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Disabling zoom is done independently of CSS RWD, and should generally be avoided for the accessibility reasons you state. Preferring zoom-and-pan to scrolling is a separate issue, but I haven't seen or heard much to indicate its a common sentiment.

It sounds like what you dislike is poorly done RWD, which only addressed the aesthetic of the small viewport and not the unique navigation & content challenges (unfortunately common).
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It isn't a lowest-common-denominator approach. We expose the entire native API on each platform. So anything you can do in Objective-C, you can do in C#.

http://xamarin.com/how-it-works
On a side note, they have created a robot that carves complete chairs out of tree trunks using a chainsaw.
Interesting article, when I read the headline my thoughts were: What about Living Social the company that Amazon has written off as a dead investment that cant IPO and will be gone well before Groupon?

There is a lot Groupon can do to perform and the huge war chest they built from the IPO has given them a great runway to do so.
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I have not been able to determine from usage, but one of my gripes with MD - XCode was the sync logic seemed to sometimes block or get kind of slow at time and my Studio experiences have not been as bad, where changes made in this area or am I just getting lucky?
Just to clear things up, Xamarin.iOS and Xamarin.Android are not really "lowest common denominator". They are full bindings for the underlying platform APIs.
Like it or not, this is where things are going, and I'm sure this is just a start.
Why do your find the idea of turning on your kettle from across the room by looking at it, exciting? It is because it makes you feel like you've gained a new, awesome, magical power? But all you did was turn a kettle on. I wouldn't exactly consider that a "new door".

This device has zero appeal to me. Actually, probably less than zero.

If Google could develop a technology that would clean up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch -- _that_ would impress me. I wouldn't even mind so much that it was covered in targeted ads.

EDIT: rephrased first sentence for clarity
Drake - you're right it is a bit misleading, because I would equate a loss as more from marketing, waste, or mismanagement. Yet, I'd also equate missing out an opportunity as a loss as well, albeit not in the traditional sense.
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I've been working on a C# implementation of Keyczar or months now. You can find it on github.

http://jbtule.github.com/keyczar-dotnet/

It's feature complete, I've done a lot of unit tests, have about 90% code coverage, run various freely available static analysis, built it on linux and windows, but what I've really lacked is another person to actually look at the code.

It's easy to make crypto mistakes, even when you know the common mistakes yourself. So I'd appreciate any comments, code reviews, thoughts, and issues.

Thanks!
Totally agree, I was expecting the usual bash Groupon and daily deals article.

Cant wait to see where they are in 2 or 3 years
Sure, they still claim "piracy" is a problem. Yet I cannot help but notice the fundamental shift that occurred over the past decade: fully decentralized systems are basically dead, everything now involves central servers that large numbers of downloaders depend on in one way or another. I think the RIAA and MPAA can safely count that as a win, because it gives them a single point of failure to attack.

The biggest threat to the RIAA and MPAA was fully decentralized peer to peer (e.g. Gnutella); those systems could not just be sued out of existence like Napster or removed from existence by government action like Megaupload. By scaring everyone away from such systems and towards Bittorrent (with its trackers) and cloud storage, the industries contained the threat. Just centralizing the search systems was a big victory for them -- they can effectively use the DMCA to make it harder to even find the files you are looking for. Cultivating a producer-consumer mindset, even if it involves TPB, is good for the RIAA and MPAA: it makes it much easier to introduce their own download services.

To put it another way, the copyright industries have always had to deal with infringement. What they feared most in the early 2000s was not infringement, but infringement that did not require any heavy-duty equipment. Coypright, the DMCA, and related laws are designed to be used against businesses, not hoards of individual people. "Happy Birthday to You" is routinely heard in homes and offices, but never in restaurant chains or movies, for that reason: the copyright on it cannot be effectively enforced against small gatherings of people, but it is easily enforced in the case of business use.
Why? Are you afraid that you are on a video, or pictures being taken? That's indeed a problem. The voyourism with google glass.. They have to think of something to fix that. Like a led light wich tells you it's recordign.
I agree that "A missed profit is not a loss."

For example, Amazon is in my opinion a company that doesn't focus on increasing profits, especially in product areas where they are trying to push out competitors. Groupon could be artificially holding their price low to force out competitors.
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are you sure people would have actually bought at the higher prices? The Groupon revenue is from actual sales, your data is from asking people.
People often say they pay a lot more than they actually will press the "buy" button for.
We do not actually provide a lowest-common-denominator.

It is simpler to think of Xamarin as providing you with:

* C# language on iOS, Android, Mac
* 1:1 API bindings to whatever is native on a given platform. On iOS, the CocoaTouch APIs, on Android, the Android APIs, on Mac the Cocoa/CoreFoundation-based APIs.

From this basic setup, you can already see that you wont get code that will run on all platforms. You will need to split your code into cross-platform code (database access, web services, xml, json parsing, offline caches, authentication) and things that are UI-specific (Android activities, Android widgets, iOS View Controllers, and so on).
Not to mention the fact that this figure seem childishly incapable of admitting fault. Urgh. I hate it when people can't accept responsibility. It's fine to make a mistake, especially since this didn't do much real lasting harm. So admit, learn from it, don't do it again. Don't twist the facts and (delusionally and irrelevantly) declare victory.
For a moment I missed the irony and thought this was a real name for a product. I almost got excited.
Google directions steer me wrong as often as not. I just use maps.
Living Social probably runs into the same exact problems, but we'd have to test Living Social users specifically. What's interesting is that in the qualitative research, we found merchants speaking favorably about Living Social vs. about Groupon. Customers seemed to be a bit more affluent, as well, almost indicating that a lot of "BuyWithMe" users switched over to LS, instead of focusing on Gilt deals.

I think this shows I've read too much about daily deals.
This seems like a spammy advertorial to me. There is nothing in the article to back up any of their sensationalist claims.

As far as I can tell, they ask customers how much they would pay, and draw a pretty graph of that. What evidence do they have that people's responses to price questions are an accurate indicator of what they would actually spend? What have they done to address selection bias?
Yes, because big business doesn't have enough power yet already.

That's who would step in. You would reduce the size of government and corporations would just fill the power vacuum.

But we all know who funds the Libertarian party anyway - corporations or billionaires (who own corporations).
This issue is most likely related to the resizer -- if you close the resizer are you still experiencing this issue on the iPad? Also, if everyone can please post issues on the Github Issues that would be very helpful! Thank you! :)
The LCD argument is false here, there is nothing that can be done in Objective C through public APIs I cannot do with C#/Xamarin. The day after iOS 6 was released, Xamarin had an update to Monotouch. The betas were available before that as well.

I think for me, having a decade plus of C# experience this was a no-brainer. Moving from building web apps to mobile on a new platform was a big shift and removing the confusion of a new language helped smooth the transition.
I'd love to see what 'Banksy' could do with 3D printing.
http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/Crb.html
The activation stage of the download isn't working for me. Servers appear to be hosed.
Im seeing two search boxes that both look really odd, I hope its fixed soon
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While we make our cross platform libraries like Xamarin.Mobile run on all platforms, including Windows, we do not actually provide an IDE for Windows Phone apps.

Microsoft already provides a complete and capable product for that space.
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Interesting analysis; However, how does one factor in sensitivity in this analysis? Wouldn't one want to know how the demand will be affected if the price is increased?
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Depends on their architecture. Maybe the data and the system image lived on the same drive. Maybe they were just provisioning cheap / refurbished parts.
The voice recognition has been in android for 4 major versions now. It no longer hold the beta-badge protection and needs to start showing some real world results to be taken seriously.
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Bummer, Mac OS 10.7.x required.

(Edit: I've been reluctant to upgrade from Snow Leopard, but maybe I should reevaluate.)
I never fully understood why everybody is using XMPP in walled gardens (e.g. Whatsapp, Facebook, Messages...). Do you think they get anything from that? Is any of those services monetized successfully?
what ever that is

You doubt the existence of something, yet make firm statements about it. That is an odd choice of statements (where you essentially want to have it both ways).

There is an industry of pundits and mouthpieces who exist on the backs of Apple's fanbase, with John Gruber and Philip Elmer-Dewitt being two of the most obvious: They make a living essentially heralding whatever Apple does, linking to others who do the same, and deriding and belittling those who do otherwise. This does not exist for most other industries (is there even an Android equivalent to John Gruber? I mean, there are probably people trying to be, but most people don't need that confirmation of their likes so such a tactic is simply unprofitable in most other realms).

Since you've turned this into some weird Android vs. iOS thing I'd like to point out that very few manufacturers, of handsets/tablets running Android, are doing well.

What a rejoinder. Few handset/tablet makers running anything but iOS are doing well, aside from Samsung. Which, of course, is the topic of this discussion.

No source cited so I'd just like to point out that the actual tablets were being bashed not the size.

That is the revisionist history to try to make lemonade out of lemons. Only when Steve made his infamous statement Android had already (for years) had a density-independent layout structure that adapts screen elements to size (quite unlike iOS, if that contrast needs to be made). The argument was utter nonsense, and it remains nonsense.
On some level - I agree with you. I do think people (while in groups) should not spend a bunch of time on their phone. To me, it's more of a courtesy thing.

But surely, at some point in the past after books became portable, someone was shouting and complaining about all these people with their heads buried in books! When papa came home from work he used to talk to us! But now he reads! Oh no!

What I'm trying to say is this: the world is constantly changing.
In my head =D

At first I used one password for everything.
Then two, but that was a accident (ie: I forgot to change one default auto-password but got so used to it that I started to use in other places).

Then the first one was cracked.
I changed passwords in lots of places, and started to use 3 passwords total.

As this kept balooning, I decided to instead create rules for my passwords (rules that only make sense to me, of course, they are totally arbitrary and almost random).

The result is that I have now about 20 different passwords, but I can remember them all with enough effort. Sometimes there are a random site that I don't used in a while that I cannot login at first, but as I try several of the possible variations of my rules, eventually it work (erm... or not :P this had happened a couple times already, and I needed a password reset).

My associate use lastpass.
Perhaps it's right in the sense of good PR. But is it right in the sense of honest?
Great question. So, we've definitely done a lot of validity checking in the form of pricing out commodities (gold, beans, etc.), but the customers we've worked with have also seen some great lift from the changes guided by the data. You'll never actually know until you put the price out there, but the foundation is pointing towards yes.

That might be our next form of validity checking, pricing out a daily deal, and then selling it. Splash pages aren't hard to build out, after all. More on how we priced out gold here:
http://blog.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/153543/Pricing-i...
What kind of researcher are you?
I see. In your experience, do people end up complementing the platform-specific C# UI code with native (e.g., objectiveC) pieces?

My worry is there are so many nuances in building a rich UI app - that even searching/finding samples online for specific things will make me want to have native/objectiveC elements into it - as opposed to trying to hack the sample in C#. I just want to copy and paste!

How does that native-C# binding happen? Is it user friendly? Is it your expectation that most folks out there will have this duality? (if not most of the UI code being native?)

I am literally sitting on a new idea that will be multi platform by nature and am wondering all these things as we speak here.
None of those "professional" use cases you cite are as exciting, or as sexy in a demo video, as the "personal" use cases in the video.
I am aware of this issue, but haven't identified the problem yet (not on Mountain Lion with my current device) -- any help from the community would be much appreciated! Post any information that would help to resolve this issue here: https://github.com/groundworkcss/groundwork/issues/12
The Yahoo! properties I actually use on a regular basis, My Yahoo!, Finance, Sports, and Flickr (which already looks pretty good but totally different than the other properties) seem to be unchanged.
It's not just about using the excess generation capacity. In fact, at this scale it probably has nothing to do with generation. For distribution utilities, they need to install new infrastructure to connect new large loads (new datacenter, new manufacturing plant, etc.) - substation upgrades, new conductor, etc. Because that infrastructure only serves that one customer, the cost is recovered from them through a minimum-connected-load + capital contribution contract rather than from the entire customer base through a rate increase.

Keep in mind that utilities are heavily regulated and can't typically touch their rates at all without regulatory approval. In many jurisdictions, there is an "obligation to connect" for residences - the utility /must/ provide power, at a certain rate, to any residence in their area of operation. They aren't allowed to directly recover the cost of infrastructure upgrades (e.g. new distribution transformer when somebody builds an expansion to their house) directly from that customer (up to a point - if you're building a mansion that uses 10x as much power as everyone else, they'll come after you), only from the ratebase as a whole. Otherwise, people who live in rural areas wouldn't be able to afford electricity.

No such obligation exists for businesses which are typically the largest loads anyhow. If you build a new 50 MW datacenter on my distribution system, now all of a sudden I need to put in 5km x 3 phases x 5 feeders of new conductor, 2 new station transformers, plus civil infrastructure, etc. It could even be special equipment I wouldn't otherwise have on my system - like DC equipment. All of that is additional to what I have to pay the generator for that 50 MW of power on a continuous basis. So, I calculate the payback period on 50 MW of power I'm going to sell you at a 5% margin, and if it's longer than the lifespan of the equipment I'm going to buy I make you pay up front to bring it down to say, 25 years. But that only works if you actually buy 50 MW of power from me for 25 years, so if you don't I charge you a penalty equivalent to the amortized cost of that infrastructure that now sits idle.

Hope this helps explain the economics of it from a distribution point of view. I am a power engineer.
I have fond memories of using Xinu in Dr. Comer's OS course back at Purdue. It's a nice little OS! (and he's a great prof!)
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The intention here is to encourage customization of the color/radius variables in the _variables.scss partial :)
Fair point, but in the direction it's changing people are becoming more and more boring.
But how is Google Glass a step backwards? Seems like you don't lose all of your focus when you're using it, it's a small square always visible, not something you have to turn to and give it complete focus. Seems like a step forward to me.
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Considering how much trouble Apple's had shipping white versions of some of it's products, maybe you should?
Great work! I have some questions if you don't mind.

I kind of wonder why you chose XML, and the page doesn't really elaborate on that much. Wouldn't CSV be much smaller (XML is pretty noisy format, though the 7z can probably take care of that) while at the same time more searchble? You can search CSV with just grep, with XML it gets little more difficult, and CSV is also more simple to load to a database in case someone wanted to make TPB web mirror or something.

EDIT: sorry if I seem annoying :) but I had something like this on todo-list for a while, and you did my work for me, so I kind of wonder why you made different decisions.
Great point! I will work on drafting something to this effect. Thanks for the feedback! :)
Apart from the other issues people have listed here, I'd take issue with their 50/50 assumption. We've been offered 70/30 right off the bat without any negotiations by Groupon and its competitors and that was as far back as late 2011.
I think the Youtube video makes it look easier than it might be in real life since the driver goes directly to the Supercharger station (or what I assume is the station).

The rest area looked rather large and in the video I didn't see any signs directing the driver which path to take through the parking lot to get there. I could see someone who might be slightly distracted (or not yet familiar enough with the landmarks) driving through the gas station instead of turning right and missing the whole thing, and having to circle back around.
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If they're not giving away Android phones for free I highly doubt they'd do the same with glass.
> I think of it as a replacement to a newspaper for my parents, it makes a whole lot of sense.

Exactly how I feel. I stopped going there, I stopped checking my email there in years. It is a site used by grandparents. Even my mom in her 60 uses google (gmail, google news, search). A lot maybe has to do with yahoo.com just being there first and those that got computers back then just never switched (kind of like people still paying for AOL dialup).

And even though many criticize it for being dull it is exactly familiar and doing something crazy and outlandish would have driven away their remaining user base.

Now there also an aspect that yahoo has a better audience for certain ads, they also might be receptive to ads in general. So in that regard Yahoo can keep staying afloat. But in the long run I am not sure how they'll attract new users.

Come to think of it, Yahoo is like the Buick of web industry. The only people I see buying and driving those are elderly folk. When they can't drive there is a risk the brand will just go away.
Great points, rtb. We've actually done a lot of research on validating our process and algorithm. I addressed this in another comment, but we've run this process with commodities (very marke driven products) to ensure the process is sound (check out more info here: http://blog.priceintelligently.com/blog/bid/153543/Pricing-i...).

We've also started working on honing more and more validity checking into the model to filter out as much noise, outliers, and selection bias as possible.

The next step for this particular angle would be to test the deals out at the higher price point. Past customers of ours have definitely seen changes. Appreciate the feedback though. For the next part of the series we'll make sure we outline more about the foundation of the methodology and the validity behind it. Happy to hop on a call to outline, as well.
I would like to point the fact that Microsoft is killing live messenger, so the article is kinda outdated on something :)

Also, I wonder what networks can access the original Jabber network beside G-Talk, anyone here has a clue on that?

I really like G-Talk, and I wish it could interoperate with other interesting IM software.
CoffeeScript is definitely my language of choice and compiled to highly accurate and optionally minified javascript.
I believe this is a reference to the absolutely idiotic advertising that the copyright industry shows exclusively to its paying customers.
There should be a name for that generative pattern, eh?
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Regarding [2], forgiving my ignorance in economics, how is that convention insane?
I'm not that concerned. In my opinion, the people who will be able to get the best of both worlds (tech + the actual real world) will have a competitive advantage over those ADD addicts like the girl you described and eventually things will just settle down.
I have mixed feeling about this. I have a current Mono for Android Profession subscription and use the Visual Studio integration a lot. My subscription is due for renewal next month and if I want to continue to use VS with Xamarin 2.0 then I have to renew at the Business edition level. I paid for my sub out of my own pocket because I liked the technology so much, but $399 for the pro version last year was a stretch and I just can't justify $1k to renew. Xamarin Studio might be superb, but I've been using VS since 1995 and I really don't need to learn another new IDE right now.

Any comments from Miguel or anyone from Xamarin?

That said, the Indie edition is something that a lot or people were asking for and the price is attractive. The components look good too. I think its going to be a big success.

Edit: See Nat Friedman's response below [1]. Existing Pro subscribers are automatically upgraded to Business and can renew at their existing renewal price. This is described in the FAQ [2] which I didn't read far enough down.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5250922

[2] http://xamarin.com/xamarin-2.0-faq