ankhmoop

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by ankhmoop 17y ago
This is great -- I hate having compiler/runtime advances in Mac OS X always tied to the latest platform release. It can take years before your customer base upgrades, leaving you unable to leverage what I'd consider basic language features
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I'd be curious to hear the reasoning of the users who 'upvote' Jeff Atwood articles such as this one.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
The subject matter is interesting, but what I find most interesting is a blog performing real, 'hard-hitting' local journalism, of genuine interest to a very specific social subgroup.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Keep money per answer out of this. It's amazing what happens when you keep a site like SO working on social norms and avoiding market norms. Other than money, how do you prevent an expert-exodus as expert users are deluged with simpleton
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
On the other hand, Stack Overflow is racing to the bottom, so to speak, on the quality of questions and the people answering them. Either way, money is what would entice me to answer questions on the web. Currently I do it for free on IRC,
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
How much money would make it worth your time? If your expertise is too high / too esoteric for the StackOverflow community, then you should command high prices in the marketplace. $5-$15 per answer would be reasonable given the limited ti
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Until I clicked on the link, I was excited, as the comments on monetization lead me think they might be providing a marketplace for me to provide for-fee answers to users. Unfortunately, this is not the case. As it is, I don't bother to use
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
If this fable didn't hint at that, what was its point? That convincing management regardless of your productive output is what matters at the end of the day? Perhaps at some organizations, but it's not a particularly accurate, nuanced world
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
No, because an "anecdote", by definition, is not statistically relevant. "Enterprise teams" are not, inherently, profoundly stupid in their practice of software engineering, and not all "hackers" inherently produce worthwhile, quality code.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
It's fairly easy to degenerate "enterprise developers" when you're defining what "enterprise" means.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I'm sorry but are you kidding here? You think a web developer who already has experience in all the tools used to create a web app is going to spend the equivalent amount of time learning a completely new languange, platform, developer too
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
It's actually not that good a point. Using JQuery you can get a web app as low as 1k so slow connection isn't that big a problem. 1k is still a pretty unpleasant wait when you're looking for 'instant', and unfortunately, if I exit Safari
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
As an iPhone user, I strongly prefer native applications. They can integrate with the built-in technologies (address book, location, P2P, MDNS, etc), and they don't simply stop working for 30 minutes while I ride the subway.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I'm familiar with game development. I make games for the iPhone in my spare time and I make more money than I ever have in my life, and my apps aren't even popular compared to things like Ocarina or Tweetie or Pocket God. I'm truly, genui
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
If you really care, use a real standards-comformant address parser, most languages have at least one -- Java does. Otherwise you're just wasting your time, and the time of any users you hose with your amateur-hour validation.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I seriously doubt that will happen. People have stopped buying $30 software for their computer, why would they buy it for their phone? Do you have statistics on that? My wife just bought Balsamiq for her computer without blinking, and tha
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
If that's the case, then the market is unsustainable. Players will fail, causing scarcity, raising the value of applications, and conditioning users to expect to pay more.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Unless you produce one of the very few 'hits', you'll lose money developing a $1.99 application.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I think their price is more-or-less reasonable in terms of the value provided and in comparison to application pricing for other mobile platforms: http://www.berryreview.com/2008/04/22/review-calculator-apps... http://www.berryreview.com
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Given that conforming with the standard is effectively free, do you have any other justification for your non-conformal position of "I'd say 64 is enough. Anything above is just weird"? Willfully and capriciously ignoring standard requireme
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I'm surprised (and confused) -- can you really include a great number of large, verbatim or nearly verbatim blocks of text from Wikipedia, cite them, and not be called out for plagiarism? What's to stop any author from saving themselves hou
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
You can empirically determine exactly what's in an opaque set of anything (NSArray's various public access methods) and exactly what part of the area of a view is covered by a subview. The facilities necessary to modify the hierarchy are
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
This is exactly what I said above. If you expect a certain structure, your app will almost certainly, and is defective. However, you can rely on the fact that the UIView hierarchy can always be modified, regardless of what's inside (or not
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
You're wrong. You don't have to use a single method or class that is undocumented to add or remove stuff to the camera control's UI. No. You do everyone reading a remarkable disservice. The UIView hierarchy itself is undocumented. The con
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Unlike the usual arbitrary, capricious, and infuriating appstore rejections, _ the developer deserved this. _ In order to implement something like Quick Shot, you have to muck around in the undocumented innards (private API) of the Apple-pr
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
That was not my experience, but you and I probably have differing opinions of "detrimental", and I'm not sure how you would correlate abuse or "community detriment" with your data. We tend to be patient with individuals (even semi-abusive o
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
No, I regularly find modern registration forms that won't accept mailinator or even hotmail addresses (and your service is probably more akin to mailinator than hotmail).
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I experimented with it and racked up 400 megabytes in data transfered without even trying (Checked e-mail, visited some web pages). If AT&T then charges me 0.60/megabyte as stated in the Youtube comment, I'm looking at a pretty hefty bi
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
I hope it's not due to the negative tone of the article and comments, coupled with scribd being a YC company -- I believe flags are administrator-reviewed.
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by ankhmoop 17y ago
Just to make sure I'm not crazy, I found another 100+ page book and downloaded the PDF just now. No requirement to upload any files. Perhaps you didn't meet the criteria to trigger this behavior, you are not a member of the A/B group that

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