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by prpatel 13y ago
+1 What's the point in saving money when it gets eroded by near 0% interest saving returns combined with continuing inflation?
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by prpatel 13y ago
There's several good Clojure books. I'd start with Rich Hickey's video "Simple made Easy": http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy The "Joy of Clojure" is the best book on
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by prpatel 13y ago
You need to learn Clojure. I would bet since you've been a developer for 23 years you've probably tried Clojure already - especially since it's popular among the Java/JVM crowd. Here's why, in the context of your po
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by prpatel 14y ago
Adding to your comment, here's a link: http://www.cnbc.com/id/50025913/HP039s_Autonomy_Fiasco_Look_... There's no doubt that Marc is a success in the software & VC space - how much of that is luck and opportunism is up to you to decid
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by prpatel 14y ago
awesome! this will let us save tons of money by not forcing us to invest in solar, wind or other sustainable sources of energy! DRILL BABY DRILL!
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by prpatel 14y ago
Why? You'll use up your 4G data plan in 97 seconds. At least with 3G it would take a day or so to blow past your monthly data limit. In all seriousness - yes, this is an issue, but with the divergence of 4G spectrums and the radios required
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by prpatel 14y ago
OMFG. Total, complete lack of understanding of Apple. I'm no fanboi of either iOS or Android (I actually have several of both). "News accounts this week suggested that Google was caught off-guard by Apple’s decision to kick it off the iPhon
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by prpatel 14y ago
The docs are pretty good, and the wiki is a wealth of information. where exactly are you looking?
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by prpatel 14y ago
You must be joking. I've built several projects, for pay, using Titanium and find it to be very powerful and fast for building even complex mobile apps. The customers have been thrilled that I'm able to deliver tons of features in shorter
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by prpatel 14y ago
This is a quote from Jeff's response: "To be crystal clear here, our intentions are that we will not charge for development that happens under the “App Explore” product (i.e., the free version). Usage of the Appcelerator platform (Titanium
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by prpatel 14y ago
They don't. I've used Appcelerator for a number of projects that are now on the App store(s) and haven't ever worried about this. The source code is on Github under the Apache license as you mentioned. This is enough for me and my lawyers t
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by prpatel 14y ago
These developers hit a wall quickly, and have to work harder (or just write poorly thought-out/designed code) over time. That does not mean they are less capable than classicly trained CS programmers; it just means they have to overcome cer
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by prpatel 14y ago
They could have AT LEAST gone with USB3. I mean really, it's 2012 and you release 'the most advanced phone ever' and it's running technology that's 10 years old. It's not as if better, "standard" options don't exist.
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by prpatel 14y ago
What Leo Apotheker did to HP in his short tenure is borderline criminal. If I owned HP stock or were an employee I would be livid - but it's not totally his fault - it is also the Board's fault for bringing in a dinosaur with a complete lac
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by prpatel 14y ago
I've asked this question before to folks who I know use ClojureScript. The answer is: you don't need a framework like Backbonejs if you're using ClojureScript. Why? The ability to work in a functional language means you are able to express
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by prpatel 14y ago
IMO there's too much uncertainty over WebOS. There's no real deployment of these devices (dwarfed by even Windows Phone at this point), the helter-skelter handling of killing it and bringing it back has scared people (thanks Apotheker for c
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by prpatel 14y ago
...or go watch this video. It's a pretty decent (and balanced) overview of the dev options out there: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Cross-Platform-Mobile
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by prpatel 14y ago
i'd be happy to google hangout with you to help ya'll. ping me on twitter at 'prpatel'
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by prpatel 14y ago
What? You make no sense. In your original article you advocate going native for now and eschewing Web tech. Now you say that "you're golden" if you use Web tech? Then you top it off by saying bridging down to native is slow..... Are you jus
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by prpatel 14y ago
I'm not sure about RubyMotion, but I can speak to Titanium as we use it to build our TripLingo language learning apps. Appcelerator Titanium does not compile down to anything - rather it bridges a JavaScript runtime to the native layer: eit
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by prpatel 14y ago
With the deluge of hardware Kickstarter projects, I'd be surprised if some of them don't have positions for EE's. * btw - i love that hardware hacking is getting popular again
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by prpatel 14y ago
No. I think Scala is a fine language, with lots of neat features. But it does not give the developer enough of a leap - someone has already mentioned a parallel between C -> C++ and Java -> Scala. I think this is a reasonable compar
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by prpatel 14y ago
good grief... just learn some fscking JavaScript already! It's not _that_ hard!
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by prpatel 14y ago
I'm not sure how I feel about this. From one point of view, I think this is an awesome idea, get energetic, smart students down the entrepreneurship path early. Then my experience of running an actual startup, the ups-and-downs, the intric
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by prpatel 14y ago
HAH, crazy. I remember fondly over the last 15 years the 15 times that Linux was about to take over the desktop. It's more likely WebOS is going to win any race with Windows.
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by prpatel 14y ago
You ensure quality by writing automated tests, not by the language you pick to write software in. And for the record Groovy is awesome. I used to develop in it alot, but now do more Rails and JavaScript, and I miss it's power and simplicity
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by prpatel 14y ago
Cool, you must hate Objective-C too. I've done initWithParamAAndParamBWithASideOfAnObsurdlyLongMethodName but that doesn't mean I hate Objective-C.
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by prpatel 14y ago
Java is a verbose language, but it's still awesome for a large category of projects. Are you a rails guy? how about those 50-500 lines of boilerplate code in the config files? Same thing as the Spring config files. Does that lead me to say
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by prpatel 14y ago
HAH, vim looks more and more like emacs :)
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by prpatel 14y ago
You have a number of great choices. Much depends on the team building the app - if you want to be adventurous try: Clojure & Noir. Other options (in particular order): * Groovy & Grails * Ruby & Rails * Python & Django

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