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I love this. It looks like exactly what I've been looking for since the iPhone SDK was first announced. I've been a web/RoR developer since high school but could never find the motivation to get used to all of Objective C/XCode's quirks. I've tried everything from PhoneGap to Appcelerator to mimicking native feel in a browser, but it was never enough. This is perfect.

But quite frankly, I can't afford it. I'm a college student living on $25/week for food - I can't justify spending 6 weeks of food on an experiment.

If I could try it out? If I could build my killer app first and know that it works? It wouldn't hurt as much, but $150 is still a lot of money.
Way more useful than the linked article. Many thanks.
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This really isn't hard to understand. One SAMSUNG phone per year.
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Amen. The "retina" nonsense has to stop. Apple ended up with an extrarodinarily high resolution for their screen because of design constraints, not aesthetic appeal. They had to match the physical size of the existing phones with an integral increase in pixel count (so as to not break the existing pixel-aligned artwork in deployed apps).

Except for those rare individuals who can focus at 4 inches, there's no visual value in a 330dpi screen vs. the 280+ pitches we're seeing elsewhere.
I hear a lot of complaints about the autocomplete, but it definitely makes me way more productive. It correctly fixed 6 words so far in this comment even. And, it can be disabled. Why hate on it? (there were 3 more fixes :) )
Heh, I don't even use an Android phone. I will be buying this bad boy in June though.

So you say a dual CPU and and improved GPU are worthy of the coverage and nothing in the new Samsung hasn't been done elsewhere. Well to me it is just the opposite. There is virtually nothing in the 4S that hasn't been done elsewhere, save Siri, which is a pretty much overhyped feature anyway.

Tell me, which iPhone is it that dims the screen when you stop looking at it and automatically dials the number you are texting when you pick up the phone? I would love to get my hands on that one. They must have been sold out at my Verizon store when I went in.
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Just that you're expected to do something by others, mostly by convention, like saying thank you.

(presuming this is an English question, not a philosophical one).
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This seems U.S. centric. Isn't drag on keys used to select accents? Maybe some subtle timing thing make decide did you want the accent menu or did you want to move the cursor.

Dragging is also currently a correction thing. You can press 'E' then drag to 'T' if you that's what you meant. I don't know how many people use that feature though.
mind you, none of us actually used that term/title

What terms/titles did you actually use?

By the way, I didn't intend my "red flag" comment to imply that your particular setup didn't work well. There are lots of good variations. The sociology of software projects is fascinating.
Interesting that most on that list will end up paying California State income tax in one form or another. (I say 'interesting' because the legislature has already spent Zuck's estimated tax bill, but Andreesen, Breyer, others they too will have large bills to pay.
> You're still using the wrong tool

Although a pneumatic nailgun is faster than using a plain jane hammer, that doesn't make a hammer necessarily the wrong tool to use for a job.

Oh, and no one replying to you has said anything about money; only about your vague, substanceless remarks.
> And then support it.

This especially. I have been left quite bitter by the support situation on Android. When one takes into consideration that the low-end, but current-generation iPhone and a new Android phone cost about the same it adds insult to injury.

I bought a Nexus One (this is an HTC phone, to be clear), and liked where things were going. Just shy of two years later, support was dropped. Then, my power button encountered a common fault, and I would have to mail the thing in to fix it, paying some indeterminate amount of money (but probably around $50, I gather), as well as being out a phone for a couple of weeks.

It so happens I managed to acquire a Nexus S, but I would never have paid market rate, and the direction and velocity the both the built-in applications and the greater ecosystem has taken since then have left me with a very sour impression, even though there are features on Android that I very much like.

Basically, I can't justify paying more than $300 for a current-gen Android device, or roughly half that of an iPhone. After all, in all but the most rare cases, your length of support from the manufacturer is less than half as long...

All told, I've been an Android user for three or four years on the flagship devices starting with a G1, and since about a year ago I would have to say that my pessimism is basically monotonically increasing.
"Social norm" is the technical term.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norm_(social)
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not quite: You directly press 'A' you get an 'A'. You want to move the cursor you directly press where you want it.

In the model above you press this area of letter buttons and slide your finger and some unrelated thing 'the cursor' moves around.

Maybe that's okay but it's not direct like the current UX
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I have long longed-for a reddit styled forum. Threaded, lightweight comments (kill "signatures", whoever thought that was a good idea), with the same sort of new-post-bumps-topic forum style.

It looks like Disqus is part of the way there, depending on their API you could maybe even hack together this functionality without having to write much of this yourself.
What kind of thought process and/or experimentation led you to that algorithm?
Holy crap! I can't believe how antiquated that page looks. If I photoshopped the "© 2012" to "© 2002" I think I could convince people that your link was the one that had the copyright year forged
There's nothing innovative in S3 or Samsung. Samsung is definitely just a manufacturing company, not someone who assumes the responsibility to craft the future for better. It doesn't take much innovation to stuff a sloppily designed and built device with the latests of components.
"Even trickle"...sounds like having a pee. And I agree it also sounds like a part of your gonads.

How about focussing on the benefit the site delivers - "Invitem" / "Invyta" / "Invitemall"
I think it really depends. If YC makes it a point to select only ex-entrepreneurs who have proven themselves, it could be a good thing. But if they start letting anyone who has good background into this, Dustin is absolutely right.
Dragging up on the comma and the period give you ' and " respectively. I'm not seeing what you're saying on clicking E and dragging to T. Doesn't seem to do anything here.

I find the iPad's text editing to be one of the biggest flaws of the device. Even on short things, like this comment, there's invariably some point where I've mistyped something by putting a space in one character early, and the only reasonable way I've found to correct it is to retype both words.
What could make numbers friendly?
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/2012/05/what-could-possibly-make-two-numbers.html
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There's been a lot of talk about dropping out lately. However, one thing I've been seeing is people talking about how it sucks to be 30-40 and not have a degree and have to make excuses for it.

I'm surprised at this. If you have 10-15 years of programming experience, why would anyone still care if you have a degree? To me, it would seem like it would matter less as you got older.

Can anyone comment or provide insight? Thanks.
I actually agree with you on most of those points.

Yet it's worth pointing out that a plain old $10 keyboard beats the iPad on every one of those. And it's not even close.

Yet people insist on putting lipstick on this pig, trying to believe that text editing on a tablet doesn't suck. They're great media consumption devices. Don't try to use them in contexts where they work poorly, nor fool yourself into thinking they can be "fixed".
It's true, I didn't read up on the tech at all. That was just my initial reaction. If it's fast, great! I'd love to see some performance benchmarks.

As for Objective-C, whether the language in and of itself is the source of the slowness I was talking about is somewhat beside the point, IMHO. I'm aware that laying out views in Cocoa involves a lot of overhead, and that it's as much to do with the complexity of what's going on under the hood as anything. The fact of the matter remains though that you take a performance hit when laying out non-trivial views that need to be updated as fast as possible (e.g. when a table view scrolls by even one pixel and all the views have to be redrawn). You could probably convince me that Objective-C isn't the reason this is the case, but in any event, when you find the need to drop down into direct drawing API calls in order to get the performance you need, the "not much" overhead you're talking about can become much more noticeable. In a tight loop, a factor of 2 can make a huge difference, even though "2x slower than C" would be an enviable benchmark for many languages.

Again, I'm certainly not denigrating Ruby or other languages, but to me, that aspect of iOS development is a reminder that one needs to choose tools carefully for the job at hand. Hence my hesitation at the announcement of alternative toolkits for iOS apps, the vast majority of which I have yet to see any stellar examples of. Here's hoping this will break the mold.
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Is there a way to select a point within a word, such as just after the first character? If there is, if just not seeing it.
I would use it; I prefer to archive things after I read/use them to save for later, and wouldn't want small snippets of text to sit around. If it was something like Captio (http://www.boonbits.com/captio/) where it opens directly to the input window, it could come in quite handy!

If you don't make it, I might make it myself (for my own personal use) :-)
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People who decide first that they want to be an entrepreneur and then go looking for an idea are getting it the wrong way around

I disagree. These kinds of "hey, let's start a business" conversations happen all the time among would-be entrepreneurs long before they've come up with an idea. YC's "no idea" round is simply taking what would have been a discussion over drinks with friends, or in a dorm room full of CS majors before applying and moving it later, so it happens under supervision.
The representation of this move as a gateway for 'glory hunters' or wantrepreneurs is surely at odds with the intentions or the likely implementation (not that many of the applications no doubt fit this).

I don't imagine the interviews to be along the lines of "Do you really want this? Do you reckon you can make something awesome? Great, you're in", rather that this is more for successful teams 'in between ideas' or great combinations of proven individuals. Otherwise I find it hard to see what the selection criteria could be.

Different people have different aspirations, and not all them involve Sr. Moskovitz' opinions of 'success' or 'impact'.
Or maybe the reason we don't have enough entrepreneurs is that we've convinced everyone that they need to have some type of eureka moment where they come up with the next greatest idea.

I think YC is making a statement here: talk is cheap and ideas are cheap, but people are really expensive. If you want a solid company, the people matter more than the idea, because the idea will change over time anyway.

I know a lot of people who think that they have to have a "stroke of genius" where they think of something innovative before they can be a successful entrepreneur, when a lot of the most successful companies really did reinvent the wheel (they just did it better!).

The idea for a company is an artificial barrier to becoming an entrepreneur, because the idea isn't nearly as relevant as the execution (It's simple: what makes Apple or Google special, or more specifically, what made them special when they were starting out?). It almost always boils down to their approach to a problem instead of just the problem they were trying to solve.
If you Google that misspelling ("Dustin Moskvitz"), it's a repetitive mistake that only pandodaily seems to make. How on earth can a publication spell his name incorrectly that many times, in multiple stories?

Edit: They fixed it. It lives on in the URL, and a comment below.
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We're hiring a Product Hacker to focus on two important metrics - Engagement (time spent and interaction) and Retention (churn factor). We listen to our users a lot and been doing a bunch of experiments on our site - categorizing problems into different levels, loginless view to solve problems, introducing AI games (summergames.interviewstreet.com) which has made a ton of users happy. There are thousands of programmers every day solving challenges and having fun.

Imagine if you grew this number by 10x or say, 100x? We've a very big aim - building a Facebook for programmers, building a platform to bring together all hackers to our site. It's probably like saying all the gold mines of the world is at one place.

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> Sometimes git pull fails halfway through because of network problems

Separate the pull into "git fetch" into a shared bare git repository (if you care for efficiency) which is atomic and then a "git checkout" into a new directory using a single symlink(2) and rename(2) which is also atomic because rename is.

> Imagine you’re pulling from git and at the same time, the app decides to import a module that changed profoundly since its last deployment. A plain crash is the best case scenario here.

> On the other hand, deploying using self-contained native packages makes the update of an app a near-atomic,

You can't have your cake and eat it too. Native packages have the exact same race conditions as an (inplace) git update.
Don't you mean: ($119Millon Sale price * stake of investors - 3Million Funding) / 3Millon Funding = CRAZY RETURN!

Or from team POV: $119Million Sales price * (1 - stake of investors) / sweat = THE GRIND WAS WORTH IT!
Nice, but just like Google Predict you are trying to violate the "no free lunch" theorem.
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned how this feature was implemented in the Palm Pre/Pixi a few years ago. That was one of my favorite little things about WebOS.

When editing text, you held down the Orange key and then drag your finger anywhere on the screen and the cursor followed. And to select text, you did the same thing with the Shift key instead.
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When speaking at Y Combinator's Startup School, Mark Zuckerberg made it clear that some people can do a great service for the world, even if their only motive is to "be an entrepreneur".

Zuckerberg said that he created Facebook because he felt like it needed to exist, but that he had immense respect for Jeff Bezos, even though Bezos' motivation for being in business was of a different nature than his own.
> Git submodule is a mess and now a legacy of git.

I hear this kind of thing all the time, but I don't understand why. I've never had any problem whatsoever with git submodule. Can you elaborate a bit on what you mean by this?
> goes to show there's something really fucked up about our world, probably because we are losing respect for the elderly.

I (totally open-mindedly) wonder if that's partially because our elderly are getting older? We're getting better at keeping people alive after their minds have lost their edge.
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My bad, dragging E to T is an iPhone thing. It doesn't do it on iPad. I had assumed they were the same. They're not.
Anyone with a DVD burner is perfectly capable of making a copy for a friend. Before this it was the VCR.

There are distribution systems better than the Torrent approach but they're priced astronomically high. I don't mind spending maybe $5-8 on a digital download of a movie if the product is as good as what you get in physical form, but this is rarely the case.

They should be thanking you for downloading a legit digital version, not punishing you with prices, missing features, and poor quality.

How is it companies with billions of dollars can't produce a simple, affordable, legal system for downloading movies?
Yep, I know the command pattern--it requires knowledge of all state up front and breaks down in the presence of distributed state. It makes statements like 'update all records where value x is y' difficult. You need to gather all such records first, possibly guarding their current state with a timestamp/vector clock (we are talking distributed systems after all), make the change encapsulating the current state in the command pattern and commit. If you have to extend this model to multiple queries, you'll be rolling your own transaction protocol lest you expose partial state to other queries in transit.

Or you could delegate all this to the database, which already has its own transaction protocol.
Why? Because Moskovitz's aims would have been better served if they had gone to work for Facebook instead? Seems like a pretty shaky argument to me.
I like Unity's design just fine but it's VERY VERY power hungry. On my laptop it maxes out heat, takes a really excessively time to boot and takes a couple seconds for the UI to come up when I hit super. Tweaks like changing the graphics driver aren't helping. LXDE and XFCE desktops don't have the same problem at all.
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not quite the same thing but Unity does run in Chrome in Linux in Native Client.
He did far more than use Levenshtein distance. He is matching phrases not individual words.

He created different metrics based on Levenshtein distance, combined them using a weighted formula, and used an optimization algorithm to choose weights. And he provides great visualizations on how it worked.

I've tried several approaches to fuzzy string matching, and I'm impressed with his results and approach. I've bookmarked it for future reference.
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you can still make money when a stock is going down - its called shorting or short selling.
This is a classic case of someone who doesn't realize that their own situation is not everyone's situation. Not everyone comes to the valley as a cofounder of a company that becomes a $100B+ phenomena. Here's a clue: they didn't invest in Asan because of you - but because of Facebook.

I wonder what Dustin would have to say in an alternate universe where he was just another Harvard CS grad.

What YC is doing is opening up entrepreneurship to a whole new group of people - who might be just as competent as you - but don't want to work for you.

Also, I think what type of 'impact' I make is something I'll decide for myself. Working for your companies is not what I think is the best thing to do with my 1 and only life.
This all presupposes that this is what is meant by "closest".

The deservedly highly ranked response at least addresses some interesting ways of defining "close" while skipping the most important, and difficult, case -- semantic content.

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Brandon Eich on twitter (or in comments here) will also say that it is his opinion, and he recognizes that it seems to work pretty well for the NPM guys, but maybe it is just because they are such great devs, he doesn't see it scaling down that well.

And google is well known for terrible quality javascript. http://www.sitepoint.com/google-closure-how-not-to-write-jav...

And finally, Crockfords reasoning about things like this seems based on the presumption that js developers are drooling idiots. For example, he recommends against using the new keyword for object creation in javascript, even though object factories can often be a huge waste of memory, because dumb javascript developers may forget to use the new keyword at times when they want to instantiate objects.

I am not saying you shouldn't listen to smart people, but I am saying that you should actually learn the reasons they say the things they do, and use your own brain when making choices.
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Off the top of my head:

Ever tried removing a submodule? Why is there no git submodule rm? (No, "it's confusing" is not a valid argument.)

If the pull fails (say, from the wrong protocol), you end up with a half-baked submodule. Impossible to move, impossible to remove, impossible to update unless you dive into the config.

Misspell the folder you wanted the submodule in? That sucks. Go delete it from two separate locations, and try again!