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I think there's like 6 or 7, including the 3 founders.

And yes, your interpretation definitely seems to be more of what they're talking about.
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The product manager should also be doing some Kano Modeling and figuring out the ROI on features.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kano_model

They should also own the metrics dashboard. They should now exactly which features are driving which stage of the sales pipeline.
http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs/2007/09/startup-metrics....
It's tough to comment on an article whose entire content is composed of 81 words. What exactly do they mean by "right"? If you don't want to pay for it, do you get it because it is a "right"? Did anyone find an expounded (hopefully primary) source?
Regarding your edit, I don't think that the Cust. Dev. proponents say that it's the only way to develop products, but on average it will help you succeed. It also seems like Twitter used some concepts that CD also suggests. With such a simple product, they probably stayed at the MVP stage for a long time.
So what is a better way to communicate? We live in different states and its much easier on all of us if we communicate via the Internet.

I also suggested we have a weekly phone chat to keep it more personal, but it hasn't happened as much as I have like it to, so I'm going to change it starting now.

In terms of legal issues, I'm going to talk to my lawyer and ask him what he suggests. Yes fights are inevitably gong to happen.
The Java developers I've known who are worth their salt, don't use IDE's :/
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This project builds on the work of academia to refocus software agents so that they are as easy to code as a drupal module. I invite developers to check it out and to code their own KATO software agents and contribute that code to the project.
Do librarians spy on you when they keep track of the books you've checked out, or the grocery store when they keep track of what you've purchased while using your club card? Basically, it's not spying if the other party is already intimately involved in the process.
How is that relevant to what I said? Why would Apple have a problem with people not using Xcode? As long as you're delivering an appropriately signed binary, I don't see how it would make any difference to them what IDE you used.
println() isn't a function, it's a method/message passed to the "Hello world!" string object. The lack of syntax highlighting that (the strange dots) makes it difficult to notice.
Looks like it might have a sad ending -- the boy might have fallen out while the balloon was adrift.
Tor is about concealing endpoints, not data. The Tor network is very explicitly and very visibly untrusted. If your data is encrypted, a node can forward your stuff or not. That's it.

Of course, this doesn't help you when the police knocks down your door because you merely connected, even though Tor encourages you to run your machine as a proxy itself to get deniability -- and I even recall hearing about a Tor "virus" that provides deniability of even running the program. All very well if you're in a country with rule of law, not so much if the local party-officer says you're going down for Googling Tianamen Square.
When I was referring to innocent, I was referring to the people being blocked NOT the rural exchanges.
Apple still has to approve the apps...
Do you seriously think that "cute bouncing pixels" is what made the iPhone the fastest selling piece of consumer electronic of all time? No, of course not! That's just silly.

Clearly, the iPhone has a number of very attractive attributes, as is evident not only from the fact that it's selling unprecedentedly well, but also from the fact that it's changed the direction of the entire industry.

Apple made a number of choices with the iPhone, and certainly they can't be all that bad, given the phenomenal success they've had. Even if you just limit the argument to the AppStore, the fact that they've also had unprecedented success in bringing developers on board should give you a hint or two that it's not as one-sided as you make it out to be.

Before you can bring anything constructive to a discussion on this subject, you really need to stop lying to yourself. Take a sober look at the choices Apple has made, and realize that each of them has both advantages and disadvantages.
A mile is still an endurance sport. There is a reason the world record for 200m is slower than twice 100m even though they both start from a dead stop and it takes several seconds to hit top speed.

Edit: I dealt with limited lung capacity for a while, it can be vary obvious once you start needing a lot of oxygen really quickly. You can run fast from a dead stop, but distance and recovery time can become insane.
I agree to some point, but quality can have an effect. I remember buying cotton swabs in France that were amazing quality (there were none with bare ends, they were rigid enough to actually swab and they came in a convenient container), however ones I bought from Walmart for the same price (converted, not face value) were god awful in quality (easily 5% were bare ended, they were made of the cheapest thinnest plastic tubes that were less rigid than a bendy straw and couldn't swab at all and came in a cheap plastic bag).

I suppose these aren't the things usually purchased online though.

Having actually worked as a video game/movie reviewer, I've rarely bought or seen a movie that I knew I wouldn't like. I'm even cunning enough to get out of having to go see chick flicks with my wife (most of the time, but that doesn't spare me from rentals and TV runs). However, I believe from being immersed so much for several years I've got the ability to see through market hype and know before hand what's going to suck, for instance I'm already trying to find a way to avoid seeing 2012.
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Suddenly you've opened this up to a much larger population of programmers who have done great work.

I doubt the OP is in the position of not having a large enough pool of people to hire to his satisfaction using his criteria.

This does not mean that there are no closed-source people that would be good to hire; but when you hire open-source developers whose work you know then you can do so with a higher degree of confidence, so if that works, why look elsewhere?
I will be happy to see the clutter of all the "Lite" apps disappear from the App Store.

With the race-to-the-bottom economy of the App Store, though, I have to wonder if Free will be the new $.99 and every app will have a screen that says, "Oh, you want wheels with this car?"

Edit: This also makes the Top Sellers list much less relevant. Maybe that will increase what people can actually charge for their apps? I hope so.
And yet, I don't recall the last Apple ad I've seen where they weren't taking a direct swipe at MS.
Bolton sold the rights to the contractor that was to build the toll road:

> Bolton had already sold his voting rights to Thiess John Holland, the design and construction contractor for the Airport Link

BrisConnections is the one that raised the money in trust (which was why they were meeting about dissolving the trust).

> BrisConnections, backed by Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse Group, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Macquarie Bank, raised A$1.23B ($1.16B) in July last year through the sale of an unusual equity security called a stapled unit.

Thiess John Holland bought the voting rights so that they wouldn't lose the contract with BrisConnections if it went under (which the dissolution of the trust would have caused). To them it was a deal since there was a lot more than A$4.5million at stake here.

Bolton:

1. Bought a controlling share in the company/trust

2. Brought about a situation that would cause the company/trust to collapse (which a lot of other investors were in agreement with)

3. Sold his controlling share's voting rights off to someone that had an interest in seeing that BrisConnections didn't go under.

4. Still holds the shares that he's going to owe $1 on for the next to 'periods,' but separated the shares and the payment for voting rights so that he gets to keep the money and just let the other business die in debt.
Except in this case neither can agree which one is Mercedes and which one is Honda.

MS will never admit to be uncool and workmanlike, and Apple will say their machines can run just as well in big enterprises.
Yeah, but those will be weeded out of the popular app channels.

The real benefit here is the ability to upsell -- now, I don't have to download a free app, decide I like it, and download a completely different app; I can just buy the license in-app and I'm set.

Same with games: there are lots of games I wouldn't have on my phone if they hadn't been free. I rarely play most of them, but the few I do I'd probably gladly pay for a few extra levels after I've exhausted the free content.

Plus all the opportunities for free ebook applications. I love Stanza (free ebook reader with repositories of free or non-free books), but I've never bought a book from their store because it seems so complicated.

All in all, anything that removes restrictions from the App Store is probably a good thing.
I don't get the 'ultimate posterboy for the much-maligned Generation Y' comment... A financial sharks a new thing? Or are these people just sheltered by rose-colored glasses that they use to read their history books?

If he was a Baby Boomer, would we see comments like "ultimate posterboy for the much-maligned Baby Boomer generation?" I really wish people with their 'get off my lawn' comments would crawl back under their rocks.
My common sense is tingling.
Apple, too. Sure. But Apple’s PR folk are not the journalists.
That's the pessimistic view. The optimistic view is that developers will be encouraged to consolidate their app into 1 free app instead of creating 10+ free versions and variations. The AppStore is overloaded with spam already so the proliferation of "bait and switch" will likely be a minority issue all things considered.

In the end, it's really no different than offering a demo application and asking to pay $XX for full functionality. I suspect most developers will go this route over a-la carte "modules" considering $.99-2.99 per app is pretty well engrained in customer expectations.
The same problems of service exists with wireless carriers. Number of People per square mile is always going to be a problem for service providers of utilities in rural areas.

The US government's last bill (this administration) was utterly useless to provide independent internet. It had the great phrase "if broadband service is available to anyone in the service area for any price, the service area is ineligible for funding".
I think the biggest problem is that invites don't work here. If I had access, and wanted to check it out, I'd need invites for all my colleagues, too.

You can't test a collaboration tool if the people you collaborate with can't frigging access it.
Are you sure it was based on IP address? This domain was used to host questionable links a few years ago, including suspicious antivirus software:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/workstax.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20070127212047/http://workstax.co...
Money-motivated "arms races" like this might well be a driver for the evolution of technologies that, collectively, could be called "artificial intelligence." (This thought probably isn't original to me, but I can't think of where I might have read it.)
It's like math vs engineering to me.

Programming is a way to get a machine to do stuff. You can approach that problem in different ways.

Whatever 'method' you use, the most important metrics are 'are the results good' and 'is the program maintainable' and 'is it reliable'.

To see the 'lessons' from both sides put in to practice in (relatively) new languages (such as Erlang, or Python) is where the intermediate future lies.

What I'm really curious about though is not so much which of the LISP or FORTRAN descendants is the 'best' for any given purpose, give it enough time and we'll find that out one way or the other. My real question about all this are there other paths besides these two that have not yet been explored ?

Logic programming is sometimes seen as a 'third branch', but is possible that there are ways of achieving results out there that are not as obvious as any of these and that yet hold in them a kernel of what we could do to get out of the absolutely unmaintainable mess that software is becoming.

It is not an 'engineering' discipline by any standard, yet, and if all this is to 'end well' I think it should be.
I think the hostility is because it's a very cocky thing to say coming from a tiny startup. It's like a small, indie band saying "we only let people join who have released famous songs".
Apple very much realizes that they're after a completely different segment of the market than MS is, but they also realize that many consumers cannot clearly see where one segment starts and the other one ends, because, if all you ever had was a Windows PC, then computers aren't all that different to you.

With their ads, Apple is trying to inform those consumers that there is an alternative.
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By that reasoning they haven't needed any of the new technology to come out since Win98. I don't see why that's a mark against Win7.
Yeah, IDEA's javascript/html/css support is one of the reasons I switched from eclipse. The Javascript editor in particular is much improved over eclipse: Autocompletion, rename refactoring and find usages actually work somewhat!
Those old GIF laden sites were worse than modern MySpace.

I disagree. There was a certain innocence and enthusiasm about them that made them almost charming, or at least quaint. MySpace is just... bad taste.
Good move in some respects. It will help users try out the app before paying any money and it may help developers drive more sales.

OTH we need to see whether (as mrshoe said) whether "Free" becomes the new $0.99 and if this has adverse consequences (for developers in terms of sales and for users in terms of app quality). If the app is free, it will be easier for people to write fake reviews critical of the app. I don't see any risk of "bait and switch" apps because no one is going to take the upsell if they are unhappy with the app.
Interesting. This will make it possible to have servicing revenue models, with apps that are distributed for free.
Really? What do they use then?
Let's not rush to judge Amazon. It's not clear this is an IP address issue. This domain name has a questionable history:

http://web.archive.org/web/20070127212047/http://workstax.co...
If they're not using an IDE, then they've not yet worked on large projects. Either that or they're doing themselves a serious disservice. This from a hardcore Emacs-and-shell guy until fairly recently...
Mintspeak: We're in an existing market where the pain is pretty acute and the problem domain well defined. Additionally, the incumbent competitors had basically neglected the market as unattractive.
What we really mean: We kicked ass.
No, it has says, we only had to do reasonably well because competition wasn't putting in many resources to the problem.

Sorry but what they say is clear and only slightly corporate but what you "translate" it to is less meaningful statements in snide "dudespeak".
"I'm just not cool enough to be a Mac person."

– Microsoft Laptop Hunters ad, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIS6G-HvnkU

Obviously cool here is meant as wasteful or snobbish, but it shows Microsoft is fine painting themselves as the frugal, not-exclusive brand.
To me, the flag that tells me that Windows 7 is getting a lot of traction is when I see applications that only run on Windows 7. When developers are willing to use the new features and sacrifice XP sales, then things are going well.
I guess when you look at it like that I have to agree with you. The quality of those old GIFs might have been bad but at least they were used with fairly good intentions and "innocence" as you put it.
Apple now allows in app purchases for free apps [The Email]
That's a great point. Windows 7 is one of the first Microsoft operating systems in a while that is suitable to upgrade older hardware with. Do they have any option to at least transfer the home directory and installed apps to the fresh install?
Hopefully it will lead to all of the obnoxious "Mafia Wars 10 Respect Points" apps getting out of the top listings for every games category.
For reference, the balloon has landed, but with neither the basket, nor the boy. Searchers are looking, including the possibility that he was never in the basket.

However, this is not HN - flagged.
ah, I read "rural users" and thought you were referring to the rural exchanges.
I wouldn't say ignore the stars, but use them as a filter. Read only the negative reviews. Any 5 star review is just a rabid fan, you can safely ignore those. 4 star reviews might be more interesting, but the real content is in the 1, 2 and 3 star reviews.

Whatever issues those people have with the product might be genuine issues which you would also not be happy about, or the issue might be something you wouldn't mind. I've bought products based on negative reviews purely because whatever the reviewer didn't like about it, it was something I know I would like.

Usually though the reviews won't tell you whether a product is any good, but assuming there are enough reviews on a product the reviews will allow you to determine that certain products really are crap.
What matters is that the items Apple hangs the "open source" sign on are the fundaments. MS not so.

e.g. Apple has open sourced the core OS and WebKit (Safari's html engine). MS has open sourced neither.

Nokia uses WebKit. Android does. etc. Nobody uses IEmobile unless forced to.

Oh, and didn't MS actually pull the iStore scam with Zune, and only lost due to low markedshare of the Zune and being unable to come to proper terms with the RIAA because MS was too focused on DRM?
Bait and Switch is totally coming, I saw that the moment I read this email.

I'm wondering, though, if this could lead to some new types of unlocking for free apps. How about "$0.99 to try this game for a week, or $2.99 to use it forever"?
A text editor and shell.
Yeah, just an rpm and we were all set.
Really, wow, I'm surprised. What's not to like about pydev? I haven't used it that much and would appreciate your thoughts.
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The article doesn't mention it but more and more people are using their url shortener http://mashable.com/2009/06/09/supr/ in Twitter and I find that very annoying because it automatically adds its own toolbar to Chrome that I need to close.
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Your logic only works if (a) Flash begins to fade and (b) Apple remains far ahead of all its competitors indefinately. Because in the end every other phone is going to support Flash and Apple is going to have to explain to iPhone users why phones from Windows Mobile and Google can view the entire web while iPhone users can't.

As for alternatives like HTML 5 we're at least a decade away from widespread use of those (since there are people who wait forever to upgrade their browser). So I don't see Apple being able to stall for that long.
Well, apparently Eclipse has more functionality for this specific purpose. That may be enough for you to completely dismiss IDEA in a fit of self-righteous prejudice, but that doesn't mean IDEA isn't a better product overall.

You can choose specific files to commit or update in IDEA too, but I guess that's no good either if it doesn't happen exactly where you want it to.

Why do you want a visual merge even when there are no conflicts though? You could just edit out everything that shouldn't be committed, and then commit.
I ran a ringtone startup back in 2000 - 2004. ASCAP threatened us more than once. They claimed that someone who purchased a ringtone from us would then go ahead and make a public performance every time their phone rang, and thus, we were obliged to pay up performance licensing fees. I can remember looking the 'payment schedules' over in my freshman dorm room shaking my head in disbelief (We were already paying other rights agencies at the time [edit - including ASCAP]). The whole thing was absurd. Good to see a court has finally slapped some sense into them.

The advice from our lawyers was to just pay up unless we had the money to fight them in the 'Rate Court' http://www1.nysd.uscourts.gov Glad someone finally did.
Even if Apple lets such an app through, the worst case is that you lost 5 minutes downloading and trying the app. It'll be annoying but the 1-star reviews from annoyed customers will be indicative that it's a bad app.
Computers aren't getting faster as quick as they used to (certainly not to Moore's Law) so the Microsoft strategy that always assumed faster hardware, is a flop. Which means a properly optimised OS can sell more, ultimately (eg, no endless layers of graphical libraries just to draw a textbox in a GUI).
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As with bdotdub's response to my comment your logic only works if Apple runs the show indefinately. Because every other major SmartPhone OS has announced Flash support. Meaning Apple will have to justify why they're keeping Flash off the iPhone.

Regardless of what you think of Microsoft and Google I guarantee you they will some day be competitive. Apple may still maintain the lead but not the dramatic one they have now. Once those two are competitve Apple won't be able to dictate terms like they do now.
This is exactly what I do.

I just do that without thinking, so I didn’t even think to mention it :) 5 star reviews are usually boring. Not better than reading the PR blurb.
Modern wisdom goes; you need to set a deadline for release, then figure out what features can be implemented in that time frame. "Release early, release often".
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I wonder how this will play out marketing-wise. It's already hard to find good applications, and this will make it harder. I never look at the 'free' section, as there's mostly just crap in there, and only look at the 'top 25'. If everybody starts using in-app purchases to sell the full versions, you can't separate the free crap from the useful stuff.
I think the "race to the bottom" was due to the initial confusion of the marketplace and lack of discipline. I am noticing many more apps charging greater than one dollar (usually 2-5) now than before and I expect the trend to continue.

I also think that apps that pull the trick you're referencing will probably get hit hard in the reviews section -- people get annoyed at that, and it tends to spark negative comments.
Ok, not only "cute bouncing pixels." I think that 3 things made Apple the kind of the smart phone market:

1) Great product ahead of any other existing product at the time (not anymore though).

2) Understand that the mobile market value chain was vastly different than the PC one and architected a platform that would be attracting existing market players while creating a exclusive new market for themselves (this was so bold and smart).

3) Steve Jobs genius.

Now, the only thing that scares me is that they did it in the most proprietary way that any software companies have ever dare doing. Apple is the living proof that openness is not a required ingredient to create new technology based markets.

So, again, kudos to Apple to revolutionize a market that have been frozen for years. However, they are doing it in such as way that it could set a very bad precedence to the software industry.

I do not want to have to go through a iMicrosoftStore to publish my Windows application, a iGoogleStore to publish a Web Site, a iAndroidStore to publish a mobile application.

I have nothing against software stores, but they should be optional not required.