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by divtxt 15y ago
I second this based on hard personal experience. You end up with platform-specific features, behavior and bugs, compounded across multiple pieces in the stack. You also end up with conflicting design decisions. In my case, I wanted to use
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by divtxt 15y ago
I'd love to hear your history, reasons and current attitude to developing BB apps. The stories* tell me that the RIM/BB developer experience is so much worse than iOS and Android that it's not worth bothering with (as developers and hence a
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by divtxt 15y ago
I'd say it's intentional due to Hanlon's razor in upper management. Perhaps some logic like this: we can't lose "our" BBM users but blocking IM apps would drive users and developers away. Let's quietly block IM apps at the approval stage!
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by divtxt 15y ago
I'm sorry but you have this backward. We already ARE barbarians. Figuring out the cause does not suddenly make us so. Plenty of people believe in equality but have trouble following through. Figuring out our impulses will only help us und
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by divtxt 15y ago
Here is the "scorched earth" post: http://abovethecrowd.com/2011/03/24/freight-train-that-is-an... I agree with it regarding Android & Chrome OS, but I'm not sure that it applies to web apps like G+, gmail since those have per user c
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by divtxt 15y ago
Exactly! Nothing captures this structural difference like this search: http://www.google.com/search?q=silicon+valley+failure edit: you can't invest in "the next big one" without investing in 90 failures and 9 small or medium ones.
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by divtxt 15y ago
It's an amazing story and more than a parody - it's also a great example of and tribute to Hemingway's style.
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by divtxt 15y ago
What's with these comments is that the title of the post was changed about 10 mins ago. Before that it was "What happens when a programmer retires?" or something like that. The first 5 or 6 comments made more sense then. (btw, i didn't cat
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by divtxt 15y ago
I find web development less enjoyable than 5 or 10 years ago because of the increasing size and complexity of the stack. At least us old fogies have had the last 15 years to learn web development. How the hell do young programmers learn su
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by divtxt 15y ago
Nice! I've thought about a vertical UI like this for the last 2 years but was never happy with the html mockups (my last mockup: http://www.txtlabs.com/tzs/ ), so I know this UI is hard to get right. Suggestions: - simple buttons for next/
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by divtxt 15y ago
Sorry - your example is probably one of the exceptions. I know two startup founders in Bangalore who face these issues - especially reason #1: matching the compensation for good talent. And reason #3: there are almost no examples of non-fou
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by divtxt 16y ago
I wanted to try the demo many months ago, and had to stop at the first line: gem install sproutcore There's no way I'm polluting my desktop ruby install. Please document a way to set up a standalone folder. (if had been python I c
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by divtxt 16y ago
Excellent point. Guess this will depend on the work you need done. I did a lot of web apps and not much print or illustrations so I never bothered with vector tools. I did the business card in pixels - good enough for email proofs. Then a
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by divtxt 16y ago
My advice is programmers who need graphics for their apps not for those planning to become designers. Hire a designer - but for their design skills, not their photoshop skills. You should (slowly) develop basic photoshop skills. This wil
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by divtxt 16y ago
Thank you for the explanation.
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by divtxt 16y ago
So circulation forms and self-sustains naturally when you push the airfoil through the air. From the article, it looks like this is because the air behavior is asymmetric between the leading and trailing edges, in favor of maintaining circ
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by divtxt 16y ago
Oil is like finding an underground vault full of batteries of vastly superior energy density to any electric battery you can make. How are you going to compete with that?!
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by divtxt 16y ago
So... we're ditching Coanda and going back to Circulation Vortex? A question I always had about the circulation vortex: where's the energy input to power the vortex?! (or why does it not need one?)
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by divtxt 16y ago
Sorry - I'm not sure what "merging associativity" is - can you give an example? The above article gives us a simple example (A vs B) of a situation where doing the right thing requires a human aka strong AI because you need to know the "int
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by divtxt 16y ago
Someone who knows this stuff please tell me if I my analysis is correct: I see smart people pointing out "flaws" in software, not realizing the solution requires strong AI. (e.g. yesterday's post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=245579
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by divtxt 16y ago
I hate these moon landing as human peak people because they always pull the same bait and switch: First they'll tell you why it was great: organization, collective will, pushing the boundaries etc. But instead of matching those things, you
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by divtxt 16y ago
Here are some pain points you'll really feel if you're trying to do a micro-ISV. I) Incorporation: - No way for one individual to have limited liability. Sole Proprietorship only. - A 'Private Limited' will cost you INR 20K-40K (USD 400-
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by divtxt 16y ago
How far we've come! I remember about 10 years ago, with the rise of XP and the advent of OS X, expecting Linux desktop to fall ever further behind on a usable & full-featured desktop. Here we are discussing the usability tests of big UI
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by divtxt 16y ago
You're right - I should be thinking and deciding for myself. But if judging the value of a comment requires expertise or experience that I do not have the score is valuable to me. This is more so when I see a comment and a counter-argument.
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by divtxt 16y ago
Scores were an important way for me to learn what constitutes a good comment. I realized this only after the scores went away. So I second the idea of showing the score for older articles. (or a fuzzy indicator of the score e.g. @=2-5, @@=6
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by divtxt 16y ago
And "The Option Option" (stock options) is not really deferring taxes since you're also deferring the income.
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by divtxt 16y ago
I found the article pretty good. It states clearly the issue: Google need to be clear to their employees what the definition of success in social and they should define it based on their strengths rather than the competition's product. I b
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by divtxt 16y ago
Seconded. ChromeOS will join iPad as a computer "my mom can use". ChromeOS's main disadvantage is that it is not available. This should be fixed this year. iPad's main disadvantage is that it requires a traditional desktop to manage. You
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by divtxt 16y ago
He should extend that logic and claim that SMS is even bigger. I say: in the spectrum of SMS to MMS to Apps, MMS is the sour spot in the middle. :P I always wonder if such people really can't see their own blind spots or are looking to inte
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by divtxt 16y ago
- Performance is not the only consideration - local-only would remove a lot of design & implementation complexity. (similar to local pipe vs network socket etc) - As a dev/admin, I depend on SSH but not on X. - The "dangers of cloud" a

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