cmatthias

Everytime I see this article mentioned, I cringe. I am a man with relatively small hands and I can reach the right edge and even the upper right corner of my Motorola Atrix 2 (almost as big as a Galaxy S II) easily. Have you actually tried this? Unless he has tiny, child-like hands, those graphics have to be inaccurate.

Visa and MasterCard are not the only credit card companies. I use American Express almost exclusively, which doesn't seem to be on the list.

Except, as noted in the comments, there is actually no way to get a truly unlocked iPhone in the USA (one that will work with any US provider). Even Apple's "Unlocked" full price phone will only work on GSM networks (so AT&T or T-Mobile). They will not work on Verizon or Sprint.

The Sprint pricing is wrong, you're missing the required $10/month smartphone data add-on. That brings the prices to $80, $100, and $110 for each tier.

Also, do you have more info on the $10/month discount on VZW for FIOS customers? I did some searching and wasn't able to find anything concrete on Verizon's site.

The "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" comment was tongue-in-cheek and I apologize if it came off as insensitive.

I have a ton of respect for the guy, and it's definitely a huge loss. But I'm just trying to say that maybe people are going a _bit_ overboard with the Steve Jobs stories. Can you understand where I'm coming from?

Also, for tonight I have been and will continue to be reading reddit, and would appreciate if you didn't throw that around like it's a bad thing -- because right now it's a hell of a lot more interesting than HN. And, reddit has even managed to appropriately pay their respects to Steve with a couple of nice tributes on the front page.

Awesome, thank you!

Guilty as charged about contributing to the problem, but I went to the new queue with the express purpose of voting up every non-Steve Jobs related story I could find, and didn't find many. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

I still assert that it's ridiculous. Hell, the reddit front page is more sane right now than the HN front page, and that's saying something.

Yeah, exactly, I went out to page 4 of the "new" queue and was only able to find a few stories that weren't Steve Jobs related. I guess I'll just come back later.

Why? Just about everything in this article is factually and verifiably true, except maybe the part about the iPad being late to market. Steve was a great entrepreneur, but I don't think every obituary needs to deify him.

Yes, exactly, either you don't make apps for their platform anymore (in the case of iOS) or you distribute them through your website, just like before the app store existed. Or, you could make a webapp.

Apple has been treating their developers like crap ever since the app store opened, and the only way to change it is to vote with your wallet (or more accurately in this case, your development time). Otherwise, you are part of the problem.

My honest opinion is that the only solution here is to pack up and leave Apple's closed ecosystem, because they clearly don't care about their developers. If you are continuing to do business with them you are sending them a message that it's OK to continue to do this. If it's a Mac app, sell it on your own website; if it's an iOS app, rewrite it for Android and sell it there.

Wow, this article is pretty misinformed. This is something that PC vendors have been doing for years, since Windows XP came out, at least. It can definitely be helpful and a nice thing to have, but an innovation? I don't think so.

I'm assuming you're using Twilio for this (if not, please correct me). How can you charge 2c a minute when it costs more than this from Twilio if the user is doing forwarding? Do you just hope that the monthly charge makes up for the deficit?

I already deleted it. I'm not sure how I can prove it to you as I didn't get an email, and when I clicked the "Delete Account" button to commit to deleting my account it just bounced me to the dropbox homepage. But thanks for trying to call me out.

Yes, there is:

"We have received a notification under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (“DMCA”) __from Dropbox__ that the following material is claimed to be infringing."

(underscores mine)

Wow, did not expect this from a savvy company like Dropbox. Filing a fake DMCA complaint? I think I'll take my files elsewhere.

My advice is to stay far, far away from Moniker. I use them at work, and their UI stinks: for example, when changing my domains' authoritative nameservers it will occasionally switch the nameservers back to the default (Moniker's own) without telling you. I contacted their support about this and they essentially said "yes, this is a known issue, and we don't have an ETA for a fix, so suck it up."

The reason why I was changing nameservers in the first place is because their own DNS service has gone completely offline three times in the last year and a half, making my company's websites inaccessible for hours at a time and costing us several thousand dollars in lost revenue.

I have had no issues using NearlyFreeSpeech.net for registering my personal domains.

Looks interesting, nice work. A couple of companies that all work out of our office are actively hiring engineers, so I'll talk to them and see if they'd be interested in using it.

I'm not even an experienced Android developer, but I just looked up CheckedTextView:

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/widget/Checke...

I see no indications that it's abstract, and I found a bunch of other abstract classes that clearly say "abstract" above the class name at the top of the page. Am I totally off base here?

What? My commute is approximately 18 miles each way, almost all of which is highway with a 65mph speed limit. Is the Leaf not going to be able to get me to work and back on a single charge? If not, the 100 mile range they're claiming is pretty disingenuous.

This is simply not true. One specific example is SSDs -- they offer a huge increase in performance, yet Apple only offers mediocre, overpriced ones as options on its higher-end machines.

Yes, there was just an upgrade to the Mini, and it's pretty and all, but it lost a USB port, is still using the same (old) Core 2 processors, and they raised the base price by $100. Not very competitive if you ask me.

Their laptops do sell better, that's true. Why are both the Macbook and Macbook Air still using those same Core 2 processors then? Also, the Macbook Air has 2GB of RAM in a machine costing $1499. That's absurd.

If they still care about their computer business, then in my opinion they're doing a pretty poor job of managing it.

Boston wasn't in your list of cities so I lost interest pretty quickly. That's fine, but it looks like there were other cities on your site that are completely devoid of posts. I can immediately think of two options here to improve the experience:

1) Explicitly state on your site that you're only launching in one (or a few) cities, and then actually restrict postings to those cities. You will then probably need to do lots of creative marketing for your site in those cities to get initial traction. You could also have a sign-up form for people who want to express interest in posting in a different city, and then you can notify them when you open the site up to their area.

2) Find a way to easily (and legally?) populate your site with data from competing sites like Craigslist. This way you don't have giant empty sections on the site.

There might be other options as well, but having cities with literally no posts in them doesn't seem to me like it will attract (or retain) users.

I'd like to echo ashu's comments; I have no skin in the SEO game and Mahalo doesn't pass the smell test for me. There might be a bias on HN against you or your site, but if you want to change that, it's your job to argue with solid facts that can't be refuted with a 5 minute Google search.

The fact that you're trying to completely change the subject with your post about the Open Angel Forum doesn't really help your cause, either.

This is a nice little utility. It'd be good if it supported more google services (reader, gmail?) but hopefully they'll add to it as time goes on.

I'm reasonably certain that you cannot copyright the design of a physical product. Apple might be able to patent the design of a phone, especially if its design is novel in some way, but copyright is reserved for "intellectual works" like writing, artwork, computer software, etc.

All excellent points. Sorry if my original comment wasn't clear -- I wasn't trying to say that method_missing is a better way to do it, just that it's a different way to accomplish the same thing.

Great article, thanks.

Another way to do this (and one that Rails makes extensive use of internally) is to override method_missing in your object, which gets called as a "last resort" whenever ruby can't find a method of a particular name. Inside this method you can check to see if the method being called matches one of the keys of your hash, and if so do what you need. This is a little bit more "meta" (if there is such a thing) than your example because the getters/setters for each of the options are never actually defined on the class, not even at runtime.