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We just released our product. It's not a web app, it's an r&d tool that helps architects and alike to get real life measurements from photos. In our first blog post, we tell our story. Any feedback (about software, website, etc.) appreciated.

great design (in addition to the content). How did you make it? I like the right contents column changing topic as I read.

I think you are missing the point here, as an example, Amazon cannot sell ebooks in its own site if it's cheaper than the version in app store, if so they remove it from app store. Apple is trying to control pricing outside of its distribution network. That's what I understand from the whole story.

It's very hard to comment when we don't know how bad the idea sucks. Perhaps you're wrong and your partner's right. Since you are close to launch, why not just put some more effort and launch it?

I just read this blog post, and I think I am biased: http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009/01/communicating-with-...

Video in the first page is too small and don't have audio (is it me only?). So, I really could not tell what it's about. And while you're at it, you can drop quicktime control widget of video to make it look more professional.

nice page design and all, but without creating a user, I don't understand a lot from that front page. Maybe you can provide a demo user, so that people can see what they can get.

duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=421796

Forgive my ignorance (and being a non-US), I could not understand who he points his finger to vote (obama or mccain). I really don't know about their tax policies.

Apart from that, I think not only in US but all around the world, these kinds of taxes should be reduced. But in only favor of the employees. I mean, an employer should have an option to pay tax or spend that amount on creating new jobs. Otherwise, rich bussinessowners spend that tax money (or save it for worse days) and also still spend their employees when their bussiness is not good.

I have been using wxWidgets for about 5 years now with C++. At first, it was really difficult to do everything in code, hard to change GUI when you need to, very time consuming. But still it was the best option, our project was cross platform. It was also difficult to understand how to build and link.

However, once you get the basics it's quite fast and also have threads, networking, file streaming etc, so you don't need a zillion of libraries to do every little thing. Oh, and it has a great OpenGL support (see my projects at http://www.ccsoft.com.tr for screenshots)

With the help of wxFormBuilder (a free design tool), now design and modfications are very much faster.

Besides, it's been there for about 15 years. There is a decent documentation, a book, a large community to answer your questions.

My only plan is to do a project on wxPython and polish my python knowledge and see which (C++ or Python) suits me better.

gamasutra has a nice project page, you can post your project and get offers. never used it though..

another popular game development site is gamedev.net, you can post in their forums and may find skilled people.

I would ask my self, if my startup fails, can I find a similar job again? If so, why think about it?..

well, what do you expect? for years, ms did the same for FF from their msdn and some other product pages, didn't they? For years, incompetent developers did the same too, ignoring FF. There is a new competitor in town, and actually, they are probably right with their claims (that IE6 is weak), anyone disagree with that?

can you just send the data on dvd's with regular mail (ups etc)? of course I don't know where the server stays, if it's human accessible..

very cute!

I get 403 on that link..

1. I use a free e-mail service, and all I am concerned about is they still earn money over me..

2. I am so used to old fashion competitors' e-mail clients and too dumb to learn new things, yet "I am a technology columnist who has written about everything from HDTVs to computers to Flowbee Haircut Systems"

3. I love to use mouse for every action.

4. I hate to use mouse for every action. (and as nirmal points out I am too dumb to learn how to do what I want to do, I prefer to complain)

5. Once in five times, I can come up with some features that everyone can like..

First of all congratulations and good luck..

Having read your article and responses here, I feel like this discussion resembles (opengl vs directx) || (c/c++ vs java) || (python vs perl) kind flame wars. And no, there is not a single way for enterpreneurship imho. There are at least two major ways, bootstrapping or having funded. Both have pros and cons. If you are clever and well prepared, you can be successfull either way or unseccessfull whatever you do. There is no recipe, you choose your own way according to your own circumstances and work it out..

good luck again..

All I can read from this article is US developers are skilled and expensive, while non-US developers are non-skilled and inexpensive..

I might agree with expensive/inexpensive but who says US developers are more skilled than others? On what grounds, study, statistics can anyone claim that?

anyone else felt reading that article was a waste of time? anyone seen any brilliant tip here that will let you learn a language faster than you used to?

Banned in Turkey, maybe that's a reason..

I think it's a very handy application, and nice presentation.

Just curious though, why does it have to be a web app? Why not just a plugin to my favorite spreadsheet application, or just a small standalone app that I can use on my PC..

Huh, I think it's a brilliant idea. Every site (including here) using a voting system nowadays. And from data collection point of view it will possibly help google enhance its results. And unlike techcrunch author, I didn't find it annoying or complicated at all.. It's funny how people's perceptions are..

Isn't it easier to implement it yourself. For instance with wxwidgets (that's what I usually use for platform independent app dev). It has html browser wrappers, ftp, etc. And I am sure many other similar libraries like Qt have similar wrappers.

I am sure other people here can suggest alternatives from python etc, I am just a c++ guy..

So let's not be afraid of losing our jobs, on the contrary let's hope to get fired. After all Jobs is just another regular guy. There are thousands of clever, dedicated people around, just like him. We will all win, be successful for sure..

Yes, it's encouraging to have success stories but let's face it, there are a few Jobs and many other clever, dedicated people.. who happen to lose their jobs without their control..

is anybody tired of this lowercase debate here everytime there is a Yang memo posted? Any other thing to comment about?

Most universities have studen license servers for Matlab afaik. And, Matlab is really really, annoyingly powerful. You've got almost anything to try your ideas, implement an academic paper. But, it is slow (execution time).

Prototype with Matlab, implement with C++. That's what I usually prefer. I am not a Python expert, just learning it. but I think it will be slower than C, and less powerful than Matlab, from my perspective of working.

if you are a small team and you don't want to waste time on logging in to a client such as trac, etc, why not just use plain paper (postit?) and a pen, pinned on the office wall.. that sure is cheap and has all the perks of your system..

and yes, I am being sarcastic..

I agree.. but you also expect a poor teenager (who can't afford university education) to master second language alone so that he can teach himself programming.. well that's questionable imho..

why not buying him a python book in Turkish? I know they exist. and yes you can get a computer related job in Turkey even if you don't have a diploma, pretty easily.. as a technician of course.