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For example, you can send 2 messages a day. If you respond to an advertiser, you get 5 message credits... Of course I'd want to choose the advertisers I could get messages from, if any.
I'm a very experienced developer, and I think their steps to build are ridiculous. They chose Ruby for it's coolness, and great, you can write a blog in 20 lines of code, but Ruby requires a build process and to build Diaspora takes the equivalent of 5000 lines of code, and ultimately it still doesn't run properly.
Kudos to the team for what they've done. I'm one of the first users, so I'd have preferred it worked, but it's dead.
Make it easy, not cool and complex. Make it easy to adopt and people will adopt it.
Tent.io is definitely the right way to go.
Most companies under the startup gun that lose a key member to death don't recover.
They did exactly what we did when we lost Brandt Canicci, they buried themselves in another unrelated project.
You're not sure why you're doing it, but it's all consuming. You're grieving, although you don't know it, and you just can't wrap your mind around anything but the only life preserver you have until you come to your senses and let yourself move on.
Kudos Diaspora, it was a valiant effort.
After just logging in, I'm surprised at how excruciatingly slooooooooooow it is. Upwards of a minute to save a minor change to my profile. I certainly hope self-hosting our profiles and content is an option sooner than later.
Shadyabhi is right, though, that this is not any different from using IMAP and keeping all your email local on your PC, and keeping it on your PC is probably safer.
Minuses, it's expensive and you have to wait for access to new features until they've been released by Xamarin.
Writing an app for iPhone using this is easily 2x faster than learning and then writing it in Objective C. It does generate a "native" app, for what it's worth.
Sounds like you just need to get past your dislike of C#, and your boss sounds like a pretty smart person ;-)
(disclosure : I'm not his boss)
When a company demands 30% of your revenue, even for portions not related to the app, and moves on to a track where developers will be forced to have a cert embedded into their app to be on the platform or be blocked, they ARE practicing evil.
It wasn't Apple that built their customer base, it was the developers who wrote the apps that brought the customers. Without the applications on the platform, Apple would be just like Blackberry, dead.
Now that Apple starts putting all these hurdles in place, like kicking apps because they release their own app in a segment (and disallow ANY competition), despite the fact that an app in that segment has been there for years, it's clear that they are more interested in earnings than building a foundation for developers to earn real incomes.
Just back in May, Apple killed a bunch of apps that used the Dropbox API because they considered it an undocumented or third party API. WTF?? The truth is, Apple didn't want competition with their shitty iCloud service, so they limited what developers could do for their own benefit. One example of THOUSANDS out there.
That doesn't even take into consideration Apple's insistence on NOT allowing any sort of metrics on unique installs.
If you made T-Shirts and a chain said, "just give us the shirts, and we'll tell you how many we sell", YOU would probably do it, but I sure wouldn't.
Apple could be skimming revenues from developers as we speak, and there's really no way to know, since we're not allowed to use any static identifier on the phone to lock the app to a subscriber.
It became clear to me a year or so ago that Apple is moving in a direction that is anti-developer. At that time I stopped buying their hardware, installed Linux on the Apples I still had, and stopped writing apps for the iPhone. My life has been MUCH easier since then.
We really don't need to be spending any more time dealing with companies like this. We should be collectively writing our own apps for our own open platforms, and forcing them to use the mechanisms that give US control.
All one has to do is discard it. To go the extra mile to trudge down to the police station or Mayor's office and make a stink about it appearing to be a ticket would indeed make the person a vindictive jerk.
Now, as an aside, the mindset of one who sees a "ticket" on their car from a distance is probably not conducive to a positive response to the pitch.
The fact that the poster here clearly calculated the weight of his actions versus the impact of the preceding event the on the attendee was what I thought was interesting.
It's a calculated risk, and one or two pings of interest is clearly worth the possible fine.
Again, in my opinion.
Sadly, it's almost certainly against municipal code.
All it takes is one jerk to make a smart street team effort go bad by complaining to the police or mayor.
Also, video does not resize when browser size changes, leaving content missing.
Nice work tho.
Moreover, if you're a developer that doesn't know how to do this on your local box, go flip burgers NOW.
Oh wait.. this is NOT that. SPAM.
What you read is an idiotic staff news writer's spin. I mean, if they wrote "English muffins linked to Alzheimers", nobody would have read it.
Most developers simply return to the site for the next job instead of working the employer for more contracts, probably because they feel that this is sales and introverts hate to do sales.
Shallow thinking on their part as (a) they could route the links through their own affiliate account on Amazon, (b) they could cut a referrer deal with Amazon so that it appears to be a direct link, or (c) they could recommend alternative, competing books on iBookStore since they control the user experience.
I have personal experience that they are doing this same thing in iPhone apps, as they have declined an app of mine because there is a revenue model they can't tap into, and they were very clear about their intent.
I just can't work with a company that forces me to change my content/apps to fit their ridiculously greedy model. Sure, she could just go somewhere else, but Apple is in deals with Pearson and Harcourt, and will be handling a significant number of school texts exclusively.
I wonder if they'll force those partners to not mention competing services.
* UPDATE *
Now that I've mulled... I don't understand why she doesn't just upload the 2nd book to iBookstore, then link to IT in the 1st book and resubmit. Sure, it's bullshit, but Apple owns their own marketplace and can do any stupid bullshit they want. If you want to play on their field, you have to fondle, I mean use their balls.
If Amazon reciprocated, they would remove potentially 34,557 books that mention Apple, including over 80 that mention iBookstore. If they just went for books that had LINKS to apple, there's over 2,000 of those. I just don't see Amazon being as stupid as Apple, ever, that they would censor writers in this way.
"You can't mention Amazon, but we can use it."