source (note, not all code is pretty but it shows one way of getting things done).

Android is known for its flexibility, power, and customization. There are many ways to setup/do things, some good, some bad. That just doesn't apply to the end user's experience but to developing apps for it.
On further thought, it's possible I jumped the gun on this and that my phone contacts weren't actually taken without consent- my memory is imperfect.

That said, my opinion on facebook's attitude towards me and my privacy is unchanged. It's easy to get jumpy when a company disregards your privacy at every turn. Had this been on google (for example), I'm pretty sure I would not have jumped so quickly to what was probably an incorrect conclusion. But it was fb, who has repeatedly disregarded my wishes and abused my trust to the point where I literally treat everything I put on it as public.
Is that not right? Was it 2006?

Edit: ;) added to comply with Poe's Law.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poes_law
Woah, this made front-page!

I realize the price is kind of prohibitive to just check out. I wish the App Store would let me give a massive discount coupon for HN readers. Turns out that for the niche market I'm targeting, this is just about the right price, though.

I'm working on making a downloadable trial version. However, for the time being I have some extra promo codes I can give out. First come first served:

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I'm open to all feedback! Thanks!
Seriously! Brian Hall wrote essentially 5 paragraphs of word vomit that seemed somewhat indistinguishable from a Markov model trained on a bunch of phrases about Google combined with some conspiracy theory websites. I was /shocked/ to see John Gruber posting it as an example of something insightful to read. From then on the tech-press echo-chamber went into full effect.
Maybe eight months of experience isn't enough to judge it fairly, but I think Cocoa's almost mystical reputation is somewhat inflated. If you compare Cocoa Touch to Cocoa on the Mac you can see that Cocoa Touch is a much cleaner, simpler and more consistent version of Cocoa. There is still room for improvement.

It's a testament to the skills of the original authors of Objective-C that a 1989 technology is still competitive in 2011, but we've learned a lot about language and UI framework design since then.
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I tried to avoid the XCode 4 download when I upgraded to Lion and I used this, but it didn't solve my problem. Imagemagick wasn't working after the upgrade (installed using homebrew and it kept linking to an old version of libpng). I had to bite the bullet and download XCode 4 and everything worked.
(OP here.) I agree with you on most points, but I don't know how you'd write a graphical game without dealing with asynchronous operations. For example, this app uses an extended SurfaceView (uses its own thread to draw), timers to handle move animation, and AsyncTasks to perform computer AI turns and implement a hack that makes Toasts last longer. Otherwise the UI would be clunky and give a "not responding" message whenever it wasn't your turn.

I would say that graphical games are a step above the simple "standalone app" you mention.
> you start jumping into the rabbit hole when you start getting into server API integration and doing processing off the main thread (AsyncTask, IntentService, Service, unit tests lions tigers oh my)

Yes, the first thing to learn is concurrent programming in Java, and Android's classes that simplify it.

Then learn about components - everything that implements the ComponentCallbacks interface - and how lifecycles work. If you skip over this you are doomed.

Then learn how to keep your data model in a ContentProvider.

After that, you are through most of what is different and that might be strange.
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That's pretty cool. I wonder if I could get away with using this at $work...

Not to mention, one could alter the implementation to remove the inconsistency people are complaining about in Python.
Heh, I guess anonymous doesn't like me calling their job "robot work" :P
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Agreed. Also, mobile devices tend to suck at floating point (no floating point unit in ARM cpus), and IOS will kill your app if it is memory hog.
Congrats on the release Kenneth, it looks really great.
The most significant design decision (and something that I think is a major feature over Emdee and Marked (mentioned in another comment) is that there is no distinction between preview and editing modes / views. Your code is stylized as the Markdown it represents, and that's the fundamental idea behind Macchiato.
I haven't tried this yet, but it's on my list of things to do.

Jailbreak your Iphone, and get NodeJS working on it:

https://tootallnate.net/nodejs-on-ios

That device could then become the host for both browsers, the local Safari, and any other device on the network. Or true peer-to-peer could be accomplished by getting NodeJS instances on two iOS devices talk directly to eachother.
I've got no issues with xcode4 as such, however it has made some significant changes under the hood from xcode3.

My problem is it seems quite a few libs & frameworks I use for iOS are designed for xcode3 & tend to be break in xcode4 without significant tweaking & hair-pulling.

But hey, plugin frameworks & project templates are for wimps anyway ;)
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inflation or price level is the intersection of supply and demand curves

As I understand your claim, you seem to be regarding the entire market as a single monolithic commodity -- a common Keynesian error.

Sure, the prices of discrete commodities fluctuate as their quantities supplied and demanded fluctuate. That's not at all the same thing as devaluation of the currency due to increase in the money supply.

That said, there's a good deal of controversy over the effect of wages (whose price tends to be sticky, preventing "proper" adjustment for supply/demand). Thus, even Austrians think that a moderate level of inflation is good, because it acts as a hidden throttle on the effect of wage increases.
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Move up a bit. Ore concentration isn't all the high right at the bedrock level. Typically, layers 11-16 is where you want to be.
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Nice work. Would be great if unordered and ordered lists were stylized.
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Michael Crichton comes to mind too.
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