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Except for the confusing fact that there is clearly more than .04 cents there.
I'm not advocating the purchase of bitcoins, simply providing an answer. I have no opinion on whether or not bitcoins are a good "investment."

The transactional friction is a reason the market is small. If it's easier to transact and more people can do it, the supply/demand curves will push the price up in the future. Assuming demand is proportional to the size of the market.
Much easier to manipulate (the price of).
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> What's the point again?

A plethora of already existing quality apps (iff the stupid rumors that it has a 1024x768 screen is true).

(I personally don't believe in this rumors one bit. Apple releasing an iPad mini is the most stupid move I can imagine. Just sell iPad 4 for 100-150 dollars less and you're still the king and will sell 100 million of them in 2013)
If you can't describe in concrete terms what makes your product special, it's likely that you simply don't have a special product. What drove you to create it in the first place? What unfulfilled need did you see?

I know not everyone is good at marketing or communication, but this shouldn't be a difficult question to answer directly and without fluff.
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I teach a Skillshare class about UI/UX/Mockups/Wireframes for mobile apps and I recommend Moqups to my students as a quick and fast way to start working.

Thanks for a great product!
Interesting. Thanks for sharing your personal observation.
Do you have a standing desk or a new job? For how many years do you sit less now?
Do you have an RSS feed for your main site?
I know and understand webapps, however, I find it really hard to understand what they are building.

My take is that they are afraid to be seen as something that exists therefore their marketing is geared towards making it seem they are building something that has never existed.

I would suggest configuring their pitch to something that exists (even if it is not in the exact same domain. e.g we are the X of Y), then explain how they are different or better.

Better still, create a demo/description for one use case.

Dear Rocktrs, do read this post if you have the time http://www.jasonshen.com/2012/eleven-compelling-startup-pitc...

They are getting so much attention, I hope they use it.
This can be done but I believe it is a bit more expensive than via banks, since you have exchange fees and the spread as liquidity isn't quite high enough (assuming you want to transfer ASAP. If you are willing to wait on both sides you can do a lot better)

Example exchanging 500 GBP to EUR (via intersango at current rates):

Buy 104.6 BTC @ 4.76GBP
Fees for instant trade: 0.95% = ~1 BTC. Balance: 103.6BTC

Sell 103.6BTC @ 5.8EUR = 600.88 eur
Fees for instant trade: 0.95% = ~5.71. Balance: 595.17EUR

500 GBP went to 595.17EUR. Exchange rate: 1.19. (google tells me the exchange rate is about 1.26 at the moment, so this is quite poor)
I've gone over all this several times before. It's great to have a facility to visit a website (or other text) that doesn't involve having to type in either a long piece of text, or a shortened piece of text that's some random mix of unusual characters. It takes me less than 20 seconds, including time taken to get the phone from my pocket, to scan a code. I've gone to stage shows, theatre productions and visited companies for special offers, none of which I would have done had they not had the QR code.

There is no other current alternative that I know. Please, name some alternatives that I could use, straight away, without downloading anything (and no, I didn't have to download my QR reader, it came with the phone), without configuring anything, and that is as error resistant as QR codes.

Even if I do have to download something, tell me what reasonable alternatives exist when I'm standing on a train using one hand to hold on.

I'm not particularly a QR advocate, but for me, they are useful, and I'm getting tired of people telling me they aren't, and that they should go away. I'm especially tired of people removing from me things that work, and replacing them either with things that don't, or with nothing.
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I have a chair on a table where the sit part of the chair + laptop is exactly the right height for my arms. And I have been doing this for about 2.5 years now. Even wrote a book about it (which I never finished :) I'll revisit it I guess.
Steve Yegge's Google+ rant argues that Jeff Bezos forcing Amazon to implement everything as internal services allowed a services platform to emerge, and that platforms lead to success (the “because Bezos is smart” argument is a bit weak, though):

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876

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I have this issue as well. But, I think the answer is a better case (that you can hold the damn thing in one hand sitting in portrait on your lap and doesn't fall off), rather than a smaller iPad.
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They are cutting the rate of bit-coin generation in half in January. (The total bit-coin's always stay under 21million but they don't use an exponential curve just cutting the rate in 1/2 every few years.)
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Sounds interesting! Can you show a picture maybe?

If I get you right, you use your chair as a desk. That chair is sitting on a normal desk, so combined the height is appropriate for working while standing. Right?
>insurance policy...CL's complicity

What are you talking about? I can't parse this gibberish. I know you feel CL has no rights to their own site, but what the hell are they complicit in? The further you go down this road the more time you waste.
> Better still, create a demo/description for one use case.

This. Lately I've found the best way to describe an undeveloped (and potentially abstract) idea to someone is to give a single concrete use case - define the problem for that specific use case and explain how your product can fix it. Rocketr attempted to do this (YC as the use case - a stretch), but didn't at all explain their solution.
For reference, this is a follow-up to an earlier opinion piece that was submitted and discussed here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4216760
What's the point of upgrading to ML? It seems pretty unimpressive.
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I agree; watching it gives me a headache.

Unfortunately the row of thumbnails moving as well at a different rate seems to make it worse. It's like a parallax effect, but looks more incongruous than natural.
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Does anybody really care about that?
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And I still see companies placing QR codes on billboards on the highway!
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> Often, this kind of item needs to see all pages so that it can perform a limited task such as looking for RSS feeds that you might want to subscribe to.

This is Google's issue. They provide a limited set of permissions (you want access to data about the site, you need to give permissions to read the site).

Maybe you could answer this: how else is the plug supposed to get the title of the page you are looking at without having access to the contents of the page? The title, after all, is part of that content.

> I think it is not unreasonable to take pause when an extension asks for such permissions.

It's not. It is, however, unreasonable to unfairly and dishonestly characterize a plugin without doing any research yourself.
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Actually, my currently-thirty-year-old-married-with-kids-and-a-mortgage dislikes, too.

Beautiful site, though.
Awesome tool. I would be nice to add just notes, without links at all. It would make it easier to keep/share lists of code snippets, useful phone numbers, organizations, people, addresses etc.
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More or less what the article said:

> Start merging services until you come to the bare essentials that have to be discrete.

He's giving an heuristic for finding the right granularity of services - that is what is up for criticism, IIUC.

I totally agree with you, start "monolithic", SQL + a lightweight Python web framework for most simple apps.
Great looking app! What did you guys use as your IDE and what is your build process like? I'm currently in the process of transitioning a team from a thick client plugin architecture to HTML 5 and am interested in hearing from others how they have built impressive looking apps in Javascript and HTML.
I don't feel it's so clear cut. Haskell fuzzies the difference between syntactic and semantic elements. What in your piece of code is the parentheses might very well be defined as functions in Haskell. For instance, the ($) and (.) functions, but also I would call StateT and perhaps Compose and WrapMonad (while not knowing what they do) such things too.

So, I still feel that understanding a piece of Haskell means that you will need to understand the individual functions at least superficially.
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If memory serves I'm on the canary/developer build (18.0.xxx). I think that's as latest as it gets, can't also say the greatest :)
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I think you're right regarding research related academics, but then if you get into the degree machines aka universities these statistics would probably hold true… I remember hearing direct from professors how it was necessary and just part of the program.

Depressing but true.
That's nonsense. Bitcoinica have virtually no effect on the market.
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`defonce` unfortunately doesn’t help. Without restarting the JVM I can overwrite that var. And that is okay, because defonce is just a protection mechanism, to not delete data when a namespace is repeatedly reloaded. This reloading occurs 99% at development time. Useful tool.

But I would like to have real constants. A final class with a static final field (and potentially type information), or something like that. This would give the optimal lookup time, as the JVM would have the direct address.

When I (defonce x 1) I can still (def x 2), without restarting the JVM. I want this to not be possible with a defconstant.
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Request: quarterly subscriptions. I know they can be handled with hooks but it shouldn't be that way. :)
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I see the two as somehow related.
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Unless your market is highly price sensitive, if you're only way to compete is with lower prices, you might compete yourself right out of business. People tend to associate price with quality - if you're much lower priced, they may think you're lower quality.

Now, if you can be lower priced and SIMPLER (both to explain and in the design of your site/product)...that could be a winner.
Interesting - that paper talks about isolates, which are implemented in Dart. Dart core team members used to work on HotSpot and other Java tech (CLDC).
That would be iBooks Author, right?

http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/ibooks-author/id490152466?mt=...

(Which is no less proprietary or more cross-platform than HyperCard was, is aimed at creating content for Apple's walled garden platform -- iOS, that is -- and for the products of which the viewer app is given away free to Apple customers, just like HyperCard Viewer was back in the day.)

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Well, event for web apps you have to make sure all the browser work as expected...
There's some report of an export business paying their supplier back in China in bitcoin. It's just a rumor though.
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Nah, good thoughts. Punctuation/spelling/etc are secondary.
The article says you should merge all your databases into one, to avoid setting up a service-api-notification-message-queue mess.

While sharing a database lets you develop the initial system quickly, you'll have problems later on because you've made no distinction between your interface (which other people code against and you commit to not changing too often) and your internals (which you may want to refactor from time to time).

So either you make schema changes at will - in which case other developers do too, and you're spending all your time fixing that instead of developing new stuff - or you rarely make schema changes and do it with advanced warning and approval, in which case the pace of development slows to a crawl because other people are too busy to support the changes you want to make.

With well defined interfaces, only the interfaces have to evolve at a snail's pace; the internals can change as fast as you like, as long as you do it without breaking your interfaces.

Example: If you run a amazon style computerized warehouse and an amazon style shopping website; you want to know if an item is in stock. If the website just goes directly to the warehouse's database tables, the warehouse schema can't change without worrying about breaking the website. A nice simple how-many-in-stock web service would be a lot easier to maintain.
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Well, most companies aren't going to pay for a standing desk (and we're forbidden from using our own equipment).
There's also the cultural thing: if I was standing I'd be able to see across the whole floor of cubicles which not only makes me very conspicuous but might also make other quite uneasy (like I'm watching them).

Anyway, that's one of the reasons why I'm leaving so I can work from home at my standing desk. I believe standing desks will be the next trend in perks that great companies offer - so it'll probably take >15yrs before it becomes mainstream.
For my part, I don't trust Oracle to be a good steward for Java. Who knows - time will tell.

It's not all gloom and doom though; Attila Szegedi is at Oracle now, working on Nashorn - something exciting for Java 8.
"It is not clear how many of these people were less healthy to begin with and who, therefore, might spend more time sitting down as a result."

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You're right, that's not good. I imagine it would get better if people started doing things like that in higher volumes, but that's a bit of a Catch 22.

Until then, there are a couple of mitigating factors:

- You may not get the market rate from anyone. The UK post office is only giving me a rate of 1.2260 to the Euro.

- If you need to pay a fee for a transfer it could be worthwhile for small amounts. The UK post office doesn't charge a fee, but it has a min transfer of £250. www.tranzfers.com charges £7 or $15AU. I've paid more elsewhere.
I'm glad I'm not alone in still not understanding exactly what Rocketr is for or how it benefits anyone.
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Beautiful, clean, and smooth on Chrome (Win7).

Can you give any sort of idea of the development effort that went into this? (ie. # of programmers, time period from starting, etc.)
“I must say its all very well handing out free tablets etc and offering incentives but maybe getting a few key applications ported and even paying to get them ported would be a better investment.”

I doubt it. Microsoft has done everything you mentioned, but it hasn't helped Windows Phone 7. Instead, they've decided to bury WP7 and are starting over with WP8. And Windows Phone is a decent OS. RIM doesn't have a good OS or modern hardware.

Honestly, I don't think RIM will still exist this time next year.
Yes. We've just launched the Chrome App store too http://bit.ly/NUSGvH. DropBox and Basecamp also high on our integration priorities.
Seemed to actually function on an iPad. Nice work. The competitive positioning to Balsamiq is clear and well placed. How will you generate revenue if its free?
As soon as you create reusable symbols across pages I will switch from balsamiq.
Is there a way to create templates?
Desks that don't support standing. Workplaces which frown upon making your own standing desk. Commutes where there's no "not sitting" alternative. Professional lunches/dinners. Meetings. There are plenty of reasons people need to sit. A half-hour commute each way, one 1-hour meeting, and lunch with coworkers will put you at your 3-hour sitting time per day without anything else.
"This research only suggests a causal association..."

This wipes out the assumptions that most people seem to be making.

People who are active sit down less. People who are active have a longer life expectancy. So be active. QED.

Nothing about this says that if you change your behaviour by sitting down less, you will live longer. Even TFA acknowledges this.

Conclusion: this article tells us nothing new, and nothing that we wouldn't have assumed already.
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GitHub is essentially a web interface to a single open-source DVCS

I don't think GitHub is popular because it's just a web front-end over a DVCS.

I'm basically a mercurial user. Use it for work. Used it for all my personal projects. The commands and workflow seem much cleaner and make much more sense to me than git's. I switched to git for personal projects soley because of GitHub.

Partly because it has a very good user experience and is snappy (bitbucket is slow in comparison) but mostly because that's where everyone else is.

I'd go as far as to say that GitHub has done more for git than git has done for GitHub.