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>1. lack of genuinely needed features

Features that they were told would be in future updates...they abandoned FCP because it was so different, otherwise they would have waited (and many have waited).

>2. fear about the place of "pro"

This fear is not unfounded, see Shake. But the idea that because FCPX looks similar to iMovie it's not professional is BS, the same thing that crops up with any new, inexpensive product (I've lived through it with DV, HDV, DSLRs, FCP 1, Premiere, Color, Nuke, and too many others to name). For me, the only feature missing from FCPX is OMF export, which is handled by a third party. Out of all the commercials I've made in the past 12 months (roughly 24 national spots), all could have been handled with FCPX without any foreseeable problems (all the spots had digital delivery so no need for tape layoffs). Same goes for the features I've handled in the past year (2).

Final Cut made inroads in commercials and indie films long before the big features (and most of the FCP editing on TV is low budget reality tv shows, who were also ahead of the curve). And it's always lacked features, it was my job to get around what it lacked (and it's been very lucrative). While there was always a learning curve going from Avid to FCP, it was a relative small one that could be overcome in a day or two of intense editing. The learning curve for FCPX, even for experienced FCP users is much greater (and the kicking and screaming that editors displayed when having to move to earlier versions of FCP was bad enough).

Just like before, it will be early adopters that push FCPX. But don't discount the power of a creative director coming to a post house with an FCPX project that he wants finished. The last 5 years of my career has been that storyline. Someone will call me and pay me good money to set it up and babysit the project. And considering a campaign with a 30 second spot is typically budgeted at 3million plus, it's worth spending the money to make the creative happy.

>they're not dealing with TV stations or juggling with 30 cameras

Very few editors deal with tv stations or juggling 30 cameras (and FCPs multi-cam has always been mediocre, if you have to deal with more than 3 cameras you're better off using Avid). Most big budget editors edit. Dealing with TV stations, delivery specs, or anything technical is left to assistants, conform artists, finishing editors, flame artists, hell even producers typically deal with that more than editors.

And I don't see anything wrong with Acorn if it serves the purpose. Photoshop is overkill for most users, even many pro users. What is professional is what can get the job done well.
I must add asana.com which proved to be a wonderful tool that helps we orgenize my tasks & lists.

I also started using iDone This which seems to be quite useful.
Instagram-ish photo filters with imagemagick (and a few lines ruby)
>these are people considering (or even implementing) switches to Avid or Premiere after years of FCP.

No, these are people who are already invested in Avid or Adobe, who can't even accurately represent the state of FCP X (because they haven't used it enough, it seems.)

>1. lack of genuinely needed features

Most of the "missing" features already exist. For instance, multi cam existed before todays update, I did it with the release in October.

> You're basically saying Acorn is just fine for everybody because professional developers can draw with it.

Once again the assertion that FCP X is lacking features that are intrinsic to editing. FCP X is the photoshop, FCP, Premiere and Avid care the Acorn examples.

All of those apps are based on an old workflow that dates back to the origin of cinema, and are terrible to work with, and much slower and more difficult to edit with.

But, the problem is there's a lot of people who were trained in the old ways, and because the old ways are the old ways, they feel they can say any new way must be a toy.

That's what's nonsense. You comparing FCP X to Acorn is nonsense, when FCP X can do more, faster, and with more creativity than any other editing package on the market right now.

Real professionals want that power. Sure, if you've got a workflow that you need to stick with you don't want to migrate yet. But to complain about the change in the workflow and ignore the fact that editing has advanced significantly, means that the complainers are either invested in a competing product, or don't actually care about creativity.
You're probably correct that most people won't have side projects or businesses for the reasons you stated. Not now, not in 10 years.

But what about in the technology sector - where the skill it would take to build a product most likely overlaps with what one does for a day job? Again - maybe not everyone - but I wonder just if we will see a rise or a trend where more and more people are 'Engineer' by day and 'Co-founder' by night.
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If you're going to purchase an expensive import, be sure to look around for good independent mechanics.

I drive a Saab, and several months ago it experienced a fairly common failure related to the cabin blower motors. The dealership wanted to replace with all new dealer parts from Sweden, and provided a ~$1400 estimate.

My independent mechanic, who tells me he deals with this particular issue on a near weekly basis, told me that the part I needed was identical to a part found in earlier Cadillac Cateras. Just by using that part, he was able to fix my car for $680 -- over 50% savings.

Maintenance by the dealer can often be significantly more expensive, and there's almost always a competent independent shop nearby that specializes in your car.
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I just read the first story on the site. Taking someone to court over $1000 is a waste of time. $1000 may be a lot of money to you (it is to me) but I have faced this problem twice and you are much better spending your time on new projects and forgetting the client.

I have found the key to getting paid is milestones. I will not work with someone unless they are willing to pay 50% of the total before I start. This way if they cancel the project you are getting some money for your time. I also make clear to the client they do not need to pay the final 50% until they have the project from me. This way they need to trust me enough to pay the first 50% and I need to trust them that they will pay the final 50%. I've been using this system for the past 12 months and haven't had any problems with clients since.

There is a good thread on Programmers Exchange about charging clients (particularly for freelancers): http://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/63042/recomme...
Let's look at the four sub-headlines of the article:

>> 1. If you can't design it, you shouldn't build it.

My version of this (idiotic) axiom: Don't reinvent the wheel every time you need to pick up groceries.

>> 2. Your homepage will suck and you will have no brand.

Homepage? (What is this 1999?) Bootstrap is clearly intended for web apps. If you want to create an interesting "homepage", maybe you could try the ever-popular CopyPasta library from 37Signals...

>> You will have no new ideas.

Again, I counter this (also idiotic) axiom with another, less idiotic truism: You will stand on the shoulders of giants (or at least upon a giant pyramid of smart people). BTW, maybe someone should teach the OP how to override/alter stylesheets.

>> You will forget about information architecture.

Actually, you will leverage proven IA, and get the benefit of lots of people's opinions about what works and what doesn't. Like it or not, users' expectations drive most of what you call "UX". Bootstrap is a better-than-average collection of web app conventions. The last thing the world needs is another "innovative" navigation metaphor.

By the way, you could take every one of the OP's ridiculous arguments and apply them to, say, HTML. Should we be using Flash so that we aren't painted into the corner of HTML tags? It's such a stupid position, that it hurts my brain. I am promising myself not to spend another second on this thread...
i don't think someone who get a used benz at craigslist will take it to a dealership for service.
So I'm guessing the experiment is either A/B testing of layouts of number pads, or it's testing to see if people can cheat the leaderboard.

Also, it must be a slow news day for this to get to front page.
just tried that script and all the images it downloaded couldnt be viewed. Anyone else tried it? or have an alternative?
Well, the guys and gals at Parse have got to start somewhere.

If I was looking to make a minimum viable product to attract investors then I'd probably use a service like Parse to speed up development.

Once you're swimming in investor dollars you can worry about hiring people to build your own custom back end that has all the bells and whistles you want.
So far you've called me a moron, a nitwit, an idiot, and now asshole, dick and "a complete ignoramus".

I really do just wish you'd address my points honestly, rather than spend your time characterizing me.

One of the reasons I reached the conclusion I did about those complaining about FCP X is both their lack of knowledge about the product, but also their almost compulsive need to insult the people they disagree with.

The only reason I used the word professional in the first place is that those who bashed the product constantly claimed they were professional and that it wasn't professional. Thus they are using an arbitrary definition of professional, one I disagree with, and thus when I refer to it, the quotes are absolutely correct. But, rather than address my point, you used this as an example to pretend like I was saying something else entirely.

Even if I had, it doesn't justify the name calling.
I would think GP refers to any city in the north of the US, where we get enough snow to justify salting the roads. That road salt takes a very harsh toll on vehicles, causing an enormous amount of rust on the undercarriage.
Tcl is an interesting little language as well, and the niche it was created for is similar to the one Lua was created for. The biggest advantages that Lua has over Tcl, off the top of my head, are speed and lambdas. Tcl's semantics make it very hard to optimize because it is stringly typed (with some bytecode and value specialization in the background, but with conversions between strings and other values as needed).

Tcl's file system interface is definitely an advantage if you're trying to avoid third party libraries. However, depending on what you need to do with Unicode strings, Lua's strings are "8-bit clean" and have no difficulty storing Unicode characters; Lua's string functions (the pattern-matching functions in particular) aren't Unicode aware.
Lovely implementation, I'd like to hear more about the cross over between mustache templates and django.

As read in here http://www.readwriteweb.com/mobile/2012/01/how-lanyrd-uses-h...

Also did you have to do all the testing device by hand or do you use a service for this?
I suspect a "music pack" has a very low chance of having much value to any one person.
I think the biggest asset would simply being "not PayPal". PP has been cultivating a bad PR problem lately and systems like these will have a social lock-in effect. Not quite as bad as Facebook vs Google+ but people would be reluctant to wander too far out of bounds, especially when bank accounts are concerned.

You seem to have some great goals yourself, however. Good luck to you!
I paid the $30 for Bulkr Pro, and am currently grabbing all my photos for migration to OpenPhoto (with my own s3 account).
I'm in the middle of a short build (~5 days) mobile app that is using app cache and annoyingly I can't see to get it working on iOS, all the standard web browsers seem fine but iOS is being a PITA. I don't suppose you have any top tips?

That said more technical details would be awesome - I'd love to see how other people are doing things like this!
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So glad you're happy with Postmark and thanks for the kudos - the entire team really appreciates it.

37S is doing a great job with all of their techniques. Of course, they also have an incredible sending volume on their side that helps improve the impact of any of these techniques.

One of the biggest benefits of our approach at Postmark is that you get those same benefits regardless of your send volume: http://blog.postmarkapp.com/post/14127210172/the-false-promi...
I'm definitely aware of the autoresize tools, but like you said, as soon as you start to have variable sized data it all sort of falls down. Then you wind up having to switch to using a UIWebView, which means redoing a lot of work. It can also be a huge headache to support both portrait and landscape mode with only the autoresize tools.
Unfortunately, the sale is over, but: http://www.gamemusicbundle.com/
Ok, decided to give them a try, so I went for the cheapest option vServer VQ 7 for a small test drive, within a few hours I had access to my server, before that I got a request for an ID of some sort copy (about 30min after registering), send it and everything went smoothly.

Now about the server connection:

http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test - 104,857,600 16.6M/s in 6.5s - Earlier got around 20M/s

ftp://ftp.nfsi.pt/pub/speedtest/100mb.bin - 104,857,600 694K/s in 2m 17s - Note that this is a portuguese server and the only one I know of a file with 100mb

These are downstream into the VPS, outside I can't test properly, because I don't have a good connection for that.

About the server setup etc, being a Gentoo user, decided to install it (I previously checked if it was possible), they provide a recovery image that you can use to boot, and did the installation from there, no problems so far.

Their web interface is pretty simple and easy to use, no regrets so far but I still have 30days ahead.
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I've been using Duolingo to learn Spanish from scratch, and it has been very effective. It's also a really well done site in terms of UX.

I'm sure it will get really big once they open it up.
that's how the german engineering joke goes.

they are just trying to make your bulbs more waterproof, but in the process, they make you use twelve tools to replace it ...but it never gets a short because of water.
> Salt of the earth.

What does this expression mean?
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Yep, this thread is currently under several comments talking/complaining about zsh shared history. I'm in the "appreciate" camp.
Not to mention dealing with provisioning profiles and certificates. Creating an adhoc distribution version was one of the most frustrating experiences.
The basics are definitely easy. A lot of apps need more than the basics; even changing between landscape and portrait can be tricky and more complex that a simple autoresizing mask can handle (I would know, since I'm neck-deep in developing an iPad app that needs this kind of complex layout and needs to support all orientations).
Has it gotten that bad? I remember back in the mid-90s, when I was still young and crazy enough to fiddle with sendmail.cf on my first few Linux boxen, setting up and running your own mail server wasn't that difficult (and again, I'm talking about sendmail here). Has the whole spamocalypse turned this into an nightmare of that magnitude?

There goes my plan for moving my personal accounts away from GMail before March 1st...
Right, citizens of most "western" countries can visit other such countries (typically for tourism or business up to 3 months) without a visa. And until APIS became technologically viable, "without a visa" meant that the host country was pretty much waiving the opportunity to perform a background check on you.

But these days, the US runs some kind of check on everyone. So that's the equivalent of being one of those "unfriendly" countries that requires visas for all noncitizens. (I guess Australia does too, since it requires non-visa visitors to apply in advance for something called an Electronic Travel Authority.)
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Being a long time Linux user, I am very aware of the "I don't want you as my customer" feeling.

Being a software developer, I have never understood the decision on why to essentially limit the number of customers you can have. I think the only thing worse than not supporting the majority of platforms is not making them have feature parity.
This was fairly common in the spamming industry. They call it joe-jobbing. The way it works is when you run a site that is promoted by spam, you need special hosting that costs 10-30x more and can tolerate complaints. Let's say you have a competitor or someone annoying, you goto his corporate site and pay someone couple hundred bucks to email millions of people linking to your competitor/enemy's site that isn't on spam-proof host. The host will get complaints about that site for spamming and pull it down.

It's a pretty petty thing and doesn't really accomplish much in the long run.

Fineprint: much of my knowledge is almost a decade old.
Oh wow, I remember looking at my post thinking: "something's wrong here, oh well." I actually meant Jade:

http://jade-lang.com/.

Jade makes HAML look like a dogs breakfast.
Most Unicode fonts don't include glyphs for all code points (and those that do are usually relatively low quality).

If your selected default font isn't appropriate, an application can use font substitution to render selected glyphs using another font.
salt of the earth - noun,
an individual or group considered as representative of the best or noblest elements of society.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/salt+of+the+earth
On the integration front, one thing I will also add is that in .NET integrating Lua with your program feels pretty close to being a first-class citizen. Very nice.
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"You, not a single person complaining about FCP X here or elsewhere, has named a single creative feature missing from FCP X"

If you've managed to follow this issue at all without seeing (repeated) references to the lack of XML support, then you are mentally retarded.

I don't mean that as an insult. I mean that in the clinical sense of not having a properly functioning brain. It is simply not credible that an individual who has got an even passing familiarity with professional post production could miss this, or fail to understand why it's on par with an air-traffic control tower stripped of its radios.
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I still prefer the abstractness of http://www.clickyourlifeaway.com

-edit - but I like the submission by the OP too, I can see it becoming a meme XD
The reason its not so popular? IMHO because we live in a society that favors 1sec landing pages, customized per individual options, complexity that rivals air skyscrapers and shrinked wrapped ready-to-go solutions. This is not LUA.

LUA is just one tool in the tool box - its not the tool box.
As someone who runs a photo sharing service that works great for uploading your entire JPEG photo collection at once (or at least in a few 2GB batches), it would be to my advantage to perpetuate the myth that Smugmug does not support RAW. But the truth is, their SmugVault service does.
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I like the idea of this book ... I think.

But this writer sure speaks a lot without saying much. Distractingly so.
Nexus owners: Edge didn't work on my Nexus (neither Edge Classic nor Extended). The other HD apps seem to work great.

Permissions: All apps except Anomaly only asked for Network Communication. Anomaly needs Network Communication, Modify/Delete USB storage, and Prevent Phone from Sleeping.
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Today, we are experiencing a revolution in human interaction.

The “online” world has come full circle, with more and more websites and apps focused on reconnecting people with the real world around them, and the people in it.
Same here. One of the core reasons that I still download the Daily Show with BitTorrent, even though the episodes are freely available on the Daily Show's web site, is that I've gotten used to getting Jon Stewart's jokes at 1.25x speed, and the web site doesn't let me speed it up.
If it's not going to take up the full screen width it should at least be centered. It feels weird having 50% of the page to the right of the guide blank.
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Do not rely on it. As the other message says it is trivial to do, but it will underrecord by a lot. Measure by actions not opens.
stick it to the man, wepay!!!!
Lol, genius!! Wish I saw that before I put mine up :D, not the same, but pretty funny
> 2) each version has permissions

Side-loaded apps still have permissions.

I agree on all your other points, though I don't know how a project like this could be made to work with the android market model.
No ZFS encryption, no boot support, and costs 20 dollars.

I have no problem with the price tag, but I really fail to see the benefits of this over MacZFS, they don't even discuss whether or not graceful degradation for HFS resource forks is implemented or not.

Sorry, no cigar.
yeah I have no clue what it is... and I even read the blog. Pretty sure it does not count as a game or an experiment with so little explanation... who knows?
I'd guess its an experiment about when people stop clicking. Most people either only click a few times, or stop right at 20 times, when they receive the easter egg buttons.

So, the lesson is: give your users a perceived reward for taking action on your site, to get them engaged long enough to get the reward.

Or maybe the lesson is: as soon as users perceive there are no rewards left they'll leave.
I purchased a Zenbook UX31E on Saturday. I've installed Ubuntu 11.10 alongside Windows 7 for development needs. It's meant to be my mobile development laptop and so far it runs great. Obviously it has some quirks pointed out in reviews but I haven't had any issues I couldn't get past with updated drivers or configuration.

Ubuntu 11.10 is a battery hog, I think I can get about 4 hours out of the battery.

Windows 7 seems to estimate 5-6 hours.

I'd have to do further testing for actual hours on battery for both environments. So far, so good.
I think this issue is very significant these days, with the boom of outsourcing and remote freelance work. For scenarios with no down payment requirement, there's no guarantee the service provider will receive payment at all (and no guarantee the rest of the payment will be paid for the down payment scenario either). And for scenarios where a down payment (or full payment) is paid, there's no guarantee the service will ever be delivered to the requester. And how about scenarios where the wrong service was delivered? And how about if the service provider and requester are not in the same country (how do you go about taking legal action)?

I am a co-founder of a nascent third party payments aggregator (TPPA) called PayGuard. We are currently building our Beta, but our system specifically targets such scenarios. And with such capability, our system inherently solves the same issues with material products as well (a market PayPal currently dominates, though it does so extremely unsatisfactorily).
Ok, but distill != filter. My experience is that no matter whether man or machine filters content it will not be as good as an expert sitting down authoring content.
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