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No one is worried about well educated, literate, healthy, young software engineers. And no one should be.

I don't post here about poverty for my own sake. Anyone here can handle themself.

I'm posting for all the people who are in trouble right now and facing homelessness because software engineers made their job obsolete and they have no money to re-educate, no job, and no government help. It's not right to just say these people deserve what they get and should find their own way out or die or become homeless. Our society is wealthy enough that no one should ever be without the basics.

Anyone who can afford $8000 is not in trouble. A huge portion of the population today cannot. (Also, most people don't have the tremendous unprecedented luxury of being able to make money online.)
The problem with webapps right now is that they look and perform badly.

I just tried to make a multi-touch piano keyboard work in-browser using html5. The only thing that worked was the graphics, since that was a single image! The chances of playing a sound when the user presses a key in any kind of cross-browser way seems shot.

Html has been around for decades and its still not fit for purpose.
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I'm an "idea person": I want to eventually make a game and I only know a smidgeon of (x)html and css. I've asked around several times for suggestions on how/where to start and people here have been kind about the whole thing. But so far, it hasn't gotten me anywhere. I'm sure I can learn. I'm not sure what the issue is. The whole thing annoys me.

I kind of want a basic game of the "rogue-like" variety that I can figure out how to modify/play with as my "sand box". Or I want someone to just basically inject coding into my brain. I don't think that's so unreasonable: The right person/delivery method can make a world of difference. I found ways to teach math to my son with dyscalculia (so he can't crunch numbers but I was fairly good at math once upon a time). So long experience tells me this may be a long shot but not actually "impossible" (and it's possible to increase the odds of getting a long shot -- something I'm kind of skilled at). I just need to figure out where to start/how to reach critical mass. :-/

Having homeschooled my gifted/LD sons, I'm guessing I'm not so different from most "idea people": My brain is wired in a way where code doesn't just jump in there and make happy dances but it doesn't mean I'm stupid and can't learn. I'm tossing myself out as an example to ponder. If you can figure out how to help me help myself, it is probably replicable, at least to some degree.
Some are not on top of the game as much as they might portray themselves. For all he decries the lack of curatorial influence in online streaming sites from DJ-type people, there's a glaring lack of mention of turntable.fm. How does one miss this on the eve of the SF Music Tech Summit on Monday?!
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This is an important point, the users decide the experience of their computers to a great extent, whether they understand what they're doing or not. Which brings up another point, that for web apps to become more popular than native apps, internet connectivity is going to have to get much better everywhere. The average user doesn't like it much when a program they use doesn't work at full functionality because they don't have an internet connection, and they definitely wont like it if they cant access their apps at all.
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Pandora One is pretty cheap and gets rid of the ads.
I submitted this yesterday but the dns was still propagating & it was down for many. Hope that's okay.
What share of the retail PC market is the over $1000 part? 90% of, say, 20% still wouldn't be much.
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Anyone have any insight to using a tool like this over pymongo directly? I find that the nicest thing about mongodb is how flexible it is, and any other type of caching is easily done with redis on the side.
I strongly recommend that you take a few minutes to dig into who tptacek is and where he is coming from, then consider VERY CAREFULLY what your next step really ought to be.

Remember where you are. This is a website where people are encouraged to pour significant fractions of their life savings, and ideally the money of others, into high-risk, high-reward endeavors. If this crowd has this many people yelling at you to stop, in the level of detail and with the level of experience at and openness to this sort of high-risk high-reward activity on tap here, maybe, just maybe, you should listen.

(And I'd class this "high-risk, low reward" personally.)
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The biggest draw for me with native apps is the revenue model. Most users are conditioned to think if it opens in a browser, then it should be free. It really doesn't matter to me if i'm programming in Java, Objective C, or some HTML/Javascript framework... but can I justify spending time without a simple way to charge for my product?

Solve the monetization problem and I guarantee developers will look at web apps more seriously.
Not trying to justify anything, but rather suggesting pretty much all the issues outlined are issues in every major industry, and hence highlighting them as being specific and unusual to the film business is incorrect and unhelpful.

An idea for a movie is a very different thing from a finished script, similar to an idea for a new business is very different than the execution of the new business.

If we applied the "you owe me money because I had the movie idea first" logic to the tech world, facebook owes friendster money because they stole friendster's idea.
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Cost of living. Texas is too big to be homogenous. Austin's pretty "blue". It's also dreary and worn looking.
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It's funny, it's the most Macbook like layout I've ever seen on a PC!
Wouldn't matter, because they'll have their own references as well.

Why does this variable name offend you so much?
money and affordable housing - the usual - oh and no travel for SXSW.
It's not a problem of HTML, but the method you use to construct translation string key names.

If you have `<button>file</button>` and use it in both "[file] a complaint" and "save to a [file]", then you're in trouble indeed.

But you can fix that by adding context to translation keys in the template, e.g. in TAL you can do `<button i18n:translate="'file (verb)'">file</button>`.
Today's C# is much better than its original Java-clone status. I wouldn't brush it aside lightly.
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Now that's not a fair competition! If you drop the requirement for "cogent" and make it equal then I could probably muster something up.
No, because it's not that Chinese DNS servers are returning bogus data, it's that the DNS servers are returning correct data, which is being modified before it gets to you.

You could point your system to Google DNS (assuming for a moment that it isn't blocked, which it is), but then your DNS results would still be twiddled in transit.
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I have a feeling that Dart may be some version of Bracha's Newspeak. If you read his blog post on Javascript's failings, you'll see him talk about how they are already trying hard to have Newspeak fill the gap:

http://gbracha.blogspot.com/2011/03/truthiness-is-out-there....

There is also an uncanny link between the features Dart highlights -- security, optional typing, modularity -- and Newspeak. The timing of Newspeak development and Google's Dart also coincide perfectly. The blog post talks about a Javascript compiler, pluggable type system, IDE (Brightly?) all being in the works.

Newspeak's pluggable type system sounds similar to what is known about Dart. For instance,

http://bracha.org/newspeak.pdf

> We also intend to extend Newspeak with an optional type system and a framework for pluggable types , enabling the language to enjoy most benefits of static type systems without incurring their limitations.

It also seems like a smart engineering choice to base whatever Dart is heavily on some proven language, even if there is a new VM. Given that Newspeak is Bracha's most recent attempt and it's goals are so well aligned, it's hard to imagine he'd start from scratch.
Maybe it's just me but I wasn't aware about Twitter's direct message feature so to me this seemed like I would shout out which domains I was about to register. But then again I don't use Twitter that much.
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This seems counter-intuitive, I thought the competition for hiring in the valley was already too high.

Isn't the benefit of being outside the valley cost of living and human capital?
HTML5 has a bunch of features[1] just for that—providing the same experience whether you're on or offline.

[1] http://diveintohtml5.org/offline.html
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Here is my thought process when it comes to the issue.

1. What problem am I trying to solve?

2. Which technology choice provides the best solution to the problem and the best UX? Which one does the user prefer?

3. Implement it.

That said, the author of this post is absolutely right in regards to the browser being a limited cross-platform solution available everywhere vs native apps being specialized solutions for a given platform.

Even developing the client side of a web app in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript so that it's fast and it works in most browsers is still more complicated and tedious than anything you experience when building native applications.

There are two main advantages to web applications, though:

* A potentially larger audience (addressed in the post).

* The ease with which users accept to pay a recurring monthly fee. It can be emulated via in-app subscriptions, but let's face it, it's less common and/or accepted by users.
Good point. I should add a sentence or two on the Tweetname site to help out people who don't know how that all works. Thx.
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I hear China has a 20% Apple tax, as they are classified as luxury goods. Also, RMB -> US$ is 6.5:1, so assuming that the price is in US$, Apple products cost 6.5 times more from an economic standpoint. I hear that apartments in Beijing are 2000-4000 RMB/month. A MacBook Air at $999 is about 6500 RMB, so that's 1.5 to 3 months' rent (plus the 20% luxury tax). $1000 is probably not anywhere near 3 months' rent for us.

So I don't think it's the looks. If a MacBook Air were priced at 2000 RMB, I bet they'd be really successful in the largest Asian market.
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Is it possible for Dropbox to update in any way that could let them read it? I'm not sure what you're worried about.
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I realize that this is only one person's experience, but his description of what is 'wrong' with Pandora happens to be exactly why I like it so much. His argument is that "Pandora didn’t solve the real problem – the lack of a human DJ" and yet this is exactly what Pandora does for me better than any other music service I've tried - it picks out a playlist of amazing songs that I've never heard of, but which 99% of the time I like. On top of this, I constantly get compliments from my friends on how cool my music is, though it's hard for me to take any credit -- all I do is press the thumbs up button in my Pandora app. To me this is also a feature -- I don't have to spend hours scouring music stores (real or virtual) for cool music, and then spend more hours constructing the perfect playlists; Pandora does this all for me, better than I ever could, in less time, and for free! (I actually pay for the ad-free service).

My FM radio experience consisted primarily of Z100 in the mid-late 90's, so maybe I never really got to experience a 'truly great DJ' in comparison to whom Pandora would seem like a pale imitation, but the fact is that those DJ's can only ever be the exception to the rule. However I do think he's right that the other streaming music services have little to offer (notice how he leaves Pandora out of that list), they have the basically the same music and basically the same service offering. And they do precious little to actually improve circumstances for the music artists themselves.

In contrast, I think Pandora probably does the most of any of these services for the artists themselves, despite the author's argument that it's profit model is primarily about advertising and branding. The key here is the technology -- the Music Genome Project, which the author dismisses right at the start, really does improve discoverability for musicians, as it analyzes and recommends music (and hence artists) not based on whether the artists are or are not subjectively cool-and-trendy (which, let's face it, is how the mainstream music business works), but rather on the actual qualities of the music, and it can then compare that to an individual listener's historical music preferences. If this were the primary mechanism of the music industry (and on the merits, why should it not be?) I imagine it would really free artists up to spend as much time as possible on making the coolest and most awesome music they can come up with, and save them a whole lot of money on things like PR, etc., which has little to do with music itself.
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That just means that if you already had Google Docs open, you'll be able to keep typing away and it'll commit the changes when it gets a network connection again. It doesn't mean you can access your Google Docs (i.e. open up Chrome and type "docs.google.com" and expect anything to happen) without a network connection.
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Did you not launch this last year, i'm sure I have seen it before
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I think the developer ought to explain why some of the code is unnecessarily minified, e.g., https://raw.github.com/xpressyoo/gmelius/master/Google%20Chr...

Extension source code ought not be minified. It is local, so you're not saving any time by making the file smaller. It is open source, so it ought to be liberally commented, not obscured.

Does this source have a distribution license? I get annoying every time I see a project on GH without a license, it ought to be compulsory.
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" The zero-sum-game hurts the overall tech community, so we've decided to come together to seek out new additions to Austin to help us all grow"

It's not a zero sum game. Every individual will produce a different amount of value depending on the position they are in.
Funny how everything goes 3D these days.

Cinemas, TV sets, handheld consoles, and now even our CPUs.
I moved from reasonably liberal parts of Illinois/Wisconsin to Dallas/Fort Worth about three years ago... I wouldn't recommend this.

When I decided to move from DFW to start a company I looked at Portland, Boston, San Francisco, and Austin. Austin made sense, financially. Texas has no state income tax (unfortunately the social services reflect this), jobs, and the cost of living is a fraction of what it is in other cities of its size. Also, winter is just another word for January here.

Unfortunately, Austin is still a reasonably small town surrounded by Texas.

I wouldn't have come here if I wasn't trying to sack away money in a town with a reasonable selection of 24-hour cafes and restaurants. While I know a few SF->Austin transplants who love it here, I'd rather be in San Francisco.
Exactly what I was going to say! Calif is a terrible place to go and scout out talent, unless they're also trying to raise visibility in the same shot.

I'd suggest they go to the east coast instead.
If I place a short-sell order, who am I actually selling to? Do you have a huge reserve of bitcoins which you use to make the corresponding trade in the bitcoin market? If not, you are effectively on the other side of my short sell order. That the current set of trades you've brokered balances out is fortuitous, but likely ephemeral. Do you have automation which will stop trading if the set of trades goes out of balance?

Having my broker also be my trading partner is a bit of an uncomfortable position to be in. If I score a huge upside, you would have a strong incentive to just disappear.
> It doesn't matter what you, as a dev, prefers or envisions. It's about what the user wants.

That's a nice theory. Here's the reality:

1) Client wants to build 4 native apps for Android, iPhone, iPad, Blackberry, WinMo7.

2) Client is in sticker shock that it will cost $100k+ to roll out

3) Client does a bit of googling, drawn like a deer in headlights to the Titanium showcase page

4) Client ditches native apps, goes the Titanium route because it's cheaper, doesn't realize that most of those are funded directly or indirectly by Titanium

5) Client fails to monetize application because users think it sucks.

6) Chalks it up to "the market isn't ready", repeat from step 1.

This story is roughly 75% of the mobile contracting market by volume, although for obvious reasons <1% in terms of app sales. It comes up a lot in enterprise mobile dev as well.

The moral of the story is that it's much easier to focus on the upfront development cost and ignore the unquantifiable murky cost of ending up with a bad product. It's the same thought process behind e.g. credit card debt--present pleasure for future pain is easy to rationalize.
I don't think this makes sense... I'm from MN and made a recent trip to the Bay area where all the local startups were clamoring over me. Meanwhile back in the midwest, I have to actively market myself to attract any attention. If you're really looking for untapped talent, go where nobody else is looking.
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Popular music has a similar dynamic. The studio model is to grab a bunch of likely artists, get them in front of the public and see which ones get traction.

This has been changing in recent years and is becoming less and less true as more companies start to import the Japanese pop music model.

In Japan, for the past 30 or so years, they've churned out cookie-cutter idols in a machine-like fashion. They don't pick a person who'd make a good idol -- they design an idol that would appeal to their target demographic, and then they find a person to, effectively, act out the role. Musical talent is largely irrelevant: if they can't sing, just pile on the Autotune and vocal filters, or even use a vocal double. And after a few years, when their idol isn't cool anymore, ditch the old idol and find a new one.

The idols are so fake and inhuman that when AKB48, as a publicity stunt, announced an "idol" that was later revealed to be a computer-rendering instead of a "real" person, it didn't really seem any less real than the current idols, and surprised hardly anyone.

The companies that do this have very high success rates: when they put millions of dollars into marketing an idol, their idol becomes popular. And then they make billions. Why have a guessing game of whether your band will match the demographic when you can design a band to do so?

This model has already existed in the West with boy/girl bands and such. Disney is probably the biggest company trying to pull this model off today, with machine-created "stars" like Miley Cyrus.
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It is happening. It is just taking some time. People only recently got the cheap, high-quality movie cameras, and the experience level is still building up from the amateur phase. But some links to hit:

http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/ , especially their bigger stuff

http://www.youtube.com/user/freddiew

Some good stuff is being produced by "amateurs", but it takes time to build up the skill and knowledge base. Work is mostly in the 10-20 minute range and a lot of bootstrapping off of other content ("reviews" of "real media" are a common format), but slowly-but-surely the confidence is increasing and more original large-scale work is being done.
Yeah, and I'm not denying that. My point is that if a product is released just to see whether it gains traction without ideal execution, then how can you know whether it was the faulty execution that led to failure? Maybe if the user were more intrigued from the beginning with better execution, better traction could be achieved.
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Can't say it ever makes sense to remove the ads that a free site uses to make revenue
The bug at Christmas actually happened the year before too, and it was hell for a lot of developers when the same bug happened again last year.

But I guess you learn to get used to it.
Yes and no. I launched it many years ago, before Twitter went oAuth-only. User login was always oAuth, but the process that sent tweets like "success!" were not. So some of the site was broken, and the design sucked. I fixed those things, and added a bunch of other things this week.

So I guess you could say it's v2.0.
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"Apple did not want to allow native apps on the iPhone, and was pushed into it by the overwhelming strength of the jailbreak community. People wanted the better user experience provided by native apps, and if Apple wouldn't allow it, they would do it themselves."

Maybe I'm ignorant.. but how is this true? Apple could have NOT release the API for creating iPhone apps, and there wouldn't be any iPhone apps. You can crack, jailbreak, hack, and hax0r all you want. No API, no native app.