jeffcouturier

I was going to ask the same. I thought this was very common knowledge for a rather long time.

We've also been fighting for much longer than 5,000 years. It sounds like the General is a young-Earth creationist which, if true, doesn't give me much faith in his intellectual capacity.

This skips one critical fact that invalidates the entire premise of the post.

The lockdown had little to do with public safety and everything to do with a manhunt. The city was shut down to prevent the suspect from getting out, not to protect people.

I hope you don't let this stop you from making your game anyway. Even though Fight Code may have beaten you to it, your game would still be impressive to potential employers.

Ha! Unintentional, but I think I like it anyway. That comment is full of typos thanks to writing them on my phone.

Quick, eveyrone get on the badwagon before the trend dies and we're forced to come up with new, original ideas again!

Did you read the article? It addresses that in the very first paragraph. Spotify breaks the mute button and this fixes it. It's not a matter of removing all ads or screwing over Spotify.

Size is a matter of preference, not a fundamental problem. I have an HTC Sensation. It’s bigger than the iPhone and fits my hand perfectly. the iPhone feels like a little kids toy by comparison. I like the bigger screen, but I’m a bigger guy so it’s obviously not for everyone.

Names? Please. If you are choosing your phone based on its name you’re a lost cause.

Resale value: a fair point, depending on the model. It’s also fair to say that you’ll generally pay more for the iPhone up front. There are far too many Android models to make the blanket statement that iPhones have more resale value than all Android phones.

Carriers: Bloatware is an annoyance, but at least with Android phones you can do something about it. You have options: Switch carriers. Root and self-install the latest OS (or one of several mods).

None of these points constitute fundamental problems with non iPhones. It’s all a matter of preference. If you’re the sort of user who doesn’t care about being locked-in then sure iPhone is great. If you’re a tweaker, if you like having control over your devices, if you like to self manage your OS then Android is for you.

Unless the app auto-updates its content to be sure it is always in sync with the website, having native app speed and offline use grows increasingly less desirable the farther out you get from the date the app was created. For Wordpress sites one would expect new content daily. If Appifier pulls content and makes it all available offline that's great, until/unless the site being "appified" has new content. Will the app re-roll itself to incorporate that new content for offline and/or native access? If not then an appified site is useless the moment the app is generated.

I’m not questioning whether there is a market for this. I’m questioning the purpose and value to the user if it’s really nothing more than a snapshot of a dynamic site or just a site shortcut.

I'm not sure I see the benefit of converting a website into a pseudo-app, then charging for that app. Users would effectively be paying for the wrapper when the same content is available without charge via a browser. I realize this happens all the time and there are a plethora of site shortcuts-as-apps in the app store, but the fact that they are abundant doesn't make the practice any better.

I'm honestly curious about the use cases for this and what extra value this provides for the user over using the website in a browser.

"I am not a coder."

Yes, you're wrong. LAMP is excellent, and your co-founders chose it and continue to use it for a reason. If it's that important that you avoid LAMP, you need different co-founders because you clearly don't trust them, their skills and their judgement on the issue.

  Their menu basically consists of expensive vegan
  hot-dogs and fairly generic sandwiches, which is
  a tough sell in Chicago when you have some very
  good food around for very cheap.

I live down the street and went there about twice a month since they opened, and what you're saying isn't accurate. Drew's wasn't competing with your usual hot dog shop or fast food. There is a gigantic and extremely popular vegetarian/vegan niche market in Chicago, and that's the market Drew's was competing in. The food really was excellent and although from the menu things may have sounded "generic" in reality they really were not.

No, absolutely not.

1) Unless the client has already signed a contract (and I hope you require a down payment) don't give away the farm. Meaning, don't give him planning, architecture, design, etc. things that hey should be paying for before you are in a contractual relationship that requires him to pay you. You have to protect yourself.

2) Don't work on spec (speculation), ever. That means that if the client wants to see a design before deciding to work with you, walk away and don't look back. No exceptions. This is a giant blinking red signal telling you that this client will not and does not respect the skill that goes into your work, and will be a pain in the ass for you. These people are almost never worth your time or what they are paying you - if they pay you at all.

Respectfully tell this client that your policy doesn’t permit spec work. Check out http://no-spec.com for resources and details on how to explain this to your client.