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I grabbed the 64AK4K67XPJ3 promo code. I'm a frequent Markdown user, primarily using Vim to edit my text.

Macchiato is a nice start, but I feel like it needs a fair bit of additional polish and consideration before being worth $20, especially in light of the other options mentioned in the comments. Here are a few things off the top of my head:

1. Links don't seem to be styled at all.

2. You're not parsing multi-paragraph list items properly: All subsequent paragraphs are displayed as code blocks.

3. I can't readily tell if lines are soft or hard wrapped, and the 73-character maximum text width isn't visibly demarcated, which feels a bit awkward. Especially in the full-screen mode.

4. I can't customize the styling at all, and I find Courier New and the gradient on the background to be unpleasantly distracting. I wouldn't be worried about this if the default aesthetics were more to my liking, but then again, you can't please everyone that way. :)

Since you're focusing on Lion, Menlo, introduced in 10.6, might be a more sensible font choice, and I think I'd prefer a lightly textured gradient-free background to the current styling.

5. I recognize that you view the unification of styled and plain text representations as a feature, but it personally doesn't work for me. When I write Markdown, I want to ensure that the plain text representation is legible and stands on its own, and I want to make sure that everything is being parsed correctly so that I can easily publish it for consumption by browsers. For me, mixing the two doesn't serve either purpose well.

For instance, it's difficult to tell if I've properly nested everything when I have an ordered list containing multiple paragraphs per item, possibly interspersed with code blocks and block quotes.

6. I somehow trigged a bug where my editing cursor appeared two lines above where text entry was actually happening.

7. It doesn't help me write Markdown, at all. A few places it would be nice:

7a. Hitting return after writing a list item. I'd like it if a new item was automatically created for me, with one backspace removing the new item but not de-indenting my cursor, and a second backspace actually de-indenting.

7b. Writing links would be easier if Macchiato matched braces for me, and possibly did some magic for [reference style][0] links.

7c. Writing code blocks would be easier if Macchiato maintained the same level of indentation after I hit return on each line, instead of needing me to tap out a bunch of spaces.

7d. I can't tell the difference between a space and a tab when I'm writing.

8. If you're limiting line length to 73 characters, why am I allowed to resize the editing window to be significantly wider than that?

There are plenty of nice touches: The support for auto saving / versions seems great, and I rather like the toggle-able word/character count in the title bar. The core of a great product is definitely there, but it needs some more cultivation.

Hopefully this is helpful and not discouraging! I didn't want to take the promo code without leaving you with some feedback.

[0]: http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax#link
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Perhaps keeping things simple, just a message that says "the card has balance", "no balance in the card", that way we can reduce the abuse
I'm totally out of phase with other hackers. Apple user: 1985-2003. Windows/Linux user: 2003-2011. I just recently (2011) got a MacBook Pro to work on my first ruby project.

I was one of those hackers that stuck with Apple through the 90s. In 1996 I learned how to install netBSD on my mac and in 1997 I installed MkLinux (an Apple sponsored project). I was incredibly excited when Apple announced that it was going to integrate this new (to me) exciting world into the next generation of their operating system. In 2001 I finally got my first machine that was powerful enough to run OSX. But I was a little disappointed. There was no native software, my OS 9 software barely worked and the thing kept breaking. When two power cords broke, the screen broke and the disk drive crashed, I traded for a ThinkPad.
Java isn't the most flexible language. Java is notorious for having over-engineered frameworks and APIs (J2EE). There is lots of unavoidable copy and paste. The newer things that make Java look more modern, lithe and Ruby-like like Spring/Hibernate - don't work well within the power/memory limitations of a mobile device.

And, more importantly, the market isn't just there for Android apps. Not as many people want to code Android. I hate to say it but some of the projects I've been involved on - Android was a "checklist" item - as on 'We're on Android now, too'. I only know a handful of full-time Android developers, but I know many, many people who have quit their jobs and have gone full-time iPhone (contract/product).
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Well, it's not 'lockpicking' in the traditional sense, but they still demonstrated that you can open it just by stabbing a bit of wire into the light. It's absurd in the sense that it actually works.
Spoiled kid ;-)

When I got my first job I had to deal with BASIC in ROM and 6502 assembly. Aztec C on the Apple II was very slow and it wasn't possible to tap the faster routines in ROM because it messed up page zero completely.

Still, I can't complain. I loved the 6502 and the routines built into the Apple II+ ROM were incredibly efficient.
I am not sure your point proves anything. There are a number of reason why that could be so.

The problem with android remains, and these have been bought up a number of times. Why are we all of a sudden ignoring these problems?
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Doing professional iOS development (and hobby projects with the platform), I've been spending a minimum of 8 hours a day in XCode 4 and there are a lot of really big issues. My foremost grievances:

- A bizarre tab design that, despite the ~month I've had to get accustomed to it, is still compromising my efficiency

- An inability to cope with external modification of project files (e.g. update/merge will often break your project configuration unless you quit the app beforehand)

- Project files maintain their own fake directory structure (groups) when in nearly all cases you just want a 1-1 mapping to what you've got on disk.

- There are an abundance of pretty conspicuous UI bugs the Interface Builder component/panel (e.g. UI elements failing to draw)

That said, I'm a big fan of the humorous error dialog I get to see every couple of hours asking me if, after the application's encountered a critical exception, I'd like to "continue" or "crash".
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Byword is like 5 bucks. Not sure how this is going to compete, honestly.
>"He argues that Kaba’s locks claim only to be “access control devices, not high security locks,” and says less than 500 have been sold to government customers."

Haha, he justified the vulnerabilities by stating that few have been sold.

It would be interesting to know where the ~500 locks have been deployed, or, rather, what has supposedly been protected with them.

I think these guys are taking the best possible method of working with Kaba on these vulns, but typical security PR from Kaba is as laughable as HBGary.
Living in Japan here, WHY on earth does this make sense to the "180"?
What about those that want to help but are unable, geographically, to attend?
a nice use case for web apps: making sure the current user is logged in, and / or has permission to access a specific resource. removes a ton of boilerplate for redirecting to the login page or returning a 403. tornado makes use of this with the authenticated decorator.
I think you might be the only person who has given thanks verbally back to the community... good on ya!
> All tech companies have an equal amount of the good and evil in them.

[Citation Needed]
guys this is botnet. reviewing/buying from the bots - do what you want.
and no proofs.
i think this guy will receive his money.
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He says They don’t seem to grasp that one must understand the native environment you’re working in before going ahead and writing a program to run within it.

I thought, or maybe you don't grasp that one need not understand it first, or in many cases, at all.
Your post is missing the main gripe of many developers so far. Which is that there's far more money in iOS land than there is in Android. It's hard for an average game to make more than $100 a week.
Here is a heat map of the location of @ mentions for @jonathanscard, which for the most part is the location of those that have added funds to the card.

http://www.myheatmap.com/maps/b2Pqu0EGSgs=
Since each color is an LED display and can display shapes it'd be cool to use the traffic lights to direct people to detours when a road is closed or over capacity.
An example I have found is rtorrent. There is also https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle, which looks promising, but I haven't used it. My vps provider doesn't provide tap for openvpn to work.
I tried this.sadly all servers are blocked at the ip level. One was working for a week but then that was blocked also.
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We can agree to disagree. I have done both iOS development and Android development on a fair number of high-profile projects.

To clarify, I am saying Android development is harder in the big picture (not just coding, but styling/graphic design/layout). Part of the reason why I believe this (my opinion) is harder is because the tools (Xcode, IB) are so much better for working in a team. Especially, when you have an on-site designer. You can give the designer a XIB file to style and modify to pixel precision. Android's layout editor still has a long way to catch up.

> same design... same visual elements

If you are using the same UX for both apps, you're doing your Android users a disservice. Android is different enough to command its own tweaks.
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I have a 13" MBP but I also have a 23" external monitor. I love Xcode 4. Much better than 3. I have used Visual Studio and currently use Eclipse at work.
Is that a joke? Maybe you don't remember the time before Google existed, but it was much worse.
Yes I think it should sit at the $5 mark.
The design was probably outsorced!
this is such a good thing and i hate to see this go to waste when some capitalist bastard starts selling coffees for half the price using the card.
And this is why people constantly talk about "Silicon Valley of X", but still no-one comes close to Silicon Valley. Its a myth that these internet-scale firms are easy to build. Sure you could build a site that replicates the functionality for a few thousand people, but to make it scale takes a lot more resources that aren't readily available anywhere else on earth.
Did he buy like you recommended?

I've made a hobby of embarrassing myself with recommendations to friends not to buy AAPL.
It's important to distinguish Java the language from Java the framework-encrusted "enterprise" tool. Java as a language isn't so bad. Objective-C and Java each have their own strengths and weaknesses. For example, my Java code dealing with collections is much cleaner than comparable code in Obj-C because I don't have manually box & unbox primitives with incredibly verbose messages.

The JVM also gives you alternatives. Currently none of the non-Java JVM languages is great for Android but Jetbrains' Kotlin project is looking very promising:
http://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/
Apple must not even test their operating systems on their own hardware. That or they released it knowing there was a HUGE bug like this. Either way, pathetic. I used to think their company was so great before they started focusing on iDevice sales and computer build quality dropped through the floor.
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i am still using a 13 inch 2009 mbp. up-ed the RAM to 8gb and it works great with Xcode4!
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Pixel-perfect layouts in Android are harder, but declarative layout makes a lot of things easier. For example, if I need to add one button to a row of buttons in iOS, I have a lot of fiddly tweaking in IB to do. In Android I add one more line to an XML file and I'm done. Need to change the background color and text of all the buttons in your app in iOS? I hope you created them all programmatically. In Android I change a few lines in my style file and I'm done.

iOS's UI stack is clearly pre-web. Android is post-web.
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True, more like XCode using me to increase its install base.
There's some great market research being done for you in the comments! It looks like some of your primary competitors are:

1. Emdee: $Unknown, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foE-dXgTHoU (Not yet fully released)

2. Markdown Editor: Free, http://keshiki.net/markdown-editor/ (Source code available, but no license specified)

3. Marked: $2.99, http://markedapp.com/ (Previewer, not an editor)

4. Byword: $9.99, http://bywordapp.com/

5. iA Writer: $17.99, http://www.iawriter.com/

6. WriteRoom: $24.99, http://hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom
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I don't think you need to be in the US to develop for WP7. It does support other countries. Look at Yalla Apps (http://www.yallaapps.com/) if you are in a country that is not supported.
I develop for iOS/Mac but rarely use it.

I'm surprised to see this one with (currently) almost twice the votes compared to Project management only. If that's your case, what's your workflow?
I wonder, though, if that's their reasoning, or if they'd rather have another complicated layer in place instead. It might just be mimicry - people doing illegal things have hired guns, and it seems to work reasonably well for them - without actually understanding why it works when expensive techniques (which they don't fully comprehend) fail.
I'll take Xcode 4 over the abomination that is VS 2010. It's like VS 2008 but slower and purple.

I do hate the way Xcode 4 does tabs though and it's the one thing that I wish it did like Visual Studio.
As an editor. No project management, no iOS/Mac development. (late addition)
Thanks for the feedback. I agree with most of your points, and this is a great roadmap for me to know what to work on next.
I contributed in order to get people telling my wife (http://twitter.com/#!/raintea) Happy Birthday tomorrow (8/8).

Thought I'd cross-post here for the cause too :)
Ehhh... I am surprisingly unimpressed with this article. I'm an Economist subscriber, but I don't feel like they captured the intricacies of the situation. I know that's a lot to ask for a brief article, but it kind of made them sound like a pro-government bulletin board.
The fact that it's a recurring charge alters the economics. You could probably reduce costs considerably by sending fewer international shipments and distributing locally from there.
What do the logs look like when the door is opened with a mallet though? If the access isn't logged because there was no card swipe, then the last person to access the door could get blamed/framed.
Nope, don't even have to go that far. So long as interest payments as a fraction of tax revenue doesn't increase, debt is sustainable. You can raise tax revenue either directly or by growing the whole economy, so the taxes are the same percentage, but coming out of a larger number.

It's no different than personal finance. If I get a raise and my income goes up by 10% and get a fancier apartment for 5% more, I'm still better off overall because my salary grew at a faster rate than my rent.
...and sometimes that song of yours that you think is so awful turns out to be a chart-topper:

The thing about 'Sweet Child o mine,' it was written in five minutes. It was one of those songs, only three chords. You know that guitar lick Slash does at the beginning? It was kinda like a joke because we thought, 'What is this song? It's gonna be nothing, it'll be filler on the record.' And except that vocal-wise, it's very sweet and sincere, Slash was just messing around when he first wrote that lick.

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No doubt many people do this already. But you shouldn't have to. That technique exists only because DRM has utterly failed to deal with reality.
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You're totally right. Just added. You're the first to note it, so I'm hoping the late addition won't be too prejudicial for that option.
Mayer's quote is a garbled mess to me.
I have seen that over time, when you refactor code and tests that use mocks, its a good idea to take out the mocks and replace them with actual objects. Mocks are important early on because you are just discovering the interfaces but over time, they can be replaced by real objects (this obviously can't be done for third party interactions).

In the end, there is no substitute for integration tests. We make it a point to write integration tests for atleast all happy paths.
As a note I've been developing in Cocoa since 2005, and Android on and off since it come out. Also taught both iOS and Android at the local university. I still prefer iOS and it's tools a whole lot better. Developing for Android isn't bad, it's the development tools.

* installing Xcode is simple, minus the large download. For android I've got to get an IDE, android sdk, plugin for my ide, download platforms needed, create virtual machines (making sure to enable snapshot mode or wait forever on each reboot).

* the iOS simulator is nice and quick, though it gives you false hopes of how fast your app runs sometimes. The Android emulator is slow, almost unbearable at times. I've also gotta make sure I'm on power or my battery drains quick.

* programming for either is about the same in terms of ease or difficulty. Concepts are easy to get. Sometimes I think android is a little bit more straight forward.

* setting up a device to accept a dev build is a few clicks on iOS. On android I've got to enable the device for non market apps, etc on the device itself.

* I still have no clue which market is the best to put Android apps, the fact there is a choice makes everything even more confusing.

* fragmentation, though I've never had any major issues.

I really don't have much against Android as a platform, it's the development tools that drive me away. Apple has everything so it just works.
Quite a beautiful design but I would question the durability of the wood-veneer model. That finish is generally more suited to interior use and would start to look pretty tatty in a couple of years I expect.

That said, I want them for my city immediately.
More likely the STOP will be used to display advertising while people wait. 8-) "McDonalds in 200m"
rescuetime. I put together a simple chrome extension which hijacks the newtab page and shows a biz dashboard + personal rescuetime stats/graphs. nothing gets you back to work harder than seeing that today was only 50% as productive as yesterday.
Also, from a design standpoint, the idea of using LEDs is being challenged - while the designer mentions a lack of snow build-up, the traditional lights do a good job of emitting enough heat to melt snow drift:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34436730/ns/us_news-life/t/energ...

It's not an entirely obvious problem, but one that is being dealt with often in colder climates. Unintended consequences of design.
the process of creation is so strange sometimes.

not only can something that you think is awful be instead widely appreciated, but sometimes what really is awful at an intermediate stage will somehow evolve into something really cool as you massage it further.
I'd sign up but none of the candy listed seems very unique or special, it seems like stuff you could pick up at your local Asian grocery. I think if people had a bit more of an idea what they were actually getting they would be more interested in putting down $. I don't want to pay 4x what I would pay here just so I could say it was 'shipped from Japan'.
This is a really good point. To be fair though, Istanbul gets heavy snow maybe a week or two every year. I do agree with the grandparent on the wood veneer though. I guess they tried to make it look more ancient for the old city area.
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These comments are specifically about the "social network stuff" and my point is that Amazon's "social network" is useless to me because my wife and I are required to share the same Amazon account if we don't want to double purchase Kindle books.

What benefit would stripping the DRM of the books we buy bring us? We can currently read the books on both our Kindles (allows up to 5 devices), we just can't separate our accounts. How would we get our DRM-stripped Kindle books to show up on separate kindle.amazon.com accounts (putting aside the hassle of not being able to just directly download them on our Kindles)?
There must be cheaper ways to get rid of snow than incandescent lightbulbs.
I wonder what's the going rate for a paid tweet mention... they might be getting a good deal at 1$/tweet. (not that it's a bad thing, I'm just curious)
It's definitely buggy (ver. 4.1). In general, save often and you should be OK. It tends to crash on me about once every other day. Apple will probably squash the bugs in due time, but it's definitely less stable than Xcode 3.x was.
Project files maintain their own fake directory structure (groups) when in nearly all cases you just want a 1-1 mapping to what you've got on disk.

I've been using IntellJ for the last few days and was shocked when I tried dragging a file from one folder to another and it just merrily moved it for me. I can also just drop a .png in the right directory and IntelliJ not only adds it to the project, it also registers it as a resource I can refer to directly in code by ID. XCode makes this kind of thing such a pain in the ass.

I've also forgotten how useful a refactoring tool that actually works can be.

XCode is a perfect example of the strengths and weaknesses of the Apple approach. It's more consistent and requires less setup than third-party IDEs, but if you want to bend it a little beyond its comfort point you're SOL and you have no recourse because nobody is dumb enough to challenge Apple on its home turf.