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It's a completely different version of Office. I imagine it's at least partially recycled from Office for Windows Phone (which is bundled for free). It's actually rather good.
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It's not exactly like that — there will always be issue, we know it, but some are more irritating than other. I can handle Xcode crashing, and needing some help to compile everything — I can live with that.
The debugging part otherwise, is subpar. It's (at least for me), a true hell. Appcelerator was the king of unusable error for example, that and a lack of GOOD (heck, even complete) doc were driving me mad.

So yes he has made a trade. I think a good one, but to each his own !
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Yeah, that route could work... but it is a bigger investment in time to learn another language/development environment in greater depth. At least part of the appeal for PhoneGap and other third party tools is that devs are trying to avoid XCode / Objective C development. There is something painful/time consuming about the process in comparison to other comparable programming tasks.

It seems like there are two ways of approaching GUI/language development:

1) Apples way: Keep building on a base language (C). Add new features (Object orientation, XML rather than proprietary configuration, Code Generators). Maintain backwards compatibility (your old devs will be wowed by each new release's automations and syntax improvements. New devs that have not been part of your programming tradition will require greater up front study time to grok the process).

2) Microsoft's approach: Make visual development "primary" (closer to the way one uses a GUI rather than builds it). Ignore underlying language constructs and best practices (e.g. make everything global).

Having worked with Microsoft, I thought that Apple (especially with their attention to UI design) would give developers a more intuitive interface. Perhaps it is intuitive to those who can build GUIs in code, but it was not to me. This is in stark contrast to Microsoft, where someone who knows very little about programming can create a usable GUI (and get themselves in trouble quickly as well). Don't get me wrong, I am not a Microsoft fan and spend little time in that world. However, I was able to jump in on several projects and be productive with very little ramp up time. Apple development required a greater investment of time and energy up front to be productive. Enough that I have considered PhoneGap and other tools as alternatives for subsequent development.
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Mine too! Your thoughts are spot on.
I'll be in MV at the hackerdojo in 1-2 weeks. Once I am there, the first thing I will be building will be a front end to crowdfunding platforms like kickstarter featuring free/libre projects as the alpha for the Copyleft Media Foundation, with Richard Stallman and the FSF interested in my idea. Since my first incubee is an artist, a startup to sell her paintings is next. CubicleCurator is me asking offices to hang up her art, and hoping they buy some when I threaten to take it back and put it back in rotation. Third will be the TCombinator web site. I can't say for sure what will be next after that. At some point I will walk into YC and lay out my hand. For food, I'll try to always have a date lined up for lunch/dinner. For places to stay, I'm just winging it hoping somebody comes through for me. That's the part I am trusting my charm, enthusiasm, and unbelievable luck.
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This movie is from Trammell Hudson, the guy who created Magic Lantern. He doesn't mention that Magic Lantern had anything to do with the low light performance, so I assume the performance is plain 5DII - however, features from Magic Lantern can help you get the focus, exposure etc much better than stock firmware. (I am sure, however, he used ML when taking this video)
It looks like an interesting concept, but I feel like you're jumping the gun a little. I would expect, though I don't pretend to know, that starting an incubator would require a lot of contacts/money/etc.
Thank you for your valuable feedback, the search is actually at the top right corner, which I thought is the web convention, but will make it more prominent now. And you are right that the full-text search requires more tweaking.
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Off topic, 0x10co.de looks like it's gonna be a big hit app store.
It's how it should be done and is very under appreciated by the tech community.

Because the tech community no longer use Microsoft products?
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Handy summary. I liked the quick test (4/5) more though!
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yes I have checked the one that's shared in the HN profile. But still no email to me.
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Some environments make it easier to browse the source than others. See for example the way you would figure out how to customize indentation in Emacs, by asking Emacs for the source code to the command that is run when you press TAB: http://david.rothlis.net/emacs/customize_c.html#style

(Note that the above refers to browsing the source of Emacs itself, not using Emacs to browse any arbitrary source -- unfortunately the tools for that are still very primitive).
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I am equally productive with web as well as native development so it makes no difference to me. Not surprisingly, Phonegap never appealed much - same work, inferior results, single (but dubious) benefit: cross platform.

I was pleasantly surprised by Titanium mobile though when I had to evaluate it at my job 2 years ago. I set to reimplement one of our (non-trivial) apps and summarize my experience. I ended up writing 50% less code and it took about the same time as what I had spent on the native version. I consider this a compliment though as I was completely new to Titanium. On the flip side I was completely new to the app when I wrote it the first time :-)

The build/run/debug loop was unpleasant but I've heard that it has improved since then. As for performance, it was good - Titanium generates native UI, albeit with an interpreter in the middle.

I was quite surprised when it turned out that I have a 99% identical app. You see, from the very beginning I decided that I'll be hard on Titanium, my goal was no-compromise, high-fidelity clone. And it worked. The only problem was positioning a tooltip near a touch point - at the time there was no way to traverse the view hierarchy. But then again, maybe I could have implemented it in a different way.

I realize a lot has changed since than, but this is my 2 cents - sharing a real world/product experience.
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So we either apply tint to windows or keep tin warm? Thanks for the thought though!
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The narcissistic, English speaking, vocal and startup side of the tech community don't.

The rest of us do.
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The app looks extremely well made, really a shame it has been pulled out of the stores.
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Personally, I've found a sense of humour to be a reasonable indication - person 2 is more likely to be able to step back, smile, and say "okay, this is horrible and it's going to go badly for these reasons. But if I had to do it, I'd X the Y with Z". If they can do that and laugh about it, I get a sense of levity and perspective.
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For A/B testing:

I'm working on a fast testing framework for native iOS apps. I posted some early design specs at appgrok.com. There's also clutch.io, which supports iOS app iterations (things similar to A/B testing) using a hybrid approach, if I understand it correctly.
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Okay, I will make shit work. No problem. The fix will take a little time, but it will solve the issue permanently. What do you mean we don't have time for that? Sure, this is something the consultant can work on. Just remember he wrote this code originally. [puts headphones on and starts looking for another gig]
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There should be more than a handful of possible buyers.

Don't forget the value of the data you sit on / will be sitting on. It might feed up to managers/labels etc. Especially talk to the guys from BigChampagne about that.

Go talk to Ian Rogers from Topspin (although I'm not sure if he has a competing product), Eric Garland from LiveNation/BigChampagne, Matt Sandler from Chromatik .. find someone that can navigate you through the industry.

Who's on your platform more? Fans or Bands? Both groups can be catered to. Figure out which one holds more value.

Make it easy for artists to sell music. And try to find people who have enough from mainstream music and want to support local/smaller bands/artists. Take transaction fees?

Hooking up smaller venues with talent?

Let me know if you need an intro to someone..
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Nice job Apple and Google, nice job.

If I were in charge, person who made the call would be out of job.

And if this was "company" decision, well, good luck to you all, and move to Europe. We love brunettes here.
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For students who are learning, perhaps this is what they need. What they don't need to to be given answers to everything on a plate without having to work at all.

We all know that skills unpractised are skills lost. You need to work continually and constantly on skills to keep them honed, and you need to work hard to gain new skills.

Clearly this calculator isn't suitable for every context, but neither is Python, C++, Haskell or Lisp. (Well, except for Lisp. We all know that's useful in every context. 8-)
Again go to the source... design by contract is a way to embed and execute the contracts in the source code is a great way to increase code quality. Take a look at the Eiffel programming language is impressive what having contracts in the code gives you.
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Serious question for Jeff - If I gave you a 500,000 line app (any language) with zero documentation and asked you to start adding features and fixing bugs, you'd be cool with that because you had "the source"?

I'm not Jeff - but that situation has occurred multiple times in my career. Along with the more problematic one of there being documentation, and there being serious discrepancies between the docs and the code.

I like to have both by preference, but if I had to pick one I'd pick the source. I can figure out what it does from the code. I can't figure out the bugs from the docs.

Both of these situations outnumber the times I've had large code bases with good accurate documentation.

Also, how did you get so far in your career as an MS developer with such limited access to source code?

I'm not an MS developer, but from those I know there seems to have been pretty wide access to lots of source for some years now - you just can't fix and re-distribute it :-)
I didn't expect such a good feedback, thanks a lot
You could follow the Dribbble model, and offer "Pro" accounts where artists could list themselves as available for hire. For bands that don't want to be hired, but just want to let their fans know where they'll be performing, give them access to MailChimp-like features to send email-blasts to their fans.
We are a bunch of folks experienced in building cloud apps for the last several years. Myself and one of my partner were college classmates. We stayed in touch and kept discussing about quitting and building a business of our own and eventually did.

On hindsight, we should have quit & started lot earlier. It took 10 years working in the industry and 2 years of thinking about quitting, dabbling with different ideas before we eventually did. :)

We quit our jobs last year along with two other friends who complement in areas of expertise and started working on this together.

We have first hand experience of subscription billing issues building multiple products in previous jobs and felt we could definitely do a good job of solving this problem.

So, here we are. We just started our private beta and have few folks testing our app and integrating with us.

We build out API doc framework ground-up (design inspired by docco, used by Stripe as well) and our auto-generated doc doubles up as documentation for our code.

Here is a link to our API documentation: https://apidocs.chargebee.com/docs/api

Help us with your review comments. Thanks!
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That's why I still love eBay+PayPal despite their double-dipping on seller fees.

I've sold so many items that would otherwise live forever in a closet because they'd be too hard to find a local buyer. The number of eyeballs looking at eBay makes the place a huge net win.
Google is really rich. They could afford it.

They just wouldn't want to because it would cut into their profit margin. It's not like they couldn't sell ads directed at the non-tracked people, they'd just be less targeted ads. There's still money in it.
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Apple has consistently proven that they want the App Store to be squeaky Disney family clean. So the fact that some apps went through the cracks was pure luck.
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Doesn't http://ideone.com already do this for a ton of languages, including C# and VB.NET?
The problem is that "app approval" does not scale well, for a very simple reason: it is hard. Applying guidelines like the ones Apple uses, requires a very skilled individual that is able to evaluate at the same time a set of rules in a flexible way, and really understand if the app is good for the apple store or not. You can do that if you have a team of 20. Finding 300 people doing this work very well is going to be very hard, and you need to pay more as this must be people that at the same time understand design, programming (if you read the rules thare are many that without understanding of software are hard to apply), and at the same time able to find a good balance between flexibility and severity. Not an easy task at all.

Maybe they could improve the process with the following schema:

* Instead of doing a single longer review, a few of your approval team will review the app briefly, and provide a score between 1 and 5 of "acceptability".

* If the score is 4 or 5, go forward. If the score is <= 3 send it to a more expert reviewer that will do an in depth analysis.

Optionally also discard the app if the average score is <= 1.5 if there are problems with the "load" of the experts.
Looks good, a few comments

Some of the English doesn't quite feel right. For example under FAQ:

We understand that we are in serious business

I'd expect to read "We understand that we are in a serious business". Really minor, but these things matter, especially when you are asking people to trust you.

Secondly, when looking at a solution like this, the first place I want to go is your API docs, to see what I can/can't do , and how easy it is. I can't seem to see those linked from your website.

Finally- I'm a little bit suspicous/worried that your pricing is so low (e.g. no recurring charge and 20 cents per transaction). Although that's a plus point from one point of view, it makes me think you must be skimping on some important details or costs (customer service??), or that you're not going to be around in 12 months time!

I'm not suggesting that is the case with you guys, just that this could be the perception of someone landing on your page.
What they get for the relatively trivial amount they pay is massively disproportionate to the benefit the taxpayer sees.
Put the other way: you can only have gmail if you agree hand over your personal information to Google.

That would be soo awesome!

Also, from where comes this belief that tracking generates such an absurd amount of money? It must be some sort of "it will be valuable in the future" thinking going on because today it can't mean much.

IF tracking was so effective it would be something that the customer wanted (and there you have it - that's how the online business will survive, by actually producing something that the customer wants). Now it's just sad and the only real feature of tracking and content aware ads is that when there have been an ax murder you will get a discount on axes - which is so bad it is kind of funny.
Well, they can be gifted an income source from one of the more proficient ones and that gives them a chance to develop themselves with all the newfound free time.
Or perhaps 37signals is of a size that losing a small % of subscriptions due to an issue is considerably larger cost than placing a couple of people on-call to deal with it immediately.
I espose libertarian claptrap all the time, I also try to work as little as possible by ensuring I provide as much value as possible.

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But why? WHY?
What harm could come from app like this?

Please, assume that I'm 12 years old, and try to explain.
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Great response.

Let me add that these were reactions to the web site - I never got to try the product. It's not clear that I would be in your target market anyway, and additionally I use neither Windows nor a Mac.

So the takeaway is that when I visit a web site I want to know what my ROI will be. If you want me to take some action, I firstly need to know what benefit I'll get. you need to hook me with evidence - not just words - that you understand my pain, and will take some of it away.

Hope that helps - replies/emails welcome but not necessary.
So you think that all countries decided that xyz drugs could be "banned" which would then open up a huge opportunity to sell them illegally? And countries around the world decided this independently?

What about the theory that these countries actually believed that banning these substances could increase the health of the country? For example, the christian women and Henry Ford were against alcohol and actually weren't corrupt bootleggers trying to make money by selling moonshine.

I'm not saying corruption isn't there, of course there's corruption - police are people too. There is corruption. It doesn't make everyone corrupt and it doesn't mean the _reason_ drugs are illegal is because of corruption. That's silly.
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Thank you. Valuable points.

- Will have the English fixed quickly.

- Just submitted my comment with API link. Here it is: https://apidocs.chargebee.com/docs/api

- We gave lot of thought to our pricing. Because of our cost structure, we think we are priced it optimally. One thing we founders are very clear about is stick to the price customers sign-up for and only apply new price for newer customers.

- We intend to bring value adds like integration to a third party tax API, integration to CRM, accounting system etc., and use that to generate additional revenue than dump it on 100% of our customer base, making it an integration add-on.

But as you rightly pointed out pricing is something we should think about, especially how it is perceived (premium product or not!).

Thanks again.

EDIT: Updated pricing clarification.
Considering the app has been in the top paid apps charts for years, it probably wasn't a crack that let it in.
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