mitjak

Your mom seems quite open-minded indeed. It will take a little bit of time before I can convince my mom ordinary cable TV isn't the only way.

You keep saying "focused" everywhere. I'm not sure I know what it means in this context.

Not $11 superior. If it offered some funky filters Instagram style you could perhaps capitalize on the Polaroid/Lomography type of audience. Or build a Flash driven picture uploaded that would use the web cam.

The way it stands is you're offering a pretty page for photos at $11 that doesn't target any real customer niche and does what a Tumblr blog paired with a Flickr account would do for free in a more flexible way.

I'll second that question but also point out that it probably would make even less sense to charge for the service.

>We never imagined we'd win the internets!!!

Oh please, I mean, it's only one of a kind app that millions could make use of :)

I will echo your echo, along with a JavaScript tutorial by Resig which I rate at least as highly as The Good Parts: http://ejohn.org/apps/learn/

It's a tad scary to quote PG on every corner and idolize him so much, but, it's hard not to: he appears to have an article on everything.

> I believe Apple does all of these things to encourage developers to do a better job testing their apps prior to submission and to prevent high volume developers from hogging the review team's time.

I'm kind of tired of bring this up, as I'm sure others are tired of the same sort of comments, but the App Store has been bothering me quite a bit lately. This doesn't seem like the way things should work. We shouldn't be spending time thinking up clever and logical explanations of what hoops Apple puts the very developers that make its platform interesting through.

Am I wrong? I don't (yet) write iPhone apps, and I am honestly seeking sane opinions of those who do.

As a student, I am currently learning everything I can about everything that goes on my computer and how it works, and realizing that almost nothing I currently know would be possible without all the open-source tools that are used in every one of our courses (none of the lab machines in the CS department here run Windows). The very core idea of being able to tinker and learn about each moving part of software, like a mechanism made of semi-transparent gears, is what attracted me personally into the industry in the first place. Developers' ideas seem to only be guided by what they are able to dream up and code, and anyone can participate and improve things collaboratively creating something beautiful and useful.

And now I'm learning that one of the supposedly more exciting ways to make a living using the acquired knowledge is to do things in very particular restricted ways, according to the rules set out by one company, using the tools they deemed fit. Perhaps I'm overdramatizing, but there is just something very fishy about the entire concept, and I can't tell whether my confusion stems from lack of knowledge, the fact that I'm looking at it from a fresh point of view that others are just too deep in the trenches to see, or both.

That's right! The next Facebook will be coming out written by my fingers! In PHP, no less! That's what my client says anyway. I'm being paid in free run eggs.

Why is that I also have the biggest urge to code something fun when the time is best used to get good grades?

> I believe the teacher should act as the role model. An anthropologist who could inspire you and generate the curiosity and interest would be the ideal role model for a captivated future anthropology student.

That's how I felt about that professor. He's sparked interest in a new to me topic. As for the waste of money, I'm not certain how the university system works outside of Canada, but here at UToronto, after you've picked 3 or more courses, the fees for the term become flat, i.e. you can pick 4 or 7 courses, and the total is the same. I personally think taking 5 purely major related courses at a university with so many potential topics of interest to explore is complete madness, so the flat fee system works quite well, IMO.

Even if it ends up costing you more than you'd like, in case of a student loan exceeding $7,000 annually, the Canadian Government forgives anything above that amount, which is great if one is living alone and has to pay rent and bills.

Add to that all the possible term grants you can obtain, based on your marks, or in case of me, a low income, and it starts to make more sense to explore things a bit while at university.

While a bit off topic, I just wanted to justify taking seemingly unrelated courses for personal and not necessarily career related gain under the current education system.

All three of us, sure.

> we've got one very similar social network that's got arguably more features and arrived to the market a year or so earlier than facebook got its russian localization.

Except that it's an incomplete relatively ugly clone of Facebook, which is why quite a few people are jumping ship to Facebook. It does have its niceties in the form of music uploads, but that's more of a quirk of the general state of regard for copyright laws in the country.

Upvoting not necessarily because I think it relates to the topic at hand but because I always feel very similarly as well. Seems like exercise, proper nutrition, and doing studies at a library or outside of home where you are more likely to be inspired works. Of course, it's easier said than done..

If grades don't work what does?

I'm in an anthropology lecture where the professor who taught in the department for 35+ years is allowed to largely not believe in grades and basically dictate answers to students during the exam. I personally used the lectures as an introduction to a new to me topic, but a large number of students sign up for the lectures having found from their peers about an easy GPA booster. Some didn't listen to the lectures; many skipped it entirely.

Indeed. Plus, some games are Flash based. Chrome OS is going to be bundled with Flash? Hoo-raay.

Indeed. I expected some sort of trimmed down simpler versions that would load more easily on a Chrome OS netbook. So far I've tried MapQuest and Evernote, and both just showed up as the regular bloated websites that they are upon 'installation'.

Why is this an exciting phone? Genuinely curious. The specs seem the same as (CPU) or lower than (display resolution) than N1.

EDIT: My bad. Looks like the screen resolution is identical.

Why isn't Google Voice a good example of a good useful app? I wouldn't mind GV at all. Neither would I mind Grooveshark, for instance.

Windows NT is still the most epic one to me, being the inspiration of the library startup sound prank, it would seem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPQDKZmhD9A

An excerpt from the official announcement made earlier, and currently also on the front page. I'd downvote if I could.

Wifi has always been accessible from the very first menu of Settings.app.

First time I hear about that. Source?

Coupled with vim or emacs, the iPhone, PlainText.app is nice, simple way to read and edit files on the go.

Wait until you have more apps running..

Such as support for contenteditable? How long has that been promised for now.

I wouldn't get too excited. With only 256MB of RAM, it's still going to happen on the iPad :/

The only reason my situation is the same as yours is because the plans are a tad too pricey for me. If I could indeed afford over 20-30GB of space, I would include all my family photos and music to be uploaded to Dropbox as well. The latter could perhaps be rectified by a (hopefully upcoming) cloud music service (with a decent music catalogue), but the photos are really a problem.

I'm guessing that, in your case, there is a rather specific group of people interested in visiting a URL like that. As a student, I'm not terribly inclined to visit it, for instance, due to its questionable nature (apologies, but it does sound a tad scammy).

Not if they use the facebook app, which is what they would use to get to facebook.