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Macy Miller's Tiny House is the trend but there are way nicer implementations for just double the price: http://www.ecospacestudios.com/

> I find it remarkable that the bigwigs have discovered a way to create a frozen fry that even a one armed eyeless chimp has trouble screwing up.

I find it in general remarkable that McDonalds' business processes seem to be so foolproof that any one armed eyeless chimp is able to create BigMacs, Hamburgers and any other McDonalds dish always and anywhere in the world with the same high quality.

Slighlty OT: Anybody knows why installing an OS on mobile hardware cannot be just like installing Windows in the old days? First installing the base system and then drivers for 'non-standard' hardware components. Why do need hardware manufacturers and OS vendors to talk?

Getting the G-Suite seems to be a problem now but there are already some alternatives for each of the G-Suite's apps and I'd welcome any newcomer to this stage-so I wouldn't consider the G-Suite as the main problem with Android.

Got also into Angular for some while and my verdict: if this wasn't made by Google it wouldn't haven gotten off the ground. Its concept has too many quirks and isn't thought through. Tried recently React and this feels much more sane, you have to relearn stuff but it's way less than Angular and performance is better.

More and more Anti-Android propaganda pops up since iOS' market share is nosediving.

If Android is not freedom what is iOS then? No inter app communication, no exchangeable launcher/lock screen/ keyboard, real multitasking came just since this fall, no real resolution independency, no nothing.

Why this is important of founders:

Being focussed is the key when you want to be successful as an entrepreneur. Finding the right one until you found the right one is the most distracting thing.

My first thought when on the iTunes web page of Pixelmator: "$29.99, wow this is nothing for that many features"

My second thought when on the App Store Page of Pixelmator: "Update [for free since I bought yrs ago Pixelmator]": WTF these guys are awesome

> if you're obese, insulin resistant, well fed, and getting both fructose and glucose together (like a sizable percentage of the population), then fructose gets converted to fat at a much higher rate, approximating 30%. In other words, the toxicity of fructose depends on context.

So, just don't eat glucose or white sugar together with fructose or just stop it.

White sugar is the poison, not fructose.

+1, Google Hangout does a great job on this + archiving the conversations in your mail inbox.

Another one is Facebook, where you do not have to request a messaging connection to the other party.

As much as I love(d) Blackberries, the messaging experience and the BBM—this page looks like pure irony.

5 years ago, yes, this would be massive and had the potential to get bigger than any other messenger. But now, where tons of messengers are avail with Whatsapp leading the way, no chance.

This is so sad.

Sounds to good to be true but let's hope for it.

Since the announcement of KitKat and the coop with Nestlé Android's brand awareness and recognition skyrocketed. Not that Android is now more hip than iOS but it's definitely not less attractive from a brand perspective.

To present Android's Intents as some disadvantage must be pure ignorance.

If this thing came from Adobe named Adobe Dreamweaver 2013 nobody would take notice.

This is just mindblowing and I wonder why it wasn't on the front page.

Hey Dominik, awesome work congrats—I just asked this on the main thread. Not sure if you saw this, so I ask again: How was the beep sound made? Javascript or a sample? I like its warm sound very much, would be happy to know how to get to this beep. Thanks!

How was the beep sound made (see the youtube video)? Javascript? Happy to get replies or some actual code of that beep

Just because it's from Google it must be special?

Don't want to sound too negative but wondering if Trek would get any attention if done by some startup.

Not too bad advice but the key lies somewhere else:

0. Stop chasing the one investor or selected perceived important people but rather get a sense who might be important

1. First and most important: ACHIEVE something, create something unique, build strong traction, DO something where others raise their eyebrows, get people impressed, everyone!

2. This is now what most people don't get: you do not network by just going to networking events or by mingling with other people, no: your achievements will be your networking vehicle -- you network by achieving stuff -- you don't have t ask for meetings anymore, people will approach you. Or you have just to talk about your achievements (to everyone) and the rest comes by itself. And when you want ask for a meeting, don't -- just tell your achievements and the other party will ask to grab a coffee together. So, create or work towards a situation where others approach you some day. Really, the key is to work on achievements and nothing else.

It's definitely not enough to tell the other party "in exchange [...] what we learned about" this and that, you have to achieve something, tell them where you succeeded! They don't want another boring conversation with a flimsy excuse. Imagine some developer who wants to work for your startup and approaches you and tells you about what he learned about some random technical topic -- this would lead to an awkward situation where you just want to escape the conversation with a needy guy. Instead imagine the same guy telling you that he build the first Sinatra-like framework for Openresty/Lua that blows Go and the JVM together and he would love to show it to you since you need some high performance web framework devs. Big difference.

Sidenote: everybody is important and will bring you one step further on your journey, not only VCs or angels. Most underrated target: other entrepreneurs, in particular those which are on the same level like you or a bit ahead because they are most willing to share thoughts or meet up and because they are your real peers (this is what I totally missed when I started).

Maybe the OP is right and today's smartphones make it vastly harder to choose to approach nearby people than to retreat into the scrolling names of one’s contact list. But how was it five or ten years ago? There was always something which made it harder to choose to approach nearby people: dumbphones, MP3 players, newspapers, etc.

Maybe the OP just uses his smartphone and today's tech as an excuse for his timidity to approach people.

Butter smooth and so atmospheric graphics, especially the rowing part

OT: this slid.es presentations are even on Mobile Safari so butter smooth like native apps.

And with this decision you break 99% of the web on mobile devices.

It's a tiny thing to override this CSS property and makes mobile browsing of desktop sites so more convenient -- there's is no difference between Chrome on a mobile device and Chrome on desktops in terms of speed and usability of sites. In contrast, using the web browser on iOS is a real pain considering that Apple forbids to install any other rendering engine.

And if you don't like the text reflow just turn it off, it's optional on Android. Finally, it's a much better solution for visually impaired people since you can scale the fonts quickly as big as you want and the text just reflows. This even works on mobile sites since you can override zoom locks. There are so many benefits Apple just ignores with their "design decision" (mainly driven by commercial interests in favorite of the app store).

Depends on the quality of the mouse pad too. Macbook touch pads with all the gestures and Thinkpad pointing sticks outdo the competition by far. And Androids UI is just not optimized for mouse pointing uses. But still I'd love to hear where you are faster than on a Macbook Pro with OSX.

Why I love notebooks: you barely need to move your fingers and can get a boatload of shit done. Just leave your hands on the keyboard and touchpad and you can control the universum.

Thinkpads with their red pointing sticks even top this: you can lie like dead in front of your Thinkpad and have even less finger movement -- your forefinger sits on the red pointing stick and your thumb lies on the left mouse key and again you control anything + you are damn fast.

Why do people try to use touch-based devices for productivity work where classic keyboard and trackpad/pointing stick setups and respective UIs/OSes are clearly superior? If people are using Android/iOS as productivity device they need also some kind of mouse pointer on the screen, otherwise finger movement exceeds the limit.

Finally, with current notebooks I get hours of battery time, Retina screens and total silence too (e.g. Macbook Pro Retina 15"). The cost is negligible since it's my working horse.

I am very surprised that so many people are not complaining about Mobile Safari's missing automatic word wrap feature. This is the number one reason why people want to use apps for anything (because their mobile browser is just broken). With word wrap like you get on Android's browsers most traditional desktop websites are totally sufficient on mobile devices, there's even no need for a mobile web version (HN is the best example).

Some could think that Apple is indirectly pushing an app ecosystem with its broken mobile browser experience and I am just seeing excited folks traveling to some worldwide dev conferences and building shitty apps for every and anything. For end users there isn't often any additional benefit and for developers building a native app is a nightmare -- software development like 20 years ago, long release cycles, different platforms and on top one gatekeeper deciding about your fate, wtf and no thanks. No surprise that most mobile first and only startups are struggling like living crap.

Web based apps are still the way to go for most use cases, just check the awesome mobile versions of Airbnb and LinkedIn, both based on Node, fast and ultra responsive. Building native apps belongs to the traditional publisher business model and are good for games and interaction heavy use cases (Facebook, communication, photo sharing, etc.).

EDIT: downvoting != disagreeing

I get the best HN mobile experience on Android either with the stock browser or Chrome Mobile since both have an automatic text reflow (or so called automatic word wrap). This feature is one of the most I miss on my iPhone which let a lot of classic websites top every native app on mobile devices. Reading HN and commenting is as fast as on a desktop. I tried several HN apps on iOS (I have both an iOS and Android device in parallel operation) and none of them got close to HN on Android's mobile browsers in terms of convenience and usability.

Though Postgres is a great DB and supports JSON directly you get just a fraction of the query possibilities you have with Mongo. With Postgres you get some basic operations for the JSON data type (since the JSON support is added recently, think 12-18 months ago). So, I wouldn't consider it as a real substitute to Mongo.

> but I worry about MongoDB since data in this application is critical and loss would be catastrophic

Don't worry, this is just some old and well debated prejudice against Mongo (don't want to start a mongo discussion here though). Mongo has five different safe write modes you can choose from plus optional journaling and is in general some of the most impressive piece of tech and the best document store I know. Just try it and you won't go back and it's popular: http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=mongodb%2C%20postgres...

MEAN - Mongo, Express, Angular, Node

I like it because I get

- high responsive / low latency sites

- fast ramp up time thanks to Mongo, no schemes, no migration, just JSON everywhere; JS objects are one of the most flexible data types

- more than just a key value store, a powerful document store with query capabilities close to SQL DBs (Mongo)

- an ecosystem where performance is important (e.g. tons of on performance trimmed templating engines like doT)

- just one language to get good in (JS)

- fresh, highly modular concept and no aged, outdated design patterns from 2005 legacy, bloated, monolithic web frameworks

- lightweight, lightweight, lightweight

- instant startup time of the VM

- no compilation

- a language implementation with C class performance (V8)

- Easy to find talents which can work on all parts of the system => real full stack devs

- a lightweight, unobtrusive FE framework which doesn't stand in your way (Angular)

- best package manager out there (npm)