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It's not. Except Windows has 95% of the market and the Mac had 5% of the market. So even though it's easier and cheaper to support a Mac app, the market is so much smaller it's still not really worth it.

Compare to mobile where iOS market place was leading, it didn't make a lot of sense to spend more effort on the smaller market.

Now the Android market is about equal, you are still spending more effort to make the same money.

Not a lot of details, but it sounds like what I'm thinking about.

I'm more thinking so the average person would have their own server for their family, rather than the people who have servers now.

Sure "apt-get install" installs the software, but configuring it to do anything useful is still anything but trivial. Installing Linux, creating a user accounts, setting up an SMTP, POP & IMAP server, installing a webmail app with spam filtering, making sure they all talk to each other, is hard. Installing WordPress is the easiest I've seen, and you still need to create a DB and copy the connection details.

I'm thinking of something as simple as you see a list of Apps (WordPress, PHPBB, etc). Just click 'install' and pick the directory you want it installed in. And you pay $.99 for the convince.

I think it would be good for the industry to move away from ad supported services, and to let users pay to host the services themselves.

I think it's a general problem with services.

I much prefer using desktop software, even when it's discontinued, it still works.

I think the next big thing could be bringing App Stores to servers. 1 click install, zero config, etc. I recently set up my own webmail, it was a pain in the ass. It could be made a lot easier, and I think people would pay for the convenience.

Nope.

The book has 24 essays, they aren't all listed in the Wiki page.

In "The Man Who mistook His Wife for a Hat" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Mistook_His_Wife_fo...), a book on mental disorders, there is a case of a man who can only make rational decisions. He is unable to function, he can't get past what to wear or what to eat in the morning. Even this simplest decisions take him hours.

If you want to work on files with people (other than supported by google docs) you both need the desktop app installed. Far more people have the Dropbox desktop app installed than Google drive.

I find Dropbox websharing far easier, right-click share and it puts the link on the clipboard. Google drive makes you go through a dialog.

Google Drive doesn't have history for non google doc files. We use it as a simple version control for all our documents.

Google Drive doesn't work, at least for me. It won't reliably stay connected. There is no reconnect option either, so every time it disconnects you have to exit/restart and then it has to re-index all the files.

Sharing is clunkier, when you share a folder with somebody it doesn't appear in their drive. After they accept they still need to go into their options to get it to start syncing.

There are a lot of Apps that have Dropbox built in. They use Dropbox as their storage.

I feel Google isn't putting the effort into their Desktop client that Dropbox is. Google wants people to use the web. They are both cheap enough price isn't an option.

How do you record a trace? That would be interesting to do.

Just after the OS boots, Dropbox needs to index 120 GB of files. Any other program that wants to access the disk takes forever. For Dropbox to finish, for my mail and IDEs to open takes about 10 minutes. Any other program that needs the disk is uselessly slow.

Happens to Windows and Mac OS too. Every time I boot Dropbox thrashes my disk for 10 minutes while the system is almost completely unresponsive.

I switched my Garmin to Australian as well. Now it calls onramps 'sliproads'. Does know what the abbreviation HWY means. A few others as well. Not sure why that's encoded in the accent and not the location.

This one impressed me the most: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232

After a total hydraulic failure, the pilots still managed to land just using thrust difference between the two engines. I'm impressed anybody survived.

I just ran the numbers for curiosities sake:

The average American spends $20,000 on their credit cards. If credit card fees are 4% and the retailer gives half back, the customer saves: $400 a year.

To save $400, the customer:

- Gives up access to credit

- Gives up 30 day interest free on purchases

- Gives up 1% back rewards ($200)

- Gives up fraud protection

- Takes on the risk of carrying 'virtual cash'

Of course all these services could be built on top of bitcoin, but that's going to cost money and eat into what little saving there already was. I can't see bitcoin working in retail. Maybe for easy currency exchange between people in different countries it'll succeed. Not sure where else.

The way I see it, unless you are a speculator/miner, there is no upside to using bitcoin for transactions right now. The risks are too high for almost existence benefits. I understand when merchants would be pushing bitcoin, no fees, no charge backs etc. But what is the benefit for the consumer?

Transactions can be reversed. They leave a trail. The punishments are huge. It's not worth the risk. Hacking a bitcoin exchange has no consequences. MtGox has no idea where the money went.

Right now it is pretty much a binary choice - trust and install. Don't trust and don't install. I trust the developer to have implemented the SSH protocol correctly -- I have to trust them that much. But I don't see why I should have trust them enough to give them full permissions to my machine. Sandboxing (with permissions) would allow the application to run and access a port, nothing else.

It will take a combination of things.

Sandboxing applications would be a good start. That way you don't need to trust application developers.

Old school yes, but the hobbyist market it only a drop in the bucket. Around 1,000,000 Ardunios have been sold total. Atmel doesn't give numbers, but the 8-bit MCU market is around 6.7 billion units per year, AVR is a large share of that.

There are lots of 32bit micros with all those peripherals, I think it's just that the embedded industry moves slowly and adopts new products with caution. I think it's only a matter of time before all microcontrollers are ARM and the various 8/16 bit architectures die off.

I don't think you'd put a full system in a cable, but you'd make smart cables like Apple's lightning cable or their video adapters that actually convert signals.

I wonder if it's the beginning of the end 8-bit and 16-bit micro. Prices of 32-bit micros are so low now, they are so small, it just doesn't seem worth the hassle of dealing with an 8/16bit. I'm sure they'll exist in legacy designs for another 20+ years, but new designs? Less and less.

Does anybody know of open source vector rendering engine for OSM that I could incorporate into an iOS app? I'd like to get away from using tiles.

It can do it on the iPhone as well if you search for 'ok maps' It's bizarre that it's hidden feature.

Most of those were a complete waste of money. Seems like the majority of the big money acquisitions did not live up to the hype.

I've been looking for something like this. Originally I had planned to do it with Python, but Python only seems to allow one interpreter at a time.

Does anybody know if it's easy to make new functions available to PHP that would call into the C main program?

It says "Built with more 470 function" how does that compare with standard PHP? If I take some PHP I've previously written or a library, is it going to run with minor modifications? Or is this a subset of PHP?

Profit can't go to salaries, or else it wouldn't be profit.

If the question is actually revenue, it completely depends on the business. How much marketing, sales, support etc the software requires.

If I could do it all again, I'd study a lot more math in University and probably end up focusing on something like Audio DSP. I think it's a pretty safe career choice since it's hard self learn compared to a lot of other fields, meaning competition is less. And if you are good, companies will happily pay you to learn tech of the week.

Reminds me of Line Birds, but Line Birds is actually playable. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/app/line-birds/id438084823?mt=8

I can make it past 1 pine. :(