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Hi cheers for the update I have not heard of apptopia.com looks interesting. With CC the apps remain your property so it depends if you want to start again or sell the same item many times. Some apps on CC have made over $100k p/y.
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Can we please stop posting links to this project? It's a really good example of how not to write Angular code.

The (official) AngularUI project has a much better solution (as has already been linked to in previous comments, but I feel the need to re-iterate): http://angular-ui.github.com/bootstrap/
> XCode is garbage

Once in a while I see an argument like this and I wonder - does this guy really do mobile development?
For the better part of last year I was into Android development, in Eclipse. If XCode is garbage, I don't know what Eclipse is. Resource-hogging, buggy monster with seven heads with shit on them, probably. I could list annoyances of Eclipse that got me for hours. On the other hand, in last month I jumped in to iOS development. And XCode was a breeze. Sure, it has its own gotchas, but many of them either have fixes or workarounds, and the start/build speed is just fantastic, compared to slow Eclipse and Android emulator.
Mark is needlessly caustic in these comments, in my opinion.
That's what I assumed. Not that the fossilization actually occoured in space it's self.
Calling Siri innovation is revisionist history. Google had voice search nearly a year when Apple launched Siri. Also, Apple bought Siri, they didn't invent it.

Based on the interactions I've had with Siri/Google search (I have an Android) there haven't really been any innovations in the space since Google introduced voice search. It's useful, but imperfect.
That's a great way to build a company! good luck
Something... something... support Android graphics drivers. Even though the Wayland devs have said that this is possible in Wayland or with some modifications.
With images you can use alt-text to support screen readers and search engines. I would be surprised if someone tried to copy-paste a clock, and if they did I think they would be expecting to get the picture and not a text representation of the time.
A good tip for new Android users now that I feel obligated to evangelize Android a bit:

Get cyanogenmod [0] and cyandelta [1]. First off your get:

Android 4.2.2/3 and

the swipable lockscreen widgets,

the alternative top right swipe to access the notification toggles,

the new 360/panorama camera,

and updating is simple since cyandelta runs a scrip where it downloads a delta file of the next cyanogenmod and automagically updates it in 2 minutes with the push of one button-- no need to manually update the zip file.

Another great thing is Android ADB [2] and how quickly it is to get up and running on a new Android device / Android ROM. iOS' Cloud sync is slow when syncing contacts. I remember I was testing between Paranoid Android [3] and it's expandable notifications [4]/ hybrid mode [5], Omega[6] with it's standard TouchWiz two apps at once feature (multiview) [7] and all the other TouchWiz features (gestures and popup browser--which I didn't really use), and Super Nexus [8] with it's pure vanilla Android experience on my I9300 (Samsung Galaxy S3) before sticking to CM and Android will sync my Google Contacts and Gmail first and fast.

Google Now is great by being proactive like the author said but he forgot to mention sports tracking for those who like sports.

Other than pushing apps from the market to the phone while you're at your PC, the chrome to phone extension [9], and the share feature [10] he nailed this list.

EDIT: Forgot about setting apps to default. On paper Android seems better but it's still a matter of polished skuemorphism and flat UI / extra MB added from HTC Sense, BLUR or TouchWiz. The low file footprint on iOS compared to these added slow layers make up the difference so I understand if you don't want to switch.

[0] http://get.cm
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cyandelta&...
[2] http://developer.android.com/tools/help/adb.html
[3] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?s=bbf7229560d...
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=V...
[5] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
[6] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1663656
[7] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
[8] http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2076672
[9] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-chrome-to-p... & https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
[10] http://blogs.computerworld.com/android/21699/android-killer-...
He means it's a sensible speculation to make, not necessarily that it's a good reason for Canonical to start Mir.
On OSX (even though the HN title says linux, the original article title doesn't say "Linux" and many of the same steps apply to OSX server), you can't run dmesg as a normal user -- you have to run it as root or within sudo
> "their auto-correct is garbage"

The last three people who switched from iPhone to Android asked me what was wrong with Androids auto-correct and why it didn't "work". They ended up having to install a third party keyboard to get anything they could stand to interact with.
This is all a YMMV situation... I find that if I google something associated with a physical address on my desktop machine, logged into google, my phone will have a card with directions to that location.

That can be useful, but it's usually just an annoyance as I only wanted to call them or do something on their website.

Anybody have a solution to deactivate that behaviour?
They have VML, which suffices for simple icons, though.
Yes, that is true. The lifetime of methane in the atmosphere is 8 years compared to 100 years for carbon. The possible problem with extracting it is destabilizing the hydrates so you get a very large eruption which would release colossal quantities of the gas in a very short period of time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_methane has lots of useful information and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis has some interesting info on methane hydrate eruptions.

Edit: got my eruptions and irruptions in a twist.
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more like "a history of vi" (via ed and on to vim) with a side of emacs. :-/
Ahh... I miss the days of Flex. I wish there were an equilavent js framework that handles data-binding in the same way.
>does this guy really do mobile development?

Nope. Like my comment said: "Targeting the Mac"
I agree. In the past few weeks, Bitcoin has really picked up lots of speed. So much in fact, that I'm wondering whether we're witnessing an exponential adoption where years of people doubting Bitcoin were simply the beginning of the curve. That would also mean that things are going to explode pretty soon.

I sincerely hope that the aftermath of said explosion will leave Bitcoin as the strong contender to established monetary systems that it always was - just "proven by reality" now. That would certainly be all I need to finally jump on board.
Why wouldn't you be able to fork Mir? The open source licenses used explicitly allow that. Disagree with Canonical on strategy if you want, but spreading FUD about lawsuits is misinformed at best, maliciously dishonest at worst..
You can also move to TMO with an iPhone. They reframed their spectrum in many cities (such as Minneapolis where I live) and now 3G works on the iPhone. It's faster than AT&T by far.

For the money I'm saving vs. AT&T, I can afford to buy unlocked iPhones new, or grab them off craigslist for cheaper.
Yup-I rented one of the newish Toyota Camrys the other day and my bluetooth streaming worked perfectly. None of this random app resetting he describes.
I agree overall, but I don't think the basic mechanism of why we have more work than ever is "jobs finding a way." That characterizes the process as jobs self-replicating, mutating, and adapting.

It's more that improvements in information processing generally (over the long-term) raise all boats, and do not fundamentally alter capitalism's competitive essence. Increasingly complex information processing can be automated, but that just moves the competition to a different playing field (er, boat pond). Until computers can create optimal, marketable solutions to novel problems, competition will always provide jobs for humans. They will just be different jobs.
(never having used angularjs, I am ill-equipped to judge) What makes the official solution much better than the one posted by the parent?
Yup, most do! Check out the customers section on our homepage :) For incorporations, we work together with YC to get everyone set up, so pretty much everyone uses us unless they're already incorporated (then Kirsty and YC's lawyers do whatever cleanup they have to). Most companies end up choosing to use us for their seed round documents too (currently in private beta) - we are by far the most popular option for that.

Perfectly reasonable question - that's what I'd ask myself!
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One possibility would be that if the calcium already existed in the asteroid along with ice.

The ejecta could somehow retain some water along with the original organisms the sudden relocation to space would preserve the structure (if it hadn't been vaporized first). The water would turn to ice.

If this asteroid then came near the Sun, the ice would presumably melt by the ambient heat (and if deep inside, wouldn't immediately sublimate). The moisture will then aid in the fossilization.

That's purely speculation, of course.
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While the demo there works for me in IE (9 and 10) and FF it fails in Chrome. That's probably reason enough that you cannot really use it.
Once you get past the disparity in app ecosystem, the top of the line Android phones (4.1+) definitely have the features to make switching easy.

For me, the killer feature is typing. I cannot get past how goddamn primitive the iPhone autocorrection is compared to even the default setup of Droid phones. The state of text input is just absolutely abysmal on iOS.
What's your toolchain for creating svgs? Seems like every time I look at doing this I still have to download some weird third party shareware to convert my photoshop stuff to SVG.
I'm consistently impressed by how many bots are smart enough to crawl the web and submit forms and even evade some captchas... but are still too dumb to realize that rapidly trying to submit comment spam to my search form isn't doing anyone any good.
This is Firefox and IE10 only so far: http://caniuse.com/#feat=svg-fragment
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The question was not whether native apps generally make sense, but whether "the government should also be investing heavily in mobile apps?"

And I think that the policy to focus on mobile web first is sound for that use case.
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I think the next round of TBS games needs to let all sides make plans at the same time and watch what happens. The trick is giving the units enough AI to be reasonably effective and letting people set up priorities. Naturally this lends it's self to a game clock, but IMO it better simulates the chaos of war and let's you have significantly larger battles.

PS: Frozen Synapse is part way there, but IMO units should be a little more capable when not told what to do.
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Sure, but I'm imagining that these are produced in some factory and they just have a serialized ID that they use for each one. I'm imagining if there were a breach of security, it would be slipping a $100 bill to the guy and asking him to run a set with {MY_ENEMYS_ID}.
"The Android phone functions as a standard USB hard drive." Also, it's not just a sandboxed area, like on my previous "feature phone" (store whatever you like on it, but the phone's OS won't do anything with it), but the real SD card in the phone, directly.
I'm 23 and I just finished reading this book. I even passed it on to a friend.
This seems like more “woe is me, where is all the talent” propaganda that continually gets proven false. After a quick review of the Yahoo! benefits section I found many red flags across several areas.
something was said about it in irc a few days ago. i am not competent enough to paraphrase the reason. so here is the quote from http://pastebin.com/KjRm3be1

00:15 <Prf_Jakob> RAOF: why do you guys want server-allocated buffers?

00:15 <RAOF> Prf_Jakob: Mostly arm damage, there.

00:15 <Prf_Jakob> RAOF: so thats whats its really about then? Closed source drivers?

00:16 <RAOF> No - arm hardware (apparently) has insane constraints that make server allocation more attractive.

00:16 <RAOF> eg - you have at most 6 buffers that are framebuffer-compatible.

00:16 <krh> we have those GPUs at intel too

00:17 <krh> weston runs on those

(note that daniel stone said:

00:35 <daniels> RAOF: fwiw, i've got a wayland backend for arm hardware which does server-side allocation right now. didn't require one single change to any of the clients, or even compositors. it's all internal to the egl stack.
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I would love something like this. And there's plenty of ways to secure it. Put sensors in it, and as soon as it's away from you (after you put it on), the passwords it contains are wiped out.

You'd need to have those passwords backed-up anyway, either somewhere locally or in the cloud, so you can retrieve them later. You could also make it so you have to "reconnect" with your PC account or whatever every 24 hours, every week, etc.

I'm sure there are other ways to keep this safe, too.
It could help if you had some applications that demonstrate your skills and help build up trust with potential clients. I wish you success.
"Meh." <- This article and all of the comments in this thread.

The Apple vs Android thing is pretty played out.
I advise you to read the actual paper rather than this mechanically-recovered article (which doesn't link to it).

http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/ComputingNow/pdfs/A...
You can download all the raw data. It is linked in his post. There are 2 users for Android, 1 user each for Chrome OS and Chromium OS. That is not a lot. There are however a lot of people using a lot of niche distributions.
Very nice! I'm really impressed that you made a bookmarklet for it.

Edit: demos are working fine now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgWvn4yldM4
If you want to be picky about that sort of thing Google bought Android, they didn't invent it.
While the nuclear capabilities may not deter the beginning of the war but if the political will is there to use that capability after such an attack, then it would possibly be a short war. So Red decides to strike and Blue returns with a nuke or three or dozen, exercise over. What's the point in that?

But you are right, history shows that a "deterrent" of any nature, not just related to war, is often not considered leading up to whatever it is supposed to deter.
This is a stupid policy. Mobile apps are as much about distribution as anything. People like them, they download them, they understand them. For example, it is 100% easier to find an app on the app store than it is to type in a website url. Also, apps stay on your home screen, web sites don't, unless you bookmark them, which most end users don't even know you can do.

So, um... why are we fighting what users want and like to use?
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yes, but they could install a 3rd party keyboard.
You are right that everyone's situation is different and it looks like your boss really went an extra mile for you. Did you share some common background with him, like went to the same school?

Keep in mind, though, that the situation when some (or all) current employees would not be hired under current job requirements for outside hires is more common than people think!
I'm pretty positive this came from Gmail.

It also regularly updates me when my flights status changes (delays, gates changed, that sort of thing).
Who's to say that a teacher, policeman or civil administrator has a lower hourly productivity than some rails coder working on a social mobile startup? Heck, dishwashers work harder than we do.

That opens up a debate about skills scarcity, which I can see, but calling public service jobs 'less productive' just because we get to vote (indirectly) on their paychecks seems a bit circular to me.
I've always wanted to be a programmer. Ever since I was a kid when I spent a bit of time in QBasic giving my friends unlimited lives in Snake and Gorillas. By the time I was nearing adulthood I knew that I definitely wanted to pursue programming as a career (by the standard-seeming path of getting a CS degree), so I joined the National Guard so I could pay for it.

In 2008 I was working at Wal-Mart throwing boxes off of trucks and trucking product out to the shelves. Incidentally this was the best job I had ever had excluding my current career, and I still look back fondly on it.

I had tried to go to the local technical college for their programmer analyst degree but quickly dropped out after I found that I knew most of the material and could not even test out of classes that were primarily focused on teaching you how to use a mouse.

In 2009 my unit was deployed to Iraq and I resigned that I would try to go to a four-year college for CS when I returned and I had my VA benefits to throw around.

Everything changed when I met my mentor (a figurehead in the Ruby community) online via a comment that I had left on his blog. I had been learning Ruby/Rails in my downtime during the deployment to that point and we continued to converse throughout the rest of the deployment.

When I got back in 2010, instead of applying to college, I already a job offer waiting for me because my mentor decided to take a chance on me and hire me at the RoR consulting company he was CTO of at the time.

Three years later, I've spoken at a conference, co-authored a book, and have been working in the career I always dreamed of because someone decided to take a chance on me.

I owe the success of the last three years in large part to Chad Fowler and the rest of the awesome folks I worked with at InfoEther in 2010, and I'll always be eternally grateful for the chance I was given that led me to where I am today.
There's presumably a sweet spot in between fixed costs and tiredness, and I suspect it's closer to 8 hours than to 4.
Great question. I've always been curious exactly how the mechanics of a "war game" work - the technical mechanics. How exactly is a cruise missile simulated, how do you determine whether a ship is sunk, etc. I wonder if the software systems the mil uses literally have a simulation mode?

Anyone with details on this - some info would be hugely appreciated!
Which everyone wants of course. Except me. Or my girlfriend. Or my parents. Or my sister. Or in fact, everyone I know with one.

A feature that you think is critical is a feature that is critical for you. The refrain that iOS suffers from a lack of file exploration or drag and drop of any kind of content is based around the assumption that everyone wants that. Most people don't.
Heh.. right after I posted that comment, my thought was: 'you know - the correct answer here would have been to make an Uber command that would suck all the configs in and install them'.

Thanks for giving me the push to do so. I think I'll take your suggestion but put the command on a site somewhere so I can simply 'curl https://foo.bar/configs | bash'
The data isn't unlimited with T-Mobile, at least not usable speeds.

You can run your AT&T iPhone on StraightTalk for $45/month and get unlimited calling. I don't use many minutes, butT-Mobile service is basically non-existent where I live.
True. But it's something I really only have to do when switching languages and frameworks.
Naw, this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229488

A good calculator (like an HP41) is hard to come by.
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You're quite severely strawmanning the original poster and 99% of liberals who don't have dreadlocks and punctuate every sentence with ",man".

I'd add that this strawmanning and the assumption that it's true by ~~35% of the country is the reason no reform has happened for the last 3 years.
I use the $30/mo T-mobile plan with my Galaxy Nexus in conjunction with porting my original number to google voice.

I use grooveIP to make VOIP calls with my google voice number (unlimited minutes) but will usually use ~70 of my 100 minutes a month when I feel the need to turn grooveIP off to save battery or if my data connection is spotty.

I highly recommend the whole setup. The only downside I have seen is that group text messages/ MMS dont work with google voice. I just give my close friends my direct t-mobile number for that stuff.
Because the Government Digital Service are, for the most part, ideologues. Disagree though I may with much of their policy, it's novel that a Government department actually have drive and direction.

Love their line of F/OSS, but they've done nothing with it, other than Gov.uk. I can't see them accepting pseudonymous pull requests, though.
If you for Mir you can't accomplish anything by doing so because the drivers target the reference implementation. It is why you don't see prolific display servers all about like you do text editors, terminal emulators, or music players.

And as Mir changes, and as those changes prompt changes in the drivers that run Mir, and derivative project ends up having to adopt those changes to continue using newer drivers. And unless the developers of a Mir fork also plan on maintaining patches to all the GUI toolkits and compositors to support their fork, they also need to emulate Mir's behavior in relation to the rest of the upwards stack.
Isn't your method of working exactly what he described in the entire essay? By being in front, he means getting into the careful, thoughtful work instead of the fake-thoughtful work of obsessing over which library to start using, staring at code without actually thinking about it, etc.
This is a real personal thing though. He's listed what made a difference to him.

For me most of what you list doesn't bother me one way or another and there are things on there (for instance better inter app communications) that I do really miss on iOS.
I work from home and go into the office 1 day a week (on Thursday). Google Now has picked up on this and every Thursday morning I'll have card on my home screen showing me estimated time to the office.
I'd have been more tempted to get behind your argument and take it on it's merits until the final line. If you're still hammering on the "it's cool" line to put the device down, you're completely ignoring the fact that there's plenty of people who own an iPhone and think it's the right choice for them. Whilst being completely and utterly uncool.
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Very nive idea... But I think one is missing.

Guess who it is...

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Thanks, other people noticed it's also much like "nodes" in video editors.
Especially complicated after Fukushima's effect on popular domestic opinion regarding nuclear power.
Still, having good integration with a wider variety of vehicles/head units seems like the sort of thing that could reasonably be described as an advantage.
Our position is that native apps are rarely justified.

True, but they don't explain why. The reality is it doesn't make sense for a native app to exist that doesn't constantly and consistently engage with your customer. The mobile environment is about speed to consuming content/information (or games). The argument for the native app is that the process (and therefore invested time) of downloading an app should outweigh the speed at which the functions and use of app are gained by having a native app. In other words, if it takes me 5 minutes to download the app, it should take X% less time to get to information that I want compared to the loading times, loggin in, etc of a browser based app.