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Can you talk more about your internal solution?
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HockeyApp's crash reporting is far more comprehensive and useful than TestFlight's, especially in the server-side symbol/line number associations and grouping of crash reports. This was a major deciding factor in our switching.
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You can talk benchmarks all you want, but it doesn't change the fact that for 99% of consumer facing applications you won't have any noticeable benefit from those native speed. I'm not talking about benchmarks, I'm talking about actual ap
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by nupark2 15y ago
While it's great to see web guys confronting the very real failings of HTML/JS as an application platform, I think the cultural inertia is practically insurmountable. Web developers will be the least receptive audience possible to the idea
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by nupark2 15y ago
Your second point is moot. 280slides proved high quality desktop class applications are possible on the web ... So ... where are they now? It was a nicer webapp, but no substitute for Keynote. Having worked with ObjJ/Cappaccino, I found i
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by nupark2 15y ago
For people familiar with a spreadsheet, I think the Excel analogy better helps people understand the purpose of pointer dereferencing, because it's something you do all the time when building a mildly complex spreadsheet.
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by nupark2 15y ago
I use Excel as an analogy when explaining pointers. If you imagine the machine's memory as a gigantic, single column excel table, then a pointer -- or address -- to the third slot in the machine's memory would be the value 'A3'. When you're
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by nupark2 15y ago
I just want to pick one illustrative example, because the other replies cover most of the ground: What about files? Yeah, there are file APIs. Databases? localStorage is a simple key/value store. There's also WebSQL DB and IndexedDB which
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by nupark2 15y ago
I'm not sure why you'd say 'unquestionably,' short of a very loose definition of what makes an application. People spend 8 hours a day using desktop apps -- word, excel, outlook, GIS software, development tools, whatever. They read their
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The one part of his article that I somewhat agree with is that under the guidance of several entities (and lots and lots of people) the web may not have quite the same coherence as, say, Cocoa. I'm not sure that will be a problem. It's al
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by nupark2 15y ago
You're conflating hyperlinked documents and applications. The web is clearly the dominant document platform, but is the web the dominant application platform? The answer is in market success of the emerging mobile (and possibly desktop)
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by nupark2 15y ago
I'm a very technology-focused individual, and yet, I only have a passing awareness of what LTE is or why I should care about it. I'm happy enough with 3G as-is, and I'd actually want faster mobile processors before I wanted more bandwidth.
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by nupark2 15y ago
Admittedly, it might be someone ELSE'S email address, but they could manually unsubscribe from your mailing list later. That's half the point of verifying e-mail addresses. Doing this is likely to engender significant ill-will in anyone w
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by nupark2 15y ago
It doesn't really matter whether the property you are letting is your primary residence or not, really. It matters in terms of security. If you're using the property, that either means that you have a considerable amount of personal infor
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by nupark2 15y ago
My target market can't tell that it isn't a native app. Only other developers can tell and I could give a damn about them bc they aren't my market. So there. I imagine non-developers can tell that your UI is poor and non-standard, but c
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Why? Why can't iPhone developers make web apps instead? Fully leveraging the platform to create great apps requires using the APIs the platform provides, such as: * Using GameCenter for peer-to-peer head-to-head game matchup over bluetoo
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by nupark2 15y ago
No, it's quite different. Vacation properties are set up for that purpose, with insurance, limited on-site personal property, etc. There have been online vacation property rental sites for years. AirBNB, however, sells itself as a mechanism
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by nupark2 15y ago
> I get that Android and iOS have different UI paradigms, but what's going on behind the scenes is exactly the same in a lot of cases. Sure, it's the same, if you call being turing complete the same.
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by nupark2 15y ago
I'm not at all sure they would be this successful if they'd tried to build on the JVM right from the start using the technologies available at the time. I'm not sure why you think that, or why you think Twiiter had a 'grow' vs 'evolve'
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If your technical cofounder isn't the most important part of getting your startup off the ground, then your idea is probably not technically novel/interesting, an maybe you should hire it out to an external team. The difference in results a
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by nupark2 15y ago
That's unfortunate. I don't know what the answer is, but real people do route their traffic out of AWS endpoints.
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by nupark2 15y ago
I tend to ignore advice from people who I consider unethical because I generally find that their advice runs counter to my personal goals, my approach to work, and (obviously) my ethics. Take your advice, for example: One of my sites got c
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I like my phone, but I don't pull it out to be advertised to while I'm outside, I almost always make up my mind about where I'm going before I arrive there, and a physical sign at a store is still more efficient and user friendly than a sma
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by nupark2 15y ago
Can you explain the 12:01 effect? I've never come across that term before.
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I actually think it's github's fault to begin with: - Projects should be top-level in the github namespace, not people. - Forks should live underneath their source project, and should not be top-level projects themselves.
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That's a pretty telling irony. Git seems to have broken down the social contracts around forking that kept most opensource projects cohesive. Unless the project has a great deal or inertia, it is difficult to remain the canonical source, an
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For productivity apps (and especially developer tools), it's not worth chasing customers on a platform you don't love -- you'll do a bad job and you'll be unhappy doing it.
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The fact that this could happen is a fairly significant indictment of their technical capabilities and the amount of trust they deserve when it comes to safe-guarding your data. If there's anyway in your code that deserves unit and integr
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> To each their own, I suppose. Applicant-submitted code samples don't correlate strongly with hiring decisions, in my experience. We evaluate their open source code or paid challenge project, not applicant-submitted code samples of u
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If there is real money in bitcoins, then there should be a real engineering staff running a real, secure trading platform.

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