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by methodin 13y ago
Marketing could still be an issue if they aren't sending the right message that resonates with their target consumers. Personally I haven't seen a surface ad in a while except the commercial another poster commented on above. It w
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by methodin 13y ago
Was it the device itself that caused such poor sales? I assumed all along it was a marketing/image problem which remains unsolved. Has relentlessness by a company ever overcome this issue in the past?
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by methodin 13y ago
These negative posts are so cliché. If people who were blogging wrote more in a positive light than whining or bashing on something that is purely their own opinion, I think reading top articles around here would be much more enjoyable. For
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by methodin 13y ago
I don't know if it's a good or bad thing that WP8 apps break all historical resemblance to other app UIs. Anyone with first-hand experience that can offer some feedback of how these apps hold up from a usability standpoint?
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by methodin 13y ago
If any new phone wants a decent market share they have to start with the developers - they are the ones who will carry it along until enough 2 year contracts expire to grow the user base. Blackberry simply failed on this front so it's
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by methodin 13y ago
I'd like to see an update to that article.
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by methodin 13y ago
I find this deliciously delightful after suffering the wrath of these stupid app developers historically on Android. I don't agree with it, certainly, but I feel some warped sense of justice.
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by methodin 13y ago
It should be your choice but most people aren't knowledgeable enough to manage versions themselves. You would certainly give up any rights for support in doing so as well.
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by methodin 13y ago
Do they have the experience with this "fragmentation" to pull this off effectively? What will it do from a developer's perspective?
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by methodin 13y ago
Indeed but it's ungodly easy to add composer, follow FIG standards and be on your merry way to refactoring. At some point if you keep it up it will be easy to transition into a good framework like Symfony. I just refactored an old clas
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by methodin 13y ago
I dare say, it doesn't appear as if this person has been keeping abreast of the latest PHP trends. FIG standards go a long way and Composer is a godsend (prior to that I wanted to tear my hair out all the time).
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by methodin 13y ago
There's pre-so and post-so. The post-so world is much better for all developers.
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by methodin 13y ago
Without too much effort you can integrate composer, symfony and twig into wordpress to make it more developer friendly. Hell I have all my wordpress installations maintained through a composer script with phing integration so I can maintain
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by methodin 13y ago
What happens when the blogs that inevitably grow bigger than a platform need to turn into a community and something more? Surely just a blogging platform will not suffice. How many people actually use Wordpress for just a blog, anyway? This
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by methodin 13y ago
Blindly picking a design pattern before you develop your application will always be bad. Don't do it. If you do be prepared for tired legs because the chase to find a better one will be never-ending.
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by methodin 13y ago
I imagine it'd be good for enterprisey companies - would have to be better than "this exchange server requires a pin to unlock your phone" right?
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Ask HN: Making money with developer/writer duo
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by methodin 13y ago
This isn't about how annoying it is to stop for 1.5/hrs a day, it's about quelling the notion that some people don't even think it's possible.
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by methodin 13y ago
I'd like to see more clever marketing and partnerships like this. It is certainly more interesting than bland marketing and targeted ads.
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by methodin 13y ago
You are not paying for the content in this model - only the ability to access the content through the provider. It's the same as all free and/or pay-for-web-services. You have no control but that is the sacrifice you make for havi
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by methodin 13y ago
That's easy, because most people do not care to do that. Having owned a collection of DVDs it was "fun" to buy them when it was the thing to do but totally useless now. I care not to take the baggage of managing hundreds of t
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by methodin 13y ago
I think the problem with terse and clear is that, typically, it solves the problem elegantly only in the exact current context in which the code is written. Meaning, as the software progresses, that previous elegant, perfect, concise code i
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by methodin 13y ago
I don't think most people expect DRM-free content when paying for a subscription model - I know I don't. I'm paying for the right to access that content when I want as long as it's available but I am under no assumption
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by methodin 13y ago
This is a problem with software in general. Lazy developers or ignorant bosses stagnate the code to the point where it requires a massive rewrite to bring it up to speed. Right now I maintain about 70/30 old code to new code. Most of t
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by methodin 13y ago
Not sure I buy the "anything outside of flat objects is a hack" statement. After all most 3d engines boil everything down to triangles...
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by methodin 13y ago
Hasn't linux benefited by the backport of Android code?
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by methodin 13y ago
Android fragmentation - do you want to support 2.3 or not? After that it's about as annoying as responsive design is - possibly less for certain apps. The challenge is of course backporting an app developed for 4.0 or frontporting an o
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by methodin 13y ago
What is it about Linux that people are afraid of when it comes to change? Change is the only constant anywhere. You are welcome to be running an old distro on an old box because it's comfortable to you but please stop whining when stuf
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by methodin 13y ago
You cannot always be the first, especially when you aren't the one making hardware. I'd rather have Ubuntu doing what is currently is rather than thousands of Linux derivatives making slightly different variations of the same mode
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by methodin 13y ago
Embarrassment

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