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I wrote this article over at Mobile Orchard around the concept of Pre-marketing your apps. This may be common sense but not so much common practice stuff that's good to keep in mind while you build your app.

I'm also the guy who built the WordPress themes AppifyWP and Launchpad which is a theme to help app developers build a "coming soon" landing page for their apps before they launch, so yeah there's a plug for that too.

Let me know what you think!
http://launchpad.appifywp.com
I'll second the motion from the biology department. The trials of finding the right mentor, navigating the waters around the Cape of Publication, and maintaining your passion seem to be common throughout academia. Definitely an informative read, regardless of the specific academic field.
It works in IE6?!
I agree with you and I am feeling a little guilty for just having received my new Macbook Pro (had an old macbook white previously). I am just not being happy buying their products anymore in consequence of their actions. I am using Android phones for a few years and it just feels right to me, I think it is because my views are much more aligned with Google.
And for the patent to grant a monopoly on this trivial idea for so long.
Awesome. I still use my 2000 from time to time. That device was so far ahead of its time in every regard. Second hat tip for your work.
It mitigates a little. It should make you a little suspicious if the site suddenly starts complaining that you're accessing it from an unrecognized computer if you really haven't. I'd close the tab in that case.
There was a whole HN thread throwing up prior art about the linkification patent (and also on Reddit). Linkification was being done in the '80s, based on one of the programs that someone managed to scrounge up in the thread, and the '90s as well. No patents issued - people just did it.

The fact that these programs were written tells us that software writers innovate regardless of whether patents are issued for their work or not. That's the nature of software (and technology in general). The difference is, some software makers don't expect to protect their new features from competitors with patents. That's the crux of it, imo.
The -4 on my post argues you're right. :) But nonetheless, I'm popcorn.giffing over this whole kerfuffle.

Apple has descended into hell, rose again from the dead, ascended into marketshare heaven, and is seated at the right hand of Oracle the Litigant almighty. From there it will judge the clone and the KIRF.

I believe in the Holy Mothership,
the holy Apple Store,
the communion of Genii,
the forgiveness of GSODs,
the resurrection of the product cycle,
and maddeningly ill-thought-out and sporadic iLife updates everlasting. Amen.
I just got back from the launch party. Apparently Bootstrap was based on an internal ZURB project.
It's a lot longer than 23 days; the core issue dates back to February. I'm actually not sure what has changed about their situation since February; most of the stuff on the OP was not new.
Fair point. To try and allay these kinds of concerns, we've also provided a completely free option with 100% of the scheduling/reminder functionality of the paid option. Wagering is completely voluntary. Though we think betting a bit of money will increase your motivation, our primary concern is helping people through their classes.
Heroku is down again
It's not Heroku, it's AWS US-East, again, again. (third time this week).
> Because, obviously, if I didn't like OS X, I just didn't understand it!

No, you just plain don't understand how to use it, so there wasn't really any room left to discuss its relative merits. Whether or not you liked it is irrelevant given that your judgements were based on an acquired understanding of Linux, and a terse at best understanding of Mac OS X.

Let's just take your git example:

> More recently, I tried to install Git on OS X (without administrator access). It was a horrible pain, so now I only ever log on to the Linux servers at school

How exactly was it more difficult on Mac OS X? Did you try to ./configure && make && make install by hand, just like on Linux-sans-admin-access? Or did you try to use MacPorts' or homebrew's support for running without admin access, and simply tried '(port|brew) install git'?

Or, let's talk about Java:

> I did use OS X for Java development for a whole year.

During that whole year, you never stumbled onto Apple Menu -> Software Update? It runs automatically, you don't even have to invoke it manually.

You never googled "Mac" and "Java" and determined that Apple provided the Mac port of Java? Assuming this was in the time period of the 1.5 release, you never found Soylatte using Google, and used that?

Or, your friend with the LaTeX problem:

port install texlive

Works fine.
And yet you need to be a dentist to work on someone's teeth, a doctor to prescribe medical treatment or a pilot to fly a plane.

Yes, you can program without being a programmer, just as you can drive a city car to your office and back, but you won't take that same city car to Monza and expect to beat Ferrari's Formula One team in a race.

So let's dispense with the sophistry and admit that you need to learn a specific skill set to do a skilled job and that you need adequate tools for that job.
http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3852003 IKamasutra: Apple Hates Brunettes (ikamasutra.com) 350 points by varl 73 days ago
To the contrary, what it tells me is that Apple has lost confidence in its own ability to win on good ideas and good execution and is now being run by investors looking for quarterly returns and lawyers thinking this is actually a constructive way to "leverage the money they spend on R&D".
Well the website is down for me, can someone say what it actually does?
Apparently it's AWS East.
Don't think it was just heroku, lots of other sites were down as well, netflix.com, etc. most likely another AWS issue.
AppCleaner is a useful and free app that will uninstall programs properly. AppZapper is a useful app that costs money and will do the same thing.
My app with 2 dynos is down.

Their status site is running fine altho it's not reporting errors: https://status.heroku.com/

Their Helpdesk is down: https://api.heroku.com/helpdesk/login?timestamp=1341025835&#...

Devcenter is down: http://devcenter.heroku.com

AWS isn't reporting any errors: http://status.aws.amazon.com
Not sure what you meant about "star aglorithm" but if you're talking about the social proof at the bottom of the course description, it's a nice touch. The site is straightforward. I see the reviews, but is there something more going on here that I'm not noticing? Why would someone want to use your site instead of Google?

I think an online course review site is nice, but there's a lot more that you could possibly do here. Why not setup "degree" programs which are a curated selection of courses from across the net and lead people down a journey on a specific topic? Why not instructor profile pages that can track the quality of the sum of their materials online?

Maybe these points don't matter if this is just something you're doing for fun. But if this is for profit, I'm not sure where you business model is. (And I'd be happy to discuss the above ideas with you.)

Just my two cents.

PS: Would LOVE to see a way to delete my account afterward.
It's been fifteen minutes since our site in US-East went down and AWS Status hasn't said anything yet.
This. Would add a LOT to your experience.
As of 10:16 CDT, I can't reach Netflix or Heroku, although AWS status (http://status.aws.amazon.com/) is not yet reporting any current outages.
That's standard. You'd expect them to run everything they have on their own service except for the status site.
Ugh, the EC2 administration console is done. Being in other availability zones won't save you..
There's a good discussion about Foundation vs. Bootstrap on thechangelog.com's: http://thechangelog.com/post/13873612141/episode-0-7-0-found...
Thanks. I have my own negative opinions about software patent novelty, I just wanted to point out that it was somewhat unique on smart phones.
AngularJS v1.0 was released couple of weeks ago. There are too many internal apps at Google to break the API, so I wouldn't be afraid of this.
Macs are a bit smarter than what you're used to - the application itself is contained (usually) in a single file...just move the app to the trash. You're done. Maybe empty the trash.
There are US-East problems, looks like:

- One AZ is down
- API commands are spotty and may return incorrect results
- ELB looks screwed
- IP reassignments don't seem to be working
- Who knows what the fuck else is broken
We're in AWS East and definitely fighting some issues here, though we're trying to understand what is happening.
It does in that if the real site properly stores a cookie that records that you've logged in from there before, the number of times that the user is asked for such questions goes down, increasing suspicion when the user actually IS asked for them.

Security is never about 100% guarantees. It's about reducing the exploitability and impact of weaknesses.
What's there to debate? You think shaming people is fun and helpful, you dismiss caring about your employees feelings as "political correctness".

If that works for your team, you're either very skilled at picking the right people for your management style, or you're lucky, or you can't read people and only think everyone's enjoying it as much as you are. I can't tell from outside.

"Respecting each other enough to be blunt and honest"? What about respecting each other enough to be kind to inherently imperfect humans? Who knows how to read your statements without seeing your interactions first hand.
AWS should call them Unavailability Zones.
Hey,

I'm getting application error. You must be making some changes.

BTW why are you linking https for the landing page? It'd work just as well on http.
I'm actually quite the opposite, I've been a long time Linux user (Fedora, Ubuntu, Debian, and more recently Arch) and recently I decided to dive head first into OSX for work and play.

OSX is beautiful, it's smooth, and it can run a lot of my games too. But, just like Windows, it lacks functionality. Setting up a MAMP server with my required PHP extensions for work was an absolute nightmare even with Homebrew. Even when working with my Ruby projects I was struggling, when some gems required certain libraries to be installed, it was a nightmare to install them too.

Not to mention installing software and keeping it up to date was a pain too. Once you become used to relying on robust package managers it's very difficult to turn back.

Linux is designed to be powerful and functional foremost, and that's what makes it fantastic.
MASSIVE Storms in VA area where us-east-1 is. 326,000 customers without power already, worst lightning I have seen in my 20 years of life. Sky is intense blue/green/purple. This is most likely what the issue is
person_to_blame, you're preaching the wrong people. There are different ways to go about this. Have you looked into Root Cause Analysis[1]? The 5 Whys[2]?

I truly can't believe someone in a leadership position is putting this type of example out to their team. If I worked for you, I would have been out the door as soon as you decided to keep this bullshit field.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_cause_analysis
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
Yup, a lot of services served by AWS are having issues. We're seeing a huge spike in incidents being triggered in PagerDuty.

(fyi: our customers are still being alerted)
I think lots of the one-up-man-ship is because we are afraid of not being good enough. As soon as we start ripping other people down and they start ripping us down, we all act like we're in the jungle, about to be pounced at any moment with accusations of inadequacy.

Mistakes are impossible to avoid, but you are good enough anyway. Your code might be good enough, but probably you need to iterate over it to find how how it isn't good enough and how best to address those flaws. We need to stop taking criticism personally and, far more importantly, we need to stop giving criticism personally. We need to stop attacking people for being human before they will stop attacking us for our humanity, before we can stop pretending we are superhumans because it is the only way for us to stay safe.

Tech needs compassion, because we deserve to be shown compassion.
Yes, the limitation is that new tweets cannot be pulled in, but existing tweets are not going to be deleted.

I agree that seeing twitter feeds on the LinkedIn feed polluted it with garbage, and am glad on a personal level to see them going away.
We have dozens of servers that are unavailable at the moment (US-East). Obviously AWS is having major issues.
Ask HN: Would love feedback for my app 'Postman' from Android Users
Everything about Postman can be found here http://itsmrpostman.appspot.com/

Take a look, let me know what you think. If you have an Android, go ahead use it for a while and let me know your experience.

Thanks
I don't understand how Apple, with all its money, doesn't have better facilities for dealing with this sort of thing - especially when they care so much about developer retainment.
Wow, I really, really like it. Provide options to open (upload), save and 'export as html' (with embedded CSS or at least a proper link to a stylesheet hosted somewhere) and I think you have a winner.

You'd be on par with tools like 'Marked', that have the annoying habit of being Lion+ apps for no apparent good reason.

Edit: BTW, I think you are doing your app a diservice by calling it "Github Markup preview". It's actually way more than that.
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What I wonder is what the effect could be if Facebook or some other "social" company were to cut users' in to some of the ad revenue, e.g., as in somehow getting compensated for having your photo appear next to an ad for a company you "liked". I can imagine benefits, as well as strained trust, between the company and users -- but it seems to me that so far the users themselves have only played one part of the process when there may be a lot more to that.

But I haven't thought about this very in-depth yet, it's only crossed my mind once or twice reading these headlines. Can users, advertisers and "social" service providers interests overlap somewhere?
> For professionals this tech would also be useful in DSLRs - but ONLY for fixing perspective or composition.

I disagree. In a few years light field photography will be mandatory for professionals.

This technology lets you combine low light, long depth of field, and fast shutter speed in a single photograph. It lets you selectively blur distractions without tedious manual editing. Multiple cameras can be combined to extract 3D geometry and textures in a single snapshot, a tremendous time saver for CGI projects. Movies can move focus pulling to post.

The form factor is so they can make money, keeping them from having to trade company ownership for money. Other form factors are inevitable, just give it time.
if this metaphor is still in terms of the general populace, then expecting people to understand how sin and cos work to use something is definitely too high of a bar. if you're lucky they might remember sin and cos as a magic button that changes whatever number they put in on their ti83.
Please link to https://status.heroku.com/, pointing to a broken URL is pointless.
Everything still down for me.
Would have expected some redundancy...
Can we update the title to something like "AWS US-east-1 is down" instead of just Heroku?
Why does the AWS dashboard show all green when that is most definitely not the case?

http://status.aws.amazon.com/
The 'patents' are so vague and fundamental that they shouldn't be legal. They only are because the system is badly in need of reform (read: abolition) and non-technical people weigh in on the issues.

I like Samsung stuff, I have a Galaxy Tab 10.1 and I'm an Android guy. I'm not going to go buy an iPhone if the Gnex gets banned.

Ever since they sued that German cafe I have had very little hope for them ever to take the righteous path again.

This is like Honda trying to sue Toyota for making a car with a steering wheel.
It's not Heroku that is down, AWS is down.
Ahh I was just using crunchbase and its now down, must be related.
No matter how powerful we become as a species with our technology, we are still at the mercy of the clouds. Pretty cool if you think about it.
Ask HN: What should I know about submitting a paid app to the Chrome Web Store?
The title pretty much sums it up. I've developed a really nice/feature filled HTML5 drinking game and would like to sell it in the Chrome Web Store (later the Android Market and such if Phonegap works well enough.)

I'm not really sure what I'm going to price it at. I want it to be less than a deck of cards, maybe $1.99ish? But I'd also like to figure out the best way to make the amount of work I've put into this (over a year of changing/tweaking/perfecting.)

I'd also like to know about my security options for hiding my source code

Anything else that comes to your mind would be helpful.

Here are some screenshots to give you a pretty basic understanding about the game/design: http://imgur.com/a/6vKIF

Thanks for your time!
Yes, that type of security image is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle attacks but that is not what was proposed.

The parent poster suggested that all system messages have the security message. The user is not prompted for some sort of id first, they're already using the computer and are presumed to be logged in.

This is the right way to use security images, IMO, although they're still not perfect as others in the thread have pointed out. The way you describe, which I believe BoA uses (just hearsay), is bad security.
Aws East connectivity issues, 8:21pm:

http://status.aws.amazon.com/rss/ec2-us-east-1.rss
The business world does not work this way. Some guy at the top decided that the job is worth $45k and they will never pay more. Further the guy accepted the job at $45k so therefore the managers believe his value on the market is $45k. Do not believe for a second that fairness has anything to do with it, you have to take every penny by going out and finding a better job.
I think what the previous commenters are trying to say is that you shouldn't be OK with producing lots of bugs. Sure, you can learn a lot when you make a mistake, but you shouldn't be making the same mistakes.
My name is Fred Wolens, and I work for Facebook’s Policy Communications Team. We apologize for the temporary inconvenience caused by the migration of the Page’s content and Likes. We have already restored the Page, and there shouldn’t be any remaining issues.

Unfortunately, the Sherlock Page was not the official BBC fan Page for the show; this caused the Page to be flagged as a violation of our terms and we mistakenly removed instead of migrated the Page. After we found out about the problem, we renamed the Sherlock Page to Fans of Sherlock to comply with our policies and migrated the fans + content. We’re sorry for the trouble caused and we’re constantly iterating on our processes to improve the accuracy of our reporting system.
Very useful tool, didn't know about it. Thank you.
But it is a little bit complex. I mean, if I am writing a brief description for my repo, I would google for something where I can do it instantly, I don't want to install any gems.
Your biggest problem is asking a developer to work for equity. You're competing with every schmuck on Craigslist.

If you're profitable, as you said in another comment, use that profit to pay a developer. If that's not possible, then you aren't profitable.
Amazon posted an update:

8:21 PM PDT We are investigating connectivity issues for a number of instances in the US-EAST-1 Region.
The red check marks are in VA and can't be displayed.
If only they did multi-AZ hosting like they keep telling us to do when there's outages :)
I'm not trying to be snarky, but apparently they don't care that much if they can't handle working with developers about an issue as simple as this. Even just telling them "We have decided not to reinstate your app, sorry" would be better than what they are doing.
I strongly doubt that's the case, at PagerDuty we're seeing ~100x the regular traffic. I think it's been having issues for at least 15 minutes.
At 11:25 Eastern, https://status.heroku.com/incidents/386 was posted: "We're currently experiencing a widespread application outage. We've disabled API access while engineers work on resolving the issues."
The little voice in my head just got a whole lot louder - "don't friggin build a business on someone else's business. Do your own shit!"
The cloud is no match for the cloud!
Just Googled for "square chrome icon" and copied a link to the first relevant image I found, hah.
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I agree, but would expand it somewhat as it's not just Bitcoin but all of the 'virtual' videogame currencies as well (Eve and Second Life come to mind).

I wonder how many people learned a lesson from Ginko Financial collapsing [1] (a little hand wavy but around $750,000 USD pyramid scheme) and weren't conned in real life.

1 - http://www.wired.com/gaming/virtualworlds/news/2007/08/virtu...
I read most of Allen's book but felt the best takeaway was asking "was it actionable". This question helps me get through the majority of my planning, but I don't bother with incorporating much else. The truth is I try to keep my life mostly in the digital world. I do a monthly cleanup of paperwork and followup to tie as many loose ends as possible. And I let technology filter and manage the rest of my information flow.

Allen's system was simple for most, but I found it needlessly complicated. This is his prescription: http://cyprych.neostrada.pl/_images/processing.png

I opt for the very low-maintenance system I described in exchange for a tolerable amount of chaos. Until I can afford a personal assistant, this will have to be and have stopped investing time into improving my system in pursuit of more satisfying improvements for myself.

*I like to leave the bookmark poking out about two-thirds of the way through the book and keep it on my bookcase in the living room for everyone to see.
Ask HN: Would love feedback for my app 'Postman' from Android Users
Everything about Postman can be found here http://itsmrpostman.appspot.com/
Take a look, let me know what you think. If you have an Android, go ahead use it for a while and let me know your experience.

Thanks
Loadbalancers are down for me: Getting 'Response contains invalid JSON' upon attempted termination.
Seems pretty severe actually. Washington Post has a live blog going on about it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/pos...
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I took the less literal meaning of the statement, as more of a "do you have so little faith in your product's ability to compete in the open market" though perhaps I'm being too generous.
This makes a lot of sense.

Facebook + Twitter alienate their users by watering down the experience with ads, losing the 'cool'ness they need to keep eyeballs on them.

I think that's where Google+ can swoop in and make Twitter+Facebook look like Myspace.
Thoughts?
Your compensation for being “used” in the advertisements is using the service, that’s how you pay for it.
While they keep killing off third party apps, usage is going down in every circle I'm in, and I see myself using FB and Path more and more. I think they're making their own death bed.
That post is unfortunately incorrect. The author claims that AngularJS doesn't have "composed views" which is very unfortunate because out of all the frameworks he listed Angular's component composition model is by far the best, he just didn't bother to investigate it despite several users pointing out the error in the discussion under the post.
Think that netflix is down too. so much for chaos monkey?