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ObamaCare Opinion; what it means for small businesses
Apps considered good Mac apps typically use native GUI or polished custom GUIs that fit the aesthetic and conventions. Multi-platform stuff like Eclipse and MonoDevelop are slapdash in that department.
I am thinking of a small USB 3G dongle and tethering with my phone at other times. The perfect device for me would be a 5" Nexus Note.

I'm really glad it comes with GPS. If I do get it, it is because they decided to include the GPS chip. I travel a lot and having GPS on a larger screen can help when talking to taxi drivers.
Well, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that Google doesn't have the greatest track record with 'cloud'... I wouldn't put anything mission critical up there for a while. That said, the pricing is a mixed bag. It's technically more expensive than ec2, but the storage at the 15gig mem level is fairly good. I can see this being useful for quick and dirty data processing tasks. I'm not so sure at this pricing that I'd ever want to run 24/7 type applications on it.
Is anyone getting 500 errors for the documentation? I am constantly getting these while all other sites open fine. Quite surprised to get 500 errors from Google.
Maybe they will work their way down to lower tier options like Amazon.
Am in and converted!
I am agree with this... It's great staying strong in the things that you believe. I am not sure about questioning him though. Starting in a dense market is not an excuse for failure. There were too many "searching engines" back in the day and that wasn't a problem for Google.

Also, companies often evolve in different directions from where they start. Take Instagram for instance, they evolved from a social network and in the middle decided to take another path.
don't underestimate the awesome ST2 community extensions: http://wbond.net/sublime_packages/community
They also make it much easier to find the line number named in an exception backtrace. :)
It is the shortcut on the first 'd' in "Address", or "A&ddress" for any WIN32 developers out there.
I disagree.

I've been to concerts and football games where people are holding up iPads up high to record videos / take photos. It's a distraction and a nuisance. I say good riddance.

I have my phone / DSLR to take photos, but I regularly video chat with friends and family and appreciate the front camera more. A 7" tablet seems more suited for the latter.
Trademarks require proof of use in commerce to be valid.

Perhaps patents should require proof of use- If not by the inventor, then by the patent owner within a probation period of 3 years or so.
I should note, when I say cloud track record, I don't necessarily mean stability. I'm talking as far as actually running true 'cloud' services like App Engine, pricing, etc.
Full page ad in the A section of the WSJ today.
"The economy of scale and efficiency of our data centers allows Google Compute Engine to give you 50% more compute for your money than with other leading cloud providers."

http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2012/06/google-compute-...

I wonder how cost efficient the instances are vs. EC2.
Markdown, for one.
"Kim Dotcom might not be going to America but his money has already flown the coop. He is broke now, the United States will keep his money he will never see any of it back."

If the seizure of his assets is deemed illegal by the court, must they not be returned? Potentially, along with compensation for the damages caused to infrastructure and reputation of Megaupload, not to mention the unnecessary force used with the raid of his house. After all this time and attention in media, such a sum would be enormous.
The cheapest thing Google is offering seems to be roughly equivalent to an EC2 medium instance though, which is $0.16/hour.
So, no V8 or Nitro, but Chrome/Chromium uses Webkit, so renders should be the same (just slower) right?
tl;dr: The mandate is constitutional because the result of noncompliance is a fine, which basically amounts to a tax, which congress can generally impose all willy-nilly.
I anticipate having strong feelings about this, but I haven't figured out what they are yet.
I got one too, but worked after I reloaded the page
Last weekend some friends and I participated in a hackathon. Our app was primarily mobile, with some web. The web guys had a great looking product done, along with our backend, in about 10 hours. The android guys had an okay looking app that barely worked, plagued with memory issues, in about 23 hours, 1 hour before we had to submit. We ended up doing well, but the android dev just took much longer to hack out than the web part.
They sign-up to Hotmail because it is the easiest way for them to use MS Live Messenger which is where all their friends are connected most of the time. Gmail/Yahoo/XYZ is pointless for them because none of their friends are connected to those service's respective IMs.
please don't tell me about your keyboard shortcuts, don't tell me to click three times, don't tell me to click and drag... if you're making me use your browser, let me use it the way I want to.

The problem is it's inconsistent with other platforms.
No. Cheddar also works in browsers, so any device with a browser can run cheddar and it pushes it to ALL your devices.
Just wanted to point out that Trigger.io doesn't require you to code in a web browser as this comment implies. We don't provide any kind of IDE, web or otherwise.

We do provide a cloud build service so you don't compile the apps locally. You interact with that via command-line tools or our UI toolkit.
Any takers?
Yeah, the current price is ridiculous for:

- jobs that can fit in 1.7 GB of RAM or less (Amazon's Small Instance has 1.7 GB of RAM and is about half the price than the cheapest Google plan).

- reserved heavy utilization jobs (compared to Amazon Medium 3.75 GB RAM Heavy Utilization Reserved Instances, Google is 100+ USD/month versus 35.65 USD/month for Amazon).

For jobs requiring 3+ GB of RAM and non-reserved utilization, prices seem to be about the same (and CPU performance seems to be slightly better for Google).

The Product Management question is: if not the price, then what? Without a killer Amazon feature, they're just going to play catch-up.

Maybe with the Google brand? AppEngine existing customers? Access to special data-sets or APIs? Future price drops? The later might be the most likely, once they reach scale, since their data-centers are famous for being energy-efficient.
KiSSFLOW-easy way to create workflows for Google Apps, launched at Google I/O'12
Businesses who have 'Gone Google Apps' will have an easier time managing complex tasks starting today with the launch of KiSSFLOW, a new Workflow-as-a-Service from OrangeScape — it’s the first workflow product that’s “deeply integrated” with Google Apps. Try building your workflow in minutes www.kissflow.com

More on this at
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/6/prweb9650436.htm
That's what I was looking for. I love HN comments
Is there something like the Zen Coding as in Sublime Text 2 possible with Chocolat?
The problem with tau for introductory math is area = pi * r^2 = (tau/2) * r^2. Given the choice between having equations with 2x or other with 1/2 y most people feel more comfortable with 2x.

EX: e^(i * tau / 2) = -1 wait what?
I believe there was a decision that each Google product should be priced at least at cost. So, products that were under-priced had to raise their prices. I'm more comfortable knowing that these products aren't loss leaders.

That said, it was definitely painful, particularly for people that had optimized specifically for the pricing quirks of the old AppEngine pricing model and really got hurt by the new model.
Sacrilege! Burn the heathen!
It is actually different for economies like India. Majority of the population never had computers or internet. But everyone is starting to have a mobile phone.

They are doing an Ice -> Vapour thing skipping a step.
Chocolat text editor for Mac hits v1.0
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If I ran a company where the HR department could not find even one qualified applicant out of 25,000 resumes, I'd fire the entire department for incompetence.
> it takes quite some time to update its ability to work with certain one click hosts

This might have more to do with the quality of the software (a desktop Java app? in 2012?) than anything else. I would love for someone to come along and make a JDownloader clone using GTK or Qt.

That said, you're right in that JDownloader's in a gray area. They can't have possibly gained approval from all those sites.
Thanks for responding, Andy :)

Our observations of what it is right now might be aligned, but I think we differ somewhere when it comes to their knowing what the site is and isn't. Initially it was sold as a place for top tier designers to show everyone how they end up at the final products we enjoy. Now it has become an oversaturated community of subpar rip-offs and forced digital handjobs, and less a place for real conversation and forked inspiration.

When Dribbble initially launched, I was hesitant about the service because it seemed less like a who's who of visuals and more like a rush to get you and all of your buddies in, regardless of qualifications. My Lookwork feed followed the Recents and not the Popular, so my observations were that it was not all that it was cracked up to be and I actually took it upon myself to post the Graphic Design 101-esque shots I'd see fly across my screen in a thread for receiving invites on a forum I was on.

If we continue to treat Dribbble as a place for people of all levels of competency and don't encourage feedback, it won't be as enticing for recruiters or startups to find the designer they want because it will just become yet another pool you have to wade through like Coroflot, Behance, et al. The invite-only aspect of the site makes it seem, to outsiders, that the qualifications of those on the site are greater than those not on the site, which is a huge selling point for both the users and the recruiters. Diluting the community with mediocrity that we all just kind of "deal with" takes that away.

Additionally, I think the ability for a potential employer to see how/when a user gives feedback is important as well. They don't just want your eyes, but your mind as well.

My last point was merely stating that I don't think that Dribbble has evolved much from launch because it doesn't seem like that aspect of the project is a priority of its developers as much as finding ways to get the community rallied together for [dorky] contests. Even outside of new ideas, the UI/UX of the site fails to complement what it is right now, no less what it was meant to be or what it could become. The recent change in removing the Incoming Activity from the sidebar into a nav element you have to hover over every time to view is a perfect example of this. They don't seem to understand how users use their site and I don't think we can just interpret this as "Well, Dribbble is what it is and that's exactly the way it is supposed to be."

Let me know your thoughts.
Vivian Li Cromwell from the Chrome team confirms that it uses the system rendering engine (presumably via UIWebView) and does not include the V8 JIT:

https://twitter.com/viviancromwell/status/218402587760795648
As is true with most things, this is a case of where consumers need to vote with their wallets. While it would be great if the world ran on great intentions and thinking for the future, the reality is that money talks today, and today is the most important of all days, because nobody knows if they'll be around tomorrow.
The iOS version of Chrome is a wrapper around a UIWebView. You get the Chrome UI and syncing, but not Chrome's out of process rendering or the V8 Javascript engine (not allowed by the App Store).
And here's my least favorite kind of thing:

Egress to a different Region within the US	$0.01

promotional pricing; eventually will be charged at internet download rates

So what exactly is that going to mean? Some of the per hour costs are pretty decent, but are these going to change? I remember one of the big problems people had with App Engine was that it was cheap-as-free and then Google went 'oh, here's pricing updates!'
I think people confuse cloud computing with giving money to cloud provider. You can give all your money to a cloud provider without having any benefits of cloud computing.

I find developing my app for cloud providers and learning their APIs, submitting bug reports when stuff doesn't work as expected, etc to be more work than opening an account with a data centre and renting hardware as needed. Each to their own.
I prefer fat models to fat controllers because methods in the controller are much more difficult to reuse than in the model.

When models get too fat, I usually create modules that break up the bulk of the model into smaller chunks. Meaning, for example, if it has lots of validations, then maybe I'll move those validations over to a module and then extend/include the module back into the model. I haven't needed to use these modules in any other class, but less code in one place is usually easier to read than more code. If the language you're using isn't Ruby, then a module is basically a means of doing multi-inheritance.

Note though -- I didn't read the article
It is 2012, we have Html5, and still people designing pricing pages use * instead of links or hover texts.
At first glance, Google offers much more powerful machines at a given price point vs AWS. Amazon offers lower price points, but the machines are really limited.

I think AppEngine is the competitor for the super-low price points. Free < $15, and I'd imagine you could run comparable apps on AppEngine vs Amazon's micro tier.
Pricing comparison: The smallest GCE instance (2.75 compute units, 3.75 GB) should be compared to the medium sized EC2 instance (2 units, 3.75GB memory).

That's $0.145/hr GCE vs. $0.16/hr EC2 vs. $0.077/hr EC2 (heavy reserved 1 yr full time), so the pricing is competitive with Amazon - especially given the extra 0.75 compute units.

The only unknown is whether the compute units are equivalent - the docs only say they are Sandy Bridge-based Intel CPUs.
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While not the case here, I've noticed that when a YC company launches, many other YC companies which used their alpha/beta/whatever product pipe up about how great it is. I can only trust that all those reviews are genuine and that the product/service being launched really is awesome and better than competitive solutions, though the jaded side of me that has been exposed to too much marketing sometimes wonders.
Relative to other currencies, sure, but within the EU (and any euro-based market) more euros would decrease buying power & devalue the debt (much of which Germany owns). Neither of those effects are beneficial to them.
If you read the Tau Manifesto you'll see why tau * r^2 / 2 is actually AWESOME (he actually refers to it as pi's coup de grace)

Just think of it like an integral (that's what it is, after all!), raise the power and divide by the power. Suddenly the origin of this formula is no longer obscured.

Regarding Euler's identity: e^(i * tau) = 1
No, the problem is that Google Chrome in Linux treats the textbox the same way the textbox is treated every, other, place in Linux. Browsers in Windows are the only place that this behavior is exhibited. It's the exception behavior.

That's like saying "Chrome uses metacity instead of the OS X window decorations".

If it makes you feel any better, I'd like to be able to override the platform default so that single clicking in Chrome at work doesn't select all of the text.
Wickr email app: military-grade, secure, biodegradable, and completely useless?
Khan Academy now supports tau
"they completely ignored Apple and made Firefox Sync which just syncs bookmarks etc."

There was plenty of sounds from them at the time when they wanted to release a Firefox for iOS, but that was a few years ago by now and it didn't get picked up in the media like the Windows-complaints.
Sorry for the late rebuttal...

Actually, according to Wikipedia, Haiti paid off their debt to France that resulted from the Haitian Revolution in 1883: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti.

Free of their French "landlords" the Haitian "renters" should have seen increasing prosperity since they were sitting on one of the most agriculturally productive (in terms of sale price for crops grown, not total amount of all products grown) regions of the New World. So, what went wrong?
Heyzap launches a way for developers to reach its mobile game network users
Luxury Brands Take Hold Of Social Media
The idea that carbohydrates impact fat storage through insulin is one of the main arguments put forward by Taubes in his book, and he provides a lot of evidence and studies to back up his assertion. He may be wrong (and he somewhat acknowledges this and calls for proper studies to be done), but it's worth reading if you want to understand what the argument is.
Yea I was gonna say get some bomb headphones and blast the music of your choice when you're working. That's if you're into music while coding, of course.

If you get distracted by music, try getting a playlist of instrumental music, or music with lyrics in a different language. I can code with lyrics no problem, but when I'm writing an article or something I go music w/o lyrics... or music in Spanish!
I really doubt this is the case, from my experience with other Google products. On Google+ valuable screen real estate is devoted to telling me I could follow popular entertainment people, or trying to get me to chat, hangout, et al. My android phone is chock full of things I can't get rid of, things that start services which if turned off turn themselves back on, etc. To actually use android I had to finally break down and get a gmail account, and found that my youtube account switched irrevocably to gmail. I was not asked, and there was no undoing it.

Everywhere I turn with Google I am being forced into a Procrustean bed, and you tell me that everything with Google Now is totally configurable so that it'll fit me. Sorry, at this point I do not believe you.
Regarding pricing is my assumption right:
The Google CPU equivalent is Sandy Bridge, which was released in 2011 onward. While Amazon's is 2007 Xeon equivalent.
Also their base memory is 3.75 GB, Amazon's small is 1.7GB.

So would it be ok to assume the Google n1-standard-1 equivalent would perform better than medium on AWS?
Eh, it's WebKit. Not quite the same WebKit, but close enough.

It's not like they are using completely different rendering engines.
Can you be more specific? I don't see it that way at all. I've "rented hardware" and provisioned AWS machines, and the broad experience is basically identical. There are "APIs" on both sides that do pretty much the same thing (though with the smaller hosting providers that API is often "call them on the phone" -- not an advantage, IMHO).

The differences are in scale (how many can you get and how fast -- cloud wins huge here), price (cloud hosting is more expensive over the long term) and granularity (bill by the hour vs. by the month).
I should probably clarify that last bit then: I still think cheddar is useless, because it doesn't provide the functionalities I declare. I meant, that in a hypothetical todo app that has those features, the official released app is still mostly useless to me.
From the spokesperson comments they are targeting first the people with really large downloads, not worrying too much about entry-level developer adoption.
>I think learning many different kinds of languages is important.

I agree with you, 100%. There are no ultimate languages. You have a broad field, as a developer, of words to use - choose the one you a) get along with, b) can comfortably use, c) and are interested in actually using for something.

What I have observed is that good developers learn other languages faster, the more they do it, i.e. if you set your goal higher, you get better at it each time you iterate. I tend to think, as a generality, that eventually there is a point for each individual developer where the effort to learn some new language/codebase/taxonomy gets flatter and flatter, to the point that there are no 'easier nor harder' levels of it any more.

C is still very, very useful. $35 worth of pocketable computing power and a built-in C compiler can still deliver kick-ass results.
Can you check out an app I helped make called Reminders with Friends? http://www.slyceapps.com/reminders

I would love to hear your opinions after you've tried all those other apps.
Playcraft engine (http://getplaycraft.com)

Email us info@playcraftlabs.com and we'll get you on the beta.
Books I'd read: "Wanting to Get Things Done"
Unfortunately, the new standard in text editors has been set...

Chocolat, put up a direct comparison with Sublime Text 2, and tell me what you do better, and what you do worse. Be honest.

Then and only then might I consider even trying your software.

Just the harsh reality of the current market.
ST2 may not be perfect, but it's had a damn good effort put in to it to feel like a good Mac app. I had a niggly suggestion regarding menus during the beta and IIRC it was implemented and released within a few days.
Without an analysis of causes, I can agree that my own FB "news feed" has been becoming consistently crappier. Especially since roughly the beginning of this year.
The most noise-reducing method I ever tried was putting earplugs first with big loud headphones on top of it. Worked well for me. Other people around the room didn't appreciate it much though.
Had there been a microSD slot, it would've been an instabuy. Without it, however, I fear that in 6 months I'll be juggling which applications or media I want to keep on it.

I understand that Google's "everything in the Cloud" is an answer to this. Why keep music and movies on the device when you can offload storage? Because I don't want to depend on connectivity, and the device doesn't have native 3G.
>There was plenty of sounds from them at the time when they wanted to release a Firefox for iOS

Really? Care to link to some of them?
It's been interesting how every Google announcement on HN this week has had a negative reaction as the top comment. People here don't seem to like seeing Google innovating for some reason.
I use these small 5x8 yellow legal pads. Doesn't take up much space on my desk, and you get 17 lines or so, which is generally plenty. If I need multiple lists, I use multiple pages. Dead simple and fast. And it even allows for multiple levels of completion, like I can mark an X next to an item for when it's coded, then cross out the line when I test.
I've always gotten this weird feeling from GRUB2 that it is just a boot-loader implementation of UEFI. I'd rather see systems get smart firmware that handles drivers etc in a sane way, and has lighter boot-loaders that get out of the way.
you're right! hover texts work super well on touch devices, and if there's one thing I love it's clicking on links to get a sentence of information.
Add Lua to your C tools collection. Put Lua where the sun don't shine, and experience a bright new C appreciation.
UIWebViews can be configured to run WebGL, though this is not officially supported/sanctioned by Apple.
That's probably a valid case at scale. But how are they going to attract users at that price? AWS is free to play with, after all.

This is a shock to me, honestly. I firmly believe that cloud hosting is a commodity good, and that Amazon can be beaten (easily, even), but only on price. And Google's not even trying to compete on price...

Edit: closer analysis shows that Google's boxes are somewhat faster and that they don't have an equivalent to EC2 "small". And they're slightly cheaper, by about 10%. So this is a valid price play, just not a terribly impressive one. I honestly was expecting them to do something like they did for Google Drive, undercutting the competition by a factor of 2 or more.
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