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With all due civility, this is stupid. The fact that we as a species are short staffed and short on time doesn't mean that engineering strategies are inappropriate. On the contrary, they're the only game in town. Triage and problem selection are themselves algorithms with defined optimisation criteria. That you take issue with the selection of those criteria (e.g. elegance, aesthetics) by people trying to solve their personal pain points doesn't repudiate the framework.
Most of the developers at Turbulenz use Ubuntu, so everything does work on Linux, it was more a case of lack of requests for a Linux version of the SDK so we concentrated our release process in the versions that our developers needed at the time. Now that we have a couple of requests for a Linux version we will probably release one shortly.
Also, on a Chromebook, F1 is actually the back button. If the back button isn't active (there's nowhere to go back) the moqup help works, but if the back button is active, it simply goes back.
This is bad advice for people who care. Granted, for businessmen it is most import to cash check, but even quick and dirty project slapped together will require rewrite eventually if it take off. And it most likely will be painful and have all kind of subtle bugs.
I believe this was meant to be a reply to the top level of the thread. Errantx is not the author of the blog post.
"The entire first production run of consoles will have YOUR USERNAME and BACKER NUMBER ENGRAVED INTO IT"

Well, at $10,000 that's an expensive barrier but I hope they're carefully checking those usernames.
> I'm not a manufacturing expert, so maybe I'm missing something enormous here, but given the history of console manufacturers taking a loss to sell bundled software, and the high list price of android devices, I don't see any evidence to support that their target price is remotely realistic.

The hardware bill of materials for a project like this is not very much. $99 is realistic for mass production. Maybe not for a small batch manufactured by first timers(?) but doable. List prices of Android devices are ridiculously high, especially outside the US.
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Let me look into that.
Nope the poster was comparing Apple Developing Macs with Ms developing NT when MS started with NT Apple was on OS9 and stayed that way for years.
I’m persuaded that in the long run -- that is, over many years -- Bitcoin is likely to appreciate far above current levels as it gains further adoption worldwide. Here's why: https://cs702.wordpress.com/2011/05/29/on-the-potential-adop... -- I wrote this more than a year ago, and still think it's correct.

However, I would not bet on the direction of Bitcoin prices in the short run, because I have no advantage over the many short-term traders and speculators who make up the daily Bitcoin market. (As Warren Buffett says, “if you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.” I don't want to be the patsy.)
Given the relative free-for-all mentality that seems to be going on at Valve (which is far from a bad thing imo!), I won't take a patent application as a definite sign that Valve (a software company) will be unveiling a console anytime soon.

I would buy it in a heartbeat though.
“Large enterprises don’t want to be locked in with a single vendor anymore,” yet flocking to Apple...

It boggles the mind. Five years ago, RIMM was king of the hill.
at the risk of sounding like a broken record, when I read the 'actionsteps' section I immediately thought of TSW. http://www.thesecretweapon.org/

the idea behind it is is that we don't rely on the inbox for our todo list - which is what we all tend to do! because, email isn't designed as a todo list and neither are any email clients I've used :P
That's probably because their developers didn't know what they were talking about.
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charge $10 or whatever price and get a few friends
to buy that application

Your plan will backfire. There's no way you'll be able to bribe 100 people to buy BlackBerry 10 smartphones.
Very true re the not insignificant number trying to steal from them. PayPals business is as much fraud detection and avoidance as it is payment processing and they're very very good at the fraud detection bit.

The payment processing part seems to be great until it goes wrong but when it does they have the minimal resource possible devoted to dealing with it.
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You are asuming that everyone is like you? Bad premise to begin with.

There are a lot of children to whom programming isn't even in their vocabulary, but storytelling is.
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holy shit just write your web pages in html, not everything needs to be a crazy javascript abomination where the body text fades in slowly
In the FAQ, they define free to play as "every game will be free to play: what this means is that there will at least be a free demo, or you’ll be able to play the entirety of the game for free but may have access to additional items, upgrades, or other features that come at a cost."

I do believe that the first part is unequivocally not free to play... Xbox Live doesn't get to call itself free to play because it offers demos for almost every game. The 2nd part is certainly the freemium model that has been heavily used (and quite successful in my eyes).

But I think it is important to clarify that the system does not only feature free-to-play games, but there are paid games that offer demos. They do mention that by all games being "free" they mean that developers will be forced to include some playable content for the user, but I just do not agree with that wording, it could be much clearer.

Having said that, this looks cool :)
My apologies - WebGL was disabled by the auto-blacklist for using an ATI card, and I hadn't force enabled it since reinstalling Ubuntu last week.

It appears to work now. Framerate isn't great but that could be due to a whole host of factors. I'm using the Open source driver rather than ATIs proprietary fglrx driver for one thing.
That and a lot of very good indie PC games come with controller support out of the box. For example, I bought Super Meat Boy on Steam, I'd be glad to play it on a Steam Box!
Wow. You know, we saw him and we fell in love. You gotta go with your heart on these things.
Sounds similar too. There's no easy way to pan in both.
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Seems like an odd sort of incentive to me.

There is about 18 months worth of risk to the developer to invest on an unproven platform with a phone maker that has seen a dramatic decline in fortunes.

No phones will be released until 2013, so you have that lead time during which there won't be any purchases, then the app has to be on the BB10 market for at least a year.

The developer has to develop or port the app, certify it with RIMM, keep it on the market for a year, hope there are enough phone buyers to make at least $1000 in sales, and then, assuming RIMM hasn't gone under, they will get a top off payment up to $10K.

For me that would be a lot of work and risk for $10K.
If you're interested, you should apply. If everything else is a great fit, I'm sure you can learn Ruby/Rails if that's something you're interested in doing.
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I signed up for your early invite program. I would like to see how the service works.
Don't despair: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2253037
This is an article about writing content for adsense type sites, but the advice is really pretty good for any type of writing. I especially like the "golden five" rules or writing listed towards the end of the article. As coders, we could probably all work on our non-code writing.
While I understand the comparison you seem to be trying to make, your 3d engine compared with the Unreal 3d engine (not the tools), I think this is a mistake. You need to clarify more since at first glance your engine is not comparable to the Unreal engine. Most developers are going to see a statement like that as a comparison of the Unreal development tools, which I don't see anything like that on your site. The big sale for Unreal with developers is with their tools and pipeline. Unless you can match that in some way I would change that statement. I can download the Unreal Develoment Kit for free and start making a basic 3d game out-of-the-box with the tools they provide without needing additional programming or artwork immediately; can you claim that? Is there a level editor of some sort, scripting IDE, events IDE, and so on?

Go to unrealengine.com and poke around. I don't see the comparison. Now, if you could provide some things along these lines, tool-wise, then you got something.

If you need a way to describe that your engine allows for the development of complex 3d games then I would suggest you use the statement "Our engine allows for the development of complex 3d games". Nothing more needs to be said and comparing your engine with a far more complete and potentially superior gaming engine/toolset is misleading and inappropriate.

I would also suggest you allow people to download the SDK and try sample games without having to sign up for anything.
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Why would Wikipedia want to redirect to an unofficial application?
Aren't they in Canada, and thus, aren't you invoking the wrong law?
A reader offered to buy a copy of my book if he could pay in BTC. I printed it out for safekeeping and to show my kids someday. I think that's about as far as I will invest.
Are you including the wireless game controller in that? I would expect it to contribute a not-insignificant amount to the cost.
Thanks for the upvotes so far. Seems there's other interest in hearing the experiences. Hopefully someone chimes in.
Still, they'll have to pay for marketing costs and other money sinks. Doesn't seem like they're going to make a lot of money out of the hardware at this price point. So what's their business model? It's non-profit à la raspberry pi?

This page doesn't tell us a lot about this project, and yet it's already gathered $150k+ only a few hours in. Impressive.
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I'm sure they do, but given that there won't be any BB10 phones released until 2013 and then the developer won't see any top off payment for another year after that, I guess the question should be "will RIMM still have $100M in the bank on July 2014?"
I am curious what "power failure" could lead to a serious site outage which lasts many hours to diagnose and many more hours to respond to. Anyone running a serious business ($50/mo * total number of salespeople in the world), hosting a cloud, etc. should have redundancy against any single piece of power equipment failing. At minimum, dual power buses feeding any servers which can't be easily replicated, and replication across multiple rooms in a colo at absolute minimum, and across datacenters in a metro area for highly latency sensitive things, or across continents otherwise.

I would assume Salesforce is at the scale where going +1 on their infrastructure isn't going to materially affect costs, so I am at a loss for why they are exposed to an outage like this.

Especially funny that their status site itself went down -- very basic principle of hosting your status site separately from your own infrastructure. (Actually, there's probably a great startup in just hosting status pages for companies -- rip off the Heroku time-series presentation to users, augment monitoring with analyzing the twitter firehose for "xxx is down" and "xxx is slow" and "fucking xxx is not working", plus some ping monitoring, and maybe app-level regression testing (reporting on the size of page if it drops to like 10 bytes there is trouble, various other health checks).

Makes sense As A Service because you want it to be wholely independent of your own infrastructure, and also makes sense to run separately because you can be "fair". Gomez, etc. report to site owners, but this would be aimed at reporting to end users, with the ability for verified site owners to report on RFO, TTR, etc.
Some sources (the NY Post for example) say the deal may take up to 6 months with a 50% chance of going through. There's some concerns as to whether Instagram may prevent sharing with social networks other than facebook (flickr for e.g.). I'm already booted off instagram without upgrading to the new app, but fear that I'll be forced to share all my instagram pictures on my facebook timeline.
Moqups is free while in Beta. Additionally, the main use cases will always be free (with some reasonable limitations).

The premium features will revolve around collaboration, feedback, annotations and other things. When these are launched, we'll definitely make the pricing clear and visible for everyone.
Thanks. We're hoping to have some guinea pigs on the system by mid-September. If you have any questions let me know. I'd love to talk to people about what they're interested in using it for.
Indeed - it hasn't cleared, and if it doesn't Facebook still owes them $200 million for the failed buy.
In my opinion, Android's default action system could be improved. To clear an action currently, you have to clear the associated application's defaults through its configuration page in Settings. A dedicated page would make this much easier, especially with many associated applications installed. Two things they got right was asking again if an associated program is installed/updated and giving a persistent checkbox of whether to ask again.
+1 to communicating through files.

Another advantage to this, which people mostly overlook, is the fact that you have a dump of intermediate data at no (additional) cost -- which makes it very helpful when you debug, and more than pays for itself when you want to redo some parts of the processing chain -- request/reply based processing (e.g. pulling from a database) that doesn't post intermediate results, would have to start from the beginning.

Furthermore, if you have enough ram, Linux is extremely good about managing the buffer caches (both read and writeback), so in the common case you get memory performance and disk durability.

It looks arcane, but communicating through files is a good, unappreciated way to communicate.
I'm pretty sure that "dozens of technologies" is a meaningless thing to say. Instagram is powered by thousands of technologies; it's just that a few dozen of those happen to have trendy buzzwords attached.
Though Apple don't provide a corporate mobile email service, so there isn't the same kind of lock-in in this case, right?
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Probably you should have said what exactly does your product do, which real problems does it solve, and what is your USP. Just answer, leave 'drive' to the one with the money.
Or on the flip side, we might treat the AI's worse due to being so scared of them, as in the situation in Neuromancer where all the AI's legally have to be built with a kill switch.
I love it!

...but performance really suffers after just 50-100+ objects :(

So of course I'm compelled to ask the devs: Why not Canvas?
Both Evolution and Thunderbird with the Lightning plugin has right-click → convert to task. Lots of room for improvement, but it works.
This post has great timing, as we are going in to the corporate Earnings Release season.
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Well in case you ever get bored of that one, now you have the option to swap.
Article doesn't say a single thing about the iPhone 5, just rehashes the iOS6 press release.
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your FU money formula doesn't work. don't have time to figure out where you might have made a transcription error.
IF engineering strategies are not always inappropriate, does that necessarily imply that they are always appropriate?

I think the point of the post is that there's more to life than "frameworks". Not every problem is worth solving, and not every problem is an engineering problem.
The layout of the page (or lack thereof) makes it hard to know what portion you must focus on. The flow is really messy.
This guy has teeny tiny letters hardcoded into JPGs on his web site. I can't read it.

Fortunately, this means I can disregard what he has to say about UI/UX. Sometimes the medium IS the message.
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Having the web page fade in slowly gives the impression of speed. It's not just a fancy gimmick.
> The mistake wasn't calling the latest iPad 'the new iPad' the mistake was calling the previous one 'iPad 2'. Case in point, look at the iPod. There are the 'Touch', 'Shuffle', 'Nano', and 'Classic' models. Except that the device for each model name has undergone a series of changes and upgrades throughout its life.

But the different versions of each model have had 'distinct' names, right? I distinctly remember seeing the first 'tiny' iPod Shuffle called the Shuffle 2G (which caused me, and I am sure others, no end of confusion given its 1 GB of storage). Maybe it just wasn't officially called that by Apple?
True, there's a good blog post regarding that scrappy attitude most hackers have and why we need to simply our architecture: http://www.zemanta.com/fruitblog/i-bet-you-over-engineered-y...
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They're still all the rage out here in Brooklyn, so I assume they're still fighting the good fight.
Thanks for taking the time to leave some thoughtful feedback.

To pull back the curtain a bit, you are right that the nodes that show up when a parent node is tapped are randomized. As you can imagine, many Wikipedia pages have thousands of links which would be unwieldy for both the hardware and the user. For this reason, we gave up on the idea that users would be able to search for a specific page through the node view. Our hope is that someone who is looking for a specific page will use the search feature, while the node-view will be used for more serendipitous browsing.

As far as the double-tapping is concerned, you may be right about it not being intuitive. It will be interesting to see what people's reactions are. We decided to go with it because, like you mentioned, it is one of lesser used gestures in iOS, and deleting a node is the least important way to interact with it. We felt that expanding and bringing up the article itself were more important, so we tied them to the more standard gestures.
It doesn't really buy you much since it's slower to read from disk than for the JIT to generate code on the fly.
I love this concept.

I'm curious how well this would work for multiple projects, a blend of personal and work email, and high-volume inboxes. Seems like it'd really need some type of labeling in addition to the actionsteps.

Hopefully I get some free time this week, I might look into building some of this. Looks like fun.
This speaks to the problem we're trying to solve. Siasto is in the space. Wunderkit too. In a lot of ways, Posterous (YC company) tried pivoting into this space from a truly social angle as well.
The alternative would be to wait until you weren't doing anything important, and had nothing important on the horizon - which is when your employer will be thinking of you as a dead weight. If you're a valuable employee, then you'll always be working on something that your employer values. It's far better to move on when you're the star performer and they're sorry to see you go, than when you're the slacker that they can't wait to boot out.

Things look a bit different from the other side of the table, anyway; the original questioner's project is a tricky one but it doesn't sound like it's absolutely critical to the company. If he's not around then they can probably make do with somebody else (maybe a new hire), or just live with the old system. People come and go for all sorts of reasons, and it's the responsibility of management to cope with that. As long as he gives reasonable notice and cooperates with the process then there should be no grounds for hard feelings.
To be clear, I wasn't saying that Stripe and Github receiving funding was a sign there was a bubble. I was responding to the other poster who was saying this was a sign there was _not_ a bubble, to which I'm saying, that's not so clear. (i.e. He's saying A, therefore B. I'm saying A is not therefore B, as opposed to A therefore !B...)

I suppose its possible that Stripe and Github receiving funding will signal to angels that companies seen as having a customer base that is primarily other start-ups are the way to go, and therefore open the floodgates of angel funding further. But maybe not. I really don't have strong feelings about this yet at all (which is why I said "there is an argument to be made" and not something stronger). Like you I'd like to see a discussion about it though. It seems like we're in a rather unprecedented time for new startups which makes it all pretty hard to predict.
Good to know - place this information somewhere prominently on the landing page now! :)

I guess you haven't completely decided how your pricing is going to be, so I understand why you haven't published it yet, but seriously, you have buzz now, and people may not register today because they are unsure about the implications of it. Do not let that happen - give them at least the information you just posted.

Edit: It doesn't have to be super-prominent, but so that the missing information won't be an obstacle to registration.
They had another massive decline in quarterly revenue YoY (-42.7% from Q1 2012 which was itself -30% from Q1 2011) and then they announced a delay on the BB10 phones until 2013, I'd say that bandwagon is right on this one.
They're only selling 1000 devices at $95 -- it's quite possible that is a bit of a loss leader.

That being said, $95 doesn't seem like much of a stretch, especially if they're selling at cost, hoping to make their profit in the store. It's essentially a Nexus 7 minus the two most expensive components, the screen and battery. Remember the timeframe, too. By March 2013, the Tegra 3 will be a small fraction of the price it costs now.

I agree about the 8GB. 8GB with an SD card slot is about exactly right. 8GB without is going to be a huge problem for users.
This looks awesome!

Are there any plans to expand to other mockups? I currently use Gliffy for my ER diagrams and Process Flows. This just seems much cleaner and would love a connector-type feature.

I'm gonna use this for my next mock-up most definitely!
Not a very convincing article.

"Love, or happiness, and free will certainly aren’t. Or for
that matter, a lot of other “problems” being solved on the
internet today. Simply put, we can’t dedicate our energy to
fixing it all. Nor should we.

While I don't necessarily disagree with this sentiment, presenting it without elaboration or support is sloppy. Additionally, what are these other "problems" being solved on the 'net that aren't problems? Yes, yes, we might know what they are, but that really out to be mentioned.

Sloppy, sloppy.