Except paypal works with money almost exclusively. Thus, it's easy for them to monetize it.
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Daring Fireball is almost a brand name in the Mac power user world. Love him or hate him, most users that are more than mouse clickers on a webpage typically know about the site by now.
"Anything Fireball" is a rip off of the name, or brand. Whether you implied it or not, you're kinda sorta stealing his hard work to try to make yours more popular. Of course, you won't admit it because that would make you look bad. But it's pretty doubtful you'll fool anyone here even if you deny it.
You'd do yourself a real favor by coming up with a name based on your own creation, not someone else's. I doubt John will care, but you'll alienate your user base a bit by being so "copy-cat-ish."
This feels like the "how to get a hit in the App Store" articles. Take someone elses idea and redo it and make lots of money. Rehashing someone elses project to turn it into your own and make money.
Whatever happened to people having their own thoughts these days? Then again, with stupid articles on here about how ideas are worthless I guess this just comes down to the same ol thing. Beg, borrow and steal your way to success. Not that this is a bad thing for everything, but when we're talking about the written word and original thought is better than trying to be someone you're not.
That said, Windows Phone 7 is much more interesting to me than Android. Honestly, if I had the choice between Android and a WP7 device, I'd pick the WP7 device. I am a Mac guy so it makes the most sense to be on the iPhone. But if things change I am quite glad that Microsoft rethought their mobile strategy.
My only hope is that they don't get bypassed by other consumers so much that they can't maintain keeping the OS moving forward. I truly honestly believe that WP7 is a better choice than Android in the long run.
From what I've seen it is a really interesting experience. I've seen enough videos to see how it functions from a user standpoint and I have to say it is a really unique way of thinking things. I see features on it that I wish the iPhone had.
So while I dismissed the mobile unit from my original comment, I should ammend it to state that I really do like the way the mobile unit in Microsoft is going.
Microsoft does have some intelligent people working there. It's such a bummer it can't get some real work done outside of Office and Windows. I'd say their games unit is pretty solid too but everything else seems to be a real hit or miss scenario.
Neat reading these things though.
Combined with their OS X app it makes a reasonably compelling alternative for mac users.
http://blog.strongspace.com/announcing-strongspace-app-for-t...
Better to keep up while the team is small than to try to move even more people over later and turn into mega-corp still using CVS.
Learning something new isn't necessarily a bad thing. I question people that are unable to try to learn something new every day. It takes a few minutes of your time and you can learn something. Sure, git might take more than a few minutes… but why not TRY?
As for requesting why they switched from subversion to git… yea, as I said, you have a billion articles written out there by now about WHY. There aren't more needed. The benefits are pretty clear if you read any one of those other articles.
Of course, this more leads into "why git and not mercurial (or any other DVCS)?" Which again, has a billion other articles written up on it.
That said however, I have completely given up on Netflix. I got sick of them years ago when they throttled my dvd subscription. An example; I used to get a movie on Monday, watch it, send it back Tuesday and I'd get another DVD on Thursday at the latest. By the end of it, I'd get a movie on Monday, send it on Tuesday and not get another DVD until Saturday or the following Monday.
Just got annoying. My brother has the streaming plan hooked up to my AppleTV and while Netflix streams fine on a computer it occassionally skips about 5-10 seconds of audio/video on the AppleTV. I'm not sure if that's an issue with the AppleTV or something to do with their streaming service. Regardless, it's annoying.
I've just gone back to DVRing the crap I want to watch and torrenting the stuff that isn't available in the US on normal tv.
Although, now it appears the title has been altered? RSS says "William Gibson talks to BoingBoing about his latest novel"
Meanwhile, HN has "William Gibson talks briefly to BoingBoing about his novel, design & the web"
Color me confused..
The web is very generational. One day such and such is the greatest thing. Then the next day another thing is the new hottness.
Static site generators are becoming very popular for a very good reason. Most sites simply don't NEED all of the crud that comes with dynamic sites. I think we'll be seeing a bit of a minimalization of a lot of websites now that static site generators are becoming more popular. This isn't a bad thing, it's almost like a reboot in a sense.
We'll likely see a large category of ways to combat the comment issue the link is discussing. But that's just one of the things that's so wrong about the article. The writer is worried about... comments?
Fact is Disqus provides a great service for people and it just so happens it works great with static sites. I know in the nanoc irc channel there was minor discussion about finding a way to use nanoc + something like couchdb to regenerate pages with new comments.
Point being, there are ways around using services like Disqus. They won't be going away and new services will pop up. The benefit here is that there's going to be a lot of changes because of static site generators. That's a good thing, it will hopefully make a lot of website generation tools a lot better.
The article however is kind of lacking any deep thought and relevent reasoning.
I'm not going to sign up for a site just to see what it does. You really should show users more before forcing them to sign up. Some sites can get away with this, but a finance site cannot in my opinion.
Show me why it "doesn't suck" before you make me sign up and spend time getting it running. For all I know the site is awesome, but you haven't shown me and when it comes to my money I don't like having to discover the apps that I want to use to organize it. I want to know what it does before I start looking at it because for all I know it doesn't do something that absolutely need. Then you're wasting my time and that is money.
Sorry, more info on the front page like a tour is needed. Otherwise, you lost me as a potential customer.
That said however, it should be an option to have that access. I personally prefer Joyent as a web host. They've shown really solid I/O numbers via their benchmarking. I've been a happy customer since it was TextDrive.
My guess is that your licensing guess is correct. I do hope it succeeds. I feel it's a better option in the long run than Android.
Another thing I like is that Hyde will regen only the files needed to be regenerated. You can of course force a full regeneration of the site, but as your site grows (particularly blogs) the slower regeneration gets. This means that for simple things like adding a new post to the site can mean very quick regeneration.
Jekyll is certainly an inspiration, but it seems to be lagging behind in basic functionality of some other more interesting projects.
If I were going to make a new site based on Jekyll, I'd seriously consider Hyde instead.
I have a few at Gandi that will be moved either to NFS or to Namecheap when renewal time comes up. Gandi is nice and all, but quite a bit more expensive comparatively.
That said, I believe it's incredibly difficult to get yourself into a position where you're really making a solid income from your app on the App Store. With so many apps vying for attention you truly need to make your app unique and extremely solid or you risk being forgotten or never seen.
I think the best way to gain momentum is to be the type of app that can be advertised via word of mouth. I don't think I've ever seen Camera+ advertised anywhere (my memory isn't that great so maybe I have seen it) but the word of mouth in various forum posts is incredible. At least at the start this can really help. Once you have some traction and in the top 25 you get the benefit of some Apple advertising via the featured app section (hopefully) and sales take off a bit more for you.
I really think Android will never have this type of sales volume for paid apps. It is pretty incredible what Apple has done with the App Store, and what developers have done with it.
I guess if you're OCD about books and other items it may have a great use for you, but I feel it's gimmicky and while it looks amazing it isn't as valuable as it may look.
That's pretty awesome if so. Means I'd be willing to fork over the cash for one of those Mac Minis to use for Calendar/Contact syncing instead of using MobileMe.