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God says...

5:11 And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about
the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was
ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; 5:12
Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive
power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory,
and blessing.

5:13 And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and
under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are in them,
heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be unto
him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever.

5:14 And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders
fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever.

6:1 And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as
it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and
see.

----

LoseThos is done -- it's pretty much how I want it, given the situation. Some hardware avenues increase complexity by an order of magnitude and probably would be worse for compatible. I did HDAudio. That is a bad fit and you can study all it's worthlessness. VMWare HDAudio doesn't even work. Doing more devices with that bad an outcome is not good.
Cool idea, but I see some problems:

* Car dealers make a lot of money on servicing their customers' cars. They don't have much incentive to make DIY easy, and may work actively to sabotage a project like this. Unless you build relationships with dealers and manufacturers into your business plan from the beginning.

* DIY car seems to be dead or dying. In the 1970s, everyone knew how to change their oil. I'm not sure how many people in 2012 even know that oil is a thing that their cars consume. It might be very hard to achieve critical mass for a project like this.

* There are a lot of forums dedicated to various makes and models of cars. When information is available, it is usually easy to find there.

* Since this could be readily perceived as cutting in to the income stream of mechanics, you'd want to find some reason for them to buy into the project as well.
I think it's pretty accurate to say that they'll readily fund a band of outsiders if they think the idea's good, but still, they also put out terms that make it easy to take over the company if they don't see the founders as "real founders", "made men", "like us", or however you want to describe that status.

Also, here's the difference for real founders vs. the rest of us. Real founders get alternatives put in front of them when their ideas are rejected-- EIR gigs to pay the bills, spots in portfolio companies. The rest of us get zilch; spent months with no income and nothing to show for it. Real Founder social status doesn't mean that bad ideas get funded, but it does mean you don't have to deal with the extreme income risk associated with startups for non-Real Founders-- a risk that stops making sense to take after age 25.
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I think your analogy perfectly fits why I like strict moderation in SO. I hate hearing my CS classmates demonstrate their "intelligence" in the form of questions they already know the answer to, and I hate when the class gets sidetracked by hypothetical situations that will never pertain to me. I want to learn things and move on to the next class. Same with SO: I want my answer so I can get back to the project at hand.
It has the disadvantage that it's not at all obvious what it does unless I open up the man page.
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Go uses casing for semantic meaning as well. Also, you can use non-A-Z in ruby source.

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names#Ruby
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i disagree. first you copy others, discover and then you may alter/fine tune your decision. de facto standards are standards because "we" decide them to be.
It's kind of ridiculous that some mod or admin must've hidden this post because it's now missing from the front page.
Here are the terms of the license, I think: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1602/

Notice that permission is only given for implementations that comply with the specification. (And if Skype ever infringes any of your patents, you can't sue them without losing the rights to Opus.)

Whether or not you agree with Skype's moral right to its patents, this is clearly a limitation of developers' freedom. Imagine if HTTP were covered by this kind of patent: anyone could implement a client or server, but developing a backward-incompatible extension like SPDY would be off-limits. If you were to take the license terms literally, even releasing a buggy implementation that doesn't precisely follow all of the requirements of the spec would make you liable.
Part of the beauty of SO compared to an actual classroom is that the more open-ended discussion going on in a different question wouldn't keep your question from getting its straightforward answer. It would be read just by the people who found it interesting, instead of taking up shared class time.

I don't think the jargon question example from the article here is well suited for even a looser SO, as it's more entertainment than education, but there are lots of productive questions that don't have black and white answers that I've still enjoyed seeing SO discuss.
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> The OP seems to feel this is borne out of some sort of maliciousness, but I really think this is mostly just cluelessness.

I agree with you there, but not necessarily on your second point (that they shouldn't be hiring).

I think the "work hard, play hard" line is so thoroughly seared into most founders' ideas of the "startup game" that it doesn't even occur to them that a normal working schedule is possible -- and for founders and CEOs, it often isn't. But if you're asking employees to work to their very core, then you either need to either pay them a crazy amount of money, or look for a another co-founder.

In terms of hiring positions like a "growth engineer" as a fifth employee, you're absolutely right. Often times, buzzwords can get the best of people: maybe what you actually need is just a marketing guy, but, you know, you've been reading all these Growth Hacks articles and maybe if you find a marketing guru who can code and also mock up your UI/UX and-- and then, all of a sudden, you're trying to hire some superman to do all of the things your organization needs. It's better to hire people in positions for which they're qualified and pay them well to work their 40 hour work-weeks than it is to try to find the one Super Expert Growth Hack Architect Team Lead Manager, try to bribe him or her with equity, and expect 120 hour work-weeks.
I think this could still succeed, and I would almost certainly subscribe if the magazine was well-designed and had interesting topics.

I was just looking at my parent's collection of National Geographics and the shelf of yellow spines looks beautiful as a thing in itself, not to mention that they are filled with amazing articles and photography.

Edit: This would be a good Kickstarter candidate IMO!
Since the men get Mad Girlfriend and Hooker Code, I'd like to add 'Old Boys Club': libraries that you will never for the life of you get to work on modern operating systems and force you to stay on Python 2.4.
I gave this a shot and am already having a huge amount more trouble working with the command line interface than I did with the > v1.9 xcode template.

The way it's put together is not elegant at all - it's used as a command line tool, but they just drop you a random folder which has the executables and a few other folders that the executable references, so it can't be copied to /usr/local/bin, nor can it be symlinked. So creating a new app for me was pretty unnatural.

On top of that, building it apparently can only be done from the command line and not inside of xcode, and it uses outdated xcode tools. The command line build required me to have the /Developer directory, which I do not have as it was no longer installed with Xcode from version 4 and up.

Really unhappy with this initially for a number of reasons. Don't get me wrong, I love working with the command line, and I like how rubymotion uses the command line so much working with ios apps, but I'm disappointed in how awkward this initial release is. I might just continue working with 1.9.0 until the next release.
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As an undergrad, I did some research work in a bio-computation lab trying to model the basal ganglia (a part of your brain that helps you move and learn). I left shaking my head at how much guess work, "fine-tuning", and hand waving there was in the field. The biologists didn't appreciate how crappy code can deceive and the engineers didn't appreciate the mind-boggling complexity and non-imperative world of biological systems.

I can't even imagine how much parameter tuning and hacks went into a model of such staggering complexity. Paraphrasing one of my old academic advisors, the curse of models is that you can always make them look good.
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You should now that "Electrical Engineering" is a huge field that encompasses many interrelated disciplines, much like mathematics. Its impossible for any one man to know more than a few niches that are important to him really well. People spend entire careers just figuring out the best ways to wrap coils of wire around metal stuff.

To get a really good foundation on the type of things you might try to make, I think I might start with MIT's opencourseware:

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Thanks for the link.

> Notice that permission is only given for implementations that comply with the specification.

That's typical - otherwise, you could implement some almost arbitrary protocol but say it was this one (and use a small amount of it) and claim that you were shielded from Skype's patents. The patent license is just for this particular codec.

Of course there are issues with this, it's been debated a lot regarding the Java and C# licenses, which also have similar clauses for similar reasons. The motivation for them is reasonable, but the details can be tricky.

> (And if Skype ever infringes any of your patents, you can't sue them without losing the rights to Opus.)

Personally I think that's fine. If you want to engage in a full-on patent war, you should not benefit from a patent license like this.

> Whether or not you agree with Skype's moral right to its patents, this is clearly a limitation of developers' freedom. Imagine if HTTP were covered by this kind of patent: anyone could implement a client or server, but developing a backward-incompatible extension like SPDY would be off-limits. If you were to take the license terms literally, even releasing a buggy implementation that doesn't precisely follow all of the requirements of the spec would make you liable.

If a single bug makes you liable, obviously it is unfair, etc, but that's exactly where the details of the license come into play - I am not a lawyer, so I have no idea if the terms here are reasonable or not.
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/r/programming should be enough of a cautionary note.

The mob is always happy to stoop to lower levels of discourse. It cannot be trusted to govern itself as a site grows. And most of the Internet is more than willing to cater to this out of fear of losing visitors. I say bravo. Let the 'gregarious' go elsewhere and live in the land of forum signatures, endless bike shedding, and editor wars once again.
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I agree. Properly organized hackathons (that aren't merely a front for recruiting people) are great fun if you like the vibe of working around other people with a major time constraint. It forces you to come up with some clever ideas.

That said, I tend to work on my own or in a pair at these events. It's great being around people but ensuring you get reasonable consensus in a larger team is hard work and ideally demands you know your team in advance.

P.S. I think tickets might all be gone now, but http://leedshack.com/ is next weekend. British readers might want to keep it on their radar for future reference as the last one was awesome.
Acquihires always make me feel like this, even for apps I don't use or have never even heard of. From the perspective of a consumer, acquihires send out one, very consistent, message: "we're going to hunt for the best, coolest, most interesting apps that people love and find most useful, and shut them down. Suck it, users!"

It's depressing.
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> You don't? You don't get to abandon your users? Not without repercussions?

No, you don't. Was there any purpose to asking that three times besides to emphasize that it should be read in the most condescending way possible?

> What repercussions would those be, angry anonymous message board guy?

My name is Ross Woodruff, I live in Toronto, Ontario. I use my shinratdr name everywhere. I don't try to be anonymous, I'm not, and I don't see what that has to do with anything.

> Are you never ever nerver nenver neva-neva-nen going to hire them or buy their products again?

Basically. You can characterize me as a stubborn child all you want (really solid argument tactic there BTW), I think abandoning users is a crappy thing to do. I also don't think I'm the only one who supported them with this opinion.

> Because I think a $9.99 mail client sale doesn't make a developer your indentured servant.

No because it has no bearing in reality. Your users don't care and aren't going to be understanding that you abandoned them. The theories you espouse are just things devs can tell themselves to make themselves feel better about doing what is, in essence, a really crappy thing to their users.

They don't change the reality. Likewise, users being mad at you doesn't equal indentured servitude. The only thing that defines indentured servitude is your ability to leave. They left. Is anyone demanding they return and continue the app? No. We're just making it known we support devs that support us.

> I think they'll be fine.

So long as they stay in the corporate world from now on. Should they switch back to a startup, plenty of users will hear "from the Sparrow team" in the future and avoid the product because they can't trust it will be available & useful for them in them when they need it.

They sold out their reputation in the iOS & OS X software world for jobs at Google. I hope that you're right and it was worth it. From what we've seen in the past, that won't be the case. Most startup types abandon those jobs within a couple years and are back to independent development right away. They might not find the user community so welcoming the second time around.
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I should think that dealing with people internationally would provide more tolerance for questionable grammar, not less, since non-native speakers of English typically make quite a few grammatical errors. Especially for irregular and idiomatic aspects of grammar.

Take those ignorant Brits, for example. They are always saying "different to" rather than "different from". That's much more annoying than using "it's" for "its", as it's not even pronounced the same way. And don't get my started on them misspelling "color" and "rumor".
I agree. Often overlooked is that not all qualifications directly relate to "running the company": relationships with people who hold high-level positions in other companies, governments, academic institutions, and other organizations also play a role. Executive and director biography pages for large public companies always make entertaining reading.

To take just one random, high-profile example: David Ebersman, Facebook's CFO, while by all accounts a knowledgable and hard-working guy, was also the protégé of one Arthur Levinson, chairman of the board of Apple. This is the kind of thing that may be totally unimportant to Facebook's day-to-day operations, but that could also be very useful at some unknown point in the future (when negotiating to integrate Facebook products into as-yet-unreleased versions of Apple's mobile OS, say).

Investors also pay attention to "who's who" in the executive suite, which is important to many companies.
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> Although I fully agree with the author's critique of cookies for instance, the idea of replacing them with something "better" frankly scares the crap out of me.

> Especially when the word "identity" is being used. You just know what kind of suggestions some powerful parties will come up with if you open this up for debate, and fighting that will take up all of the energy that should be put towards improving what we already have.

Oh wow, I hadn't thought of that. Reading that critique I was just thinking "oooh doing away with cookies would be a great thing", slightly wondering what one could replace it with ... but you're right, they'd probably replace it with something extra plus plus scary.
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The steps will disable facebook. Unless you're on ICS or rooted, there's nothing else you can do (except perhaps install a launcher that lets you hide apps--out of sight/out of mind).
So you have to put a js snippet on a page to be able to track conversions, right? So how can I track if TechCrunch decides to writeup my app and links to the appstore straight from the article. Same if I tweet the link out to my followers? I guess I could only tweet out a page which will track them and then redirect, but that seems wonky.

Maybe I'm missing something? How can I use this to track a wide range of traffic sources w/o all funneling them through a common tracking page?
I can't speak for the GP and I haven't used Phonegap but the problems I have encountered trying to use webviews in apps revolve around touch latency and animation. When a user touches an element on the screen they expect instant response and I haven't seen that in any app using web technology. Also, animation needs to be comparable to what you see natively. Even trying to scroll images without scrolling the whole view is a recipe for lag and choppiness. I don't want any part of that in my apps.
There are examples here which worked out-of-the-box for me in Chrome:

http://www.octasic.com/en/tech/opus_audio_codec.php

In my listening opinion with very good isolated headphones: the music is very good but you can hear the drop-off of the highs in the vocal examples. It's good but not good enough for 'professional' use at the lower bitrates.
Fair enough but it's not like it was some once-in-a-lifetime buyout, it was $25 million and it was for talent not the app. Did the VCs really make that much off this sale?
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I use the sparrow Mac client and love it. I keep it on the top left of my 27" iMac screen about and it's roughly 350px wide by half the screen tall. Twitter sits underneath it at the same width/height. It only has 2 email accounts linked to it (work and personal) and they are both gmail. It's always on and always there.

I prefer it to the gmail web app because I can keep it visible and it's a couple of keyboard shortcuts away to read and send email, can keep me logged in to both accounts simultaneously without having to "hack" gmail with an incognito window or two separate browsers, and...it's not a web app. Oh, and the interface is so much simpler than gmail and I confess to not using labels or tags or filters or anything "advanced" in gmail so it is perfect for me.

I'm personally not so bothered that they aren't going to continue improving it because it does everything I need it to do, but for me it was definitely worth the $10 I paid for it and it fits my workflow/screen layout much much better than a web app would.
It's not widely known, but in practice, you can get effective link tracking using the iTunes affiliate program. Here's a blog post on the topic I wrote up a while back: http://www.coursenotesapp.com/blog/?p=16 .
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Criticizing? I genuinely want it to succeed, but it needs games. A console without games isn't a console. It seems like getting developers to promise games at launch (or at least shortly after it) should be one of the top priorities for the Ouya team right now, but I don't see any evidence of that happening.
The reason why that error is so common among American English speakers though is that we are mistakenly taught that voices apply to sentences and so passive voice in a subordinate clause gets ignored. So you have the issue that
"Are you responsible" is active voice but "if papers were left on your desk" is passive.

But this also gets to the problem of avoiding the passive voice which too many grammarians push, which is that there are times when the use of passive voice clarifies things.

The question, "Are you responsible if papers are left on your desk?" illustrates this very well. The questioner assumes it doesn't matter who left the papers on the desk, and there is no way to better word the sentence.

So in this discussion I have intentionally split infinitives (to emphasize that the goal is to do better at wording sentences), and illustrated why the passive voice is great, and in so doing have probably permanently disqualified myself from a job where grammar nazis rule.
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I can say confidentially I would NEVER pay a monthly subscription for a freaking email program. You've got to be kidding me if this is your "solution."

Here's the lesson and Apple cannot fix this: indie developers can be swayed and pulled away by big companies like Google. Sparrow made the decision for themselves - not because of some inherent flaw in Apple's app economy.

Here's the other lesson for all of you: guess what? An (arguably) great app has just vanished from the ecosystem. Go create your own! There is obviously a gap to fill now. Make something better than Sparrow.

And when Google comes knocking, say no. Stop whining.
This actually looks pretty powerful: http://www.rubymotion.com/features/

Here's the most important part:

> RubyMotion implements Ruby on top of the Objective-C runtime and iOS Foundation classes. Thanks to this tight integration, Ruby can interface with iOS very naturally at no performance expense.

> You can mix Ruby and Objective-C code, always have access to the latest C and Objective-C iOS APIs, and also make use of 3rd-party frameworks.
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They sold out their reputation in the iOS & OS X software world for jobs at Google

Oh no!
We can't track links to the App Store, but when press links to your site we can break it out. We show you each referring domain, how many visitors it sent and how many users you ended up with from that domain. We also help you figure out how organic traffic to your site converts, which keywords are good, etc.

For your own Twitter marketing you can use our redirect links, so they'll go straight to the App Store via Tapstream redirect.

You can use the same method for AdWords, Facebook posts, email marketing, etc. The links can be created on the fly, so if your company is "Example.com", you'd create links like

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etc. As you create them they'll show up in Tapstream the first time they get a hit. (this assumes a CNAME tap.example.com for a simpler explanation).
I think Microsoft and Apple are more into known quantities and what is implemented in hardware.