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I would agree in that college was useless from a professional networking perspective (moving to a different state compounded my issues).

For me college was primarily personal social growth, professional credentialing, and educational support network. I think the last two of these can be offloaded to the internet for any abstract subject (not anything that requires creating a physical artifact instead of a digital representation).
> Very addictive game

It's funny, I was thinking to myself, who could possibly play this game twice. I might misjudge as I'm not a big player myself, but I really through the interest of this was more techniques used (e.g. raphael.js) than the game itself. But I agree, nice UI, nice design and good idea.
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Printing a printer is quite a thought.

Check out the RepRap project. They're trying to design a cheap, open source 3D printer that can print itself: http://reprap.org/wiki/RepRap
We are trying to solve this exact problem at GitHire. See http://www.githire.com/about for more about our process.

There are a lot of problems with resumes that have been brought up again and again. Many companies we are working with welcome the change.

For those of you who still want to play the resume game, and don't want to spend your off-work hours contributing to open source, or building a web presence, don't worry. There will be plenty of job openings for you at companies who like to do things the old way.
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Too-secret-to-blog-about work has a hefty opportunity cost and must be priced accordingly by a would-be employee.

When faced with the choice between unverifiable secret work or highly visible work (open source, name brand employer, etc.), be sure your compensation expectations are weighted to match the future marketability of the experience you stand to gain on the job.

It would be nice if prospective employers could just know that you are out there and that you are competent. Realistically they are going to prefer the safe bet presented by a known-good contributor with an impressive public portfolio.

Edit: rephrased to clarify my work sorting heuristic.
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Actually, for me this is a perfect example--since I hate the combined search/URL bar in chrome. I'm conditioned to type urls in the URL bar, not search queries, and the only matching I want done is against the urls in my history. So instead of typing "hacker" I type "news." and usually, hacker news is way down on the list until I type "news.y", and even then on some browsers, it doesn't appear at the top (even though it is the only thing in my history with a URL that has that pattern in it.) This Ubuntu HUD would worry me heavy GUI apps like GIMP that have organically developed relatively complex menus. It seems to be a good thing to be able to search for the menu item, but having to remember all the different menu names could be problematic, not to mention the dependence on the keyboard on a app that is primarily mouse driven. I'm assuming context/right click menus won't be impacted by this?
I am really liking how this bootstrap is going. I may give it a try in a project or 2.
These people have heard of bookmarks, right? You can bookmark a website and put the icon right on your home screen. I visit HN all the time from my phone, but I definitely don't type news.ycombinator.com every time.
eventually, at the top of the stack, there's some one who asked the question: "how are people going to interact with this?"

my hash table is useless if the users can't tickle the UI in such a way as to use the hash table.
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It's funny how the meaning of "bare metal" changes over time. To me it means taking the OS out of the loop (either the application being the OS, or at least circumventing the normal OS facilities). So I was fully expecting this to be about databases with their own filesystems and/or buffer caches.
Oh boy, not another one of these. Designers and programmers need to call a truce already. One will always believe they are more important than the other because they each think in totally different terms and have totally unique perspectives on the same project.

The designer often thinks in terms of what could be. They imagine new ways of presenting information. Programmers think more in terms of what is realistic, what the rules are, and how to play by the rules while still being able to make the design a reality.

I fall into the "developer" category the article talks about. It's strange though. I don't know what others think but I always thought that designers weren't the guys who just drew designs on paper and in photoshop. I think a lot of people think of designers as "point and click" guys and programmers as "keyboard jockeys". I always perceived designers as the ones who did do the point and click stuff but also got their hands dirty in CSS, JavaScript, HTML, etc. I always thought of designers as programmers who mainly use markup, presentation, and visual effects code while programmers were the guys doing the back end work. Apparently that's now how others think.

I think both are equally important. The only one I think is less important is the designer that stays strictly in the realm of point and click, photoshop, pad and pencil work. These days as long as you can code in either the markup/style realm or the backend server side realm then you're just as valuable as anyone.

One is not better than any other. They're just different! These debates only serve to create prejudices and make it harder for the person doing the HTML/CSS to work with the guy doing the Rails/Python/PHP as one will look down their nose at the other like he's somehow inferior when they really need each other. We also need to keep in mind that when you're working on the web there's no way that you can know all there is to know to create something by yourself. We need each other. I mean, you could launch a product yourself having done both design and dev work but to grow and sustain the app you're going to need specialized people that can fill in your blind spots.
Yes, this isn't exactly a comprehensive study, I just looked up some ballpark figures to get an idea and was really surprised by just how big the diff was between where consumer attention vs developer attention seemed to be.

I'm not sure it makes sense to think of it in terms of number of 'useful' website vs mobile apps today by some definition of 'useful' though. Even if you expect the ratio of useful / not-useful to decline at 40M Android apps vs 400K you'd still expect that most of the top useful 100 apps in 3 years' time haven't been conceived yet and will be very different from today's.
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Are you kidding? They're going to get years of posts and articles about how they dealt with "Second System Effect." This rewrite will be a boon to their business side, even if people are complaining on the utility side.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-system_effect
Well done James! Congrats on the launch and sharing your story. Nothing like these posts to inspire!
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Is this true? Do you have a source?
I just don't get how this is any better than web sockets, especially using a library like Socket.io.

I get the option of 1-way or 2-way communication built in. I don't have to worry about reconnects. It falls back all the way to IE5.5. It's usable in a number of languages and frameworks including node.js and Python.

What are the benefits of yet another framework?
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From experience, I would say that a very good designer is worth considerably more to a company than a very good developer.

This comes largely from the fact that the beneficial cap in skill for designers is much higher than for developers.

With a developer, so long as they finish everything on time and it works as intended, other concerns are largely irrelevant.

With a designer, there is always room to improve, so the difference between the best designer and the next-best designer still provides some important benefits, while this is not necessarily true for developers.
. . . or just google "HN news"
Agreed, The 350M websites to 400K apps comparison is completely silly.
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If they included games in that then I'd say over 90% of that "mobile app use" time block is games or facebook for non-tech users. Games are better made as native apps due to audio issues and facebook is facebook. Hence, the articles dataset needs clarification before a firm conclusion can be made..
You can buy a 4 ring 1/8" plug adaptor for headphones. Some of these adaptors come with no mic.
Some people already build their cars (and car parts), 3D printing just makes it more accessible. What happens is that you have to license the car in order to be able to (legally) drive with it.

I suspect the licensing costs will prevent self made cars from becoming common.
This is true for me. Now I just need a simple interface to list out everything I need to do, and then move it to a calendar so it gets done.
Personally, I find most native apps to be much better designed for mobile devices than mobile websites. I know this is changing with newer web technologies, but the reality is that the mobile device provides a completely different set of options that mobile web will have a hard time catching up on. I'm thinking about things related to the hardware, such as near-field communication - or things related to processes that are not running inside the browser, e.g., push notifications.

To me, the possibilities with a mobile device are far greater than what lives within the browser. As much as I love the open standards of the web, and have become a software develop in their midst, there is something that really inspires the imagination about mobile devices that goes beyond the browser.
Even if replicators could completely replace manufacturing and agriculture (and that would be looking pretty far down the road), the change in society wouldn't be as big as you'd think. The service sector already constitutes about 75% of GDP in just about any mature economy, and we all still use money.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_sector...
Like what, prostitution? You're already starting at the point that other dating sites devolve to.
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This is awesome. The current system doesn't work so well since menu items don't fit well into separate categories. In fact, nothing does. One example is the quite arbitrary division into 'File, Edit, View etc'. A discussion I hear quite often between people sitting together in front of word is -'Try that menu. Oh, that one then? No? Let me have a look'.Another example is the windows control panel, who didn't switch to flat view straight away? And grouping on the start menu into categories of programs? Largely gone. Sorting your music collection on disk? Gone. Structuring your HD in general to avoid searching? Gone. Categorizing websites? Gone.

This is just the last relic. As it is right now I'd rather google how to do something in Word than look through the menu, so this solution _has_ to be better!
People who are surprised about the time spent on mobile devices have obviously never been in a waiting room nor public transportation.

Since the iPhone, people have had a chance to kill "dead time" which would otherwise have been spent staring into walls and windows. Twitter's microblogging and -communication, of course, has exacerbated this where we see celebrities who tweet when there is downtime on the set where they are shooting.

I think it's completely ridiculous to say that this is something particular to mobile apps rather than mobile proper.
I always liked the metaphor of the 'wheel of reincarnation' from 1968 (!): http://www.cap-lore.com/Hardware/Wheel.html (Read the linked PDF paper, better than the HTML summary.)
People use their mobile phone for apps more than they do for browsing the web?

Really? No shit.

Show me that people are using their mobile apps more than they're using their desktop/laptop browsers and you'll have something to write about.
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Does it bother anyone else that this is actually the opposite of an actual heads-up display? The whole point of a HUD is that the user is given information without going out of their way to get it. This gives you less passive information than a traditional menu does.

I like the idea in principle. I just don't like nondescriptive names.
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I think there are more designers than coders because the barrier to entry is far lower. Anyone can easily start designing by picking up "HTML for Dummies". It isn't going to be close to pretty but it will be published. Ask those guys to deploy something through the command line with Capistrano or rsync though and they'll look at you like you're speaking another language. It's harder to start programming. The basics might be easy at first but to build anything useful takes a lot of practice. Programming is also less forgiving. You can publish ugly brochureware easily but getting any significant program written and running is a pain as one mistake and it's throwing incomprehensible errors at the newbie programmer.
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Be that as it may, the experience of using an app is different from using a website. For one, and remember this is for the normal user, there is less searching involved which means less keyboard time, which means faster.

That, and an app seems to have more authority than a website. "This is Facebook, and I know it." sort of thing.
I would argue it's not moving fast enough. We are in the middle of a very fast-paced transition in human-computer interaction. New form-factors like tablets are being adopted rapidly (nearly doubling over this holiday season alone). A speech-enabled HUD could become the killer app of hand-held devices. But it's still not on the market, and Canonical still do not have a way to install Ubuntu on tablets. E.g. They have to move even faster!

If you think that the pace of technological change is too fast, or if you think that the music is too loud and those young hooligans should get off your lawn... then please stay on XP; but don't hold back the rest o us who will move forward without you. I look forward to your similar rant against Windows 8 with it's hand-held interface design.
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> The contrived setting of the classroom is much better than an online setting.

I don't think you've made a compelling argument on that score. It is precisely because life is complicated that lower cost and more flexible method might be considered optimum.
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So:

>open file
Which file would you like to open?
>test.txt
What you like to do with 'test.txt'?
>open 'test.txt'
Nothing happens.
Fascinating - this is a terrific description of what a good product manager does, without using the term 'product manager' once.

I know designers with product skills, and I know designers without product skills. Both are still designers.

Of course, claiming any one of these skill sets is more valuable than the other is just linkbait. It's like trying to choose between your tibia and your fibula - without either, you're not going far.
Am I the only one who sees tons of red flags the moment a job opening requires a video? It feels to me like the ivy league tradition of the in-person interview. Ivy league administrators tell themselves it's easier to judge an applicant's character and suitability in person, but in practice it turns into another way to ensure that the table tilts in favor correct ethnicity and income level.

Am I wrong to see the same thing in a video application? The more cash and connections you have, the better video you're able to create. Don't tell me the hiring manager won't notice the applicant in the $1500 suit with the professional (but not too professional) video.
I think they rightly don't care (or at least care less) about trying to convert older users who need a clone of the popular stuff.

There are way more users in trying to innovate and attract younger or less experienced computer users. If they get it right of course.
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Cory Doctorow has an interesting take on the ramifications of this in his (2006) short story Printcrime which is slightly too long to post here.

Go read it. It will only take a couple of minutes. http://craphound.com/?p=573&title=PrintCrime
See, my first instinct is to agree with you, but I don't know. Maybe we just say these things because we know programming and not design. Meanwhile someone on a design forum is saying:

" Anyone can easily start programming by picking up "Ruby for Dummies". Ask those guys to <do a design-specific task> or <adhere to a design principle I know nothing about> and they'll look at you like you're speaking another language."

Maybe I'm wrong, though.
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Facebook is an app you use often, so the increase in responsiveness is well worth it.

In the case of most startups, native apps are unnecessary. I already see that feeling trend my geek friends ("Ah, not another of those sites that want me to download their app. I just want to see the [movie listings, items for sale, opening hours, etc.]").

Worth noting, also, that Facebook (and Twitter) is mostly just a window with a browser (hence why the mobile sites are very similar).
There will probably be some of each, but to me the most interesting are the possibilities that hybrid models offer.

Apps that connect to common personal 3D printers for the pieces and then have a digital board on the screen that recognizes their position.
True, but in practice I don't feel like that happens all that often. Either because people just don't know about it or because they just don't think about it. Web sites feel like, well, web sites; so most people naturally expect to access them through their browser app. (Nothing technical, just the way humans seem to work.)
I'm kind of busy actually making things.

Union Square Ventures is not looking for someone who likes to make things. They're looking for someone who likes networking and getting noticed. Or to put it another way, they're looking for someone who can find someone else who's making things.
> I met a team at a mobile dev shop a couple of weeks ago and in the discussion I casually mentioned that mobile app usage exceeds web usage.

I have to question this assertion made in the very first sentence...it does not pass the bullshit test and it's hard for me to trust anything else in this post unless this assertion is proven in detail.

And by "in detail," I mean that this metric is useless unless broken up by category. Is it possible that Facebook mobile app usage is more than Facebook standard-browser usage? Possibly. What about for news sites? I would say, no way. It seems that many of us at HN, even the productive ones, spend a chunk of the work day browsing. Imagine how much the average white-collar worker spends idling away.

Also, how much of the mobile app usage includes freemium/MMORPG/spec-intensive games? This is a category that many web services will never try to compete in?

--

FWIW, here is the site that the OP links to to justify this assertion:
http://blog.flurry.com/bid/63907/Mobile-Apps-Put-the-Web-in-...

And this is what that site says:
> In this report, Flurry compares how daily interactive consumption has changed over the last 12 months between the web (both desktop and mobile web) and mobile native apps. For Internet consumption, we built a model using publicly available data from comScore and Alexa. For mobile application usage, we used Flurry Analytics data, now exceeding 500 million aggregated, anonymous use sessions per day across more than 85,000 applications. We estimate this accounts for approximately one third of all mobile application activity, which we scaled-up accordingly for this analysis.

Ah, a "model using publicly available data from comScore and Alexa"...right, that sounds like a totally reliable blackbox to base a completely game-changing assertion.
> at least everyone I know just uses Facebook right from their mobile web browser

Until this exact moment, it never even occurred to me to use Facebook from mobile safari. I just tried it out and it is pretty impressive; it looks (and works) very much like the app but with a slower and less responsive UI. If given the choice, I don't see why anyone would use the web version over the app though.
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But would you want to work for news corp some of us have standards and working for known hackers and serious criminals like NI is probably going to be a black mark.

Hacking a retired SIS officers pc is far more serious than VMB'ing some poor murdered girls phone for example.
You mean domains that cost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars? I think those "days" never existed, in the sense that it has probably always been a mistake.
Can anyone tell me if this is a nicely wrapped Phonegap or a completely new commercial framework that does the same thing as Phonegap?
Oh that's insane. It says it's self-replicating, but can it assemble the parts it creates or is a human needed? And what about the microchips? Those still take expensive machinery to produce, right?
Awesome. Can't upvote this more.

Used Bootstrap while building my new (launched today!) project. It sped up overall development more than I could have imagined.

Really excited for the responsive upgrades.
Sorry, but today if you graduate with CS, and apply to the right positions, you're still guaranteed a high-paying job right out of college...even if your GPA sucks.
That sounds like a rather knee-jerk reaction. Career-wise, having and promoting a personal brand can be very valuable. Have you done a basic cost/benefit analysis? Making stuff and promoting that stuff is not mutually exclusive.
Automatic printing of items doesn't create a post-scarcity world.

The printing machines can only print from plans. People who create those plans may sell them, and those plans may be pirated, but there's still industry. There's still supply and demand.

If nobody is compensated for the manufacture of the plans, you're either on your own to create them or perhaps they'll be donated. Given the state of charity in the world, one can assume that they won't be donated, but given the state of open source, one might assume that they will. Regardless, the plans aren't self-creating and/or limitless.

Why would the governments supply the raw materials for you to purchase a car? If they aren't currently motivated to just buy you a car, why would they be suddenly motivated to pay for all the materials that go into a car's manufacture, even if the labor cost is reduced? If the materials were free, what's to stop everyone from printing out 20 different types of cars and luxury mansions?
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I don't think so. You don't get that smoothness with HTML5.
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