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"Developers we’ve spoken with have praised the framework, calling it one of the best ways to make applications with little programming knowledge."

Surely they mean "little web programming knowledge" and a lot of Objective-C knowledge. I don't really understand this page either:

http://techcrunch.com/2008/09/04/cappuccino-brings-cocoa-lik...

"There are other advantages to basing things in Objective-J as well: advancements in the Cappuccino frameworks don’t wait for the slow emergence of new standards, developers only deal with one language, and Cappuccino comes with useful language features simply not available in JavaScript."

Isn't that backwards? New features come out in Javascript and I have to wait until they're incorporated into Objective-J to use them?

In my experience that is not the case. Specifically because jams are waves not just slow moving traffic. A gap will open up and quickly I can be in the 3rd gear to catch up. Of course as soon as I do the flow stops again. I could just creep forward in 1st and let the rest of the flow fill in front of me...

Manual transmissions are definitely hell during rush hour... but doesn't seem to affect people contributing to the waves in my experience.

That's actually one of the solutions suggested by the author. A rolling blockcade of police cars in each lane to regulate the flow.

Green waves are a pet peeve of mine. They've tried to implement these where I lieve... a spectacular failure. Green waves only work when there is NO traffic. Speed is regulated and the flow moves fine. During rush hour they are a disaster. Every light is backed up to previous. My light turns green, then I have to wait 10 seconds for the next light to turn green and the entire line of traffic to move, before I can advance. This usually results in a stop at each light. A much better solution is what I remember from NYC: all the lights turn green at once, all the traffic moves.

Absolutely! I've thought about this so many times... what is 5 seconds for you (allowing someone to merge in front of you) would translate to much much faster commute to _everyone_ else. It is all about the balance between my personal greed and what's better for the common good (if only we could solve this on _and_ off the road).

Where I live there is terrible traffic... and I've contemplated causes and solutions many a mind-numbing commute. I realized we behave differently when we are behind the wheel... Very few people would behave or maneuver the same if it where lines of people instead of cars. That is why your best chance to merge is to make eye contact with the other driver - if they recognize you as another human not just another vehicle than they are much more likely to move over or make space.

When I drive (during rush hour) I suffer a lot to justify my actions. What I have settled on... is a simple rule: In any situation the person who is in the wrong is the one who has contributed to the impediment of the overall flow of traffic. This comes back to what zepolen says (and I agree with). If we could ever make the connection that what's good for my fellow (wo)man is good for me too... we would be so much better off in general.

I think he means "the posts on HN are more likely to be _critical_"

I think they were little too focused on the US market. Here (in Costa Rica) almost everyone I know with a smartphone has a N1. There is a monopoly carrier here and no phone+service package, so N1 makes perfect sense - just plug the chip in and go - no unlocking or rooting required. I bet there are a lot of other international markets where the N1 would do just as well.

Reminds me of Mr. Fusion from Back to the Future II

http://bttf.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Fusion

"And the funny thing – by the time you were ready to walk through 7-8 issues with your boss you realize that you had already figured out 3 or 4 of them on your own."

There's a counter argument to this (I'm not saying I agree with it) but it's those extra hours it took to solve something on your own vs. the seconds (or at most minutes) to ask the right person. Of course the article does a good job to point out those seconds aren't free either... but I've had managers make a point of saying "if the problem can be solved by asking the right person than do it" that there should never be a reason to solve the same problem twice.

Don't worry... Blackberry will find a way to frankenstein a retractible physical keyboard to a tablet.

A funny comment from the writeup on that 8125:

"the display automatically switches to landscape orientation (it takes about 2 seconds to do so)"

In many cases Apple isn't about innovation so much as doing things well. Reminds me of this video:

http://www.mobileinc.co.uk/2010/03/nokia-n97-promotional-vid...

Remember Google Knol?

http://knol.google.com

Their answer to Wikipedia....

When I worked in a fancy NYC startup back in 1999 we had an AIBO - Sony's $5000 robot dog.

Having an "OFF" switch probably helped productivity.

Probably cause most people don't send emails to themselves and know it's there?

Whenever I hear "pure science" I think of this:

http://www.vonnegutweb.com/catscradle/cats_nytimes.html

AFAIK he's using jQuery for the blog page. Probably compressed with Google's compiler, but still.....

So you're surprised that there are significantly fewer apps for a device that's been out for 4 months versus one that has been out for 3 years?

"Don't worry, the discussion about women is because people (aka men) are having a hard time getting laid, keeping a woman, dealing with the woman they have or the feelings they have about her..."

They would do better than discussing those issues here... whatever insight they get is going to be grossly skewed by the 15:1 m/f ratio...

I think I saw or read about this too. I remember they did the same experiment with foxes.... and rats. Imagine walking into a room full of hundreds of rats bred for generations to be as vicious as possible.

I'm hoping to use Node as my defacto replacement for all server side development.

Makes me wonder about budget cuts...

Learn Spanish and move to South America.

But can you send to my pager?

Ok. I don't know what you are talking about. But everyone on the internet right now is talking about generic plastic bumpers (like a glorified condom) for your phone. Not plastic materials found within the iPhone or developed by Apple. If you've never seen one before, it looks like this:

http://www.gadgetgreats.com/images/products/detail/SoftPlast...

I bought one for an iPod. It was $30. My impression was, this might be the most over-priced, marked-up product I ever purchased. Ever. It was clearly < $1 worth of generic keychain plastic. Clearly you believe there are $29 worth of IP and licensing costs to justify the price.

I remember after the first tech bubble burst back around 2001 a lot of (young / male) disillusioned devs abondended the internets to become bike messengers (although they returned to blog about it naturally). It was an awesome read - if anyone remembers that and has some links please share. Some points I still remember:

- A lot less money (as mentioned here by a few).

- A lot less coffee. Being really tired at the end of the day (but the good tired after having felt as though they really worked). No more trouble sleeping. Keeping normal hours.

- Harder. Faster. Stronger. It is hard work, but it makes you hard.

- Few regrets (that I recall).

It was a little Fight Club-y. And I don't think anyone looks to retire as a bike messenger (probably get taken out by a taxi before then). But I'd be curious to know how long the experiment lasted.

So you're saying that when my fabricator in China mass produces these plastic keychains I sell, that a % of the $0.05 they charge per unit they are actually paying out as licensing overhead?

This is not serious, useful advice like the other posters (and pls listen to them)... but I always thought, if you are considering suicide, why not fake your death? All the good stuff like re-birth, freedom, and what not... without the bad stuff.. like being dead forever.

Are you serious? Do you really think a new plastic polymer was invented for your smart phone bumper?

Reminds me of my car... it's a 1979 Toyota Land Cruiser. I found the owner's manual online and it's surprising what was expected of an automobile owner 30 years ago: lubricating the chassis, servicing the oil filter (not changing, but dismantling and cleaning the parts), lubricating the distributer, differentials, changing electrolytes, etc.. It's like back in the day... men were men... even if they were dorky men with computers.

Yeah... don't let te $30 price tag fool you. Those things are all of about ¢5 cents worth of plastic polymer.