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There are three painfully obvious reasons Android apps do not look as good as iOS apps. iOS has UIKit and Android has fragmentation along with a myriad of devices with different resolutions.

1. UIKit - Apple made it easy for developers to implement consistent navigation, views, and transitions. Android Ice Cream Sandwich is providing a new UI library which will bring this much needed iOS advantage to Android. Is it possible to mimic UIKit on the current Android devices? Yes, but it's a pain in the ass and not practical for most developers on a deadline.

2. Fragmentation - Device Android version lock has caused problems with development. You are only as strong as your weakest link which unfortunately rings true with some developers who choose to develop on an older version of Android to remain compatible with as many devices as possible. Google has addressed this issue by obtaining agreements from many manufacturers to update their devices on a consistent basis.

3. Screen Resolution - Any web developer will tell you it's much easier to create a beautiful and consistent website if the site is fixed width. This is especially true for mobile development because you dont have to concern yourself with repeating tiles, resolution detection, and adjustable spacing when you know the exact dimensions of the device. There are only 2 iOS resolutions (not counting retina) making it easy to utilize space and perfect the UI in the most efficient way possible. Can it be done on Android? Sure, but without a UIKit to handle many of the little nuances it will yet again be a big pain in the ass and will take up time that the developer does not have.
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They will remain quite glad unless the Greek authorities decide to freeze all of their accounts and then summarily convert them into something (maybe "new Drachma") with considerably less value the way that Argentina did in 2001-2002.

I would personally be moving my money to a bank somewhere beyond the reach of the Greek government if I were them.
Unix is just an example. Doing something non-trivial in Windows is usually even more complicated and involves a good amount of black magic. The post is about how tool complexity vastly exceeds complexity of the problems those tools solve.

Because we'd rather just bull through and get things done than spend an infinite
amount of time fixing something that isn't fixable.

This is a lie. Most developers don't even try to make things simple, and then say it's an unfixable issues to give themselves an excuse. I see this happen pretty much every day. Yes, simple is hard. Yes, designing simple systems requires doing more work, and sometimes re-doing your old work, but it does not require "infinite amount of time". It's perfectly doable, and there is return on investment in the long run, unless you're solving fake problems in the first place.
I think that is a great idea; as jconley pointed out, the YC app is first and foremost a great way to deep-think about your startup and how you'll be successful. Any time spent understanding the reasoning behind the questions and how to concisely what you're building can only improve your company.
Of course you don't need phenomenal growth. Most of the best companies we've funded didn't have it when they applied.

Looking for YC cos in small markets could be misleading. By the time you know they're YC cos, they've been exposed to YC and so would have been encouraged to reconsider their market if they were in a bad one. There may be some that are still in what seem to be small markets, but if so that's probably because they're in the Altair Basic phase.
I remember this as well. Found a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFclEc4sCUo
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Anyone else suddenly reminded of that Windows 95 easter egg?
You always have a chance, but certain things will definitely improve your odds. If you don't have the users/revenue, focus on your market size. Without either of those, showcase your amazing team. If you don't have an amazing team...spend 6 months locked in a basement coding, and become an amazing team.

Browse through http://yclist.com/ to see if any companies were small-market. Version 1 doesn't have to cater to a giant market, but you should have a plan to get there eventually (and be able to concisely express your plan).
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I stumbled upon another well-known Dropbox easter egg last week: http://duzour.tumblr.com/post/10499147971/dropbox-is-so-awes...
Functionality currently seems to be zero - it has no useful information.

The design is not working well for me, if I had to say one thing that would be make it simpler, in every aspect.
Thanks for pointing that out; I meant to include it at the end and completely forgot. In there now!
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>Under Windows, also "Small fonts" and "Large fonts", which changed size of controls, but not bitmaps.

It's worth pointing out that the large font option basically breaks Windows applications, including MS Office.
One may comment about where they live by calling it "my apartment complex", for example, even though they merely rent a single unit rather than own the entire complex. I think that's the same verbal construction as here.
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The serial consoles won't work if the parent poster removes all local accounts and goes 'LDAP only'.

Unless I've misunderstood something about that. It happens.

We do the redundant Active Directory thing. It didn't help during the DR exercise when the AD guy did something foolish (don't remember what) and the AD / DNS host went down for a few hours.

Single host because the DR was limited in scope.

I was fine with my Solaris hosts - had local root access via serial and SSH. I was simply locked out of my Windows hosts, and could not reconfigure those services to work without AD.
Start the 4/1 (or whatever makes sense - you don't have to cargo cult it) vesting schedule for each founder on the date they started working on it (credit for time served). You'll likely have to revisit this later when you involve investors anyway. Just be sure not to give anyone a lot of stock just to watch them walk away after a few months.
> I've never heard a serious, mainstream economist propose it.

Jim Grant has been calling for a return to the gold standard. He is the publisher of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, which is a very serious publication widely followed by professional investors.

http://online.barrons.com/article/SB500014240527023033924045...
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I love the homage to the Win 95 easter egg.
This one's exclusively browser based.
I'm not sure that there is any due process issue here. He was killed on the battlefield. I believe there was several instances of this happening in WW2 in Europe. Yes, the american citizens weren't directly targeted in WW2, but there wasn't really much in the way of directly targeting anyone in WW2. In the new world where we target individuals in war, it was only a matter of time before an american national was found on the battlefield to be fighting against his or her own country. He should have expected to have the same amount of attention as any other AQ operative.
However, if he was given more attention or captured and executed without trial, we would have a different conversation on our hands. But again, this my personal opinion.
Seems buggy to me; it doesn't register my like and unlike very well.
Pretty hard to believe that this is inadvertent. (That MS Security Essentials started falsely identifying Chrome as malware and deleting it, I mean.)
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It surprises me that they aren't using WebSockets for this. That page fired off over 200 AJAX requests in a single minute.
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I think it's a mistake to tie the shard id into the object id. Shard id should be derived from the object id dynamically based on the placement of the object among the shards. If the shards grow or shrink or object migrated, a different shard id is generated, but the object id doesn't have to change.

Edit: I like how constructive criticism got downvoted. Thanks for discouraging technical discussion.
Kind of a funny example: During my last few semesters at college I operated a textbook buyback service and experimented with facebook advertising. The one ad I put up that got me a ton of likes and positive feedback was just a small picture of a bottle of this cheap brand of vodka that happened to be popular at this party school with the text "get money for the weekend" or something. It just linked to a page where I would put up a pictures of textbooks with a caption of how much I paid for it.

This could probably be profitable for anyone if you're at a big school with a decent amount of friends.
Vim very easily allows me to use tabs for indentation and spaces for alignment...

"Using tabs simply does not work in practice."

Outside of the python community, "tabs for indentation, space for alignment" is quite common. Many people use it in practice, to say that it simply doesn't work is ignoring reality.
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Variation: you can get a secured credit card. Give them money, and that's your limit. But it's a credit card nonetheless. After some period of time, you get the money back, and a better card. Talk to your bank.
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I pre-ordered a fire. Honestly if i'm reading about some random topic (i was just reading a page about econometrics) if Amazon all of the sudden started recommending me books about econometrics, i'd be okay with it. As long as the recommendations are good.
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This has worked for a while, it's just much more apparent on his posts:

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=496077348919
Well... yes and no. It's great to see more payment options. But segregated merchant accounts are there for a reason, pretty much every company that is in the payment processing world that does not use segregated merchant accounts sooner or later goes bust. See DMR and ibill for some nice examples of what happens when you multiplex a merchant account across more than one customer.

By making sure everybody has their own merchant account you may not make as much money on the transactions but you stay in business long term. And if there is one thing that really sucks it is to have to start all over again because your payment processor goes under, taking all your customers with it.

Stuff like that can kill you. If your transaction volume is serious enough to warrant your own merchant account then you should probably get one.
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Unless I've misunderstood something about that. It happens.

You just maintain a local/serial-only root account for that eventuality.

[Edit] And make sure internet-facing production services don't rely on administrative LDAP.
>I think it shows us what some people really think and whata negative effect of unregulated users can cause. So a thing i appreciate of Facebook valueing real users but yutube on the other hand has great content.

I would say that for the most part describing youtube comments as resulting in "negative effects" is a bit close-minded. If you're on youtube, you should know how it works, how its userbase thinks and acts and shouldn't take it personally if you see something you don't like.

not knowing the video creators and therefore feeling no obligation to be nice or heed their feelings is just the nature of youtube. if you want to use the website, accept that. don't fault the commenting policy for the anonymity that it is based around.
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I wonder if we'll ever see a movie in the future about the failed and disastrous prohibition of other drugs.
I see it differently: there's nothing wrong with a common currency and separate fiscal policy as long as you don't try to maintain the fiction that all sovereign entities have equal credit risk. Excessive/unexpected devaluation is just de facto default, but making this tool unavailable shouldn't mean that you should ignore the risk of de jure default. The countries of the common economic block should be able to enjoy the benefit of reduced friction in trade without being in a situation where it looks like a good idea to loan money to the Greek government at low interest rates. Regulatory authorities should be insulated from the political fallout of telling banks that they need to treat Greek bonds as less creditworthy than German bonds when they go to calculate the required amount of capital to carry their assets.
Hehe. If the app didn't still look half as good as the iOS version, this post might be onto something.

Clearly, this post was posted by the resident Android dev. :)
Think in terms of what actions you'd like your user to take. Perhaps you'd like the user to order something from the catering service?

You have maybe 3 seconds to grab my attention, and fancy screen sliding isn't going to do it.

Don't make me think.

I personally hate the color palette too, but I can't articulate what's wrong with it.

I hope this helps...
:)
When I first stopped at Hacker news, I tried to find the RSS link. It was there. Then I thought of email subscription. Checked at feedburner. There was one feed being burnt, but had to email subscription.

So, I created one at feedburner and have been following it. It works with a charm, at least for me. If you want, give a try.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/ycombinator/hackernews
A few like Wakemate and Octopart come to mind where they seem to serve small markets now, but it's easy to see how they could branch out into huge adjacent market space - not necessarily as obliquely as Microsoft starting from Altair Basic, more like Amazon starting out as just an online bookstore.
"The dodgy attitudes come from the Clojure core, especially Rich Hickey himself, I’m sad to say."

where the "dodgy attitude" == "Rick Hickey doesn't believe that TDD is the only way to make software"
Yeah, he had it in his mind that someone could build it in a few weeks and walk away, and he'd be set from that point forward.

On the videogames question, I've actually been working on creating an xbox live indie game and expect to be done in a few weeks. So, I haven't been gaming much lately, been focusing pretty hard on trying to wrap up. I did download the free zelda game for 3ds and had fun with it for an hour.
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Yes, other people were reminded of that. Search the comments for the word "Windows". (Ctrl+F or Apple+F in your web browser.)
Looks to me like someone was having a little too much fun playing around with CoreImage effects :)
Wolfram Alpha shows 9993 days.

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The banks take this risk not just because they expect that there will be a bailout but also because the Basel Accords allow them to treat sovereign bonds as riskless when calculating their Capital Adequacy Ratio, making those bonds look like a better deal relative to other bonds of equal risk.
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Good start, but it needs to be better.

A few things off the top of my head:
1. It took me ten seconds to figure out you are a catering company. It should have only taken me 2 seconds.
2. Don't like the girl. What is she holding? I just jumped over to istockphoto.com and did a search for "catering" and found a dozen images you could buy for $15 that are better.
3. Also, I don't mean to keep picking on the girl, but nothing about her says "catering" to me.
4. Nothing feels connected. The title, mission statement, and the girl, all seem like they are just floating.

Good luck! Hope I helped.
Sometimes people can change themselves. That just tends to be much less likely than changes in traction or market.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, there are lots of examples here : http://littlebigdetails.com/
Well, as the old saying goes, those who do not know Unix are doomed to reinvent it.... poorly. I am rarely surprised anymore by the bad ideas I see people come up with.
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ahupp - That is referencing the real time comments (where comments are pushed to you without reloading the page).

This is different. Facebook is showing the actual like count change in real time. This is fantastic feedback for big brands.
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Cool article...very specific to YC which is nice. Not to sound negative, I feel like I've heard a lot of this stuff before (like when I used to follow Guy Kawasaki on twitter), but its relevance to YC apps is especially useful.
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Thank you.

Most people who are in the Bay or follow YC happenings should be familiar with most of this, but I thought it might be helpful to new applicants or those teams who don't know YC alumni and could benefit from a bit of inside access.
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divtxt is proposing that exactly those things be removed.
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Absolutely not. Servers and disk space are inexpensive. The closer you are to capacity, the less burst room you have. Pushing your hardware to near max capacity is a recipe for disaster.
That's wrong if you do the math yourself. Try this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=Sept+30%2C+1984+to+toda...

It says 9855 days, which is 365 * (2011 - 1984), which is obviously not right and missing leap years.
I agree. Of course I am being Facetious. With the right technology I can imagine a future where every home has solar panels and all cars are electric. We will use nothing but solar power to run our homes and fuel our cars. I did the math and this is all possible.
Did Europe just save Greece with this bailout?

Not yet, and probably never.

...

If Europe can't save Greece, why is it trying?

Don't buy this line of reasoning, Greece must be saved or all of Europe is in a for a very difficult period, economically. If the Greeks are allowed to give creditors a haircut, the first thing that any sane (if slightly rapacious) investor/trader (of which there are more than enough) should do is to start shorting the Italian and Spanish bonds, buying credit default swaps on them, and shorting the Euro. Once the seal is broken and one sovereign entity is allowed to default, it becomes obvious that a sustained speculative attack would drive interest rates high enough to force the larger Southern European economies into default as well. The whole thing would play out in a fashion similar to the exit of the British government from the European exchange rate mechanism in 1992 except that the scale is much larger and the global financial sector has more numerous and powerful tools at its disposal.
Thanks for your feedback. That screenshot is pretty old; iTunes Preview has newer ones which reflect our newer, more attractive refresh. As always, we are hard at work at awesome new stuff.

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That has to be the most literal example ever of survivor bias.
I like how the article basically says the Prius does very well because it's so conspicuous. Sounds about right.
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The like updates are timed improperly and the number keeps going down and then up and then down. I got a lot of shit at work for a similar bug on a JS ticker, I'm glad I'm not the only one!
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21 days, 32 dollars isn't the best hourly wage. From a first-time app developer to anyone with experience, how do you think I could get things going from here?
Ask PG: What if you like one (or more) of us for YC W11, but not all.
Hi pg,

Has this ever happened, when you liked one or two of the cofounders and not so much the others?

Based on our app, what if you like one of us, or two, but not the other one or two cofounders?

Thanks.
An aside: This may have been discussed before about WSJ, but /article/SB10001424052970204226204576600863260993384.html has to be one of the worst URLs I've seen. What system is it that builds those filenames?
Why is no one discussing Airplay?
No one is discussing Airplay. As a developer who makes a living from web, mobile, TV, and desktop applications I find the Airplay feature of iOS 5 to be the single most disruptive technology since the first iPhone. TV is important. Google heavily promoted Google TV at their conference a year ago. Apple released two iterations of the Apple TV. All of the cable, set-top box, satellite, and TV manufacturers are gearing up to take on the inevitable huge TV app and content market. But still, no one is really discussing Airplay.

I can't possibly be the only person to see how Apple could immediately disrupt the gaming console market upon the release of iOS 5. For the first time iOS 5 will have cordless screen mirroring. What you see on your screen will be displayed on your TV wirelessly. Now consider the fact iOS 5 will also allow you to use your TV as a second display. You will be able to display something different on the TV than what's on your iOS device. Your iOS device could become the controller while you play your game on the TV. Now take it one step further and assume you wirelessly connect a bluetooth game controller to your iOS device while it powers your TV display. You now have a fully-fledged gaming console, completely powered by your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. The games are affordable, the console is with you at all times, and Airplay makes it easy to utilize your TV.

iOS graphics are inferior to consoles you say? This is true yet I'm not sure it will matter when you consider the fact that you can buy 5-10 games on iOS for the price of 1 console game. The graphics may not be as good but they're nowhere close to 5-10x worse. Also, let's not leave out the fact that companies such as OnLive are quietly waging war against the console market to stream games over the net which would give a device such as the iPhone the ability to provide games that are visually competitive. iPhone 5 + Bluetooth Game Controller + OnLive + Airplay (TV) = something to get excited about.
It's a down economy, and a hybird costs more than a 'regular' car. Hybrid's also have the potential to be confusing, like how many REAL miles can the Leaf do? I still don't trust batteries to keep a full charge after 6 months, just ask my cell phone. (I realize there are other hybrids, just an example).

Plus those regular cars do a lot better on gas nowadays than they ever have.
I'm not buying a car until it's fuel efficient AND drives itself. Looking at you, Google.
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Sounds like you've misunderstood that either password1 or password2 will get you in!

I didn't change any behavior - just the UI strings. So you need both!

i.e:

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In the future?

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