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On the App Store and Free Markets(inessential.com)
2 points by boucher 18y ago|0 comments
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by boucher 18y ago
Anything that's "public" is documented on developer.apple.com (and in the Xcode documentation window). Everything else is "off limits."
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by boucher 18y ago
Why aren't the celtics stupid for assuming they own that same right? In fact, he's not assuming he owns it. He's just pissed that his twitter account was taken away for a pretty lame reason.
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by boucher 18y ago
But the number one app on the store, the one selling "13k a day", costs $10 right now. The number 5 app costs $5. Clearly price is not the determining factor.
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by boucher 18y ago
Popular apps do get preferential placement in search -- so much so that exact searches for some apps do not match in the first page. Putting niche apps that demand a higher price doesn't do that much good, because the majority of people loo
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by boucher 18y ago
David, Apple (the "government") does not directly or indirectly regulate the prices of apps (and there is no supply to regulate). Individual developers are choosing to price their apps at $0.99 (or not). In fact, as I pointed out, most of t
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by boucher 18y ago
It's a huge mistake to buy into the argument that you need to sell at $0.99 to make any money. More than half of the top 100 paid apps on the store cost more than $0.99. Many of those cost >$5.
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by boucher 18y ago
One of the most important parts of being a wiki is having a low barrier to entry. Revision control systems (git even more so than svn or cvs) is a huge barrier to entry.
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by boucher 18y ago
Thing is, Apple doesn't review code. They review applications (which isn't the same thing). More importantly, the review process is arbitrary. There are no strict guidelines, and no strict technical analysis is performed. This is easily pro
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by boucher 18y ago
They aren't written anywhere. At least, many of them aren't. You can find a list of reasons in the SDK agreement in your developer.apple.com account, but you won't find listed many of the reasons that apps have been rejected, like "limited
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by boucher 18y ago
"before getting the green light from Apple" There is no mechanism for preemptive approval of any kind. Either they could take no risk and not develop the product, or they develop the product with risks. What's inexcusable isn't that the pro
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by boucher 18y ago
This isn't the average iPhone app. As the article mentions, this requires actual hardware infrastructure -- not something your average iPhone indie is worried about. Did they overspend? Probably. But that doesn't excuse Apple.
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by boucher 18y ago
I think dot notation was a mistake -- it creates ambiguity between what is an object and what is a struct. There's no way to know without the aid of the documentation or the compiler. Reference counting isn't that hard, but garbage collec
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by boucher 18y ago
This has nothing to do with the framework. Javascript supports unicode characters, and so anything built on top of it for displaying strings will too. The reason 280 Slides doesn't do this correctly is because it implements its own text edi
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by boucher 18y ago
Objective-J (the "runtime") is 76k, 13k gzipped (which is smaller than jQuery). The two frameworks that make up Cappuccino weigh in at about 800k uncompressed, and about 150k total compressed. It's not a trivial amount, but its equally not
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by boucher 18y ago
What kind of technical information are you looking for? There are tutorials and documentation for learning how to use Objective-J and Cappuccino on the site. If you're looking for details on how we built it, there best available information
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by boucher 18y ago
Who said anybody was working on an SVG rendering engine? Also, SVG is now available in the latest release of every major browser, so it doesn't matter what else is around, the point is that SVG is now one option for building web apps. What
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by boucher 18y ago
Carbon is a port of C APIs from the classic mac mostly. On top of that, Objective-C is ultimately C, and its easier to talk between the two than Java.
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by boucher 18y ago
I can't help but feel you did not read this post. Simply saying Obj-J is a "leaky abstraction" is meaningless, and yet you offer no examples of how the abstraction leaks (or why its actually problematic). On top of that, you seem dedicated
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by boucher 18y ago
I don't think you understand how Objective-J works (or GWT, or many of these other tools). You can use any existing JavaScript code in combination with Objective-J code. You can use any existing JavaScript code in combination with GWT too,
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by boucher 18y ago
If the DOM is annoying, jQuery is no better. It's DOM++, at best. jQuery is still the DOM, just slightly prettier. If you really believe the DOM is annoying, why not just get rid of it? People embrace the DOM because its there, but that isn
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by boucher 18y ago
I find, in your own words, recognition of several reasons JavaScript fails for building complex systems. "It's possible to write good JS code" implies that it's not easy or obvious, and "it just takes some self-constraint" implies that in f
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JavaScript Language Abstractions(ejohn.org)
28 points by boucher 18y ago|11 comments
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by boucher 18y ago
Disagree. You might hope that those individuals maintain the highest level of confidentiality, but you've got to realize when you start asking that many people, some of them are bound to start talking.
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by boucher 18y ago
Taking up space isn't the same as taking up freedom. And, the analogy doesn't hold up: Power meters are in your house, but you're not allowed to tamper with them. So are mailboxes. Laws don't go away when you enter your front door. You can'
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by boucher 18y ago
Although its clear I'm not going to change your mind, I would only point out that the law you're talking about exists to allow companies to enforce other longstanding laws, specifically copyright. Just because you would like to be allowed t
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by boucher 18y ago
Talk to a lawyer. Someone on hacker news can direct you to someone with experience in this area. Reach out to contacts you might have yourself. Personally, I wouldn't take anything down without talking to a lawyer first.
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by boucher 18y ago
My version uses both touch and proximity. The point was to prove that you can unexpected things even within the limits of the data you have available. I don't really know if you could remove the touch component and use only proximity withou
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by boucher 18y ago
I've used SEE almost exclusively for the last three years. I know plenty of other people who do too.
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by boucher 18y ago
I don't think there is a sensible UI for it. I'd leave it out completely.

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