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> The default google apps only seem to play content from the play store.

I have sideloaded PDFs and epub. I don't think this should be an issue. Anyone else with a comment on this?

>* The software home button is very frustrating. Miss the spacebar, Im going to the home screen

Never had that problem, but long press spacebar and annoying 'Choose input method' dialoug pops up. YMMV

> Hitting an actual link is like choosing a first square in Minesweeper, sometimes it works, but most of the time it either misfires or opens the enlarge modal.

I have had this issue with my friends iPad as well. May be I was not experienced enough on the platform. You might be avoiding it on iPad owing to its large screen estate and hence larger content.
We've had several of these companies approach our agriculture software company over the years. The key phrase to listen for is "scheduling fee" as that's what they call the $15k - $25k fee.

The most recent pitch was last year and the special host was to be Terry Bradshaw.
You should really try the Windows Phone in that case. Its quite intuitive. Now I know the word is relative but I have used both android and iPhone in the past and I just love how the Windows phone brings everything together and how it is consistent across the board.

It has this app integration where you can link into an app from another. e.g. if I looked up a restaurant in maps then all the restaurant related apps such as yelp and opentable are available to me right there. A tap takes me right into those apps at the page that talks about that specific restaurant. This has been there for a couple of years unfortunately not enough people have used the platform
I refer you to a recent post of mine on the obviousness test: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4523706
I wouldn't want to tell you what to do with your own body, but I hope you realize that at this usage frequency you are abusing this drug. The current thinking is that such frequent use does not give your brain nearly enough time to recover and can lead to serious negative life-long consequences, such as depression. Another consequence worth looking up, if you didn't hear about it previously, is so-called "loss of magic."
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From wikipedia:

"Unlike previous aircraft, such as the F-22, all software for the F-35 is written in C++ for faster code development."

Seems that C++ is fulfilling its intended purpose nicely: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_it_for_you_all

Or perhaps Bjarne's real goal was to end all wars ;)

Edit: Oh, and it seems somebody has not read The Mythical Man Month:

"Because of this delay and the increased complexity of the jet's third and final software block, Lockheed Martin and the Defense Department have added additional resources to fielding Block III software"
The one in Windows phone acts up much more consistently then. The back button takes you to the previous screen in the app until you get to the home screen and then it takes you back to the page where you launched the app from.
If they use the popularity of Windows to gain share on ARM, they are effectively abusing their "Intel-compatible PC operating systems" one.
While I take your point, define "flourish", and you're back to value judgements.
"* Who thought that power + volume down is the best way to take a screenshot? It is very hard to do"

Ugh I feel the same, it's hard to do without the Phones Volume being displayed on the phone. Then you get a screenshot of what you want and the Phone's Volume level being displayed.
I guess I tried to address two issues in this. Let's put it this way: one man drives an Audi RS4, and the other has a Toyota Camry. Nobody argues that the man with the Audi has the better car, but one might infer that he also has more disposable income. That is why we assume people with Macbooks have more disposable income; they've purchased a luxury item when there is a commodity alternative. A backlit keyboard is definitely not required to use a laptop, no more than heated seats are necessary in a car. You think they're essential because you have enough disposable income that the utility of the money you'd use to buy the keyboard has become less than the utility of the keyboard. This is the notion of value. You can also, likely, afford to give a few dollars to a charity if you'd like.
> How do they port it to Linux, then? (They have to re-compile it right?)

Many use a WINE wrapper (or a derivative, like Cider); the same goes for OS X versions. Especially for a lot of these indie games, where a small performance hit isn't a big deal as they don't tax the hardware.
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Imagine if you could "safely remove" a disk from Apple's own file management app by dragging it to the trash.

Instapaper's UI is discoverable and forgiving, which seems far more important than its particular choice of "iconography" when actually interacting with it.
I changed the summary text of my apps to say that I disagreed with Apple's patent lawsuits and that I would be removing them from the app store once I'd had a chance to distribute updates to existing users for any issues with iOS 6.

The next day my apps disappeared from the store with no notice or explanation.

I will never invest in a platform with this kind of arbitrary, totalitarian control again. Goodbye & good riddance Apple & good luck with your silly joke of an IDE.
I don't really agree that the home button behavior is confusing. The home button complements the back button to give you two options: stay in the app or go back to where ever you came from.

I think the more real problem is that developers have been really bad at choosing the right default behavior for things like launching from notifications, widgets, or intents. These things are often the most likely way someone will interact with your app, so implementing them needs careful attention. At a minimum, an app like Gmail should offer a configuration to change the behavior even if they want to choose a weird default that overrides standard system behavior.
Glad you like my linking entities to wikipedia entry. Still need some extra work to make a complete/ready-to-use corpus out of the 5 billion webpages
<<I really wish I could edit my comments>>

Scratch my comment above, the caching and flushing is introduced in a future blog post. In this iteration of the code base, an attempt is made to save a vote to the DB. If it fails, it fails, there is no attempt to retry.

https://github.com/crabasa/votr-part1/blob/master/events.js#...

A comment was made about whether the vote persistence would be considered ACID. Most likely not! Each vote that comes in fetches a copy of the event document. If votes came in fast enough, this would create a problem.

However, rather than corrupting the data, I think the votes would simply fails since CouchDB uses a revision property to prevent this:

http://wiki.apache.org/couchdb/Document_revisions?action=sho...
> it only did not allow other browsers to do JIT compiling

Effectively preventing competitors from building accepctable JavaScript-enabled browsers. It's not that you can't make a winrt browser. It's that it'll suck.
Having a strong brand is not an abuse of monopoly power. That's ridiculous.

An abuse of their monopoly power would be something like denying Windows licenses to PC makers unless they agree to exclusively produce Windows 8 ARM tablets. There needs to be a leverage of the monopoly power in doing something anticompetitive for there to be an illegal act.
Okay, I was able to confirm sergeo's statement. Here's what I did:

1.) I compiled my app with a 4-inch default image using XCode 4.4.1 with iOS 5.1 as the base SDK and ran the app in Xcode 4.4.1's iOS simulator.

2.) I copied the resulting i386 app folder from /Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/5.1/Applications/[app uuid] to /Library/Application Support/iPhone Simulator/6.0/Applications/

3.) I started XCode 4.5's iOS Simulator and ran my app from Spring Board.

The result? It did work. I was able to see my Xcode 4.4.1-compiled app in 4-inch display mode.

I can't say for sure if this will work on the iPhone 5 hardware, but I'd bet the answer is yes.

I guess with this finding, if you're not using any iOS 6.0 features, it may be better to continue to compile your app using Xcode 4.4.1 since that lets you more easily produce app with armv6 support.
decimal fractions can't necessarily be represented by a finite amount of bits (just like the fraction 1/3 is 0.333333...). Computers work with finite amounts of bits, so you're losing some accuracy. Other representation methods could be used to store the numbers (e.g. store the nominator and denominator as whole numbers), but you can't get around the fact that an infinite amount of numbers can't be represented with a finite amount of bits (e.g. the square root of two can't be represented accurately as a ratio).
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With iPhone 5, Apple Has Chiseled The Smartphone To Near Perfection
It's sad that every time the authors chose to compare the phone they compared it with iPhone 4S instead of comparing it with any of the newer phones out there in the market such as Lumia 920 or GSIII. That is like taking a page from Apple's marketing book. Of course it is going to be better than the older version released last year. How does it compare to the phones of this generation?

That question is left unanswered. May be that is because the audience won't like the answer...
The double-tap home menu always brings up the weirdest menu. There doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason to how the apps are arranged (or if you even get apps - sometimes you get iPod controls). One of the more irritating features of iOS.
me too please. henchan.junk
I've been using the beta to navigate around Vancouver for a month or so and it works quite well. Turn by turn with voice commands through bluetooth to my car is great. The Yelp integration is pretty useful too. Big thing that's missing is the street view, but not something I've used much in the past.

Regardless of how it stands compared to standalone GPS units and Android it's a big improvement over the previous maps app.
Review Roundup: iPhone 5's screen shines, battery life impresses
As anyone who has tried the iOS6 betas can confirm, the maps are pretty bad. I've looked for directions to nearby towns and it will send me to another country. Searching for directions from my office to a friends house sent me to a point that didn't even have the town's name anywhere near it.

And as far as I know, you can't search for public transport directions (at least in London a month ago), which was practically 60% of my maps usage. I had to either use google maps mobile web app or downgrade to iOS5. I did the latter.
I use TweetBot on the iPhone and read from where I last left off scrolling upwards. If it has been a prolonged period of time, I will just scroll to the top and just read downwards a bit because I have realized there is never too much that I actually miss that isn't repeated.

Sidenote, not sure why poster takes so long, "5min" to scroll to the top when all that is necessary in most iPhone apps to scroll to the top is tapping the black bar at the top of the screen.
Hereby coined "James's Law"

"Given a large enough crowd, someone is bound to know what in the hell they're talking about."
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Thanks! That's very kind. Perhaps this stuff is easier for me to write about in that I took the summer off, so I'm not in charge of anyone right now.
This is simply false they compared the Sunspider mark (924) to SG3 (1400) and HTC one (1700) and the battery life (11:15 rundown) to industry leading Droid RAZR Maxx (+10 min longer).
iOS sucks in some pretty key areas too. The only difference is what you're familiar with.

I had been using an iPhone for two or three weeks before I discovered (by accident) that double-pressing the home button actually did anything. To my knowledge, this is the only time double-pressing anything is the correct interaction in iOS; I'm so trained at this point that you either single-press or long-press that this startled me. How anybody ever figures this out is beyond me.

The same goes for navigating text - it also took me a while to find out that long-pressing creates a magnifying glass. I still prefer Android's version, which is consistent on all text fields (including the browser URL bar!) and faster.

The browser forces me to scroll up all the way in order to navigate to a different page. The URL bar and search bar are inexplicably different, which makes no sense on a mobile device.

I still couldn't tell you without looking which icons I can move on my homescreen and which I can't. Even if I look, I couldn't explain why I'm unable to move many of them.

Settings - man, why does this have to be so complicated? Even Cyanogenmod, which offers a far greater level of customization, makes much more sense. Almost all relevant settings for a particular application are inside the application itself - this isn't split half-and-half arbitrarily.

Taking a screenshot? I always forget that this requires pressing two buttons that are very awkward to hold down at the same time. On any ICS+ phone, I can just long-press the power button. Simple. Easy.

The notification bar is completely superfluous. I receive a notification from Twitter, then tap that notification to go to Twitter to read it, and then I notice that I have to go back to the notification bar to clear the notification again.

I've never had any problems with buttons. All Android phones have a back button; the only question is whether it is hard or soft, but I don't really care about that.

Maybe that means I, the user, am just dumb. But I never have had any of these problems on Android.
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Don't be. He's basically thinking out loud about two languages he knows very little about. It's an entirely content-free post, but because he's famous there's evidently a danger that people might take it seriously.

The fact that he clearly knows so little of Haskell is what's most telling - you shouldn't be taken seriously as a language critic if you don't realize that Haskell also has all of those scary things he lists from the Scala table of contents, with the exception of variance annotations (since it's not OO).
Interesting viewpoint. I know Google has said they did usability tests and found users didn't know what back would do a lot of the time and disliked it. Google's solution was to provide up navigation instead, which stays within the app. This is the < arrow at the top left of the standard action bar pattern now. I guess the original post had a point that back navigation could have been made more consistent as well, however.
That's a nice definition. I thought of a name for it: Monte Carlo UI.

Google seems to like that so much with their 'I'm feeling lucky' button that they had to integrate it system level into their mobile OS.
Yes, I have and am doing it again right now. That said, first time I tried this I wound up failing before it really got a good start. I don't think the idea was bad, or really even flawed, but I was and so was my method.

My 2 cents:
1) First, I agree with most of things orangethirty said, with a couple of differences.

2) The services model doesn't work well while you are working a job. It is too demanding and you will fail someone.

3) I found setting a schedule is the best thing. Give yourself at least 2 nights a week where you do nothing. That isn't much, by the time you get out of work, eat dinner and unwind you will find it amounts to only a few hours. In reality if you are like most, you'll still write stuff down, and be thinking about concepts idea's etc. But avoid the keyboard if at all possible.

4) Layout your plan in detail. I created a task list and am working it every chance I get.

5) Outsource things. Don't try to do everything, if you need logo's, design work etc, find freelancers or some of the online groups. It is worth it. Use the money your "job" is paying you to make investments in people and things you need for the business.

6) Enlist family or friends to help you with details. I have a Google Voice number we forward to our cells and trade who is answering. That way if a client is calling they get a person most times, not a voicemail box. Seems small, but I think it pays off.

7) I talk to everyone I can about my idea, and any questions I have.
7a) I do avoid talking to anyone at the office in regard to my business in general as I feel I owe it to them to do the job they hired me to do. Some people that know I will talk to some, but I try to keep it minimal.
7b) I do however talk to executives in the business and people in key positions that might have insight or knowledge. So I will ask questions about problem domains or how they solved issues etc. I am not asking them for secrets or asking them to violate any company policies. But smart people always have opinions, and I do not say hey I have X business and how would you do Y. I will simply ask how did you solve problem Y (no different than a forum)? Also in my case, my "job" and my startup project/business are not in the same domain and in fact I sought a place so I could avoid conflicts, and ensured my non-compete etc would not cause issues.

8) Ok cause I can't seem to write anything short. Last thing. When you get a little traction dedicate yourself to the business or it won't go anywhere.

tl;dr --

Do's: make a plan, set a schedule, take time off weekly, enlist family/friends and talk to everyone.

Don't: Make it a Service business, talk out of turn at work, break confidentiality rules etc.

Updated to fix the formatting.
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I've got the same opinion. It's amazing how so many entrepreneurs love the idea of crowdfunding their next project. They don't see how their crazy startup idea is just another insanely risky investment alongside scammers and people who have no idea what they're doing.
But you can spend all day and night reading users' private messages and photos, right?
Roundup of links to early reviews:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57515524-37/initial-iphone...

I found David Pogue's early review hilarious if only because, reading between the lines, it boils down to: David Pogue has spent thousands of dollars on third party Apple dock gadgets and does not appreciate compatibility being broken.
The more I see that Lightning port, I can't help but wonder why they didn't just do the obvious and go for micro USB. I'm wholly confident Apple could design the highest of quality micro USB connector to satisfy even the biggest of haters that claim its too flimsy while silencing the constant gripe of obsolescence.
iOS 6 maps is a massive step backwards in an otherwise solid release. I'm looking forward to Google releasing their own maps app, assuming they do. For now, I'll get by with their web app.
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Vibrams might work for some but my personal experience ended with over-pronation injury. I always preferred forefoot running to begin with and the Vibrams allowed me to get carried away.

Use the right tool for the job. It sounds like Vibrams were that right tool for Jason, which is great!

(FWIW I started running after "minimally invasive" neurosurgery about 2 years ago)
Last I looked, though, they only deliver via FedEx, which really raises the costs.

I wish the postal service did it. They send somebody by my house every day. It'd be awesome if the actually dropped off something I wanted.
Not that I disagree with the idea that Facebook is lame, but the opinion expressed in that post is not the kind of content developer nerds want to find on HN. It's just a fluff content piece slapped together and linked here for hits.
That interview was very interesting.... I'm kind of interested what the response to its leak was now though....
What is the biggest waste of time in your life?
The language isn't as restrictive as you're suggesting. Here's the quote from section 3.3: "All fees received by Developers for Products distributed via the Market must be processed by the Market's Payment Processor. "

The key distinction is that this doesn't apply to products not distributed by the Market, like eBooks and mp3 hosted and sold externally (see: Amazon, B&N, Kobo, ...). Hell, you can even buy physical goods via the Amazon Mobile app (and others I'm sure).
The inability to easily use the public transportation option was the biggest issue for me.
Thats a fair comment but is a different discussion than the one this subthread is built on which is whether a mac is more expensive than a comparable pc. When discussing that then features like a backlit keyboard are important.
I really appreciate how Haxe (which targets js) handles this situation. If you want to write js, and stick with block level scoping, it's a great option.

var k = 1;
var foo = function(){
var k = 2;
var foo = function(){
if (Math.random() > .5){
var k = 3;
}
trace(k);
};
}
[...]

("transpiles" to)

[...]
var k = 1;
var foo = function() {
var k1 = 2;
var foo1 = function() {
if(Math.random() > .5) {
var k2 = 3;
}
console.log(k1);
};
};
Another reason might be that they pipe analog audio out of it?

I don't know much about hardware, would it have been possible to use the standard micro USB connector and still provide those features?

From the article:

> the adapter will provide the power and analog audio that the vast majority of docks and accessories (and cars) in the world need
"This is my eye, captured by a mini TV camera mounted inside the machine. This camera isn't a normal fixture but was installed by the TV production company filming the experiment for a documentary. The pupil is widely dilated, one of the outward signs I have been given MDMA. The inward signs are pretty obvious too."

This is why it's impossible to do a truly double blind study of this kind. So you give them MDMA or psilocybin and ask if it helped their PTSD therapy or if they had a religious experience, and they are more likely to say yes.
Yeah, and they could've waited a year longer to switch directly to micro-USB 3.0, especially considering their new laptops are also supporting USB 3.0, and it would've improved the transfer speed for iTunes files anyway.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/247507/usb_30_to_reach_smartp...

Apple didn't use Lightning for the users, they did it for the lock-in with the accessories (in the future).
Sure, comparisons with the 920 or GSIII are interesting to those who are watching the market, but frankly only comparisons to previous iPhones are useful.

Nowadays iPhones and flagship Androids have gotten good enough that the pain of switching ecosystems far outweighs any benefit to be gained by switching ecosystems.
This post explains that a little bit: http://brockerhoff.net/blog/2012/09/13/boom-2/

Essentially, his conclusion is that micro USB can't support everything Apple wants the connector to do.
Thank you for the interesting reply!
It's a parody.

http://www.snopes.com/computer/program/stroustrup.asp
> Big thing that's missing is the street view, but not something I've used much in the past.

I suspect that puts you in a tiny minority...

Streetview is a huge deal.

The lack of transit integration also pretty much makes Apple's maps a non-starter for me.

I'm curious to see what they do in places like Tokyo, where public transit is used for a huge majority of trips, and the transit system is complicated enough that a good routing app is very useful. The iphone is very popular in Japan, so I'd think Apple would be somewhat reluctant to just give its customers the finger like that...