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You're twisting my words. Are you really so naive to believe that if you make a great app that you're automatically going to climb to the Top 25?

Try navigating the app store. Tell me how you discover apps. A great app that was released is never going to get anywhere unless a marketing budget has been allocated beforehand (unless you somehow win the lottery and create the next angry birds.)

And lets talk about the "expense" of others. Did you feel like you lost anything when bots and incent PPI were allowed? Did you even know about it? The app store functions in a way that it's sort of like the survival of the fittest. If the people don't like an app, it's going to drop back down as fast as it climbed up.

If Apple wants to create an ecosystem where indie developers can thrive, they need to change their ranking algorithm, solve discoverability for their developers, or stop banning the solutions people have been coming up with (incent PPI, bots.)
As far as I know that is common, but I would also still describe it as a group activity, even though the initial idea generation is done solo. The process could for instance be:

* Do a short exercise to prime everyone to 'let go of their default mindset' (you can leave this out if everyone is experienced in doing this, although it should usually be fun)

* Have everyone put their own ideas to paper, within a reasonable amount of time, while together in the same room, but without communicating about them

* Together, group the results: determine overlaps and outliers.

* Then discuss the results together

In the last phase, the first exercise and the resulting mindset still has some effect: people will be less protective of their specific ideas, because of the mindset that generated them, which can easily be blamed for 'silly' ideas. Some outliers can therefore be dismissed easily. On the other hand, people will more seriously consider ideas they might otherwise have dismissed as 'silly' right after they were uttered. Some outliers may prove to be very valuable and a group brainstorm wouldn't have resulted in them.

Brainstorming, as I understand the term, is used to describe this entire process of idea generation and evaluation. Not just the phase/mindset when generating ideas and not just when that happens in a group together. Perhaps this school of thought is more regionally limited than I know and this is indeed not generally known as 'brainstorming'.
A biography is not a hagiography. If Gruber wants the latter, he can write one. He already has a lot of material for it.
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Just downloaded and tried it and it looks really good. It has the simplicity of Notepad which I keep going back to after trying a new app and I have tried "many". I only wish they were cloud based and had a web version to it so my lists are not stuck on my iPhone alone. Hope that is coming!
Who else reading this suspected Techcrunch fund was an investor in the company who made this app?

Its just that when Techcrunch fawns over a todo app, it makes me suspect something is up. I am sure nothing is, and its a great app, but Techcrunch is hard to take seriously.
It varies. But $5k means their app can take a trip to the top 25 and gain around 8k organic users/day. You know where $5k in shotty banner ads gets you? ~2k organics tops.

Prove me wrong that $5k is a lot easier to scrape together than say... iAd's $25k minimum ad buy.
It seems to me his appeal is mostly about his personal problems with the organisation. He felt unsafe, felt like his privacy was void, and that nobody listened to him. Also he calls it a failure because of a few core problems (which I, as outsider, don't see going wrong as badly as he says it is), but he doesn't acknowledge what Wikipedia has archieved and what it is to many people.

I personally think it's a great resource to learn the basics about mostly any subject. I never donated though and I'm not sure I ever will, but I don't see how a non-profit organisation needs millions to run. Sure they need money for hosting, but not millions. And if they do, they should look for a model to get some money. I'd rather see ads than Jimmy Wales' face printed hugely on top of all articles for months.
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Come on, you have to give me something to argue with. I can't just sit here agreeing with people. :)
Yes, Visual Studio outside the MS sphere is not the greatest. C++, C#, VB.Net, F# - fine. Does anyone use it for anything else?
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Pacebutler brings for you an opportunity to fulfill your duties towards society and help others to make their life better. Pacebutler is an organization, which purchases your old mobile handsets and donates an educational book against each mobile handset it purchases.
After reading the recent article by Lyons (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3587730) I'm getting real skeptical about press releases from TechCrunch.

How is this an "amazing" app? I watched the video and it just looks like another to-do list with some swipe and pinch functionality. I don't have any ill will towards the developers and I do hope they succeed, but this is not worth much as news.
EcmaScript is working on growing a way to indicate block scope with "let" as mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
InMobi is not high technology. It is just another Ad Platform you can buy and install off the shelf. Their business skills can be considered "high".
That's not necessarily true. Bad apps will naturally drop. App ratings don't lie (at least to some extent.)

You also have to account for the LTV of users. If it's not backing out (which is most likely for a bad app), they're just wasting their money.
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I'd say that Rails is bad for non-programmers to learn programming on. Start with something that has far less magic baked in, like Sinatra; Rails will do a great job of doing things for you, without necessarily letting you learn what's going on. It's awesome for experienced programmers who are tired of doing the same drudge work for the four thousandth time, though.

Ruby is a great language, though, and is fine for beginners. Sinatra is a very straightforward and gentle way to do some web programming with Ruby.
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This doesn't require a Steve Jobs mind-meld though.

When everyone stopped buying NeXT's elaborately designed hardware, Jobs slapped the OS onto beige 486 clones faster than you could press the turbo button.
Bots don't exist on Android, but incent PPI does. It doesn't matter about the # of installs he gets because Android takes into account uninstall rates as well as your app ratings.

If he's ranked higher than you, he's most likely hitting the factors better than you.
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Well done! Too bad I had to open Chrome to see it working (Firefox is my main browser).
Even if there was just one person, he would only be about 7 miles away from the surface support ship.
"Your posts in support of Apple are so breathless. I don't want to go all ad hom, but this is a little...much."

At the time of writing, nirvana has written comments on this post totalling 3931 words, most of which defend either Apple or Jobs. Don't play chess with pigeons.
This is a very well articulated post on why there are so many startups today. Even my previous boss, an (exited) founder who started in the bad old days when you HAD to build out your own hardware made a particularly memorable quote last time we met up: 'every dude and his dog is a founder now'.

I know myself that I wouldn't have taken the leap if I had to put serious money on the table for hardware investment 1990s/early 2000s style. Being able to build a proof-of-concept on a free Amazon Micro instance knowing that you can scale up to larger sizes as needed later and also split out into multiple instances on demand only when you have the customers means that 2 or 3 founders can literally code in a bedroom surviving on ramen with no other costs except for a few domains and pycharm licenses.

The thought of the only real investment being founders' time (and the opportunity cost of using said time) is much more palatable than having to put cash on the table upfront for hardware.

The cloud has literally turned hardware provisioning into a problem that you tackle as a cost optimization when you've got decent revenue coming already rather than an upfront investment that you're not sure you can get a return on.
Perhaps they just started now, Physics h7B requires it.
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Funny and weird, today Grooveshark works for free. I assume that the subscription thing is a sign that Grooveshark is not doing so well. But the way they did it, without giving proper explanations on their website is at least a sign of bad management.

Or maybe someone cracked their system, but I don't think so...
I use task apps quite a bit. For time sensitive task, I use Apple's Reminders. For general some-day tasks, I use Things. For dev tasks, I use lists in Textmate. For collaboration, I use Planbox.

But, here's the thing. Clear is the first task interface that I can call fun - AND it's easy to use.
Probably the biggest difference was Display PostScript->Quartz. That and the UI makeover made for about a 2 year delay before OS X was released.

From Bill Gates' perspective, MS Office was a straight-forward port to Carbon, so I suspect he misunderstood when hearing it was 'mostly the same'.
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Except that isn't the case. Almost all of the dominant players in the social mobile gaming space have used bots, and are thriving. That's not to say the bad apps didn't use it as well, but their users' LTVs never backed out BECAUSE they were bad.

I strongly believe that it IS Apple's job to help get apps in front of iOS users because it's an ecosystem that prides itself on better apps. I agree that if Apple gave developers' a better way, to hell with bots.

As for a third party solution, people have tried. People have tried to create websites to rank apps, but they just don't work without incentivization (which to many of you, means misleading the end user.) Ask yourself honestly. Would you yourself log onto a site every time you try an app just to rate it?
There is no 'suspected Techcrunch fund'. There's a fund created by the founder of TechCrunch, Michael Arrington, named the CrunchFund. (It's a kind of unfortunate name, since it does tie people's minds to TechCrunch.)

Michael Arrington isn't involved in TechCrunch, nor does he have any editorial oversight over it. I don't believe that Michael and Erick Schonfeld (the new editor) are on great terms.
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia and not a research journal.

An encyclopedia is more like a dictionary. I cannot just add a word to a dictionary just because my colleagues and me thinks its a great word and we use it often or because we are great in our own field.
How is it misinformed?

Syntax is the only reason people use CS. CS is used by people who don't like writing JS. Proof is that no CS people are talking about Traceur are they? It's essentially adding most of the things of CS (before CS) but with JS syntax. So, as i said, if you want to write CS because you think it looks pretty, well, that's fine, but don't defend CS based on it's functionality.

And, JavaScript is different then the languages you listed as those are classical languages. You can't even compare them. JavaScript is NOT a classical language. This is a very, very core concept of JavaScript. Why not read Crockford's post I linked to? The performance hit alone should scare you to not use faux JS classes ever.

The languages you listed are compiled languages. CoffeeScript is a transpiled language. Also the fact that it's transpiled is why people say "Oh, dude, it's just JS!" and so they send JS people pull and bug requests with CS code and we all laugh. You'd never see this in any other languages. I feel like CS developers are blind to this. Do you see Obj-C programmers claiming they program in LLVM or something or send bug requests written in raw LLVM code? No.

CoffeeScript, as I said, is fine as it's own language, but the fact of the matter is that it's not and CS developers assume every other JS engineer likes looking at -> instead of function and all other JS engineers like using classes instead of prototypes or that we can't figure out wtf "this" is. We can. If we want added functionality we write it in JS as helper functions. What speed are you gaining from using CS instead of Traceur or Dart? It all boils down to one thing:

CoffeeScript developers like CoffeeScript merely because they don't like the look of JavaScript otherwise they'd use something like Traceur.
I'm Tunisian, and it's actually the exact same problem. (with the difference that we don't have these 'coding' jobs. We don't have jobs at all)
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An aluminum ThinkPad would be god-like. I think at that point you literally could drive a car over it and it'd be fine.
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Pure sour grapes. Wikipedia does not need more elitism and douchebaggery than it already has. The experiment is a success because of its pluralistic foundation, but 'top editors' (academics) keep forgetting this and attempting to turn Wikipedia into a 'real' encyclopedia. It isn't nor will it ever be. It's a repository of facts, opinions, lies, and yes, some vandalism. In other words, a snapshot of the state of the internet, maybe even more than that.

The main problems with Wikipedia from my outsider perspective:
1. Lack of a viable long-term business model. Begware will never flourish.
2. Lack of an efficient impartial mechanized/algorithmic resolution system.
3. Lack of expert business leadership - see #1.
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I strongly agree with this.

Here's an idea:

Why doesn't Apple take the Amazon/Netflix approach and add a recommendations engine?

For example, if I was a big fan of iMobsters (and I spent a lot of $$$ in it, it would have a few categories.)

New (like iMobsters): Crime City, Mobster Wars 3D, Crime Inc.

Related: Racing Live, Gun Bros

You Might Like: Tiny Wings

etc.

Up until now, it's been the same old categories. The apps Apple features/shows (excluding rankings) aren't catered to your tastes, but rather just what they like (staff picks, featured , etc)
The problem with organically grown neighborhoods is that it is difficult to build efficient public transportation that connect them, hence I was going for planned ones.
More than half the cities population will live in the satellite areas, there by making it cheap and efficient to run subway lines 24x7. Also I believe the dead space problem will take care of itself as demand for space increases.
Thanks for your advice. I was trying to do it without tripple-booting (no need for Windows), but I'll go ahead and give it a shot.
I like that their review of this iPhone app says to refer to the video below, but when I read the article on my iPhone, the video doesn't even show up.
The app seems to be great, but unfortunately I'm hesitant to find out since it requires Facebook to do anything. I really don't want an app to be posting my activities on my Facebook wall - Maybe there's a choice in the app, but I can't really tell.

So, until you guys figure out a way to make the app functional without me having to connect it to my Facebook account, I'll just have to give it a pass.
These days I find myself going to tvtropes rather than wikipedia, even for real-life things. When I was looking up a country I was about to visit, the wikipedia page contained more facts but tvtropes was a lot more informative. When looking up an obscure band, wikipedia didn't even have a page. It's not without its problems, and seems to be getting worryingly formalized lately, but it feels more like wikipedia of old than today's wikipedia.
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The best way of hypnotizing is the right voice inflections, right choice of suggestive words, and your proper body language, and the ideas which you present in the front of the listener must be right. That fellow starts agreeing what you said but the listener must be attentive .This is the best way of hypnotizing.
I loved Isaacson's book but I think Gruber is right.
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could you please explain what you find so funny
"People who don't like pink" is significantly less funny than "all guys, and especially single women"
Thank you, may I ask what it is that you like about my idea and what you think will work and why you think it will work?
I think OP was saying that knowing Shakespeare is inherently important because it transforms your ability to think.
For example, take a case where someone knows how to think, and has read relatively easy children's authors like Enid Blyton. This person would still have learnt to think from writing a a critical analysis of whatever novel they've read.

However their ability to think is still limited to merely the thought processes of an author for children ( Disclaimer: I have no intention of belittling Enid Blyton here).

By just reading Enid Blyton you can't think in terms of metaphors or similes or puns etc. By reading Shakespeare you gain an inherent ability to think in a completely new way. This is also perhaps very similar to what PG says in ANSI Common LISP about LISP's unusual appearance, to quote PG:
' You have to think in a language to write programs in it,
and it's hard to want something you can't describe. When I first
started writing programs-- in Basic-- I didn't miss recursion,
because I didn't know there was such a thing.'
Similarly if you didn't know there was such a thing as personification, you wouldn't miss it!
Which part of the ToS are you referring to?
This was fixed in webkit already - http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/103922.
Anyone got a screenshot?
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I remember when I was a kid (late 80s early/mid 90s), and I'd visit my aunt in California (I'm from Georgia). It seemed almost like a different country--different stores, different architecture, different culture. The same was true for rural areas closer to home.

Now everywhere I go, there's a Walmart, a McDonalds, an Applebees/Chilis/TGI-Fridays, a BestBuy, a Staples/OfficeMax/Office Depot, and a Home Depot, or Lowes.

The world feels a lot smaller.
If I had to guess, it's because Nokia's hardware could generally survive a nuclear explosion at ground zero and emerge unscathed.
This is great. I am already loving it. Please add more resource types like Essays, Papers etc.
One suggestion: After I click the Add to shelf button, page reloads and does not return to the position/book I was looking at. Each time I have to scroll down again to shelve the next book.

Thanks for the efforts :)
For me, it was an engineering track (the actual degree is in Computing Engineering), and we did have basic science courses as well. The 'real' CS stuff though, was mostly math and logic (algorithms, language theory, semantics, complexity theory and so on), but there were more engineering-like courses as well (operating systems, networking, computer architectures, etc).
I'm pretty sure I remember it from Windows 3.1.
Here's the problem imo: most of Wikipedia's content is currently unmaintained (as far as I can tell).

If there's any political or nationalistic controversy to the content, there's 50 wikilawyers obsessively monitoring it. But if the article is 'boring', anyone can go in there and write whatever they want and (unless a bot thinks it's vandalism), nobody will care.

This is natural - it's fun to write an article and collaborate on edits. Then you move on, because no normal person wants to be the content janitor. And what happens to the article 5 years later? How about 10 or 20 years? I think if Wikipedia doesn't get a handle on this, on the structural level, the site is going to be mostly random agrammatical garbage sooner-or-later.

Wikipedia is already at the point where it seems like every article has content warning banner on top of it. Most of them have been there for years, and nobody cares.
Get it right. http://begthequestion.info/

Shouldn't we accept that words change in meaning over time?
True, words like "cool" and "gay" gained new meaning via a process of modern association with their understood meanings, but BTQ abuse rises from a misunderstanding of its original use. It would be as though people started using "the die is cast" to mean dying, simply because the word "die" is in there, without any knowledge of Caesar. Is there any idiom -- not a single word, but a full phrase -- whose meaning has changed over the years, simply by virtue of its being misunderstood by the linguistically inept or the historically ignorant?

But language is constantly evolving.
That's great to know! Descriptivist linguists, whom we do not fault for their stand, are quite free to watch as we bring about an evolution in the vernacular understanding of "begging the question."
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I should add that Mercurial, the Definitive Guide comes in PDF (http://code.google.com/p/i18n-zh/downloads/detail?name=hgboo...) and epub (https://bitbucket.org/jan_/hgbook/downloads/hgbook.epub) versions as well, which seem more current.
It's the first time I heard of it.

standard Windows controls has so many cool shortcuts. Like the RichEdit control, you can use Alt+X to switch between hex and character.
Is there any shortcuts to make the start button reappear?
I'd like to get rid of all the remaining visible UI widgets in Chromium. That would be the address bar and the tab bar. Web page with 1 px border, no decorations or buttons, that's what I want.

I still want my tabs inside the browser (my wm doesn't have tabs for every window like ion3 or kde kwin). However, I don't want the tab bar to be visible unless I'm in the process of changing tabs with ctrl-tab. Same goes for the address bar, I'd like to see it only when I'm typing to it.

I used a browser called Luakit for a while. It's a WebKit-based browser that has a user interface that's built with Lua and has a Vim-like default setup. It worked quite well but I changed back to a conventional browser when I couldn't get a proxy set up with good ad blocking, etc (luakit has no proxy or ad blocking, it relies on you installing polipo+privoxy or another http proxy setup).

So these days I use Chromium but I would love to get that minimal UI look and feel from luakit.
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Where I work now, I do a lot of engineering. By that I would mean designing non-trivial stuff and using technology best suited for the job. (E.g. for async stuff we are using node.js.) Whereas what I would do at these "outsourcing" companies is be forced to work on the MS stack and do basic store in DB, retrive from DB and update the DB stuff. CRUD with no real optimization. The only "optimization" these places offer are not writing bad SQL.