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Even though most of the non-tech people on camera made little sense, I thought this was a great documentary.

It shows how people trade health for little reward in the end. And so many people just go flying under the radar, while they are the real people behind the products we use today.

It's all about the entrepreneurs these days, what happened to those C++ hackers working long into the night?

Ah that's right, they don't look great on magazine covers.
Most tech companies in Kanata, for example, do not list on SO. If you can write C for embedded devices there's a large number of jobs in Ottawa. I recently left a job doing that in Kanata and turned down 2 job offers before getting hired at Shopify.
I think there is a very real difference between 0.something and 1.something. $1.49 is an "awkward" price, that is not as obviously "as cheap as we can make it".

In the iOS ecosystem there is something of a race to the bottom in pricing, where everyone is competing to have the most widely used $.99 app. I can see how Microsoft considers this to devalue the app ecosystem: a system where apps compete on both price and value is more healthy than a system where 50% of the paid apps are at $.99 and everyone competes on visibility.
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Nassim Taleb makes a good argument in Fooled By Randomness that the best way to maximize the expected value of your net worth is to go into dentistry. But this isn't Dentist News...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fooled_by_Randomness
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I don't know whether you're trying to be serious or funny.

If you're suggesting that it takes more than 5 minutes to master an app like Sparrow, then good luck mastering the software you don't plan on paying for.
$1.49 is an awkward price, because it involves fractional dollars, and unwelcome mental calculations. The jump from $1.49 to $1.99 is easy to make, because $1.99 is way more attractive (how many $1.49 apps are there in the iOS app store?). From there, $1.99 to $2.99 is also easy, still only a 50% increase. Suddenly -POOF- you have a whole array of apps priced around 2-3-4 dollars, instead of a $.99 bloc. This raises the price floor of apps on the Windows market, and there are a multitude of studies describing how effective price anchoring can be.
While I agree with most of the points in this article, I'm not sure why HTML5 can't be beautiful in user experience. HTML5 doesn't come with a UI toolkit, but plenty of beautiful toolkits already exist, the most popular of which is probably JQuery Mobile. HTML has traditionally been weak when it comes to UI flourishes such as animations, but in principle CSS animations can be just as robust as animations implemented in native code. Additionally, both hardware and JavaScript JITs have come a long way since the release of the initial iPhone and Android devices. I expect the main issue will be lack of consistency among apps.
I'm quoted a few times in this article, but I do think freemium can work. The key is knowing if it can be profitable and sustainably so given your product and market. I recently dissected this issue in a blog post: http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/25167979206/the-anatomy-of-pr...
Invalid lawsuit? :P
Can you really hurt a market when it is in as bad of shape as the android tablet market is? Prior to the nexus seven, nobody was buying android tablets because android tablets were pretty shitty. Maybe all the people making those shitty tablets deserved to be squeezed out of the market.
Exactly. They need a new category of "freemium" in the iOS appstore to clearly show which apps have IAPs without having to peek inside and see what's there. My current games are all free and ad-supported, which is actually quite a selling point for my target audience of older folks who don't want to plunk down cash for their casual gaming fix...

Edit - added "in the iOS appstore"
What about .net? Minecraft's URL is http://www.minecraft.net/
In some cases, a lot of the people using the free version will pay if you force them to.
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But it's not safe to assume that you can take any product, make it free, and then make 20x more money with in-app purchases / add-ons / freemium.
One nit: There are exactly 0 apps on the iOS App Store priced $1.49, because it isn't possible to price an app at that amount (it goes up in increments of $1).

That said, I agree with you - I hope it successfully makes apps in the $2-$10 range more popular, which means developers can invest more time in them and make them better.
Stormpulse is now B2B, but we started with a multi-year "free trial" for millions of people - i.e. freemium. This was obviously critical for distribution / adoption, but ultimately wasn't profitable.
When I look at the top paid apps in the App store, I see at least as many >$10 apps as I see under $10.

If I look at my own App store purchases, $10 is easily on the cheap side.

It's amazing how so many people are complaining about the EOL'ing of a software app that's equivalent to the price of two lattes (one if you're talking about the mobile version), especially when the Sparrow guys said they'll be providing bug fix releases as required.
Verisign manages the registry and backend services for .com, .net, .name, .cc, .tv, .jobs and .edu (even though .cc and .tv aren't American TLDs). Other American companies run most of the other generic TLDs as well, including .org. Thus, they are all susceptible to US court orders to disable a domain.

Even if you register a TLD operated outside the US, be careful which registrar you choose to do so at. GoDaddy, a US company, is the #1 registrar worldwide, and has many times taken control of domains at US government request even when not legally obligated to.
My hunch is Sparrow's offered a compelling enough user experience to be a rival to gmail's UI, by being the primary point of use for Business and Personal customers, they were not being exposed to Google's revenue points (AdSense and cookie/re-targeting technologies).
It wasn't clear on the initial page, but I found a better description of the various options [1] and time/feature limited apps are just an option - you can opt to collect the money upfront.

1. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh69408...
Straw man is not the best concept to evaluate arguments in the world of tweets where every potential argument can be exemplified without nuance or detail by 140 characters. If you are considering writing an essay (or ascertaining the truth of a situation) you should be focused on the best possible argument your opponent could be making, even if it's better than the argument they ARE making. The best possible argument they could make is a better representation of the reality you actually face (i.e. the reality as distinct from the argument you are having; the real reality that you want to come to have an understanding of, and doesn't care that you are arguing about it).

I personally don't think this article addressed AT ALL the best or most nuanced arguments mounted by the the opponents to Sparrow's actions, and I say this as someone who hadn't heard of Sparrow before today and thus doesn't have much of a dog in this fight (Although I am generally predisposed to the notion that people can do whatever they want with their own apps).
The one by Cole Peters is the most ridiculous. People work to make money, among other reasons. There is nothing wrong with that. We don't begrudge the accountant, lawyer, or other people in other fields for making money. There is this group of people in our world that looks down on the notion of making money or have no desire to make anymore money than is required to live very modestly in a third world country. Once I was on a thread on HN debating wheher like $75K a year was "FU money."

It's fine to have these views but it is very much out of the mainstream and I think it makes technical people in our field look silly to the public or technical people in other fields.

Now yes there are good and bad ways to conduct business, perhaps it's not good for Google to essentially abandon the software but I don't feel anyone should begrudge the Sparrow team for going for a payday they thought was worthwhile. Someone says there was a "firesale" last weekend, I would say if they knew they were about to strike a deal and made an aggressive marketing strategy, there probably is something a bit wrong about that but I don't know any of the facts regarding that issue.
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Can you explain these terms for me: reference semantics and value semantics (and how they contrast) and non-linear mutable state. They are mentioned in the comments to the book review in this link

http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2849

The book is of course "Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++"
Many commentators are calling the book useless for teaching for ignoring reference semantics, I can almost guess what this means, but I am not 100% sure.

I think they mean programming using references types (e.g. classes) is the way to go versus programming using values types (e.g. struct)

I doubt my understanding, because I doubt bjarne stroustup would do that, C++ is about classes ... so I think there is something deeper about the term reference semantics, something less than obvious at least to me

Also the terms linear and non-linear states were used, which seem intriguing, and which I dont understand.

So if someone can explain those terms, that would be great
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I think it varies greatly based on the specific condition and your circumstances. It's quite possible that some are closer to tradeoffs than unmitigated negatives, while others aren't. The positive/tradeoffs view seems to most actively be argued by high-functioning people with Aspergers, and considering that many do contribute quite interestingly to society in ways they might not have if it were "treatable", that's at least plausible to me. That's still consistent with considering ADHD to not be of those cases.

Another way of viewing it is that there is a dispute over where to draw the line between "normal human variation" and "mental illness". People agree at the extremes: there must be some variation in personalities and cognitive styles that is not mental illness (e.g., introversion is not a mental illness, but a personality trait), and also some that seems pretty clearly "ill" (like some kinds of psychosis). But where between them to draw the line is less obvious, which is why psychiatrists get together every few years to debate it in a revision to the main diagnostic manual. Besides Aspergers, one active area of debate within psychiatry at the moment is the paraphilias: is being into S&M a mental illness, for example, or just natural variation within the diversity of sexual preferences?
I had el-get installing stuff from emacs wiki until someone pointed out that it's completely insecure. Anyone who edits the wiki can inject arbitrary commands on your machine.

The only safe way to use emacs wiki code is to audit it first, and el-get can't do that for you.
I paid full price for Sparrow and used it for two months. I didn't like it and switched back to Mail.app. But I don't feel ripped off because I got my money's worth from using it.

The app works, so I don't know why you would feel ripped off, fire sale or not. It's an overglorified EMAIL client for heaven's sake. How much more can you expect from an app that does e-mail?
The saddest part about the verge writing this summary garbage is that they wrote it for HN and it got upvotes.

Hopefully the digg revival works so all these spammy little rags don't have time for HN.
And don't forget that maintenance guarantees come with a price.

I don't know of any $10 apps that have that type of guarantee.
It's disturbing that someone's faith in humanity is so fickle that it is perturbed by something like this. Human behaviour isn't exactly something new.
> The author should make it clear from the outset that the goal is to minimize the number of drops in the worst case, rather than to minimize the average case [...] A more minor issue with this puzzle is that for the sake of thoroughness, the author should say is that the number of floors required to break the egg follows a uniform distribution (i.e., every floor is an equally likely candidate).

These two are incompatible. Once you state you are interested in worst case, stating that the number of floors follows a uniform distribution is irrevelant, and IMO confusing; the only relevant thing is that every floor is a possible candidate.
If you did it on the App store, yes.

If you do want to make a buying decision based on a promise, there's a place for that - it's called Kickstarter.
In the US the government doesn't care about the tech sector, except perhaps military. You can't help feeling that the Canadian govt is actively trying to kill it.

Startups don't fund politicians and young people in tech don't vote.
So given a choice between rebuilding a burned down mill in a town where pine beetle have eaten all the trees or supporting tech startups in Vancouver - you have to look at where the votes come from.

So cancel R&D tax credits and use it to subsidise uneconomic fishing and forestry.

Oil and mining are probably OK - they make party contributions.
But even then the fed govt is killing us. An international mining company I worked with was planning on setting up it's R&D headquarters here - (mainly because it's easier than the US). It takes 5+ years to get an immigration visa for a mining engineer and their family then it takes 5+ years to get citizenship once they are here. You can bring in fruit pickers or rig hands on a "skilled workers" temp visa instantly of course.

In the end the company moved it to Australia, comparable cost and standard of living - but 1year visa process and 1 year to get citizenship.
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> If the OP was paid, his code belongs to google.

That's wrong. Whether or not the OP was paid, his code belongs to him, unless one of these two things are true: first, if there was a contract that transferred copyright; second, if the OP was supervised in an employee-like role (work-for-hire).

That's how it is in the U.S. at least, and I believe France is a part of the Berne Convention, so it should be the same or similar there.
Syte is reasonably mobile friendly, at least on my iphone.

https://github.com/rigoneri/syte
How have they lost? Sparrow doesn't work any less well than it did before the acquisition. This is not a product that relied on a service that has been shut down. It still has the same utility it did before.

I guess my feeling on it is that I paid for an app on Mac on iOS that works fine, has no showstopping bugs and I have more than gotten my money's worth. Sure, push would have been nice on iOS, but to put it bluntly, the Sparrow team don't owe anybody anything. Esecpailly for Mac users, as it was pretty feature complete as is.
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"Most tech companies in Kanata, for example, do not list on SO"

I think that is true of most tech companies anywhere. SO was just one point of comparison. The point is there seems to be a lot more jobs in the US in quantity and variety, and I think this disparity paints an unpleasant picture given the number of tech workers that are trained in Canada.
Prototype it up and hit kickstarter/indiegogo. If you've truly got a winner, the market will support you. If not, you've saved yourself and potential investors money and time.

Hardware is increasingly going this route due to the significant investment required into getting to market. Crowdsourcing is a great way to set up a pre-order program without the cost of development.

If you have any questions you can look at the pebble watch, qtar, or Ouya gaming platform as examples of successful hardware campaigns.

Best of luck.
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I believe that if you go national in Canada you will be expected to provide a French translation of your site. That was the first I'd heard about Ottawa being interested in the ratio of cultural content outside of radio & TV programming, but it's not that far of a stretch.

However, I'd opine that it's not that much different from (eventually?) offering Spanish or other significant immigrant/minority languages on a site in the US. You may not be under any legal obligation to do so, but it would certainly make sense if you're trying to expand into different demographics.
One thing you can do, which may or may not help, is use the Keychain Services API.

http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/Securi...

It's more commonly used to store credentials, but it'll store whatever you give it.

It's important to note, when using this API, that the data is NOT erased when you erase the application. In other words, whatever way you save and restore you data, you want it to be future-proof[1]. Because you can't tell the user to delete the app, reinstall, and restore their purchases if something went wrong.

[1] I personally stash a protocol buffer message inside an NSData for that purpose.

But anyway, you're right.. whatever you do, pirating will happen.
I don't know. That's probably best answered by people much smarter than me. It's kind of a catch-22 situation because before an addiction is obvious those personality traits are hard to identify and even if they are identified do they mean the person is likely to become an addict if exposed to a substance? If you catch these personality traits in a non-addict it's easy to assume they'll learn to apply them on their own and there's no reason to believe an otherwise healthy person won't learn good coping skills. But then if that person does become an addict you have to treat the disease and on top of that help them funnel those tendencies for good. It's an uphill battle once full on addiction takes hold. Sadly, most addicts do not recover and are just lost to us. It's sad because a lot of them have incredible, above average potential. While I do think we need to take treatment a step further like I mentioned before, I actually feel more strongly about prevention. It's much easier to keep a person off drugs to begin with than it is to stop them once they've started. Both have pretty awful success rates but the former still has a better success rate than the latter long term.
I think the halo effect of Google's devices (and Jelly Bean) strengthens the market and opens it up for tablets with more features. I'd pay $150 more for a 7" with DLNA, sd card, and a rear camera (for scanning, goggles, and AR).
The problem is when images are replaced with nothing or with far inferior images. I agree that free should be prioritized when the two images are in the same ballpark of quality.
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I agree with your post so I want to add something which I think was your intent:

* without a corporate "sponsor" entity behind it. (Chromium => Google, etc.)
I know that in your comments below you mention that SO is only one of the places that you're using a data point, but given that the US has roughly 10x the population of Canada, a job offer ratio of approximately 1:12 isn't so bad on per capita basis.

But you are still right in the underlying sense that the US is a big allure for new grads and for many of the RIM workers that will be let go.

The only problem is that now there's going to be a bit more competition down south because thus far this year 50K+ planned global tech sector job cuts were announced (30K HP, 10K Sony, 10K Nokia)[1]. Of the global total (most announced over a 3-year period), it's hard to say how many of those jobs will impact US employees, but it's a fair bet that there will be some expansion in the tech sector talent pool soon if you're looking for applicants.

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-57473046-92/tech-layoffs-hi...
Or their friends, or people they spoke to at a party or conference. And so on.
I find the table on Wikipedia [1] much more usable in that I can visually see the colors that I am choosing between side-by-side. Not to mention they are already roughly organized by color.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors#X11_color_names
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Asymptotically, the question with more coconuts is more interesting. I haven't verified this for sure (there are some assumptions), but:

With the "naive" asymptotically correct solution (go up a constant number k of floors, then linearly search the remainder), two coconuts gives us a worst case cost of:

n/k + k

minimize for k, we get a cost of

2n^(1/2)

With 3 coconuts, we have

n/k + 2k^(1/2)

minimize for k, we get

3n^(1/3)

What happens when we get log(n) coconuts?

log(n)n^(1/log(n))

= O(log(n))

Sweet! So at least we can see that it converges to binary search as we add coconuts.
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But that's not how it really works. Not everyone who uses once does it again and again. Many people are able to control themselves. I'll give you tel examples. First, alcohol. Alcohol is an addictive substance so are you telling me you can take 100 people, give them alcohol and then expect 95/100 to come out addicts? Of course that won't happen. But a few will and those few are predisposed because of either genetics or some underlying cause like depression or poor coping skills. Now let's take substances out of the equation because addiction isn't necessarily about substances and it'll help to get people thinking about this differently. Sex and gambling are addictions. A person isn't addicted to the sex or the gambling itself but from the brains natural reward system being set off each time a person engages in either. Now we all have sex but not all of us are sex addicts. Many of us have lost more than we cared to part with at a slot machine or a card game but we don't all become gambling addicts. Put 100 people in a situation where they have easy access to those two things and even if all 100 partake only about 10 will come back uncontrollably. The statistics show 10% of the population are predisposed to this. This isn't like lab rats where you can expect all of them to become addicted and that's because the one thing that separates us from them is our big prefrontal cortex. That cortex works perfectly in 90% of us which is great because 100% of us are exposed to situations where we get a big dopamine boost from taking some sort of action. If we didn't have that we'd all be addicts acting on animal instinct.

It's a myth that taking something once will make you an addict. Well, it's true and a myth. It's true in that no one knows if they're one of the lucky 10% who are predisposed to this and will wake up, take another and end up like you say. But from a statistical point of view it's false for 90% of the population. Your description of taking it once, liking it and going back for more is accurate but it only holds true for a small number of people and doesn't take into account the different factors that play into what really makes an addict. It's far more complicated than that.
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