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I've been burned by cross-platform tools. I tried Sencha Touch, and it was a horrible 2-year mistake.

Something that compiles might do better, but at the end of the day you really want to be calling into the cocoa touch framework directly. If Qt lets you do this, great. If it doesn't, look elsewhere.

I find Xcode pretty awful and instead use AppCode with Xcode open at the same time.

Xcode 5 finally makes it easy to run single unit tests. Before this, you had to create a schema to run a single test, which was several clicks and possibly some typing. Now it's click and run, which is lovely.

I'm not going to get acquired by Facebook for releasing my powerlifting app on android. So I truly do need to consider the "Android users are poor" statement.

They are.

I did some math, though, and the time it will take me to learn android and build the android app should be worth my time if I can convert a decent percentage of my old android paid users over to the designed, native app.

My CS degree cost me about an hour a day in homework on bad days. I skipped many classes, only took relevant coursework, and graduated in 3 years.

1.) No.

2.) False. There are waaaaaaay too many professors, to the point where most aren't tenured and make barely livable wages. There is a limited supply of universities, but it seems like most collude on prices, or at least refuse to compete on price. At any rate, universities seem to scale pretty well to handle extremely large population bodies, aside from a few statistical outliers that don't matter for this conversation.

3.) Demand has been constant for a while, along with supply. Easy credit is the driver of price change here, not a radical shift in supply or demand.

4.) "We are trying to increase supply". Education isn't what's lacking. You can learn a lot from independent study and books. What's lacking is degree factories. MOOCs aren't degree farms, so they are not an equivalent good.

"We work on very hard deadlines" "Looking for someone with energy to manage all aspects of" "We have a fast pace of development" "We want someone completely dedicated to the vision"

It's easier to gauge over the phone or in person. It's often the way things are said that act as a trigger. If a founder works 60-80 hour weeks, it's going to be expected that you will too.

This article might more aptly be titled the brutal ageism of silicon valley. Or perhaps the brutal ageism of startups.

There are red flags that you can easily spot in a job interview or job posting that indicate that the employer wants 80-hour weeks. And who signs up for 80-hour weeks? Naive young people who don't value their time and don't have other commitments, like side projects or family.

Switch tech companies a couple times. Note what happens to your salary.

Hint: It doesn't go down.

People have been arrested and worse for taking video of police officers. This is not a threat I need in my daily life.

The legality of recording someone without their express consent also varies by state. I would love to record my daily public life. Laws and technology make that tricky.

There's going to be a tipping point where 3D printers are good enough and new enough that you can turn a profit selling printed goods. Like any technological shift, people will flood the market, bringing down the profit sold by printed goods to 0.

Buying at the right time means that you can more than recoup your investment. I don't think we've reached that point yet.

As another point of reference, I bought many "high capacity magazines" in 2010 for range practice. In 2012 I sold all of them for 4x what I bought them for on gunbroker because of the gun ban scare.

The economics behind gun parts is wacky, and home production would be a radical shift in technology to finally send the cost downward.

Of course gun manufacturers would lobby against any home printing. How could they sell $2400 rifles when a decent rifle would only cost a tenth of that to build at home?

Guns are extremely expensive, and I own many. I have many friends who wish they could own guns but cannot afford them, and thus live alone without a proper means of self defense.

I don't let anyone fire anything I own without an intro safety course and firing practice with a laser bullet, so I don't intend to throw free guns into crowds, but I do know that there is a large group of responsible people who go unarmed for the sole reason that the price of guns is very, very high.

At $500/pop, I can't afford to be charitable. At $50-100, these become birthday gifts.

This could be what it takes to get effective gun printing going. As soon as I can print effective guns, I will.

I drive to work and I'm much more fit than most people on HN. Why? I care.

Living downtown would cost over double my mortgage and significantly reduce my quality of life. I have access to trails and silent nights by living 14-20 minutes from work depending on traffic.

I also eat real foods and avoid most processed food and sugar. When I have a sugar craving, I buy some fruit.

If "walking" is your only form of exercise, you may curb obesity, but you'll still be far from perfect health.

The human body is an incredible contraption, and there is almost always room for improvement and growth. Get stronger, faster, and more durable.

Neat app. My first thought was to put IAPs in the iOS app that controls the pebble, and use IAPs to configure what the pebble application is able to do.

I agree. This is the reason I'm going to try and get into WWDC this year. I doubt they show hardware, but I bet we'll get first access at APIs and design guidelines.

The text on the website also changed from "ships in order of availability" to "6-8 weeks from purchase date."

8 weeks is a pretty fancy way to say "two months."

Kindles still sell. Maybe there's room in wearable for different form factors.

The Kindle Fire is a disaster, but the main product is still wonderful.

Day 1? Apps are great side projects.

If you consider my time...well.

I ordered early February and mine still hasn't shipped.

Maybe he's confusing DMCA with Section 230.

pg isn't dumb. I'm pretty sure this is the point.

The real challenge of course is to build an AI to beat the AI. Here's a random clicker:

setInterval(function(){ var cells = document.getElementsByClassName("grid-cell"); var pos = Math.floor((Math.random()*cells.length)); if(Math.random() < 0.5){cells[pos].click();} else {var ev = document.createEvent('HTMLEvents'); ev.initEvent('contextmenu', true, false); cells[pos].dispatchEvent(ev);} },100);

If you have a fundamental disagreement with someone, you get shadow banned.

The only time it makes sense to comment is when you think you can avoid downvotes and flags.

The things he leaked don't really looked like "Trade Secrets", but more things you wouldn't ever release if you worked at a company and had any semblance of sense at all.

"Trade Secrets" is a little extreme, except for maybe the windows activation source code. That certainly makes windows activation easier to crack.

I've known quite a few remote workers (and I work remote myself about 1/3rd the time), but I don't know anyone who has used this.

It seems like it hasn't broken the creep-factor yet from people I've talked to.

Remote employees still go to meetings.

This is great advice. If you can work remotely then, work remotely now. Make sure it works for you and your employer.

Anarchy lasted minutes before the democracy babies came running in.

It's become an idiom. Stoplights may not be the best way to control intersections, but you know what to do when you see one.