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As a mobile web developer, I feel compelled to mention that iPhones make it easy to bookmark a web page and put the page icon right on your home screen. Utilizing HTML5 manifests and local storage, you could also have offline access. Creating an interface as good looking and responsive as a native one is definitely doable as well.

You don't get an app in the appstore, so that's one advantage you have over an HTML5-based approach...but I would much prefer just getting an awesome mobile web app experience when I view a site in my browser, as opposed to being prompted to download the app.

When I'm browsing content, I like to stay in my web browser so I can browse other sites. Switching between a bunch of native apps just to get a decent ui is a poor user experience, IMO.

All in all, the product looks really well done though. I don't mean to be disparaging with this comment. I just wanted to point out that it's totally possible to do everything you mention using mobile web techniques.

What I've described here might be a direction you could take your product. You could offer both native and mobile web approaches, giving the choice to the Wordpress site owner.

If you do want to explore that idea, drop me a note (info in my HN profile). That's a project I'd love to work on.
This didn't seem to make much sense in desert (or wherever they were building it) but it makes sense in populated areas. You reduce noise and pollution from one year to one week and that's great. Also workforce has probably better conditions under the roof than on the roof.

Also, similar video from 2 years ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPSxt5A23MI
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I usually ssh first to a server that has ipv6 in that situation. Which is as roundabout as NAT of course.
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I think his business provides much more than just a url and a webview. The offline pages, organized layout and category browser is much more than what that clause is made to prevent.

The unfortunate thing about having a business that is at the mercy another business (such as iphone apps) is that apple can at any point block anything coming from OP's site. But thank god for competition.
The article overstates the case against ARM in the mobile marketplace. Counterpoints not mentioned are:
1. The single company Intel can never match the wide variety of SoC (System on a Chip) components that the diverse ARM fabricators will offer.
2. The ARM fabricators will remain close behind Intel with regard to lithography generations.
3. Intel's Medfield has not been independently benchmarked on shipping mobile devices.
4. Industry partnerships established for the previous Intel mobile part did not create any notable results.
5. In order to dismantle ARM, Intel would have to significantly underprice commodity ARM fabricators - which would destroy Intel's historical margins. Note that Intel sold off a former ARM-compatible division - XScale - for this reason.
6. Furthermore some ARM partners plan to invade the x86 server market with low power, but capable alternatives to Intel servers, thus enlarging the potential ARM market and possibly counter-disrupting Intel's highest margin business.
> "Additionally this causes immense trouble for our clients and users who WordPress consider to be “edge cases”, that they no longer cater for. That covers disabled users, colour blind users, those not using a mouse.."

Most every other CMS would not be suitable for disabled users, colour blind users, those not using a mouse.. (unfortunately).

> "those not using a desktop PC"

Wordpress had a pretty nice official mobile interface.

> "those using a microsoft browser, especially those using IE6 or IE7"

IE6 is not supported by most website. Facebook recently stopped supporting IE7. IE8+ works fine.

> "(Bluntly, if you’re not using a Mac, look out)."

There is no basis for this comment.

I am not sure why we are giving this author this much attention.
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I was in the first intake of the "new" style A-Level system, where 4 or 5 AS-Levels were taken in year one, then 3 A-Levels taken forward to year 2.

I dropped CompSci at AS-Level after seeing what a joke it was (took English, Maths and Physics instead), although I had never really done any programming at all. Just HTML.

One of the best/worst things about the "new" system (I say new, as it was new when I did it, but it's now a decade old, of course) is that the introduced "Key Skills" classes, where you had to learn literacy, numeracy and IT.

Apparently, while English and Maths got me out the first two, CS wasn't good enough to get me out of doing Mail Merges. So I didn't go anyway, and my tutor would be sent nastygrams every so often saying I was failing by not turning up. My tutor's response? "Oh, I put them in the bin."
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BTW i found these by hnSearch.com: "skype GNU screen"
That wikipedia page has an apostrophe in its URL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive_waste_dumping_by_t...
It just distills down to "Don't let people tell you that you can't frame with your trusty roofing hammer. Just get to work and switch tools when you must."
And TSA goons can be depended on to realize it's not an actual knife.

"But it says 'Swiss Army' on it."

"It's not a knife."

"Surrreee. Step this way, please."
I worked at a publicly funded inner city technology center in one of the larger UK cities whose mandate was to integrate technology into the curriculum of the surrounding schools. I can not tell you how much potential was wasted. Huge computer labs essentially used as annex class rooms. spyware installed to make sure kids weren't "googling bad things" or "speaking ill of their teachers in email". There were attempts to teach programming but the few kids that were interested had to come after hours and use notepad to write javascript to run in internet explorer from the desktop (not a bad way to learn just how easy it is really, I am just saying there was no official support/classes for such programs).

So in short: I really hope this is a sign of change but I also know that money thrown at these programs is often just squandered on projectors and digital white boards.

edit: upon reflection I think I feel guilty that I did not do more to make things the way I envisioned. I could have easily created a "programming class" image that we flashed the systems with to let them have linux, learn emacs, vim, apache etc. but I think I was too inexperienced to really be sure of myself. I'd love the opportunity now as I could offer a scratch/squeak course, a scheme course, web apps, lua/love for game programming. So many awesome free tools for every type of aptitude.
You should check out the site when its back up, obviously the app auto updates when new content is published.

It works because you have to install a plugin in your WP blog, which presumably has WP publish/edit hooks etc which notifies an Appifier service, which then pushes to the apps, making sure all content is up to date and available offline. It's a pretty popular, if not the only, design for content surfacing apps.
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In our industry million or sometimes even billion dollar projects eventually get cancelled for cost overruns while getting nowhere and people worry about soneone getting hit by a bus.
The probability of staff suddenly dying is vastly over rated in my opinion.
Skyscraper construction is actually quite fast, even if you don't do it modularly. A floor should only take a day or two for initial construction, with other trades following behind and adding cladding, electrical, etc. Steel beams are modular, after all.

The slow parts are preparing the foundation, which seems to be skipped over here in the timeline, and pouring and drying concrete bits, which this building doesn't have.
Congrats on the launch. I have some feedback, but a random question for you first - did you work at Deloitte in their S&O practice?

Now for the feedback - assuming your audience is a non-tech WordPress user, I'm suggesting that you do A|B testing on the use of "Native App". From experience talking to clients on the marketing team or communications team, most don't know the difference or meaning of "native app". To them, an app is an app is an app - native or not.

The key question that these folks care about is "will my app have a custom icon that represents my brand", "can i submit to the app store", and "will my customer see this icon on their iPhone once they download it?".

So, my hypothesis is that if you strip "native app" from your copy (all of your copy) and just focus "custom app", "custom icons", "app store submission", "WordPress to iPhone", your target audience won't miss a beat and won't blink at "native app".

If you end up testing this out doing A/B tests or user research, I'd love to hear the results.
Wish you all the very best. Make sure you scale up today, as I am going to pitch for you wherever my reach is.
OK, so the first thing is I assumed you were speaking as a consumer, not as a developer. As a consumer I have a choice to sell my iPhone and buy something else if I don't like it. That's a massive freedom that Apple can't constrain. It's probably the single biggest issue with the lock in argument - the fact that you can walk away at any time (even in contract - an iPhone will almost certainly have a higher resale value that a decent Android phone so sell the iPhone, buy a non-Apple replacement and stick the SIM in it).

Speaking as a developer you have similar freedom - you can choose to develop for another platform. Apple are up front about their policies, certainly now that they've stabilised. Yes they've messed a few people about (and that sucks, I accept) but a vast, vast majority of people writing software for iOS are able to do so with no real fear. Yes Apple might stick whatever functionality your app has into iOS but Google might do that with Android, MS with Windows and so on.

And it's not all negative - they provide a very simple distribution channel to a massive market of proven, paying customers and cover off billing, payment and a whole load of other things.

There are many businesses that have a dependency on a middleman (which is what Apple are) but they accept that dependency because on balance the opportunity outweighs the downside.

But even if you take away the other positive stuff there and only look at the negatives, that choice, essentially the ability to ignore them completely and do something else, is what stops it being remotely like a prison, because the one thing that you can't do with a prison is just walk away from it.
But so what if it is hypocritical? Is it any less true? Why should her personal life be in any way relevant?

I can understand his point about users being the problem - although that doesn't in any way excuse the banks - but criticizing her specifically is completely ridiculous.

It reminds me of how I hear people in my country commenting to each other about how nice is that politician because he rides a scooter instead of a Mercedes, while he and his party continue to sell out the country to big companies.

It's an irrelevant, stupid detail that detract from his position and makes him seem like an unreasonable person.
He takes incredible pictures people want to use for their company and sells it to them.

That might work for him, but I doubt it's viable for photographers in general, at least in the future.

He has also mentioned that people who give stuff away for free or "credit" are just burned again later on because other companies don't want to pay, they want to "credit"

Like I said, those companies aren't going to pay no matter what. They're looking for a free product. If yours isn't free, they're not going to change their budget, they're going to look elsewhere.

My point is that copies are basically free. When you use the copies as marketing, you're using their zero marginal cost as a feature. What you charge for is the part that costs you money: production. You have to find the people who are willing to fund the production of photos, not just the distribution.

My point about amateurization is that, no, maybe you or I couldn't reproduce that photo, but could a thousand amateurs? What about when the equipment gets rapidly better and more inexpensive at the same time?

Then consider the amount of time he put into his craft, the countless hours ...

Here you're making an anti-capitalist argument. I should pay him what he deserves? Who decides how much his hard work is worth?

I'm actually not a programmer, but your point isn't lost on me. But I think it actually bolsters my argument. Programmers generally have figured out how to make money, and it's not be selling free copies. It's the reason SaaS and freemium models are dominating.

So, yes, you can replace photographers with any job and I think it'll still be true: you have to charge for the parts people will be willing to pay, and zero marginal cost distribution isn't going to be it.

In fact, to make it personal: I'm an aspiring writer. I write on my blog and I just got a couple of pieces published in the Atlantic Tech blog. I don't get paid for any of that writing. If I tried to charge for it, no one would pay me. So I give it away for free while I hone my skills and build my (freely available) ouevre, in the hope that eventually the quality of my work will be such that I will be able to fund the production of the work, not the distribution of copies. (I.e. in the hope that I'll get hired by a web site or magazine to write on staff full-time.) So my money is actually located exactly where my mouth is.
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I wasn't going to use this example because he's such an outlier and not representative, but you're basically making my point for me: if Einstein managed to 'get into research' without having 'open science' or libraries or whatever (I don't know to which extent he had access, but he certainly didn't have the access that everybody with an internet connection nowadays has), then why would not having 'open science' be an issue today? Even if there are for-pay article databases, it's still possible to get access to vastly more information than back then.

Additionally, one counterexample doesn't disprove a general concept. The fact remains that the vast, vast majority of people don't give a hoot about having access to research papers.
I don't want to knock your product, because I know site owners will love it, but does anyone actually like and use these simple apps that wrap a website?
They are not using any chips. It's vaporware.
> But makes us fairly good activists that don't just use hype but real arguments (and in some cases real action).

You're joking, right?

Programmers, engineeers, scientists all will/do use hype so on.

Disagree? Emacs vs vi. risc vs cisc. There are plenty of examples near our "core" - do you really think that we get better as we get away from that?
What? I'm not talking about that at all. I'm saying that most papers are already available to everybody who wants them, whether they're from the US, Hungary or Botswana (as long as they have an internet connection and basic research skills).
All CMS is necessarily a "proprietary, custom solution". All CMS (like all software) exists somewhere on the spectrum of "easy to use" vs "extensible and customizable".

If management chooses to rely on a vendor to set the roadmap, then they are fools, and there's not much you can do to help foolish management.
I think point 2 is the most important -- and I think you're wrong. Intel is already way, way ahead of TSMC, GloFo, and Samsung -- and the gap, if anything, shows signs of extending.

Price will definitely be important, but judging by how hard Intel is coming into this segment, I can only assume that it's willing to match or get very close to ARM component costs.
I have to agree with this. His reasoning falls apart on his second sale right? How long does he own that camera? How many pictures does he take? What is the marginal cost for the 'next' picture he takes? How many times does he sell the same picture?

There are two kinds of photography, 'on demand' and 'stock' which is to say you hire someone to come out and take pictures at your wedding that is 'on demand', you need a picture of a waterfall in Hawaii to put into a travel brochure you find one in a catalog, that is 'stock'.

The guy who takes wedding pictures has lots of great equipment. The guy that shot mine brought three cameras, one for shots around the event, one taking shots of the location , and a portrait setup for one on one pictures. Now he probably had 15 - 20K worth of gear there, but he does 10 - 15 weddings a year. So even amortizing with a lifetime of 3 years for each piece of gear his equipment 'cost' is worst case 30 shoots, so $666 per shoot.

I really do think the think the effect here is that it is so easy to put photographs on the web, and for many folks they just took the picture for themselves, they don't have any problem at all giving people rights to reproducing their picture anywhere. So people who acquire pictures ask for it free first, and then if you respond that no, you are only interested in selling it, you can come to a negotiation over price.

Unfortunately, from what I've read on photography blogs there are also some pretty large price / value discrepancies between photographers and buyers. This seems to lead to a number of blog postings like the one referenced with (often) one side of the story.
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Diaspora lets you own the data, and it's free. If you wanted to run your own node on a dedicated server rented at a hosting company, you could do that too.
I think the "web sites bundled as apps" is speaking more of an app that consists only of a webkit view which loads some web site. A single-site browser app.

There's a service called Tapatalk that does something very similar to what Appifier does, but for forums, and has a number of generated "native forum apps" in the App Store.
The problem is that nowadays, only the incredible photos get you paid. In the olden days, just having competent stock shots would get you paid too, but that has passed.
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Where did the '250 Apple employees' claim come from? I mean, there's nothing in either that article or the original article that shows where they got this number (in fact the original article doesn't mention it at all).
My very limited understanding is that they have built a kind of analog computer that solves minimization problems. They claim it's an "adiabatic quantum computer" (a relatively-recently theorized implementation of quantum computing) but the skeptics think that it works by some classical method such as simulated annealing and therefore will never outperform classical computers.
Same here, I just made DuckDuckGo my default search engine. Going to give it a try for a few days and see how it goes.
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nice work,pretty useful for bloggers,I believe.All the best for your startup.Btw,How long did it take to launch this startup after you left your previous job?
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Recommended reading on this topic: Ensmenger's "The Computer Boys Take Over", or the more scholarly "Gender Codes" edited by Thomas Misa.

The latter in particular gives lots of detail, not just in describing the situation (the imbalance isn't the same everywhere, in every company or in every job description) but also in in explaining how (historically) and why (causally) the situation became what it is today.
No! The whole point is that most researchers don't care about those things. You're saying "oh everybody should change because a few people want to be "data miners" or "change the publishing business'. But apparently, as evidenced by the closed system still existing, the majority doesn't see enough benefits in that for themselves to be willing to change the system. The academic community already has access to papers, and they don't care about the other things you're talking about.

I'm not talking about how things should be or any such trite; I'm just saying how it is and why I don't see any reasons it will change. Whereas the article is implying all sorts of oppression by publishers etc. Please, we're all grown-ups here, there is a much simpler explanation for why "open science" isn't catching on: it's the lack of incentives for researchers.
Before 9/11 it was possible to purchase a swiss army knife from the duty free catalog on Swiss Flights. It would be given to you during the flight.
I've seen discussion of this study before. While it's not surprising that the overheads with a larger team are somewhat greater, the discrepancy here is vast.

However, then you notice that the size of project being discussed here is only 100,000 equivalent source lines of code. Assuming that an "equivalent source line of code" is something like a real source line of code, if you're building projects on that scale with teams containing an average of 32 people then I'd say you're doing it wrong. Such projects are almost certainly simple enough for a single small team to complete inside a year, as indeed the study also found, and an insane proportion of the time spent by the members of your larger team is going to go on management, communication and integration overheads.

If you started looking at projects large enough that a single small team could not complete them within a useful timescale, perhaps an order of magnitude bigger or more, and you still found that teams averaging 32 members took almost as long to complete the work as teams averaging 4 members, that would be interesting. But that's not what this study seems to have considered.
The thing was written to give a linear history(if I'm not mistaken) so that when you click next page it's what the next page would have given you at the time you first loaded the page. He could just do a page=4 query string and not use continuations and make the pages the same for everyone with the risk of seeing duplicates.

It will vote for the original if the urls are the same when you submit it. This is a simple check though.

Foldable threads are client side.

I wish it had notifications.

The other items re formatting could be easily fixed on the submission page.
> Have we become a society of emasculated pansies that fears little pocket knives?

Some people are afraid of just about everything.

I make knives. (Some people immediately jump to the conclusion that I must be a nutty survivalist, when the reality is that I just like making things with my hands.) I almost always carry one, whether it's a small folding knife or fixed blade knife.

When I made the first knife, people at work were curious. They asked to see it in a meeting. My boss was very uncomfortable about it and asked me not to make it known I carry a knife to avoid problems with skittish folks.

This is in Montana, where a large number of people own at least one gun and it's incredibly easy to get a concealed weapon permit.
Fortunately for OP, it doesn't matter if people want or need to consume blogs natively on their phones. It matters if business owners want to be able to tell people that their business has an iPhone app. And they do.
I would suggest Adobe Air. It's light weight and simple.
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