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Indeed, I think the author needs to rephrase 'Java' as 'Java ME' for a lot of that.

good spot. Lets hope more people flag this.

Your second example includes 'M$' which is a rather childish and antagonistic way to abbreviate. The tone of the first comment seems to be a little immature as well.

I'm not trying to have a go at you personally, but I've found HN to be a community that generally values mature behaviour, and rewards/discourages with karma.

Its interesting because Android was outselling the iphone when the iphone was the most desired platform. It wouldn't be surprising if android took an even greater market share lead in future.

Its guaranteed that 50% to either prefer the winning candidate to the other electable candidates or have not expressed a preference.

Can you be more specific about what Java libraries you're missing? Is it just the payment gateway? I think the following is his question:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2242653/java-payment-gate...

I hope you've got tech4some.com registered, so you can add facebook in April 2012.

I think you've made a bit of a misconception here in confusing the underlying programming language (Java) with the UI library. Assuming you want a program to act and function naturally, like an OS X application - in which your problem is really down not to the programming language used. It is down to the libraries that are being used to develop the UI. Were people to be using Java as the language, but building from a Cocoa binding then you'd be able to have the same UX as a native app. Netbeans uses its own library, which is based on top of Swing. This doesn't feel native at all.

It is also worth noting that there's a big difference between the Gui Libraries that Eclipse and Netbeans depend upon. SWT, the library that eclipse depends upon is actually using native widgets /most/ of the time underneath. Unfortunately it does a lot of its own UI stuff on top of those widgets, and doesn't really follow Mac OS guidelines. I still feel its an incredibly well designed UI though in many regards.

Just seems like the typical Cathedral vs Bazaar discussion to me. Android always has been a Cathedral.

Its a bit of a mockery to talk about something being 'cross platform' when you're talking about running on three different versions of Windows. It might make sense to focus on Windows as a Desktop OS, but the xbox doesn't have equivalent market share, and WP7 isn't doing very well at all by comparison with the Android and iphone platforms.

Its not a bad idea though. Its only been the last few years where people have been blogging about their business' finances, this is a similar kind of change to my mind.

Does it matter whether 404 pages are ugly or not? I mean its a nice experience for a confused user, but I'd frankly rather it made suggestions as to similar urls that might exist, where possible.

Have I missed something, surely this is entirely pointless? You need to have a blank single colour surface behind it, or the images on the transparent screen get obscured by the colours of whatever is behind it. This is even demonstrable in their demo video!

Its a really interesting article, but their methodology doesn't support their conclusion. I'm willing to accept critical rankings as a measure of quality, since I can't think of a better way of mapping the subjective notion of quality to a quantitative measure. There are still some dodgey things being done here though:

1. Polarization as a measure of quality 2. Choice of the top 20 movies as a selection measure.

The article should really be title: "Popular movies are becoming more polarizing". Though I concede that blogs like this are written to attract hits and "Movies are getting worse" is probably more likely to achieve that.

It doesn't really help that Apple have a huge online digital music distribution business, and are trying to build an online digital book distribution business. Once you take this into account its hard to believe that they're really doing anything other than using their platform control in order to further their business interests elsewhere.

Gruber is entirely correct that Readability wished they had platform control, but I think he's missed the point that not every organisation abuses its platform control in order to attempt to remove competition. Its still right to call Apple out when they do this, especially when for 25 years their marketing has consistently tried to present them as a freedom loving, counter-cultural organisation.

You can't explain that!

I suppose I submitted this link really because it opens up some interesting business ethics questions. I noted recent news talking about Apple using their control of the iOS platform in order to obtain more revenue from people selling non-software products.

As a consumer do you think this is less acceptable to you than you knowingly dealing with supplier who fail to meet your safety audit standards, and who have employees dying?

As a business owner would you do this? I know its easy to say 'no never', but would you undertake the additional costs of auditing your suppliers? Would you sever relations with people who aren't treating their workers well? If you'd check your suppliers, is responsibility transitive - in other words are your supplier's supplier's also your responsibility?

Its obvious he means standard library by 'API'. Also the type returned doesn't need to be an integer, or even a number. If you need to write a min function then the type merely needs to form a partially ordered set. A string could fulfill this requirement - simply compare an integer representation of the first character if they're equal move on to the following character. Alphabetical ordering, taught to children at all good primary schools, is a restricted version of this comparison algorithm.

Minor issue - your front page has a block of text thats an image. As a result at least three kittens have died.

Had a quick look around. The idea seems nice, but I think stuff like this has to look more 'fun' in order to succeed. Its a really weird thing to describe, and I'm not great at articulating emotions about technology - but your site doesn't seem 'fun'. Perhaps this is just an aesthetic thing that you can solve quite easily though.

Another thing is that this seems like the kind of project that you could probably get a big viral bump from facebook or twitter. For example '@foo things @bar is sexy' and some kind of wall post spamming probably generates traffic. When you come to monetize, attaching your data to people's logins might be worth more money than your data alone.

This is true, I forgot to mention that the haskell version trivially scales to infinite lists. You can use partial application to encourage code reuse as well:

evens = filter even

-- Haskell

filter even [1,2,3,4]

For some reason when I clicked this link, I assumed it would be picture of brutialist architecture [0]. Interesting photos nonetheless.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brutalist_architecture

It would be far better if you had actual data, rather than an unsubstantiated rumour.

Yet another straw man post. He's identified a poor update and then claimed that you need to check out the android sources in order for the advantages of openess to become apparent. In reality I know people who aren't programmers or IT people particularly install cyanogenmod on their phones.

This post comes across as a fairly passive-aggressive attack, or a snarky child. I don't know why people rate Gruber's posts. I haven't found his analysis to be particularly insightful. He is usually clear in communicating his feelings about an issue and for that I'd give him credit. But whats the point in reading a clearly communicated thought if its effectively, "I dislike Android, and I intend to bad mouth anything related to Android at any possible opportunity."

This article is full of assertions without actually providing evidence behind them. For example he makes the statement: "since then, very few non-geeks know about individual Android handsets". He doesn't cite any surveys of consumers that back this up. Its all very well making these assertions, but when they are so lacking in evidence its hard to trust this article, its reasoning or its conclusions.

On the other hand market share figures offer some evidence to the contrary. Consumers are clearly buying Android phones - more so than any other platform. Developers are clearly writing programs for Android phones - the market has less programs than the iphone app store but its growing incredibly fast, and its a clearly ahead of Windows Phone 7, Blackberry and Nokia's efforts.

In the tablet marketplace there has been clear demand shown for the Samsung Galaxy Tab - despite the fact that the Android software isn't even tablet ready. In other words people are buying a specific Android device for its hardware - the exact antithesis of the argument in this blog post.

I find it really hard to believe that this article is motivated by anything other than the author's liking of Apple products. Thats fine - its his prerogative to take those stances - except that I find articles promoting opinion that don't back them up with any real evidence to be incredibly unconvincing and pretty much a waste of time. Its a real shame that this got voted onto the front page of HN.

ML derivative functional programming languages are frequently ideal for project Euler in general - Haskell, f#, ocaml etc.

Its also really interesting that the Symbian guy basically dismisses Android as 'yet another linux platform'.

I wonder how much Microsoft have changed strategy due to Google as compared to Apple.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

http://www.theodore-roosevelt.com/trsorbonnespeech.html

Good luck!