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Sweet. Just shoot me an email: chrisbaker320@gmail.com and let me know what you're working on, and what kind of ideas of you're capable of executing, i.e., Can I come up with some crazy use of the Twitter API or is that too much?
Looks like they aren't transferrable[1]:

"Tickets may only be used by original purchaser. Tickets may not be resold. The resale of a ticket will render the ticket null and void without any responsibility to Google."

[1] https://developers.google.com/events/io/ticket-terms
The App Store also also needs automatic/forced free updates. It sucks releasing something with a bug, creating an update that fixes it within a month, and still having users complaining about the bug several months later.
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Yep, in a real-world use case you'd show only the WYSIWYG editor. The markdown area there is just to showcase what happens to developers :-)
I agree on the nickel and dimeing, but that is a matter of implementation.

Imagine In-app purchase options for options X, Y, an Z, $0.99 each. I only use X, so I'm only going to buy that. You use all the features though, so the developer provides an In-App option for all three features for $1.99.

Still feel nickel and dimed?
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You should really just have everyone follow the @fame account and then retweet the winners tweets for the day.
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Thanks for the heads up. I'm eager to hear the Georgetown talk now.

In most contexts, I don't have any trouble with vanity. If you need to stretch the truth to make a better stage show or memoir, that's great. I loved "The Social Network" even though I knew that a lot of the story was stretched to fit a traditional film narrative. I'm OK with that.

The only thing that really went wrong was when he let his story be presented in the wrong context, and how he deliberately misled the TAL folks during fact checking.
Yep, Hallo has a link plugin but I didn't have time to convert it to the new Bootstrap-styled UI that I landed today.

You can see a more fully-featured configuration of Hallo in these screencasts: http://blog.iks-project.eu/semantic-enhanced-cmf-editor-now-...
The thing about artists and politicians, etc, can also be done, and has been done with Hangouts. It was also called On Air before these guys had the name. I don't know why Google is still not allowing everyone to use that feature, though.
> But why unfollow the next day?

That's the main thing that stops this from being just another of the "sign up and maybe get lots of followers" scam sites.

You discover a new person each day, but that person's going to have to be pretty interesting that day to make you remember to follow them tomorrow.
EtchJS is pretty cool! I'm actually mentioning it in the Create README: https://github.com/bergie/create#readme (see "Similar projects")

It would be interesting to see whether we could collaborate on some widgets that could work on both.
I am very jealous you found someone to guide and challenge you like that.
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Per month or one time? I can't view the pricing because it wants me to sign in.
I'd be worried if Apple didn't remove apps with known exploits. Those apps run on a device that could have a list of your contacts, call history, and other personal data on it. On a handheld gaming system, that stuff doesn't exist.
That is true, and I'm sorry if it sounded that way. I was speaking from the perspective of interacting with other people, not your inner thoughts. You might actually have had very good reasons why your choice was superior, but you did not share them with anyone else, and from an impartial observer's perspective, it looks like this stonewalling is what made a simple PR turn into a huge bikeshedding flamefest. If this doesn't matter to you, I apologize for wasting your time. It just seemed like something I would want to hear if I were in your place.
Very nice!

I would like to use markdown in the contenteditable area
too.

I expect it to recognize that I mean bold
when I write jooo -- otherwise I would be stuck using
the GUI buttons every time I want to change something.

It might be complicated to do (ex: I have entered the left but not right yet...), but it might also be simple;
just watch the contenteditable area and pass it through some basic REs.
Always go to the left, even if it's the entries to the top or the bottom.
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I am actually suspicious about it. That's why I posted it here to get others to comment on it. I already contacted one of the founders of the incubator about this problem.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/webcamp/404741189537971/?com...
Hilariously off topic, but the background image to the website made me think my computer screen was dirty.
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I believe it's per year, but it could be one time; don't remember, honestly.
This is a list drawn up from the perspective of a business owner who obviously would prefer all his employees to be egoless automatons...

People get into programming usually because they want to make things, because they want to be creative.

Welcome to the place otherwise known as 'the real world'. Do you think the guy filming the Jersey Shore dreamed of getting to where he is today? Of course not. Even people in creative fields have to suck it up and do the dry work before they are lucky enough to do whatever they want.
I would like to use markdown in the contenteditable area too. I expect it to recognize that I mean bold when I write jooo -- otherwise I would be stuck using the GUI buttons every time I want to change something.

That is a long-wanted feature in Hallo, not only when producing Markdown, but also when Rich Text Editing normal HTML. Would be great for power users.

Feel free to add comments to:
https://github.com/bergie/hallo/issues/11

(we're having an IKS hack week in Saarbrucken now, and Hallo is one of the focus areas. So something might actually happen around this)
Well… I don't know if "willingly" is the right word.

I can very easily imagine a near future where it's not rational for small vendors to opt out of it. You're not wrong; it's just… more complicated than I am capable of articulating at present.

IMO, there are just very real reasons to be weary of the shifting power dynamics in the consumer software space.
But how much effort is it to reply and say "Please use pastebin for large code segments"? Isn't that a much nicer and more effective way to make sure he doesn't do it again?
Thank you for this! What a great comment. Also, Scheme was actually the first language I learned in college. Very good for programming concepts.
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You could add a nag screen to your app that would show if you have a heartbeat API call that returns that the user is using an outdated version.
Even reading about these second-hand, lines like "hockey-stick growth" show the prezos were quintessentially YC.
Oh, right. For some reason I was conceptualizing it as following and unfollowing much more than that. You're completely right. Duh :)
I don't understand why Apple instead of just deprecating the UDID API did not added at the same time an API returning an application-specific UDID. No privacy problems, no issues for developers.
Either you don't know what "idiosyncratic" means, or I don't know why those two sentences are related. Yes, it combines the uniquely human desire for fame with a lottery system. Why is that stupid? Is the desire for fame automatically stupid?
Oh, it wasn't meant to be snarky or a slam -- I'm honestly just curious what kinds of things require so much code? E.g., is it one or two things that dominate usually in codebases this size, or is it just a LOT of components, each of which is tens of thousands of lines long? Do these kind of counts usually include auto-generated code?
Once they launch, they should recruit Senator Santorum for their board.
Just different types of thinking I guess.

I justify charging for new features, not maintaining the ones the user already paid for.
It seems to me that one of the reasons CDBaby was/is so successful is because its primary customers are musicians, rather than consumers of music.

Strictly speaking CDBaby sells to both categories (it sells a service to musicians, and CDs to customers).

But to me, as a professional musician, it seems that people buy less music in product form now. Therefore the real customers for music-based products are...the musicians themselves.

There are more musicians than ever before. All are competing against one another.
As a result, they are willing to spend their disposable income on promotions, marketing.

Providing a service like CDBaby's was a brilliant way of tapping into that emerging market.

What made it disruptive was: the price-point, the musician-friendly ethos, the dependability and speed of the customer service.

As a musician/entrepreneur, it seems to me that very few startups realize that they may be more successful asking musicians to pay for something than finding 'customers' for their 'products' in the old fashioned (read: recording industry) mold.

Of course spinning the story to sound musician friendly is delicate...and essential.

Do you see other opportunities for charging the growing contingent of musicians for a service that is worthwhile?
I wish Sony would have a developer program like Apple's for the iOS. That was successful for Apple. There are some old fogies at Sony preventing it from succeeding.
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Poll: Which mobile OS do you develop for?
This does not count mobile web. If you're not making native mobile apps, please do not vote. If you make apps for multiple platforms, that's ok.
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That's nice ... is it supposed to do something when I select the text, though? Chrome/Ubuntu
Well, the problem is that ordinary people don't take regular backups, right? I don't think it can be solved by bugging people to back up more often. Next thing you know, people will be asking on forums how to disable those annoying backup notifications.
Thanks for not allowing code convention to be based on mob psychologoy.
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You're being a troll. Right now you're just randomly sniping at people who comment.

Write up something explaining your views, the post it as a comment/Ask HN/blog post and submit.

Also you seem to be saying this sucks in comparison to some amazing product that doesn't actually exist... the big feature of html5 is that it's already widely deployed.
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I'd suggest a button on the site along the lines of "I like today's winner, don't make me unfollow them tomorrow".
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The fundamental problem is that the easiest non-fluffy response to something is to object. If you read an article and agree but don't have anything personal to add, posting "This is correct for the reasons stated" is a waste of time, so you probably don't (and should't). But if you read something and disagree, you can simply write "This is not correct because X and Y" and you've added something (though not something very worthwhile most of the time, as X and Y tend to be knee-jerk emotional reactions).
"The alternative is Google, who doesn't release any top-tier paid apps on Android or Chrome Web Store."

Google's business model isn't to release paid apps on their stores. They have many free apps that are downloaded by the 50's of millions and have 4.5-5 stars almost across the board so, yes, they do release top tier apps.
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The article doesn't even describe the electoral reality: our first-past-the-post (also knows as plurality) voting system [1] mathematically suppresses any but 2 parties.

Condorcet laid this out in 1893 [2], and Arrow [3] improved on it. Wikipedia has a bunch of information on this.

One can easily only come to the assumption that, like the electoral college, the voting system in the USA has been designed (or co-opted) to prevent actual democratic representation. Of course discussion of such is "conspiracy theory".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_paradox
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%27s_impossibility_theorem
I remember a little hanging out and/or partying. This ring a bell Derek...

"Don't give a f--k about roaches....tryin get em out of my mother f--kin head.....can't get em out of my mother f--kin head"
I think that's why the author stressed to think long and hard before you try customizing - it's really hard to do it right. Even with custom drawing code it's not much easier IMO.
I know what you mean. It's good to try and explain it to others, but unless it happens to you it's a bit tough to explain the sensation. I'm glad i was able to help.
Given that it's called "BrowserQuest" at "browserquest.mozilla.org", I doubt too many people went in expecting Ultima Online.
Tooltips!

Good point! Done: https://github.com/bergie/hallo/commit/259c6172e475188f01fd9...

Selecting text in the middle of a paragraph and choosing a header type or pre or blockquote affects the whole paragraph. This isn't immediately intuitive. I don't have a good solution to this, but it's something to consider.

Yeah, this is what browsers do by default when issuing commands to the contentEditable. The way to fix this would be to recognize the command before it issued and splitting the text before and after a selection to their own block-level elements.

https://github.com/bergie/hallo/issues/54

Once I select text in the middle of a paragraph and mark it as pre there doesn't seem to be a way to back out this change, selecting blockquote just embeds a blockquote in the pre block.

Yeah, pre is kind of difficult to handle. I'm thinking about solutions. Previous Hallo didn't have pre enabled to work around this, but I really would like to be able to add code snippets when I write.

The <= and => icons are not intuitive as undo/redo.

I'm using FontAwesome, and they will hopefully add a proper undo at some point (https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/16).

The actual undo/redo implementation comes from the browser, so it is a bit hard to do much about it. But whenever we get to doing OT with ShareJS there might come a better way to handle editing history.
One point is that the python eco-system covers a lot more ground. Ruby and the ruby eco-system basically only focuses on web development, if ruby has other strength the community is pretty quite about it.

Python is also pretty good at web development, but is also excellent at scientific computing and visualization, data processing, statistical analysis (including nice bindings to R), network servers using twisted, natural language parsing, GIS analysis, computer vision and image processing and so on. Python also has Cython which makes it trivial do use C to speed up crucial functions.

Basically I prefer python because I can use the same language for everything I need and want to do.
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But what about the tools needed to repair the car? I wonder what percentage of car problems require non-mobile tools.. I would expect a lt of these visits to be of the form "your car needs x, but i cannot do that here
you need to take it to the shop."
> Maintenance should not be expected for free.

Users who purchase an app definitely expect there to be maintenance on the app. This is because we know no one tests their app to 100% perfection.

If I knew that the app I get at the time I pay is all I get with no future updates, not even bug fixes, then I'd wait several months to make sure no one else finds any bugs before I ever dare to buy the app. So developers give users the expectation of future updates and fixes to assuage user fears so that they actually buy the 1.0 release and give the developers some money to keep living on.
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Yeah, you're supposed to see a toolbar: https://github.com/bergie/hallo/issues/50#issuecomment-47170...
I hate web forms! They should at least provide an email address.
I don't like web forms, but my dislike doesn't rise to the level of hate.
I don't mind either way. As long as it works.
I actually like web forms, and prefer them over email.
I love web forms! Email is an antiquated medium of communication that should die a swift death.
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Wow, I remember reading memepool as a complement to the content that Slashdot used to feature.
There's nothing worse than realizing that you spent a whole bunch of time reimplementing something someone had already built when you could have simply taken a fraction of that time to understand why it was the way it was and, if applicable, to extend it to do whatever else you needed.

There is something far worse. Spending years of your life to maintain a software version of Rube Goldberg Machine that performs mostly trivial things, but has insane accidental complexity.

At least when you re-implement something (even if it's been done before), you gain a better understanding of general ideas behind it.
> Google's business model isn't to release paid apps

This differs from every OS vendor I'm aware of in the past. Just noting.

> they do release top tier apps.

Could you point out to me some of these apps where the alternatives are sold for top-tier prices?
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Looks awesome, nice work.
The Mac App Store has been a huge boon to Mac software developers

It has? Whenever I look, I tend to see trivial little apps of the same depth and quality as your typical iOS App Store app. Feels like a ghetto to me.
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You can see what services they offer: https://www.yourmechanic.com/works/#/services

Common maintenance services:

- Oil and filter change
- 90K mile service
- Basic Tune up
- Master tune-ups
- Spark plugs and tire replacement

Common Inspection Requests:

- Car is not starting
- Check Engine light is on
- Door locks are not working
- Pre-purchase used car inspection
- Car is shaking
- Oil is leaking from under the car

Common Repair Services:

- Alternator replacement
- Radiator replacement
- Starter replacement
- Timing belt replacement
- Valve cover gasket replacement
- Brake pad replacement
- Oxygen sensor replacement
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I remember a little hanging out. This ring a bell Derek?

"Don't give a f--k about roaches....tryin get em out of my mother f--kin head......can't get em out of my mother f--kin head"
I had an idea for a subscription service that would give developers a share of the subscription based on how much their app was used compared to other apps. That may work perfectly for the Mac App Store.

So I pay 10 dollars a month to have access to the MAS and I download 3 apps. I use App A 50% of the time, App B 20% of the time and App C 30% of the time. (To keep the math simple lets pretend Apple doesn't take their share).
App A's developers would get $5 a month, App B's developers would get $2, while App C's gets $3.

Maybe to handle the Pro apps like Final Cut you could have different subscription tiers?

To users, this would be a simple netflix like subscription model. Developers would have an incentive to make their apps more useful and engaging. (I'm sure it could be abused too)
Thanks for the advice. I'll go to the guitar meetup in my area and try to solo during the jam sessions. Also, it's always very intriguing to see how people are learning my first language (Mandarin).
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are you a Mac software developer? It has boosted sales of lots of already exisiting apps and gave a platform for many other apps to be shown off.
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Why?

I am curious, because I've heard that expression in many other contexts.
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> America has not seen a long-lasting national third-party movement in its history, and it won't be seeing one now.

I don't agree. True, it's been a long time. The Democratic and Republican parties have dominated U.S. politics for over 150 years. But the country is older than that. Before the mid-1850s the Whigs were a major force; the Republican Party started as a "third party". So, earlier, did the Whigs, eventually displacing the Federalists.

It is true, however, that the U.S. has never seen three major parties being powerful at the same time. When a new party has become powerful, an old one has always faded away, leaving just two.
I do this. 90% of my users upgrade within 5 days of an update being released as a result.

"Hey! You're using an outdated version of [APPX]. Click okay to upgrade via the App Store, or Cancel to continue"
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They don't release paid apps on Android because it's not their business model to charge for apps; they don't even charge for Android itself. But they do release pretty serious apps, see recently Chrome for Android.

Google pretty much do the other way around: they build tools they need for their own developments (Closure Library, v8, Go...) then release it Open Source for others to use.
So-called "skimming" of links does not strike me as being terribly wrong (or different from what Pinterest does itself), but the practice likely still undercuts their bizmodel because they don't skim links that already have affiliate ids attached to them.
Actually, the complexity of a modern CPU is mainly in making things run fast. Building an in-order, no-cache, single-issue ARM capable of running uClinux doesn't seem all that difficult. The cycle time would be horrible though. You might not live long enough to watch it boot.
In general, I think any "get service provider X to come to you" is great. But, from the article: "Your Mechanic has had 90,000 transactions and recorded $20,000 in billings per month, saving each user an average of $200 per transaction." Saving an average of $200? I have a really hard time believing that. Not saying it's impossible (I haven't seen their presentation, product, anything), but either their numbers are wonky or their users had been getting gouged at their mechanics' shops.
And according to recent news it seems it will be quite some time before cities can see automated vehicles. A bit sad to see the big technological step they accomplished being blurred by other processes.
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This is an old article but an interesting read.
On a similar note, the Mac App Store really needs an option for free trials if it wants to become the premiere marketplace for apps.