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To the OP, if you're there: Are you using XCode 3 or XCode 4? You referenced the TBNR guide book, but from what I read, it doesn't handle the new changes for Xcode. Did that cause any difficulties? (I was on the fence about buying the book last night because it's the older version, but after the OP's recommendation, I just bought it on Amazon).

I'm doing the same thing as the OP, starting around the same time, except I quit my job to take a break. And admittedly I'm spreading myself out pretty thin because I'm also trying to learn and get pretty knowledgable in Javascript and Python.

I have to say that learning iOS programming is very hard for me, mainly because I have almost no GUI experience. I did a bit of Win32 MFC programming about 15 years ago, so some of the concepts aren't completely foreign, but they might as well should be in some cases.

XCode is a terrible IDE and the error messages I've encountered are amongst the worst I've come across. I figure it will take time to internalize this stuff, but I can tell you it is fairly painful at the beginning stages!
Thanks for your perspective. It's interesting to connect anti-gentrification to NIMBYism.

I have come to believe that most anti-gentrification sentiment, at least where I live in LA, is misplaced. It's a young city and to expect neighborhoods to stay the same on the time scale of decades is unrealistic. There are laws (many mistaken, IMHO) to prevent property taxes from rising more than about 2% per year, so nobody will be forced from their home. Renters may have to move, although there are rent protections on many properties also.

Anyway, anti-gentrification sentiment is interesting because it never stops. People who moved to my neighborhood in 2000 think the 2010'ers are gentrifiers. People who moved here in 1990 think it's the 2000'ers. People who moved here in 1970 think it's anyone after 1980.

Most resentment and name-calling about "gentrification" is among the young, however. By contrast, NIMBYism is more of a middle-age and old person's thing. At least where I live.
Exceedingly useful. He's providing important information to the market and matching buyers and sellers who otherwise wouldn't have met each other. There was a recent Econtalk podcast with Mike Munger on this subject: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2008/10/munger_on_middl.htm... , in which Munger and the host, Russ Roberts, discuss the role of middlemen and making markets.

Without him in the picture, buyers could have purchased their items for less and saved money.

Without him in the picture, buyers might not have found the items and wouldn't have the benefit they think buying the items at all will give them. He's doing a major public service.
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I'm not a huge wiki proponent for mostly that reason. However, the other big factor is that a lot of the time the Wiki becomes an excuse for not automating something. A surprisingly good place to start is to add a README and a Makefile. Both of those things show up in recursive greps ;-)
As a very hardline libertarian, read anarchist, I disagree wholeheartedly with this statement. Even in the most libertarian leaning circles people like at least a little government regulation.

I say this as a person who was born and raised in Texas and attends gun shows regularly. The people in attendance are the kind with automatic rifles (very very illegal), the ones who pay for all their items with gold, want to succeed from the US, or the kind who think the "NWO" is a very real possibility, and even they feel safer with at least a little government protection.

One of ex-GF's had a tshirt that read "Permain Basin Gun Club. We don't call the police". Even her family believed in gov regulations for big business and finance.

As much as I wished more Americans were libertarian leaning the truth is that they are not.
"... high-tech firms such as Dow Corning have kept significant amounts of manufacturing in the country. ..."

It was reported in the NYT article, "How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work" (Duhigg, BradSher) ~ http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and... that Dow Corning lost out on the touch-screen glass contract to a nationally backed Chinese firm. [1]

Reference

[1] "For years, cellphone makers had avoided using glass because it required precision in cutting and grinding that was extremely difficult to achieve. Apple had already selected an American company, Corning Inc... Then a bid for the work arrived from a Chinese factory... The Chinese plant got the job."
How this was solved in a Brazilian city back in the 70s. Some nice thinking in there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRD3l3rlMpo
Hey Steve,

I am happy to talk / vent about iOS programming with you. I know it's frustrating, but please stay with it.

I think they key is to use the book as inspiration but not as Gospel. I found that some of the interface things in the book didn't mesh with the new XCode. I had to play around until I figured it out.

I am happy to chat with you anytime about it, providing you catch me on Skype. My skye id: is kent.fenwick

Also, message me on Twitter and we can arrange a time to talk about it. I don't have all the answers, but I feel your pain and think I can give you some good pointers.

Good luck Steve!! All the best,

Kent
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I have but I don't. Javascript was designed to reduce programmer-visible errors at the cost of making it nearly impossible to write a correct program. At that goal, it succeeds, and [] + {} being NaN makes perfect sense under those constraints.
It's a one minute video just sharing some of the discarded designs. There's a reason behind all of it, but showing the reason(s) wasn't the intent of this video.
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I'm a long-time Hacker News reader who signed up, finally, to post this comment: What's this worthless post doing wasting my attention on Hacker News?
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With which statement do you disagree, exactly? Because all I'm saying is what I've observed. Unless you were present when I made these observations and have a better memory than I do, arguing with me about it isn't exactly going to be productive, is it?
I have a GSM/HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus on T-Mobile and battery life is similar to what you describe on the Sensation. A colleague briefly tried the LTE Galaxy Nexus on Verizon and returned it within a week, because the battery life was astoundingly poor as described by dsr_. Conclusion: LTE kills the battery.
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But of course, anyone that actually wants to protect against XSS attacks won't allow user input to be evaluated. If they did want to allow user-supplied Javascript, they wouldn't blacklist, they would whitelist (by parsing the user-supplied script and using the AST to emit only whitelisted operations).
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Haha, I also set learning iOS as one of my 2012 resolutions AND I also bought TBNR after reading good reviews in Amazon. The 2nd edition covers Xcode 4 and iOS 4 (a bit outdated, but my target market is iOS 4+ anyway).

The shameful thing is, I haven't read the book yet, and instead go with Titanium since I'm more familiar with JavaScript (not really, but better than zero experience with Objective-C). It's been a couple of days, and things are doing good (but debugging sucks).

I eventually will learn iOS/Objective-C, but since I come from Java, and I don't like Xcode (I've played around a bit) I will most likely use AppCode from JetBrains.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnchair_Larry#Arrest_and_noto...

From the article:

Lawrence Richard Walters, nicknamed "Lawnchair Larry", was an American truck driver who took flight on July 2, 1982 in a homemade airship. Dubbed Inspiration I, the "flying machine" consisted of an ordinary patio chair with 45 helium-filled weather balloons attached to it. Walters rose to an altitude of over 15,000 feet. After 45 minutes in the sky, he shot several balloons and descended slowly, until the balloons' dangling cables got caught in a power line. Walters was able to climb to the ground. He was immediately arrested by waiting members of the Long Beach Police Department. "We know he broke some part of the Federal Aviation Act, and as soon as we decide which part it is, some type of charge will be filed. If he had a pilot's license, we'd suspend that. But he doesn't."

"If the FAA was around when the Wright Brothers were testing their aircraft, they would never have been able to make their first flight at Kitty Hawk." Walters committed suicide at the age of 44 by shooting himself in the heart.
I do the same thing with tickets. And since I can make Internet, I made a site to handle accepting the payment and getting them their PDF ticket: http://www.boxrowseat.com

Made selling on CL about 1000x easier :)
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How do you explain people using the trial version of winzip then?
It doesn't sound like you're taking into account the opportunity cost of the land set aside for roads. That's valuable space that could be used for other things.
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I'm an engineer in the manufacturing sector and there is quite a bit of automation at the company I work for. Where there are robots, PLC's, and other things that can be programmed there will ALWAYS be problems that need both high tech people and blue-collar level involved. Engineers write the software, technicians repair them and workers operate them. I don't get why people have this notion that factories are comprised entirely of robots running at 100% efficiency with 5 people overseeing what used to be 1000 jobs. A robot may take someone's job and be able to perform the same amount as 3 people, but it's not like they're free-standing things that require no maintenance or other human interaction. In many instances it's just not feasible to have a robot perform the work.
So if a Government told a newspaper that they couldn't run an editorial by a guest columnist, that wouldn't be suppressing free speech?

Twitter isn't doing this just for fun, they're doing it because of the policies and laws of the countries in which they operate.

If Twitter told it's users that they couldn't post bad things about Jack Dorsey that would be different.
I agree with what you're saying, but the solution is not to make the situation worse by having a PM screaming at them about TPS reports. That will only drive away what talent is in the pull of Widget Inc; a net negative for the company.

Widget Inc does not need to have the best devs, so this is largely moot. Widget Inc does not compete on IT, does not need their apps to be good, does not care if the best devs work there, no matter what they say.

And so, github has the prestige.
For some reason, what I find the most hilarious here is reading the extremely serious HN comments. It's a weird contrast.
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My best experiences in corporate IT were when I escaped the department for short times - a flight to an office whose processes were on fire, a deployment of a new warehouse management system where all the workers were counting on me, a 3-month 5-person project sprint to deliver a late, overbudget project without adult supervision.

Whatever the purpose of IT middle management, it does not appear to accomplish much.
Don't laugh but I've bought both versions of TBNR... still not even close to shipping
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Fair point, but saying that Dow Corning is not high-tech because it did not win the Apple iPhone business is akin to saying Foursquare is not 'high-tech' since FB also does location based services.

The NYT article does not give any detail on that specific contract, margins paid, etc. There are many reasons DC might not have that specific business but that doesn't detract from the sophistication of their current mftg or its location in the US.

I work in mftg and many of the branded, PR-heavy products are actually pretty poor decisions from an economic standpoint - think of Andrioid's market share compared to Apple's profit-share.
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Have you discussed with your investors how they feel about you selling 2-10% of total equity at a valuation of at best 20% of what they are offering?
To be fair, legal and unlicensed powered paragliders are able to reach those heights[1]. I only know about airspace classes by way of Wikipedia, but it seems like anything below 18,000 feet and far enough away from an airport in the US is fine.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_paragliding
> The core problem is that few years working in health IT, most people (myself included) start thinking this way.

You hit the nail on the head, here. There's a fine line between "bold, fearless, and usefully foolish" and "too ignorant of an extremely complicated domain to accomplish anything useful", and in medical informatics that line is even finer than in many other fields.

> I don't think any company in their right mind would use Metathesaurus as their base vocabulary, may be synonyms, mappings etc but not as a coding vocabulary.

Just to chime in (in case anybody reading this comment thread is thinking about getting into this stuff), you're 100% correct: the UMLS is in no way supposed to be used as a coding vocabulary. If you try and use it as such, you're Doing It Wrong(tm). That's what clinical terminologies e.g. SNOMED-CT are for.

Of course, that doesn't mean that plenty of people haven't tried- it's just such a tempting-looking resource...

That said, I certainly wouldn't want to dissuade anybody from learning how to use the UMLS, or from using it for its intended purposes. It's a really valuable (and easily accessible) vocabulary resource.
Here's another distraction you might enjoy: http://blog.opensourceecology.org/ (they're attacking the problem in their own way)
Not trying to refute anything. Just a passage that comes to mind when reading that opening sentence. Especially with the specific reference how that seems to be common occurrence with Lisp.

In fact, you might argue that OP and PG are saying the same thing. Programming languages are habits of mind, and until you have real understanding of an abstraction, it's a lot easier to think "that looks weird, why don't I just use this other thing I already know".
That is the point I am trying to convey most of them don't give exclusivity to one provider, they provide allotments to many providers and many intentionally over allot, because they would rather give rain checks and discounts than have less than optimal utilization of the capacity. They are a lot of middlemen moving hospitality products, most work on a commission structure and most receive an allotment that they can fill (it is supposed to be guaranteed, it never is in practice). These middlemen perform at different efficiencies. Most hospitality providers try to track their efficiency to effectively manage allotment, but there is no guarantee of their performance. Therefore, hospitality providers generally over allot to compensate for this, even if they used an online system that sells their product, they are not going to turn away other middlemen, who basically equal a zero up front cost sales channel. Those other middlemen will have their own systems where they manage their own allotments.
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I'm going through a terribly agonizing break-up situation. Well, my girlfriend broke up with me three weeks ago?

In a few words, I have been so absorbed by my idea for quite awhile now and ended up losing my girlfriend over it, who I loved more than anything in my life.

I went through a period of listening to all the bro-to-bro advises to cope with the situation like hanging-out with friends, and all other ineffectual things.

However, I keep myself busy with some C problems and working on a temporary small project.

But I need a new environment and am thinking of moving to Mountain View where I can find fellow hackers and like-minded friends, or hope to find.

If you have had similar experience, I ask what is your advice/opinion on this issue,

My thoughts are caught up as follows:

If I move I won't even have the remotest chance of us (me and my girlfriend who is now ex) being together again?

If I stay there is a chance we can start dating again and hopefully get my happy life back?

Should I let go of her and move to the valley, after all she is the one who broke my heart and left me?

But at the same time, If I were to choose between my idea and her, I won't think twice about her. I'd, most assuredly, choose for us to have a life together.

Any helpful comment on this matter is greatly appreciated...,
The title of the TorrentFreak article does say it, however the Pirates of Catalonia page indeed does not.
Thanks for the reply. Perhaps I was unclear. I completely understand the downvotes - that's why they're on the site. But I thought the "wow, you must be the best hacker ever congrats" comment was unnecessary and mean-spirited.
Go Canada! Very cool project. For folks in the Bay Area and interested in this kind of hobby, check out the space program at Noisebridge.
I'm sympathetic to your point; people are so confused about this issue. If a reporter says something offensive on TV and gets fired as a result, it's not a violation of "free speech". In the present case, though, it is a violation of free speech—not by Twitter, but by the German government. (Good thing, too, as I hear the Nazis are rallying their forces and are on the brink of a comeback.)
> Focus on the doctor/nurse/patient user experience, make EHR software that does what every facebook/google+/linkedin, heck even blogger user takes for granted, get the adoption rates up, and kill these greedy as sons of bitches at their own game.

I agree 100% in principle, but I think that in reality this won't work. Why? Because the people that would benefit from that approach (focusing on the user experience, etc.) are not the people that make the decisions about which system to buy. Those people could care less about what it looks like, or how usable it is.

That's the reason why so many EHRs have UIs that look like they belong up on blocks in somebody's front yard, and even worse-looking APIs- a misalignment of interests between the users of the system and the people who make the purchasing decisions.

It's like a little microcosm of everything that's wrong with the entire medical system... :-)
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Because ember-data supports the rails url scheme with no extra work. It's a little overkill, but they feel that they'll catch more users up front this way.
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The info-graphic say that PHP has the best job prospects but from the numbers it looks to be Ruby. PHP had 300 and so jobs where Ruby had a little over 100 but the developer totals where 18,000 and some change for PHP and 700 for Ruby. To me the developer to job ration favors Ruby by a large margin.
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In textiles we see the opposite. Large capex businesses are still here in the US since depreciation is such a big portion of your cost component (think big battery separator, diaper or wipe production lines - 3 football fields long 24x7x365).

These big lines have almost no labor component (maybe 1-2 operators / shift) so paying a premium on labor is worth it to reduce the shipping costs.

It is all of the heavy labor activities that are in China now. They didn't just leave the US, they left everywhere that had high labor costs, and even now they are flowing to SE Asia out of China. With low labor costs, and with labor a significant component of cost, it made sense for these jobs to go right away (especially if their fibers are agricultural in origin and now harvested globally too).
You misunderstand - my Q is how did anyone find NYTime's implementation of this joke spec?
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You're right, it's probably not that newsworthy. I decided to put it together cause:

1. I spent all day dealing with it, so it seemed significant at least to me

2. Most of the sites that make the front page are large hosted sites with a dedicated IT team, so the case of a small site making it seemed like a somewhat interesting hosting challenge
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There is no why. It just is. This is the worst thing about being human :)

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I'd love a "how to configure your server to make the front page without breaking a sweat, or throwing hardware at the problem" post. I kinda just followed the default rackspace guidance when I was setting up apache, but I'm sure there's room for improvement there.
There's a different use case you're not considering: one-to-many distribution of legal-to-distribute works. I saw a lot of camera test videos from photo forums, Android ROMs from Android forums, and PDFs of obscure pamphlets hosted on MegaUpload, because for quite some time it had a less painful captcha/wait process than RapidShare (and MediaFire wasn't popular yet).

I wouldn't use MegaUpload to share with my family but I certainly would use it to distribute the 200MB video file I wanted to share with a forum. Most "file sync" and "personal sharing" services try to actively prevent users from burning their bandwidth on one-to-many hosting, both as an anti-piracy measure and as a conscious business model decision. The "share big files with lots of people" niche is useful for people other than pirates, and now that niche is nigh-on impossible to fill in the US.
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Monopolies? Seriously, tech industry in general is probably one of the most dynamic market right now. Most big players secure dominance for barely 10 years, and only a select few will continue its legacy for any time longer than that. New players pop up providing new goods and services pop up all the time as well. If companies in tech industry are referred to as monopolies, there is no tangible meaning left in the term "monopoly".