Jacob4u2

Why doesn't it work on my IPad 2? Don't I have geolocation API on here?

I disagree that the site design is awful. But agree that the spelling and grammar could use a little more attention.

Launched an HTML5 offline app analytics library - http://discolytics.com. Not profitable, but haven't really tried to market it. Was originally developed for another clients project and figured someone else out there had a similar need.

I regret nothing, great learning experience, the whole thing.

I don't believe the customer service was polite. They shouldn't scold the person right up front about multiple emails; maybe it's just me, but the customer pays you, they can send as many emails as they want. Also, it's confusing that he is told to respond to the first email (and that it's time sensitive) and yet they do not respond to his prompt reply.

That's an interesting opinion. How do you feel about the fact that Sencha touch requires the purchase of a license for a commercial app whereas jQuery Mobile does not? IMO that makes jQuery a more attractive choice.

However, I will agree that the article was a bit jQuery heavy; several of the options presented were extensions of jQuery Mobile.

I can't speak for backbone.js, but this looks a little more verbose than my favorite MVC framework; Knockout.js (http://learn.knockoutjs.com/).

You are still creating another site even when using polyfills. The surface area for display bugs in a polyfill is > 0.

I'm having a hard time finding comparable Team Foundation Licensing costs for a team of 20. Does anyone have an idea how this compares?

Any plans on releasing the source? I'm sure there are others who'd love to help with the project.

Their HTML5 showcase site doesn't display properly on IPhone; doesn't sound like someone I want to take advice from.

Even though I started this whole religious war thread, I don't really want to continue with it (but I'm too proud to delete my comment). Here is my rebuttal in a nutshell; VB is not succinct and therefore not a powerful language[1].

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html

Why in the world would someone include the words Visual Basic in the title of a submission to Hacker News? And how in the world does that article get to the front page?

I don't think the "Garage" is necessarily a separate unit.

> “The Garage is open to anyone, which means we have people from all over the company working together. The Garage provides support through Garage Weeks, Science Fairs, free hosting, and a worldwide community to help you build things you wouldn’t be able to accomplish on your own,” Hawkins said." - http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/Features/2011/aug11/08-19...

I'll leave the troll bait "'Innovation == not reading widely enough'" statement alone even though I'm severely tempted to waste my time on that.

Isn't the general consensus that regexes are hard to maintain and debug? I'm not sure that "structural regexes" are solving the right problem.

I think maybe we're not shooting at the same baskets though (basketball reference, apologies if you're not from US); I'm trying to write software applications, not shell scripts.

The example happens to use "munging" text, but I think the GP is trying to make the point that you can't use sed (effectively) to parse, for instance, a collection of database entries from an SQL server in the same way that LINQ would be able to do so.

The tl;dr I got from the article was LINQ is effective at working with sets of data; not just sets of text data from a text file.

Thats not exactly apples to apples. The powershell equivalent is probably more comparable.

Also, it all depends on what you value; cryptic one liners definitely will get you geek cred, but working with other people not as smart as you will not be fun when having to explain and maintain code like that.

Of course, you may never have to worry about that.

I respect your trying to bring attention to incivility on HN, but in what way is the user anonymous? Their account seems old enough and has plenty karma to make me respect their opinion.

Also, in my case, the GP expressed the same opinion that I had after seeing those comments on the OP.

More like over zealous fans of the original author. And, of course, the original author of the post. I believe new accounts don't have up votes though, so I don't think they can "game the system" if you're worried.

There is an html5 / OSX widget available at: http://employees.claritycon.com/eklimczak/rhythmandscale/

Reminds me of a Radiolab podcast about parasites and the improvement of productivity in the deep south as a result of the introduction of outhouses.

http://www.radiolab.org/2009/sep/07/

(it's the part about farmers, not sure about a specific seek to point, sorry it's been a while)

There is a polyfill out that handles the lack of File API in IE and earlier versions of Safari; http://sandbox.knarly.com/js/dropfiles/.

Also, great list of polyfills available at the Modernizr github repo; https://github.com/Modernizr/Modernizr/wiki/HTML5-Cross-brow... .

Have you tried to do the same thing with MySQL and had success? There's a lot of things in your example that could be causing you grief other than the type of SQL Server you are running; i.e. Network Security, Local Security Configuration (Both machines), User Error (is this something you setup all the time?)

Regarding costs and licensing, have you heard of AppHarbor (http://appharbor.com). It's like Heroku but for .Net, free (at least right now) for small web apps and has SQL Server and MySQL database options.

Also, I've heard mention of BizSpark which kind of defers your costs but I haven't got any hard evidence that it is still a good option for startups.

His response to a hopeful Aeronautical Engineer on becoming an Astronaut:

  "Be better than the competition."

Wisdom.

I sometimes have a hard time justifying how much time I spend on HN, but this quote about creativity really put it in perspective for me:

  "A current favorite is Hacker News. Look, someone is describing how they did the effects for Tron Legacy. They really did go out of their way to make those Unix screens authentic. You know, I have an article about the beauty of the command line. I should write…"

I definitely consider it less of a side-track considering the blog posts and side projects that have been inspired by HN.

Flash animation showing examples of East to North and North to West turns - http://www.michigan.gov/documents/mdot/MDOT_Roads-Travel_mic...

I agree. This seems more like a "rage quit" post than a reasonable/rational response to the challenges of multi-platform development.

Florian continues to comment on the post, posts this link for confirmation of the source files still being in Android source

http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=platform/libcore.git;a=tree...